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The Simpsons Summer Shindig 4 is the fourth issue of The Simpsons Summer Shindig comic book series. It was released on May 26th, 2010.
Stories[]
The Last Son of Krapton[]
Marge Simpson serves Homer Simpson goat cakes because it is a "special day", but he does not know which day it is. This enrages her, as it is their anniversary. Homer decides to get Marge to forgive him by buying her a diamond ring that she has always wanted, but he can't afford it. Luckily, he sees a carnival and decides to make money by getting a side job there.
The owner of the carnival initially tries to make Homer a barker, but he doesn't know what one is and thinks it means someone who barks like a dog. Thus, the owner tries to put Homer in the sideshow, and while initially he thinks that's too undignified, he accepts when he hears the pay. He ends up getting a job dressing as and pretending to be a baby.
Marge takes the kids to the carnival, despite worrying that it's unsafe and not being sure the games of chance are fair. When Homer sees them, he runs off and hides on one of the seats on a ride, which then breaks off and flies through the air because it was built by the incompetent Jimbo Jones and his friends. To save face, a carnival worker pretends the detaching seat was an intentional part of the ride.
Homer lands on Cletus's farm and gets amnesia from the crash. Cletus thinks Homer is an alien baby, like in his comic book. They decide to adopt him, and when he says he his hungry, they decide to serve him up skunk guts.
Back at home, Marge wonders where Homer is and fears that it is her fault he disappeared since she told him not to speak to her. Meanwhile, Cletus thinks Homer has super strength and tries to get him to use his "powers" to do farm chores.
Cletus's neighbours, Floyd and Lloyd, meet Homer, who Cletus brags about to one-up them. Floyd and Lloyd initially want to fight Homer, but decide it would be too dangerous, so they instead decide to get a "superhero" of their own. They go to The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop and ask Comic Book Guy for one, where Bart Simpson. When Bart hears Floyd and Lloyd mention that they are being "plagued" by a big, dumb "super-baby" who's mostly bald with only three hairs, Bart induces that this is an amnesiac Homer.
Marge volunteers to be Floyd and Lloyd's superhero, and while initially they turn her down for being a woman, they change their minds upon seeing her costume. She lassos Homer with a rope she is pretending is magic, and he angrily breaks through (despite calling Marge sexy). She introduces herself, which makes him regain his memory. He explains about the diamond ring and tries to squeeze some coal into a diamond, but can't. Luckily, at this point, Marge is no longer angry at Homer, and while the hillbillies resume their feud, Homer and Marge hug and compliment each other.
Dirty Laundry[]
Lisa Simpson tells Marge that clothes dryers use 6% of electricity in America, so she and Marge decide to switch to a clothesline to save electricity. They do, but the Neighbourhood Rules Association orders them to take it down for being an "eyesore". Thus, Marge and Lisa decide to show up at the next meeting and prove that it isn't one.
Marge takes photos of the Simpsons' more beautiful clothes hanging out to dry, while Lisa tries to look for images of laundry hanging out in fine art books. Bart takes an interest in one of the books, so Lisa lets him borrow it.
At the next Homeowner Association meeting, a crowd of people are calling the clothesline an eyesore, but Ned Flanders is okay with it. Lisa then presents some of her laundry art pieces to prove clotheslines aren't inherently ugly, but Mr. Norman retorts by presenting a photo of Marge's bra, saying nobody could call that art.
This angers Marge, Lisa, and Bart, the latter of whom protests by writing, "Ce n'est pas un brassiere" ("This is not a bra") under the photo in reference to the "This is not a pipe" artwork. Mr. Norman brushes off Bart's attempt at making the photo artsy and calls the bra ugly, which angers a crowd of women, who take offense at the notion that bras are inherently ugly. Ned decides to allow the Simpsons to dry their clothes (with the exception of Homer's underwear) outside.
