A series of incidents results in Homer being suffocated by the garage door, and his life is saved when the family returns and Lisa and Bart apply first aid.

After watching a melodramatic "inspired by real-life" made-for-TV film, Marge fears for the family's financial well-being and begins purchasing cheap, low-quality products, keeping the savings in a large jar.

Although they demonstrate to Bart and Lisa that they have made up, the children are unable to reach the motorhome's brakes, and it plunges off an incomplete runaway truck ramp onto a Turkish freighter leaving the port.

The family stays for dinner on the freighter, and Marge expresses a lack of tension over their financial loss due to the small amount of hashish laced in her food.

[1] Walter J. Keegan Jr. of TV Squad thought that the episode did not have enough laughs, but did have enough subtle Simpsons humor about SUVs, Turkish sailors, and evil religious icons.