"Who Shot Mr. Burns?" is the name of the only two-part episode of The Simpsons to date with part one originally airing on May 21, 1995, which featured a cliffhanger ending that prompted many months of public speculation. Simpsons redirects here. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Cliffhanger (disambiguation). ...

This episode is very similar in vein to the acclaimed David Lynch television series Twin Peaks. Besides the appropriation of the basic plot line, in which everyone is deemed a suspect, there are many overt references, specifically the direct homage to Detective Dale Cooper's dream. (See cultural references below). This episode led to massive amounts of hype, similar to that attracted by Twin Peaks at its height. A perfect example is the production of T-shirts which exclaimed: "Who shot Mr. Burns?", mimicking the shirts which queried: "Who killed Laura Palmer?" (the murdered teenager in Twin Peaks). For the hills in San Francisco, see Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California. ... Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) FBI Special Agent Dale Bartholomew Cooper was the lead character in the popular television series Twin Peaks, created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. ...

This episode is the only one of the series to have a "to be continued..." ending. It is also the only episode to have aired in two back-to-back parts. The episodes Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? and Viva Ned Flanders also had sequels, but neither was a direct follow-up. The second part of the episode aired as the season premiere of season seven, on September 17, 1995. The show caused huge hype over the summer hiatus. When the show returned in September, FOX saw their ratings quadruple to 46 million people, making it the most watched Simpsons episode ever. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons second season. ... Viva Ned Flanders is the tenth episode of The Simpsons tenth season. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In the months following the airing of part one, there was much widespread debate among fans of the series as to who actually shot Mr. Burns. The show purposely tried to mimic the similar controversy that had resulted when the character JR was shot on the series Dallas in the episode titled "A House Divided," known by most as "Who shot J.R.?". FOX, the television network that ran the series, offered a contest to tie in with the mystery (sponsored by 1-800-COLLECT). It was one of the first contests to tie together elements of television and the Internet. The Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family The original cast of Dallas. ... Who shot J.R.? was a national obsession. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... MCI, Inc. ...

Before the second part season opener, Fox aired a special, Springfield's Most Wanted, hosted by John Walsh of America's Most Wanted which featured theories as to who might have shot Mr. Burns. This special is included in the Season 6 DVD Box Set, despite airing 4 months after Season 6 ended. Springfields Most Wanted was a TV Special hosted by John Walsh. ... John Walsh (born December 26, 1945 in Auburn, New York) is the host of the TV show Americas Most Wanted. ... AMW redirects here; for other uses of that term, see AMW (disambiguation). ...

The Mystery (Part I)

The Simpsons episode
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part I"
Episode no.	128
Prod. code	2F16
Orig. Airdate	May 21, 1995
Show Runner(s)	David Mirkin
Writer(s)	Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein
Director	Jeffrey Lynch
Chalkboard	"This is not a clue... or is it?"
Couch gag	The family attempts to run across a continuously repeating background.
Guest star(s)	Tito Puente as himself
SNPP capsule
Season 6 September 4, 1994 – May 21, 1995
Bart of Darkness Lisa's Rival Another Simpsons Clip Show Itchy & Scratchy Land Sideshow Bob Roberts Treehouse of Horror V Bart's Girlfriend Lisa on Ice Homer: Bad Man Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy Fear of Flying Homer the Great And Maggie Makes Three Bart's Comet Homie the Clown Bart vs. Australia Homer vs. Patty & Selma A Star is Burns Lisa's Wedding Two Dozen and One Greyhounds The PTA Disbands! 'Round Springfield The Springfield Connection Lemon of Troy Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)
List of all Simpsons episodes...

The episode features Springfield's resident plutocrat, Montgomery Burns angering much of the town in a variety of ways. Shortcut: WP:WIN Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, also an online community. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Promo card for Who Shot Mr. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... David Mirkin is an American, feature film and television director, writer and producer. ... Bill Oakley (born in 1966) is an American TV writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. ... This article is about The Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein. ... Jeffrey Lynch is an american animator and graphics artist. ... Bart writes The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan The chalkboard gag is a running visual joke that occurs during the opening credits of many episodes of The Simpsons. ... The couch gag is a running visual joke in the opening credits of the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Tito Puente Ernesto Antonio Puente Jr. ... Season 6 DVD Digipak. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bart of Darkness is the first episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Lisas Rival is the second episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Another Simpsons Clip Show is the third episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Itchy & Scratchy Land is the fourth episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Sideshow Bob Roberts is an episode of The Simpsons. ... Treehouse of Horror V is the sixth episode of The Simpsons sixth season, as well as the fifth Halloween episode. ... Barts Girlfriend is the seventh episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Lisa on Ice is the eighth episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Grampa vs. ... Fear of Flying is an episode of The Simpsons from the sixth season. ... Homer the Great is the 12th episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... And Maggie Makes Three is the 13th episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Barts Comet is the 14th episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Homie the Clown is the 15th episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Bart vs. ... Homer vs. ... A Star is Burns is the 18th episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Lisas Wedding is the 19th episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Two Dozen and One Greyhounds is the 20th episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... The PTA Disbands! is the 21st episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... Round Springfield is the twenty second episode of the sixth season of The Simpsons, it is the 125th episode. ... The Springfield Connection is the 23rd episode of the sixth season, and the 126th episode of The Simpsons. ... Lemon of Troy is the 24th episode of The Simpsons sixth season. ... The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... A plutocracy is a form of government where the states power is centralized in an affluent social class. ... Charles Montgomery Burns, normally referred to as Mr. ...

