- After attributing a relaxing Sunday to his skipping church, Homer vows to never attend service again, and forms his own religion to justify his behavior.
- Homer decides not to attend church one Sunday and has the time of his life and vows never to return to church again, however one Sunday after falling asleep while smoking a cigar he accidentally sets fire to The Simpsons house, Flanders spots the flames and rescues him, Homer comes to his senses and turns up at church the following Sunday(asleep).—wodder
- Over Marge's strenuous objections, Homer decides to stay home from church on a Sunday. While the rest of the family go to church, where the heating unit has failed on a blustery, freezing day, Homer enjoys the warmth at home, and lazing about. He does everything from finding a penny, to winning a local radio trivia contest, to dancing around in it underwear. When the family finally gets home, Homer proclaims that he had more fun at home, and decides not to return to church.
Marge prays for God to convince Homer that what he is doing is wrong, and Homer has a dream in which he meets God. At first, God angrily chastises Homer, but eventually, the two reach an agreement that Homer does not intend to insult God, and intends to honor him in his own way. At Moe's, Homer calls his boss and says he won't be in to work that day because he's celebrating his new holiday, The Feast of Maximum Occupancy, an idea he gets when he sees Moe's maximum occupancy permit on the wall of the bar.
Homer dresses in a monk's robe, befriends some of the animals that live in his yard and draws the admiration of Lisa, who seems to view her father as a free spirit. Marge still believes that Homer's new lifestyle is a bad influence on their children. Marge later invites Reverend Lovejoy over to talk, and Homer tells everyone about his dream, in which God told him to do as he pleases. Of course, Marge and the Reverend both think he's crazy. Even the Flanders family attempts to turn Homer back, but their efforts fail when Homer slams the front door in their faces and later evades them when they chase him in his car.
On an upcoming Sunday, Homer again stays home. He falls asleep on the couch, dropping a lit cigar on a pile of Playdude magazines, which quickly catch fire. The fire spreads rapidly to the curtains and the rest of the room. Though Homer comes out of his dozing long enough to realize the house is on fire, he's overcome by the smoke and passes out.
Next door, Ned Flanders sees the smoke from the fire and rushes in to save Homer. Grabbing his unconscious neighbor, he's forced to take him upstairs when the floor collapses. He throws a mattress out the window and pushes out the window onto the mattress, however the still-unconscious Homer bounces off the mattress and back through the living room window. Ned follows and finally drags Homer to safety.
Meanwhile, the volunteer firefighting service has arrived, made up of Chief Wiggum, Apu, Barney and several others who put out the fire. Reverend Lovejoy explains to Homer that the crew that saved his home was made up of people of different faiths. Homer has learned his lesson and promises to return to Sunday mass. He's seen in one of the pews, sound asleep during a boring sermon.
While asleep, Homer dreams that he again meets God. When Homer asks God what the meaning of life is, God tells him...just as the closing music begins.
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