History Recap / TheSimpsonsS10E9MayoredToTheMob

** Lenny, Carl, and Groundskeeper Willie are all ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans.

* GoOnWithoutMe: Mark Hamill tells Homer and Bart to do this when he claims to have a broken ankle.

* ImplausibleDeniability: After being caught beating Mayor Quimby with a baseball bat, Fat Tony drops the bat and says "what? What did I do?".

** Homer doesn't blink at Quimby accepting bribes left, right, and center, but he's horrified that Quimby allows the mob to sell rat milk to schoolchildren. He even threatens to drop Quimby to his death if he doesn't put a stop to it.

** Comic Book Guy's encounter with a geek girl parodies Jaws meeting Dolly in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'', but (to go with the sci-fi convention aesthetic of the scene) uses "Vita's Theme" from the unaired ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' pilot episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage" instead of [[StandardSnippet the overture of]] ''Music/RomeoAndJuliet''.

--> Mark Hamill '''IS''' [[Theatre/GuysAndDolls Nathan Detroit]]
--> Pepper Steak '''IS''' The Entree

-->'''Fat Tony''': I want the Mayor dead. I want his wife dead. I want his cat and his dog ''dead''.\\
'''Louie''': ''(taking notes)'' Wait, wait. Who’s before the cat?\\
'''Fat Tony''': ''(frustrated sigh)'' Just kill the Mayor.

-->'''Leavelle''': You ladies are, without a doubt, the most ''sorrowful'' clique at the dance. Not one of you fit to guard a Russian rock band. However, your checks have cleared, so you all graduate!

* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Parodied. When the police bust the rat milking business, Chief Wiggum rubs a rat under his nose and declares it "pure".
** Alternatively, he was sampling the rat milk from a teat.

* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: At the [[BarBrawl sci-fi convention brawl]], Mark Hamill tells Homer to move on without him because he twisted his ankle. Homer responds with a NoOneGetsLeftBehind and carries Hamill out. [[SubvertedTrope And then, Homer sees that Hamill]] ''[[SubvertedTrope didn't]]'' [[SubvertedTrope twist his ankle, after all]].

** "Yes!!! Nobody messes with the mayor when Homer Simpson's on.... (looks over to see Fat Tony beating Mayor Quimby with a baseball bat) oh crap."

* SavedByThePlatformBelow: Homer accidentally pushes the mayor out of the window and assumes him dead. But a look out of the window reveals that the mayor is still hanging from a ledge below the window and Homer is able to pull him back in.
* ScreamingAtSquick: "CRAP ON A CRUST! THEY'RE MILKING RATS! ''MILKING RAAAATS!''"[[note]]"Rats?! I'm outraged! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint You promised me dog or higher!]]"[[/note]]

** Comic Book Guy's encounter with a geek girl parodies Jaws meeting Dolly in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'', but uses "Vita's Theme" from the unaired ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' pilot episode "The Cage" instead of [[StandardSnippet the overture of]] ''Music/RomeoAndJuliet''.
** Homer uses [[Franchise/StarTrek The Vulcan nerve pinch]] five times in the episode.

* SongParody: "Luke, Be a Jedi Tonight", a parody of "Luck Be a Lady" from ''Guys and Dolls''. The "Guys and Dolls" song Hamill sings lifts its melody from "Hooray For Hollywood" (from the film ''Hollywood Hotel'' and well-known for its use at UsefulNotes/AcademyAward ceremonies).

* TakeThat:
** See PushedInFrontOfTheAudience above.
** Also, one of the "enemy" cardboard cutouts is of ComicBook/WonderWoman.

'''Homer:''' ''(thumbing through the program guide)'' I think I saw him in ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'', or ''Theatre/{{Stomp}}'', or "Clomp" or some piece of crap.

** When Homer thinks he's killed Quimby, his first instinct is to "stage an elaborate farce, a la Film/WeekendAtBernies."

** We hear the title song from ''Film/TheBodyguard'' twice.

* HollywoodToneDeaf: At the bodyguard school graduation, Leavelle sings them off with the theme from ''Film/TheBodyguard'' ("I Will Always Love You").

* MayTheFarceBeWithYou: Star Wars gets its fair share of spoofing in this episode.