After visiting a prison rodeo, Marge volunteers to teach convicts how to be artists and befriends a prisoner Jack, who has artistic potential, but is a manipulative sociopath. Meanwhile, Homer starts his own chiropractic office by pushing people onto trash cans, only to get hunted down by real chiropractors.
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After Marge forces the whole family to visit the Apron Expo (which, ironically, everyone enjoys except her), they decide to go to a prison rodeo. There Marge meets a prisoner named Jack Crowley and believes he could be a great artist after witnessing some of his work. Marge starts an art class at the prison, then gets Jack out on parole under her custody. Jack needs a job and she finds there is a mural-painting job at Springfield Elementary School. To help him get the job, Marge lies to cover up his prison background. Jack paints a captivating mural, which everyone loves, apart from Principal Skinner. Skinner thinks the image of a shapely female warrior riding a Puma doesn't have any place at the school. Taking his advice, Jack changes the picture into a childish and colorful image and everyone hates it. Skinner admonishes him for making such a poorly received painting and refuses to admit that any fault belongs to him. Jack goes mad, setting fire to the picture (revealing the first one underneath, and then burning that one as well). He lies to Marge, saying that he did not burn down the picture and that Skinner just assumed he did because he has it out for him. Marge agrees to help him, but while Marge is distracting the authorities Jack blows his own chance of escape by setting fire to Skinner's car in front of everyone, disappointing Marge. Jack admits he is also the one who set fire to the painting and is returned to jail.
Homer suffers from a back injury he sustained from being kicked by a bull at the prison rodeo and goes to see a chiropractor. The chiropractor says he is unable to adjust his back, which may have something to do with Homer blatantly refusing to do the exercises to go with the therapy. Homer falls over a battered garbage can, and his back is cured. He realizes that its dents line up perfectly with the vertebrae of the human spine. He starts up his own business treating people's backs and names his creation "Dr. Homer's Miracle Spine-o-Cylinder". It becomes a huge success. Other chiropractors (who are losing money from Homer's one session treatments) catch up with him, destroy his garbage can, and ruin his business.