In Episode 46, first aired December 5, 1991, a depressed Mister Burns sells the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to German investors. Only after the purchase do they realize what a daunting task it would be to get the plant into shape. Eventually they sell it back for half what they paid for it.
As Bill Vlasic of the Detroit News reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, that was a good deal compared to the Daimler-Benz takeover of Chrysler.
DaimlerChrysler ... will ultimately pay out $650 million in the overall transaction.
It's a far cry from the heady days of the 1998 merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler in a stock-swap valued at $36 billion at the time.
Even in a cartoon it would have seemed implausible for the Germans to ultimately pay to get rid of the plant.
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