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 == Plot ==
-At [[Springfield Elementary School]], [[Principal Skinner]] announces that the school is raising money by having the children sell chocolate to the public, with the student who sells the most getting their permanent record incinerated. [[Bart]] decides to start at Richdale selling chocolate, while [[Lisa]] goes home to watch footage of the new [[Mars]] rover. She watches the footage with [[Homer]] and becomes excited at the prospect of going to space one day herself. Meanwhile, Bart gets to work selling chocolate. He arrives at the [[House of Sci-Fi-Mystery]] and is let in. [[Cornelius Morgan]] introduces himself to Bart, saying that he's the publisher of ''[[Distinguished Monster Monthly]]'' and the director of the 1967 ''{{ap|Radioactive Man|franchise}}'' film.
+At [[Springfield Elementary School]], [[Principal Skinner]] announces that the school is raising money by having the children sell chocolate to the public, with the student who sells the most getting their permanent record incinerated. [[Bart]] decides to start at Richdale selling chocolate, while [[Lisa]] goes home to watch footage of the new [[Mars]] rover. She watches the footage with [[Homer]] and becomes excited at the prospect of going to space one day herself. Meanwhile, Bart gets to work selling chocolate. He arrives at the [[House of Sci-Fi-Mystery]] and is let in. [[Cornelius Morgan]] introduces himself to Bart, saying that he's the publisher of ''[[Distinguished Monster Monthly]]'' and the director of the 1967 ''{{ap|Radioactive Man|1967 film}}'' film.
 Meanwhile, Homer and Lisa drive to [[Shelbyville]] to sell chocolate, as everybody in Springfield had already bought chocolate from other kids. Homer goes off-road in the desert and crashes into what looks like the Mars rover. They realize that they're on a film set faking the Mars rover, with [[Dr. Babcock]] of [[NASA]] in charge. Back at Cornelius' house, Cornelius reveals to Bart that he's going to get cryogenically frozen, so he wants to leave his collection of nerdy paraphernalia to someone. Bart suggests that he hold a contest to find the biggest nerd in Springfield, which he likes the idea of. Soon after, all the nerds in Springfield hear about the contest and get started on trying to win.

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-|title=Day of the Nerd
+|title= Day of the Nerd
 |image= [[File:Day of the Nerd.png|250px]]
-|released=August [[2002]]
+|released= August [[2002]]
 |pages= 21
-|series=''[[Simpsons Comics]]''
+|series= ''[[Simpsons Comics]]''
-|written by=[[Ian Boothby]]
+|written by= [[Ian Boothby]]
 }}
 '''Day of the Nerd''' is a ''[[Simpsons Comics]]'' story first printed in {{SC|73}}.
 == Plot ==
-The school children are tasked to sell chocolate in Springfield and before Lisa starts selling, she goes home to watch a Mars rover documentary. Homer drives her to Shelbyville afterwards to sell the chocolate, as everyone in Springfield has already bought some. On the road, Homer takes a shortcut across the desert, and runs over the Mars rover on a fake Mars set. Lisa is outraged at the hoax, however she leaves when the scientists tell her there would otherwise be no space program. Later in the day, Lisa and Homer are watching the live documentary again and the words "Homer Rules" are found in the dust. A scientist attempts (probably unsuccessfully) to dismiss it as natural erosion.
+At [[Springfield Elementary School]], [[Principal Skinner]] announces that the school is raising money by having the children sell chocolate to the public, with the student who sells the most getting their permanent record incinerated. [[Bart]] decides to start at Richdale selling chocolate, while [[Lisa]] goes home to watch footage of the new [[Mars]] rover. She watches the footage with [[Homer]] and becomes excited at the prospect of going to space one day herself. Meanwhile, Bart gets to work selling chocolate. He arrives at the [[House of Sci-Fi-Mystery]] and is let in. [[Cornelius Morgan]] introduces himself to Bart, saying that he's the publisher of ''[[Distinguished Monster Monthly]]'' and the director of the 1967 ''{{ap|Radioactive Man|franchise}}'' film.
