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| What Homer really didn't calculate was that God isn't a fan of balloons. |
Homer and the kids go to the mall as the latter need to get haircuts. After the kids have their haircuts botched, they pull Homer along and sneak into a theatre to avoid picture takers. The movie is called "Left Below", and its about the rapture. Homer takes the movie to heart and begins to fear that the rapture may soon be happening for real. Marge relieves Homer somewhat by assuring him that there would be signs first. However, a couple of crazy coincidences leave Homer to believe the rapture is coming anyway, and spends lots of money on related books to study it.
Eventually, Homer calculates a time and date when the rapture is to occur - a week from that day - and is able to gain the attention of townspeople thanks to a side-prediction he was able to make on TV ('the stars would fall to the earth', later 'proven' when a group of celebrities fall out of a blimp on TV). Homer now instructs a sizable group of Springfielders on the upcoming rapture, and takes them all to where he believes it'll take place: Springfield Mesa. However, once the time comes, nothing happens. Homer becomes a laughing stock, and not even Moe's can help him, as Moe sold the bar to Japanese investors and donated his money to charity in preparation of the rapture.
As Homer begins to throw away his rapture materials, he realizes he made a key mistake: though there were 12 apostles at the Last Supper, Jesus wasn't counted among them, so there were actually 13 people there. Homer quickly adjusts his calculations, and determines that the rapture is actually going to happen in the middle of the night, 30 minutes from now. He tries to get his family ready to go, but they have enough of Homer's shenanigans, so Homer goes out to the Mesa on his own. This time, though, Homer's prediction comes true, and he goes to heaven all by himself. At first Homer is happy with getting it right, but when he insists on seeing what's going on back on Earth, he's horrified to see his family getting tortured by the new hell on Earth. Homer goes to God to do something about it, but God refuses. Homer goes on a mini-tantrum in heaven, but is eventually stopped. God relents, and agrees to 'turn back the clock' before the rapture and makes sure it doesn't happen this time around. Homer thanks God, and has him do one more favor. Homer wakes up at the Mesa, greeted by his worried family, and Homer is happy to be back, especially when he sees Moe's back to what it was.
Quick Review
Another subpar episode when it comes to comedy. There wasn't all that much that I found funny. For an episode that focuses on the rapture, I was pleasantly surprised to find very little cringeworthy religion-related material either from Buddhist Lisa or Ultra-Christian Ned Flanders. It doesn't help the episode be more funny, but it helps the episode from being any worse.
Final Score: 6.5
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