Lisa and Bart celebrate their victory in the yard, and Bart makes a new artwork, which is Homer running in his undies, captioned "Leci n'est pas une bonne idee" ("This is not a good idea").
I.C.S.I. (Ice Cream Scene Investigators!)[]
Bart, Lisa, Milhouse Van Houten, and Nelson Muntz are sweating on a hot day. When Lisa wonders where the ice cream man is, Bart says that he knows, and "it ain't pretty". He leads them to the Kwik-E-Mart, where the ice cream man, who is revealed to be Gil Gunderson, is, talking to Chief Wiggum, revealing that somebody stole the truck because he left the keys in the ignition.
Lisa sees a footprint in a melted popsicle and wonders if whoever left the footprint saw the thief, so she decides to become the "Ice Cream Scene Investigators" with the boys. She has Bart bag and tag the popsicle stick and Milhouse to make a mold of the footprint by spraying it with hairspray. At Bart's treehouse, he discovers that there are toothmarks on the stick, while Milhouse discovers a prison number on the footprint.
Wiggum matches the number to Snake, who admits to having been at the Kwik-E-Mart but denies being the thief. Milhouse has him prove it by biting an unused ice cream stick. Back at the treehouse, the kids discover that whoever bit the first stick has a missing front tooth and their teeth are about half the size of Snake's.
Now knowing that whoever ate the ice cream is presumably a kid, they go to the various kid hangouts, and discover that Todd Flanders has a missing front tooth. Lisa interrogates Todd after church and asks him who gave him the ice cream. He reveals that he didn't see, but he knew it was a man, and that he drove off, saying that soon there would be free ice cream for everyone.
Nelson pokes at the footprint and discovers clothing fibres associated with lab coats, so the kids go to the lab coat store. The shopkeeper sells hundreds of lab coats, but only to one customer (since he burns his a lot), who turns out to be Frink. As it turns out, he was the thief, since he was using the ice cream to power a machine that makes more ice cream to make a giant sundae for the whole town. The kids decide to help him by throwing more ice creams into the machine. It works, and Frink makes a whole pool of ice cream, which the citizens eat from.
Bartman Beyond[]
Wiggum, Eddie, and Lou flash the Bartman symbol, but get a more antagonistic version of Bartman, who drops Wiggum off the building for "letting Springfield down". Then, the real Bartman breaks Wiggum's fall and saves him, but Wiggum thinks this is the guy who tried to kill him and orders Eddie and Lou to shoot him. Bartman escapes, but is confused as to why people hate and fear him now.
Then, a "Bartarang" slices Bartman's rope, and he meets his double. After a big fight, the other Bartman reveals that he is Bartman from the future, claiming that the only way to save the future is to quit being Bartman. He explains that he grew too good at heroics and thus the police and military were cancelled, but he had the flu the day the power plant mutated some bees, so there was nobody to stop the bees from enslaving humanity. He tried to fight them off until he was an adult and updated his suit, but it didn't work.
Present Bartman agrees to quit, but the next day, not only are the usual criminals like Snake present, a villain called the Censor arrives, with a ray gun to zap things he considers tacky. Thus, Bart decides to be Bartman again, and beats up the Censor, who is revealed to be Sideshow Bob. Then, it is revealed that the "future Bartman" was actually Sideshow Bob in disguise, and Bartman realised when he saw his big feet and pretended to quit to bait Bob.
Sideshow Bob is about to kill Bartman, but then Chief Wiggum shines a light in his eye to temporarily blind him, then arrests him, with Bartman saying that he and the police work together. Unfortunately, the evil bees turn out to be real after all (but they haven't taken over yet).
Trivia[]
- Cletus's comic book is a reference to Superman.
- One of Cletus's neighbours mentions "the batty lamp or some spidey signal or something", referencing both Batman and Spider-Man.
- It is revealed that Bart knows a little bit of French, from when he went there. He is shown reacting to the "this is not a pipe" piece, which is a real artwork.