Children of a Lesser Clod

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"Children of a Lesser Clod" is the twentieth episode of the Simpsons twelfth season.

Plot

Whilst playing basketball at the new sports centre, Homer badly injures his leg. After having it fixed up but still unusable, he becomes bored with staying at home. When Flanders requests he babysits for Rod and Todd, Homer accepts, but he finds that he rather enjoys their company, and they his.

Homer decides to start up a daycare and gets many new clients, but Bart and Lisa feel neglected. They try a few ploys to tug at his heart strings but they fail. Eventually Homer is nominated for a 'most caring person' award, but Bart and Lisa sabotage his footage with home videos of Homer attempting to "mace" Bart. Homer panicking that his daycare children will be taken from him, kidnaps them. Homer loads them all into a van, but crashes it into a tree, and Chief Wiggum arrests him. Homer is let off the hook after three mistrials, and promises to stop looking after the neighbour's kids to care for his own.

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