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Laura Powers is a teenage girl who lives next door to the Simpsons and is the only child of single-parent divorcee Ruth Powers.

After Mr. and Mrs. Winfield moved out of 740 Evergreen Terrace, Ruth and Laura Powers moved in. When Bart and Lisa snuck into the basement of the house to look around, Laura scared Bart, making him fall over. When Bart realized that Laura was beautiful, he wanted to say something clever, but instead said that he fell on his bottom. Marge and Bart later visited the Powers family to welcome them to the neighborhood. Laura politely greeted them at the door, which impressed Marge.

Laura and Bart started hanging out, with Bart asking Laura if she knew various prank techniques. Laura then did a fake palm reading on Bart, telling him that he would be rich in the future before spitting on his hand to symbolize him owning a swimming pool. Bart decided that he would never wash his hand again, which grossed Lisa out. When Homer wanted to go to an all-you-can-eat buffet at The Frying Dutchman, Bart suggested that Laura could babysit them. Bart took a bath and donned a jacket and pipe, à la Hugh Hefner, in an attempt to impress Laura. Laura and the kids ordered food from Two Guys from Kabul before Laura taught them how to waltz. When she was teaching Bart, he had a fantasy sequence of the two of them dancing together...