However, as Bart attempts to impress everyone in school with his earring, only to find out that every student has his/her own earring, except for Lisa, who is forbidden by Homer to do so. As earrings become a fad, Bart gets his ear pierced, much to Homer's outrage.

Meanwhile, the entire school is impressed when Milhouse gets an earring. Moe, Barney, and Apu also choose to join him. While lying on the couch at home, Homer sees a recruitment ad on TV for the United States Naval Reserve and plans to make a difference and enlist. Within ten minutes, the power plant is on fire and Homer is fired (after initially pretending it is his first day). Homer thinks up a solution: he places the donut in the reactor core in an attempt to make it huge.

Homer, Lenny and Carl all want a doughnut, but only one is left. The episode opens with Homer dreaming about a doughnut parody of Planet of the Apes, when Lenny wakes him up for a coffee break. Meanwhile, Bart gets his ear pierced so he can be cool, but soon discovers that it doesn't work if every kid in school does the same thing. Homer joins the Naval Reserve after getting fired again, with world-threatening results when he shoots his commanding officer out of the submarine and steers the sub into Russian waters.

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