The Burns and the Bees
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"The Burns and the Bees"
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Episode Information
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- "Dad, don't eat the bees!"
- ―Lisa
"The Burns and the Bees" is the eighth episode of Season 20.
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Synopsis
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
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Mr. Burns goes to Billionaire Camp where all the billionaires who attended, including Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch, go every year to have fun. Mr. Burns starts a food fight while other billionaires do archery and play Quidditch.
At Springfield Elementary School, Bart plays a prank on Principal Skinner, which is seen by the bullies. Jimbo dares Bart to knock a bee's nest down onto some second graders, including Lisa. Bart shoots it down with his slingshot and Lisa dives onto the nest to protect her fellow second graders. However, she finds out that all the bees are dead. Willie then informs her that bees all over the world are dying out and gets upset as he is a beekeeper.
In the Billionaire Camp, Mr. Burns is playing poker against The Rich Texan. He bets $1 million, and Smithers. The Rich Texan decides to throw in his basketball team, the Austin Celtics. Mr. Burns wins and the Rich Texan tells him to take good care of his team.
Lisa goes home to tell Homer about the bees dying. Homer is fine with this, until he learns that bees make honey. He then imagines a future without honey where the world has started to crumble and they are now offering Synthetic Honey. A WALL-E robot then approaches him and gives him some honey, before crushing Homer into a cube. Homer decides to help Lisa out.
Production
The episode was written by Stephanie Gillis and directed by Mark Kirkland. Billionaires Mark Cuban and Jeff Bezos and sportscaster Marv Albert guest star as themselves. The episode marks a second use of the Christmas-themed opening, first seen in "Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2".
Reception
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IGN gave the episode 7/10 and said that with an episode like this "I just don't laugh as much as I would have liked".
