Virgin Detective: *needs hours and days of constant investigation and research and technology to solve a murder* Chad Chase: *solves a murder in less than 30 minutes using The Simpsons*
@@chasebridges The reveal is the last 10 minutes. CLUE famously has three alternative reveals and all are viable. Watch the movie and stop around when the butler recounts the events of the night and the murder.
Here are 2 fun facts: In order to prevent leaks, they wrote and animated several alternate endings for different suspects. The original plan was for Barney to shoot Mr. Burns. They were even going to write him out of the show for the season because he was in jail. But the show is called "The Simpsons", so the writers felt the shooter had to be a Simpson. They chose Maggie because she was the only Simpson who could not be imprisoned.
so, fun fact! Due to this ending, maggie has become sort of an angel of death in the series. she's shot far more people than mr burns since this episode aired, even taking down the mob when they tried to storm the simpsons house. In flash forwards (mostly for comedic effect)) she's seen as a punk and even a rockstar, and has actually been a villain in multiple tree house of horror episodes. Thats one badass little baby!
Fun fact: Maggie is the only character not to avert her eyes when challenged by Mr. Burns. Everyone else was angry, but she was the only one who was shown to be 100% absolutely willing to pull the trigger beyond a shadow of a doubt.
@@username5155no you couldn’t have. You could have educated theories about one suspect over another, you could never “solve” it though. It was intentionally made too vague. multiple clues hinting toward one suspect over another does NOT rule out the other suspects. This isn’t Sherlock, we don’t make legal claims based off pure assumptions. There has to be real forms of evidence.
@@chiot888except it’s a cartoon lmao we don’t need to make legal claims. If you’ve watched a show in your lifetime with a mystery in it you would be able to determine what is and is not a red herring without too much difficulty
Burns - Sir, we've never met before, but my name is Mr. Burns... and I want your daughter to help make me rich again. Homer - You mean Maggie? Maggie gives burns a finger gun motion. Burns - Ah. The baby who shot me. No. I was referring to your other daughter.
the only reason i know the twist is because i’ve watched a video on the special before. i guess, like me, he simply has managed to avoid almost all of the simpsons his entire life
@@KodasGarden I’m sorry I don’t understand this? It should be mandatory for everyone to watch the first ten seasons of the Simpsons. It’s comedy gold. What is great is after those ten years it went off the air and never came back. Just ten great years AND NOTHING ELSE :)
@@nilus2kstfu the Simpsons never got worse. It had some bad episodes, but it always did. Some of the best episodes are in the 20s and the five most recent seasons have been gold.
Well.. I watched the episode back when it aired and afterwards never encountered anyone talking about it in my private life or seeing any internet discussion about it because back then the internet was in its infancy and when it wasn't other topics were discussed. So if I never watched that episode back then, I wouldn't know who shot Mr. Burns. Case in point. My wife didn't watch it and she doesn't know.
@@GarkKahn Not sure if you're serious, but no, there isn't. A child is "a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority," according to Google, or "a young person especially between infancy and puberty," according to Merriam-Webster.
@@GarkKahnwell babies are just people at the very start of their childhood, undeveloped, their only requirements being for survival and growth into an older child
There's a couple of ACTUAL hints at it being Maggie. It's consistently shown throughout the series Burns is VERY weak, so if he struggles with someone, they must also be weak. The sundial he lands on is SW. This could be Scottish Willie, or Waylon Smithers, possibly other townsfolk but eh. But if you flip it, it's MS, which could be a number of characters. Marge Simpson, Moe Syzlak (I forget how to spell his surname), possibly other characters I've forgotten, OR Maggie Simpson. Combine some other clues like him saying like taking candy from a baby, the 'bottle' crushing the gerbil etc.
Also, probably one of the most important clues that is barely seen -- the window of the Simpsons' car is down. There's no reason for it to be down unless it's part of the answer.
@@LomusMcBardman Surely there are tons of whodunnits he could cover, especially if he's willing to look at mystery shows with different crimes in every episode.
The "I will not complain about the solution" wasn't a "the solution is going to be silly". It's just a pre-emptive "I won't write to the writers of the show if the one that shot him wasn't the one I had been thinking all summer"
@@chasebridges fun fact there was only one eliagble winner, even though there was enough clues in the first episodes W/S, the previous candy from a baby thing... you can see his empty holster in the first episode.. They couldn't contact the winner cause they gave their college address and moved out.. So nobody won.
