we have to choose something that will stand the test of time...

Like the Mona Lisa

or the music of Squeeze.

June 8, 1922.

The Pawnee bread factory burned to the ground.

We lost a lot of good bread that day...

As well as several human lives.

And it also made the whole town smell like toast,

which one resident described as "disturbingly enticing".

But I digress.

The point is, we rebuilt Pawnee

to the wonderful town that it is today.

Why would you want a mural that shows people dying

when you could have shapes that come alive?

Because it's the most famous event in our town's history,

and people love voting for tragedy.

Look at the oscars. This is our holocaust movie.

This is our English Patient.

Sounds like you're exploiting the tragedy.

See? Ann gets it.