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In this [[Conan O 'Brien]]-penned episode, Mr. Burns is forced to pay a fine of several million dollars to the City of Springfield for his illegal toxic waste dumping, and the residents have to decide what to do with their windfall. At first, Marge's suggestion of repairing the severely damaged Main Street looks to be the one honored, but that's when out-of-towner Lyle Lanley steps in and uses a [[Ear Worm|catchy song-and-dance number]] to hornswoggle the town into shelling out for an expensive monorail system instead.
 
While the rest of the town is ecstatic, and Homer takes a course under Lanley in hopes of becoming the monorail's conductor, Marge has her suspicions -- especially when the monorail appears to be severely in need of repair (there's a nest of possums in its inner workings, for instance). Finally, sneaking into his trailer, she discovers that Lanley intends to take the millions alloted for the monorail and head for the tropics...leaving the Springfieldians to a firey doom.
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Marge and the engineer are able to contact Homer and the latter advises him to find an anchor. Prying a big metal "M" from the outside of the train and tying a length of chain around it, he heaves it outside, and it finally gets caught up in a giant donut shop sign, which proves enough to bring the monorail to a halt. As for Lyle Lanley, his flight to Tahiti is "unexpectedly" forced to make a stopover in North Haverbrook, where an angry mob promptly boards the plane to pay him back for his crimes.
 
[[Your Mileage May Vary]] tropes [[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)/Recap/S4 E12 Marge vs. the Monorail/YMMV|here]].
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* [[Ghost Town]]: Marge goes to North Haverbrook, the town Lyle Lanley sold a monorail to before Springfield. She finds the town nearly deserted after their monorail crashed on its maiden voyage.
* [[Meat -O -Vision]]: Homer is trapped on the out-of-control monorail train and needs to find an anchor. He looks to Bart, and visualizes him as a large ship's anchor. Bart, for understandable reasons, urges him to think harder.
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Mr. Burns attempts to get his money back by disguising himself with a [[Paper-Thin Disguise|fake mustache]] at the town meeting and calling himself "Mr. Snrub". Surprisingly, it fails instantly.
* [[Shipped in Shackles]]: C. Montgomery Burns is given the Hannibal Lecter mask treatment when he is dragged into court.
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