 The scene in the episode in which Mr. Burns shows his room with a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters , a reference to the infinite monkey theorem , has inspired a real @-@ life experiment about the theorem . The episode has become study material for sociology courses at University of California Berkeley , where it is used to " examine issues of the production and reception of cultural objects , in this case , a satirical cartoon show " , and to figure out what it is " trying to tell audiences about aspects primarily of American society , and , to a lesser extent , about other societies . " 
