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The bidding stands at $8 million.
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Nine million.
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Ten million.
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11 million!
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$15 million.
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Joan Miró's The Poetess,
going once, going twice, sold.
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To billionaire tech mogul
Megan Matheson.
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- Hmph.
- [SHUDDERS]
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[GROANS]
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[GROWLS]
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Don't take that painting, I love it!
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I won't let you take it!
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There you have it, Ms. Matheson,
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Joan Miró's The Poetess.
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[GASPS]
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My painting's been stolen.
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That's impossible.
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It's a mystery so baffling,
only one man can solve it.
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Get me Manacek.
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[RINGING]
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[BANACEK THEME SONG PLAYING]
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- Sync and corrections by ByDem -
- www.addic7ed.com -
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♪ ♪
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Thank goodness you're here, Mr. Manacek.
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You're the best freelance
insurance investigator
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in the business.
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Oh, well, isn't that just what we need?
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Some smug pretty boy out to
make us cops look stupid.
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Ah, Clancy, you're looking well...
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- fed.
- Uh... see?
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He put that pause between
those two words deliberately.
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Maybe I did, maybe I... didn't.
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Well, two can play at that...
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pause.
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Three people bid on
the stolen painting:
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Nuclear magnate Mr. Burns,
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venture capitalist Megan Matheson
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and mini golf cheat Homer Simpson.
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They're all suspects.
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I don't mind telling you, Manacek:
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I hope you fall flat on your face.
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[CHUCKLING]: Oh.
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I hope not.
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My mother's rather fond of it.
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Damn your wit.
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♪ ♪
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[SIGHS] Look, Manacek, I don't
know why you're talking to me.
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It's my painting that was stolen.
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Yes, but you insured
a $15 million painting
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for $30 million.
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For a woman with a head
for numbers, it doesn't add up.
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You smug son of a bitch.
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[LAUGHS]
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I like you, Manacek.
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But you should be talking
to the real painting thief:
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The man I outbid, Montgomery Burns.
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That's quite a workout you're getting.
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Although, I can think of a better one.
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Sorry, but I'm in a
committed relationship
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with the former Miss Denmark.
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She's created a breed of
mosquito that cures malaria.
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Well, if she invents a cure
for commitment, let me know.
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Pull.
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Shoot.
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Nice shot, Mr. Burns.
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You're a natural in the
ancient art of skeet.
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Oh, spare me your flattery, Manacek.
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I know why you're here.
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You think I stole that
ridiculous painting.
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Absurd.
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A little clay pigeon told me
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that you couldn't stand
being outbid by... a woman.
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Pull, pull, pull!
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Looks like the only thing
being hit around here...
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is a nerve.
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I'll blast that smile
right off your smug face.
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[LAUGHS]
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I like you, Manacek.
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But it's obvious who took the painting.
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That lunatic who said he'd
do anything to have it:
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Homer Simpson.
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I... Did you bring that with you?
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It's inflatable.
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I got it at Brookstone.
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I don't know what help I can be
with your case, Mr. Manacek.
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As you can see, I'm a very busy man.
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[IMITATING BEEPING SOUNDS]
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According to my sources... Lenny...
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you were obsessed with that painting.
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I myself was once obsessed
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with a suede sports jacket
with leather pockets.
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I would have done anything to get it.
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Even steal a painting.
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Me? Obsessed with some stupid painting?
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That's absurd.
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[YELPS]
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- Is it?
- You're right.
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I'd do anything to have that painting.
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Lie, kill, steal. Well, not kill.
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But I would steal it,
and then lie about it.
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But I didn't steal it.
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And I'm not lying.
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Believe me, or I'll kill you.
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[CHUCKLES]
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I like you, Manacek.
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I'll kill you!
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[CHUCKLES]
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I like you.
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Mr. Simpson, there's more to your story
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than you're letting on.
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And I'm gonna find out what.
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Please don't.
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[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
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[DOORBELL RINGS]
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Wow.
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The pizza delivery boys get
better looking all the time.
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I'm Homer Simpson's wife.
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I love wives. They never
pester you to marry them.
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Geez, you've got a lot of lines.
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You will too, after I show
you my corduroy sheets.
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Mr. Manacek, my husband is a wreck.
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Please, just give me a chance
to convince you he's innocent.
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Only if it's over dinner.
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Uh, okay.
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More Frito pie, Mr. Manacek?
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[SIGHS]
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Sure, why not?
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If he's not guilty of
stealing that painting,
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why is Homer cowering on the stairs,
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eating cereal straight from the box?
