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The Burns and the Bees is the eighth episode of Season 20. It aired on December 7, 2008. The episode was written by Stephanie Gillis and directed by Mark Kirkland. Marv Albert, Jeff Bezos and Mark Cuban guest starred.

When Mr. Burns wins a professional basketball team in a poker game, he decides to build a new sports arena in Springfield for them - on the site where Lisa is trying to keep Springfield's bee population from dying out; Homer tries to solve the problem by mating the bees - with "killer" Africanized bees

Plot

Mr. Burns wins a basketball franchise the Austin Celtics (who he renames Springfield Excitement ) in a poker game from the Rich Texan at Billionaire Camp. Meanwhile, Lisa gets a new bee colony, and gets a sanctuary for them. However, Mr. Burns builds a basketball stadium on the reserve. Homer then re-builds a new bee colony from African bees. However, the new bees attack the stadium and turn it into a bee-hive. In the end, Mr. Burns returns to Billionaire Camp, but learns he is 4 million dollars short of a billion dollars, so he is kicked out in a manner similar to when Tessio asks Tom Hagen in failure to convince the Don to not kill him in The Godfather. Mr. Burns asks his billionaire friend Mark to let him off the hook but fails the same way when Mark says Tom Hagen's lines: "Can't do it Monty/Sal" then Mr. Burns is thrown over to the Millionaire Camp, having only $996,000,000.