The Simpsons couch gag plays and the episode title appears.

Dan Gillick bowls the final frame for the Holy Rollers against the Pin Pals.

Fat Tony tells his gang he must serve jury duty and names Dan Gillick as temporary boss.

Dan Gillick tries to assert authority over the mob with cost-cutting and team-building.

Lisa faints during her solo at a school concert, causing a commotion.

Dr. Hibbert diagnoses Lisa with iron deficiency and recommends supplements.

Dan suggests using horse body parts as cost-effective threats to the mob.

Lisa meets a teacher who introduces her to entomophagy, eating insects.

Homer confronts Dan about missing bowling, and Dan gets advice from a bar patron.

Lisa attends a banquet where insects are served as gourmet food.

Dan aggressively cuts costs in the mob, threatening Luigi the chef.

Lisa brings grasshoppers home and tries to convince her family to eat them.

Marge shows support for Lisa's decision to eat bugs by eating a grasshopper herself.

Dan realizes that laying off mobsters means killing them, not firing them.

Lisa has a nightmare about the grasshoppers she is eating being conscious and in pain.

Bart agrees to release Lisa's grasshoppers into the wild.

Dan reveals to Homer that he is a mob boss and wants to kill people, asking Homer to stop him.

Homer and Dan are kidnapped by Chief Wiggum and tied up in a basement.

Dan talks to bugs in the basement while waiting with Homer.

Homer is attacked by a swarm of bugs and escapes the basement.

Fat Tony returns from jury duty and confronts Dan about his actions.

Dan and Homer struggle over the gun, leading to Dan accidentally shooting himself.

Lisa releases her grasshoppers into a field, setting them free.

Dan fully embraces his role as a mobster, threatening to shoot someone.