When Principal Skinner walks into school one day and discovers a horrible stench, and a dead gerbil called Superdude in one of the classrooms, he orders Willie to refresh the school, and give Superdude a proper burial. But as Willie digs the grave, he strikes oil, making Springfield Elementary the richest school in the state and putting it on the front page of the Springfield Shopper newspaper under the headline, "Awful School Is Awful Rich". The school makes a number of suggestions on what to do with the money; Groundskeeper Willie wants a crystal bucket for his slopwater and new filthy blankets, Lunchlady Doris wants new cafeteria staff (the current staff is complaining about mice in the kitchen), Otto wants "those guitars that are like double guitars, you know?", Ralph suggests chocolate microscopes and Lisa wants a jazz music program with Tito Puente as the teacher. But Burns finds out about the oil, and tries to persuade Skinner to give it to him. He refuses, so Mr. Burns establishes a slant drilling operation to take it. On the day when the switch for the oil pump is to be thrown (by the school's star student, Lisa Simpson) nothing happens. A mechanic announces the oil well has already been tapped; Mr. Burns has pumped the oil first. In the television series The Simpsons, the Springfield Elementary School is the school which Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson and their fellow students attend. ... Groundskeeper Willie (a. ... In the animated series The Simpsons, Lunchlady Doris (originally voiced by Doris Grau) is an overweight, middle-aged, and laconic worker at the Springfield Elementary School cafeteria. ... Jimmy Page playing a Gibson EDS-1275 A double neck guitar is a guitar that has two necks. ... Tito Puente Ernesto Antonio Puente Jr. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Directional drilling. ...

The Simpson family gets involved when Burns' slant drilling derrick shoots oil into the air toward the Simpson home, which knocks out Bart Simpson, destroys his tree house and badly injures his dog, Santa's Little Helper. Then Lisa becomes severely disappointed when Skinner announces that since the school doesn't have the oil anymore, and that they would have to pay more money for the construction, operation and demolition of the school's oil derrick, he would have to cancel all unnecessary departments, which included the new music program and the school maintenance (this angers Groundskeeper Willie, because not only is he unable to have his bucket and blankets, he also loses his job as janitor). The slant drilling operation also wrecks the foundations of the Springfield Retirement Castle, making it collapse, which in turn causes Grampa to lose most of his possessions and move in with the family. Also, since the drill was set up next to Moe's Tavern, Moe has to close because of the oil fumes. Finally, Mr. Burns still can't remember Homer Simpson's name, despite his (Homer's) working at the plant for 10 years. Homer becomes enraged by this. He tries sending Burns a box of candy with his photo in it, showing Burns his name tag and graffiti-ing "I AM HOMER SIMPSON" on Mr. Burns' office wall. The family featured in The Simpsons TV Show. ... Bartholomew Bart JoJo Simpson is a main character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Nancy Cartwright. ... Santas Little Helper or once known as Santos L Halper (voiced by Frank Welker or Dan Castelanetta) is the Simpson familys pet dog. ... Groundskeeper Willie (a. ...

At the episode's climax Burns unveils his most dastardly scheme of all to the town; the construction of a giant, movable disk that would permanently block out the sun in Springfield, thus ensuring the residents constant use of electricity to earn massive profits for his nuclear power plant. When Burns' personal aide, Waylon Smithers, objects, Burns promptly fires him, citing a "shocking decrease in the quality and quantity of your toadying." Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... A nuclear power station. ... Waylon J. Smithers, Jr. ...

A city hall meeting is held to discuss Burns' recent actions (most of the attendees being heavily armed and stroking their guns), at which Burns appears in order to unveil his sun-blocking device, and states that nobody would be able to stop him. Bart tries to take him down but Burns opens his coat, revealing a gun in a shoulder-holster. As the town leaves, Carl, Otto and Marge discover some mysterious things; Smithers has left his jacket behind, Skinner has left his mother behind and Bart, Homer, Lisa and Grampa are nowhere to be found. Could they, in the light of the recent events, have gone after Burns? An ominous omen appears on the Simpson front lawn, where earlier, Marge had buried Grandpa's handgun when he moved in: the box it was buried in is dug up, and is lying empty. Marge leaves Maggie and Santa's Little Helper in the car and goes to look for them.

