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"Monty Can't Buy Me Love" is the twenty-first episode of The Simpsons' tenth season. The episode aired on May 2, 1999.

Synopsis

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It's a normal afternoon, and Marge wants Homer, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie to go for a walk. They do, and apparently arrive at a Fortune Megastore, a venture of wealthy Springfieldian Arthur Fortune (modelled on British entrepreneur Richard Branson), who gives every one of his customers a dollar each. This embarrasses Mr. Burns, who shows up at the opening. He sees Homer, and asks him to help him to be loved by all.

As his first activity, Burns makes Homer throw silver dollars from the top of a tall building, which causes injuries. Next, he tries to make Homer donate money to the Springfield Hospital, mindful that it was Homer who made the donation. Mr. Burns appears on a radio show parodying Howard Stern, called "Jerry Rude and the Bathroom Bunch", and says many rude things. Feeling disappointed, Mr. Burns makes his newest plan, which is to go to Scotland to capture the legendary Loch Ness Monster, and they bring along Professor Frink and Groundskeeper Willie. With Mr. Burns' help, the monster is captured and sent to Springfield to be unveiled.

However, when the monster is being unveiled, Burns is being blinded by flash pictures, and as a result, he runs into a camera, which crashes, allowing fires to happen. In the aftermath of the incident, Homer and Burns agree to have Nessie get a job at Mr Burns's casino.

Trivia

• This episode was rated TV-14 DL, the second time for The Simpsons.
• In line at the antiques appraisal show are:
  Herman with a German military helmet
  Dr. Hibbert with a vase
  Miss Hoover with some books
  Comic Book Guy with a copy of "Sad Sack"
  Krusty scratching his back with a menorah
  Apu with a statue of Ganesh
  Principal Skinner with an old blunderbuss-bellshaped musket.
• Nessie appears to work at the casino created in the earlier episode, $pringfield.

Cultural references

• The title is a pun on the Beatles' song Can't Buy Me Love, whose refrain is "Money can't buy me love". A cover of the song appeared in the previous episode.
• The antiques appraisal TV show "Cash In Your Legacy" is a parody of Antiques Roadshow.
• When the family visits the new MegaStore, Bart asks Homer for money. Homer then hands Bart, Lisa and Marge money much like in the intro of Married... with Children where Al hands money to Bud (his son), Kelly (his daughter), Peg (his wife), and Buck (the family dog).
• Mr.Burns's press conference falling apart when all of the flashbulbs go off is reminiscent of King Kong.
• Bart derailing the train with a penny and having the penny smooshed flat is a reference to Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King. In the introduction to the book, King talks about lies his friends told him as a child, among which were; a penny getting hit by a train would be flattened, and another telling him it would de-rail the train, leading him to the conclusion that it did both.

Goofs

• In this episode Groundskeeper Willie meets his father. However, in the episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One", when Willie is tending to the school hamster's burial, he says "You're lucky you're getting a decent burial. Me own father got thrown in the bog". Previously, in "I Love Lisa", Willie sobs to Skinner during Ralph's death scene in the George Washington play, "I dinna cry when my old man was hung for stealin' a pig."

External links

• "Monty Can't Buy Me Love episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.
• "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" at IMDb

• The Simpsons episodes, season 10