Moe meets a beautiful woman in an Internet chat room who turns out to be three feet tall; and Homer tries to spend more time with Maggie.

As Homer watches a Springfield Ice-Otopes hockey game on television, baby Maggie swings on a baby swing hoping to get Homer’s attention. Marge shuts off the TV, and chastises Homer for being more concerned about the outcome of the game than his daughter’s welfare. Homer dismisses the idea at first, but grows concerned when Santa’s Little Helper seems to know Maggie better than he does. Homer determines to set things right by taking Maggie for a ride in her baby carriage. Eventually, Homer finds himself drenched in sweat. He decides to take Maggie to Moe’s tavern. There, Moe uncharacteristically busies himself cleaning up the place. He scrubs a wall only to realize that it’s a window covered with grime. Outside is an idyllic park where children play. Homer puts Maggie in the park, and then returns to the bar, where he and the other barflies observe through the window. Moe pulls out a gun, and fires a shot into the air. After getting everyone’s attention, he tells the group why he’s suddenly interested in being tidy. As his story unfolds in flashback, Moe sits at a library computer exchanging messages in a dating-site chat room with a woman named Maya (whom he’s never met). When Moe gets banned from the library for eating corn on the cob while using the computer, he ends up at a Mapple store. There, Moe receives a message from Maya containing her photograph. To Moe’s great surprise, Maya turns out to be a beautiful woman. Moe gathers his courage, and sends Maya his photograph. He’s even more surprised when Maya receives the photo, and writes back saying that he’s cute. The flashback ends, and Moe tells his customers why he’s cleaning up the bar: Maya is meeting him in person that night. A short time later Marge phones the bar looking for Homer. Homer makes his way to the nearby park, where Maggie is holding a group of menacing-looking babies at bay with a plastic shovel. Homer grabs Maggie, and heads home. Meanwhile, Moe meets Maya… who turns out to be three feet tall.

Moe takes Maya to dinner at Luigi’s. Later, Moe and Maya make out at Lover’s Lane. The following day Moe tells the barflies that his date went well; but he begins to worry how his friends will react when they discover that Maya is extremely short. Meanwhile, Marge begins to notice that Maggie is behaving in a tense manner. After watching a television commercial featuring a surveillance camera called Prying-Eye, she decides that the only way to find out what’s troubling Maggie is to buy one of the cameras. She hides the tiny device inside a bow that Maggie wears in her hair. Later, Maya takes Moe to her house. Maya says that although she likes Moe, there’s one thing that troubles her: Moe has never introduced her to any of his friends.

Marge watches the Prying-Eye surveillance video footage, which features Maggie being menaced by a muscular baby. Marge stops watching the video when Moe and Maya arrive at the house for their double date with Homer and Marge. When Marge sees Maya for the first time, she tells Moe that she’s beautiful. Moe reacts awkwardly. Later, Moe asks Maya to marry him… but he makes the mistake of calling her “doll.” Maya takes offense, and sends Moe away. A miserable Moe returns to the Simpsons’ house, and tells the family what happened. Marge says that although Moe may have loved Maya, it’s possible he never truly understood her. Moe decides to see the world through Maya’s eyes by making himself feel as short as possible. Eventually he turns to Dr. Nick, and asks to be made physically shorter.

Maya bursts into Dr. Nick’s operating room, and seeing Moe with much shorter legs, reacts with shock and surprise. It turns out that Moe hasn’t gone through with the operation; he was standing on his knees to see how he’d look as a short person. Maya tells Moe that she’s not interested in going out with someone her size. She wants to love someone who thinks she’s beautiful. She then walks away. Later, Marge continues watching the surveillance video footage, featuring baby bullies ganging up on Maggie. Marge’s attitude softens when she sees Homer rescue Maggie from the thugs. Marge and Homer kiss. Later, as Moe sadly cleans up the bar, Homer enters and gives Moe some words of wisdom. He tells Moe that someday, when he least expects it, he’ll realize that someone loved him; and that means that someone can love him again. That night Maya pays Moe a surprise visit, and they kiss.