As Burns leaves the city hall, the camera shows him walking into an alley, obscuring him from view. The following exchange could be heard:

BURNS: Oh, it's you. What are you so happy about? (pause, then a gasp from Burns) I see. I think you'd better drop it. I said... drop it! (grunts of a struggle) Get...your...hands...off! (gunshot)

Burns then wanders out, with a bleeding gunshot wound in his stomach, and collapses onto the town's now-useless sundial, with his arms pointing to West and South. The townspeople (including the people who disappeared) find his body and wonder who shot him. Dr. Hibbert asks if "you" can solve the mystery, pointing directly at the viewer. The view then rotates to show Dr. Hibbert actually pointing at Chief Wiggum, who replies that he'll give it a shot. The episode then ends. This article refers to the punk band. ... In anatomy, the stomach (in ancient Greek στόμαχος) is an organ of the gastrointestinal tract involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication. ... Wall sundial Wall sundial in Warsaws Old Town A sundial measures time by the position of the sun. ...

Main Suspects

• Principal Seymour Skinner, motive: Burns bankrupted his school and ruined Skinner's chance of having a fully equipped school.
• Groundskeeper Willie, motive: the bankruptcy of the school cost him his job and shattered his dreams of a crystal slop bucket and a new filthy blanket. Also blocking the sunlight would kill all the plant life in Springfield, making it impossible for him to get another groundskeeping job. (Not actually mentioned on screen).
• Tito Puente, motive: due to the school's budget cutbacks, he was fired from his new job as jazz teacher.
• Bartender Moe Szyslak, motive: Burns' drilling operation caused sufficient pollution to force him to close his bar.
• Resident drunk Barney Gumble, motive: Burns closed Moe's bar, leaving him with no place to drink, and no means of support, as he would suck coins out of the "Love Tester" machine.
• Waylon Smithers, motive: fired by Burns from the only job he was ever good at. He was also growing uneasy with Burns' increasingly evil ways in the days leading up to the shooting.
• Homer Simpson, motive: constantly frustrated by Burns' inability to remember his name. The closing of Moe's probably contributed also.
• Abe Simpson, motive: Burns' drilling operation caused an earthquake which destroyed the Springfield Retirement Castle.
• Bart Simpson, motive: Burns was responsible for crippling his dog, Santa's Little Helper.
• Lisa Simpson, motive: Building and then dismantling the oil derrick cost the school a fortune. As a result the school had to fire Tito Puente and remove its music program.
• Dewey Largo, motive: due to the school's budget cutbacks, he was fired. Overall, he would have needed the job more than Tito Puente.

Fans also had other more elaborate conspiracy theories regarding who shot Burns; many of these theories centered around minor characters and obscure references in other episodes. W. Seymour Skinner (born Armin Tamzarian, 1960) is a fictional character on The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer. ... Groundskeeper Willie (a. ... Tito Puente Ernesto Antonio Puente Jr. ... Morris Lester Szyslak (pronounced //) better known as Moe, is a fictional character on the animated series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. ... Barnard Barney Gumble born (April 20 or June 15) is a fictional character on The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... Waylon J. Smithers, Jr. ... Homer Jay Simpson is a Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning main character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... Abraham Abe J. Simpson, or Grampa Simpson (age 83), is a fictional character featured in the animated cartoon television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... Bartholomew Bart JoJo Simpson is a main character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Nancy Cartwright. ... The following is an list of animals appearing in the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... It has been suggested that Lisas sax solo gags on The Simpsons be merged into this article or section. ... Tito Puente Ernesto Antonio Puente Jr. ... A conspiracy theory is a theory that defies common historical or current understanding of events, under the claim that those events are the result of manipulations by two or more individuals or various secretive powers or conspiracies. ...

Conclusion (Part II)

The Simpsons episode
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part II"
Episode no.	129
Prod. code	2F20
Orig. Airdate	September 17, 1995
Show Runner(s)	David Mirkin
Writer(s)	Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein Shortcut: WP:WIN Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, also an online community. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... Image File history File links WSMB2. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... David Mirkin is an American, feature film and television director, writer and producer. ... Bill Oakley (born in 1966) is an American TV writer, best known for his work on The Simpsons. ... This article is about The Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein. ...
Director	Wesley Archer
Chalkboard	"I will not complain about the solution when I hear it."
Couch gag	The couch moves to the side, and a police lineup chart falls from the ceiling. The Simpsons line up in front of it.
Guest star(s)	Tito Puente as himself
SNPP capsule
Season 7 September 17, 1995 – May 19, 1996
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two) Radioactive Man Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily Bart Sells His Soul Lisa the Vegetarian Treehouse of Horror VI King-Size Homer Mother Simpson Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular Marge Be Not Proud Team Homer Two Bad Neighbors Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield Bart the Fink Lisa the Iconoclast Homer the Smithers The Day the Violence Died A Fish Called Selma Bart on the Road 22 Short Films About Springfield Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" Much Apu About Nothing Homerpalooza Summer of 4 Ft. 2
List of all Simpsons episodes...

