History YMMV / MrBurnsAPostElectricPlay

** Among the familiar tunes that have ended up in the orchestration of Act III is an obvious interpolation of "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Meet the Flintstones]]" with the lyrics changed to be a BadassBoast about the Simpsons. The episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" similarly opens with Homer turning "Meet the Flintstones" into a BraggingThemeTune about himself ("Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the greatest guy in history...").

** While there's no line in "Cape Feare" resembling Burns' "if the crocodiles don't eat them the piranhas will," another Sideshow Bob episode, "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming," has the line "If the tennis rackets don't get you, the pool skimmers will" (spoken by Bart, to Bob).

** Burns' Act III monologue based on ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'' (referenced in "Cape Feare" through Sideshow Bob's KnuckleTattoos) prominently features the line "I bring you love." These are Burns' ArcWords in the episode "The Springfield Files," in which he's [[MistakenForAliens mistaken for an alien]] while high on painkillers; "The Springfield Files" is said in Act II to be the only play the actors have that features Burns.

** In Burns' Act III monologue based on ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'' (referenced in "Cape Feare" through Sideshow Bob's KnuckleTattoos), he prominently says the line, "I bring you love." These are Burns' ArcWords in the episode "The Springfield Files," in which he's [[MistakenForAliens mistaken for an alien]] while high on painkillers; "The Springfield Files" is said in Act II to be the only play the actors have that features Mr. Burns.

** In Burns' Act III monologue based on ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'' (referenced in "Cape Feare" through Sideshow Bob's tattoos"), he prominently says the line, "I bring you love." These are Burns' ArcWords in the episode "The Springfield Files," in which he's [[MistakenForAliens mistaken for an alien]] while high on painkillers; "The Springfield Files" is said in Act II to be the only play the actors have that features Mr. Burns.

** Among the familiar tunes that have ended up in the orchestration of Act III is an obvious interpolation of "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Meet the Flintstones]]" with the lyrics changed to be a BadassBoast about the Simpsons. The episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" similarly opens with Homer singing "Meet the Flintstones" and turning it into a BraggingThemeTune about himself ("Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the greatest guy in history...").

** Among the familiar tunes that have ended up in the orchestration of Act III is an obvious interpolation of "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Meet the Flintstones]]" with the lyrics changed to be a BadassBoast about the Simpsons. The episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" similarly opens with Homer singing "Meet the Flintstones" and turning it into a BoastfulThemeTune about himself ("Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the greatest guy in history...").

** Among the familiar tunes that have ended up in the orchestration of Act III is an obvious interpolation of "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Meet the Flintstones]]" with the lyrics changed to be about the Simpsons. The episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" similarly opens with Homer singing "Meet the Flintstones" and changing the lyrics to be about himself.

** Among the familiar tunes that have ended up in the orchestration of Act III is an obvious interpolation of "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Meet the Flintstones]]" with the lyrics changed to be about the Simpsons. Similarly, the episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" opens with Homer singing "Meet the Flintstones" and changing the lyrics to be about himself.

* SignatureScene: InUniverse, the houseboat confrontation in "Cape Feare" (with [[AnyoneCanDie major]] variations) has subsumed the entire story by the end.
* TheWeirdAlEffect: InUniverse: it's fully possible that by Act III, the [[RecursiveAdaptation bizarre spectacle that the future has made]] of the ''Simpsons'' episode "Cape Feare" is the only version of ''Film/CapeFear'' left out there. By this time it's lost its parodic edge and dramatic details like the scary leitmotif ("Whomp whomp whomp whomp!") are PlayedStraight as they were in the original.

** Act III's play opens with a recounting of the destruction of Springfield after the power plant explodes, showing familiar characters reacting to the disaster that will kill them all in what has clearly become a kind of public grieving of all the ordinary people who died, complete with the names of the dead being recited.

* UncannyValley: The stage notes themselves state the costumes of ''The Simpsons'' characters in the third act should be done up in a way that doesn't "look quite right to our eyes." Depending on the performance you see, expect them to look silly and garish, or utterly nightmarish.

* SignatureScene: InUniverse, the houseboat confrontation in "Cape Feare" (with [[AnyoneCanDie major]] variations) is all that remains of it by the end.

** By Act Three, Chief Wiggum's name [[FutureImperfect has been misremembered as]] "Chief Piggum." This is the MaliciousMisnaming that Sideshow Bob gave the character in the original "Cape Feare" episode.
** In Act Two, the characters discuss a line from one of their scripts that an audience member falsely claimed to have submitted in an effort to extract payment. While the line is almost word-for-word correct, it's from one of the original ''Tracy Ullman Show'' sketches and only appeared in the series proper in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular." This means that either the Ullman skit has been (deliberately or accidentally) inserted into another episode, or one of the plays in the company's repertoire is a ClipShow containing outtakes and deleted scenes, which would be a hell of a thing to stage (and could point to the fact that the company is struggling, given that popular episodes are highly sought-after and companies with sufficient WeirdCurrency are able to trade up).

** Act 2 has Gibson suddenly go into a FreakOut, ranting over no one really knowing what happened as people in West Vermont suddenly began to die, worrying he and everyone else may have brain damage from chemicals in what they've been eating and drinking, and feeling everything's broken open.
** Act 3's play opens with a recounting of the destruction of Springfield after the power plant explodes, showing familiar characters reacting to the disaster that will kill them all in what has clearly become a kind of public grieving of all the ordinary people who died, complete with the names of the dead being recited.

* TheWeirdAlEffect: InUniverse: it's fully possible that by Act Three, the [[RecursiveAdaptation bizarre spectacle that the future has made]] of the ''Simpsons'' episode "Cape Feare" is the only version of ''Film/CapeFear'' left out there. By this time it's lost its parodic edge and dramatic details like the scary leitmotif ("Whomp whomp whomp whomp!") are PlayedStraight as they were in the original.

** In Act Two, the characters discuss a line from one of their scripts that an audience member falsely claimed to have submitted in an effort to extract payment. While the line is almost word-for-word correct, it's from one of the original ''Tracy Ullman Show'' sketches and only appeared in the series proper in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular." This means that either the Ullman skit has been (deliberately or accidentally) inserted into another episode, or one of the plays in the company's repertoire is a ClipShow depicting outtakes, deleted scenes and insider production information, which would be a hell of a thing to stage (and could point to the fact that the company is struggling, given that popular episodes are highly sought-after and companies with sufficient WeirdCurrency are able to trade up).

* GeniusBonus: Although a casual knowledge of ''The Simpsons'' is all you really need to understand the play, there are a few extras for the ''Simpsons'' obsessive:

** In Act Two, the characters discuss a line from one of their scripts that an audience member falsely claimed to have submitted in an effort to extract payment. While the line is almost word-for-word correct, it's from one of the original ''Tracy Ullman Show'' sketches and only appeared in the series proper in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular." This means that either the Ullman skit has been (deliberately or accidentally) inserted into another episode, or one of the plays in the company's repertoire is a ClipShow depicting outtakes, deleted scenes and insider production information, which would be a hell of a thing to stage.

* UncannyValley: The stage notes themselves state the costumes of ''The Simpsons'' characters in the third act should be done up in a way that doesn't "look quite right to our eyes." Depending on the performance you see, expect them to look silly and garish, or utterly nightmarish.

* UncannyValley: The stage notes themselves state the costumes of ''The Simpsons'' characters should be done up in a way that doesn't "look quite right to our eyes." Depending on the performance you see, expect them to look silly and garish, or utterly nightmarish.