Jody Barnes (voiced by Jack Grimes, who sounds like he'd make a perfect Jimmy Olsen on an RMT version of "Superman"), a talented yet struggling young country music singer from San Jose, CA (kind of quaint to think of this as a place where one has to hope to be discovered) hooks up with a manager who is convinced he can become a big star. The manager proceeds to make him one, working the singer's posterior off in the process.

He becomes a country superstar, and finds images of himself showing up in places that only a media superstar will see them, which becomes increasingly unnerving to him. What shakes him up the most is a doll, bearing his likeness, that has a pre-recorded message on it. In fact, he begins to hate the doll and will react angrily to it any time he sees it. He also seems to be suffering from fatigue.

When the episode starts, his fans are flocking to a million-dollar concert at Madison Square Garden, but his manager and wife can't find him. Where is he? He's at their apartment, but doesn't want to answer the phone and says he couldn't do it if he wanted to...