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Simpsons Top 100 Countdown
#36 Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)
Season 7, Episode 1 (Guide from the Simpsons Archive)

After the summer hiatus, it’s time to find out who shot Mr. Burns, who we find out did not die. Smithers is the prime suspect and he quickly confesses, thus solving the mystery. Memorable moments include Mr. Smithers’s apartment and dream (an homage to Dallas’s Who Shot J.R.? solution), tv news, Simpsons dinner talk, outhouse, pulling down the sunblocker, cartoony supervillainy (not sure if the Dr. Colossus bit is better in there or cut – it’s good, but cutting it and leaving it at that is nice, too), confessional, Dave Shutton, zinging Madonna, zinging Comedy Central, Melvin Van Horn, Dr. Collosus part two, second old geezer, Agatha Christie, interrogations (Tito Puente, Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie, Moe, Grandpa), lack of coffee and crazy dream, the most bizarre periodic table I’ve ever seen, bribery, raiding the house, what they all say, the drive-thru, Dr. Nick’s visit with Burns, offering a reward, Homer’s visit with Burns, the rush to capture a presumably dead Homer, Burns regaining his ability to coherently communicate, and, of course, the solution. Random trivia: Mr. Burns is in room 2F20 at the hospital, which was the production code for the episode. Out the door, across the hall, you see 2F18, which was Two Dozen and One Greyhounds (in which Burns threatened to shoot Bart and Lisa and kill the title dogs).