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#18 A Star is Burns
Season 6, Episode 18 (Guide from the Simpsons Archive)

Springfield has been rated the least popular city in America. The town holds a meeting to come up with ideas for countering the notion and resurrecting tourism. Marge suggests the town hold a film festival and, unlike most of Marge's ideas, it is universally popular. She invites Jay Sherman (the title character from the short-run television show The Critic) to be a guest judge. Homer, jealous of Jay, demands that Marge include him as a judge as well. When it comes time to judge the contest, Homer doesn't take his job seriously, but Marge eventually gets him to do so, at which point he votes for the "right" film. There's also a nice subplot with Burns trying to win the contest through less than savory means. As an aside, Matt Groening absolutely hated this episode, and demanded that his name be removed from the credits; he hated the whole crossover bit and made a huge stink about it. Memorable moments include Eye on Springfield opening credits and programming, Bart's business, Abe's hatred of the metric system and his incredibly fuel inefficient car, filming movies, attractiveness of film critics, letter to Jay Sherman, loafers, name card, solution to the pimple/boil mystery, The Flintstones Meet the Jetsons (I had the video tape in my youth), dispelling perceptions of ogrehood, non-union Mexican counterpart, awards, Homer's attempt at cleverness (though I'm really not sure about that Jimmy Carter bit), MacGyver, respecting intelligence, Oscar Mayer weiners, lock of hair, auditions for the role of Burns, brilliant police work, groin injury, Barney's movie, lack of death, Burns's movie, Boo-urns, the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet, the inside happenings of Homer's head (parts one and two), ironic award, beer nuts, and groin injury reprisal take two.