Cue Detective

Cue Detective is the second episode of Season 27.

While preparing smoked pork to take to the competition, Homer discovers that his smoker got stolen. Homer calls the police, but Clancy and Lou convince Homer that his smoker is gone. Homer gets so depressed to the point of not wanting to get drunk. This worries Bart, who asks for Lisa's help to track down his smoker. They investigate the yard and found out why Santa's Little Helper didn't barked when the smoker was taken away: someone gave him natural peanut butter, so he'd be licking instead of barking.

The duo proceeds to the one store in town that sells natural peanut butter, where they "convince" a worker to let them see the security camera footage, where they discovered that Nelson bought it. They go talk to him on a park, where he's playing a tablet game called Clash of Castles with some expensive upgrades, only to run towards a scrap yard to meet someone shortly after where he gets paid and reveals the smoker under some trees, confirming Bart and Lisa's suspicion. after Nelson is gone and a moment of distraction from the guy he was meeting, the siblings have their chance to take the smoker back home, but as it was too hot, they let it go on a hill, only for it to stop on the guy's truck and he drive off.

Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie then give up hope on the competition, but Marge convinces them that she can handle the smoke-off with the help of a rented condiments rack, but she fails miserably. But when Scotty presented his meat, they realized that the hive shaped grill marks on it didn't matched his grill's marks, also revealing that he stole Homer's smoker. Scotty is fired and banned from the competition, so the Simpsons are proclaimed winners. But this does not satisfy Bart and Lisa, who try to find out how the smoker was stolen on the first place. That's when they hear the same cellphone ringtone than the one used by the guy that Nelson was delivering the smoker to, so they decide to chase the guy down.

When they catch him up, they discover that the guy is called Tyler Boom, Scotty's son, and he framed his own dad because he was too busy with his TV show that he didn't spend any time with his family. So he met Nelson playing Clash of Castles and hired him to steal Homer's smoker in order to frame him. Scotty and Tyler soon reconcile and gives Homer's smoker back.

After the credits, several scenes show the future of the Hive Smoker, ending with alien bee people taking the hive back into space.