-Meanwhile, Bart ends up at the house of Cornelius Morgan, who has an enormous science fiction collection and is considered to be Springfield's biggest nerd. Morgan is scheduled to be placed in suspended animation and is at a loss of what to do with his collection. Bart suggests he hold a competition for all the nerds in Springfield, the winner obtaining his collection.
+Meanwhile, Homer and Lisa drive to [[Shelbyville]] to sell chocolate, as everybody in Springfield had already bought chocolate from other kids. Homer goes off-road in the desert and crashes into what looks like the Mars rover. They realize that they're on a film set faking the Mars rover, with [[Dr. Babcock]] of [[NASA]] in charge. Back at Cornelius' house, Cornelius reveals to Bart that he's going to get cryogenically frozen, so he wants to leave his collection of nerdy paraphernalia to someone. Bart suggests that he hold a contest to find the biggest nerd in Springfield, which he likes the idea of. Soon after, all the nerds in Springfield hear about the contest and get started on trying to win.
-Kent Brockman films the nerds as they compete for the collection. Comic Book Guy turns his life into an anime, Professor Frink invents a laser which combines book and film series into one volume, Gary, Doug and Benjamin create a real-life internet and the Springfield Elementary nerds reenact ''The Lord of the Rings'' by throwing a tire into the [[Tire Fire]].
+Back in the desert, Lisa becomes angry at Dr. Babcock for faking the footage. A woman explains to Lisa that so many space missions fail, so they need to record fake footage to keep people happy. Lisa tells her that the people deserve to know the truth, and Homer and Lisa drive away. Back at the [[Simpson house]], Bart has already given up selling chocolate to people. Meanwhile, across town, the nerds are working on winning the contest. [[The Superfriends]] decide to go on a ''{{W|Dungeons & Dragons}}''-style quest, with the [[Squeaky-Voiced Teen]] sending them to take a tire to the [[Springfield Tire Yard]]. [[Comic Book Guy]] decides to live his life as if it were a Japanese anime, dressing himself and his cat, [[Comicachu]], as anime characters. [[Professor Frink]] invents [[The Mononizer]], which condenses sci-fi trilogies into one installment, and {{ap|Benjamin|nerd}}, {{ap|Doug|nerd}}, and {{ap|Gary|nerd}}, create a real-life Internet search engine. Back at home, Lisa talks to [[Marge]] about the importance of telling the truth. As the Superfriends get closer to their goal with the tire, the bullies attack them. During the chaos, Professor Frink accidentally hits them with The Mononizer.
-After a week Morgan announces the result, the winner is... himself. He reveals that he was actually making a mockumentary movie on nerd antics, with Brockman helping. One nerd hits a rocket firing robot (invented as part of the competition), which destroys Cornelius's house and sends the collection scattered over town. The other nerds loot as revenge for Morgan's deceit.
+The next day, the news shows new footage of the Mars rover, only for the camera to show writing saying "Homer Rules!" in the dirt, revealing the truth to the viewers. Later, Cornelius gets ready to announce the contest winner to the nerds of Springfield. He reveals that the winner is himself and that the contest was all part of a mockumentary film, ''[[Nerdtown U.S.A.]]'', that he was making with [[Kent Brockman]]. Two nerds had created a robot armed with missiles, and when another nerd hits the robot out of anger, the robot activates and fires the missiles into Cornelius' house, destroying it. The nerds of Springfield start gathering up the remains of his collection for themselves. That night, Marge and Lisa talk about space and how Marge wanted to be an astronaut when she was a child, and she thinks Lisa could actually do it. Meanwhile, the nerds are still gathering up anything nerdy they find from Cornelius' collection.
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-'''Day of the Nerd''' is a ''[[Simpsons Comics]]'' story featured in {{SC|73}}.
+'''Day of the Nerd''' is a ''[[Simpsons Comics]]'' story first printed in {{SC|73}}.
 == Plot ==