Four is evil and manipulative and, you know, just kind of cartoonishly bad as Mr. Burns in the

power plant are, it's still local. Like, you can still go to his house and, like, bang on his

gates and then he'll release the hounds, which will, you know, devour you. But it's, it's not as

relevant today because, like, you might be employed by, you know, a musk or a gates or whoever. And you'll never get in like the same region as them.

Yeah, they're far away. That's a good point. It's true that Springfield seems to have been immune

from the kind of hollowing out of the small business world. I mean, most, every business in Springfield

is a small business, right?

There's no, I don't know if there are big box stores. It's a very kind of main street, USA.

Well, you know, the Quickey Mart is an international conglomerate, but you just never see

like Quickey Mart headquarter except for that one time where they have to go.

That's part of it being a creature of the 90s, too. Totally true.

You know, and one theme that was, I guess, interesting in the PowerPoint strike episode

was like the, I guess, the glimpse that it gives into how the Simpsons creators viewed

unions, which get a very, very bad rap sort of throughout the entire series.

Usually there's a lot of references like, you know, like the teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa and,

you know, like a bunch of lazy mobsters.

Like, the last union president was buried under the football field.

But that, but he was killed by Burns, right?

Wasn't that the implication?

I thought the implications he was murdered.

I thought the union leaders.

Oh, I thought it was an internal struggle within the union.

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