- Bart is sent to France on a student exchange program, where he's treated like a slave; an Albanian student with suspicious motives takes Bart's place in the family.
- Bart flushes a cherry bomb at school, nearly injuring Principal Skinner's mother, Agnes, in the process. An exasperated Skinner tells Homer and Marge that since expulsion would not do Bart any good, he's placing him in a foreign-exchange student program. Bart is sent to France, where his host family are unethical winemakers who plan to employ him as a slave.—Brian Rathjen <briguy_52732@yahoo.com>
- At school, Bart dumps a cherry bomb in one of the school's toilets, causing damage to the bathrooms. Principal Skinner gets a psychologist to see what to do with him. The psychologist finds an educational program in France for three months. Bart loves the idea and he is substituted with a boy from a foreign country. When Bart arrives in France, he meets with a guy who he thinks he's from the program. Bart finds out it was a scam and that the guy and his partner were secretly putting him as a slave. Meanwhile, the boy who was substituted also is secretly working for one of the country's air forces, and he goes back to his country and Bart comes back. The Simpsons find out that Bart can speak French, which makes him free and live happy with his family.—kevindklenke
- After Bart blows up a cherry bomb in the school toilets, Principal Skinner plans to put Bart into a student exchange program. Bart travels to France, where he is hosted by a pair of criminals and becomes a national hero when he exposes their plan to spike wine with antifreeze. Meanwhile, back in Springfield, the Simpsons host an Albanian student named Adil, who (unknown to the family) is actually a spy in search of nuclear secrets. Touched by Adil's interest in his work, Homer gives Adil the secrets he's after by showing him all over the nuclear plant.
- After Homer trips over Bart's toys and injures his back, Marge demands Bart clean his room. While doing so, he finds he has one cherry bomb left.
Taking it to school, he flushes it down a toilet in the boy's room. The explosion causes the toilet's to backflow in both the boy's and girl's rooms. It just so happens that Principal Skinner's mother (who is visiting her son) was in the girl's room at the time and is injured when a geyser of water launches her off the commode.
Principal Skinner takes Bart home where he has a talk with Homer and Marge. Feeling any normal form of punishment will not do, he suggests deportation, or to put it in other terms, making Bart part of a student exchange program for several months in France. Bart eagerly agrees to go, and is soon jetted off to France.
However, the family that is taking Bart in are actually a pair of French crooks. Bart is soon subjected to backbreaking and tedious work on their winery, as they starve him, make him sleep on the floor and sell off almost all of his things.
Meanwhile, the Simpsons have accepted an Albanian exchange student into their household, named Adil Hoxha. Adil proves to be a considerate boy, but secretly is an Albanian spy, who begins sending coded messages to his country regarding Springfield's Nuclear Plant, tricking Homer into taking him to the plant. Sensing that unlike Bart, Adil is interested in his work, Homer happily shows the boy restricted equipment and areas, which Adil photographs.
Back in France, Bart notices his exchange family adding anti-freeze in their wine to age it more rapidly. They force Bart to drink a small amount to prove that it won't hurt him before sending him out to buy more anti-freeze. Bart attempts to ask an officer for help, but gets nowhere when the Gendarme doesn't understand his English. As Bart wanders away, he suddenly begins to speak French, after having been immersed in the culture. Bart talks again to the Gendarme and explains about what the men have been doing. They are arrested, and Bart is considered a hero for his efforts.
In Springfield, Adil is soon caught by the authorities, and sent back to Albania...exchanged for a young American spy who was doing the same over there.
As Adil leaves, Bart returns, bearing gifts for his family. They all agree it's great to see Bart back, as Homer struggles with a bottle of French champagne, complaining "that some wise guy stuck a cork in the thing."
Bart then (in French) claims that his father is "a buffoon," leading Homer to happily proclaim that Bart now speaks French (unaware of the insult that was just laid on him).
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