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Episode - 3F14
Commencement Aired - 2/25/1996

Smithers goes on vacation later having a mental breakdown over not being able to save Burns from being harassed past a drunken Lenny. Homer takes Smithers' identify every bit Mr. Burns' assistant, simply all the abuse Homer takes from Mr. Burns causes him to snap and dial the onetime man in the confront, which drives Mr. Burns to be more self-reliant.

Tropes:

• Achievements in Ignorance: Homer manages to light a bowl of cereal on burn by pouring milk on it.
• The Alcoholic: Barney is this to the point where distracting him while Moe accepts the next shipment has become a paying task. Without a lark, Barney will accept and drink the entire shipment in just a few seconds.
• Ambiguously Gay: Smithers goes on vacation to a resort that seems to have gay men only and doesn't permit pictures to be taken.
• And I Must Scream: A more mild example of this trope happens near the end; Mr. Burns ends up in a total body cast and is bedridden, unable to move any part of his body except his face. Granted, he only seems mildly bellyaching by his predicament, merely given his pronounced frailty, he'd probably be stuck similar that for a pretty long time...
• Antagonistic Offspring: Mr. Burns does not go along with his 122-year-old mother. She apparently had an affair with President Taft, for which he's never forgiven her, and he tried to pull her life support. Surprisingly, she not only pulled through, she's lived for v decades.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Smithers explains his 2800 small jobs to Homer, who is filling in for him while he goes on vacation: "Your new duties will include answering Mr. Burns' telephone, preparing his revenue enhancement return, moistening his eyeballs, assisting with his chewing and swallowing, lying to Congress, and some light typing."
• Bad Dominate: Mr. Burns, simply this time, Homer gives him a black center for it. Even so, instead of firing him, Burns thanks him for forcing him to be cocky-sufficient.
• Bunko:
  • Later Lisa comments that Smithers would probably become a job anywhere, the scene cuts to a sign reading AT&T. A zoom out reveals that the full sign reads "Neat & Tidy Piano Movers".
  • Smithers tries to wait upwards incompetent employees to accept over his job as Mr. Burns' servant. He gets 714 results, so he adds additional parameters ("lazy, clumsy, dimwitted, monstrously ugly") as if edifice upwardly to the computer recommending Homer. Instead, the number of results don't actually alter, and so Smithers gives upwards on this and but selects Homer at the spur of the moment.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: When their plan is botched, Smithers attacks Homer in a rage and goads him to fight back. Bad idea.

  Smithers: Stop fighting similar a daughter, Simpson!

  Homer: Okay... [Slugs Smithers in the confront difficult]

• Beleaguered Assistant: The episode has Homer accept Smithers' identify every bit this while he's on vacation.
• Berserk Button: Mr. Burns may not like his female parent, but he'due south however furious at Homer'due south attempted impersonation of her.
• Bungled Suicide: Convinced he's a failure, Smithers tries to drown himself in the office water cooler. Burns merely holds downward the pump until it'due south empty of water.
• Captain Oblivious: Lenny comes up to Burns' car to cheerfully thank his boss for sponsoring a night at the ballpark, unwittingly terrifying the rich quondam homo with a thumbs-up.
• Comically Missing the Signal:
  • Homer'south theory on why he was called as Smithers' substitute.

    Homer: Smithers chose me to comprehend for him considering of my motivational skills. I've been told everybody has to work harder when I'1000 around.

  • While impersonating Mr. Burns' female parent, Homer is under the impression even she calls him "Mr. Burns."
• Continuity Nod:
  • When mentioning Homer to Mr. Burns, Smithers states that "all the recent events in your life have revolved around him in some fashion."
  • Bobo, Mr. Burns' teddy comport from "Rosebud", appears near the end of the episode.
  • This is the 2nd time Homer snapped and viciously attacked Mr. Burns.
• Contrived Coincidence:
  • Homer tries to enquire Smithers about what he should do in instance of burn down in Mr. Burns' function, but Smithers can't hear him as he leaves. No sooner than that, a fire starts.

