The Simpsons (animation)/Recap/Who Shot Mr. Burns: Difference between revisions

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Subverted. Burns is portrayed as an opportunist with no moral restraint. When he decides to block sunlight from Springfield, a town hall meeting is called on the subject, and everyone brings a gun to the meeting. But when someone actually SHOOTS Burns (hid behind a Shadow Discretion Shot) he is perceived as a victim, despite his obviously evil nature, and the attempted murder is investigated anyway. This is VERY out of character for Springfield, the kind of town that would leave a boy in a well for previously pranking the town into thinking someone else fell into a well.

* [[Poor Man's Porn]]: Moe is forced to admit under a lie detector test that he spends his evenings ogling the women in the Sears catalogue ([[Did Not Do the Research|even though Sears stopped sending out Sears catalogues at the time of the episode's first airing]], but who's to say that Moe doesn't have a stash of them from around the time that they were sent out through the mail?)

{{quote|'''Moe''': I've been writing creepy letters to ''that''?}}

* [[The Scream]]: A variation appears on the first half; on realizing that Mr. Burns has forgotten his name yet again despite all his efforts, Homer takes a deep breath and yells a profanity (starts with an "F", the rest is covered by the sound of an organ playing). It's given exactly the same treatment as The Scream.

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