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The Simpsons Winter Wingding 5 is the fifth issue of the Simpsons Winter Wingding comic book series. It was released on November 2010.
Stories[]
One Flu Over Springfield[]
A man with the flu goes to buy medicine from the Kwik-E-Mart, but Apu Nahasapeemapetilon won't let him, since he fears the money is contaminated. Snake Jailbird then steals the sick man's wallet along with the medicine and runs into his car.
There, he sniffs the wallet in celebration of the theft, which results in him catching the man's flu. During a police chase, Snake sneezes on the steering wheel. He then crashes his car and leaves on foot, leaving Clancy Wiggum and Lou to investigate. While Lou follows Snake's footprints, Wiggum takes a sample of Snake's snot for analysis, but does not wear gloves.
Thus, he catches Snake's flu, so Wiggum leaves the specimen in his house while he goes to lie down. Ralph Wiggum discovers the snot and mistakes it for glue, so when working on a diorama for homework with Lisa Simpson, the two use it as glue. Ralph then gets Santa's Little Helper to lick the stuff off him.
Moe Szyslak enters to babysit the kids, since Homer Simpson and Marge Simpson have a date that night. He goes to hug Maggie Simpson, but is interrupted by Santa's Little Helper licking him. Moe then kisses Maggie, and as Homer and Marge leave, Marge kisses Maggie as well.
The next family, Homer, Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and Santa's Little Helper have all contracted the flu, much to Bart Simpson's shock. He is about to go to school, but unfortunately gets Santa's Little Helper's drool on him during a struggle for slippers.
At school, Bart infects Milhouse Van Houten with a high five, then Milhouse touches several fruits in the cafeteria, one of which Seymour Skinner eats. Then, he kisses Edna Krabappel, who also catches the flu. By the end of the day, Bart's entire class is infected.
Later, Nelson Muntz drinks from the slushie machine at the Kwik-E-Mart, then Joe Quimby drinks one of the slushies and spreads the flu to several people, including Timothy Lovejoy Jr., by shaking hands. Lovejoy then spreads the flu to his parishioners via the Holy Communion.
The next morning, Julius Hibbert is shocked at the amount of patients, while Comic Book Guy tries to board a plane to escape the flu bug, only for his seatmate on the plane to be the still-infected Patient Zero. Comic Book Guy declares it the "worst ironic ending ever".
Freezer Burns[]
Homer is watching the news on a particularly cold winter's day. Mr. Burns announces that until the weather warms up there will be power outages, which could prove dangerous due to the low temperatures.
Mayor Quimby calls a town meeting and eventually, the citizens form an angry mob and swarm the power plant.
During the commotion, Homer throws an icicle at one of the chimneys, breaking it, and leaking radiation into the air. This radiation causes an artificial summer that everyone enjoys, even though it causes side effects (like giving Marge cat eyes and Homer a long tongue).
A Simpleton Plan[]
Moe has won some horse meat in the lottery and tries to make it into burgers, but the barflies aren't interested. Homer then leaves the bar and complains about the cold weather, so Moe offers him a lift.
Unfortunately, the car crashes, and when the two are dislodging the car, they discover something shiny which turns out to be a crashed cargo plane. Nobody is in the plane, but it contains a lot of barrels of sauce, which Moe steals.
He then makes the horse meat into burgers and adds the sauce. He sells one to Homer, who enjoys it, but warns Homer not to tell anyone about the sauce. Meanwhile, the pilot finds the plane and discovers the sauce missing, and it's revealed through a phone conversation that it was Krusty who made the sauce.
Homer has a hard time keeping the secret, and he immediately tells Marge when she asks where he has been. Since he wants another burger despite already having eaten twelve, she worries that the sauce is addictive, so she takes it to Frink to analyse. Meanwhile, the burgers at Moe's Tavern are very popular, and Krusty has discovered where the sauce is.
