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Homer's big plans for Valentine's Day are ruined when Marge becomes too tired to get interested in love-making. Homer is devastated that he missed out on easy sex, and walks around town at night trying to find an answer. He gets one at the adult education center. He attempts to attend a class on male stripping, but he causes trouble and is kicked out. He ends up in a class on "Successmanship", whose teacher tells the class, including Homer, that (basically) go-getting is the secret of success.
Homer decides to apply this attitude at the nuclear plant, and actually does a competent job of doing what he's supposed to do, which as I recall involves safety inspection. He goes straight to Mr. Burns to report his findings, but Burns couldn't care less, and dismisses Homer quickly. This angers Homer, and after talking to his bar mates about it, he decides to exact revenge. He's about to exact some petty revenge, when he overhears Burns talking to Smithers about what would happen if Burns is caught dumping waste. Burns actually has a plan in such a case, where the feds can only arrest the plant's owner: Canary M. Burns, a canary obviously. Homer concocts a new plan where he gets rid of the canary in secret and then, getting Burns in a panic, has Burns give ownership of the plant to Homer, who uses his newfound power to fire Burns. He's hailed as a hero.
As Burns and Smithers retire to Morocco to go on an opium binge, Homer comes to realizes that plant ownership isn't as easy as it seems. Forced to stay at the plant late at night to handle finances and personnel, Homer soon laments what he's done, and wishes to have more time with his family. Suddenly, Burns arrives in his office (by himself; Smithers is doing 'hard time' in a Turkish prison for the opium run). Homer wonders how Burns is able to deal with owning the plant, and Burns takes Homer to a cemetery where Homer learns that by focusing on his career, he'd have to sacrifice his family and friends. As Homer decides to give Burns the plant back, Burns actually has an ulterior motive, knocking Homer out and trying to leave him in a mausoleum, building a brick wall to trap him. Of course, Burns isn't good at this, and only has a couple of rows up by the time Homer comes to. Homer leaves the tired, somewhat delusional Burns, more than willing to give him the plant so he can spend more time with his family.
Quick Review
This ends up being a pretty good episode, a rarity thus far in this season. The end of the episode, with Burns and his mausoleum, was the highlight I felt, and the rest of the episode held up fairly well without much dragging it down. I was left pleasantly surprised with this episode's quality.
Final Score: 8.2
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