YMMV / The Simpsons S 10 E 21 Monty Can't Buy Me Love

• Crosses the Line Twice: Arthur Fortune knocks out Muhammad Ali—who, keep in mind, is in his late fifties at the time and struggling with Parkinson's Disease—by showing up to his doorstep, ringing his doorbell, and immediately slugging the man once he opens the door.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In this episode, Mr. Burns goes to Jerry Rude's radio show expecting a straightforward interview but is humiliated instead. Less than a week after this episode aired, Dana Plato appeared at The Howard Stern Show and was subjected to mockery by callers, and despite Howard's defenses, she was so badly shaken that she killed herself the following day.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • While at the mall, Burns quips about the size of it, even rhetorically asking if there's a talking banana (only to dismiss the notion as absurd and yet still looks around for one in anticipation). Apparently, the British and Australians didn't think the notion was absurd, and eventually neither did Americans a decade after this episode first aired.
  • The entirety of Arthur Fortune's character is this, given the rise of MrBeast: an extremely charismatic, generous rich YouTuber, doing stuff just for the hell of it, up to and including giving out free money just because. Even the "Shoplifting Store" portion of his mall calls to mind MrBeast's "Free Store".
• Values Dissonance: By The New '10s and The New '20s, wealth inequality has grown so disproportionate that people are more likely to look at billionaires like Arthur Fortune with as much scorn as Mr. Burns, to the point where many wonder whether society should even allow people to become billionaires at all.

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