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| | == History == | | == History == |
| − | He was celebrating his New Year's Rockin' Eve in [[Springfield]] instead of Times Square. [[Homer]], the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]]'s Y2K compliance officer, confidently declares that he fixed every computer at the power plant. Unfortunately, Homer didn't fix his own computer, which creates the computer virus that spreads rapidly to other systems all over the world. As Dick Clark's New Year's ball drops and hits "1998", the computer display reads "1900". Within minutes, Dick melts to death (he is shown to be a robot).
| + | Dick Clark was hosting his New Year's Rockin' Eve party in [[Springfield]] (rather than the usual [[wikipedia:Times Square|Times Square]]). |
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| | + | [[Homer]] was the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]]'s Y2K compliance officer, and he declared confidently that he repaired every computer there to be Y2K compliant. Unfortunately, Homer forgot to repair his own computer, which created a virus that spread rapidly to every other computer on Earth, including the New Year's computer display. |
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| | + | As the New Year's ball drops down to the display reading "1999", it changes to "1900" rather than "2000". Dick then melts to death (shown to be a robot). |
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| | == Appearances == | | == Appearances == |
As the New Year's ball drops down to the display reading "1999", it changes to "1900" rather than "2000". Dick then melts to death (shown to be a robot).
Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three" (mentioned on calender)
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" 
