'Bowl Me Over'
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Comic Information
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Bowl Me Over is a comic story featured in Simpsons Comics 136.
Plot
Homer gets yelled at by Barney, Carl, and Lenny because he forgot their bowling league night again. The next day during the work shift tells Lenny and Carl that they have removed from Homer the bowling team for Professor Frink just because he does 20 points on average better than him. It's time for dinner with the Simpsons, Homer asks why they believe he was kicked, Lisa thinks that Homer would reduce his drinking because that was what made that he forgot about the bowling night. Homer sticks to Moe's, but will not enter the local, it is leased out for bowling players and it turns out that they are celebrating that Professor Frink made so that the team reached the final.
Homer continues his walk on the search for new happiness and meet Kearney, Jimbo and Dolph playing street bowling, a game where you throw the bowling ball on the streets with people's as pins and they let Homer test and he sink down Ned and think after that at it's funny and he joins their team. Someone graffiti Springfield again with the tag El Barto, Mayor Quimby asks Clancy to stop them. A street block away finds Ralph a spray can and starts playing with it when Clancy comes and he realizes that Ralph is "El Barto" and forced to incarcerate him because Bart, which has seeing all, do not dare to say at he is the man who made it. It is morning, Lisa thinks it's a shame that Ralph received six months house arrest and Marge is surprised that Homer is not mad about the bowling team, for they have won the state championship. Bart may be guilty to Ralph and begins to visit him. In the evenings, Homer has now begun to play street bowling and enjoys it and is better than the bullies who are jealous of him.
With Bart it's with Ralph, he may visit by Astrid Weller, which says that she love his art and wants to see him create a work of art, Bart hears this and tells to her that he is "El Barto" and she does not believe in him. Dolph tells to Homer about the perfect bowling goal, El Barto doing a painting in front of people. It's time for Ralph to make the "El Barto-painting", the TV is there, but when Homer sees that Ralph it's the "El Barto" he does not want to beat him down with a bowling ball. The bullies threaten then to throw him out if Homer don't do it, but he still refuses it, so the bullies do it themselves. Homer throws then a bowling ball against the bullies bowling balls and hit them so they come off course and Ralph is rescued, but the garage door as Ralph had begun to paint on was destroyed.
Astrid will then forward and tells at Ralph can not be the "El Barto". The police arrest the bullies, which have destroyed the garage door but Homer goes free. Wiggum tells to Bart that if he finds out who was "El Barto" he shall sit years in work camps. Both Homer and Bart have guilt for what they did and Homer tells to Bart that he has bowled down people who says to him at he is "El Barto". They start hugging but Homer realizes that it's Bart who painted the "Wide Load" on the back of his car and starts chasing him with a bowling ball.
