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In the months following the broadcast of Part One, there was widespread debate among fans of the series as to who shot Mr. Burns. Fox offered a contest to tie in with the mystery where callers who dialed 1-800-COLLECT were eligible and they then guessed who the culprit was.
Jun 9, 2015 · A shot of Principal Skinner’s high school diploma reveals that all of a sudden his full name is W. Seymour Skinner. And until “Who Shot Mr. Burns?”, Moe didn’t even have a last name.
Mar 7, 2015 · Montgomery Burns of The Simpsons. The fabulously hissable Burns helped make the animated sitcom the longest- running series in TV history, regularly drawing over 10 million loyal viewers...
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Mar 12, 2018 · The two-part cliffhanger finale of The Simpsons’ sixth season was originally conceived as a parody of similar publicity stunt finales— specifically the “Who Shot J.R.?” cliffhanger on...
- Who Shot J.R.? – Dallas
- Who Killed Laura Palmer? – Twin Peaks
- Who Shot Mr. Burns? – The Simpsons
- Who Is Cartman’s Father? – South Park
- Who Killed Lilly Kane? – Veronica Mars
- Why Did Mary Alice Kill herself? – Desperate Housewives
- Who Killed Rosie Larsen? – The Killing
- Who Is Gossip Girl? – Gossip Girl
- Who Killed Lila Stangard? – How to Get Away with Murder
- Who Shot J.R. (Again)? – Dallas
In the Nov. 21, 1980, episode “Who Done It,” viewers finally learned that it was Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby), J.R.’s mistress and the sister of J.R.’s wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), who shot J.R. and framed Sue Ellen for it. She didn’t go to jail. No, mere moments after Sue Allen outed her as the shooter, Kristin announced that she was pregnant wi...
At least in the public’s eye, Twin Peaks hinged around the murder of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose body was discovered in the first moments of the show’s first episode but who’d nonetheless go on to become one of the show’s most interesting characters. Series creator David Lynch actually never wanted to solve the mystery, as the investigation wa...
In an extended homage to the “Who shot J.R.?” story arc, The Simpsons offered a storyline where its own evil rich guy got gunned down. It’s the only two-part episode in the history of the show, with the first part airing on May 21, 1995, and the resolution not coming until September 17, when it was finally revealed that it was the least likely susp...
In what was most likely a nod both to “Who shot J.R.?” and “Who shot Mr. Burns?,” the first season of South Parkended with Cartman’s investigation into who his father might be. The very structure of the two-part episode mocked cliffhangers. The first episode stopped just short of naming Cartman’s dad and instead cut to an announcement that the reve...
All three seasons of Veronica Mars are solid, but the first season is in particular a great chunk of television that stands on its own as a perfect, standalone story arc. In it, the title character (Kristen Bell) investigates and solves the mystery of who killed her best friend, Lilly (Amanda Seyfried), a Laura Palmer-esque high school princess who...
It’s not so much a case of whodunit, as Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) says explicitly in the show’s opening that she willingly committed suicide. In this case, it’s a matter of determining why she did it and who might have provoked her to end it all. The matter was explained fully in the first season finale, which aired May 22, 2005. Mary Alice killed...
The entire premise of the AMC series The Killing was the search for the killer of Rosie Larsen (Katie Findlay), yet another popular high school girl who met a bad end, and the first season of the show was heavily promoted with the tagline “Who killed Katie Larsen?” So you can imagine how dismayed fans were when the show’s first season ended without...
A whodunit only if you can consider “it” to be writing a snarky blog about fancy Upper East Side teens, the mystery of Gossip Girl’s identity was teased out for all six seasons of the show until the finale, which aired Dec. 12, 2012. Viewers finally learned that it was Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), the only writer in the show’s core group of charact...
At first, it seemed like the mysterious murder of Lila Standard (Megan West), a college girl whose body is found in a water tank atop her sorority, would be the driving plotline of How to Get Away with Murder. Instead of stretching out the investigation for seasons upon seasons, however, the matter was resolved by the end of the first: Lila was hav...
Yes, it happened twice: In Larry Hagman’s final Dallasappearance, a March 4, 2013, episode of the revival series, J.R. was shot once again – and this time he died. Eight episodes later, viewers (and the Ewing family as well) learned whodunit for the second go-around: J.R., if only indirectly. Dying of cancer, J.R. had Steve “Bum” Jones fatally shoo...
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Yet another spoof was in the Simpson episode ‘Who shot Mr. Burns?’. Mr. Burns, like J.R, was a very wealthy but villainous character who had a lot of enemies. This episode also ended with a cliffhanger.
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Mr. Burns finally comes to and says, "Homer Simpson!" Eddie and Lou grin at one another. "Bingo: the gunman has a name-o!" Eddie smiles. A Swat team bursts into the Simpson house and starts destroying things. Lisa: Hey! Chief Wiggum, what are you doing? What's going on?
