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It's just another Monday at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer's napping on the job after a donut break, and not paying a bit of attention to his control panel. Unfortunately, as luck would have it, the core temperature is dangerously rising...Meanwhile, on the way to school, Bart gives Milhouse a birthday present of Krusty the Clown walkie-talkies (one for each boy), making up for the fact that his mom wouldn't let him have a birthday party. Except, everyone on the bus seems to be gushing about what a great time they had at Milhouse's that weekend. It's not until Otto wishes Milhouse a happy birthday and thanks him for inviting him to his party that weekend that it hits Bart: Milhouse did have a birthday party, and didn't invite him. Bart is crushed.Back at the plant, alarms go off as the core starts to reach meltdown-level temperatures. Everyone in the plant panics, and as news spreads across Springfield, the town braces themselves for destruction. Homer wakes up from his nap to realize that this is his problem, and he needs to remember what to do in this situation. With his instruction manual being too complex to read, and the fact that he didn't pay attention during training, Homer's left with one solution: pick a button on his panel with the old "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" method. He presses the right one and the town is saved.Back in the B-plot, Bart confronts Milhouse at lunch, and finds out why he wasn't invited to his party: Milhouse's mom doesn't want the two to be friends anymore, saying Bart is a bad influence. Bart is dejected over this, and later, throws his walkie-talkie in the trash.At work, Homer is showered with praise, and Mr. Burns makes him Employee of the Month. Homer starts to feel like a fraud, however, since he only stopped the meltdown through sheer dumb luck. He doesn't feel any better at home, as the family also considers him a hero, and Lisa even starts looking up to him as a role model. The next day at work, Mr. Burns introduces Homer to Aristotle "Ari" Amadopolis, owner of the Shelbyville Power Plant. Ari wants Homer to come to his plant and give a motivational speech to his workers.Marge notices how lonely Bart is without Milhouse, and she visits the Van Houten household to have a good talk with his mother. Mrs. Van Houten is at first determined not to have the boys see each other again, but Marge points out how much they need each other as friends. Cue Bart picking his walkie-talkie out of the trash, hearing Milhouse say that they can be friends again, and asking him to come over and play.At the Shelbyville plant, Homer struggles with his pep talk, only to be interrupted by a familiar alarm; this plant's having a meltdown, too! Homer is pressured into repeating his heroic actions, so he does exactly what he did the last time: pick a button at random. Homer is exposed as lucky idiot, and soon, everyone starts using the phrase "to pull a Homer" to refer to succeeding through dumb luck.
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