Smithers wakes up hungover and groggy the morning after the shooting. His apartment is a wreck and his mouth tastes like an ashtray. He hears someone taking a shower in his bathroom. When Smithers opens the shower door, he finds Mr. Burns, alive. After Smithers decides the events of the previous night were a dream, Burns announces that the year is 1965 and that he and Smithers are undercover detectives on the hotrod circuit. Smithers wakes up again to find that it was all a dream and that his apartment is still a wreck and that his mouth still tastes like an ashtray, and he burps up several cigarette butts as the scene ends. Wesley Archer is a television animation director. ... Bart writes The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan The chalkboard gag is a running visual joke that occurs during the opening credits of many episodes of The Simpsons. ... The couch gag is a running visual joke in the opening credits of the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Tito Puente Ernesto Antonio Puente Jr. ... The Simpsons Season 7 DVD Digipak. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Radioactive Man is the second episode of The Simpsons seventh season and was the first one to use digital ink and paint. ... Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily is the third episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Bart Sells His Soul is the fourth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Lisa the Vegetarian is the fifth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Treehouse of Horror VI is the sixth episode of The Simpsons seventh season, as well as the sixth Halloween episode. ... King-Size Homer is the seventh episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... “Mother Simpson” is the eighth episode of The Simpsons’ seventh season. ... Sideshow Bobs Last Gleaming is the ninth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular is the tenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season, and is, as the title suggests, the 138th episode. ... Marge Be Not Proud is the 11th episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Team Homer is the twelfth episode of the 7th season of The Simpsons. ... Two Bad Neighbors is the 13th episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season, first aired on February 4, 1996. ... Bart the Fink is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Lisa the Iconoclast is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season, and is probably the most important episode for Jebediah Springfield since The Telltale Head. // Spoiler warning: As Springfield celebrates its bicentennial, Lisa Simpson makes the shocking discovery that the towns beloved founder, the late Jebediah Springfield, was... Homer the Smithers is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Day the Violence Died The Day the Violence Died is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... A Fish Called Selma is an episode of The Simpsons from season seven. ... Bart on the Road is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... 22 Short Films About Springfield is the twenty-first episode of The Simpsons seventh season, airing on April 22, 1996. ... Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in The Curse of the Flying Hellfish is the 22nd episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Much Apu About Nothing is the 23rd episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Homerpalooza is the twenty-fourth episode of The Simpsons seventh season. ... Summer of 4 Ft. ... The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... A typical glass ashtray An ashtray is a receptacle used by smokers to deposit the ash and butts of cigarettes and cigars. ... T-bucket hot rod Hot rods are older, often historical, cars. ...

Kent Brockman reports on Mr. Burns' assault. He was pronounced dead at a hospital until transferred to a better hospital where doctors upgraded his condition to alive, but in a coma. After Brockman speaks to Wiggum, it is revealed that two witnesses are already being questioned: Maggie and Santa's Little Helper, as they were both the only ones in the area when Burns was shot. Comatose redirects here. ...

At the Simpson residence, Lisa says that everyone in Springfield had a reason for shooting Mr. Burns, even themselves. Everyone starts arguing amongst themselves about who did it, when Marge announces that there is already a prime suspect: Waylon Smithers. Smithers is already starting to wonder if he himself shot down Mr. Burns in a drunken rage. When he finds a recently fired gun in his jacket, he remembers that after he left the town meeting, he ran into some old man on the way home, and shot him. Smithers bursts into tears, crying, "What have I done?"

Moe, Barney, Lenny and Carl arrive at Homer's house and ask if he wants to come and help pull down Burns’ sun blocker. With the help of Snake, Otto, Groundskeeper Willie and the Bumblebee Man, they snap the machine in half. The sun blocker crashes into Shelbyville, much to everyone's delight. Smithers, meanwhile is driven mad by guilt and goes to a Catholic Church and confess his sins. When he finishes, Chief Wiggum (who was in the confessional instead of a priest) emerges and takes Smithers in for questioning. Both the police and the press interrogate Smithers. At a press conference, Kent Brockman cracks a Madonna gag due to something Smithers had previously said. Krusty, who is watching the TV at the time, claims it was his joke, but Sideshow Mel says that Krusty stole it from an episode of Pardon My Zinger. Mel remembers that Smithers once said that he never missed an episode of that show, which airs on Comedy Central at 3 p.m., the very time Burns was shot. Mel heads for the station to point this out and Smithers recalls that he left the town meeting early to get home in time, and that the old man he ran into on the way was Jasper. The police and Smithers head for the newly repaired retirement home to check on Jasper and discover that Smithers did shoot him, but in his wooden leg, so there was no harm done. Comedy Central is a cable television and satellite television channel in the United States and as of January 15, 2007, in Germany[1]. In the course of 2007, Dutch channel The Box will be transformed into the Dutch version of Comedy Central. ...

With the prime suspect cleared, the police continue to investigate the matter. Lisa decides to help by making a chart of all the other major suspects. However, she forgets about Tito Puente, and when she tells the police (when Wiggum points out he's a suspect) that he did vow revenge, the police consider going to check him out. When Lisa says "He's in show business, he's a celebrity", the police immediately go to see him. However, the only kind of revenge Tito has in mind is an insulting, albeit catchy, tune; Tito is cleared. Skinner is next on the list, but the police clear him when he tells the police that he did go to the town meeting to ambush Burns, but he was in the lavatory applying his camouflage make-up at the time of the shooting. He adds that Superintendent Chalmers can also vouch for his whereabouts as he entered the lavatory at the time of the assault too, just as Skinner realized he had taken his mother's make-up kit instead of his camo make-up. Skinner confirms that Chalmers can verify his whereabouts, but quickly insists that "anything else he tells you is a filthy lie."

