History Recap / TheSimpsonsS9E20TheTroubleWithTrillions

** Barney reminds Homer of the telemarketing scam he ran in "Lisa's Date with Destiny".

* CallBack: When Kent Brockman asks Krusty the Clown why he waited till the last minute to file his taxes, he says [[SarcasmMode "Because I'm an idiot. Happy?"]] Evidently, he hasn't gotten over his brush with the IRS in "Bart the Fink".

* 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.

* InsaneTrollLogic: After Marge points out how Homer is lying on his taxes (as he rushes to complete them last minute), he immediately covers his ears.

-->'''Homer:''' Okay, Marge, if anyone asks you require 24-hour nursing care, Lisa's a clergyman, Maggie is seven people, and Bart was wounded in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]]!

* EagleLand: Burns believes that performing such a blatantly treasonous crime as stealing the trillion-dollar bill (and going against orders given to him by the government) is a showcase of his patriotism (as he puts it, he's just keeping the money away from a country that doesn't deserves a hand-me-down that would make America poorer). He later says that bribing a jury in order to prevent being put in jail for said crime is also "the American way" and Homer even salutes him and says "God bless my country!"

* CaptainCrash: Really bad cataracts and lack of practice makes Burns crash, rather than land, the plane in Cuba. Smithers and Homer actually share a ThisIsGonnaSuck moment when they figure this out one scene beforehand.

* RidiculousProcrastinator: Inverted. Ned Flanders begins preparing his taxes ''after midnight on New Year's Day''. Played straight with just about everyone else in Springfield, who only start filing their taxes at the last minute, and the reason Homer's whole dilemma occurs is because he was the one who waited the most out of the whole city (rushingly bundling all of his badly-filled forms into a bundle shaped like a football (which made it roll into the audit bin at the IRS) and actually having to toss it into the outgoing mail pile through the closing office's doors).

* Hypocrite: Burns was chosen to deliver the dollar bill because he was one of the most trusted men in America to do the job. Not only does he ''not'' do that, believing it's his patriotic duty to perform said theft, but other episodes (NegativeContinuity aside) have mentioned that he was a '''Nazi collaborator'''.

* 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, was shocked to learn that [[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."

* AbusiveAdvertisement: The Duff ad in Cuba with Che Guevara has the slogan "El Duff-o o muerte (or death)". Considering that it's on a communist nation that executes prisoners...

%%* IntimidatingRevenueService

* OhCrap[=/=]ThisIsGonnaSuck: The [[http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_image.php?tv-show=simpsons&image=s09e20_196 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.

* RidiculousProcrastinator: Inverted. Ned Flanders begins preparing his taxes ''after midnight on New Year's Day''. Played straight with just about everyone else in Springfield, who only start filing their taxes at the last minute.

* RidiculousProcrastinator: Inverted. Ned Flanders begins preparing his taxes ''after midnight on New Year's Day''.

* OutOfCharacter: Lisa has this line relating to the trillion dollar bill:
-->'''Lisa:''' Screw college, let's buy dune buggies!

Homer (like 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.

Homer (like most of us in 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.

-->'''Homer''': Okay, Marge, if anyone asks you require 24-hour nursing care, Lisa's a clergyman, Maggie is seven people, and Bart was wounded in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]]!

-->'''Lisa:''': No, it makes you look like a tool of government oppression.\\
'''Homer:''': But not fat.

* 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.

-->'''Lisa:''': Screw college, let's buy dune buggies!

-->'''Mr. Burns:''' And if it's a crime to bribe a jury, then so help me, I'll soon be guilty of that!

-->'''Lisa:''' No, it makes you look like a tool of government oppression.\\
'''Homer:''' But not fat.

** Mr. Burns simply gives the dollar bill to the president of Cuba, who is an extremely corrupt man. When Mr. Burns asks him to give it back, the president just asks what, taking the money away and putting Mr. Burns, Smithers, and Homer on a meager rack in the middle of the ocean.

* 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 [[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."

--> And if it's a crime to bribe a jury, then so help me, I'll soon be guilty of that!