Mr. Burns reads Tina Fey and robots fall in love with literature

(part of my ongoing Unexpected Literary References series)

The Simpsons are back, this time with two references in a single episode, one of classic literature and one of contemporary comedy. Or so I assume the latter is of contemporary comedy; I haven’t actually read Tina Fey’s Bossypants. But Mr. Burns has, as evidenced by this screenshot from “Them, Robot,” the seventeenth episode of season 23:

Robots display human emotions by appreciating literature, notably the novella (though the girth in the above screenshot would imply novel-length) Death in Venice by Thomas Mann.