Marge vs. the Monorail

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again. Season two of our podcast, not season two of The Simpsons

oh, yeah. I didn't think that I was like a baby in 1990. So we've got Sean's birthday episode, even though his birthday was like a month and a half

ago, but I'm excited to get into the birthday episode. We

were, we were on break during his birthday, but now he gets to pick his favorite episode or just one that he really likes and to do.

It was hard picking. Cause there's so many. And if you asked me 20 times, I'd probably get 20 different answers. Yeah, I'm the same. But I think definitely going with Mars versus the monitor. I just love this episode. It's got some good music. It's got some big jokes, kind of Leonard Nimoy. Oh yeah. And

everything. I like this guy over there you want? All right. So let's get into it. Today's episode is March versus the monorail. This is season four, episode 12, originally aired January 14th, 1993. It was written by Conan O'Brien. Yeah. And directed by rich. Our guest stars are Phil Hartman and Leonard Nimoy. And this

is one that doesn't have the chalkboard scene, which I'm always a little bit sad of, but for the couch gag, we have basically the whole town jumping into the living room, watching TV with them. And I watched it a bit as they were coming in and watched it in slow motion. And everyone has these like flailing arms that you can offer some of the characters, but I liked that they were consistent. They might've

had like a different team. That segment or something like that seemed a bit

weird, but

yeah, it's cute. I know. Oh my gosh, this is one of my favorite openings of any episode ever. It just, it starts and it just keeps going and it, and it sells it. It's the Sims it's of course it's the Simpsons, but it's the fun Stone's opening. Yeah. And it's kind of cool that they're paying tribute to something. They're a little bit, not so much based off of, but maybe inspired by.

Yeah. And I feel like that's something that if they did it today, how does many people appreciate it? Because I'm so scared. There was a bit of that overlap with people who watched the Flintstones growing up or watching the Simpsons. Now

the live action Flintstones movie, I think. Maybe a couple of years after this. Oh yeah. Yeah. So there was kind of a little bit of a fun Stone's resurgence. And yeah, like my daughter didn't understand the opening. She was just like, Homer's being

weird. Oh, imagine it. Imagine watching that, not knowing that song well,

let's make it, it would almost make it more funny. Cause he just like flies through his window and breaks it.

And the whole going down the pipe with the back of the dinosaur.

Oh, man. He just sells it. And of course he's about to hit a Chestnut tree and he's tar he's car gets like totaled, but they don't mention, I

love that he has enough time to think of the lyrics of the Chestnut tree, put it into song form. It doesn't have enough time to actually avoid it.

It's almost like the homers green versus Homer sort of thing. That's part of his brain, like when they zoom in on his brain, sometimes it knows more than he does. Yeah. And it's, it's, it's amazing. It's perfect. Oh man. All right. So the next scene we've got Lenny and Carl getting rid of the toxic ways

do not eat.

And just the way Carl's like either way I'm sleeping good tonight. Like just kind of drawing attention to. Just how absurd it is

and they just leave the drum in the hallway. Yep. Let

me just leave it there. I also found it weird that, and this is sort of nitpicking, but I guess Lenny and Carl stay at work longer than Homer does. Yeah, I guess so maybe they're working a little overtime. I don't know. It's are the working overtime. Oh my God. I see that every time I hear that song. Oh, so then they're putting the, um, Mr. Burns and Smithers are putting their toxic waste into the tree. And I'm in this show, this toxic chipmunk, I'm going to draw a picture of that.

Yes. I'm close to the, what was it that talked about? Dumping it at the park. And I said, no, I'm talking about complaints from all the bulge. So sad. Like they know what they're doing. Oh

God. Yeah. Um, it's something I thought was interesting too, is like Mr. Burns features so heavily in the beginning of this episode, and then he just disappears for last

two-thirds at first, you think it's going to be some conspiracy with the power plant. That's how a lot of Simpsons episodes are the first five. Somehow tie into the main story, just in a very loose way. Yeah.

Like the, um, the one where Elisa convinces, ah, Homer and Bart that they have leprosy starts out with them at like a ski lodge. Yeah.

But you never know going into it

fresh. You don't know what's gonna happen next. They've got, should we, should we continue to the courts? Yes. Yeah, we got, oh, he got burns being wheeled in like Hannibal Lecter for some reason.

