History Recap / TheSimpsonsS24E9HomerGoesToPrepSchool

After a lockdown at a kids' fun center (caused by a kid chasing after a ball and a negligent worker talking on her cell phone), Homer is traumatized overseeing everyone panic in the chaos, and meets a doomsday prepper named Lloyd who introduces him to some Springfield residents who are preparing for the day when society crumbles from a disaster.

** The doomsday preppers will become this when[=/=]if society does crumble.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Lloyd after witnessing [[spoiler:how society didn't crumble like he predicted and is even upset about it.]], he admits to Marge that he just wanted a new world where he's in charge. Well, not before the other preppers prepared to dethrone him and seal him in a cave.

After a lockdown at a kids' fun center (caused by a kid chasing after a ball and a negligent worker talking on her cell phone), Homer is traumatized overseeing everyone panic in the chaos, and meets a doomsday prepper who introduces him to some Springfield residents who are preparing for the day when society crumbles from a disaster.

* CrazySurvivalist: {{Parodied}} and {{Deconstructed}} throughout the episode, which deals with Homer falling in with a group of them that includes Herman Hermann and Gary Chalmers. When they mistake an EMP affecting Springfield for a worldwide event, they move forward with their strategy, and the group's willingness to murder survivors who didn't prepare rather than share their resources proves too much [[EveryoneHasStandards even for Homer]], who winds up grabbing a bunch of their supplies and making a break for Springfield to aid his neighbors...[[spoiler:only to discover that ApocalypseAnarchy has ''not'' descended there as all the people who'd cause it left town with the prepper group, now on the verge of tearing each other apart from within.]]

* CrazySurvivalist: {{Parodied}} and {{Deconstructed}} throughout the episode, which deals with Homer falling in with a group of them that includes Herman Hermann and Gary Chalmers. When they mistake an EMP affecting Springfield for a worldwide event, they move forward with their strategy, and the group's murderous NoSympathy approach to survivors who didn't prepare proves too much [[EveryoneHasStandards even for Homer]], who winds up grabbing a bunch of their supplies and making a break for Springfield to aid his neighbors...[[spoiler:only to discover that ApocalypseAnarchy has ''not'' descended there as all the people who'd cause it left town with the prepper group, now on the verge of tearing each other apart from within.]]

* CrazySurvivalist: {{Parodied}} and {{Deconstructed}} throughout the episode, which deals with Homer falling in with a group of them that includes Herman Hermann and Gary Chalmers. When they mistake an EMP affecting Springfield for a worldwide event, they move forward with their strategy, and the group's murderous NoSympathy approach to survivors who didn't prepare proves too much [[EveryoneHasStandards even for Homer]], who winds up grabbing a bunch of their supplies and making a break for Springfield to aid his neighbors...[[spoiler:only to discover that ApocalypseAnarchy has ''not'' descended there as all the people likely to cause it left town with the prepper group, now on the verge of tearing each other apart from within.]]

After a lockdown at a kids' fun center (caused by a kid chasing after a ball and a negligent worker talking on her cell phone), Homer is traumatized over seeing everyone panic in the chaos, and meets a doomsday prepper who introduces him to some Springfield residents who are preparing for the day when society crumbles from a disaster.

* IdenticalStranger: Homer loses Bart and Lisa at the fun center, and instead finds multiple kids that look like them instead. When the real Bart and Lisa show up, Homer doesn't recognize them, asking "Who the hell are ''you''?"

* IdenticalStranger: Homer loses Bart and Lisa at the day care center, and instead finds multiple kids that look like them instead. When the real Bart and Lisa show up, Homer doesn't recognize them, asking "Who the hell are ''you''?"

-->'''Homer''' (wakes up): [[LampshadeHanging What the hell was that?]]

* {{EMP}}: An electromagentic pulse from the nuclear plant (caused by Homer's ineptitude, of course) causes all electronics in Springfield to go dead, leading Homer and the preppers to believe the end is upon them and leaving to their compound. The Simpsons return to help their friends and discover that the effects of the pulse were only temporary, and everything return to normal withing a couple of days. In fact, things went much smoother than expected, as if all the crazy people (the preppers) had left town and not interfered.

* {{EMP}}: An electromagentic pulse from the nuclear plant (caused by Homer's ineptitude, of course) casuses all electronics in Springfield to go dead, leading Homer and the preppers to believe the end is upon them and leaving to their compound. The Simpsons return to help their friends and discover that the effects of the pulse were only temporary, and everything return to normal withing a couple of days. In fact, things went much smoother than expected, as if all the crazy people (the preppers) had left town and not interfered.

'''Homer:''' Hollywood has taught you well, my son.

'''Homer:''' Hollywood has taught you well, my son.
* IThoughtItMeant: Viewers and Homer actually thought this would be about Homer going to or working at a preparatory school, not a satire about doomsday preppers and those who panic over TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* IThoughtItMeant: Viewers and Homer actually thought this would be about Homer going to or working at a prepatory school, not a satire about doomsday preppers and those who panic over TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* IThoughtItMeant: Viewers and Homer actually thought this would be about Homer going to or working at a prepatory school, not a satire about doomsday preppers and those who panic over TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

'''Homer:''' Hollywood has taught you well, my son.

* {{EMP}}: An electromagentic pulse from the nuclear plant (caused by Homer's ineptitude, of course) casuses all electronics in Springfield to go dead, leading Homer and the preppers to believe the end is upon them and leaving to their compound. The Simpsons return to help their friends and discover [[spoiler:that the effects of the pulse were only temporary, and everything return to normal withing a couple of days. In fact, things went much smoother than expected, as if all the crazy people (the preppers) had left town and not interfered.]]

* IThoughtItMeant: Viewers and Homer actually thought this would be about Homer going to or working at a prepatory school, not a satire about doomsday preppers and those who think the end of the world is near.

* IThoughtItMeant: Tropers who learned the episode's title before watching it, how many of you thought Homer would attend a Preparatory School?
** Homer makes the same mistake when he's introduced to the preppers.
* IKnowMortalKombat: To prepare for the apocalypse, Homer and Bart watch a movie marathon.

* IThoughtItMeant: Tropers who learned the episode's title before watching it, how many of you thought Homer would attend a Preparatory School?