The first time I saw Tully Marshall's performance as the sinister head of Nitro Chemical in the 1942 film noir This Gun for Hire, my immediate reaction was: "It's Mr Burns!" A similar thought occurred to me watching Rupert Murdoch testify to the Leveson inquiry.
And sometimes it seems as if everything else is an unknowing reference to The Simpsons. It may also be the most allusive: it sometimes seems as if every aspect of the show is a knowing reference to something else. The Simpsons, Simon Singh says, is "arguably the most successful television show in history".
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