i saw this one back in july and posted it on tumblr and was subsequently delighted when several people in the tags interpreted "they turned off the ventilator" as "mr. burns turned off the ventilator". instead of the (probably) intended reading, "the nursing staff/glue factory employees/whatever turned off the ventilator". and every single time, without fail, whenever someone thought "they" was referring to mr. burns they tagged it with some variation of "THEY/THEM MR. BURNS???"
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u/sennenring 23d ago
i saw this one back in july and posted it on tumblr and was subsequently delighted when several people in the tags interpreted "they turned off the ventilator" as "mr. burns turned off the ventilator". instead of the (probably) intended reading, "the nursing staff/glue factory employees/whatever turned off the ventilator". and every single time, without fail, whenever someone thought "they" was referring to mr. burns they tagged it with some variation of "THEY/THEM MR. BURNS???"