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The family goes to a kid zone of some sort. While the kids have fun, mothers are allowed in one area while the fathers are in another. A kid unwittingly leaves the building, causing panic and forcing a lockdown. While the mothers take the change in stride, the area the fathers were in descend to anarchy. Homer is nearly knocked unconscious during the chaos, where he deliriously imagines man as the savage apes they still have the potential to be.
Some time has passed, and the experience still traumatizes Homer, who still sees humanity as savage apes. He's able to make it to Moe's, somehow, where he comes across a guy named Lloyd, who basically congratulates Homer for experiencing a taste of a lawless world. He shows Homer a video which shows that when society crumbles, only the prepared will be able to survive. Lloyd takes Homer to a secret society of "preppers", basically him, Herman, Lindsey Naegle and Superintendent Chalmers. With their help, Homer learns the ways of the survivalist and quickly prepares emergency rations and such. Homer is also shown a base camp some miles out of town where he's instructed to go once society falls.
Ironically, Homer's negligence at work causes a nuclear reactor to shoot out a EMP, shutting down power all across town. Homer, unaware of the EMP, believes the end of the world is happening, and takes his now-convinced family to the base camp to hide out for awhile. Marge, though, is angry with Homer for one main reason: abandoning everyone else in Springfield, showing he no longer has the big heart she loved him for. Hit hard by this, Homer decides to pack some supplies to take back to Springfield, bringing the family along, but gets caught on his way out and is given chase. Homer makes it back to Springfield where he sees something astonishing: people getting along. Professor Frink explains that they learned only Springfield had lost its power, but it was restored after a few days. Flanders then adds that the incident only causes a neighborly sense of togetherness within the community, as though all the angry people had left. The angry people arrive in time to see the apocalypse not happen, but Lisa assures them that society is not as brittle as it may seem and it will last for many years to come... just as a zombie-ridden meteor is shown to be on its way.
Quick Review
This was another pretty decent episode, with some good humor at times and nothing that rubbed me the wrong way. Its nothing spectacular, of course, but I enjoyed it.
Final Score: 7.2
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