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[WHIMPERING]
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Well, Homer's so quick to panic.
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It's his only flaw.
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Marge, I need you to
be straight with me.
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Okay, I admit it, he has many flaws.
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Thousands. Flaws.
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Everywhere, flaws.
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Your husband doesn't really
seem like a typical art lover,
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but he shows exquisite
taste in the female form.
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Hey, Front Pockets,
quit hitting on my mom.
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She only loves one stocky man
in tight pants: Our dad.
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Sorry, I can only solve
impossible crimes
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if I'm seducing an amazing woman.
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It's my process.
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I'll tell you everything
I know about Homer
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for one of those Tiparillos.
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No Tiparillos.
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BOTH: [SCOFFS] Women.
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[CHUCKLES]
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I like you, Manacek.
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So let me clue you in on the real story
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about my dad and that painting.
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Homer was chaperoning my class
field trip to the art museum,
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and he was not happy about it.
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Come on, come on. Hurry up in there.
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Three to a urinal.
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No hand washing, or we'll
be late for lunch.
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[GROANS]
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Hmm?
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HOMER: Sheesh, look at
that stupid painting.
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What is it even supposed to be?
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Art should be of pretty ladies,
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hunting dogs with dead
rabbits, Bible crap
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and 3-D sidewalk drawings
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where it looks like you could fall in.
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[WHIRRING]
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HOMER: I get it.
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I... get... it.
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Mr. Simpson, some of the
kids went to the gift shop.
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We were only supposed
to bring five dollars,
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but some brought more.
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Wha-Wha... What?
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Oh, right. Chaperone.
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Hmm... mmm?
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This is warm beer.
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That's an '07 Michelob.
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Homer was saving it
for a special occasion.
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Mmm. Yes.
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My husband just couldn't stop
thinking about that painting.
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[LAUGHING]
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[GIGGLES]
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[BELCHES]
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[HUMMING]
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[EXHALES]
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Wha...? Honey,
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I love a painting.
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Oh, what is it of? Grapes?
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- No.
- Flowers?
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- No.
- Peaches?
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No.
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You sure it's a painting?
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I'm positive. I touched it
when no one was looking.
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Well, there's nothing wrong
with being an art lover
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as long as it's representational.
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Mmm...
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It is representational, isn't it?
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- [GROANS]
- Tell me it's representational.
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- [GROANS]
- What else about our marriage is a lie?
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Are you really a licensed DJ?
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I took the courses,
but I failed the test!
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A blue-collar Joe suddenly
likes modern art?
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That story and two bits
will get you a cup of coffee.
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What year do you think it is?
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Hey, who's the shamus here?
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I'm telling you, deep down,
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my dad is really sensitive.
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- [HONKS SAXOPHONE]
- [SCREAMS]
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[PANTING]
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Oh, good, you're awake.
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You're the only one I can
talk to about... this.
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I know that painting.
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It's called The Poetess by Joan Miró.
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Why does it bring me such peace?
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Why?!
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See? Even though the
painting is abstract,
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that yellow circle can
represent the sun.
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HOMER: Or Pac-Man at rest.
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Dad, you think art sucks.
Snap out of it.
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HOMER: Wow. I mean, wow.
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Every time I look at it
from a different angle,
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- I see something new.
- [GROANS]
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I just want to take a moment
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to acknowledge that for the first time,
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you're dragging me into the museum.
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Yeah, it's a Topsy-turvy world.
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Beach volleyball's bigger
than regular volleyball.
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Sorry, pally. Sorry, gally.
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But the museum's closed down for good.
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- [GASPS]
- [GASPS] Can we go in and look
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at our favorite painting one last time?
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It's called The Poetess.
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Oh, it's right there, inside the crate
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that's going to the auction house,
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where a billionaire will buy it
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and you'll never see it again.
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Oh, and I'll have to take that, too.
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[HOMER WHIMPERS]
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Now museum, now you don't.
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The Springfield Museum of Fine Art
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is the latest victim of
this city's budget woes.
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The storied institution
has closed its doors forever.
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Its legendary art collection
will be sold at auction
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and its docents released into the wild.
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The closure is being protested
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by a coalition of local art lovers
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and homeless bathroom users.
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[CHANTING]: Picasso, Goya,
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Cézanne, Dalí,
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selling off artwork
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would be folly.
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[ALL CHEER]
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We're here, Vermeer, get used to it!
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People, people. Government is about
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making tough choices.
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This was not one of them.