The police question Willie next but he claims that it's impossible for him to fire a gun as he has crippling arthritis in his index fingers from Space Invaders in 1977 (it is never confirmed whether Willie meant the game or actual space invaders). The police eliminate Moe as a suspect with the help of a lie detector, also uncovering some disturbing secrets about Moe himself along the way. At the Simpson house, Marge discovers that Grandpa's gun, which she buried in the backyard, is missing and asks Grandpa where it is. After he complains that people blame him for everything, Marge leaves. Grandpa removes the gun itself from his sweater, stroking it and telling it that he had missed it bad. Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a group of conditions where there is damage caused to the joints of the body. ... The Index finger The index finger, pointer finger or forefinger is the second digit of a human hand, located between the thumb and the middle finger. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

At the station, Wiggum prepares to pour some coffee, but after finding out he is out of coffee, he drinks some warm cream. He begins to dream, and in a scene reminiscent of Twin Peaks, he is eating a donut and sitting on one of the chairs in a chat show set. Lisa does a funny walk from behind the curtains and tells him to check Burns' suit for more clues. While checking the suit, he finds an eyelash and tests it for DNA. Wiggum finds that the eyelash matches Simpson DNA. At the same time, Burns wakes up from his coma and cries, "Homer Simpson!" For the hills in San Francisco, see Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California. ...

The police raid the Simpson home for more information. A gun is found in under the seat in Homer's car. Homer claims he has never seen the gun before in his life, but his fingerprints are all over it. When Wiggum discovers that the bullets in the gun match the one they took out of Mr. Burns, he arrests Homer for attempted murder. Later, while at Krusty Burger, Homer escapes from the police and heads for the hospital. Murder is both a legal and a moral term, that are not always coincident. ...

At the station, Waylon Smithers offers a $50,000 reward for Homer's capture, dead or alive. Lisa returns to the scene of the crime and, with the help of an intelligent pigeon, learns the identity of Burns' true assailant. At the hospital, Dr. Riviera discovers some startling information as well. When Mr. Burns shouted "Homer Simpson!" he wasn't giving the name of his gunman, it was because "Homer Simpson" was all he could say. The doctor leaves, and Homer himself, who had successfully infiltrated the hospital and reached Burns' ward, prepares to silence Burns for telling everybody that Homer shot him.

A police bulletin reports that Homer has been spotted at the hospital. Lisa, the police, and the rest of Springfield race to the hospital. Lisa gets there first, protesting to everybody that her father wouldn't hurt a fly. On entering the ward, everyone finds Homer shaking Mr. Burns vigorously, telling him to stop telling everyone that Homer shot him. As Homer continues to shake him, Burns finds his voice and asks, "Smithers, who is this beast that's shaking me?"

Homer loses it, snatches a gun from Wiggum and shouts at Burns to tell everyone that he never shot him... before. Burns just laughs, stating that Homer doesn't have the cranial capacity nor the opposable digits to operate a firearm. And with that, Burns reveals his true assailant... Maggie Simpson. Margaret Maggie Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. ...

Burns begins telling his story from the point where he left the town meeting. With the success of his sun-blocker, he had felt like celebrating. He walked into the parking lot to find Maggie, alone, in the Simpson car. She appeared to be smiling. He asked what she was so happy about, and she held up a lollipop. Homer pulls that very same sucker out of his shirt pocket; he had picked it up off the car floor when he was searching for an ice cream cone he had dropped. It was also there that he had absent-mindedly handled the gun, which explained why his fingerprints were all over it. Having decided to give stealing candy from a baby another try, Burns had tried to wrestle the candy away from Maggie, which was proving difficult. Eventually, Burns' gun fell out of its holster into Maggie's hand and fired in Burns' direction. The gun and lollipop then fell out of her hands underneath the car seat.

Mr. Burns, losing strength, tried to find aid, but finding only a useless Jimbo, he gave up and collapsed on the sundial, where he used his last ounce of strength to suck out his gold fillings and swallowed them so as to keep paramedics from stealing them. Burns demands that Maggie be arrested, but Wiggum says no jury in the world will convict a baby—except maybe in Texas. Marge insists that the whole ordeal was an accident. Maggie, however, glares directly at the camera, as if to imply that it may not have been an accident^{[citation needed]}. Official language(s) None See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq mi (695,622 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ...

Alternate endings

Allegedly to keep the ending from being leaked from animators and writers, there were actually several different conclusions created. Most were nothing more than footage of various characters shooting Burns: Apu, Moe, Barney, and even Santa's Little Helper were featured as the gunmen. But there was also a full-length conclusion animated in which Smithers shot Burns and explained his doing so at Burns' bedside after Homer's wild chase. This footage was seen in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular". The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular is the tenth episode of The Simpsons seventh season, and is, as the title suggests, the 138th episode. ...

