After being tricked into evacuating the house by
Homer, who had set off the fire alarm early in the morning, the family goes to the Duff Days festival sponsored by
Duff Beer. While there, they see
Moe Szyslak enter a bartending competition and win the grand prize of having his photo taken for the upcoming Duff calendar. However, when the calendar goes on sale, Moe is dismayed to find his face covered by several layers of stickers due to his ugliness. He takes
Lenny and
Carl up on their suggestion that he have
plastic surgery; although he is reluctant to go through with the procedure, it leaves him with a handsome face. Filled with new confidence, he confronts old adversaries, including the producers of the
soap opera It Never Ends, complaining that he was rejected for the part of Dr. Tad Winslow 25 years earlier because of his appearance. When the actor portraying the role is fired after demanding a salary increase, the producers hire Moe to replace him. Meanwhile,
Bart and
Lisa discover that
Maggie's pink Duff Days
elephant balloon has blown away in the wind. They go after it until it ends up in a
gay Republican coalition's office where the members are discussing what their mascot should be. One member dismisses the pink elephant as being too precise about their group's identity. They then give Lisa a bumper sticker supporting a gay president in 2084, admitting that they have to be realistic about their long-term goals. Taping of
It Never Ends goes well until Moe reads in a top-secret book of future plot lines that his character is to be killed off. Infuriated, he gets revenge by revealing all the plots on the air, with help from Homer. The producer angrily interrupts to tell Moe that his character's death was meant to be part of a dream sequence, as indicated by the book's color-coding of pages that Moe had remembered incorrectly, and fires him. Moe confidently states that he can get a role on any other soap opera he wants, but as he is leaving, a set piece falls on his face and crushes it back to its original appearance. His life returns to normal at the bar, where he wonders how the accident
left him with his original face instead of an entirely new one. ==Production and themes==