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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After being humiliated from the ShowWithinAShow ''Police Cops'', which features a character called Detective Homer Simpson, who is heroic and suave in the pilot but becomes a fat, bumbling idiot in the series proper, Homer decides to sue the producers for improper use of his name, which the judge immediately throws out as individuals do not own exclusive rights to their names, and simply sharing a name with a fictional character does not give you the right to sue over how that character's creators use them.
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* CatchPhrase: The Homer in ''Police Cops'' gets one before and after his retool. "And that's the end of that chapter." Then "Uh-oh, Spaghetti-O's!"

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* CatchPhrase: CharacterCatchphrase: The Homer in ''Police Cops'' gets one before and after his retool. "And that's the end of that chapter." Then "Uh-oh, Spaghetti-O's!"
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** An aide whispers in Bill Clinton's ear that UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}} "has the bomb".

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I removed the hypocritical humour example about Bart eagerly killing a cat, even though in an earlier episode he felt bad for killing a bird. This trope is about “A type of gag in which a character's actions or words contradict each other and this is Played for Laughs.” The example deals with a case where Bart’s actions were inconsistent with an attitude he dealt with an earlier episode. While this may be a case of a character’s actions contradicting one another, the difference in Bart’s attitude here to his attitude earlier were not played for laughs (indeed the events of Bart the Mother were in no way mentioned here). So I do not believe this trope applies.


* HypocriticalHumor:
** Back in the earlier episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E3BartTheMother Bart the Mother]]", Bart [[IDidntMeanToKillHim felt terrible about shooting a bird]]. In this episode, however, when Homer tells Bart to kill a cat, he gladly complies without even a trace of uncertainty (on the other hand, we don't actually see if Bart went through with it).
** There's also Chief Wiggum mocking Homer's intelligence while scratching himself with a loaded gun.

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* HypocriticalHumor:
** Back in the earlier episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E3BartTheMother Bart the Mother]]", Bart [[IDidntMeanToKillHim felt terrible about shooting a bird]]. In this episode, however, when Homer tells Bart to kill a cat, he gladly complies without even a trace of uncertainty (on the other hand, we don't actually see if Bart went through with it).
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HypocriticalHumor: Chief Wiggum mocking mocks Homer's intelligence while scratching himself with a loaded gun.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lenny when he tells everyone Homer was about to do something stupid. On one hand, it isn't really being a good friend to follow a friend about waiting for him to mess up, but on the other hand, Homer 'did' cause a huge accident trying to cook fondue on his work console.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lenny when he tells everyone Homer was about to do something stupid. On one hand, it isn't really being a good friend to follow a friend about waiting for him to mess up, but on the other hand, Homer 'did' ''did'' cause a huge accident trying to cook fondue on his work console.
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* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: After Homer breaks free from his chain, he throws it up into the air and it strangles an eagle flying overhead.
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* TheOtherDarrin: InUniverse: PlayedForLaughs -- During the joke about how networks love animation because they don't pay the actors squat, Ned Flanders comes in and adds, "Plus, they can replace the voices and no one can tell the diddly-ifference." For the sake of that joke, Karl Wiedergott (a featured voice actor who joined the show during its tenth season, usually as one-line background characters and walla) voiced Ned Flanders (who is regularly voiced by Creator/HarryShearer). Played a bit straighter with changing the actor playing the ''Police Cops'' Homer Simpson between the pilot and the second episode from a handsome guy to a Creator/ChrisFarley {{Expy}} -- this alongside turning the character into a complete idiot.

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* TheOtherDarrin: InUniverse: PlayedForLaughs -- During the joke about how networks love animation because they don't pay the actors squat, Ned Flanders comes in and adds, "Plus, they can replace the voices and no one can tell the diddly-ifference." For the sake of that joke, Karl Wiedergott (a featured voice actor who joined the show during its tenth season, usually as one-line background characters and walla) characters) voiced Ned Flanders (who is regularly voiced by Creator/HarryShearer). Played a bit straighter with changing the actor playing the ''Police Cops'' Homer Simpson between the pilot and the second episode from a handsome guy to a Creator/ChrisFarley {{Expy}} -- this alongside turning the character into a complete idiot.
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** Marge also mentions having a tattoo with Homer's name on her "you know what".
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Judge Snyder allows Homer to have his name changed to "Max Power" because it was the only one of his proposed options that he spelled correctly. His other options included "Hercules Rockefeller", [[MysteriousMiddleInitial "Rembrandt Q. Einstein", and "Handsome B. Wonderful"]].

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* AwesomeMcCoolName: AwesomeMcCoolname: Judge Snyder allows Homer to have his name changed to "Max Power" because it was the only one of his proposed options that he spelled correctly. His other options included "Hercules Rockefeller", [[MysteriousMiddleInitial "Rembrandt Q. Einstein", and "Handsome B. Wonderful"]].
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'''Original air date:''' 2/7/1999 ''(produced in 1998)''

'''Production code:''' AABF-09

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* SanitySlippage: Homer briefly experiences this after the fallout of the new Homer Simpson, during which he orders Bart to kill a random cat and a big, yellow flower which were apparently laughing at him.

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* SanitySlippage: Homer briefly experiences this after the fallout of the new Homer Simpson, during which he orders Bart to kill a random cat and a big, yellow flower which were apparently laughing at him. Marge lampshades it:
--> "Homer, your growing insanity is starting to worry me..."
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: ''Police Cops''.

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: ''Police Cops''. Which apparently had the working title of ''Badge Patrol.''
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** Later, Marge mentions a New Year's Eve Party Lenny held which was supposedly worse than Homer and Marge being chained to trees.

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** Later, As Homer complains about getting chained to trees making this the worst party they've ever been to, Marge mentions a casually argues that Lenny's New Year's Eve Party Lenny held which party was supposedly worse than Homer and Marge being chained to trees.worse.
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* EuphemisticNames: Homer tells Marge that while he was at the courthouse, he had her name officially changed to "Chesty LaRue". When Marge protests, Homer proposes the alternatives "Busty St. Clair" and "Hooty McBoob".

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* EuphemisticNames: Homer tells Marge that while he was at the courthouse, he had her name officially changed to "Chesty LaRue".[=LaRue=]". When Marge protests, Homer proposes the alternatives "Busty St. Clair" and "Hooty McBoob".[=McBoob=]".



** At the environmental party, Homer refuses to talk to Creator/LorneMichaels, who was actually voiced by ''Simpsons'' regular and former ''Creator/SaturdayNightLive'' cast member Creator/HarryShearer.[[note]]Shearer has gone on record in stating that he didn't like his time on ''SNL'' during the fifth season (and later, the tenth, under Dick Ebersol) and begged Creator/{{NBC}} to make him showrunner for season six so he can mold ''SNL'' into what he wanted it to be. When Shearer learned that NBC hired Jean Doumanian (a decision they would later regret), he left the show along with the remnants of the "Not Ready for Primetime" cast.[[/note]]

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** At the environmental party, Homer refuses to talk to Creator/LorneMichaels, who was actually voiced by ''Simpsons'' regular and former ''Creator/SaturdayNightLive'' ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' cast member Creator/HarryShearer.[[note]]Shearer has gone on record in stating that he didn't like his time on ''SNL'' during the fifth season (and later, the tenth, under Dick Ebersol) and begged Creator/{{NBC}} to make him showrunner for season six so he can mold ''SNL'' into what he wanted it to be. When Shearer learned that NBC hired Jean Doumanian (a decision they would later regret), he left the show along with the remnants of the "Not Ready for Primetime" cast.[[/note]]

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