

He then goes to see the sanitation commissioner, Ray Patterson (voiced by Steve Martin) to get his apology letter back. Homer is furious saying that he lost his dignity because of that. Homer thinks that he won and boasts about it until he learns from an irritated Marge that the trash is gone because she took matters into her own hands and wrote an apology letter to the sanitation commissioner, forging Homer's name. Then one day Homer wakes up to find all the garbage gone. When the school has informed Marge that Bart was sick, she and Lisa insist that Homer apologizes but he refuses, even saying that the trash men will eventually come crawling to take it away. Garbage begins to pile up in the Simpsons' front yard which several neighbors complain about and even leaving the house for the kids is hazardous. Homer insults the garbage men for not stopping for him and, because of his refusal to apologize, the Simpsons' trash service is cut off. When Homer is forced to take out the trash, the garbage truck passes the house. After the Simpsons celebrate Love Day, the trash starts to pile up but the family refuse to take it out until the trash spills, which Homer makes it do. The executives of Costington's department store invent a new holiday to improve summer sales called "Love Day", a holiday combining the colorful heartful theme of Valentine's Day with the commercial gift buying of Christmas. Incensed that Marge would do something like this, Homer takes on sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson in an upcoming election and wins his seat with a campaign that promises more than it can deliver. Homer's antics gets the family's garbage collection cut off, and Marge writes an apology to the garbagemen on Homer's behalf.