@@PrincessOzaline The way I heard it, they chose a random portion of the entries to act as a manageable amount of entries, but that section included no ‘Maggie’ answers, and, by the rules they set up, had to choose the winner from that set, so they just chose a random person who gave a wrong answer.
@@aqwkingchampion13 What I heard was that there was one person who guessed Maggie, they couldn't contact them, so they picked a random winner, but the winner had just entered on a whim, didn't really watch the simpsons, didn't want to appear in an episode, so they just asked if they could have prize money.
I Love the "Who Shot Mr. Bruns" episodes and have seen them so many times and so many videos discussing them. And yet I'd never seen someone bring up (and never thought of it myself) the parallel between the gerbil being crushed by his own water bottle and Burns being shot by his own gun. So thank you for adding yet another fun little clue/foreshadowing to my list of reasons to love this episode. This was a fun video to watch and I'm impressed how quickly you clock in on Maggie or the dog. you were so close to getting it right at the end there. I think you can count that. Great job,.
As a millennial who grew up watching and rewatching the "Golden Age" of The Simpsons, it blows my mind that young people have never seen some of these classic episodes.
yeah, thought this was one of those things you just kind of pick up at some point due to popculture osmosis, like how everyone knows that Jekyll is Hyde or Vader being Luke's dad
Fun fact: On the commentary for the episode they said they did a contest were people could guess who shot Mr Burns Only one person actually got it right, but didn't leave any contact details so they couldn't give them the prize.
This was a very clever analysis. You even pointed out some details of the mystery that I never even picked up on before, such as the analogy between the gerbil and Burns, Burns being so invested in his own booby traps, and Burns being able to recognize his "assailant" on sight. You even came up with possible motives for the dog to shoot Burns, I never would have thought of that idea as a kid. You even clocked that Homer was the episode's fall guy, knowing that a key part of the episode was the emphasis on Burns never remembering who Homer is. Another fun scene that adds to the reveal, is the scene where Mr. Burns and Mr. Smithers indulge themselves with Homer's box of chocolates. As they eat the chocolates they soon see the family photo behind them. Here it's shown that with the obvious exception of Homer, Mr. Burns actually DOES recognize each member of the Simpsons family - including Maggie and the dog. So, when Burns runs into Maggie later, his initial response "Oh, it's you," lines up with what we saw here in this scene.
I still think it's hilarious that he knows his employee's entire family including the dog but doesn't know the actual employee, as if he ever interacts with any of them.
It's so funny and frustrating at the same time that you realized the detail of Burns' gun missing from his holster, but not the fact that he felt in the most akward manner, with his two arms pointing to the letters W and S on the sundial, which from his upside down perspective looked like an M and an S, spelling the initials of Maggie Simpson.
I thinks it's awesome that this is the direction you've landed on for your channel. It's a really unique format and it's fun watching you try to break this stuff down. I'd suggest Only Murders in the Building season by season. Each season has a primary murder mystery and then usually hits you with some secondary non-murder mysteries as the season progresses. It's also just a very fun watch. The chemistry between the whole cast is great.
What I am looking for in a Chase Bridges video is an early decision based on free association and then UNWAVERING STEADFASTNESS IN HOLDING ON TO THAT DECISION FOR DEAR LIFE
The fun thing about this mystery is you can solve it both from a Wattsonian and Doylist perspective just using Part 1(both using meta clues for the audience and in-universe clues). Burns was shot with his own gun(implying the killer did not have their own gun), so everyone we see has a gun is eliminated. (Smithers, Barney, Moe, and Mel has a knife. Grandpa, Bart, and Marge are debatable as only one of them can have the gun at once.). Smithers has an alibi(there's a TV in Part 1 that says when his show airs and he says he never misses it and we know the meeting is at 3) and so does Marge. Secondly, it is well established in the show time and time again that Burn's is extremely weak, so the fact he struggled with his assailant means they're either really old, really young, or drunk. This eliminates all the adults(Smithers and Barney are already cleared) and just leaves Grandpa, Bart, Maggie, and the Dog. The Dog does not have thumbs, they are out. And both Grandpa and Bart PROBABLY had access to a gun of their own, which combined with Maggie being at the scene of the crime points only to her. The meta evidence is that Maggie is the only one who stares down Burns in the meeting, her face showed up first in the candy box(right after he talks about taking candy from a baby), she can't be punished so she's safe for the writers to use, and Burns falling on M.S. So whether you want to view it from a meta perspective or even JUST using in-universe evidence, it's solvable from the end of Part 1.
