Fat Dog Hell flashes a "Free Pizza" sign and Santa's Little Helper runs inside.
After Lenny and Carl suggest that he try to raise the money through crowdfunding, Homer posts a video that persuades the residents of Springfield to donate.
A girl named Harper Jambowski (voiced by Kristen Bell) becomes interested in signing up, and the two begin to spend time together.
Mike, a wealthy entrepreneur and owner of several businesses and sports teams, joins them in the box, and he and Homer strike up a friendship of their own.
They decline at first due to the children needing to attend school, but Mike bribes Principal Skinner to close Springfield Elementary for a week so they can go.
When the girls begin fighting again during the trip, Homer reluctantly takes the family home early for Lisa's sake, commenting that no one who would treat her so badly deserves to be her friend.
Club gave the episode a B+ stating, "This season has seen the show rediscover how fruitful it can be to bring Lisa back down closer to her own age.
Sure, she’s almost always the smartest person in the room, but here, as in the truly, restoratively excellent 'Halloween Of Horror,' that intelligence, when coupled with an eight-year-old’s emotional intellect, has freed up the show to make Lisa more vital than she’s been in a while.