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Museum attendance was near zero.
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We lost thousands on stolen audio wands.
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What do people want with wands?
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These wands
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are putting the hurt on these walnuts.
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MAN [OVER WAND]: Notice how
Edward Hopper's use of windows
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invites the viewer into the scene
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but also keeps them at bay.
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- [WAND CHIMES]
- [GRUNTS]
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But Mayor Quimby,
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the Springfield Museum of Fine Art,
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or SMOFA, was a jewel.
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SMOFA was the one institution
of genuine culture
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our town could be proud of.
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Stop saying SMOFA.
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It never caught on.
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Um, excuse me, Mayor SMOFA.
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I'm not like these brainy
tote bags over here.
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I like my crusts stuffed,
my martial arts mixed,
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and my movies fully Sandler-ed.
279
00:13:13,357 --> 00:13:15,657
But there's this painting
from that museum,
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and when I really look at it,
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only one word explains what I feel.
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- What is it again?
- [WHISPERS]
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- Transgender.
- [WHISPERS]
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Transcendent.
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Transcendence doesn't fill potholes
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or educate our children.
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Did you know we had to lay off
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a third of the police force?
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00:13:33,911 --> 00:13:35,744
That's right. Eddie.
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00:13:36,813 --> 00:13:38,446
I used to have a gun.
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[GRUNTS]
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Fine, sell the artwork.
293
00:13:44,821 --> 00:13:47,055
Let's move on to the next protest:
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Too many poke restaurants.
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00:13:50,827 --> 00:13:52,694
[CHANTING]: Poke is just okay.
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Poke is just okay.
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At Water's Edge by Paul Cézanne,
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sold for $65 million.
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00:14:02,239 --> 00:14:05,540
Yeah! I'm as happy as Steve Martin.
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00:14:05,576 --> 00:14:09,010
It's... Oh, God, no.
301
00:14:10,414 --> 00:14:13,848
Our last item is The
Poetess by Joan Miró.
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00:14:13,884 --> 00:14:16,751
The bidding starts at $5 million.
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HOMER: I bid that.
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- What are you doing?
- I have a plan to get the painting.
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00:14:21,391 --> 00:14:23,024
$6 million.
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00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:25,360
WOMAN: I think we can
do better than that.
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00:14:26,597 --> 00:14:27,929
I need this painting
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00:14:27,965 --> 00:14:30,131
for my private monkey
sanctuary in Costa Rica.
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00:14:30,167 --> 00:14:33,535
The monkeys find the
colors quite arousing.
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$7 million.
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- Eight million.
- Nine million.
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Sir, we attempted to verify your funds
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at the First Bank of Moe's.
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00:14:41,445 --> 00:14:44,179
The man at the phone
threatened to boil our skulls
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and make them into...
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[INHALES] ...rat toilets.
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00:14:48,986 --> 00:14:51,219
- [GROANS]
- It's okay, Dad.
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00:14:51,254 --> 00:14:53,421
You just really loved that painting.
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The bidding stands at $8 million.
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- Nine million.
- Ten million.
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11 million.
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$15 million.
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Joan Miró's The Poetess going once...
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going twice... sold!
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To billionaire tech mogul
Megan Matheson.
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- Hmph.
- [SHUDDERS]
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[GROANS]
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[GROWLS]
329
00:15:18,315 --> 00:15:20,782
Don't take that painting, I love it!
330
00:15:20,817 --> 00:15:23,485
I won't let you take it!
331
00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,120
Your story had everything...
332
00:15:25,155 --> 00:15:27,956
a field trip, a dream
sequence, Sideshow Mel...
333
00:15:27,991 --> 00:15:30,725
and it gave your father
the perfect motive.
334
00:15:30,761 --> 00:15:32,160
TO STEAL THAT PAINTING:
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00:15:32,195 --> 00:15:34,429
A deeper connection to his daughter.
336
00:15:34,464 --> 00:15:36,998
Well, maybe, but I'm sure he's innocent.
337
00:15:37,034 --> 00:15:39,501
Mom, Lisa, 1970s horndog,
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Dad's run off.
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00:15:40,871 --> 00:15:42,537
He's on the lam!
340
00:15:42,572 --> 00:15:45,006
You know, once I send
your husband to prison,
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00:15:45,042 --> 00:15:47,575
you'll be kind of single.
342
00:15:47,611 --> 00:15:49,511
[CHUCKLES]
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MANACEK: It seems Homer
escaped out this window.
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Hmm.
