History Recap / TheSimpsonsS10E2TheWizardOfEvergreenTerrace

** Subverted later. Homer keeps talking about the things Edison invented, before Carl points out that "And JAMES WATT invented the steam engine."

* CallBack: Barney being an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winner in Homer's ImagineSpot funeral refers back to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns "A Star Is Burns"]], when Barney won the Springfield Film Festival grand prize for his autobiographical movie ''Pukahontas''.

Episode - 5F21\\
First Aired - 9/20/1998

* BowelBreakingBricks: Homer implies he's letting out a big load in his toilet chair over losing the royalties to his electric hammer to Edison's (already) wealthy heirs.

* BaitAndSwitch: During the tour of the Edison Museum, the tour guide shows a roped off door to a room housing Edison's preserved brain. He then says that that tour groups ordinarily weren't allowed to see the brain while unhooking the rope ... before adding "[[{{Troll}} and today will be no exception]]" and rehooking the rope, much to the tour group's disappointment.

* BaitAndSwitch: During the tour of the Edison Museum, the tour guide shows a roped off door to a room housing Edison's preserved brain. He then says that that tour groups ordinarily weren't allowed to see the brain while unhooking the rope ... before adding "and today will be no exception" and rehooking the rope, much to the tour group's disappointment.

* SmartBall: At least one of Homer's inventions, the automatic hammer, is clever enough to be successful, albeit he doesn't benefit from it as it's falsely attributed to Thomas Edison. There are also several scenes of Homer studying math and physics in his basement and actually grasping the concepts enough to write equations on the board.

* NoodleIncident: Homer says he was banned from Springfield's public library because of some "unpleasantness". He also quit his job at the power plant off-screen.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Professor Frink actually had the same idea for "hamburger earmuffs" as Homer. He's confident he can get his prototype patented while Homer is still struggling with the "pickle matrix".

--->'''Homer''': [''About Edison''] We're not rivals: [[NotSoDifferent we're just a couple of dreamers who set the bar a little too high.]]

* ItsBeenDone: After several disasters, the one invention that works as planned turns out to have been invented by Edison himself but apparently unnoticed, prompting Homer and Bart to travel to Edison's workshop to destroy his model. Homer decides not to once he sees [[NotSoDifferent that Edison himself also had a "rivalry"]] something like his with Creator/LeonardoDaVinci. Homer decides to split the difference and take both his and Edison's frustrations out on the Eli Whitney Museum.

** Subverted later. Homer says Edison invented the Steam Engine, before Carl points out that “JAMES WATT invented the steam engine.”