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In the great fifth-season The Simpsons episode “Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song,” an unfortunate turn of events for the eponymous character leads to him being sacked from his job as principal of Springfield Elementary School and replaced by the evangelical do-gooder Ned Flanders.

But Flanders quickly runs afoul of public-school decorum when he attempts to “thank the Lord” over the public-address system. Superintendent Chalmers becomes irate, fuming that in a public school, “God has no place in these walls, just as facts have no place in organized religion.” Flanders is fired on the spot.

Apparently, Metro might need its own Chalmers, after a Sunday morning incident at the Stadium-Armory station on the Blue and Orange lines. In an attempt to mark Easter, the station manager hopped on the public-address system and delivered a brief sermon, the Examiner reports. One rider said the manager told customers on the platform that “the savior had risen.”

Well, Metro employees aren’t supposed to proselytize, or actually address customers about anything that’s not directly related to Metro, a spokesman for the transit authority told the Examiner.

“The station manager was identified and has acknowledged making a non-standard announcement,” Metro spokesman Philip Stewart said.

Then again, non-standard announcement or not, it’s a little reassuring to know that a station manager somewhere was attempting to communicate with riders. Station managers never seem to be around when you actually need them for help with the trains or fare cards.