Angry Mob

Springfield's Angry Mob is a recurring group throughout the Simpsons series, consisting of many of the townspeople of Springfield and usual secondary characters (including Abe Simpson and excluding the Flanders family, with occasional exceptions). They would angrily, and violently react to generally minor situations, and would often go after the Simpson family or at least another certain character on any given occasion.
==History==
===The Telltale Head===
When Homer and Bart were walking on a sidewalk downtown at nighttime while Bart was holding the head of the statue of Jebediah Springfield, the two then encounter an angry mob when they turn a corner. Homer and Bart then quickly turn and flee, and then the furious mob corners them in the town square next to the headless statue. As the mob slowly advances, Bart climbs up the statue and he begs everyone to listen to his story. After Bart finished telling his story, he was ready to face with whatever punishment that the citizens have in store for him, but it points out that it wasn't until the statue's head was gone that everyone realized that they had taken the town's heritage for granted and he also tells everyone that his guilt outweighs any punishment they might have in store for him. Moved by his words, the townspeople chose to allow Homer and Bart to return the head. As Bart does, he asks the head for forgiveness, and he hears Jebediah's voice granting it.
===Itchy & Scratchy & Marge===
When Marge finds out that The Itchy & Scratchy Show is what caused Maggie to hit Homer in the head with a mallet, she gets horrified and vows to put a stop to the TV show's violence. So she forms an angry mob known as "Springfieldians for Nonviolence, Understanding, and Helping" (SNUH) and as well as forces her family to picket outside the Itchy & Scratchy Studios. Later on, the members of SNUH urge Marge to protest a sculpture, insisting it's offensive and unsuitable. However, since she's an artist herself, Marge argues that the sculpture is a masterpiece. She then chooses to give up her anti-cartoon violence protest, which in the end results in Itchy & Scratchy immediately returning to its old form after she caused it to become less violent earlier.
===Marge vs. the Monorail===
When Lyle Lanley was on a flight to Tahiti, the airplane he was on makes a brief unscheduled stop in North Haverbrook. When the plane lands, an angry mob of locals who have been tipped off about his arrival (presumably from Marge and Cobb) charges into the plane and attacks him. Lanley is then heard screaming out of terror as the mob viciously beats him up as revenge on him for ruining their town.
===Whacking Day===
When it was the day, the citizens of Springfield start the mobs to drive snakes to the center of town to beat them up to death. Lisa though objected to Whacking Day due to the cruelty towards snakes. So with the help of Bart and Barry White, she was able to lure all of the snakes into the Simpson home to protect them from the townsfolk. After Bart learned the true history of Whacking Day to them, and Lisa pointed out how snakes had been beneficial to Springfield, the citizens stopped their mobs agreeing to give up the holiday.
===Mayored to the Mob===
When Mark Hamill (dressed as Luke Skywalker) tries to promote Sprint and then tells everyone at the Bi-Monthly Sci-fi Convention that they're going to reenact a scene from Star Wars, and he needs someone to play Obi Wan Kenobi, all the nerds get angry and start a mob of beating each other up. The mob then surrounds Hamill and Mayor Quimby to get him, so Homer fights his way through the angry mob of nerds and rescues Hamill and the mayor and brings them outside the convention to safety.
===The Simpsons Movie===
They were after the Simpson family (although they originally only wanted Homer) because Homer polluted the lake by dumping a silo full of pig droppings (and some of his own), which caused the lake to get even worse with contamination than from the Green Day incident and prompted the EPA to put a city-sized dome over Springfield. Every citizen in Springfield (Including Abe Simpson; except the Flanders) were in the mob holding torches, pitchforks, guns and bows with arrows, and other weapons. Colin was also in the mob holding a bunch of flowers, but Carl turned it into a torch. When they were first seen, they were walking the wrong way but turned round when Homer shouted out his sardonic comments, alerting the mob of his position. The Simpsons were briefly captured by the murderous mob, but they eventually escape through the sandpit and are forced to escape Springfield.
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==The Simpsons Movie==
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