They keep the country clean.Besides, there""s a law against killin"" buzzards.Hud (uncaring): Man, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner.And that""s what I try to do.Sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.Homer: I don""t like to break the law in my place, Hud.Hud: Well, she ain""t gonna sit up and tell us herself.Hud wants to sell them before they can be condemned by government inspectors: "You gonna let them shoot your cows out from under you on account of a schoolbook disease?" Homer rejects selling them: "That would run the risk of starting an epidemic.[He is the son of a Joseph and Mary Deeds - an unusual Christ-like reference.] When told the "good news" about his inheritance by duplicitous, crooked lawyer John Cedar, he barely flinches, uninterested and unemotionally affected by the money.]In 1997, the original 1945 pre-release version of the film was discovered - it was the film originally intended for release by Warner Bros, but shelved (except for a few showings overseas to US troops in August 1945)." In his dressing room, Spider Rico read Rocky a Bible passage (Zachariah 4:6: "It is not by strength, not by might but by his spirit we have already claimed the victory in our Lord Jesus Christ").Cheering onlookers participate - each one waving red, white, and blue flags.Storefronts are decorated with even more flags and fabrics.The camera locates the front of a theatre, the Colony Opera House, where a billboard is printed with the names of the acts that are performed there:Week of July 1, 1878Mr.