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The final episode of the Simpsons - Dartz - 07-29-2019
The final episode of the Simpsons will begin with an electric sign high above Springfield, broadcasting the status of the nuclear power plant.
"Relax. Everything is fine"
Meanwhile, far below in the plant itself, we fly in through the window of the managers office with a glowering Mr Burns receiving a visit from NRC inspectors. Turns out, an important safety test wasn't done fifty years ago - actually, a lot of important tests weren't done fifty years ago but this one most of all.
What happens if there's a blackout, and the core still needs to be cooled?
If it's not succesfully completed, the plant will be closed by the coal-friendly government. Naturally, Mr. Burns picks the one employee whose name he can't remember - since obviously everyone he can remember, has failed him somehow. But he cannot remember who the devil Homer Simpson is.
Naturally, Mister Smithers begins to sumbit his CV's to places like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl.....
Homer arrives at the office. He's offered a promotion if he succeeds - to executive status. But if he fails
Mr. Burns: "Now, if you pass this test you will never have to worry about being a safety inspector again. But if you fail, you will never have to worry about being a safety inspector again."
Homer: "WooHoo! Win! Win!"
Homer, of course, seeing no failure in failing promptly puts his feet up, until everyone else at the Plant begins to despair. Their livelyhoods now depend on Homer - harmless in the window-seat of Sector 7G - but now he's in charge. Their abject bullying and despair needles at Homer
Homer, realising that his job and the job of everyone in the plant is now riding on his shoulder, tries his best to study up on what's involved. He brings the test proceedure back home to study. A "Man getting hit by football" season is on Fox but Homer's doing his damnedest to focus.
Lisa, asks what he could possibly be doing to get hom to focus so hard. Homer tries to explain.
"Dad! That's the same test as Chernobyl!"
"Oh please Lisa, our reactor has a negative power coefficient. That means it shuts itself down if I make a mistake. It can't possibly explode."
Lisa is stunned. Damn, he's taking it seriously enough to recognise Chernobyl.
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The test begins. Mr. Burns has brought in the best nuclear engineers from around the world. With Homer in charge. Naturally, being an empty suit Homer just parrots what he remembers of the proceedure and, remarkably, being a robot succesffully completes the test. Well done Homer. Piece 'a cake. He sits on the control panel and closes the main core isolation valves.
The valves are stuck stuck. There's no water flowing to the core. A safety valve has opened and is flooding the containment with highly radioactive feedwater. The core is boiling. It's going to explode and kill everyone. But there's a single manual override on the valve that will save everyone.
This, of course has to be explained in excrutiating detail to Homer who's professional facade is cracking.
The radiation monitor has stuck at 3.6 and none of the really fancy well educated types are willing to go in there because they know how dangerous it is. It even looks like that scene in Wrath of Khan.
Of course, they reckon without Homer - and the plaque. The Maggie plaque.
Do. It. For. Her
Homer enters the reactor and dissapears into the steam. Mr. Burns resigns himself to his fate. Smithers panics.
The alarms stop
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Springfield General Hospital.
Marge sits beside a homer covered in bandages, in a mirror image of a particular scene from Chernobyl. Homer is wheezing to breath. Hibbert enters.
"Will Homer be Okay?"
Hibbert chuckles. "The feedwater was only mildly contaminated. I've seen worse with Doctor Gale. His obesity saved him from the worst of it."
"But his burns Doctor?"
"Oh.... the guys were so glad they got to keep their job they poured a giant pot of scalding hot coffee all over me to celebrate"
The final episode of the simpsons will end with an electric sign high above Springfield, broadcasting the status of the nuclear power plant.
"Relax. Everything is fine"
Bart gets a B-plot.