The Simpson family becomes helplessly stuck in traffic while returning from a ski vacation. To pass the time, Bart, Lisa and Maggie wish play the repetitive and noisy game “Bonk-It”. Marge attempts to hide the batteries before handing it to the children, but Bart quickly recovers and replaces them. To the great annoyance of Marge and Homer, the children play the game for endless hours. Homer loses his patience and throws the toy out the window, where it is crushed by passing vehicles, but by a twist of fate, another father throws his childrens’ Bonk-It out a window and it lands in the hands of the Simpson children. His patience long-gone, Homer smashes the Bonk-It with his foot, causing it to lodge under the brake pedal. He loses control of the vehicle, hits a deer reminiscent of Bambi and ends up on a frozen lake.

A mysterious person drags them out. When the family wakes up, they discover that the mysterious person was Cletus. Cletus tells Homer about moonshine, and invites him to taste the latest batch. Homer impresses Cletus and his hillbilly friends with his moonshine-tasting skills and is invited to judge of a moonshine competition.

Meanwhile, Lisa plays hide and seek with Cletus’s daughters, but she hides too well and can’t find her way back. She encounters three girls who are practicing Wiccans. Lisa is initially skeptical of their ability to cast spells, but becomes interested in joining after Miss Hoover becomes ill on the same day Lisa must hand in an assignment she didn’t complete. The girls ask Lisa to join their coven, which she accepts. But the three girls are arrested and put on trial after Ned Flanders sees Lisa looking at “Wiccapedia” on her computer and calls the police. Lisa becomes the principal witness.

Many of the citizens become suddenly blind (including Dr. Hibbert, Principal Skinner, Krusty, and Luann Van Houten). They blame the three girls, who are put on trial. When the judge dismisses the case, the townspeople wish to drown the girls in an impromptu witch trial. Lisa, however, explains that the real culprits are Homer and his friends who threw moonshine in the water because they were scared to be arrested by the police. After this explanation, the girls are freed and Homer plays with the witch-drowning chair.

“Rednecks and Broomsticks” is the seventh episode in The Simpsons’ twenty-first season. It aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 29, 2009. This is the second episode parodying the film title Bedknobs and Broomsticks, following the previous season’s Mypods and Boomsticks.

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