Gone Maggie Gone

In the six-hour news, Kent Brockman announces that a solar eclipse will be observed in Springfield. After Bart breaks Homer's camera obscure, Marge gives him his. Watching the eclipse, the family does not hold back the admiration, and Marge, not enduring, decides to sneak a peek at him with the naked eye, which causes a burn of the retina and temporarily becomes blind. The family takes Marge to the hospital, where Dr. Hibbert tells the Simpsons that Marge's eyes should be closed with a bandage for two weeks, and she should avoid stress. Homer takes control of the house, because of which the home of the Simpsons is flooded with rats. Homer goes to the store to fetch the rat poison and takes Maggie and Santa's Little Helper with him. On the way home, Maggie and the dog interfere with Homer driving the car, which is why he loses control and the car falls off the bridge. Homer is trying to cross the lake in a small boat with a baby, a dog and rat poison (referring to the riddle about the wolf, goat and cabbage). He transports Maggie and leaves her on the steps of the Church of St. Theresa to return for a jar of poison to the other side of the lake. Suddenly, a nun appears who takes Maggie to the foundling and takes her to the convent. Homer's demand to return his daughter is met with refusal.

Lisa, disguised as a nun, enters the monastery, while Homer and Bart try not to betray Marge's absence of their daughters. When the Mother Superior refuses to say where Maggie is, Lisa finds out that the nuns are looking for a gem. An elderly-looking nun (who claims to be 23 years old) informs Lisa about a long-time search for a mystical gem that fulfills desires. The first hint: “look for God with your heart and soul”, which Lisa solves, playing several bars of the same name song “Heart and Soul” on the church organ, after which she opens a cryptogram containing the following hint: find the “biggest ring” in Springfield; at first, she assumes that these are round rings, but she finds out that the largest ring is the Springfield Bell Tower. Arriving there, she meets Comic Bookseller and director Skinner, who tell her that dying Saint Theresa had a vision that the treasure would bring peace and peace to Earth. The comic book salesman tells Lisa that the gem will be discovered on the first full moon after a solar eclipse, that is, on this night. However, the bell cannot be a ring, as it is not real, but a copy of papier-mâché. A real ring is a part of the Springfield (sp-ring-field) lettering to which it is directed.

There they meet Mr. Burns and Smithers , who also know about the precious stone. On the letters, Liza discovers a message that deciphers as "royally, the precious stone is Liza." Lisa goes to the monastery, where she announces that she is a gem. The Mother Superior destroys this conjecture: the treasure is Maggie, and the message should be deciphered as "In fact, this is Maggie, Sherlock." Lisa, upset, indicates that she would have to get it wrong first for this to make sense. Maggie is put on the throne, and peace reigns in Springfield. Marge, however, intervenes and takes Maggie, saying that "God would not have asked the mother to sacrifice his child for the good of the world ... again." On the way home, Homer says that he left the other child on the throne - Bart. When he sits on the throne, the earth is cracked and Satan emerges from it.

The main plot of this episode is a parody of the films “Treasure of the Nation” and “The Da Vinci Code” ^[1] . For example, the bell in the tower, which turns out to be a fake, is a reference to the scene with the Liberty Bell in Treasure of the Nation. In the Da Vinci Code, the Holy Grail is Mary Magdalene, and Sophie was the last remaining heir to the genealogy of Christ; while in this episode the gem turns out to be Maggie. In another reference to “The Da Vinci Code,” Burns calls Smithers his loyal albino servant — an allusion to Silas ^[2] . Rats from the first half of the episode - a reference to the film "Ratatouille" ^[3] .