Bart later returns home feeling remorseful after seeing the meager lives of the homeless men at the breadline. Before he enters the house, he imagines his family scapegoating him for all their problems if he apologizes for ruining Thanksgiving. Realizing this scenario is all in his mind, he climbs onto the roof of the house to ponder his choices. When he hears Lisa crying because she misses him, Bart invites her to join him on the roof. He finally realizes what he did was wrong and apologizes to her as Homer and Marge, before doing the same with Bart for saying severe things to him, watch on proudly and Bart and Lisa rejoin the family to enjoy a meal of Thanksgiving leftovers displaying the family spirit which was absent from the earlier debacle.