After assembling the rollercoaster model, Bart insists he be the first to send off the coaster that he and Milhouse built together. This prompts Milhouse to think back to numerous times Bart had been the first out of the duo to do anything.
Even though Bart had already sent off the coaster, Milhouse stops it mid-slope to say that he be the one to send it off this time. The boys duke it out before the bespectacled best friend asks, “Why are we best friends?’
The play date ends in tears prompting Homer to call Milhouse’s father to pick up his “weirdo kid.”
When Homer and Marge turn to Milhouse, his puffy face is covered with red dots. Marge asks if Milhouse ate some peanuts, but Milhouse admits to inhaling some nectarines that caused this allergic reaction.
While waiting for Mr. Van Houten to arrive, Milhouse also reveals to eating the mac and cheese that he didn’t digest well enough. A macaroni starts slithering out of Milhouse’s nostrils.
An angry Homer tells Marge that Mr. Van Houten better arrive or else Milhouse is going in the garbage can.
Mr. Van Houten arrives in a spiffy sporty car with a license plate that reads “YOLO” and a skateboard in the back.
Marge points out that Milhouse’s father is having a mid-life crisis, but Mr. Van Houten denies it. When Marge drums the notion of Homer being happy with his same old routine, Homer starts questioning his life in the bathroom.
Over at Springfield Elementary School, Principal Skinner’s secretary notifies Skinner that Kent Brockman has arrived to interview him.
Skinner assumes that it’s just another puff piece on something like the lost and found box, but the Channel 6 reporter wants to talk about cheating.
Kent shows the principal the footage on the kids cheating and even his own mother giving away the answer key to Nelson Muntz.
Skinner tries to bribe Kent with kickball winners, but the newscaster won’t have it and labels him “Cheater, Cheater Booger Eaters.”
At the Simpson household, Homer in an effort to delve deeper in his mid-life crisis mode, finds letters from his old pen pal Eduardo. Marge thinks it was a bad idea that she pointed Homer’s same old routine to him.
At the school, the staff and parents voice their opinions on the cheating scandal. When Lisa walks into the room, everyone assumes she would suggest a good idea.
However, Lisa just advises in trusting the students to not cheat and to just have an honor code. Lisa elaborates that the students be the system and that if one cheats, the other will report on him or her. The staff and parents celebrate the good idea.
Homer answers the door at home welcoming a dashing old friend by the name of Eduardo. Eduardo doesn’t realize that Homer has turned out the way he has turned out, but in an effort to get him out of his rut, Eduardo strives to turn Homer’s life around, but will it make a difference?
Meanwhile, Lisa gets the student body to sign her pledge to not cheat and cleverly does so by getting the toughest kid, smartest kid, and nerdiest kid to pledge first.
Nevertheless, Bart finds a loophole to Lisa’s system by planting a set of answer keys in his backpack only to be found by Lisa. Lisa wants to tell, but Bart points out that if she did, she would be admitting that her system failed.
Elsewhere, Homer fulfills his last childhood dream with Eduardo, and that is to skydive. As Homer glides through the skies, Marge urges him to come down, but Eduardo tells Homer to absorb the moment.
Bart, on the other hand, refuses to turn himself in when Lisa wants him to do so unless he receives a sign from God. Cue Homer landing on Bart.
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