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Simpson Tide - Synopsis

Homer, Lenny and Carl all want a donut, but only one is left. Homer thinks up a solution: he places the donut in the reactor core in an attempt to make it huge. Within ten minutes, the power plant is on fire and Homer is fired.

After seeing a recruitment advert on TV, Homer decides to join the United States Naval Reserve. Moe, Barney, and Apu join him.

Meanwhile, Bart is impressed when Milhouse gets an earring. As earrings become a fad, Bart gets his ears pierced, much to Homer's outrage.

Soon after Homer and the others graduate, they are subjected to the annual war games. Bart and Homer have an argument as Homer prepares to board the submarine and Homer ends up confiscating the earring.

When the captain of Homer's vessel, Cpt. Tenille, goes to check on a problem in the torpedo hatch, Homer is left in charge. At this point, an enemy submarine approaches Homer's, and Homer immediately responds by giving the order to fire a torpedo. Unfortunately, as Cpt. Tenille is in the torpedo hatch, he is fired at the other submarine. The other sub fires back at them, and Homer gives the order to retreat.

Homer fails to find his way back to Springfield, and ends up going entirely the wrong way, ending up in Russian waters. This is interpreted by the United States government as an attempt to hi-jack the sub. This event creates a political schism between the USA and Russia; the Russian government reveals that they are still secretly united with the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall reappears from nowhere and Lenin returns from the dead.

Nuclear war is anticipated until the US Navy drops depth charges on the sub, aiming either to destroy it or force it to surface. The consequent explosion causes a pinhole leak in the submarine's wall. The crew all believe their situation is fatal until Homer remembers the earring he took from Bart. He uses it to plug the leak and saves the submarine.

The vessel surfaces and Homer is taken to be prosecuted; however, he is let off the hook because all of the officers at his hearing are under indictment for various offences. Homer receives a dishonourable discharge and forgives Bart, as the earring saved his life.

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