Thank God It's Doomsday
Thank God It's Doomsday, called The day of judgment in Latin America and Thank God that it is the Judgment Day in Spain, is the nineteenth episode of the sixteenth season of the animated television series The Simpsons, originally broadcast on May 8, 2005. The episode was written by Don Payne and directed by Michael Marcantel. In this episode, Homer announces the end of the world after watching a film that he interprets as a documentary.
Synopsis
Marge wants to cut Bart and Lisa's hair, to get cheap, well-made haircuts, but the kids want to have more fashionable haircuts, and to have them cut at a store in the mall. To which Marge replies that she won't take them there, but is interrupted when Homer asks if he is taking them to the mall to have fun. Already at the mall's hair salon, Bart and Lisa fight with the clippers, cutting each other's hair, leaving most of their heads hairless. Nelson and other schoolmates meet Bart and Lisa, who are chased by them because they were trying to take photos of them for a class project. Coincidentally, Homer was passing by, and he and his children hide in a movie theater to lose sight of their pursuers, who run into Seymour Skinner, of whom they take photos with his pants zipper down. While in the living room, the three of them sat down to watch the movie titled "Here lying" ("Here Below" in Latin America), based on the life of a man who had no faith in God and religion. Until the day of the apocalypse arrives, the sinners remain on earth, including the protagonist, and the innocent are saved. After watching the movie, Homer fears that the day of judgment is already coming. Meanwhile, to solve the problem of the children's hair, Marge makes them wigs with hair from previous cuts and some templates of each one's hairstyle that she kept in the refrigerator.
Homer buys a book about the apocalypse and at home he makes a calculation that includes things like the number of people present at the Last Supper or the number of verses in the Bible. The result is 3150518 but Homer translates it as 3:15.05/18 (May 18 at 3:15). Marge realizes that the date falls a week later and Homer decides to warn everyone. When Homer is going around Springfield announcing that the day of the rapture will arrive, he is interviewed by Kent Brockman to whom he predicts that the stars will fall from the sky. Later at home, the Simpson family watching the show 'Let's Salute the Famous' on television; which was held in a stadium. They witness an airship accident live and the stars (celebrities) fall from the airship, people react and fear the day of judgment. That's why the residents of Springfield believe that Homer is right when he predicts that at 3:15 p.m. on May 18 the apocalypse will come, so they follow him to the Springfield dune to see it coming. However, the Apocalypse does not come and the distraught citizens abandon Homer. Later, when Homer was depressed in the garage of his house, he looked at the painting he had hung of the twelve apostles at the last supper and realized a detail that he was missing when making the calculation (He put 12 as the number of people present in the last supper, but notices that Jesus was also there). After making a new calculation, he discovers that at 3:15 in the morning on May 19, the apocalypse will really come, so he returns to the dune, this time alone since no one in his family believed him. Homer is disappointed because the apocalypse does not arrive at the time he calculated, but a moment later he sees himself floating and rising to the naked sky. There he talks with a servant angel who shows him life in heaven. Homer was wondering where his family is and the angel, on television, shows him that the rest of the Simpson family stayed on Earth suffering the horrors of the apocalypse. Homer personally speaks to God pleading with Him to delay Judgment Day to a later date and for everything to return to normal (especially Moe's Bar being turned into a Japanese sushi restaurant). God tells Homer that his son went to Earth once and when he returned he was no longer the same and that's why he didn't want him to help. Homer later wakes up and assumes it was all a dream. He returns to Springfield, heading to Moe's Tavern where the characters are located parodying the painting of the Last Supper of the Twelve Apostles by the author Leonardo da Vinci.
Cultural references
The title is a reference to the popular saying, Thank God it's Friday. In the hair salon the song 'Who Let the Dogs Out' is heard. The film "Here lying" It is a parody of the movie Left Behind. Homer takes his family and friends to a mountain for Judgment Day, similar to the movie The Rapture.
Charlie Brown is shown for the fifth time in the series. The first time he was seen in his ghost suit in Treehouse of Horror II, the second in candle form in the episode Grade School Confidential, the third appearance was of Bart in disguise of the character in Treehouse of Horror XIV and the fourth on a poster hanging in the Springfield multiplex in the episode The Ziff Who Came to Dinner.
The song that is heard when Homer arrives in heaven is The Flower Duet from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes. Among the deceased seen in the sky are Leonardo Da Vinci and Dean Martin. When Homer enters Moe's tavern, he does an obscene imitation of 'The Last Supper'; by Leonardo da Vinci, with music by Handel in the background, similar to the scene from the film Viridiana.
May 18, 2005 was Wednesday, which coincides with what Kent Brockman said "the day of the trial will be Wednesday" Furthermore, this chapter aired 10 days before this referred day.