Mayor Quimby generates a great deal of controversy over a "frog's legs" joke he makes about France, and when it becomes obvious that no apology is forthcoming, the French president launches a neutron bomb directly into Springfield. Homer had been inspecting a bomb shelter he was considering buying from Herman and after the blast, Homer emerges from the shelter to find that he seems to be the only person to have survived. He misses his family, but he quickly gets over his loss and dances naked in church. While dancing, he is confronted by a band of Springfield citizens who have become mutants. They claim that they want to create a perfect world in which the mistakes of the past will be eliminated. This, of course, includes killing Homer. Homer flees in a hearse (while being chased by the mu