I love that we are considering the dog a legit suspect, nothing actually clears the dog, but then we circle back around to "but the dog is a dog and therefore it's not a suspect." But also, this is all good fun to talk about but of course it is solvable, the writers took great pride in the fact that part 1 does have sufficient amount of clues to logic out the answer. The only reason it wasn't "officially" solved is because the contest was a cross promotion with 1-800-collect, and as it turned out there was less crossover between 1-800-collect customers and Simpsons fans than expected. As an aside, I love the idea of trying to explain this whole thing to a gen alpha kid: "See they had to use 1-800-collect to enter the contest. . . Oh 1-800-collect was one of a number of companies you could make a collect call with . . . Oh a collect call is where you make a long distance call and the person receiving the call pays for it . . . Oh see we used to have to pay more to make a call to a phone that was further away, for some reason . . . Oh our phones used to be tied to a specific location . . . Yeah your phones where just in your house, if you where out and about you couldn't be reached. . . Yeah that part is worse but mostly it's better now. You should go watch Bluey or something. . . Oh you know what. Maybe Bluey could be a suspect. I mean he is a dog but I think he does have opposable thumbs."
@@bbtb05 I will say for the record if you want to be super technical, Lisa can't be fully eliminated as a suspect from a purely Doylist perspective. She's physically weak, doesn't have an alibi, and doesn't have a gun of her own. She's not specifically known to be AT the scene like Maggie was so she's still less likely, but you can't fully rule Lisa out. Of course if you consider any of the meta stuff it's clearly Maggie, but eh
i’m sorry but the profile picture almost fits perfectly, all you got to do is remove the “just clear it up” and the the “i don’t (know) if some one has corrected you on this but” and replace the latter (former chronologically) with “actually” and the former (latter chronologically) with [pushing up glasses]
The DNA scanner "a Simpson" joke was a reference to the OJ Simpson trial which was still big news at the time, and one of the first majorly publicized uses of DNA evidence in a big murder trial.
I had forgotten how much fun the 'who killed Mr Burns?' episodes were! You should DEFINITELY try Broadchurch Season 1. It's a UK crime drama, aired in 2013 on ITV in the UK and EVERYONE was trying to work out who killed Danny. Stars David Tennant and Olivis Coleman. It's not weird like Twin Peaks or funny like the Simpsons, but if you wanted to try a drama show it's really excellent.
I'm still salty that I had all of Broadchurch on my DVR ready to binge, but before I get around to it a talk show comes on and the host spoils the reveal in his opening monologue.
I was freaking out when you said the shooter doesn’t talk! It is so so unnatural to hear Burns say “oh it’s you!” and for there to be no reply from the assailant, that really clinched it had to be someone who can’t talk or else Burns himself
If you want another Twin Peaks style full series, the best bet is Gravity Falls. It has two big mystery's set out from episode 1 that last most of the series. "Who wrote the mysterious Journals?" and "What do the symbols at the start of every episode mean?" There are also two smaller mysteries to keep track of, "What's Going on With Gravity Falls and it's citizens?"(There are various smaller mysteries and reveals, almost everyone is hiding SOMETHING), and "Where are the other two journals?"(The mysterious journal our main character has is labeled Number 3. Where are Number 1 and 2?) which are revealed throughout the show.
Oooh that's a really good one, because the fandom did almost guess the big twist well in advance, but this was multiple people working together having years to figure it out. How someone would stand up with just one watch through (especially if they have to figure out the ciphers themselves) would be very interesting. And the fandom missed a very big part of the twist.
At the time, a bar ran a contest to guess the killer, giving away a leather jacket and $500 cash, but forgot about time zones, so everyone could watch the eastern feed at home and then get to the bar before 9pm pst and place their bets on Maggie being the killer.
