{"id":1458,"date":"2014-08-28T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2014-08-30T21:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T01:36:46","slug":"pcs-staff-poll-whats-favorite-simpsons-episode-star-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/28\/pcs-staff-poll-whats-favorite-simpsons-episode-star-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"The PCS Staff Poll: What\u2019s Your Favorite \u2018Simpsons\u2019 Episode? ‘A Star Is Burns’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A Star Is Burns” first aired on March 5, 1995, and it is the 18th episode of the sixth season of The Simpsons<\/em>.
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The episode revolves around Springfield having a film festival with most of the secondary characters of the series entering films in the competition. Jay Sherman, the main character from the short-lived series The Critic, <\/em>makes a crossover appearance as a judge at the festival. The short films that everyone makes are hilarious, from Barney’s artistic Pukahontas<\/em>, a black and white film about alcoholism, to Hans Moleman’s Man Getting Hit With Football<\/em>, in which a football hit’s him in the groin. Like many Simpsons<\/em> episodes, the plot doesn’t really matter except as an excuse for the witty dialogue. Everyone knows that the best thing about the Simpsons<\/em> is the infinitely quotable lines. In my opinion “A Star Is Burns” has some of the best lines in the series.<\/p>\n

There’s Mr. Burns telling Smithers to find him Steven Spielberg’s “non-union Mexican equivalent” which is followed by the even better exchange:<\/p>\n

“Listen, Se\u00f1or Spielbergo, I want you to do for me what Spielberg did for Oscar Schindler.”
\n“Er, Schindler es bueno,\u00a0Se\u00f1or Burns es el diablo.”
\n“Listen, Spielbergo, Schindler and I are like peas in a pod: we’re both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis, but mine worked, dammit!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s the woman asking Barney “Excuse me, did something crawl down your throat and die?” only for Barney to reply “It didn’t die!”<\/p>\n

How about Jay asking Krusty how he could possibly vote for Burns’ movie and Krusty accidentally admitting that he was bribed:<\/p>\n

“Let’s just say it moved me…to a bigger house!<\/em> Oops, I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could go on and on but honestly, this episode will always be my favorite because of one word: Boo-urns. To this day, almost 20 years later, I don’t think I go a week without saying “I was saying Boo-urns!” at least once. Here’s a video of Hans Moleman saying Boo-urns. Sorry about the picture quality, it’s the only one I could find.<\/p>\n