And the, the plaque and the courthouses Liberty and justice for most.

Oh my gosh. And, um, it's so easy for him to pay that $3 million. He's like, just get my wallet.

It's just a wad of cash that he's carrying around.

Yeah. He ends up buying the justice stash issue. He's like, oh, go ahead and throw that in. And he, so the judge is so happy about it. So, uh, the town has to figure out what they're going to do with this $3 million. And, um, Lisa's idea with the VR. It's, it's kind of weird how back then that seemed so futuristic and expensive.

Yeah. Cause I, you know, I have the VR headset myself and it's funny. Yeah. Looking at what they put on. It was like a whole head thing. There's wires everywhere. And now we just have, it's still in development, but it's just a sleek version of one wire coming out too crazy. And it's, I just love seeing how the past thinks of the future is where we're going to laugh at ourselves. For what we think the world's going to be like in 10, 20 years.

And the fact that Lisa was thinking that they could spend their $3 million on that. Yeah. Like holy crap. And, um, of course Bart's idea of how to spend it just makes no sense and is extremely

destructive. Oh, well, and he's controlling all those ants with the one stick that goes forward in that.

Yes. Well, and I love how he is. He has two very specific acts of destruction towards the school that involve. Because there's the robotic ants and then there's also the butterfly butterfly. I tell you. So for some reason there's a very, very slight bug motif going on with his destruction, but, you know, that's. So they all go to the town meeting to figure out what to do with the money. And we've got mayor Quimby saying how we're going to spend the $2 million, 2 million don't you mean 3 million?

Yeah. That's what I meant or,

um, yeah. And then we've got Mr.

and it's not just Mr. Snob. It's this like an emphasis on the you?

Well, because it's backwards. Because it makes it sound

like it's backwards. God, I even wrote out Mr. Snob and I didn't realize it was burns back.

And that's why he emphasizes that. Cause it sounds like he's saying it backwards, Mr. Sinner

up. Are you seeing Booher burns?

I was seeing Buhler. Yeah. So, uh, we also got to mention, of course the dank miss. Yes, Mr. Shrub is one of my favorites. It's great. Anyway, check that

out. The

doke, I just wrote Mr. SRE. Mr. shrub.dot, dot dank. You know what

I shouldn't, you told me in the car once because we listened to Mr. Straub and he told me it was burns backwards. And you still

don't remember it. Wow. We're going to come back to this. We're going to revisit these episodes when we're like 80 and we're going to remaster and reboot all of these episodes and you're not going to remember it. Nope, Nope. Um, so. Mr shrub and Mr. Smithers, I don't know what Smithers backwards would be.

I can't even do that.

Yeah. I'm not going to try that the, they escaped and it's so overdone. They have like a grappling hook. And one thing I always noticed about this scene is it like overlaps into the next shot with APU, like APU starts talking, but they're still like ascending in the background.

Yeah. And they have this whole elaborate plan, but nobody cares. They just like that's usual in a snub. And it,

the music almost sounds like the nineties Batman movies. Yeah. Which is interesting. Cause that was, um, Danny Elfman, who also did the Simpsons. Oh, but I don't think he did the music during the episodes. So that's not even like a coincidence, but it's a thing it's

something to talk about. And that's what, that's why you guys tune in. Isn't it

for the things, the stuff about the things. Oh, so March describes the state of Maine. And of course Homer's to blame a lot for it. The chains on the tires, even

after when Martin, she says people keep using snow chains with carrying heavy loads, of course, horrors carrying a grand piano on top of that. For no reason.

Why would, why would Homer need to be hauling your grand piano? Look at an asphalt. God, I wonder how many dollars in property damage homers caused through the years? Like I would love if someone just sat down and calculated

all that you have between accents of the power plant and such to the city, just all the destruction.

When we got the popcorn truck.

And the voice like just faint out very quickly. Cause like intentionally they disappears

just like in real life, all the popcorn pops. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That's how it would happen. And poor grandpa, nobody understands is stark at his sarcastic.

They praise them, lift them up and it's just like, he's opposing the idea of wholeheartedly. And then everyone's just like, yeah, let's do that, sir.

