Plot
Homer is distraught when he is unable to acquire tickets for an upcoming football game involving the Springfield Atoms. When Ned Flanders wins two tickets to the game on a radio competition, he invites Homer as his guest. Though reluctant because of his dislike of Flanders, Homer is desperate to attend the game and accepts. Flanders pays for all the food and even gets the winning quarterback, Stan "The Boy" Taylor, to give the game ball to Homer. Overwhelmed by Flanders's generosity and no longer ashamed to be associated with him, Homer becomes friends with Flanders and his family. Homer begins acting overly grateful and annoys Flanders and his family to no end by interrupting their family time together. The Flanders family and the Simpson family go on a camping trip, but the families do not get along. When the Simpsons initiate a food fight, Flanders tells his wife that he has grown to hate Homer.
Upon returning home, Homer remains oblivious to Flanders's animosity. He arrives at the Flanders's house expecting to play golf, but Flanders and his family get in their car and race off without him. Pulled over by Chief Wiggum for speeding, Flanders takes a sobriety test as disapproving townspeople watch. At church, when the entire congregation bow their heads in prayer, Homer inhales very loudly through his nose, causing Flanders to finally snap and yell at Homer. This alarms the congregation, but nevertheless, Homer sticks up for Flanders and convinces the townspeople to give him another chance. Touched, Flanders apologises to Homer, and the two reconcile their friendship.
Shocked, Lisa and Bart, thinking that everything would be back to normal by now, consider that this may be the end of their wacky adventures. However, the following week, Homer once again hates Flanders and everything is back to normal, much to Lisa and Bart's relief.
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