Homer invests heavily in pumpkins but fails to sell them before Halloween, so he has to ask Patty and Selma to help him meet his mortgage payments.

Bart damages Australian-American relations when a prank phone call goes awry, and must travel down under to receive his punishment.

Heavily in debt to Fat Tony, Krusty agrees to set up a clown college. Homer can't resist the opportunity to change career, but he is so convincing as a clown that Fat Tony mistakes him for Krusty.

Homer explains why there are no pictures of Maggie in the house, and why he had to give up his dream job at the bowling alley.

Homer becomes a member of the Stonecutters secret society. He has to start at the bottom as Number 908, but then Number 1 sees something on Homer's bottom.

When Homer is barred from Moe's he visits an airport bar where he is mistaken for a pilot. The airline offers him free tickets if he promises not to tell anyone that they almost let him fly a plane, but Marge freaks out on the plane and it's up to psychoanalyst Dr Zweig to explain why.

Homer and Grampa take to the road to sell Grampa's miracle passion potion, but old resentments resurface between father and son when they pass by their old house, and Bart and Milhouse wonder where all the grown-ups have gone.

After retrieving a piece of candy stuck to a college co-ed's pants, Homer becomes public enemy number one when the co-ed accuses Homer of touching her butt and the media makes Homer out to be a pervert.

Springfield Elementary hands out Academic Alerts to students who are in danger of failing, and Lisa becomes a student in danger of failing when she gets an Academic Alert for gym class.

Bart falls in love with Reverend Lovejoy's daughter, Jessica. Wanting to impress her, Bart pretends to be polite and mannered, but soon learns that what Jessica really likes about him is that he's a bad, bad boy.