Comic Book Guy and his wife
Kumiko enjoy a lazy Sunday while
Marge and
Homer attend multiple children's birthday parties. Desperate for adult company, Marge and Homer leave the kids with
Ned Flanders and go to Moe's for trivia night. Teaming up with Comic Book Guy and Kumiko, they win first place, and Marge and Kumiko relate over having overweight husbands. When Kumiko visits Marge, she bonds with
Maggie and tells her husband she wants to have a child. Comic Book Guy, who works with children at his store every day and knows that he is an emotionally distant man, does not want to become a father. Kumiko arranges for her husband to attend a movie with the Simpsons, and he finds he truly enjoys introducing
Bart and
Lisa to classic movies. When the children become upset, however, he is unable to comfort them, and returns to his family home, where his
philatelist father and other obsessive relatives live alone with their collections. It is then revealed that Comic Book Guy took solace in comic books as a child solely because his father never attended any of his beloved baseball games, causing him to choke during the championship. His father later admits that he did not go to the game for fear he would not know what to say if his son lost, but produces a ball autographed by his son's hero,
Sandy Koufax, that he had intended to give him. The pair play a game of catch, and Comic Book Guy returns to his wife, telling her that he is now ready to start a family. == Production ==