After succesful removal of the foreign body, Homer had a dramatic recovery and even became extremely intelligent. The problem was that he had built a life that centered around him being an imbicile and he quickly began alienating all those around him. In his intellectual nirvana, he realized he would never truly be happy this way and elected to re-insert a crayon into his nose to try to regain what he had lost. And in true Simpsons fashion, all came full circle nice and neatly in 22 minutes.
The reason I make note of this now, is that a German woman has had a quite similar experience, at least to the first part of that story. When she was 4 years old, she tripped and managed to lose a pencil into her cheek. It, unlike Homer's case, was actually quickly diagnosed but went untreated due to the lack of today's sophistocated medical technology. And then at age 59 she finally had surgery to remove almost all of the pencil - 55 years later. Thanks to the skilled ENT, she has reportedly stopped having headaches and nosebleeds. The question is, in a year will she feel so isolated by her own intellectual prowess that she elects to reinsert it?
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