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Slack jawed gawkers mr burns1/6/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() With the sun-blocker in place and the town aghast, I was on top of the world. nor the opposable digits to operate a firearm. Your kind has neither the cranial capacity. Shot? By you? I’m afraid not, my primitive friend. Smithers, who is this beast that’s shaking me? But, if Duncan wins the Derby, he can spend the rest of days as a stud. We’ve been pushing that poor horse too hard. You want me to lose the Springfield Derby? This is especially used when talking about something that you are not familiar with.ĭon’t ask why, but you have to lose the big race. If you say that you will give it a shot, that means you will make an attempt to do something you will try to achieve it. Burns’s wrinkly skin made his face look like a mask. This part of the scene makes fun of something a lot of science fiction movies and series have done– to have a character wearing a realistic human mask, which is only noticed and removed at a critical moment in the story. He’s deathly allergic.Īnd I won’t even dignify your navy beans suggestion. Just once, can we have a soup that people have heard of.įirst of all, your father can’t eat onions. So if you say that you will not dignify something with a response, that means you will not answer or respond to it because you do not think it is worth your attention or respect. To dignify somebody (or something) is to treat them with respect and take them seriously. Let’s listen to it and practice after him. In this case, the letter P from “drop” simply links to the next word, which started with a vowel: it.Īnd that resulted in the sound we heard from Mr. This is a clear and good example of how connected speech works in spoken English.Ĭonnected speech is the tendency we have of cutting, reducing, and linking words together while speaking. Burns in the scene,īut, from this line, we can guess he’s speaking to somebody holding a gun or other weapon.īy the way, did you notice how he pronounced the word drop and it together? “Drop it” is an expression used as a command for somebody to drop or (let go of) their weapon.įor example, it is commonly used by the police when confronting armed suspects. So he said that things are finally starting to go his way meaning he’s finally being favored by the circumstances. ![]() ![]() Burns is referring to how his plans of blocking out the sun and making more money from all the extra power consumption are working. If something goes your way, it goes according to your plans, you succeed or you fail favored by the universe, God, or some higher power.īut, even at your age, I’m sure you understand things can’t always go your way. This is a parody of the Simon and Garfunkel song ‘the 59th street bridge song (feelin’ Groovy). Burns’s own informal way of asking how are you? Burns is speaking figuratively here - he’s talking about how the streets are covered by or bathed in the glow from the lamp posts, which are powered by his power plant. Literally speaking, the verb to bathe it means to take a bath So by perpetual twilight, he’s referring to the permanent darkness that is covering Springfield, caused by the giant disc which he is using to block out the sun. Perpetual defines something that never ends that is permanent. Twilight is the time of day just before night when the daylight has almost gone, but when it is not completely dark. Burns speak in a poetic way about electricity and street lighting. Burns constructs a giant disc to permanently block out the sun in the town of Springfield, forcing everyone to continuously use the electricity from his power plant. Well, I couldn’t possibly solve this mystery. I don’t think we’ll ever know who did this. Heh– His wrinkly skin look– looks like a mask. Where’s Homer? And Bart? And Lisa? And Grampa?Īfter all these years, things are finally starting to go my way. Bathed in the glow of Burns brand electricity. Science Bitch! Learn English with Breaking Bad ![]()
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