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Obsessive Facts About Sideshow Bob That You Never Wanted to Know
*In "Cape Feare" Bob treads on ten rakes in the course of the programme and is trodden on by six elephants.
*In "Sideshow Bob Roberts" Bob actually wins the election as none of the live people voted for Quimby either.
*"RIP BART"; "DIE BART"; "BART DOA"; "I H8 BART": Bob's numberplates in "Black Widower". "I H8 BART" is on the wedding car.
*"I'm going to kill you"; "Die Bart die"; "Death to Bart"; "Die! Die!"; "Bart will die!"; "Die! Die! Die!"; "Death awaits you"; "Die Bart!" "I'm coming to kill you"; "You're dead Bart"; "See you soon Bart"; "Death Bart death"; "You are going to die": the notes in blood Bob sends Bart in "Cape Feare". "I kill you scum" was sent by Homer. "I'm coming to kill you slowly and painfully" followed by manic laughter was read out on the radio.
*Non-Bob episodes in which our hero is mentioned: "Treehouse of Horror V: The Shinning", where there is a wanted poster for him up in Chief Wiggum's office; "Bart the Fink", where it is pointed out that he is the only Sideshow not attending Krusty's funeral; "The Telltale Head", where he makes his celebrated first appearance; "Bart Gets an F", where Bob skates in the rink on snowday; "Bart the Murderer", where Bob is Bart's cellmate in prison; "The Day the Violence Died", where Marge points out that Bart and Lisa have foiled Bob on "five separate occasions - and he's an evil genius"; "A Fish Called Selma", where Selma's name is given as Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Bouvier; "Much Apu About Nothing", where Selma gives her name as Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz McClure.
*In "Black Widower" Bob says he is prisoner number 24601, but on his shirt it says he is prisoner number 1211.
*The grammatical correction "Whom do you love?" which Bob makes in "Krusty gets Busted" is actually grammatically incorrect.
*The bomb that Bob steals in "Sideshow Bob's Last gleaming" is 10 Megatons; the statue which he hides behind proclaims that Springfield Air field is the home of the 83rd stunt flying wing.
*Forty-eight thousand voters, dead or alive, voted for Bob in "Sideshow Bob Roberts"
*Bob went to the same university - Yale - as Mr Burns. Obviously the place to go for the aspiring evil genius.
*The surname Terwilliger comes from a pre-war film script by Dr Seuss that bombed horribly called 'The 5000 Fingers of Dr T' in which the evil Dr Terwilliger enslaves 500 children to play forever on his giant piano.