It is an unseasonably hot
Easter at church, and no one is interested in
Reverend Lovejoy's sermons. When the collection plate is passed around, Homer puts in a chocolate Easter bunny that he found in the dumpster, enraging Reverend Lovejoy, calling it a wicked
idol, and provoking him to read the
Bible from the beginning. The Simpsons all fall asleep.
Marge's dream Marge dreams that she and
Homer are
Adam and Eve. They peacefully live in the
Garden of Eden until a
snake (
Snake Jailbird) tempts Adam into eating dozens of apples from the forbidden tree. He persuades Eve to try one when
God (
Ned Flanders) witnesses his sin. Even though Adam ate many apples, God only caught Eve eating an apple, and she is therefore banished from the Garden of Eden. Adam is unwilling to come clean, but misses Eve and thinks of a way of getting her back in by digging a tunnel with the help of some of the animals. God's
unicorn, named Gary, becomes exhausted from the digging and dies just before God catches Adam trying to smuggle Eve back into the Garden. The death of the unicorn enrages him further, and he expels them both from the Garden of Eden.
Lisa's dream Lisa imagines she and all the other
Springfield Elementary students are
Hebrews in ancient
Egypt, with the
Pharaoh (
Principal Skinner) making them build a
pyramid. Only
Moses (
Milhouse) can liberate the Hebrews. When Bart defaces the Pharaoh's
sarcophagus, supposedly incited by the
burning bush, he gets the other students punished. Lisa and Moses ask Skinner to let the Hebrews go but they are rejected when he shouts "You call yourselves slaves!" To radicalize their request for freedom, Lisa helps Moses produce
plagues to scare the Pharaoh into freeing the
Israelites, but they fail. This in turn gets Lisa and Moses thrown in the Pyramid's booby traps. When they escape, Moses gathers all the students and they attempt to leave. After a brief moment of thinking about allowing the Hebrews to go free, Skinner shouts "After them!". When they reach the
sea, Lisa has an idea to get across: They simultaneously flush all the Egyptians' toilets to drain the sea. As they cross, the Pharaoh and his guards follow them into the "temporarily dry sea", but the water fills the sea back up and swallows them. They enjoy splashing each other, and then return to the shore. Pleased that they have escaped, Moses asks Lisa what the future holds for the Israelites, but Lisa disappoints Moses when she says that they have to wander the desert for forty years. Moses then asks if it is going to be smooth sailing for the Jews after that. Rather than disappoint Moses again with news of the ongoing anti-Semitism that will plague the Jews for many centuries, she distracts the crowd by sending them to search for
manna.
Homer's dream Homer pictures himself as
King Solomon.
Lenny and
Carl fight over ownership of a pie. Solomon cuts it in half, sentences Lenny and Carl to death, and then eats the pie, before presiding over a civil case between
Jesus and
Checker Chariot.
Bart's dream Bart sees himself as
King David, who kills
Goliath, but has not won the war yet:
Nelson is Goliath's son, Goliath II, who has killed
Methuselah (
Grampa), David's oldest friend in revenge. In retaliation, David challenges Goliath II, but having no stones to sling at him, David loses and is catapulted from the city, but not before cutting Goliath II's hair (as David got him confused with
Samson). David then meets
Ralph, a shepherd, who claims he can kill Goliath II. After Ralph is presumed dead, David then trains with Ralph's sheep to try to slay Goliath II. Having to climb up the enormous
Tower of Babel beforehand (not before finding the remains of
Jonah within the remains of the whale that ate him, which was eaten by Goliath II), David manages to subdue Goliath II by throwing a lit lantern down his throat. Goliath II is surprisingly still alive, but is quickly killed by Ralph's gravestone, hurled by Ralph himself, who also survived. Much to his shock, David is sent to
jail as the townspeople claim that Goliath II was the best
king they ever had, building
roads,
libraries and
hospitals.
Epilogue As the family wakes up, they find themselves alone in the church. Upon exiting they realize that the
Last Judgement has come; fire rains from a red sky, and the Four Horsemen ride past. The Flanders ascend into Heaven, but the Simpsons do not; Lisa begins to ascend, but Homer grabs her leg and pulls her back down. Instead, the Simpsons descend via a staircase into
Hell, where Homer follows the delicious scent of grilling only to be horrified by the lack of hot dogs and unappetizing dishes as "
Highway to Hell" by
AC/DC plays over the credits. ==Production==