Why did he have to be straight? It's my tragedy. When we went camping with the school, we shared a tent. I was hoping for a Brokeback Mountain moment. I mean, I know he's straight, but there's always hope.

The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.

Like attracts like," explained Mrs. Mailey, who was quite as capable an exponent as her husband.

Motivational Interviewing that addresses this kind of issue, though from a perspective very different from the ones that we might be familiar with in autismland.