- Homer enters Lisa in the Little Miss Springfield pageant to build her self-esteem.
- With her self-esteem shattered by a school carnival cartoonist, Homer decides to enter Lisa in a local children's beauty contest, which she ends up winning by default. But when she finds out how heavily involved Laramie Tobacco is in using the contest to sell cigarettes, she uses her position as a platform against the tobacco industry and other establishments of power and corruption.—Daniel Timothy Dey
- After seeing herself drawn as a caricature at the school carnival, Lisa suffers a drop in self-esteem, feeling she is ugly. Meanwhile, Homer is on top of the world when he wins the carnival's prize to ride in the Duff Blimp. However, upon seeing Lisa upset, he wants to cheer her up. When it is announced that Laramie Cigarettes are holding a contest to crown a little girl as Little Miss Springfield, Homer sells his ride ticket to pay the entrance fee. Lisa is at first upset, but when she realized what Homer gave up to enter her in the contest, she reconsiders and enters.
Lisa and a number of the other girls are intimidated when a little girl named Amber Dempsey becomes part of the Pageant. With her long eyelash-implants, she seems a shoe-in for winning the judges with her adorable looks and voice.
Sure enough, Amber wins, while Lisa becomes the runner-up in the pageant. During an appearance by Amber at a Tire Store during a storm, her metal scepter is struck by lightning. Unable to fulfill her duties, Lisa is brought in.
However, Lisa soon grows shocked when the pageant's sponsor, Laramie Cigarettes, wants her to help them peddle cigarettes to children. Lisa soon speaks out against this and a number of ill factors in society. However, she soon makes a bigger enemy by challenging Mayor Quimby, who works with the Laramie people to find a way to disqualify Lisa and reinstate Amber Dempsey.
The group finds what they need when in the form Homer filled out for Lisa's entry to the competition, he wrote in a field that was meant to be blank. Though Homer feels he's let Lisa down, she explains that even though she is no longer Little Miss Springfield, her experience has helped her feel better about herself.
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