In this episode , Homer is made to wear a pink shirt to work one day and is mistaken for a `` free thinking anarchist '' and sent to a `` mental institution . '' He 's in a room with a large white man who acts as if he were Michael Jackson . In the episode , main character Homer Simpson is mistaken for a `` free thinking anarchist '' and sent to a mental institution , where he shares a room with a large white man named Leon Kompowsky who pretends to be Michael Jackson .