Episode #421 "Near Dick Experience"

When Sally, Harry and Tommy barely miss being hit by a falling chandelier at a local restaurant, they feel as if their near-death experience has made them view the world in a whole new way. They look at everything with wonder and amazement as if they're seeing things for the very first time. Dick, who missed out on this supposedly transforming experience, feels terribly left out and is especially irritated that the other aliens pity him for his lack of enlightenment. Sally volunteers at a soup kitchen, Harry urges homeless people to live their dreams and Tommy, overcome by the uncertainty of life, asks Alissa to marry him. Dick, desperate to fit in, signs up for a faculty field trip to Mount Digney and is determined to have a near-death experience "if it kills" him. The other aliens have become bored with their new life-style and admit to each other that they were mostly faking it. On Mount Digney, Mary's convinced she's hiking with a suicidal maniac, but on the way home from the field trip when a train smashes the front of Mary's car but leaves Mary and Dick unharmed, Dick at last has the experience he's been hoping for. Dick raves about the wonders of the new world he's living in while the other aliens yawn and couldn't care less.