345
00:15:57,684 --> 00:15:59,784
In all my years as an investigator,
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00:15:59,820 --> 00:16:02,420
I've never seen a trellis
take such a pounding.
347
00:16:02,456 --> 00:16:03,822
I know it looks bad,
348
00:16:03,857 --> 00:16:05,623
but think about what we told you.
349
00:16:05,659 --> 00:16:08,994
My husband could never
have stolen that painting.
350
00:16:09,029 --> 00:16:10,695
Hmm. Thank you, Marge.
351
00:16:10,731 --> 00:16:13,164
I now know exactly how
everything happened.
352
00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:14,599
How do you know that?
353
00:16:14,634 --> 00:16:16,134
I'll be happy to explain...
354
00:16:16,169 --> 00:16:17,836
over breakfast?
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00:16:17,871 --> 00:16:20,739
[GRUMBLES] You have a
real problem with women.
356
00:16:20,774 --> 00:16:23,641
I know. I'm seeing a therapist...
357
00:16:23,677 --> 00:16:26,011
tonight at my place.
358
00:16:26,046 --> 00:16:28,646
Oh, get out. Go, go!
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00:16:32,419 --> 00:16:34,486
[SIGHS]
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00:16:34,521 --> 00:16:37,322
White chocolate...
the loneliest chocolate.
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00:16:37,391 --> 00:16:39,824
MANACEK: Homer, I know you're in there.
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00:16:39,860 --> 00:16:41,493
[GASPS] How did you find me?
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00:16:41,528 --> 00:16:43,528
I knew you'd return to
the scene of the crime:
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00:16:43,563 --> 00:16:45,597
Where your inner peace was stolen.
365
00:16:45,632 --> 00:16:47,532
You can't bring me in. You're not a cop.
366
00:16:47,567 --> 00:16:50,001
You're not even a regular
insurance investigator.
367
00:16:50,037 --> 00:16:51,836
You're freelance. You don't get paid
368
00:16:51,872 --> 00:16:53,471
unless you submit an invoice.
369
00:16:53,507 --> 00:16:56,875
Which lets me control when
my corporate year ends.
370
00:16:56,910 --> 00:16:59,110
You're always one step ahead.
371
00:16:59,146 --> 00:17:00,612
[LAUGHS]
372
00:17:00,647 --> 00:17:02,914
I don't like you, Manacek.
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00:17:02,949 --> 00:17:04,949
Your family's story of
how you fell in love
374
00:17:04,985 --> 00:17:06,985
with that painting did
prove your innocence.
375
00:17:07,020 --> 00:17:09,554
- How?
- By providing one crucial fact:
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00:17:09,589 --> 00:17:11,322
You're too dumb to steal anything.
377
00:17:11,358 --> 00:17:12,724
Maybe I did take it.
378
00:17:12,759 --> 00:17:15,226
- Trust me, you didn't.
- I could have.
379
00:17:15,262 --> 00:17:17,462
But I know you didn't.
That's what I'm saying.
380
00:17:17,497 --> 00:17:19,631
- I'm smart.
- You're dumb.
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00:17:21,034 --> 00:17:23,334
After careful consideration
of facts and evidence
382
00:17:23,370 --> 00:17:24,736
observed only by me,
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00:17:24,771 --> 00:17:27,172
I can reveal who stole The Poetess:
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00:17:27,207 --> 00:17:28,673
Ms. Matheson.
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00:17:28,708 --> 00:17:29,774
[ALL GASP]
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00:17:29,810 --> 00:17:31,743
Your last IPO was DOA,
387
00:17:31,778 --> 00:17:33,778
and you needed the cash
to keep your girlfriend
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00:17:33,814 --> 00:17:35,380
in hybrid mosquito larva.
389
00:17:35,415 --> 00:17:37,382
I've seen it a thousand times.
390
00:17:37,417 --> 00:17:39,084
Impossible! The armed guards
391
00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,119
never let the painting
out of their sight.
392
00:17:41,154 --> 00:17:44,956
But which armed guards?
393
00:17:44,991 --> 00:17:48,026
It was a simple matter of finding
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00:17:48,061 --> 00:17:49,561
the guards' identical twins,
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00:17:49,596 --> 00:17:52,330
then hiring them to rob
their own brothers.
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00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:55,800
That's the last impossible mystery
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00:17:55,836 --> 00:17:58,736
you'll ever solve.
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00:17:58,772 --> 00:18:00,872
Well done, Mr. Manacek.
