Line #20 Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E8TheBurnsAndTheBees


1	Mr. Burns decides to build a basketball stadium over a bee sanctuary — one that Lisa wants to preserve now that honeybees are becoming extinct.
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3	!! Tropes:
4	* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Mr. Burns waged Smithers on the bet where he got the basketball team.
5	* AlliterativeName: Aaron Ableman, the first scientist on the phone-book. Frink loathes him.
6	* ArtisticLicenseSports: Burns relocates the Celtics to Springfield in the middle of the season so he doesn't have to constantly travel to Austin. In real life, Burns would have to move the team after the season ended, a team could only be moved to a different city ''during'' the season if it was an emergency.
7	* AttentionWhore: Creator/MarkCuban runs back onto the field when nobody's paid attention to him in a few minutes.
8	* CallingMeALogarithm: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. While Willie is exactly the kind of person you would expect to pull this, when Lisa calls him an apiarist, he can tell it means beekeeper from context.
9	* TheCameo: Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and sportscaster Marv Albert appear as themselves.
10	* ConfirmBeforeReveal: When Homer has to tell Marge that Lisa is carrying bees on her face:
11	-->'''Homer:''' Marge, remember when we were talking about our worst fears?\
12	'''Marge:''' Mmm-hmm.\
13	'''Homer:''' Mine was snakes, and yours was...\
14	'''Marge:''' [[IWantGrandkids Never being a grandmother.]]\
15	'''Homer:''' Really? I thought it was Lisa with a beard of bees. Well, whatever. Brace yourself.
16	* CloudCuckooLander:
17	** Homer wonders if ''animals get sick''.
18	** Grampa thinks that Lisa with the "bee-ard" is ''UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln'' without the top hat.
19	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: For entertainment at his stadium [[DiscoDan Mr Burns]] hires a group of women to show their [[OldTimeyAnkleTaboo ankles,]] this goes over as well as you'd expect.
20	* DiscoDan: Mr. Burns attempts to sing the national anthem at the Excitement's first home game in the new arena. According to him, the lyrics are, "My country, 'tis of thee/'''''Austria-Hungary, obey your king'''''". Smithers interrupts to tell Mr. Burns that Archduke Franz Ferdinand had died, and what happened afterward. Burns has lived nearly a full-century on the planet, ''and had no idea that either World War had taken place'' (despite being a veteran of the second).
21	* FateWorseThanDeath: Burns would rather be killed than sent to Millionaire's camp.
22	* FoodAsBribe: Homer only agrees to saving the bees when Lisa reminds him bees make honey.
23	* IWantGrandkids: Marge's worst fear is never being a grandmother.
24	* LaserGuidedKarma: After Burns takes away Lisa's bee sanctuary, his new stadium was overrun by the cross-bred bees Homer developed and the costs of the project without any profits means he's barely not a billionaire and gets kicked to the millionaire's camp.
25	* NoodleIncident: When readying himself to save Lisa from a bee, Homer says there won't be any mistakes ''this'' time.
26	* SeriesContinuityError: In this episode, Mr. Burns doesn't know the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne World]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo Wars]] took place, despite [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E22 him previously fighting in WWII alongside Abraham Simpson]] and [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns making (working) shells for the Nazis]].
27	* ShootingTheSwarm: When the new stadium is swarmed by bees Wiggum ineffectually tries shooting at them. They respond by snatching his gun and [[InvertedTrope shooting]] ''[[InvertedTrope him]]'' with it.
28	* ShoutOut:
29	** To ''Film/TheGodfather'' at the end, when Burns pleas with Mark Cuban to vouch for him after revealing he's a ''millionaire'' rather then a billionaire. Cuban tells him he can't do it.
30	** Also, to ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' when Homer imagines a world without honey.
31	** One of the games played at the billionaires' retreat is ''[[Franchise/HarryPotter Quidditch]]''.
32	** When the bees take over the stadium and Bumblebee Man claims to be one of them, one of the bees says they hate him the most and calls him [[Literature/UncleTomsCabin "Uncle Tom"]].
33	* SimpleYetOpulent: The billionnaire camp doesn't seem that flashy at first glance (Burns do a typical food fight with ketchup and mustard) but a lot of the activities there are decadently expensive, such as roasting jewels, shooting valuable paintings or playing Quidditch.
34	* SpecialEditionTitle: As they couldn't make a ChristmasEpisode this season, the staff made due by making the opening Christmas related.
35	* SpecialGuest: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
36	* StockBeehive: Honeybees in the episode are portrayed making their hives this way, [[SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying which is by no means accurate]].

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