Thank God It's Doomsday

"Thank God It's Doomsday" is the ninteenth episode of the sixteenth season which first aired on the 8th May 2005. The episode shows Homer watch a film and being scared into it happening in real life and starts to think that he is seeing 'signs' of the apocalypse and predicts that the world will end in a week!

Plot
Bart and Lisa drag  Homer to the movies to see a film called "Left Below". After watching the movie Homer thinks that the Rapture is coming and gets frightened. Marge and Lisa reassure him which comforts him into thinking that it won't come.

As Homer is drving the very next day he thinks he sees the devil, which is an man in an advertising costume. And then sees blood falling from the sky, which is an injured whale being carried by a helicopter. Because of seeing those two things Homer convinces himself that the rapture is coming. He tries to estimate the time and date, by using methods which don't make sense, and it thinks it will come on the 18th May at 3:15 p.m, which is a week away!

Homer goes around Springfield telling everyone about this but they don't believe him. He then says that the stars are going to fall from the sky. This actually happens as there is a blimp accident at the "Krusty's Celebrity Salute to Specials". This makes everyone belive Homer thinking he has actually forseen this event. His believers follow him to the Springfield Mesa awaiting the apocalypse. However, 3:15 soon passes and nothing happens. This annoys everyone in town. Including Moe who sold his Tavern to a Japaneese Sushi bar. Homer upset goes home and throws away all the books on how to predict the future. But realizes that there was 13 people at the last supper, not tweleve (as he used this as a way of predicting the apolocalypse). This means that the apocalypse will happen on the 19th May at 3:15 p.m, not the 18th May! Homer tries to convince his family to help him warn everyone again but they don't believe him. Homer, alone, makes his way back to the Springfield mesa and when the hour passes he thinks nothing is going to happen again. However, the next moment he is naked and floating through space!

Homer is in heaven with a tourguide, which gives him some clothes, much to Homer's dismay. They fly pass a few heaven houses where Homer sees a waterslide which can't be used for another year due to Leprachaun labour. Homer is told by the tour guide that all his wishes will come true in heaven. Homer wishes that the tour guides head explodes and it does.

Because no-one followed him to the mesa, they are being tormented by the devil. Homer asks to see his family on the big screen tv and wants to save them so he goes to see God. God refuses to help him because Earth is were Jesus's suffered. Homer threatens God saying he has made a very big mistake and made a powerful enemy. Homer goes on a rampage around heaven to change God's mind but gets stopped by security. God then agrees to undo the rapture and turns back time. God says "Deus ex machina". Homer wakes up the Mesa and is reunited with his family but thinks its a dream. But when he sees Moe's Tavern has been restored he starts to doubt this as he wished it was back in heaven.

Trivia

 * The movie "Left Below" parodies the real-life movie "Left Behind".