    Homer: Aw, just my luck...

  • Apparently, Moe'southward Tavern's phone number spells out "Smithers" (7-648-4377).
• Couch Gag: The family drives around the room in go-karts while wearing Shriner fezzes. They line up in front end of the couch and honk their horns simultaneously.
• Defeat Equals Friendship:
  • After Homer punches him, Burns is initially scared of Homer. However over time when he becomes cocky-reliant, he thanks Homer and even puts him dorsum to work at his old job.
  • This happens once again betwixt Homer and Smithers. Later on the fight between Smithers and Homer leads Homer to knock Burns out the window accidentally and put him in traction, Burns orders Smithers to make certain that Homer gets "exactly what he deserves." Smithers, who is now dorsum to waiting on Burns mitt and foot, does so by sending the Simpsons a large basket of fruit with the words "Thank You."
• Depending upon the Undependable: Smithers makes Homer his substitute as Mr. Burns's assistant and caretaker while he went on vacation, expecting him to screw up so badly that Mr. Burns would get more dependent on him. While Homer does indeed live up to expectations, this backfires on Smithers, as it causes Mr. Burns to become more independent out of necessity and he fires Smithers.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Moe follows up on his end of the Running Gag of giving Bart a death threat in response to a prank call. ...Except information technology was Burns sincerely calling for Smithers.
• Drives Similar Crazy: Mr. Burns' attempts at driving by himself are pretty hazardous.

  Principal Wiggum: That'south some overnice reckless driving, Mr. B!

• Easily Forgiven: Afterwards their fight winds up putting Mr. Burns in a full body bandage (thus making him need Smithers again,) Smithers responds by sending Homer a fruit basket.
• Ballsy Neglect:
  • Homer somehow setting fire to Mr. Burns' bowl of cereal—later pouring milk and cereal into a bowl like any of us would usually exercise. Information technology's the present image for its Western Animation page.
  • Smithers' attempted suicide: dunking his caput within of the reservoir of a h2o libation to drown himself. All Burns needs to exercise to end it is press the water dispenser button until information technology drains.
  • Smithers' entire plan of picking Homer equally a substitute so that he wouldn't be outshined every bit Burns' assistant. Instead of making Smithers seem indispensable, Homer's incompetence (and afterward violence) forces Mr. Burns to take intendance of himself for a modify. When Smithers returns, Homer merely returns to his previous job at the plant while Smithers is fired considering he'due south not needed any more than at all.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Burns learns to respect his underlings subsequently getting punched in the face. He also stops Smithers' attempted suicide and insists he takes a vacation.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Burns panics when he gets approached by Lenny, assertive that he came with sick intent, missing all the obvious cues that Lenny only showed up to personally thank him for the fun evening.
• Exact Words:
  • While at a public phone at the resort where he'due south vacationing, Smithers tells Mr. Burns he has to end the call because there'south a line behind him. It's a conga line.
  • Burns orders Smithers to give Homer "exactly what he deserves." For Smithers, this means sending Homer a giant basket of fruit thanking him for leaving Burns dependent on him again.
• Failed Attempt at Drama: Smithers' bungled endeavour at suicide. Burns spends the few seconds he takes to end it with a "what the hell is incorrect with you, man?" expect on his confront.
• Failure Montage: Homer tries to brand Mr. Burns' breakfast, and screws up every single time. All meals grab fire, even a elementary bowl of cereal. Later, Smithers fails to keep any new job he gets.
• Faux Horrific: While Smithers steps out for a moment, leaving Mr. Burns alone in his car, a drunken merely friendly Lenny comes to thank him. To Burns, Lenny looks like an attacker, and even talks about "the glint of murder in his eye" on the ride domicile.
• Foreshadowing: The opening has Mr. Burns relying on Smithers for everything, even moreso than usual.
• For Want of a Nail:
  • By snapping and punching out Mr. Burns, Homer inadvertently made Mr. Burns learn to take intendance of himself, causing him to fire Smithers the 2nd he gets dorsum.
  • As well, Homer and Smithers' fight near the end winds up resetting the status quo due to them knocking over the stuffed comport Mr. Burns was hiding on top of, knocking him out the window.
• Gone Horribly Correct: Smithers chooses Homer to be his temporary replacement based on the theory that he'll show and then monstrously incompetent that he won't take Smithers' job permanently. It works; Homer proves to be such a terrible assistant that Mr. Burns has no choice but to become cocky-sufficient, resulting in him not needing Smithers anymore.
• Hand Wave: Smithers needs to notice a temporary replacement who won't outperform him. When he searches the employee database using keywords such as "incompetent," "lazy," and "monstrously ugly," and the search turns up 714 names:

