Inanimate Carbon Rod
Occupation	Worker of the week at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant NASA Space Shuttle part
First Appearance	"Deep Space Homer"
Voiced By	Non-speaking

The Inanimate Carbon Rod is a rod made of carbon. Two such rods thwart Homer in his quest for respect.

The first was an employee at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant who wins the "Worker of the Week Award" in recognition of his long overlooked "tireless efforts" which the plant could not function without. This greatly angers Homer who is now confirmed as less valuable to the plant than an inanimate object and is the only human at the plant not to win the award. It's later shown on an org chart that Homer's supervisor is the rod.

The other rod was a component of the NASA Corvair space shuttle which Homer, Race Banyon and Buzz Aldrin were on. When Homer snapped the handle off the shuttle door, Banyon prepared to kill him, so Homer took the rod off the wall to smash Banyon's "pretty face" in. However, Homer unintentionally lodged the rod in the shuttle door, closing it and allowing Homer and the other astronauts a safe return to Earth. The rod received all the credit. It was featured on the cover of Time magazine with the caption "In Rod We Trust!". It was also given the main seat in the subsequent parade, much to Homer's annoyance, as he had been upstaged yet again by an Inanimate Carbon Rod. Homer then turned off the TV airing the parade, much to the chagrin of Bart and Lisa, who proclaimed "they were about to show a close-up of the Rod!"

Opening sequence Edit

Homer is seen working with a carbon rod in the opening sequence. When the whistle blows to signal the end of the shift, he throws it into the air and heads out the door, but the rod falls into his shirt. On the way home, he discovers the rod and throws it out the car window.

In the HD opening sequence, Otto picks up the rod and eats it.

In other media Edit

In the Parker Bros. Simpsons Clue board game, the rod is one of six weapons, titled "plutonium rod".

AppearancesEdit

• Opening Sequence — Used by Homer
• Episode – "Deep Space Homer"
• HD Opening Sequence — Used by Homer and eaten by Otto

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