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3	'''Original air date:''' 3/16/2003 ''(produced in 2002)''
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5	'''Production code:''' EABF-10
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7	To impress Marge, Homer becomes the CEO of the nuclear plant by releasing a canary (the real head of the nuclear plant) and demanding that Mr. Burns give him a promotion.
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9	!! Tropes:
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11	* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: As the canary is released and flies away, Bart tells it to fly to the UsefulNotes/CanaryIslands. The canary showcases that it's smarter than it looks by flying back into the office, looking up where the Canary Islands are in a globe, and then flying off again.
12	* AnimateInanimateObject: Burns' disposal of nuclear waste under Legoland causes the models there to come to life and become homicidal.
13	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The first time Homer tries to be successful using Stark Richdale's lessons and book, he walks around the power plant and does his job as safety inspector. Among the safety violations he comes across is the inconvenience of having three different rooms for coffee, cream, and stirrers.
14	* BaitTheDog: Burns asks Homer to come with him on a walk through the cemetery where he provides a very sincere speech about how living as a CEO and TheChainsOfCommanding and greed has killed off all of Burns' chances to get a family and that Homer shouldn't toss his away, and this is something Homer actually takes to heart... only to have Burns shoot him with a tranquilizer and then reveal that the walk was to take him to a mausoleum he was planning to bury him alive in a la ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado''.
15	* BillionaireWristband: The one Stark Richdale owns is the Trope Image for this.
16	* BuriedAlive: Burns tries to brick up Homer in a mausoleum ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado''-style at the episode's climax... emphasis on "tries". The old man is so feeble that by the time Homer wakes up several hours later, he's only gotten a few layers of bricks in, and Homer walks out easily.
17	* CallBack: As Mr. Burns shows Smithers the plant's hierarchy, Homer is outranked by the inanimate carbon rod from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer Deep Space Homer]]". There's also a crossed photograph of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Frank Grimes]].
18	* CaligulasHorse: The whole plot happens because Homer discovers that the "real" CEO of the nuclear plant is a canary, as a legal fall guy Burns put in place.
19	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Burns keeps working on closing the mausoleum's entrance with bricks even if Homer has already woken up and is leaving, making the whole murder attempt moot (Burns even dismisses Homer telling him that he's leaving as desperate screams for mercy, and gloats that it will just makes him suffocate faster).
20	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Burns has a canary to serve as the "fall guy" to be arrested for any of his own white-collar crimes. When Smithers questions Burns on it, the latter explains that tycoons like him have been doing it--for example, [[RuleOfFunny Standard Oil was once owned by a half-eaten breakfast]] (at least according to Burns).
21	* DisproportionateRetribution: Snake attempts to kill his cellmate for failing to wake him up when the bookmobile came around.
22	* EpicFail: Burns tries to kill Homer by burying him alive a la ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado''...but he's so feeble that by the time Homer wakes up from the mickey Burns gave him, Burns has only placed bricks up to Homer's ankle level, allowing Homer to just leave the mausoleum that was going to be his "grave".
23	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: A tourist at Legoland gets impaled by the Eiffel Tower, thanks to Monty Burns dumping nuclear waste under the place causing it to become both animated and homicidal.
24	* MusicAgeDissonance: Homer accidentally switches the music tape he wanted to play for Marge on Valentine's Day with one of Maggie's tapes--as a result, Homer puts his wife to sleep with a lullaby while his youngest child ends up dancing to [[Music/TomJones Tom Jones's]] "Sex Bomb."
25	* SmartBall: For Homer, who manages to trick Mr. Burns into briefly making him the CEO of the power plant, then ''fires Burns''.
26	* StatusQuoIsGod: Lampshaded with "Homer's 305th Everything is Back to Normal BBQ". This was episode 306.
27	* TemptingFate: Mr. Burns assures Smithers the environmental effects of him dumping nuclear waste under Legoland won't be felt for years. In the next scene, the Capitol Building and the Eiffel Tower promptly come to life and go on a rampage.

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