"Waverly Hills, 9-0-2-1-D'oh" is the nineteenth episode of Season 20.
Synopsis[]
When Marge discovers the poor teaching conditions at Springfield Elementary School, she gets Homer to rent an apartment in the Waverly Hills area so Tessa, Bart, Lizzy and Lisa can attend schools there, Tessa finds that out about this in Springfield High School, but Lisa's lack of knowledge about singer Alaska Nebraska makes her as unpopular as ever, until Bart spreads a rumor that Lisa and Alaska are best friends - which comes back to haunt Lisa when her new friends want backstage passes to her upcoming concert and Lizzy becomes with it when her new crew gets her; Homer has to stay in his shabby apartment until the city's City inspector pays a surprise visit to make sure they actually live in the area, but he gets to like it - until he invites Marge to move in with him, and begin to enjoy their own company.
Full Story[]
Marge is out jogging one morning and discovers a booth offering free samples of "Science Water." After consuming too many free samples, she desperately searches for a public toilet to 'go' in. Eventually, she uses one in Springfield Elementary. Afterwards, she walks through the halls and is appalled to discover that Springfield Elementary is the worst school in the state, replete with apathetic teachers and overcrowded classrooms. Marge and Homer, concerned for their children's future, plan to rent an apartment in the upscale Waverly Hills school district (after discovering David goes to school there) so Tessa, Bart, Lizzy and Lisa can attend better schools, although Homer makes sure that he rents the cheapest apartment available, even going as far as to specify that he wants the worst apartment in the worst part of town, the cheaper the better, and eventually picks a room where the bed comes out of a wall and barely even gets down to the other floor, and the bathroom is in an Ethiopian restaurant all the way at the end of the block. Tessa, Bart, Lizzy and Lisa are thrilled at the prospect of a fresh start. Tessa meets the Chess piece girls and becomes one of them, Bart, eager to establish his reputation as a "bad boy," is shackled and led away by Chief Wiggum, leaving the other students in awe. Once away from Waverly Hills Elementary, though, it is revealed that Chief Wiggum "arrested" Bart as a favor, if Bart promises to attend Ralph Wiggum's birthday party. Meanwhile, Lizzy hangs out with the cool girls that get her and like her and Lisa is having a more difficult time. In a school with actual standards, she finds she is only a B student rather than an honor roll one and has difficulty making friends. Bart, noticing his sister's gloomy mood, lies to several popular schoolgirls that Lisa is a friend of an immensely popular teen singer named Alaska Nebraska. Marge and Homer learn that they will be visited by a City inspector to confirm that the Waverly Hills apartment is indeed the residence of Tessa, Bart, Lizzy and Lisa, so Homer moves in and befriends two college boys.
Homer adopts a bachelor lifestyle, playing video games and attending parties with his newfound college friends, and he and Marge begin to act as though they were newly dating. Lisa has become popular with several of her classmates, but only because they want backstage passes to an upcoming Alaska Nebraska concert. Lisa sneaks into Alaska's dressing room and pleads her case, but Alaska is unsympathetic, and Lisa is removed from the venue by security. She admits to her fair-weather friends that she was not Alaska Nebraska's friend, and the girls chase after her for tricking them. Tessa pretends to like the things the Chess piece girls like. She has a sense of fashion and style until they reveal that Tessa got army fashions, so she fesses up to them and they chase after her. Meanwhile, Bart fails to show up at Ralph's party and a furious Wiggum brings Lou and Eddie to take Bart to the party by force. Bart is able to run from the irate Wiggum and his assistants for a while but is eventually cornered and forced into party apparatus and taken to the party by Wiggum after Wiggum threatens to arrest him. Lizzy sees what they have with their cool skating tricks and joins in. She attempts to do a 360 motion and a double flip, but she fails when she bumps into a trash can. Lizzy informs them she couldn't do it; they don't find her cool anymore and she understands them and walks away from them.
Meanwhile, the ominous inspector visits Homer's Waverly Hills apartment, Homer and Marge frantically lay out toys and Krusty the Clown dolls in an effort to convince the inspector that the children live there. He concludes that the apartment is the residence of the Simpson children but admits that he was "hoping to kill them and make it look like a suicide." Tessa pleads to return to Springfield High School, and Bart, Lizzy and Lisa, however, plead to return to Springfield Elementary. Lisa in particular wishes to return, because she would rather "be ostracized for who I am, not who I pretend to be." Marge and Homer concur, but wistfully state that they will miss their "love nest" apartment. The final scene depicts Homer and Marge using the treehouse as their new love nest, much to Bart's chagrin.
Citations[]
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