As Marge and Lisa have their nails done, they spin four tales involving famous women: Queen Elizabeth, Snow White, Lady Macbeth, and Ayn Rand.

During a visit to a nail salon, Lisa asks Marge if it isn’t more important for a woman to be smart and powerful than beautiful. Marge tells Lisa that a woman can be all of those things. She proves her point by telling the tale of Queen Elizabeth the First (Selma), who came to power in 1558 and began entertaining royal suitors; the Duke of Anjou (Comic Book Guy), Prince Ralph of Australia (Ralph Wiggum), King Julio of Spain, and Sir Walter Raleigh (Homer) among them. Raleigh wins the queen’s favor by introducing her to smoking tobacco. This doesn’t sit well with King Julio, who orders an attack on England. A short time later, Raleigh makes a pass at Lady Marjorie (Marge), leading to a passionate kiss. A furious Queen Elizabeth spots the pair, and orders that they be taken to the tower. When Walsingham (Moe) announces that the Spanish armada has set sail for England, Raleigh boards an English ship, and prepares for battle. As Raleigh takes a drag from his smoking pipe, a spark sets the vessel on fire. Raleigh and his men abandon ship, but the flaming wreckage collides with King Julio’s vessel, and sets it on fire. Later a grateful Queen Elizabeth knights Sir Walter Raleigh.

 As Lisa and Marge soak their hands and feet, Lisa tells the tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs despite protests from a lawyer who claims the story is copyrighted property of the Walt Disney Corporation. As the tale unfolds, we meet the seven dwarfs as the make their way to a diamond mine: Crabby (Moe), Drunky (Barney), Hungry (Homer), Greedy (Mr. Burns), Lenny (Lenny), Kearney (Kearney), and Dr. Hibbert. An Evil Queen instructs Huntsman Willie to bring her the heart of “the fairest one of all:” Snow White (Lisa). When Willie finds Snow White, he cannot bring himself to kill her. Instead he instructs the girl to hide in the forest with the “wee little men.” When the dwarfs return home from work, they discover Snow White sleeping in Hungry’s bed. Dr. Hibbert warns Snow White to beware of the evil queen, who is a master of disguise. One day a withered old apple-seller shows up at the dwarfs’ cottage, and forces Snow White to take a bite from a poisoned apple. Snow White collapses, prompting her animal forest friends ⎯ including deer, rabbits, and squirrels ⎯ to attack the withered apple-seller. Back in the nail salon, Lisa tells Marge that Snow White’s prince never came... but she was eventually revived by a lady doctor with a powerful defibrillator.

Homer shows up at the nail salon handcuffed to Chief Wiggum. Marge bribes Wiggum with some dry-cleaning coupons, and Homer is set free. Marge then spins a tale about a “great woman who was held back by a not-so-great husband.” As the tale begins, Marge helps out at the Springfield Community Center, which is staging rehearsals for the play Macbeth. Marge is upset because she’d hoped Homer would be cast in the lead role. Instead, he was cast to play a tree. A jealous Marge schemes to get rid of Sideshow Mel so Homer can take his place. She convinces Homer to kill Mel, but Homer runs into some trouble when he attacks him with a knife and gun… only to find out they’re stage props. Homer ends up beating Mel to death with the bone from his hair. With Mel out of the way, Homer is assigned the role of Macbeth. His performance is a disaster, and critics hail Dr. Hibbert as a brilliant new star. Homer kills Hibbert by poisoning him with laughing gas. When the remaining cast members receive stellar reviews, Homer kills them as well. The ghosts of his victims haunt Marge, and Sideshow Mel shoots her with a pistol. Homer weeps over Marge’s body, thankful that she’ll no longer be able to nag him. Then Marge’s ghost appears, and kicks Homer in the rear end. Homer goes on to give a riveting performance as Macbeth, but when Marge’s ghost says he’ll now be able to perform all of Shakespeare’s great roles, Homer shoots himself.

 In the final tale, Maggie appears as the architect protagonist in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead.