The supporters react angrily to the news and bombard the field with the pretzels, knocking out Whitey Ford in the process.
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Before the crowd has a chance to consume their complimentary pretzel, it is announced that Mr. Burns has won a 1997 Pontiac Astro Wagon in the day's give-away competition.
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It was the fifth highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, following The X-files, King of the Hill, Melrose Place and Beverly Hills, 90210.
In a 1997 episode of The Simpsons, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson", an animated Ford, "pleading with the crowd for some kind of sanity", was knocked unconscious by a barrage of pretzels at a baseball game.
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Also, his song "The Lineman" was used in The Simpsons Episode 164, "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time -trailer.