During parent/teacher night at school, Marge is told that Bart needs serious discipline at home if he is ever to become a respectable adult. Marge and Homer agree that they must be tougher on Bart. The next time Bart misbehaves, Marge sends him to his room without dinner. A starving Bart is just about to promise that he will change his ways when Homer sneaks in with a pizza, undermining Marge's disciplinary actions.

Marge and Homer leave Bart in charge of Maggie, who crawls out of the house into the family car and drives away, evetually crashing into Springfield's state penitentiary. This time Homer issues a punishment: Bart can never see the new Itchy & Scratchy movie.

Bart is devastated that he is the only kid in Springfield who does not see the movie. Months later, he concedes victory to Homer, but Homer tells him that they have both won. Looking into the future, Homer finally takes his son--now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court--to see the Itchy & Scratchy movie.