Springfield Elementary School is hosting a fundraiser auction and invites all the families with kids in their classes, including the Simpson family. Every item in the auction is sold to a British widow named Edith Knickertwist, who is bidding over the phone. When the auction is over, Bart reveals that he was the real Mrs. Knickertwist and that there is no money for the school. Being frustrated over Bart’s latest farce and pressured by his supervisor Superintendent Chalmers, Principal Skinner challenges Chalmers to take over Bart’s education. Chalmers accepts and immediately gives Bart his own lesson plan.

Chalmers’ curriculum consists of former American president Theodore Roosevelt. He makes Bart interested in the subject by talking about Roosevelt’s heroic and rebellious nature. Soon, many of Bart’s friends joins him in a education in manliness and Chalmers plans to takes them all to Springfield Forest, in which Roosevelt left one of his spectacles. The field trip does not go well. Nelson finds the spectacles, but breaks his arm in trying reach for them. Since it was an unauthorized field trip, Nelson’s mom threatens to sue the school for medical expenses, which leads to Chalmers getting fired.

Bart and his friends, who now goes by the name “The Brotherhood of the Spectacles”, take over the school in a hostage situation and they stand up for the teacher who made a meaningful impact to them. They lock all of the teachers out of the school and demand that Chalmers get reinstated. Soon enough, a SWAT team prepares to storm the school, before Chalmers walks up to convince Bart to stop. Luckily, Chief Wiggum accidentally drops his gun, shooting a school representative in the leg, who thereafter agrees to reinstate Chalmers.

“Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts” is the second episode of the twenty-third season of the animated comedy series The Simpsons and the 488th episode overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 2, 2011.

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