In the episode, Lisa befriends three teenaged Wiccans after getting lost in the woods during a game of hide-and-seek, and must clear her new friends' names when they are accused of cursing the townspeople with their supposed witchcraft.
To pass the time, Bart, Lisa and Maggie spend hours playing the repetitive and noisy game "Bonk-It", much to Marge and Homer's annoyance.
He loses control of the vehicle, accidentally hits a deer reminiscent of Bambi and ends up on a frozen lake, where a mysterious person drags them out.
When the judge dismisses the case, the townspeople decide to take the law into their own hands, and wish to drown the girls in an impromptu witch trial.
Lisa, however, proves that the real culprits behind the town's temporary blindness are Homer and his hillbilly friends, who threw their moonshine stills into a river leading to the town's reservoir after thinking that they were about to be arrested by the police sent out by Flanders; the combination of alcohols caused the temporary blindness in the townspeople and animals who swam in or drank the water.
The episode ends with Lisa ice-skating on the frozen river to the song "Season of the Witch" while her skates carve a hole in the ice that frees Homer.
In August 2009, Fox announced that Neve Campbell would guest star as Cassandra, a Wiccan whom the townsfolk accuse of blinding them.
In its original American broadcast, "Rednecks and Broomsticks" was viewed by an estimated 9.02 million households and received a 4.2 Nielsen rating/10 share in the 18–49 demographic.
[5] Robert Canning of IGN stated in his review "In the end, for all the small bits that worked -- Moleman operating on himself, Moe and the angry mob -- 'Rednecks and Broomsticks' was just too bland to be worthwhile.".