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Journey to the Cellar of the Kwik-E-Mart is a Simpsons Comics story released in Simpsons Comics #43.
Plot
The story is presented in a backwards fashion; each comic page takes place before the previous one (usually by only a few minutes), although the panels within each page are given in the correct order.
37 years in the past, Abraham Simpson sells a Squishee with two straws to a boy named Steve. After drinking through both straws at once, Steve's head appears to freeze and crack open, creating the legend of Brain Freeze Steve. 7 years later, a young Homer Simpson and Barney Gumble attempt to do the same thing until Kirk Van Houten tells them of the legend.
In present day, a parents' night is taking place at Springfield Elementary. Homer glues his mouth shut by eating paste and Marge wins a meat cleaver. Bart, Lisa, Milhouse and Martin decide to sneak to the Kwik-E-Mart before their parents get home. At the store, Martin buys a pie and Bart gets a Squishee with two straws, but Milhouse prevents him from drinking it, telling him about Brain Freeze Steve. Bart gets the idea to search for Steve's ghost in the Kwik-E-Mart, although they have to hide from Marge and Homer, who have arrived to find something to dissolve the glue on Homer's mouth. Marge and Homer leave, having failed to remove the glue, and Homer purchases a hot dog. Bart tricks Apu into closing the store early by phoning him under the guise of a baseball manager looking for a new chicken-costumed mascot. The kids enter a secret wax of horrors room in the employees-only area. Milhouse drops a trail of Speedy Seltzer Tablets to help them find their way back. They ride on a slide of death and see how the wax museum has been converted into a factory. Lisa loses her dress after exiting the slide and has to use a giant Squishzilla cup as a substitute. The kids appear to find Brain Freeze Steve and Bart attacks him with a plank of wood, but it is actually Apu's cousin Chachi. He tells them that his duty is to maintain the balance of the Squishee machine. Bart attempts to do it for him but falls into the Squishee liquid. Apu arrives in his chicken costume and rescues Bart. Homer and Marge pick up the kids and Apu gives Bart his chicken costume. Martin's pie is still intact and Homer attempts to eat his hot dog with his mouth glued shut, but takes his hands off the steering wheel and crashes the car off the edge of a cliff.
The car with the chicken costume attached is towed by a crane, Homer has a hot dog stuck in his mouth, Marge's hair has been sliced in half by the cleaver, Lisa is still in the Squishzilla cup, Bart is dyed red from the Squishee liquid, Martin's pie has collapsed on his head and Milhouse's pockets are exploding with the seltzers.
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