We could clean out main street. Oh, Oh, so there was this really small kind of cute moment that I never noticed before when everyone starts cheering for main street, like after it being Marge's idea, Homer kind of like turns to Marge and takes her hand and gives her a small smile. I noticed that like he's proud of her. It was like a really tiny, sweet moment that they kind of just like pinched in there by like a little bit of salt. And it was

sweet. Yeah. Like Homer does have his faults, but when it comes down to like, like things that are important to March, at least acknowledged some

of them, he may have destroyed main streets, but he's completely supportive of marches, wherewithal to fix main street. And that's that's Homer right there.

And then we get wild landline coming in. Oh yeah.

I seriously wrote Kyle Lanley and then cross out Kyle.

Oh, I love his opening line with like the, not knowing what to do with the money. Look at me with the spinning. No one knows how he got it. Dang. If he knows how to use it. Oh my

God. And then I love how homework completely misses the point of the joke. It just goes back

to the way he says it York.

It's like, it's like trying to tell a joke to a two year old and all they notice is the QA animal. So of course he goes, oh, it's more of a Shelbyville idea. I feel like we need to do an episode just on Shelbyville.

Like kind of rivalry that's yeah. Cause landlady did his research. He knows exactly how to get under their skin. So

he knows how to, and I'm, I'll comment a little bit more on this a little later, but he knows specifically how to get each character a table. Like he's a manipulative.

Well, like with just that one line, he gets married. Quimbee to say, tell us your idea so we can vote for it.

Yeah. Yeah, of course. He's also dealing with Springfield, so yeah, they're pretty impressive. Sure. Put them on the map.

Yeah. So one of them, I think it was that Haven Brook. He kind of ran out a room and he switched from upper case to lower T's.

Oh my God. I never noticed that. Oh dear God. And then we get that. Infamous on

the monorail song, which is one of the main reasons why I picked this episode. I know it's short, but it's just one that sticks

with you. And that's the interesting thing. When I was a kid, this song seemed so long to me. Like it seemed like such a big spectacle that lasted like several like five minutes or something, but it's really, really short in reality.

I was thinking the exact

same thing. And Bart's line. Sorry, mom, the mob has spoken. Isn't that? Just the plot of just so many Simpsons episodes. Yeah. Sorry, mom. The Bob has spoken

and this is his movie.

True. Yeah. And then of course we got Homer not understanding how to like continue on a song, which kinda reminded me of the, who needs a quickie Mart. Mart is the easy can't can't like rhyme it. Uh, and he just goes, Moto dope. Uh, then we got Lyle Lanley going into the schools and talking to them about it, which is really he's trying to get every single. Subsection of the community in on this, which is very manipulative,

almost as manipulative as Oscar Meyer, giving emotional periodic table the elements to schools. Oh,

I made a joke about that on Twitter and nobody liked it. So it was, um, for some reason, the QTS around her area have these posters that say, like, make your lunch snack tack you later. It's from the periodic table. I would have also accepted snack. Tacular. What is the atomic weight of BOLO? Neo delicious. Oh my God. Well, the interesting thing is now we get to see how he cons. That is the most manipulative.

I know I it's funny. Cause I didn't catch that before. Like how serious that was Lisa, how like analytical and just cautious she is. He wins her over instantly.

And, and, and then we get the whole back and forth of getting it out around the flash can Superman over on the floor. And I think that's the, my Dingaling kid. Oh, I think so. I think they might've reused his, um, his face or something.

I think back to elementary school, when you had like a guest speaker or something, how many times the conversations went off like that, like getting on the unrelated things and someone has to get the conversation back on track. That's just how kids are.

Yeah. That's tell kids you're going to be. So I actually, I was suspicious of this and I looked it up and it was what I thought. The truck a source, the movie commercial is all reused footage. Oh, it's all reused from, um, Bartha Daredevil. They just took the same footage and put Chuck of source the movie over it and then did the voiceover. So it was like a time-saving. Oh. Cause I always thought that was a weird. Spot for that.

Oh, I was going to write that down. I was like, no, I'll remember that.

We've got 30 year old memories now we can't, we can't remember that kind of stuff. We can't ask.

Only having like three beers or

something. Oh, to be a monorail conductor. Yes. Yeah.

Do you sit at home drinking five beers a day?

That's what it was the commercial.

And then the way that the, the guy sitting on the couch is basically Homer with hair.