He goes to Fat Tony, who, despite teasing him for crying, promises to help Krusty provided he gets to "dip [his] beak in the Krustyburger franchise". Fat Tony and Krusty bust into the bar to get the sauce back, while Homer and Barney have broken out in lesions. Moe feeds Fat Tony and Krusty some of the burgers, but then Marge enters.
She reveals that according to the analysis, the sauce is not only addictive but also poisonous, explaining the lesions. Luckily, Fat Tony and Krusty spit out the sauce before they can get poisoned and decide to dump it in the river (where Blinky eats it and grows a fourth eye) and Homer's skin clears up.
Getting There is Half the Battle[]
Homer wins a skiing vacation on a beer bottle and plans to take Moe, Barney, Lenny, and Carl, but Marge and the kids persuade him to take them instead.
When they get to the airport, the Simpsons have to wait for a long time due to a combination of storms and a busy airline. After a struggle to get on an available plane, Homer decides to fly his family to Duffspen (the location of the ski resort) himself.
He fails to fly the plane, so they board a train, only for it to turn out to be a shared hallucination of the Polar Express. Eventually, however, they get to Duffspen via a different train, a dogsled, and camels. However, when they get there, the staff brings in Homer's friends and sends Marge and the kids home.
The Sno-Bliterator![]
Skinner and Otto have invented a snow plow/bus hybrid to eradicate snow days, but Skinner has to cut the budget to pay for it, which would lead to things like the musical instruments being taken away. Milhouse and Nelson don't like the idea of no snow days, but Bart is confident that the new plow will not be able to plow through the next day's predicted snowstorm.
However, it is able to plow through, and he misses the bus due to setting his alarm clock two hours later, which Skinner had claimed would lead to a month's detention. To make matters worse, Homer and Marge cannot drive Bart to school, so he has to go by sled.
He ends up late and tries to sneak in, but Willie makes him clean up the snow he has tracked in. Then, in the bathroom, Skinner catches Bart and puts him in detention. There, he decides to destroy the "sno-bliterator" so that he and the other kids can have snow days again, with Milhouse and Nelson (who are also in detention) agreeing to help him. Krabappel overhears the boys, but she does not care as she (and, according to her, the other teachers) also likes snow days.
That night, when Otto leaves the bus, the boys sneak onto it and Milhouse puts chewed-up gum under the accelerator, Nelson puts glue on the steering wheel, and Bart pours a Squishee into the engine.
The next morning, Bart and Lisa board the bus (with Lisa and Otto noting that Bart is unusually chipper for someone who hates school) and Otto drives off. Nelson throws trash at the windshield, then the Squishee comes out of the windshield sprayers, Milhouse walks by disguised as a woman with a pram, and Otto's gloves get stuck to the steering wheel.
He then swerves onto a frozen pond, which makes Bart fear for his and everyone else's lives. He tells Otto to quickly drive off the pond, which he does, but due to the gum, he cannot put the gas pedal back, and so must crash. Chalmers promotes Skinner to assistant superintendent, until Otto crashes into the building, angering Chalmers, who punishes Skinner with overtime work.
Trivia[]
- Out of the sick people seen in the waiting room, it is unknown how Kent Brockman, Sideshow Bob Roberts, Agnes Skinner, Sherri Mackleberry, Terri Mackleberry, Horatio McCallister, Richard Texan, Carl Carlson, Rod Flanders, Todd Flanders, Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon, The Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets, Krusty the Clown, his monkey, Doris Freedman, Charles Montgomery Burns, or Waylon Smithers, Jr. got the flu. However, it is presumable that Agnes got it from Skinner, Rod and Todd got it from Ned Flanders, Carl got it from Lenny, and Manjula and the octuplets got it from Apu.
- Snowball II was the only member of the Simpson household not to catch the flu. Likewise, Sarah Wiggum and Mittens were the only members of the Wiggum household not to catch the flu.
- Barney Gumble is revealed to dislike Krusty Burger.
- It is revealed that the Kwik-E-Mart does not accept currency that is contaminated with germs.
- Error: Despite getting infected, Ralph is not seen in the waiting room.