Plot
After watching an advertisement on TV for Duff Gardens, Homer, Bart and Lisa decide to go. As they prepare to leave, Marge tells them that Great Aunt Gladys died and they will be going to her funeral instead. The Simpsons, along with Patty and Selma, drive to Littleneck Falls to attend her funeral and the reading of her will. On the video will, Great Aunt Gladys tells Patty and Selma not to die alone, as she did. Selma hears the ticking of her biological clock, and decides she wants a child. Selma tries video dating, but gets rejected by Groundskeeper Willie. She goes to a psychic who tries to sell her a love potion. The psychic ingests it, blurts out the innocuous ingredients and discovers that she accidentally drank a truth serum. Selma dates Hans Moleman after revoking his license at the DMV. All goes well until Hans tries to kiss her goodnight; Selma envisions herself as the mother of several ugly, blind children (one of which falls out of the window) and kicks Hans out of the car to prevent that future from happening. Lisa then suggests to Selma that she go through artificial insemination, which Homer thinks is when a human has sex with a robot. After seeing Barney sell his sperm, she leaves with a magazine about other sperm donors which she never uses.
When the day comes for Homer to take Bart and Lisa to Duff Gardens, he falls ill from food poisoning after eating a hoagie that went bad days after he took it home from a company picnic. Selma is chosen to take the kids to Duff Gardens while Homer stays home with Marge; as Homer recuperates, they watch Boxing's Greatest Weigh-Ins, Yentl and the cheesy pseudo-porn The Erotic Adventures of Hercules (first mentioned on "Mr. Plow") starring Troy McClure as Hercules and Norman Fell as Zeus.
Selma soon grows weary of caring for Bart and Lisa, especially when they go on the Little Land of Duff ride and Bart dares Lisa to drink the toxic "water". Lisa refuses, but Bart mocks her until Selma tells Bart to be quiet before ordering Lisa to drink the water. When Lisa takes a sip, she begins hallucinating, grows violent and paranoid, and wanders away from the ride, tripping out to the parade music. While Selma is looking for Lisa, Bart sneaks on a roller coaster called The Barrel Roll and ends up having to be rescued after the car stops directly in the center of one of the inversions. Lisa is soon found swimming nude in the Fermentarium, returned to Selma and given pills by an unlicensed doctor, after proclaiming "I am the lizard queen!"
After her rough day with Bart and Lisa, Selma decides she can live without children for now and adopts Jub-Jub, Gladys' pet iguana.
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