A social services officer brings unity to the Simpson family, but their newfound happiness is threatened when the cocktail waitress Homer married in Vegas shows up at their door.
Lisa pretends to be a college student and loses favour with her classmates at Springfield Elementary in the process. A mysterious illness forces Bart to live in a plastic bubble.
When Marge, Lisa and Bart find out how hard Homer struggles to keep a roof over their heads, they enrol him in a Rock and Roll fantasy camp to relax at for a week.
The Simpsons attend a hockey game and Lisa brings home a souvenir hockey stick, but the stick has Russian termites, which quickly infest the whole house.
Homer begins to study the Rapture and believes he knows when the end times will come, so he begins warning others in an attempt to secure his place in Heaven.
Marge meets up with a former high school pal (guest voice Kim Cattrall) who is now a famous news anchor, and she wonders if she made the right life choice.
Homer goes to Canada with Apu and Ned to purchase Grandpa's medication, but the three have problems getting home because the border guard thinks Apu is a terrorist.
Homer's song, 'Everybody Hates Ned Flanders', becomes a hit in Springfield, but the family ends up leaving Springfield for a couple of weeks to live on a ranch, to escape Homer's song.