  "Ahh, nuts to this, I'll simply go get Homer Simpson."

• Hypocritical Humour: At one point, Homer is so slumber-deprived that Bart tries to take reward of it by making him practise his math homework. Lisa tells him to "leave Simpson alone"... before telling Homer that she needs a ride to the library.
• Impossible Task: Mr. Burns asks Homer to prepare him a Dodo egg for him to eat. Homer correctly points out that Dodos are extinct.
• Incompetence, Inc.: Looking through the personnel computer files for incompetent employees gets 714 results. Looking through the computer files again, adding very precise search details like "monstrously ugly", still gets 714 results. Smithers, fed upwards, decides to just become Homer.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Mr. Burns is right, Homer is utterly useless as an assistant. Though this was the reason Smithers gave him the position in the first place.
• Kevlard: Smithers' fist gets stuck in Homer's tum, which prompts Homer to express joy and push Smithers' head. Until he gets angry and bites, at which point they both split.
• Made of Incendium: Homer tries to brand breakfast for Burns only to repeatedly prepare it on burn down. Fifty-fifty when he pours a bowl of corn flakes and milk.
• Mistaken for Prank Call: Mr. Burns tries to phone call Smithers but doesn't know how telephones piece of work and mistakenly calls Moe's Tavern. Moe, having been tormented for years past Bart'due south prank calls, thinks Mr. Burns is pranking him.
• Mood Whiplash: Homer humorously struggles to keep up while substituting every bit Mr. Burns' personal assistant, until he punches Burns in a fit of rage.
• My God, What Have I Washed?: Homer is admittedly horrified when he punches Mr. Burns out, and runs home immediately believing he actually killed the old homo.
• Never My Fault: When Homer and Smithers are caught by Burns, who chews them out, Homer merely tells Smithers he "blew it". This is the last straw for Smithers.
• Noodle Incident: Smithers explains to Homer that Mr. Burns' relationship with his female parent is strained, explaining that he hasn't forgiven her since her affair with President Taft. Also, there'due south this exchange he has while having a phone chat with "her":

  Mr. Burns: Oh, hello, Mater. Distressing about pulling the plug on you. Who knew that you lot would pull through and... live for some other five decades. Boy, is my face up red!

• Oh, Crap!:
  • Homer when he punched out Mr. Burns.
  • Also Moe's reaction when he realizes Barney'southward escaped to go at the midnight beer delivery. And the delivery men when they finally observe that the man who approached them is Barney.

    Commitment Homo: Beer delivery, sign hither... Oh no! IT'S YOU!

