Many Simpsons moments resonate with viewers, mostly having to do with Bart being strangled or Homer hurting himself, but one moment doesn’t involve either idiot.  The finale of season six featured a cliffhanger where the evil scrooge Mr. Burns was shot by an unknown assailant.  The episode spoofed the classic Dallas cliffhanger where another evil scrooge, J.R., was shot.  Viewers had to wait the entire summer to find out both killers (Dallas viewers found out ten years earlier due to the scheduling of both shows).

Mr. Burns’ murder became the topic of hot debate, with the entire town of Springfield as a suspect.  But in the end, little baby Maggie Simpson was the killer, to the hilarity (?) of all.  Most had expected MR. Burns’ assistant Waylon Smithers to have been the killer, and it would have made more sense, but the Simpsons never prided themselves on logic, but raw pop culture commentary that transcends time and space.  Well, at least time.  Gotta fit in all those repeats.