Springfield's Most Wanted

Springfield's Most Wanted was a TV special hosted by John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted. The special aired on September 17, 1995, before the first episode of the seventh season of The Simpsons. Designed as a parody of Walsh's television series, this special was designed to help people find out who shot Mr. Burns, by laying out the potential clues and identifying the possible suspects. John Walsh (born December 26, 1945 in Auburn, New York) is the host of the TV show Americas Most Wanted. ... AMW redirects here; for other uses of that term, see AMW (disambiguation). ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Simpsons Season 7 DVD. The Simpsons 7th season (September 1995 - May 1996) began on September 17, 1995. ... Simpsons redirects here. ...

This special aired at 7:30 P.M. ET after the reair of part one of Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part One), and before the new episode Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two).

Clips of various simpsons episodes prior to Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two) were included in the episode.

Clues

This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the talk page for details.

A number of subtle clues, and a few red herrings, were planted in Part 1 for viewers who wanted to unravel the mystery. For example, after Mr. Burns says "You all talk big, but who here has the guts to stop me?", the camera pans across the entire crowd. All the people look at Burns and then at each other, as if hoping that someone else will do the deed — all except one. The only person in the whole crowd who keeps her eyes fixed squarely on Burns is Maggie. Image File history File links Circle-question. ...

Also, when Burns was viewing the oil pump he said, "Oh Pish Posh, it'll be like taking candy from a baby." Burns was trying to take candy from Maggie when he got shot. Burns' "Oh, it's you" when he sees his assailant shows that he knew the person who shot him. This eliminates several characters as Burns had not interacted with Moe, Barney, etc, in the events beforehand. The nonchalant way in which this is said also indicates that Burns did not feel threatened, and did not regard his assailant as dangerous (this eliminates Homer, who had earlier assaulted Burns in his office, and due to the fact that Burns never knows who Homer is).

Another interesting hint was during the special "Springfield's Most Wanted" that aired before the show. A list of potential assailants was shown, most of them previously identified as suspects. However, near the end of the list, a clip was shown of Maggie with an angry face sucking her pacifier. However, she at the time came out of left field, as no previous mention was made of her, leaving some of the viewers suspicious. Springfields Most Wanted was a TV Special hosted by John Walsh. ...

In Part 1, Mr. Burns receives a box of chocolates that has a picture of the Simpsons family underneath. The first piece of chocolate that Mr. Burns takes out reveals Maggie's face.

Much was made of the fact that Burns lay his hands on "W" and "S" on the sundial. It was assumed that these initials stood for the name of his assailant. When Burns receives chocolate from Homer, he talks about the family and says about Santa's Little Helper, "Oh there's that Simpson mutt." Grandpa's gun was a Smith & Wesson. SW could be reversed to mean WS, as in Waylon Smithers. SW flipped upside down makes MS, meaning Maggie Simpson (as Lisa points out in the end) and Marge Simpson. When Mr. Burns was talking with Skinner in his office there was a diploma in the background that said "W. Seymour Skinner." Also, Moe's liquor license reads Moe Szyslak, his last name being revealed. Sideshow Mel is also present, but reveals his name to be "Melvin Van Horn." A Modern Smith & Wesson Revolver (Model 629) Smith & Wesson NASDAQ: SWHC is the largest manufacturer of handguns in the United States. ...

It was suggested that the assailant was not Skinner, as he had a silencer on his gun, but the shot that wounded Burns could be heard clearly. Moe also had a shot gun which would have done much more damage to Burns, indicating that someone else shot him (although one of the "alternate endings" features Apu firing multiple shots at Mr. Burns with a submachine gun at point-blank range, with Mr. Burns receiving only a single gunshot wound). Also, it is worth noticing that Sideshow Mel couldn't have shot Mr. Burns - when everyone is threatening him (Mr. Burns), Sideshow Mel is wielding a knife, and a gunshot was heard at the time of the incident. Also, Krusty had just returned from a vacation and had no clue what was going on, leaving him no motive to shoot Mr. Burns. Jimbo and Marge also have an alibi, for as Mr. Burns staggers towards the sundial at the end of Part 1, he passes both of them. The MP5, a famous submachine gun, sees widespread use amongst those that can afford it. ... Wall sundial Wall sundial in Warsaws Old Town A sundial measures time by the position of the sun. ...

When he collapsed at the sundial it can be seen that he does not have his gun in the belt because he lost it to Maggie.

In Part II, when the Simpsons are discussing the shooting while seated on the couch, Lisa remarks, "Well, I don't think anyone in this family is capable of attempted murder." At that point, Maggie, who is asleep on the floor, wakes up and sits up, as if that point caught her attention.

In the couch gag of the opening segment, when the Simpson family is put into a line-up, Maggie has her hands on her chest while the rest of the family have them behind their backs, perhaps signaling it was her.

3:00

The documentary special, Springfield's Most Wanted, noticed that there are several references made to the number 3 (or more specifically 3 o'clock, as noted in the SNPP capsule). John Walsh notes that:

• In the opening credits, Bart leaves the classroom at 3pm.
• Homer delivers Mr. Burns's package back to Burns at 3pm.
• After Burns is shot, the way his arms land on the sundial indicate 9:00, the mirror image of 3:00.
• When Mr. Burns was shot and stumbled over to the sundial and collapsed, a clock is heard in the background chiming 3:00.