@@occyhazbin yeah but TV shows didn't air at the exact same moment in time, the timeslot would have been the same 'time' everywhere adjusted to local time. Otherwise some places would get daytime TV in the evening etc
This series is a lot of fun. If you haven't seen King of the Hill there is a two part murder mystery in Season 4 with the episodes 'Hanky Panky' and 'High Anxiety'. Also I hope that we eventually get a 'Can I Figure Out What's Even Happening in Twin Peaks: The Return' video sometime. Keep up the good work!
Man, I'm really into these videos. I think it's a really funny idea to try solving mysteries during your watch of something. I'd be down to watch more videos like this.
You were so close, at least half right. I never picked up in the gerbil getting crushed by his water bottle, attempting to wet his whistle, just like Mr Burns was trying to do before he was shot by his own gun. Nicely done, good video.
Huge props for having the answer on the board by the third commercial break. For my money I'd say you got it! The projector is nice but I enjoy the good old conspiracy board a bit more. If you haven't seen it yet I would suggest the movie Knives Out.
These videos are so great because they hit the closest possible note you can to experiencing something for the first time again. I hope you're able to keep this format up. These have been some of my favorite videos lately.
11:00 - I love this whole bit. You lay out all the relevant clues, and you specifically mention everything you need to know. You're *so close!* :D (In fact, I love this whole format. You're doing good stuff here Chase, I hope the almighty algorithm blesses you for it!)
If the original series of "Dallas" is still available anywhere, the whole "Who Shot J.R.?" thing was so iconic that I'd honestly recommend reading the Wikipedia entry after you watch it if you decide to do that, because the buzz around it was wild. It was a massive, worldwide pop culture moment that I don't think is even possible anymore, and it's really fascinating to me. J.R. is shot in the season 3 finale, "A House Divided," and the killer is revealed in season 4, episode 4, "Who Done It."
love this video concept, i came from ur "guessing who did it in twin peaks" video, n as a simpsons fan - this was super satisfying! i'd still give u points for guessing maggie early on.
A clue that's often overlooked is that in the first episode we see mr.Burns is really really weak, but at the end of the episode we hear an actual struggle for a few seconds before he's shot So that means the shooter was weak enough for Burns to be able to struggle a few seconds, therefore it can't be an adult
Fun fact: Due to contest regulations, before selecting a winner, the contest runners had to sample a random set of entries. In the sample they used, not a single person solved the mystery correctly. So, the winner of the contest was chosen randomly.
Stumbled onto the twin peaks videos this morning, and surprised to see the playlist update while I finished up the second video to see this one. Keep it up dude! This kinda content is super fun especially with how deep the rabbit holes go lmao
Surprised you got so much out of it, one theory that it was supposed to be Homer originally, because at the end of the episode you see Homer dressed as Krusty, looking exactly the same as he did in the Clown College episode, could have been an animation error, could have been a red herring, could have been that Homer was going to frame Krusty. There's even a joke in a waaay later episode where Homer just blurts out "if I get caught I'm pinning it on the baby, like the time I shot Mr. Burns!"
It's like saying "i will find out what color the sun has before sunrise"...you already knew that it was Maggie before like everybody knows the color of the sun because like sunrises, everybody had seen who shot mr burns like a million times.
I've never picked up on the gerbil being crushed by his own bottle being a clue for Burns being shot by his own gun! It was interesting to see the perspective of someone who hadn't seen the reveal before, thanks for this
Suggestion for ‘can I solve ___ before the reveal’: Can I solve Danganronpa before the reveal? It’s about a murder mystery escape room game where 15 students are trapped in a building and they have to kill in order to escape. There are 5 different murder cases in each chapter, and a grand reveal to who is the mastermind of the game. If you do this, I want to see you try to figure out who is the victim, who is the killer of that victim and ultimately, who is the mastermind. All before they are all revealed. I’ll be surprised if you get the first killer wrong.
This video was very enjoyable, as per usual! I'm a huge fan of the show, but I was only a toddler when this came out, so I never got an opportunity to solve this mystery (I already knew the answer through social osmosis when I did finally watch these episodes). My recommendation is *_Veronica Mars._* Every season has one big mystery, so you'd have material for five videos (there are 3 original seasons + a movie + a revival they did on Hulu).
I like how Sideshow Bob famously tried to frame an innocent man for a crime, and in this episode, Sideshow Mel saves an innocent man from being wrongly accused. It's like poetry sort of they rhyme.
