Louise trains Tina to be the last student standing during an all-out cheese throwing battle against the other eighth graders. Meanwhile, Bob and Teddy teach Linda how to successfully eavesdrop on customers' conversations without getting caught.
Giant monsters created by political rage threaten to tear the town apart, a Victorian Mr. Burns is jump-scared on Thanksgiving by the ghosts of his abused workers, and Homer bonds with a pair of extra-terrestrial jeans.