So, what would happen if a gaming company had a code that let you do anything, for any game? What if, said gaming company also developed the same high school equivalency exam that Springfield uses? Well, hilarity ensues when Bart realizes this. Check out more after the jump!

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Bart and Milhouse start playing a Mortal Kombat rip off. Milhouse admits defeat, and proclaims Bart, “The greatest video game player, ever.” Bart then reveals he used a code that lets him do anything he wants. Meanwhile, Homer is late for work, and refuses to listen to why people are doing secondary jobs. He is seen by Smithers, and he gives Homer his secondary job: supervisor of sector 7-G!

Later, Milhouse finds Bart, and tells him that code works for the entire collection of games made by Electronic Armageddon. Stop me if you heard this before, Konami. Anyway, the same company also does the high school equivalency exams for Springfield. So, Bart goes to test this theory, and takes his test.  Two days later, he got his diploma. (Why can’t I get my college diploma this fast?!)

Homer has a bit of a mental breakdown from being his own boss, but it isn’t apparent yet. As that is going on, Bart goes into school, hands Skinner his diploma, and goes home. And another party due to Bart’s departure from school. Now, in a scene ripped out from every high school graduate’s life, Homer kicks Bart out of the house for the day so he can get a job. He takes a walk over to the Employment office. There, he uses the code to get an entire list of jobs for high school graduates.

Bart gets a bunch of different jobs, including Root Beer Boy for Duff, personal assistant to Boobarella, and “tear gas thrower” for the cops, all ending in monumental failure. Later that evening, Lisa gives Homer a pep talk about working himself stupid. Lisa would know all about that, right?

The next morning, Homer walks into Burns’s office, and fires himself as supervisor. Who replaces him? Bart, of course! After a day of humiliating Homer, Bart realizes he actually misses school, gets Willie’s dog to eat his diploma, and goes back to school. And everyone cries tears of dread.

This story was LONG. It felt like a chore reading it, because it never really went anywhere. I don’t know if it’s because the story seems rather generic and predictible, or the story was floundering in nowheresville, it was the first stale story I got from the line of Simpsons comics thus far. Overall, very disappointing.

Overall: 5/10