Discourse

Background: Homer has brought his family along on a business team-building exercise in the woods, and Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are stuck in the National Park Service building, while all the employees are off team-building (Homer and Burns eventually get trapped in a cabin by an avalanche). Bart is standing in front of a Smokey the Bear statue, who has an electronic voice and a little quiz to administer. Bart and Smokey have the following exchange.

Smokey: (electronic intonation) Who is the only one who can stop forest fires?
Bart: (examines response panel, which has two buttons, marked "you" and "me", and presses "you")
Smokey: (electronic intonation) "You pressed YOU, meaning me. This is incorrect. You should have pressed ME, meaning you."

ANNOTATION: If studied carefully the You and Me is expressed
differently, depending on who is saying it.


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