History Recap / TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud

** Apu sends people on deadly expeditions to the Arctic to get ice for the Kwik-E-Mart.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Smithers' rather infamous fantasy of Mr. Burns as Marilyn Monroe.

** In Australia, the part where Mr. Burns's security guards beat everyone up after Burns cancels the rest of the party following Homer's horrible stand-up act was cut, as well as the scene where Barney threatens Homer with a gun after Burns cuts off the beer supply and Homer slamming the door on Barney, causing him to shoot something (or someone), judging by the frightened woman's scream and an approaching cop car siren.

* CarMeetsHouse: Homer refuses to return Mr. Burns' long-lost teddy bear and comments that they don't need Burns' money anymore, because they're already financially sound. Cue Abe driving the car into their house.
* ComicallyLopsidedRivalry: Deconstructed. At first Burns' attempts to break Homer into handing Bobo seem to be in his favour, given the billionaire tyrant can expectedly get as elaborate as he needs, especially with one of his own employees. When Homer doesn't crack and Burns gets more and more desperate however, he resorts to Wile E Coyote levels of direct attacks on the Simpson household.

* CompanionCube: Bobo of course. Burns is willing to move mountains just to get this old teddy bear back regardless of how heavily worn and damaged it is, and he speaks to it as if it's a living person.

* DoWrongRight: How Marge formats her plan to enact revenge on Burns when the Simpsons family plan to exploit him for money in exchange for Bobo. She explains that her scheme is to force Burns to double whatever initial amount he offers.

** The following attempt they climb into the house by the ceiling, only to be halted by Homer reemerging at night to stuff himself with 64 slices of American cheese. He stays at the kitchen all night until their suction cups fail and they fall down to his confusion.

** Mr. Burns trying to force Bobo out of Maggie's hands, only to be outstrengthed.

** ...[[TheBully Nelson]] tries to use his father's inability to buy beer as a reason for him and Dolph, Jimbo and Kearney to hit Bart, but Jimbo deems it too petty (or possibly confusing) a reason.
** ...a big angry crowd barges into the Simpsons house and rip the bear away from Maggie, but they immediately give it back when they see the poor baby suffering and getting ready to cry.

** When guests are entering Burns's birthday celebration you can recognize several US presidents (Reagan, Nixon, and Bush Sr, who is not allowed to enter like Carter).

* GiantNoveltyCheck: Mr. Burns gives one of these to {{Satan}} as part of his deal for long life.

* HistoryWithCelebrity: Mr. Burns is showed as being a sibling of Creator/GeorgeBurns.

* MarilynManeuver: Mr. Burns does this pose, in the white Monroe dress, on one of the clips Smithers shows to the crowd.

* NervesOfSteel: When Burns announces that he's taken over all the TV channels in Springfield and diverted all its beer shipments away, Barney is so angry he pulls a gun on Homer, ominously warning Homer to give Bobo back to Burns. Homer isn't fazed at all and merely slams the door in Barney's face. This makes Barney accidentally fire, break a window and cause a woman to scream. We then hear police sirens and Barney saying [[OhCrap "uh oh."]]

** When did Milhouse go missing? (cf. the scene of Smithers sticking pictures of Bobo on milk cartons that have Milhouse's face on it)

** That said, Mr. Burns as well. It's very odd to see such a greedy man who is so consumed with desire for money to put all that aside in favor of wanting a nostalgic but financially worthless teddy bear from his youth.

** The drawing of Mr. Burns that serves as the curtain at Burns' birthday party is done in the style of cartoonist Al Hirschfeld.

