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* TaxmanTaxesTheWinnings: There's one scene with the Sea Captain taking a necklace from a treasure chest and placing it inside an envelope while waiting for his turn to mail his tax forms. He's wondering why he bothered to pillage that treasure.
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* TaxmanTaxesTheWinnings: TaxmanTakesTheWinnings: There's one scene with the Sea Captain taking a necklace from a treasure chest and placing it inside an envelope while waiting for his turn to mail his tax forms. He's wondering why he bothered to pillage that treasure.
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Homer (like most of us in RealLife) waits until the last minute to file his tax return, and the IRS has jailtime in store for Homer -- unless Homer plays spy to retrieve a trillion-dollar bill that Mr. Burns was supposed to deliver to post-WorldWarII Europe to pay for reconstruction and stimulate the economy.
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Homer (like most of us in RealLife) RealLife and practically every Springfielder who isn't a Flanders) waits until the last minute to file his tax return, and the IRS has jailtime in store for Homer -- unless Homer plays spy to retrieve a trillion-dollar bill that Mr. Burns was supposed to deliver to post-WorldWarII Europe to pay for reconstruction and stimulate the economy.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Everyone who expected Mr. Burns to be the most reliable person to deliver the trillion-dollar-bill just because he's America's richest person.
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* SkewedPriorities: Homer has just a few minutes to file his tax return and won't stop for anything... other than a [[BigEater hot dog]].
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* TaxmanTaxesTheWinnings: There's one scene with the Sea Captain taking a necklace from a treasure chest and placing it inside an envelope while waiting for his turn to mail his tax forms. He's wondering why he bothered to pillage that treasure.
* TemptingFate: While showing the big lines of people who waited until the last day to file their tax returns, Kent Brockman isn't worried because he'd previously sent his tax data to an accountant. Said accountant then shows up and is just as worried as everybody else.
* TemptingFate: While showing the big lines of people who waited until the last day to file their tax returns, Kent Brockman isn't worried because he'd previously sent his tax data to an accountant. Said accountant then shows up and is just as worried as everybody else.
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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: The post office closes at midnight and everyone who waited until the last day to file their tax return must do so until then.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_trouble_with_trillions.png]]
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* DiscoDan: Mr. Burns' out-of-touch-with-the-times tendencies are in full display here. He thinks Homer is a reporter for ''Collier's'', which had ceased publication in 1957 (although it was briefly revived in 2012), and while in Cuba, has no idea Batista was no longer in power. He also identifies a taxi as "the new Packard they've been talking about."
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* DiscoDan: Mr. Burns' out-of-touch-with-the-times tendencies are in full display here. He thinks Homer is a reporter for ''Collier's'', which had ceased publication in 1957 (although it was briefly revived in 2012), and while in Cuba, has no idea Batista [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista Batista]] was no longer in power. He also identifies a taxi as "the new Packard they've been talking about."
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* ExactWords: Doubles with PoliceAreUseless. When Homer, Smithers and Burns escape from Burns' mansion, Chief Wiggum receives a radio message to look out for Burns' maroon-coloured car. When it drives by, Wiggum notes the car is more of a burgundy and does nothing.
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Homer (like most of us in RealLife) waits until the last minute to file his tax return, and the IRS has jailtime in store for Homer -- unless Homer plays spy to retrieve a trillion-dollar bill that Mr. Burns was supposed to deliver to post-WorldWarII Europe to pay for damages done to the cities reconstruction and stimulate the economy.
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* DiscoDan: Mr. Burns' out-of-touch-with-the-times tendencies are in full display here. He thinks Homer is a reporter for ''Collier's'', which had ceased publication in 1957 (although it was briefly revived in 2012), and while in Cuba, has no idea Batista was no longer in power. He also identifies a taxi as "the new Packard they've been talking about."
* ThisPageWillSelfDestruct: The film the IRS shows to Homer ends with "This film will self destruct... if improperly stored."
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* ZillionDollarBill: The trillion dollar bill meant for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII, but pocketed by Mr. Burns.
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* ZillionDollarBill: The trillion dollar bill meant for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII, but pocketed by Mr. Burns.Burns.
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* VacationEpisode: Homer, Smithers and Burns travel to Cuba in the final act.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Smithers is upset when Mr. Burns doesn't appreciate the dinner he prepared, saying "Sometimes, I don't know why I bother..."
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen and WordOfGod: According to the DVD commentary, the original script for this episode called for Homer to pretend he was an American Indian so he didn't have to pay taxes, but after the writers did some research and found out that Native Americans do in fact have to pay taxes in real life (and the fact that the writers had no idea how to satirize it), the premise had to be changed.
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The codeword to activate the secret film strip about the trillion dollar bill in the mall's photo booth is "cheese". Apu inadvertently activates it right after Homer and the IRS agent leave.
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* TheDeadRiseToAdvertise: A billboard of UsefulNotes/CheGuevera is seen advertising Duff Beer.
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* TheDeadRiseToAdvertise: A billboard of UsefulNotes/CheGuevera Che Guevera is seen advertising Duff Beer.
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* TheDeadRiseToAdvertise: A billboard of UsefulNotes/CheGuevera is seen advertising Duff Beer.
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--> And if it's a crime to bribe a jury, then so help me, I'll soon be guilty of that!
