One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish

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Bored of having meatloaf for supper, Marge suggests that the family, instead of having pork chops the next night, go to a sushi bar, "The Happy Sumo". Homer reluctantly accepts, and the family goes there. When Homer goes there, he eats a type of sushi called the Fugu, but it is badly prepared and Homer is told that he may have been poisoned. Homer and Marge go the hospital. Dr. Hibbert informs Homer he would have 24 hours left to live but actually has 22. Homer is told that he is expected to go through five stages, and he makes a list of things he wants to do on the last day of his life.

On his last days, things he does are have a "man-to-man" with Bart by teaching him to shave, listen to Lisa play her saxophone, borrow Ned Flanders's camcorder to make a videotape for Maggie (he also briefly considers attending the Flanders family's barbecue), and reconcile with Grampa, until he is arrested for speeding. Homer calls Barney, who is asked to pay $50 to bail out him. After he is bailed, with not much time left, he tells off Mr. Burns, has one last drink at Moe's with his friends, and hurries home in time, to say a good-bye to his family. Homer listens to Larry King read the Bible on tape, but falls asleep, and is thought to be dead, until Marge finds he is alive. When Homer is alive again, he watches a bowling tournament.

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