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Homer decides to take Marge out for Valentine’s Day but the restaurant is full so they look for an alternative place for their date night. They see an old skating rink and Marge decides they should skate. When the skating rink turns out to be closed Homer and Marge discover the local curling team is meeting there to practice curling. Invited to try curling, Homer and Marge immediately take to the game, well, at least Marge is good at it since she likes the sweeping aspect of the game.

Soon Homer and Marge are practicing curling with the local team. The curling team consists of Principal Skinner, his mother, and the Wiggims. Principal Skinner’s mother spends quite a bit of time berating him as they practice curling. The story goes that years ago at the Olympics, Principal Skinner as a fetus kicked against his mother’s stomach as she vaulted over the pole vault, knocking down the top rung and disqualifying her at the Olympics. Ever since then she has resented the kick that ruined her chances to win a medal. Soon Homer and Marge replace the Wiggums on Skinners’ team. The Springfield curling team is so good they end up qualifying for the Olympics in Vancouver, so its off to Vancouver to compete in the 2010 Olympics.

While Homer and Marge practice their curling, Bart and Lisa check out the Olympic ice rink. Lisa meets a little girl who convinces her to look over the vast array of Olympic pins. Lisa sees the assortment and is intrigued, buying a pin then going for a second pin. The little girl is actually a guy in a wig dressed as a little girl to hook unsuspecting girls into buying Olympic pins from the concession stand. Lisa is hooked and starts buying Olympic pins left and right, running out of space on her clothes to pin them on.

As the competition for curling begins, Homer is the weak link on the team. Marge over compensates for Homer after he slides the stone, sweeping with all her might to right the wrong direction of the curling stone. After a big mistake made by Homer, Marge does everything in her power to sweep the stone back to the middle of the target, in the process spraining her right arm. The team is in trouble with Marge’s injury and they break until the next day’s competition.

Lisa has no more money and pawns the pearls her mother gave her for more Olympic pin swag. Bart finds Lisa wearing an Olympic pin dress, playing on the street for pocket change so she can buy more pins. Lisa realizes she has a pin problem and swears them off. Bart decides to help Lisa get her pearl necklace back. Bart cuts the bottom chin off of Homer’s license then attached a back pin, turning the chin upside down to create a weird “rare” pin to offer the concession stand guy. Bart presents his “rare” pin, which is strange enough that the concession guy must have it. Bart and Lisa come back to the Olympics to watch their parents, with Lisa wearing her treasured pearls once again.

Homer watches Marge ably do her daily chores with her left arm, while her right arm is tied up in a sling. Homer suggests to Marge she can play left-handed and Marge agrees. Principal Skinner’s mother forgives him at last for his fetal kick and they look forward to competing together. At the next competition Marge plays left-handed and the team wins the competition, winning the gold medal. At the awards ceremony Marge and Homer proudly accept their gold medals for the Springfield curling team.