Synopsis:
Marge follows the advice of a parenting magazine and throws out Maggie’s pacifier. Marge relents and sends Homer to get Maggie a new pacifier, but Maggie urges for a squeaky dog toy instead of a pacifier. The incessant squeaking of dog toy keeps Homer awake, and leads him to sleepwalking. Homer’s sleepwalking schemes leaves the entire Springfield Fire Department debilitated in the hospital, Homer and some of his fellow Springfieldians become volunteer firefighters. They extinguish several fires and are rewarded with gifts, but when the gifts stop coming, they seek other forms of compensation for their heroic acts.