• One-Hit Impale: "One-Striking Knockout" variant. Because Burns is canonically absurdly weak, Homer's single punch the moment he can't take Burns' insults anymore knocks him out flat for a long while and really makes Homer believe for a moment that he had killed him.
• Overly Narrow Pinnacle: Averted Trope. The attempt past Smithers to obtain an incredibly incompetent employee past searching through the plant's files using several keywords nonetheless manages to bring upward the files for every employee in the plant. In his exasperation, he merely goes for Homer.
• Pet the Canis familiaris: The episode begins with Mr. Burns hosting an event at the race track for his employees, and everything is on his dime, no less!
  • After Smithers has a mental breakdown, Burns insists that he take a holiday. When Smithers calls him, Burns insists that Smithers stop worrying and but savour vacation- and shows interest in his activities.
• "Psycho" Strings: When Homer realizes he knocked out Mr. Burns.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • Burns' endless barrage of requests and belittling make Homer mad enough to punch his lights out (and actually believe for a moment that he killed him). The resulting fright of Homer forces Burns to become cocky-sufficient, and because of this he decides to fire Smithers (who put Homer on the secretary position hoping information technology would force Burns to inquire for his return faster).
  • Post-obit getting fired and a long list of failed attempts at new jobs, Smithers is willing to keep with wacky scheme with Homer to get his chore back. When Homer bungles information technology and gets him chewed out by Burns, Homer adds salt to the wound by telling a gutted Smithers how bad he blew information technology this fourth dimension. Smithers snaps upon this and attacks Homer for repeatedly ruining his livelihood. Given the aforementioned crap Homer suffered because of Smithers before still, he's more than than willing to fight back.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Burns has been in dependent on Smithers for and so long that, once Homer has fled his office, he struggles to do the well-nigh bones things for himself.
  • Attempting to dial upwardly Smithers on the phone, all he can think to practice is to enter his last name on the keypad, resulting in what Moe's Tavern thinks is another crank telephone call from Bart.
  • When Homer pokes his head back in, Burns assures him he's fine, and he's even made his own java - and there's a half-empty hundred-pound sack of beans on the floor in front of his desk to prove information technology.
• Self-Penalty Over Failure: Waylon Smithers (who had already showcased himself to be absurdly loyal to Mr. Burns) takes his failure to protect Burns from a drunk (simply very friendly) Lenny and accidentally not letting Mr. Burns be able to do a Junior Jumble (because he laminated the newspaper) and then badly that he tries to drown himself in a water cooler. Mr. Burns then demands Smithers take a holiday, which makes things worse for both of them.
• Springtime for Hitler: Out of fear his place every bit Mr. Burns' banana would be taken past someone who'd eclipse him, Smithers gives Homer the job. Homer is so incompetent (and violent) that Mr. Burns decides to do things by himself. Past the time Smithers returns from his holiday, Mr. Burns has decided he no longer needs an banana.
• Potent Family Resemblance: Mrs. Burns looks like an older and more than decrepit version of her son, complete with a very similarly-shaped nose.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • The merely reason Smithers puts up with Mr. Burns treating him similar garbage is that he's and then obsessively in honey with him. Whatever other person in the world who experiences that kind of corruption won't take long to achieve a breaking point and lash out, as Homer does.
  • While trying to find a new chore, Smithers applies for a job moving pianos. Equally his former task assisting Mr. Burns requires very little physical labor, he quickly ends up in the hospital with a spinal injury.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Mr. Burns avoids talking to his mother because he never forgave her for having an affair with William Howard Taft.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Lenny's drunken antics kicking off the unabridged plot when he inadvertently scares Mr. Burns, causing Smithers to endure a mental breakdown over his failure to protect his dominate.
• Wrong Line of Piece of work: Later getting fired, Smithers briefly works as the journalist at the Springfield Dragway. However, his stern nature is and so incompatible that he gets thrown out of the journalist's booth off-photographic camera.
• You Are Amend Than You lot Think You Are: Smithers thinks about accepting Moe's "Barney Blocker" job when Homer intervenes.

  Homer: You lot can't let yourself end upwardly in a place similar this. Yous can give up on yourself and accept the Barney-guarding job, like then many of us have contemplated in our darkest moments, or you tin admit to yourself in that location's only 1 person that tin make you lot happy and do any information technology takes to get them back!

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