In this episode, Homer and Marge transfer Bart and Lisa to a better school due to the poor rating of Springfield Elementary.
Homer rents an apartment in the neighborhood to establish residency while Lisa has trouble making friends at the new school until Bart helps.
Afterwards, she walks through the halls and is appalled to discover that Springfield Elementary is the worst school in the state, replete with apathetic teachers and overcrowded classrooms.
Bart, eager to establish his reputation as a "bad boy", is shackled and led away by Chief Wiggum, leaving the other students in awe.
[1] Homer adopts a bachelor lifestyle, playing videogames and attending parties with his newfound college friends, and he and Marge begin to act as though they were newly dating.
Homer and Marge frantically lay out toys and Krusty the Clown dolls in an effort to convince the inspector that the children live there.
He concludes that the apartment is the residence of the Simpson children, but admits that he was "hoping to kill [Homer and Marge] and make it look like a suicide."
[2] Alaska Nebraska is a parody of Hannah Montana,[3] but the character's mannerisms are similar to those of Elliot Page's role in Juno.
A scene from the episode, in which Ralph "teaches" the class after Miss Hoover is granted tenure, is featured in the documentary Waiting for "Superman".
He said the school plot had "a level of funny that has become too rare in these latter double-digit seasons", and the subplot with Homer and Marge was "[e]qually as good".