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen and WordOfGod: According to the DVD commentary, the original script for this episode called for Homer to pretend he was an American Indian so he didn't have to pay taxes, but after the writers did some research and found out that Native Americans do in fact have to pay taxes in real life, life (and the fact that the writers had no idea how to satirize it), the premise had to be changed.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen and WordOfGod: According to the DVD commentary, the original script for this episode called for Homer to pretend he was an American Indian so he didn't have to pay taxes, but Ian Maxtone-Graham (the episode writer) didn't know how to make it funny, so he rewrote it.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen and WordOfGod: According to the DVD commentary, the original script for this episode called for Homer to pretend he was an American Indian so he didn't have to pay taxes, but Ian Maxtone-Graham (the episode writer) didn't know how after the writers did some research and found out that Native Americans do in fact have to make it funny, so he rewrote it.pay taxes in real life, the premise had to be changed.
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* AllOfThem: The reasons for visiting Cuba are: business/pleasure; smuggle cigars; assassinate Castro. Homer checks all of them.
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* OhCrap[=/=]ThisIsGonnaSuck: The look on Homer and Smithers' faces after they remind Mr. Burns that he's flying the plane...and he's about to attempt a landing.
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* OhCrap[=/=]ThisIsGonnaSuck: The [[http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_image.php?tv-show=simpsons&image=s09e20_196 look on Homer and Smithers' faces faces]] after they remind Mr. Burns that he's flying the plane...and he's about to attempt a landing.
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* OhCrap[=/=]ThisIsGonnaSuck: The look on Homer and Smithers' faces after they remind Mr. Burns that he's flying the plane...and he's about to attempt a landing.
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* FrenchJerk: Apparently, this trait started because Burns stole the trillion dollar bill meant for Europe.
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* DiscoDan: Mr. Burns' out-of-touch-with-the-times tendencies are in full display here. He thinks Homer is a reporter for ''Collier's'', which had ceased publication in1957(although it was briefly revived in 2012), and while in Cuba, has no idea Batista was no longer in power.
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* DiscoDan: Mr. Burns' out-of-touch-with-the-times tendencies are in full display here. He thinks Homer is a reporter for ''Collier's'', which had ceased publication in1957(although in 1957 (although it was briefly revived in 2012), and while in Cuba, has no idea Batista was no longer in power.
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* ZillionDollarBill: The billion dollar bill meant for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII, but pocketed by Mr. Burns.
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* ZillionDollarBill: The billion trillion dollar bill meant for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII, but pocketed by Mr. Burns.
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* DiscoDan: Mr. Burns' out-of-touch-with-the-times tendencies are in full display here. He thinks Homer is a reporter for ''Collier's'', which had ceased publication in1957(although it was briefly revived in 2012), and while in Cuba, has no idea Batista was no longer in power.
* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: Homer asks this about the wire he has to wear under his shirt.
-->'''Lisa:''' No, it makes you look like a tool of government oppression.\\
'''Homer:''' But not fat.
* DoesThisMakeMeLookFat: Homer asks this about the wire he has to wear under his shirt.
-->'''Lisa:''' No, it makes you look like a tool of government oppression.\\
'''Homer:''' But not fat.
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* SuicidePill: Homer almost takes his when he thinks Mr. Burns is onto him. He considers taking it again when Burns tells him they're going to walk.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen and WordOfGod: According to the DVD commentary, the original script for this episode called for Homer to pretend he was an American Indian so he didn't have to pay taxes, but Ian Maxtone-Graham (the episode writer) didn't know how to make it funny, so he rewroteit.it.
* ZillionDollarBill: The billion dollar bill meant for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII, but pocketed by Mr. Burns.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen and WordOfGod: According to the DVD commentary, the original script for this episode called for Homer to pretend he was an American Indian so he didn't have to pay taxes, but Ian Maxtone-Graham (the episode writer) didn't know how to make it funny, so he rewrote
* ZillionDollarBill: The billion dollar bill meant for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII, but pocketed by Mr. Burns.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: How Mr. Burns intends to avoid punishment.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: How Mr. Burns intends to avoid punishment.punishment.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen and WordOfGod: According to the DVD commentary, the original script for this episode called for Homer to pretend he was an American Indian so he didn't have to pay taxes, but Ian Maxtone-Graham (the episode writer) didn't know how to make it funny, so he rewrote it.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen and WordOfGod: According to the DVD commentary, the original script for this episode called for Homer to pretend he was an American Indian so he didn't have to pay taxes, but Ian Maxtone-Graham (the episode writer) didn't know how to make it funny, so he rewrote it.
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* BoxedCrook: Homer agrees to work as an IRS snitch to avoid going to jail.
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* HistoricalInJoke: Mr. Burns has the suit Creator/CharlieChaplin was buried in, which suggests that Burns was the one who stole Chaplin's coffin in 1978, a few months after Chaplin's death and funeral.
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Homer (like most of us in RealLife) waits until the last minute to file his tax return -- return, and the IRS has jailtime in store for Homer -- unless Homer plays spy to retrieve a trillion-dollar bill that Mr. Burns was supposed to deliver to post-WorldWarII Europe to pay for damages done to the cities and stimulate the economy.
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The IRS isn't too happy with Homer's tax return, but they'll overlook it if he reclaims a one-of-a-kind trillion-dollar bill from Mr. Burns.
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The IRS isn't too happy with Homer's tax return, but they'll overlook it if he reclaims a one-of-a-kind trillion-dollar bill from Mr. Burns.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: How Mr. Burns intends to avoid punishment.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: How Mr. Burns intends to avoid punishment.