* SnowGlobeOfInnocence: Mr. Burns drops a snow globe while dreaming about his childhood where he immediately [[Film/CitizenKane left his loving poor parents for a soulless billionaire]], but also forgotten his teddy bear Bobo ("a symbol of [his] youth and innocence"). We pan to see he has a box full of snow globes next to his bed, and has dropped several others already.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography and ArtisticLicenseHistory: O.K., we may be able to buy that Charles Lindbergh took Bobo on his trip across the Atlantic Ocean and threw him away as soon as he arrived in Paris (since Lindbergh actually had a WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat doll when he made his famous trans-Atlantic flight, though it was night when he landed in Paris, not daytime). But Hitler grabbing the bear in the crowd? What was he doing in Paris in 1927? Wasn't he preparing the Nazi Party in Germany for winning the 1933 German elections? Or the fact that Bobo the bear somehow got stuck on top of the "Nautilius" [[note]] The first nuclear submarine [[/note]] in 1957 when it was last seen in Hitler's bunker in 1945?
** According to the HistoricalInJoke listed below, it can be assumed that in this timeline, Hitler was acting out as an endorsement for Lindbergh. It then later became a trophy for the Americans before it was used as a good luck charm on the Nautilius.
* [[AsHimself As Themselves]]: [[Music/TheRamones The Roll- ...uh, The Ramones]]

* FreezeFrameBonus and {{Blooper}}:

** Mr. Burns claims he misses ''[[Series/TheMisadventuresOfSheriffLobo Sheriff Lobo]]''.

** Mr. Burns claims he misses ''Series/SheriffLobo''.

* MyGodwhatHaveIDone: Moe and the rest of the angry mob are horrified with themselves when they see how sad Maggie is after they take Bobo from her.

** The following attempt they climb into the house by the ceiling, only to be halted by Homer reemerging at night to stuff himself with 62 slices of American cheese. He stays at the kitchen all night until their suction cups fail and they fall down to his confusion.

** Burns's inability to out-muscle Maggie will become very relevant in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns the "Who Shot Mr. Burns" two-parter]].

** Mr. Burns' younger brother is Creator/GeorgeBurns, who also was 100 years old by the time he passed away.

* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat:

-->'''Homer:''' I don't get it, is this a happy ending or a sad ending?\\
'''Marge:''' It's an ending, that's enough.

-->'''Marge''': [''tersely''] It's an ''ending'', that's enough.

* BittersweetEnding: In the end, Maggie willingly gives Mr. Burns the bear when he simply talks to her and sincerely orders her to cherish Bobo. Homer points out this means only Mr. Burns won, meaning only he got a happy ending and the Simpsons willingly forfeited a monetary deal that could save their livelihoods. On the other hand, Mr. Burns lifts the embargo on beer and television, meaning that things will go back to normal, and he returns Homer to his normal duties.

** Apu sends people on deadly expeditions to the Artic to get ice for the Kwik-E-Mart.

** The following attempt they climb into the house by the ceiling, only to be halted by Homer reemerging at night to stuff himself. He stays at the kitchen all night until their suction cups fail and they fall down to his confusion.

* ComplexityAddiction: In one of his attempts to break Homer, Mr. Burns hijacks television. Not shut down, however, ''literally'' hijack it, with he and Smithers proceeding to replace and personally act out their own programs ([[{{Unishment}} which Homer ends up enjoying]]).

* [[AsHimself As Themselves]]: [[Music/TheRamones The Roll-... uh, The Ramones]]

* [[AsHimself As Themselves]]: Music/TheRamones

** ...[[TheBully Nelson]] tries to use his father's inability to buy beer as a reason for him and Dolph, Jimbo and Kearney to hit Bart, but Jimbo [[EvenEvilHasStandards deems it too petty (or possibly confusing) a reason]].

** Mr. Burns apparently owns [[Myth/KingArthur Excalibur]], the only nude photo of Creator/MarkTwain, the first draft of the US Constitution with the word "suckers" in it, the Ten Commandments, the Venus de Milo and a mummy.

* IwoJimaPose: When Smithers presented a slideshow of Mr. Burns's life on his birthday, one of the shots was of the IwoJimaPose with Mr. Burns's face superimposed onto all of the Marines. ''[[UpToEleven And on the flag itself.]]''

* RecognitionFailure: Mr. Burns fails to recognize Music/TheRamones-- he is an old man -- and is genuinely shocked by their performance. He then orders to have ''Music/TheRollingStones killed''.

Episode - 1F01\\
First Aired - 10/21/1993

"Rosebud" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of ''The Simpsons''. It is the first episode (in production order) featuring David Mirkin as showrunner, taking over from Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who left the series to create ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic''.