7F11 - One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish (January 24, 1991)

Summary: After eating potentially poisonous sushi, Homer learns he has one day left to live.

Episode Timeline:
Thursday:
- The family has meatloaf for dinner, Lisa wants a change of pace
Friday:
- The family goes to the sushi restaurant
- The family orders
- The chefs prepare the food
- Homer likes the sushi
- A guy sings karaoke
- Homer orders more food
- Bart and Lisa sing the theme from Shaft at the karaoke bar
- Homer orders Fugu
- Bart and Lisa continue to sing
- The Master Chef leaves to make out with Krabappel, leaving the sous-chef in charge
- The sous-chef has trouble cutting the non-poisonous part of the fish
- Homer likes it
- The Master Chef notices the Fugu platter
- Homer is told he's ingested poison
- Hibbert tells Homer he has 22 hours to live (he apparently waited in the hospital for 2 hours after dinner)
- Homer makes a list of things to do before he dies, and promises to wake up at 6 am and watch the sunrise
Saturday:
- At 6 am, Homer hits the snooze button and goes back to sleep
- At 11:30am, Homer wakes up
- Homer rushes through breakfast and doesn't get a hearty one like he wanted
- Homer has man-to-man with Bart
- Homer teaches Bart how to shave
- Homer listens to Lisa play her saxophone
- Homer borrows a camcorder from Ned and promises to go to his barbeque tomorrow
- Homer makes a videotape for Maggie
- Homer makes peace with Grampa (after having made funeral arrangements)
- Homer goes fishing with Grampa, so he doesn't have time to go to Moe's
- Homer plays catch with Grampa, so he doesn't have time to plant a tree
- Homer wrestles with Grampa, so he doesn't have time to go hang gliding
- Homer gets pulled over for speeding
- 6:37pm: Homer is in jail
- Homer calls Barney, who has to find $50 for bail
- The family waits for Homer to come home for dinner
- Barney bails Homer out
- Homer and Barney drive by Burns, so he can tell him off. Burns wants Simpson in his office at 9am Monday morning.
- At Moe's, Homer tries to call Marge with no luck, then tells the barflies he loves them and sees that its 7:30pm
- Barney stops to fix a tire, and Homer has crossed all but one thing off his list, so he runs home
- Homer returns home and quickly tells his kids that he loves them
- Marge reads Homer a poem
- After sex, Homer says goodbye to his sleeping family
- Homer listens to the Bible audio book and falls asleep
Sunday:
- 7:00am: Marge wakes up
- She wakes up an alive Homer
- Homer spends the day eating pork rinds and watching bowling on TV

References to Time:
- Lisa says Thursday is Meatloaf Night
- Homer says Friday is Pork Chop Night, which they haven't missed since the Great Pig Scare in '87

References to Other Episodes: None

SLH Presence:
- Lisa has a picture of Bleeding Gums Murphy
- Bart makes a prank call to Moe
- SLH is not present

Minimum Time Spanned: 4 days

Canon: Yes, although the family's themed dinner nights may cause some issue

Favorite Moment: Bart and Lisa singing the theme from Shaft. It's an odd scene, but it makes me smile.

Review: This one delicately walks the balance between hilarious, slice-of-life antics and heart-wrenching drama extremely well. I feel like this would have been a good episode for a later season when we were more familiar with the characters, but it is still great. Larry King as the audio book is a truly inspried guest voice choice. The pain of not being able to complete half of his last-day-on-Earth list really grounds Homer in reality. A