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{{quote|'''Homer''': Hey, when do we get the check for this?
'''Marge''': Well, they said they changed it just enough so they don't have to pay us.
|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "Bart The Murderer", watching "Blood On The Blackboard: The Bart Simpson Story" Docu-drama}}
 
It's that mostly familiar, spiffed up and neatly tied off version of the [[If It Bleeds, It Leads|sensationally violent yet true story]] you didn't want to read in the papers anyway. Double points if the real crime sounds like something fictional. Sometimes a murder is added to the real story to make it work as an episode.