Exactly, exactly. Um, and

then in the commercial, they have the picture of the, the monorail Institute in the bottom actual Institute may not match photo, and then it cuts to the door with the handwritten

sign. Oh my God. Oh, and then, um, March going your dream was to, to run in the field during a baseball game and you already did that. And that newspaper clipping is perfect, or it says like idiot, ruins game Springfield, forfeits, but yet he's so proud of it that he wants to hang it on the wall in a frame.

Homer talking to person. Do you want to change your name to Homer Jr. And then just classic Homer mindset. It's mindset. Your friends can call you who'd you

like this blank look, and he's like, I'll get back to you.

He says it like, it's a good thing. Like,

oh, I love it. I love it. And why is Barney helping them build the monorail track?

We'll see later.

And I love when it ends up crashing and he goes, I hate that sound. He sounds like a four-year. I don't like that. So we get home in margin bed talking about all this, and, um, he's trying to convince her. This is a good idea. And then all of his attempts to turn on March and then he start singing and then he goes that he sings about chicken and then he goes, check. It just keeps, it goes for longer than you expect it to.

It's something that goes longer than expected, but just on the verge of not being too long. Yeah.

Yeah. And then we get the end of the extensive three week course motto means one and rail means re well, another

thing I didn't notice before is then he said, When they asked, who's going to be the conductor. He, I remember my mind him pointing it Homer, but he just kind of makes a broad gesture. Says what about you? Yeah. And he kind of leaves it just up to chance for whoever responds. Cause

he doesn't care who does it. He just needs to act like he's training them and. It's ridiculous. Then we have the announcement on the news that Homer's going to be the lead conductor. And of course they use a file

photo. They have hundreds of file photos, and they're

all just the worst photo. And we have Homer introducing the family to the monorail and they find the family of possums. I call the big one by.

This is my cup holder cupcake holder, if you will.

He's just so excited about the little things and, uh, why is Lanley drawing all of these situations? Cause he's, he has several doodles that we see throughout the episode of like monorail breaking down and like him going to Tahiti.

And he's very trusting a margin. He says, what did you see? Oh, nothing incriminating. Oh good.

And we get another one of those. I'm going to call them flash arounds because they're not really flashbacks, but they happen so much in early Simpsons where it's one character and then three lines that repeat over and over with their faces.

Yes. And it's. Like two or three

repeats. Yeah. Cause we have like for now on the baby sleeps and the creative and all that. Oh. And then with this room, we've got like, I named the big one by Lee. And is there a chance to track it then? Eh, I, and I wrote to, I'm wondering if those were to fill time. Cause if you think about it, it's just a still frame of Marge and then three animations that they've already made

and they can say we'll loop it one to three times, depending on how much of a buffer we need. Exactly

something my seven-year-old daughter picked up for some reason, um, how Marge has to bend her hair just to get in the car. I never noticed that before. It's always kind of bending backwards. Notice that.

It's just a little thing, little extra work on the animators parts. Yep.

So she goes to north Haber Brook and meets Cobb, who was the first engineer. And that lady cackling that old lady. I always forget that it's going to happen, but it creeps me out every time.

Just the nonsensical frizzy laugh. Yup. And then we have the lady at the restaurant. I don't know nothing about no monorail. She close. It says monorail cafe.

That's great. After that, we go to the sort of opening ceremony in the monorail and Kent Brockman has a line, nothing brings out the stars like the opening of a monitor.

Did you notice when the limo pulled up, it hit a pop. Oh, no, I did it at the time. Right on the walkway.

Oh my God. That's terrible. And then we've got Crusty's baby

random, 15 seconds.

Oh man. And then he's cool. He's sexy. He's 34 years old. And then he has other people,

I don't know. Cause all those wrinkles on his face. I'm like, I'm older than that.

I have three years left. Oh man. And Leonard Nimoy.

Yes. Rip.

We miss you. I remember the day he died. I watched this one in the Springfield files, just as in, in remembrance and the whole, may the force.

Yes. The look on his face, the force be with you. Why aren't you one

of the little Rascals?

No, I was wondering like the thought process. If they thought, Hey, let's do an episode with Leonard Nimoy and then figured that out around him or. Hey, let's throw a lender Naval, like how that came to be. Oh, you know?

Yes, I do. Um, so originally they wanted William shatter, but he had turned them down for a previous episode. So I don't think they even tried to ask. And then they asked George Takei next for some reason. And he S he wasn't able to do it. And then they went to Nimoy, which is weird that he was their third choice. But because it's hard to picture this episode without him, but it wasn't specifically written around it.

