Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes

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An alcohol-free Springfield Saint Patrick's Day parade is interrupted by a brawl between the Nationalist Irish and the Unionist Northern Irish in which Homer participates. A group of hungry children steal Marge's picnic basket. She is saved by Patrick Farrelly, who gives the children a cabbage and returns the basket. Marge offers him a cupcake in gratitude, and Patrick immediately offers her a job at his bakery after eating it. At the bakery, Marge realizes that Patrick employed her at an erotic bakery after seeing Patty and Selma pick out a suggestively-shaped cake. Marge tries to quit, but Patrick says that there is nothing wrong with what he is doing, and that many of her friends have bought cakes from the store. Patrick informs Marge that she has a gift, and Marge agrees to stay.


Due to his involvement in the riot and his history of crime, Homer is arrested and his bail set incredibly high. Homer's bail bondsman Lucky Jim agrees to secure Homer's release from prison, as long as Homer does not skip his bail. Otherwise, he will have to deal with Wolf the Bounty Hunter, who quickly inspires Homer to become a bounty hunter himself. Homer's first mission involves pretending to sell condos on a street corner to criminals. Snake approaches Homer, who tries to take Snake down. Homer corners Snake in an alleyway, where Snake pulls out a pistol and fires a shot straight to Homer's head. Miraculously, Ned Flanders places a sheet of bulletproof glass in front of Homer, which deflects the shot. Ned attempts to convince Snake to come in quietly, unknowingly allowing Homer to sneak up behind Snake and capture him by asphyxiating him with a plastic bag. Giving Ned his cut of the bounty, Homer convinces him to partner up as a bounty hunting duo, and they successfully pursue several bail-jumpers. Homer spoils his family with gifts, chiefly evidence such as bullets or chemical equipment taken from meth labs. Marge is equally proud of her job, although after Homer innocuously considers ordering a birthday cake for Lisa from the erotic bakery and unwittingly eats several components for an order for Waylon Smithers, Marge confesses to the precise nature of her work.


That evening, Homer and Ned conduct a stakeout, hoping to take in Fat Tony. When he emerges next morning, Homer and Ned chase him around Springfield and eventually capture him by crashing their car into a subway car. Disgusted by Homer's lawless capture, Ned angrily quits and vows to leave the bounty-hunting business. When Ned learns from Jim that Homer has skipped his bail while being too distracted with his new job, he fears for Homer's sake and Jim's threats of sending a number of amoral and sociopathic bounty hunters after Homer, so Ned decides to arrest Homer by himself. Ned ambushes Homer as he arrives home and a long parkour chase ensues, ending with the two on a beam suspended high over the ground. Homer jumps onto another beam, but Ned fails to land on it, gripping onto the edge of the beam. He begs Homer for help, which causes Homer to remember all the good times he and Ned had together; Homer finally helps Ned, but ends up tumbling over the edge of the beam himself, causing them both to land in a pool of wet cement – which unfortunately sets before they can get out. Chief Wiggum arrests Homer, who is sentenced to a short stay in jail. On the last night of his sentence, while Sideshow Bob escapes from the Springfield Penitentiary, Homer receives a cake from Marge to "help get him through his sentence". He opens it to find a regular pink and white frosted sheet cake that simply says "to the love of my life".