Mr. Monopoly, also known as Pennybags, is a billionaire which Mr. Burns knows.
Both he and Mr. Burns were annoyed by Chuck Garabedian's "fat cat bashing" at a money-saving seminar, with Mr. Monopoly referring to the "yokels" in the audience as "pure Baltic Avenue". When he was running late, he left the auditorium in a car resembling the piece in the Monopoly board game.[1]
While Burns went to get drinks for Mrs. Vanderbilt, she left the party with Mr. Monopoly on a train resembling the train station squares on the Monopoly board. Burns responded, "Damn that Pennybags. Between him and Scrooge McDuck, all the best ankle is taken."[2]
He is part of Burns' exclusive club, the Excluders' Club, and was present when Burns challenged Rich Texan to a scavenger hunt where the winner took the other person's worldly possessions.[3]
During the musical number "Goodbye, Middle Class", a janitor from Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich sang about how "tax breaks went to CEOs, never trickling down to average joes". This was illustrated by Mr. Burns, Mr. Monopoly, Richie Rich, and Scrooge McDuck eating pieces of pies filled with money.[4]
Episode appearances[]
Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" - Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love"
- Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
Episode – "Poorhouse Rock"
Behind the Laughter[]
Although the board game Monopoly (along with parody titles like Duopoly in "Fat Man and Little Boy" and Funopoly in "Treehouse of Horror XXI") are frequently treated as fiction in the world of The Simpsons, the appearances of the game's mascot Mr. Monopoly in "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love", and "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" treat him as a real person, and he is implied to be real in his cameo in "Poorhouse Rock". There is no indication of him magically turning real like various fictional entities have done in "Treehouse of Horror VI", "IX", and "XXI".
Baltic Avenue is a real property in the US version of the Monopoly board game.