I like, I don't know if I'm just imagining things, but you can kind of hear in his voice that he's loving doing the voice acting. Oh

yeah. Oh yeah, definitely. And especially since a little bit later on, he kind of pokes fun at himself a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. It's great.

It makes me think of like Stephen Hawking. Yeah. He publicly talked about really wanting to be on the Simpsons and then he ends up making fun of himself and just loved it. Oh

yeah. You kind of have to be able to make fun of yourself in order to do a really good guest role on the Simpsons, especially when you're playing yourself.

Now, one thing I noticed when he says, may the force be with you, then it goes into showing Homer in his uniform and it kind of has a star wars eat. Look to it, kind of like. Sorta Darth Vader's storm.

Trooper. Yeah. I noticed that, that he has a Cape. Yeah. Like why would you have a Cape? But yeah, it does fit that, that look,

I don't know if that was intentional or not, but that I remember that standing out to me in the past too. Yeah.

So we have while leaving before the maiden voyage and he's like, I have less than a minute.

Well, because what was it that they said, oh, it'll only take a minute. My flight takes off in less than.

And when, um, when the engineer guy, they get there and he says, I shouldn't have stopped for that haircut. I never noticed this, but he legitimately has a completely different haircut. Oh. Like to check for that. Yep. He has like, the sides are shaved. And I wonder if that was an animation. That they animated it after the fact. And then didn't realize it was the same here, but maybe I'm looking too far into

this, or maybe it's just an absurd joke of, you know, you're going to go save the lives of a hundred people on a monorail, but oh, maybe we've got time to stop for a

haircut to stop for a haircut. Um, and then we, we have the self deprecating humor with Nimoy sort of spouting star Trek, fun facts. Like that's all they want to hear from him. And he's got like his arm on the side. He's chatting up some random person.

I think this festival can do at least four, five.

It's just so cute. Like, I don't know how else to describe it. It's just cute. And then stick your head out the window. It Bart. Didn't you see hereditary? You don't do that. Oh, dear God. Um, also, why are there diner seats in the train? If the ride takes less than. Good Scott, like a diner, good

point. They were served coffee and stuff. Well, I was looking like when you see the overview, the whole map, I only saw one station. Is it just a one minute lap around Springfield? Maybe I missed it,

but maybe it is just pointless. Like it doesn't, it's just for a tour. It's just for funsies.

Well, like Lisa said, why would you build a metropolitan size transit system in a small town?

Oh my God. All things. Oh, it's spring field. It's it's a hell of a town. Ah, um, so then, uh, the monorail goes out of control in Quimbee and the chief Wigan get in an argument. Just while the matter out, just gets around and around, around. Well,

that's what they get for using the seldom break. Oh my,

yeah, I think it doesn't, Quimbee say not can be, um, William says, um, this thing's making me dizzy. I might go take a nap.

Oh, they're looking at the town charter and finding all this other stuff.

So I happened to pause on the town charter and you can see. Front and center near the bottom. Jebidiah Springfield signature. Oh, that's cool. And like, they decided they want it and it almost kind of looks like a John Hancock style where it has all like the loops and stuff, um, that they decided to put that detail in there. You know yeah. For funsies one, if there's a

cannon signature for him,

I don't know. Hmm. That'd be a good character episode just to jeopardize Springfield. Yeah. Give me the Fife. Um, and William and Quimbee are just arguing like kids while this disaster is happening. Um, Yeah. Oh, and then those technicians are like, well, why don't we just turn off the power

solar power

solar will they ever learn? And, oh, I love this line from, from Nimoy, a solar eclipse, the cosmic ballet goes off

like just the, the moment they bring up, but it's solar panels they're happening. Could you imagine if nothing went wrong on the maiden trip, it would have been shut down because of the solar eclipse.

And then the people didn't decide to, you know, look for the solar eclipse, because usually that's a pretty big event. It's just like,

oh, it's like, oh, it's raining. Oh, solar.

