Facts in the write up from Episode BABF08 of
The Simpsons, "
The Mansion Family, which aired
January 23, 2000 on
Fox. Thanks
Apatrix.
The
Gone Fission is
Mr. Burns's immensely expensive
yacht. While
Homer and
family are housesitting for him, Homer tries to throw a party but his plots are foiled because
Moe cannot sell him liquor at an early hour due to the
Blue laws. Because of this, Home hatches a plot to steal the yacht and sail to
international waters, '
the land that law forgot'. The yacht attracts the attention of
pirates (from
Secret Pirate Island, aka
Hong Kong) who mistake it for a
gay party boat. They decide to raid it because those types of boats "always have such
nice things". The pirates end up stealing the yacht and leaving Home and Co. in a big net which floats back to
shore on the corpses of the men on the bottom of the net ("They're the bravest ones of all.") Mr. Burns writes off the loss of the Gone Fission because everything else in his home is intact and he considers the loss the risk you take when you let strangers take care of your home.