"Thank God, It's Doomsday" is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season. The episode aired for the first time on May 8, 2005, in the US.
After Homer sees the film Left Below, he fears that the Rapture will soon be coming. He is later consoled by Marge and Lisa (who say that God wouldn't spring The Rapture on the Earth unannounced and that the world may end in other ways [including global warming and the passage of time]), but the next day whilst driving around Springfield he sees a man dressed as the devil and blood falling to the sky from a whale, which he takes as signs that the Rapture is coming. He uses numerology to calculate the date and time, thinking that it is only a week away.
As he goes around Springfield, Homer predicts that stars will fall from the sky, with Kent Brockman reporting on this, and indeed they do when there is a blimp accident at the Krusty Celebrity Salute to Specials special. Causing many of Springfield's residents to believe that Homer is right in predicting that the apocalypse is coming, and so the believers follow him to the Springfield Mesa to wait for it. However, the predicted hour passes without incident, and the dismayed citizens go home. All of them are annoyed at Homer, particularly Moe, who had sold his tavern to be converted to a Japanese sushi bar. Homer goes home and starts throwing away the books he bought, but after he realizes that he has made an error, he tries and fails to convince his family that his new prediction is correct, meaning he returns to the mesa alone. When nothing happens at first he thinks that he is wrong again, but the next moment he is naked and floating through space.
Homer arrives in Heaven, where he is greeted by the tour guide who shows him around. He is then shown to his room where he requests to see his family on the big TV screen in his room, on which Earth is channel 23. Marge and the children are shown being tormented by the devil. He has a talk with God about saving his family. When God refuses to help, due to Jesus' suffering on Earth, Homer tells him that he just made a powerful enemy. Homer runs around trashing Heaven, trying to change God's mind, and gets stopped by security. God finally agrees to undo the Rapture by turning back time (because, Homer points out, "Superman did it"). God incants, "Deus ex machina". Homer later wakes up on the mesa and is reunited with Marge, Bart and Lisa. He suspects that it was all a dream, but the fact that his final wish was granted (Moe's Tavern having been restored) indicates that the events were real.
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