That's all. I thought it worked when I was a kid. I thought it would just happen randomly. Um, also my other question is, does it just not work at night? And what happens if it's cloudy and does it not have any reserve power for,

I don't think a lot of thought went in

thought episode, but

the cheap construction

of it. Exactly. This is just showing more and more how families system is just terrible. Um, but he does get his just desserts when he has a layover and unexpected layover at north Haven. How badly would they need to be beating him up in order to shake the airliner? Yeah. Like this guy is getting what

he deserves. Well, my very first thought was how to get through security, but then I was like, oh, the year. Yeah, the

year. Um, well, and also the runway has a bunch of potholes. So that kind of shows, yeah. It shows that north Haber Burke was having similar problems before they decided to throw all their money at the one, or

whenever those towns got their money.

I don't know if they all had their own versions of Mr. Burns. Maybe, maybe. Well, it's, it's like the mule that has the spinning. Nobody knows you got it. So

mule. Oh no. Last few drama.

Oh, was there a meal, Joe confusion.

We can cut this out or if we want, but it was it's when a fry was doing the scratch and sniff lottery tickets, he was like cherry, cherry mule. And then he goes to the bank to deposit like his $5 intelligence. Well, I'm sure a successful mule farmers such as yourself.

Oh man. You know, this would have worked out if, remember when we flip that coin, decide if we were going to be a Simpson podcast or a Futurama podcast

on

Simpson. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Glad it turned out that way. Um, oh, one of my favorite just homework quotes period is when Marge is like, oh, so I got a scientist here to help you. Is it Batman? It's a scientist. Batman's a scientist. It's not that man.

He's so hopeful.

He just really wants it to be Batman. So we get the whole, you know, using an anchor solution. Where he takes the M off the monorail, which

the em is probably the most sturdily constructed thing. Oh yeah.

Yeah. And, um, how strong would that rope have to be? Yeah, cause it's not just that it's supposed to stop it. The engine is still going. It should still be trying to resist what I said.

The train has gone 180 miles an hour or something

and he just like tides a double knot. Well, he doesn't

at first and again, we have Homer destroying

the roads. Exactly. And then, so the roads are gonna be even worse after all this. Um, and then the conjoined twins that he just happens to rip apart this, right. Um,

oh, and it rips through that log cabin that just explodes.

Oh, it tears through the tree and the tree falls on the cat. And then of course that means the cabin's going to explode.

It's like the exploding wagon

or the exploding gremlin on the side of the bus, the car just kind of stops and the next month. Um, and of course it lands in the giant lard, bland Jonah. Yeah. And we get the famous line

donuts. Is there anything they can't

do exactly. And then after that Homer celebrates and says I'm the best mono thingy there ever was. And

wasn't, it's the whole resetting back to norm Homer didn't learn anything.

And somehow he gets his job back the next week. Oh, and then the line, when, um, when her need more leaves or you didn't do anything didn't know and he just transport

and then nobody questions. It, it just happens.

I'll remind you. It's like the, I'm not seeing that I'm Lucy lawless, like just for some reason the actors have these abilities. Uh, and then, uh, that leads to all the other problems that they, that they made in the future. The Popsicle stick, skyscraper, the giant magnifying glass and the escalator to nowhere, you know, and I love how casual these people are going on. The escalator they're just waiting. And then. Like,

I'm just like, why would that be built? Who would get on it? Why is it still being maintained? Just the absurdity that you can only have an animated

show. Oh yes, absolutely. And there was no reason for Leonard Nimoy to be, you

know, it, it could have been any, it could have been any other guest star. It could be. Uh, a random voice after they pulled off the street. But for some reason they made a few star Trek jokes through Leonard Nimoy in

and there we go. Okay. Yeah, that's all he knew. So I guess, uh, Conan came up with the idea when he saw there was a billboard in LA and it just said monorail and absolutely nothing else weird. And after he saw that billboard, he just kind of came up with the whole. And it just makes you

wonder, like what other episode could have been in its place with other random

inspiration. Yeah. Yeah. Um, he also says that this is his favorite episode that he wrote.

So I have a lot in common with Conan O'Brien with loving this

episode. Yes. And you also. I did not write it so I will not congratulate you. Oh, I have one more fun fact. Um, so going backwards a little bit. I never noticed this. I actually saw this on the internet. Um, the tree that Mr. Burns puts the barrels in has two hearts written on it that say M B and H S, which would be March Bouvier and Homer Simpson. Oh. So it's kind of implied that they drew on that tree when they were dating, which is cute. And also something I've never noticed.

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