Rachel and I can sit and watch this Simpsons nugget from season 3:
At the plant, the ceiling collapses, and the repairs to bring it up to code will cost $100 million. Burns pays the owners a visit...
Burns: [begging] Please sell me my plant back. I'll pay anything.
Horst: Isn't this a happy coincidence! You are desperate to buy, and we are desperate to sell.
Burns: [calculatingly] Desperate, eh? ... Advantage: Burns!
-- Reversal of fortune, ``Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk''
Burns plays hardball, managing to repurchase the plant for only $50 million. The Germans reluctantly agree...
Horst: [threatingly] We Germans aren't all smiles und sunshine.
Burns: [recoils in mock horror]
Oooh, the Germans are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the Germans!
[hiding behind Smithers] Uh oh, the Germans are going to get me!
Horst: Stop it!
Man 2: Stop, sir.
Burns: Don't let the Germans come after me.
Oh no, the Germans are coming after me.
Man 2: Please stop the `pretending you are scared' game, please.
Horst: Stop it! Stop it!
Burns: [brief pause, then resumes]
No! They're so big and strong!
Man 2: Stop it.
Horst: Stop it, Mr. Burns.
Man 2: Please stop pretending you are scared of us, please, now.
Burns: Oh, protect me from the Germans! The Germans...
Horst: Burns, STOP IT!
-- ``Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk''
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