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"American History X-cellent"
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"American History X-cellent" is the seventeenth episode of broadcast season 21 of The Simpsons and the four hundred fifty-eighth episode overall. It originally aired on April 11, 2010. The episode was written by Michael Price and directed by Bob Anderson. It guest stars Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony and Kevin Michael Richardson as the Michael Clarke Duncan-type.
Synopsis[edit]
- Mr. Burns gets arrested and jailed for being in possession of stolen art. Smithers takes over in Burns' stead, but when the employees start taking advantage of his good nature, he comes down hard on them. The employees then decide to bust Burns from jail to overthrow Smithers' tyranny. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa bond over one ant that survives an accident involving Lisa's ant farm.
Mr. Burns celebrates the Fourth of July in his typically despotic way - by using his workforce as slave labor for a picnic. He's unimpressed by their efforts, which leads to a bitter Lenny, Homer and Carl getting drunk in his wine cellar and destroying his study. When Burns calls the cops, they focus not on his employees but on the fact that he possesses art stolen in an infamous (and taken-from-real-life) heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Massachusetts. Burns tries to bribe his way out of jail but ends up behind bars, where he changes his ways due to the influence of a fellow inmate, and by influence meaning literally dragging the evil out of Burns and eating it.
Mr. Smithers is placed in charge of the plant in his absence, where he initially proves an improvement over Mr. Burns. Unfortunately, he catches Homer, Lenny and Carl mocking him behind his back at the bar, resulting in him turning into a tyrant and the three friends launching a mission to spring Burns from the jug.
Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa, left to their own devices because Homer's so busy at the nuclear plant, reluctantly team up to care for an ant farm; when a fight between them results in all but one of the ants being eaten by Santa's Little Helper they take special care of Annie, the sole survivor, and must decide between letting her live out her dotage in the wild or keeping her in captivity. However, just when they leave Annie in their backyard, Santa's Little Helper eats it.