Additionally, the SNPP capsule notes that:

• The TV in Moe's bar shows an ad for "Pardon My Zinger, Weekdays At 3pm". This eliminates Smithers, as he says he never misses "Pardon My Zinger," as Sideshow Mel points out.
• Mr. Burns, just before putting his sun-blocker in place, asks "Have you ever seen the sun set at 3 p.m.?" Soon thereafter, he is shot.
• Nearly every clock seen in the episode is shown at or around 3 o'clock. For example, when the Simpsons are at the vet after the treehouse is destroyed, the clock is at 5:00pm.

Trivia

• Willy claims he couldn't have shot Mr. Burns due to his arthritis, which he claims he received from battling space invaders in 1977. The game Space Invaders wasn't released until 1978, which explains Willy having never heard of it.
• In Wiggum's dream, the voice of Lisa is done by the actor speaking backwards, and then reversing the noise.^{[citation needed]}
• At the end of the closing credits of the Part One episode, the Gracie Films logo sequence ends with a gunshot sound, referring to the theme of the episode.
• The three places that Mr. Burns crushes in his model of the town, Barney's Bowlarama, the Kwik-E-Mart, and the Nuclear Power Plant are all places where Homer has worked over the years.
• There is also another reference of Maggie as a "killer". In the episode Papa's Got a Brand New Badge, Homer is threatened to be killed by the mafia, after stopping their business. Just as the mafia is about to kill Homer, several gunshots wound all the members of the mafia. The hero (to Homer & Marge's side of the case) was of course, Maggie. The show also refers to Who Shot Mr. Burns? in the following line after Maggie saves Homer:
  • Homer: Aw, she's taking a nap..
    Marge: Yeah. Probably dreaming of the time she shot Mr. Burns.
    Homer: She's just like Clark Kent. Whenever there's lots of excitement, she's nowhere to be found.
    (Homer and Marge leave. Maggie wakes up and smiles right at the camera.)
• In "The Old Man and the Lisa" when Mr. Burns comes to the Simpsons house for Lisa, Homer shows him Maggie and she makes a gun shape with her hand. Mr. Burns then says "Oh yes, the baby who shot me."
• For part one, Moe Szyslak's surname was made up specifically to make him a stronger suspect when Burns falls at the sundial pointing to W and S, interpreted as M and S in this case. According to the DVD commentary, the name "Szyslak" came from a phonebook.
• In Part 2, Mr. Burns is seen to be in hospital room number 2F20, which is also the episode number of that particular episode.
• In the season 6 DVD box, the one that has the first part of the episode, there is an Easter Egg: if you take out the DVDs of the box, and take out the background of the box, you will find a secret picture that shows Maggie In Jail.
• In the Season 12 episode "Day of the Jackanapes", when Krusty announces his retirement, Marge remarks, "It's good for a show to go off the air before it becomes stale and repetitive." At this point, Mr. Smithers pops in the door and cries out, "Maggie shot Mr. Burns again!" This line, however, was cut in syndication due to the Beltway sniper attacks of 2002.
• Another reference was made was in The Cartridge Family. When Marge objected to the gun, she mentions, "Don't you remember when Maggie shot Mr. Burns?" Homer says, "I thought Smithers did it." Lisa replies with "That would've made a lot more sense."
• When the episode first aired, there was a write-in contest for any fan who could accurately guess who shot Mr. Burns. According to the DVD commentary, the contest rules said that a sampling of 1000 randomly-selected entries would be taken and the first one they picked out of that sampling that guessed correctly would win. When no winner was found, Fox wouldn't allow another sampling, so the producers had to find a "winner" in the original sampling which turned out to be an old lady who incorrectly guessed Smithers.
• A prize for guessing the correct answer was to be placed in a Simpsons episode. This never happened.
• The scene in Part I where Mr. Burns stumbles to the sundial, shows Burns with his suit jacket closed and no view of Burns' holster is seen. However, when the scene is shown in flashback in Part II, the jacket is shown open and the gun holster inside is shown empty.
• In the Season 18 episode Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times, Homer claims to have shot Mr. Burns and pinned the blame on Maggie. This directly contradicts the scene in this episode showing what really happened.

This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Gracie Films logo Gracie Films is an American film and television production company, created by James L. Brooks in 1986 for The Tracey Ullman Show. ... Papas Got a Brand New Badge is the 22nd episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. ... The Sicilian Mafia (also referred to simply as the Mafia or Cosa Nostra), is a criminal secret society of men which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. ... Superman and his secret identity Clark Kent being portrayed as distinct individuals. ... The Old Man and the Lisa is the twenty-first episode in the eighth season of The Simpsons. ... It has been suggested that Lisas sax solo gags on The Simpsons be merged into this article or section. ... Margaret Maggie Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Morris Lester Szyslak (pronounced //) better known as Moe, is a fictional character on the animated series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. ... Day of the Jackanapes is the thirteenth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. ... Locations of the 15 sniper attacks numbered chronologically. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The Cartridge Family is the fifth episode of The Simpsons ninth season. ... Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times is the the eleventh episode of The Simpsons 18th season, that originally aired on January 28, 2007. ...