399
00:18:00,907 --> 00:18:02,440
Who would have suspected
400
00:18:02,476 --> 00:18:04,742
it was the person none of
us had ever met before?
401
00:18:04,778 --> 00:18:07,278
Yes, it's a shame she went
through all that trouble
402
00:18:07,314 --> 00:18:08,646
to steal a painting...
403
00:18:08,682 --> 00:18:10,648
that had already been stolen...
404
00:18:10,684 --> 00:18:12,750
by you.
405
00:18:12,786 --> 00:18:14,719
Uh, not yet, sir.
406
00:18:14,754 --> 00:18:17,922
I mean, how dare you
accuse me of such a crime?
407
00:18:17,958 --> 00:18:19,824
But the painting was safely in our vault
408
00:18:19,860 --> 00:18:21,960
until it left the auction house.
409
00:18:21,995 --> 00:18:25,096
But which auction house?
410
00:18:25,132 --> 00:18:26,898
It was a simple matter
411
00:18:26,933 --> 00:18:29,334
of Burns building an
identical auction house
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00:18:29,369 --> 00:18:31,002
next door to the real one.
413
00:18:31,037 --> 00:18:32,904
The actual painting
never left the vault,
414
00:18:32,939 --> 00:18:36,307
so Burns could steal it at his leisure.
415
00:18:36,343 --> 00:18:38,576
- Now?
- Yes, sir.
416
00:18:46,453 --> 00:18:47,919
[GASPS] My painting!
417
00:18:47,954 --> 00:18:50,588
Oh, thank goodness those
thieves didn't get you.
418
00:18:50,624 --> 00:18:53,992
It's a shame I punched out
a woman and an old man over...
419
00:18:54,027 --> 00:18:56,094
a gift shop tote bag.
420
00:18:56,129 --> 00:18:58,096
[ALL GASP]
421
00:18:58,131 --> 00:18:59,264
Lisa?
422
00:18:59,299 --> 00:19:02,634
[SIGHS] It wasn't my plan to steal it.
423
00:19:04,538 --> 00:19:06,771
That painting was the first thing
424
00:19:06,806 --> 00:19:09,107
my dad and I ever had in common.
425
00:19:09,142 --> 00:19:11,776
I couldn't bear to see him lose it.
426
00:19:12,812 --> 00:19:14,445
It was a simple matter
427
00:19:14,481 --> 00:19:16,981
of switching my canvas
tote bag for the painting
428
00:19:17,017 --> 00:19:19,918
before it was even auctioned off.
429
00:19:20,820 --> 00:19:22,654
I knew it was wrong,
430
00:19:22,689 --> 00:19:24,322
but isn't it a worse crime
431
00:19:24,357 --> 00:19:25,790
to let some billionaire
432
00:19:25,825 --> 00:19:27,559
hide art away
433
00:19:27,594 --> 00:19:30,895
where guys like my dad
can never fall in love with it?
434
00:19:35,402 --> 00:19:37,569
So, who gets The Poetess now?
435
00:19:37,604 --> 00:19:39,237
$10 million.
436
00:19:39,272 --> 00:19:41,539
Ownership of the painting
reverts back to the city.
437
00:19:41,575 --> 00:19:43,041
But where will we hang it?
438
00:19:43,076 --> 00:19:45,043
We're knocking down the art museum.
439
00:19:45,078 --> 00:19:47,078
And what are you doing with
the money Springfield got
440
00:19:47,113 --> 00:19:48,580
from selling all the public's art?
441
00:19:48,615 --> 00:19:50,748
Well, uh, we're, uh, building
442
00:19:50,784 --> 00:19:53,451
certain vitally needed
civic improvements.
443
00:19:56,923 --> 00:19:59,157
Everything I love in one place.
444
00:19:59,192 --> 00:20:01,326
Beer. Hot dog.
445
00:20:01,361 --> 00:20:04,662
Bathroom. Painting. Daughter.
446
00:20:04,698 --> 00:20:06,264
Marge, you're a beautiful woman,
447
00:20:06,299 --> 00:20:07,832
but you're loyal to your husband.
448
00:20:07,867 --> 00:20:09,400
And I respect that.
449
00:20:09,436 --> 00:20:12,737
But if things were different,
would I have a shot?
450
00:20:12,772 --> 00:20:15,440
You are the most conceited,
451
00:20:15,475 --> 00:20:17,709
chauvinistic, son of a...
452
00:20:17,744 --> 00:20:20,712
[CHUCKLES] I like you, Manacek.
453
00:20:25,066 --> 00:20:30,955
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