In this episode, Mr. Burns bonds with Plopper and refuses to return it to Homer while Lisa starts getting rid of all her possessions.
The Simpsons go to the Springfield Car Wash, and Marge buys a book called The Japanese Warrior Monks Guide to Tidying Up.
Marge however tells him he has to give up Plopper, and find him a new place to live, so he puts an announcement on Greg's list.
Back at home, Lisa is empty of any joy since she gave away all of her stuff, so Bart helps her at school, playing the music she likes over the intercom.
He then returns to the manor that evening and gets back his animal friend with Bart's and later Smithers' help, and to keep him he says to Marge he will give up beer.
That night, Homer has a dream of a Hellman's Mayonnaise cartoon, similar to one he had earlier, and wakes up from the nightmare after seeing they prepared hamburgers with fruit in the sides.
You’ve got Homer and his pig buddy, coming back together before a barbeque sauce-and-hounds mishaps leads to Mr. Burns taking a shine to the injured Plopper.
Throw in some promising emotional beats to that story—Homer comforts the confused Lisa during an anxiety attack, Bart hijacks the school’s PA system to restore her love for jazz—and there’s an abundance of good ideas not given enough time to come to fruition.