Cultural references

• When Mr. Burns says, "I have a monopoly to maintain: I own the electric company and the water works, plus the hotel on Baltic Avenue," it is an obvious reference to the popular board game of the same name. Principal Skinner's claim that "that hotel is a dump" may refer to the fact that Baltic Avenue is the second cheapest piece of property on the Monopoly game board.
• Homer escaping from the overturned paddywagon is a homage to The Fugitive.
• The musical score that ends the Part 1 of the episode (when the credit rolls) is a parody of John Williams' Drummers' Salute, which is part of the musical score he wrote for Oliver Stone's movie JFK.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 was playing at Moe's.
• The scene where Chief Wiggum has a dream in which Lisa speaks backwards is an obvious homage to Twin Peaks and Special Agent Dale Cooper's interaction with The Man from Another Place. Also, after Homer escapes from the paddywagon, the Squeaky-Voiced Teen speaks to his manager Diane, which is the same name as the unseen secretary that Agent Cooper dictates messages to.
• In the first part, Mr. Burns sings "hello lamp-post, what you knowin', I'm come to watch your power flowin'", which echo the lyrics of Simon & Garfunkel's '59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)'
• Sideshow Mel demonstrates deductive reasoning and logic similar to that demonstrated by noted fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. This connection is further noted by Mel's smoking of a pipe during his reflections, as Holmes was frequently known to do.
• The opening sequence of part two, wherein Smithers dreams that he merely dreamt shooting Mr. Burns, before going on to dream that they are in fact undercover detectives on the 1960s Speedway racing circuit (itself parodying The Mod Squad and Quinn Martin's programs), is similar to an incident on the 1980s soap opera Dallas, in which the events of an entire season (including an attempted murder) were explained away as being merely a character's dream.
• The title and the idea of these two episodes are also taken from the series Dallas. In Dallas, they had the "Who shot J.R." two episodes, the first of which ending a season, and the second opening the next season.
• The nightclub where Tito Puente and his band perform looks like the Tropicana from I Love Lucy.
• The nightclub is called 'Chez Guevara', a reference to Che Guevara.
• Groundskeeper Willie's interrogation, especially him crossing and uncrossing his legs, is a parody of the famous interrogation scene in Basic Instinct.

Monopoly is the best-selling commercial board game in the world. ... The Fugitive is a 1993 Academy Award and Golden Globe Award winning feature film, based on the television series The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy United States Marshal Samuel Gerard. ... Williams conducting the London Symphony Orchestra during the recording of the score for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. ... William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... JFK is an American film, first released on December 20, 1991, which purports to follow the 1967 to 1969 investigation led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner) as he investigates the assassination of President Kennedy. ... Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999), usually abbreviated MST3K, is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. ... For the hills in San Francisco, see Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California. ... Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) FBI Special Agent Dale Bartholomew Cooper was the lead character in the popular television series Twin Peaks, created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. ... The Man from another place also known as The Dream Dwarf is a character in the Mark Frost and David Lynch television series, Twin Peaks, which aired over 29 episodes on ABC from 1990-91. ... Bridge Over Troubled Water was Simon and Garfunkels last album; the title track was their only number one hit in the United Kingdom. ... Sideshow Mel, full name Melvin van Horne (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), is a minor character on the animated TV show The Simpsons. ... Sherlock Holmes as imagined by the seminal Holmesian artist, Sidney Paget, in The Strand magazine. ... The Mod Squad was a television police drama from executive producers Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas in the United States, that ran on ABC from 1968-1973. ... Quinn Martin (May 22, 1922 - August 6, 1987) was one of the most successful American television producers of all time. ... The Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family The original cast of Dallas. ... I Love Lucy, a CBS television sitcom that aired in the 1950s, was the most popular American sitcom of its generation and is still considered by viewers and experts alike to be one of the greatest television series of all time. ... Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. ... Groundskeeper Willie (a. ... Basic Instinct (released March 20, 1992) is an American erotic mystery film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. ...

Contest

Viewers were invited to participate in a contest to guess who shot Mr. Burns. The winner would be animated on an episode of the show. No one, however, was ever animated on the show.

This was because, as the DVD audio commentary for the episodes reveals, no one officially guessed the right answer. Due to contest regulations, a winner had to be selected out of a random sample of entries. Since the winner did not have the right answer, the commentary reports that the individual was paid a cash prize in lieu of being animated. DVD (commonly Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

The creators and writers added on the commentary that they were aware of one person who posted the correct answer to the Simpsons newsgroup online after the night of the broadcast. They were forbidden from contacting the person while the contest was underway, but after it ended they wanted to contact the individual. The answer came from a person using a college internet account, and after the summer the person's address was no longer valid and they were unable to track the person down. They issued an invitation on the DVDs for this person to reveal him or herself. alt. ...

External links

• "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
• "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
• Springfield's Most Wanted at the Internet Movie Database