The Simpsons: 20 Best Movie Parodies
9. Citizen Kane
Seen in: Rosebud (Season 5, Episode 4)
Mr Burns was always something of a Citizen Kane spoof, with his secluded manor house being reminiscent of Kane's Xanadu estate, but the Season 5 episode Rosebud (which wears its influence on its sleeve with that title) is the most direct parody of the seminal movie found on the show.
Just like the elderly Kane regrets the loss of childhood innocence in the form of his sled, Rosebud, Mr Burns here misses his teddy bear Bobo.
Not only is the episode's premise spoofed but the flashbacks to Burns as a child are very visually similar to what we see of Kane's boyhood and, most overtly, at one point Burn's drops a snowglobe while saying Bobo's name, just as Kane does on his deathbed at the film's opening.