In the episode, after a night of playing poker with Moe, Lenny, and Carl, Homer finds himself in an elevator with a young mother named Gretchen, who is in labor and needs someone to help her keep calm.
While playing poker one night with Moe, Barney, Lenny and Carl, Homer has a run of good luck and decides to leave the game with his winnings.
She persuades them to go on strike in order to force the team owner to grant them a better contract; the strategy succeeds, but in the meantime they begin to endorse many bizarre products and services, to Lisa's surprise and dismay.
Executive producer Al Jean said she would give birth in an elevator and name the baby Homer Jr.[2] Moss felt insecure recording her lines because it was fast-paced, and she relied on the director and writers for her performance.
Club gave the episode a C, saying "In the end, there’s no payoff to this storyline at all, except that Maggie seems to forgive Homer for neglecting her in favor of his new elevator family.
It’s the sort of sweet emotional payoff a good Simpsons episode pulls off after building the story on a solid character foundation along the way.