However, as he is leaving, Mr. Burns asks him for his help to fix a gas leak with a "Safety First" poster, and to measure its level with a plumb bob (a procedure that takes hours to complete).
The cops take Bart back home and arrest Marge for neglecting her son just in time for Homer to witness this.
Meanwhile, Homer is having trouble taking care of the kids, but some Springfield residents (especially Ned Flanders) realize that he is going through a difficult phase and decide to help him.
She uses her hair as a weapon against bullies and makes some friends, but Homer hires the Blue-Haired Lawyer, who finds out that Marge could not be arrested because of a technicality, and she is set free.
When Homer's turn to walk them goes wrong, the kids have had enough of their parents' attitudes and decide to sneak into the park to have fun by themselves.
In the middle of the mayhem, she finds Homer undercover as a prison guard in order to rescue her, they both escape safely as the police are too busy sorting out the disarray caused by the tornado to bother going after them.
They soon arrive back home, where Bart and Lisa become overly attached to her and the entire family ends up hugging inside the closet.
It’s got a laugh or two around the fringes...There’s a satirical edge to the whole 'overprotected children' angle that clearly engaged the writers room a bit (the episode is the first credited to Futurama vet Eric Horsted)...But the idea that Springfield’s justice system would overreact by pulling guns on Marge and sending her to prison is just plausible enough to be upsetting...And there’s a reliable number of offbeat gags throughout to make this an unassumingly pleasant way to kill a half-hour.