Burger Kings
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"Burger Kings"
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Episode Information
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"Burger Kings" is the eighteenth episode of broadcast season 32 of The Simpsons and the seven hundred and second episode overall. It originally aired on April 11, 2021. The episode was written by Rob LaZebnik and directed by Lance Kramer.
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Synopsis[edit]
- Mr. Burns has a near-death experience after eating a burger. Realizing that nobody will mourn him when he's gone, he opens a vegetarian burger restaurant, X-Cell-Ent Burger. However, when Lisa discovers the secret behind its success, she tries to get Burns' newest business shut down.
Plot[edit]
Mac Tonight sings a song about how everybody hates Mr. Burns, showing past instances. After it ends, Burns wakes up from his dream and realizes it. When the chef brings him food he dislikes, he releases the hounds on him. At the Power Plant, Burns realizes he needs real food and meets Homer, who carries a bag of hamburgers from Krusty Burger.
After tasting it, Burns starts eating hamburgers and triples his weight, concerning Smithers. Moments later, he suffers a heart attack and is brought to the hospital, where the doctor warns him that eating more could kill him. Smithers shows Burns how everyone is cheering the news of his near-death, including the Springfield Shopper, and after he reveals Burns is still alive, someone shoots themself.
Burns realizes no one will mourn his death and tries to give up by disconnecting the life monitor, but Smithers stops him after realizing a way to extend his life. Professor Frink brings in a robot that prepares a burger made from exotic plants instead of meat. Burns gets the idea to use it to help people live longer and love him.
At the Plant, Burns and Smithers design the model of the restaurant, and Burns names it X-Cell-Ent Burger. Kent Brockman reports from the opening and announces that the Springfield Dam has ruptured and a reporter was killed, before showing Burns calling up the first person to try the burger, Lisa. After taking a bite, Lisa exclaims it tastes great, and the entire Simpson family hugs him. Burns feels the praise he has craved since childhood.
A young Burns shows his mother, Daphne, a drawing, which she burns in a fire pit before telling him his father is dead. Burns then appoints Homer as the spokesman and hires him to film commercials for the chain on a green screen. Meanwhile, Marge, trying to buy new pants for Homer with Amazon Alexa, accidentally buys 1,000 shares of XLN stocks—X-Cell-Ent Burger's—and makes $700 before the value starts fluctuating.
Positive reviews pour in, and Burns begins drinking in celebration, only for a bubble to lift him into the air. Smithers retrieves him. Marge watches her stocks grow, while Kent reports on the Channel 6 News—in a short titled "Burger Wars"—that Krusty Burger is failing due to the new chain. Krusty's new product, the LGBTQBLT, fails for being inferior.
As the Simpsons pass a failing Krusty, Bart announces he will take action, while Lisa tries to stop him, saying nature is on Burns' side—only for a lightning bolt to strike in contradiction. Burns drives to the Beloved Billionaires Club, which he can now rejoin, where he meets Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg is seen throwing rocks at the club and getting attacked by a bear.
A Demogorgon chases the kids from Stranger Things on bikes, before Lisa, Milhouse, and Bart appear. Bart proposes a theory that the burger contains meat, scaring Lisa. The kids' bikes fall as the Demogorgon is seen with their bodies in its mouth. They arrive at Burns' Plant Plant, where they discover he is killing endangered plant species from the Amazon Rainforest.
Lisa confronts Burns at the club, but he refuses to listen. The same happens with Marge, who does not want to lose her shares. Lisa turns to Homer, but he refuses as well because Burns is his boss. That night, Homer has a dream that convinces him to change his mind.
At the national rollout, after reminders from Burns and Smithers on what words to use, Homer and Lisa turn those words against Burns, shocking the public. Krusty regains his fame, and Marge sells the stocks, recovering the money she was about to lose.
Driving back with Smithers, Burns expresses happiness and admits he is tired of the good act. He then visits a school for the blind to convince them that aliens have landed. In the end, Mac Tonight sings joyfully to Homer after his redemption, while Homer eats Cheesy McMayor.
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