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The Simpsons Winter Wingding 3
The Simpsons Winter Wingding 4
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The Simpsons Winter Wingding 4 is the fourth issue of the Simpsons Winter Wingding comic book series. It was released on November 2009.

Stories[]

Off the Grid[]

On a winter's day, Homer checks the mail and finds nothing but a power bill, and he throws a tantrum when he sees how high it is. Meanwhile, at Mr. Burns's house, it is revealed that he and Smithers have raised the price out of greed due to the townsfolk using thermostats a lot because of the weather.

Back at the Simpsons' house, Homer and Marge note that they can't afford the bill, and Lisa complains about how greedy Burns and Smithers are. She suggests using less electricity, which they do by lowering the thermostat, so Marge lights the fire and Homer burns the bill. Then, Homer and Lisa decide to stop using all the electricity.

45 minutes later, the female Simpsons are coping fine, but Bart is sulky due to the cold and Homer is whining about not being able to watch TV. The next morning, Homer sleeps late due to the lack of a clock, then must ride a bicycle to work since Marge has expanded the plan from simply saving electricity to being eco-friendly in general, which includes no driving.

That night, Marge serves salad (the only thing she could make with no oven) which Lisa likes, but Bart hates in addition to still hating the cold. Homer, meanwhile, has fallen asleep due to the biking making him lethargic, and Bart complains about not being able to play video games.

At church on Sunday, Homer's stubble has grown longer and he smells bad, since he refuses to shave or shower without hot water. When Marge explains as such to the Lovejoys, she ends up revealing the "no electricity or gas" plan to the other churchgoers. Krabappel and Frink reveal that they already heard about the cause from Bart and are emulating it (albeit with Frink using alternative sources of electricity) and that inspires many churchgoers to go off the grid.

Burns and Smithers notice the decrease in power consumption, so Burns decides to persuade them to use more electricity with an infomercial. Then, the Simpsons start having more trouble with the lack of power -- Homer is jealous of the Flanderses who are still using electricity, Bart is burning Lisa's books to stay warm, Lisa herself is struggling to see when there's nothing but candlelight to read by, and Marge is having trouble doing the laundry over the fire. While helping Marge with the laundry, Lisa realises that a documentary she wanted to watch is on that night.

Grampa Simpson then comes over, explaining that the retirement home turned off the power, leaving the residents with nothing to do but talk, and he's sick of their rambling. Then, Moe, Apu, Gil, and Otto show up as well. Most of them reveal that they want to go back onto the grid -- Moe because his beer is too warm, Apu because he needs his fridges to run, and Otto to grow his weed garden. Gil reveals that he was just tagging along because he was lonely. Lisa then decides to turn the power back on, deciding that conservation is enough to save the planet, and tries to watch her documentary, but it is cancelled in favour of Burns's commercial.

Itchy & Scratchy in Are We There, Yeti?[]

On a plane, Scratchy has to pee, so Itchy ejects the toilet out of the plane with him on it. He then careens down the hill and is grabbed by a large, furry monster.

A year later, Itchy watches from a plane and is shocked to see that the monster (who resembles a giant cat) has fallen in love and had kittens with Scratchy.

The Landfill of Forbidden Toys[]

Krusty and his employees are trying to come up with toy ideas, but he is unimpressed by them. When one produces an action figure that grows when wettened, Krusty decides to sell that, but the EPA confiscate it, claiming it is dangerous for a plethora of reasons. They then go on to state that all of Krusty's toys are poisonous, due to several health code violations (including radioactive lead paint) at the factory. Then, they bury the toys in a landfill designed specifically for dangerous or otherwise unmarketable toys, filling it in with concrete.

Afterwards, it snows (despite being before Thanksgiving) and won't stop snowing. This causes the streets to be blocked, and thus Homer cannot buy Christmas gifts for his children. As such, on Christmas, he gives them Santa's Little Helper dressed as a robot, a dollhouse made from a laundry hamper, cookie dough "action figures", and a toy made of his socks.

Bart and Lisa go outside where Ralph, Milhouse, Sherri, Terri, Martin, and Database complain about their own parents giving them no or subpar gifts, so Bart prays. Meanwhile, at the landfill, the toys inside heat up, cracking the concrete and melting the snow. The water wets the growing Krusty dolls, which expand until the landfill explodes. The toys from the exploded landfill start falling from the sky, so the kids mistake it for a Christmas miracle. Meanwhile, the EPA show up in helicopters to confiscate the dangerous toys.

Oh, Plow, Where Art Thou?[]

Homer is digging through his and Marge's closet looking for a meatloaf he put in there, when he finds his old "Mr. Plow" jacket and wonders what happened to his plow. Meanwhile, Comic Book Guy buys the plow from Gil (despite Gil not actually working at the car yard but instead just sleeping there), recognising it from an old commercial.

Then, Comic Book Guy sells it to Krusty who uses it in a show, which flops so he gives the plow and other show equipment away to charity. Lovejoy wants to buy it to melt into crucifixes, but then Snake steals it and sells it to Willie. Otto, seemingly drunk and/or high, accidentally climbs into it instead of the bus on his way home and is arrested for reckless driving.

Ralph goes to play in the impound lot and ends up driving the plow through town and bumping into Hans Moleman's house. Moleman drives the plow to the optician's, then Patty and Selma steal the plow to drive home (kicking Ralph out when he mistakes them for his "mommies"). When they get home, they find Fat Tony there, and they give him the plow to make him go away.

Tony fills in a hole with the plow, but then decides he "doesn't trust" it and throws it into the sea, where Captain McAllister hauls it onto his ship. He sells the plow to Herman, who offers to sell it to Grampa. Grampa recognises the plow as one that enemy soldiers attacked him in, so he blows it up with a nearby tank. The metal fragments fall down and are seen by Homer, who still doesn't know what happened to the plow.

Twas The Eve Before Christmas (by Homer J. Simpson)[]

In a parody of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas written by Homer, he and Marge are about to go to bed. Homer lies that the kids are in bed, even though Bart is slingshotting rocks out the window, Lisa is playing her sax, and Maggie is asleep in her Christmas stocking.

Homer and Marge are implied to be about to have sex, but before they can, she realises that Homer hasn't put the presents out yet. He realises that he left the presents with Grampa and can't remember where they are now due to having gotten drunk at Moe's bar afterwards. He considers simply replacing the presents with a phone book (for Lisa as she is a bookworm), Santa's Little Helper's bowl (for Maggie, since he feels she wouldn't mind), and a lump of coal (for Bart, as he feels he deserves it) but realises Marge wouldn't be fooled.

Then, he decides to deliver these replacement presents dressed as Santa, but then he hears a noise. He initially thinks it's Snowball II in the crawlspace, or Bart, but then finds they are both asleep and it is somebody on the roof. The "somebody" turns out to be Santa (who is saying the wrong names for the reindeer).

Homer and Santa talk over eggnog, then Santa leaves presents for each of the kids, plus a TV for the whole family. He leaves, and by then it is morning, so the family watches the new TV.

Trivia[]

  • This is the first issue of Winter Wingding where Bart is not wearing a scarf on the cover. Instead he is wearing a red zip up hoodie which he commonly wears on the show.
  • Homer references Star Wars by calling himself "an innocent stormtrooper on the Death Star" when Bart questions why he called the power company evil despite working for it. Later, an R2D2 toy is seen among the toys raining from the sky.
  • On page 16, the word "consumers" is misspelled as "costumers".
  • Homer says that dressing up as Santa "worked for the Grinch", referencing the Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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