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Mountain of Madness
P-code: 4F10
Episode Index: 08×12
Writers: John Swartzwelder
Directors: Mark Kirkland
Airdate: 2nd February, 1997
Guest stars: None
Average Fan Rating: 4.0 (112 ratings, 2 reviews)
Plot Guide
To enforce teamwork, Mr. Burns has his Nuclear Power Plant employees pair up to climb a mountain with the motive that the last person to the top would be fired. Homer is paired up with Burns, so they cheat. The two get to the top first where a cabin is waiting for them. While reminiscing about their victory, several avalanches unload on the cabin leaving it buried under many feet of snow.
After hours of being locked up in the cabin, Mr. Burns and Homer begin to go crazy. Aiming for Homer's head, Mr. Burns hits the heat pipe rocketing the cabin out of the snow. The employees pile in, and Mr. Burns, knowing his crew had learned a valuable lesson, proclaimed that no one would be fired.
Memorable Quotes
Mr. Burns: We need some excitement around here!
Smithers: Chinese checkers or domestic, sir?
Mr. Burns: No, no. Something fun. Something the men will enjoy... like a safety drill! But what kind? Meltdown alert? Mad dog drill? Blimp attack? Ah... I think a good old-fashioned fire drill today.
Mr. Burns: Is it supposed to take this long? What's a good time for a mass evacuation of the entire plant?
Smithers: Forty five seconds.
Mr. Burns: And what's our time so far?
Smithers: I don't know, sir. This stopwatch only goes up to fifteen minutes.
Marge: Don't worry, kids. This is a national park. We can have lots of fun!
Ranger: Oh, I'm afraid that's no longer true, ma'am. Budget cutbacks have forced us to eliminate anything the least bit entertaining.
Smithers: Now pair off as I draw your names. Lenny and... Carl.
Carl: Aw nuts! (Lenny looks upset) I mean, uh... Aw nuts.
Smithers: Sir, this can't be right. You assured me this drawing was rigged so we'd be teammates.
Mr. Burns: Yes, well, frankly, you've been a bit of a pill lately.
Smithers: Why do we always fight on vacation?
Bart: I have a watch with a minute hand.
Smithers: All right, you can come. What time is it?
Bart: 12:80. No wait. Wait. What comes after 12?
Smithers: One.
Bart: No, after twelve!
Marge: Excuse me, sir? I can't find my children.
Ranger: Have you checked the woods?
Marge: No.
Ranger: Hmm. Follow me. We'll take the chair lift. It'll give us an eagle-eye view of the area directly beneath the chair lift.
Homer: You know, Mr. Burns, you're the richest guy I know. Way richer than Lenny.
Mr. Burns: Oh yes. But I'd trade it all for a little more.
Bart: Sharing is a bunch of bull, too. And helping others. And what's all this crap I've been hearing about tolerance?
Homer: Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Homer: I think I won, Mr. Burns.
Mr. Burns: (menacingly) Yes, you won, all right. You won more than you bargained for...
Homer: Woohoo!
Mr. Burns: Tell me, Simpson. If an opportunity arose for taking a small shortcut, you wouldn't be adverse to taking it, would you?
Homer: Uhh, not as such.
Mr. Burns: Neither would I. I've always felt that there's far too much hysteria these days about so-called cheating. If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it. Why should the race always be to the swift or the jumble to the quick-witted? Should they be allowed to win merely because of the gifts God gave them? Well, I say cheating is the gift man gives himself!
Homer: Mr. Burns, I insist that we cheat.
Mr. Burns: Excellent.
Mr. Burns: Oh, yes, sitting. The great leveler. From the mightiest Pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?
Carl: According to the map, the cabin should be right here.
Lenny: Hey, maybe there is no cabin. Maybe it's one of them metaphorical things.
Carl: Oh yeah, yeah... Like maybe the cabin is the place inside each of us, created by our goodwill and teamwork.
Lenny: Oh! ...Nah, they said there would be sandwiches.
Homer: We could build snowmen.
Mr. Burns: No, I have a better idea! We could build real men, out of snow!
Lisa: Mr. Smithers, Mr. Smithers! I found another injured shrew. I think this one has a twisted ankle.
Smithers: Twisted ank... Aren't there any healthy animals in this forest?
Mr Burns: Look at those snowmen in our warm clothes. Mocking us.
Homer: Uh, they're just snowmen, Mr. Burns.
Mr Burns: Oh snowmen have peepers, peepers to watch...watch for your moment of weakness then BAM!
Homer: Aah, what do we do?
Mr Burns: (menacingly) Oh, wouldn't you like to know?
Lenny: Hey, we're the first two here, and it's all thanks to teamwork.
Carl: Yeah, my teamwork.
Did You Spot...
- The teamworking exercise is held at ''Mt. Useful''.
- Zutroy (the illegal immigrant) still works at the plant.
- Lenny falls into a hole after being fired, as he did in ''Burns Heir''.
- The Simpsons' car hit eight others before it stopped on the ice .
- The ''rocket house'' hits a squirrel as it slides down the mountain.
References/Parodies
- Two of the employees names read out were Haney and Drucker - two characters from ''Green Acres''.
Season 8 quick links
- Treehouse of Horror VII
- You Only Move Twice
- The Homer They Fall
- Burns, Baby Burns
- Bart After Dark
- A Milhouse Divided
- Lisa's Date with Density
- Hurricane Neddy
- El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)
- The Springfield Files
- The Twisted World of Marge Simpson
- Mountain of Madness
- Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious
- The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
- Homer's Phobia
- Brother from Another Series
- My Sister, My Sitter
- Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment
- Grade School Confidential
- The Canine Mutiny
- The Old Man and the Lisa
- In Marge We Trust
- Homer's Enemy
- The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase
- The Secret War of Lisa Simpson
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