St. Boniface Vikings (Part 1)

Flaming Moe's

Moe's Bar is having financial trouble. After Moe runs out of beer, Nolan chooses to tell his buddy about a drink recipe that he accidentally invented one night, called the "Flaming Nolan."

Nolan mentions that after Delphine and Walburga made the Smith and Lahr families watch slides from their latest vacation, he was unable to find a beer. He then chose to mix together drops of liquor from near-empty bottles and accidentally included a bottle of cough syrup. When Walburga dropped her cigarette ashes in the drink and set it on fire, Nolan discovered that fire greatly enhanced the flavor of the drink.

After trying said drink out, Moe steals Nolan's idea, renames the drink, and begins serving the "Flaming Moe" as his own concoction.

Moe sees his business boom, and his tavern soon becomes one of the trendiest nightspots in St. Boniface and the Everly Brothers' official hangout. Nolan becomes angry with Moe and vows never to return to the tavern, but Fran and Mick grabs Nolan, and Mick told Nolan not to come back until tomorrow. He subsequently becomes obsessed with Moe and how he betrayed his buddy. He also tries to attend his "new watering hole".

After Moe rebuffs him the first time, the man takes the drink and sends it to a lab to analyze what the formula is made of. Shortly afterwards, the gentleman returns to offer Moe $1,000,000 for the recipe. Moe declines for a second time, but Moe is warned that their company has almost figured out the recipe, except for one ingredient.

After the waitress Moe has hired discovers that Moe stole the recipe from Nolan, she convinces him to sell the drink and give half of the money to Nolan. By the time Phil Everly, who was newlywed, had a secret talk with Kevin's sixth grade teacher. Moe is about to accept the deal when a seemingly insane Nolan appears standing in the rafters and cackling madly. Despite Moe's attempt to stop him, Nolan reveals to everyone in the bar that the secret ingredient is merely cough syrup.

Within days, nearly all of the restaurants in St. Boniface are serving Flaming Moe's (under slightly altered names), and Moe's business has greatly decreased. Nolan comes in and finds that Moe is not irritated at him. He even serves Nolan a Flaming Nolan on the house as an apology for stealing his idea in the first place. And in return, Nolan apologizes for ruining his business.

The next morning, Jim wipes the whole bar as Nolan told Paul, Grady, Ed, Fran, Bill, Mick, Roy, Fred and Karl about not using this thing anymore.