After this you should watch Eddaches video on this where he proves why it COULDNT be each suspect. Really enjoyed your observations. It works if we havent seen it because we get to play along, it works if we HAVE seen it because we get dramatic irony knowing how hot or cold you're getting. This made me feel old. When you covered the camera an ad played and thats exactly how youtube should implement ads. Specific transition breaks, not just arbitrary mid-sentence interruptions. "He shoots some dudes leg" this is the line that convinces me you havent seen this before because simpsons fans know thats jasper and thats a paddlin'
NGL I enjoyed all of the logical leaps you make being right while the conclusion was off. You at least got closer than I did as a kid deciding it was tito puente (burn's missing gun eliminated everyone with a gun in the town meeting, his look of remorse in the crowd scenes over burns body, guest stars being "disposable")
Honestly I liked the paper more. I get wanting to not waste paper on a smaller episode, so that's fine, but I like the classic pepe silvia conspiracy wall where you can make connections with string and physically point to characters
and then, a few hundreads of episodes later when mr burns is visitting the simpsons household, maggie would playfully finger-shoot him and mr burns saying something like "that baby makes me nervous" or some other thing refferencing that episode of their lives.
As a Brit, the number of ad breaks you seem to have on TV over there is astounding. We only really get them every fifteen minutes, so halfway through a normal Simpsons episode and then after the episode.
@@ilexdiapason As a brit, something I actually noticed when I went to America and saw the simpsons was that there were small parts that were cut out. Upon further research I discovered that although the simpsons was made in America, and for American audiences, certain TV stations in America choose to prioritise ad time over show running time, meaning they were cutting additional sections out of simpsons episodes. So what blows my mind is that I may have seen parts from Simpsons episodes that Americans haven't, just because UK show running times allow for more content.
We saw those missing bits during the episodes' first airings. The editing to make room for more ad time happens for reruns usually a few years later. The time given over to advertising has slowly grown over the decades. In the late sixties, we got between 50-52 minutes of program per hour. In the late seventies to about the mid eighties, we were down to around 49 minutes an hour. Then down to 45 minutes for much of the nineties. Then down to 43 in the 2000's. Nowadays we're down to around 40-42 minutes of program per hour.
@@dngillikin it's so wild, here in the UK, we generally have 1 ad break of around 3 minutes out of every 30 minute timeslot. 1 episode of the Simpsons would be around 22 minutes, plus 3 minutes of ads in the middle, which leaves a 2 and a half minute gap on either side for bumps and explaining what's up next etc. Going to America in 2017 was wild, seeing adverts what felt like every 5 minutes. Only a short burst, but just constantly!
This was so much fun!! Even if I knew the reveal from the beginning of the video, I was enjoying your theories because you really did get very close to the solution, especially with the "Burns gets shot by his own actions" and "the dog did it", becaude both are technically correct. Remember, the dog was there with Maggie when it happened. We know they both hate Burns for what he's done (during the towns meeting we see a second of Maggie looking quite angry), so I wouldn't be surprised if it was at first intended for the incident to be a collaboration between Maggie and the dog, but they probably cut incinuating such a thing for time constraints. Edit: That being said, I'm surprised you didn't have an immediate realization after you said "Whoever he's talking to, does not talk". I was like: EXACTLY! And which character is known for never talking??
Fun fact: during the production, several alternate endings were animated with various other characters shooting Mr Burns (including Santa's Little Helper). The 138th episode spectacular shows some of these clips.
they exist so hackers and leakers cant spoil the ending. I believe ff17 had something similar were the game has data from the rest of the story were aerith hasn't died, as a safety measure.
@@mgallogical7114 Hmm, no. There are two lines of dialog that contain lines Aerith could have said, but just are never seen because the order of the story was moved around and her death occurred either of those dialogs are available. The story was designed to have a character die.
This is the first video of this channel that I watch and it's really good! I'm hoping to ser more of this, like a "can i solve who red john is" video. Keep up the good content :)
Not sure if anyone else has said, but a channel called Eddache did a similar thing about 5 years ago, but he says off the bat who the shooter is. He then goes and sees if it's even possible to confirm who shot Mr Burns, from the clues we got. He says from other episodes, so assuming you're able to watch every other episode, you can figure it out.
