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* AnimalAthleteLoophole: Averted. Homer checks the NFL's rulebook ([[DidntThinkThisThrough after checking how good Duncan is at kicking footballs]]) and notices with disappointment that the rules don't allow animals to play.
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* UnsatisfiableCustomer: Homer, [[{{Jerkass}} being Homer]], demands Bachman Turner Overdrive to play the song ''Taking Care of Business'' and skip around the lyrics and even repeat them when he finds them too boring. This gets him dragged away by security.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Homer puts Duncan through a tryout as a placekicker...and then checks the rulebook to see if horses can play in the NFL. They can't.
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* AsHimself: South African horse racing announcer Trevor Denman, who wasn't credited for his appearance, is the announcer for all of Duncan's/Furious D's races. He even uses his real-life CatchPhrase - "''AND AAAAAAAWAY THEY GO!''" - at the start of each race.
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** South African horse racing announcer Trevor Denman, who wasn't credited for his appearance, is the announcer for all of Duncan's/Furious D's races. He even uses his real-life CatchPhrase - "''AND AAAAAAAWAY THEY GO!''" - at the start of each race.
** South African horse racing announcer Trevor Denman, who wasn't credited for his appearance, is the announcer for all of Duncan's/Furious D's races. He even uses his real-life CatchPhrase - "''AND AAAAAAAWAY THEY GO!''" - at the start of each race.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lisa is right that the Ogdenville band cheated, though few appear to care. The judge takes no action but abolishing a planned "Good Sports" trophy due to the particularly antagonistic way Lisa expresses this.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: {{Jerkass}}: The Comic Book Guy, [[DeadpanSnarker in his inimitable fashion]], barges into the events of the episode just to complain [[MetaGuy about how this is a rehash of prior plots]] (which makes sense from a fourth-wall-breaking point of view, but not when it's someone's life. Understandably, Homer leads the surrounding crowd into telling him to get lost). He pops up a second time later implying he is following the Simpsons around just to see if his statement remains true ([[FunTShirt although he already made his mind about that]]).
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Lisa is right that the Ogdenville band cheated, though few appear to care. The judge takes no action but abolishing a planned "Good Sports" trophy due to the particularly antagonistic way Lisa expresses this.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Lisa is right that the Ogdenville band cheated, though few appear to care. The judge takes no action but abolishing a planned "Good Sports" trophy due to the particularly antagonistic way Lisa expresses this.
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* PhonyVeteran: Homer pretends to be a veteran to enter the State Fair without paying for it.
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** Despite doing so in a sarcastic fashion, Comic Book Guy was correct that the last time the family got a horse that the expenses put them through a roof. True to fashion, it happens again.
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--->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Excuse me, I believe [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E8LisasPony this family already had a horse]], and the expense forced Homer to work at the Kwik-E-Mart, with hilarious consequences.
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--->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Excuse me, I believe [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E8LisasPony this family already had a horse]], and the expense forced Homer to work at the Kwik-E-Mart, with hilarious consequences. (''smiles'')
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--->'''Crowd:''' No!
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--->'''Crowd:''' No!(''angrily'') NO!!
--->'''Comic Book Guy:''' (''distraught that no one takes his comments seriously'') Mmmm...
--->'''Comic Book Guy:''' (''distraught that no one takes his comments seriously'') Mmmm...
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'''Jockey:''' ''[popping up]'' No dream. Lose the race, fat boy.
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'''Jockey:''' ''[popping up]'' No dream. dream! Lose the race, fat boy.boy!!
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* TheSeriesHasLeftReality: Largely considered to be the episode where the Simpsons started to verge on the fantastical with plotlines, what with Homer and Bart discovering all horse jockeys are secretly Elves in disguise as the tipping point of the episode.
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* SoreLoser: Lisa. It is clear that the other hand cheated and Springfield Elementary's band pulled an awesome performance by playing "Living In America", but it still takes her "whining" about her loss all the way up to '''the President of the United States''' in order to find an authority figure that cares about this injustice.
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* SoreLoser: Lisa. It is clear that the other hand band cheated and Springfield Elementary's band pulled an awesome performance by playing "Living In America", but it still takes her "whining" about her loss all the way up to '''the President of the United States''' in order to find an authority figure that cares about this injustice.
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Homer and Bart rescue a horse from a cruel sideshow attraction and train it to be a badass on the racetrack, which irks a secret society of jockey elves. Meanwhile, Lisa files a complaint to President UsefulNotes/BillClinton over an unfair judgment at the county fair's Battle of the Bands.
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Homer and Bart rescue a horse from a cruel sideshow attraction and train it to be a badass on the racetrack, which irks a secret society of jockey elves. Meanwhile, Lisa files a complaint to President UsefulNotes/BillClinton over an unfair judgment at the county state fair's Battle of the Bands.
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--->'''Homer:''' And you said they couldn't deep-fry my shirt!\\
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--->'''Homer:''' And See, Marge? I told you said they couldn't could deep-fry my shirt!\\
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* AluminiumChristmasTrees: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse Diving horses]]" were a popular sideshow attraction in North America from the 1880s to [[TheSeventies the 1970s]].
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* DeepFriedWhatever: Apparently Homer will even eat his own shirt if it's deep fried.
--->'''Homer:''' And you said they couldn't deep-fry my shirt!\\
'''Marge:''' I didn't say they couldn't, I said ''you shouldn't''.
--->'''Homer:''' And you said they couldn't deep-fry my shirt!\\
'''Marge:''' I didn't say they couldn't, I said ''you shouldn't''.
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'''Original air date:''' 2/6/2000 ''(produced in 1999)''
'''Production code:''' BABF-09
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* CryptidEpisode: The third act twist is Homer discovering that all of the other horse jockeys in Springfield are members of a secret society of ''elves'' that give him an ultimatum: Duncan must lose the next race or ''else''.
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* CryptidEpisode: The third act twist is Homer discovering that all of the other horse jockeys in Springfield are members of a secret society of ''elves'' that give him an ultimatum: Duncan must lose the next race or ''else''.else they'll ''eat his brains''.
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--->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Excuse me, I believe [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E8LisasPony this family already had a horse]], and the expense forced Homer to work at the Kwik-E-Mart, with [[HilarityEnsues hilarious consequences]].
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--->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Excuse me, I believe [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E8LisasPony this family already had a horse]], and the expense forced Homer to work at the Kwik-E-Mart, with [[HilarityEnsues hilarious consequences]].consequences.
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In this BizarroEpisode written by Tim Long, Homer and Bart rescue a horse from a cruel sideshow attraction and train it to be a badass on the racetrack, which irks a secret society of jockey elves. Meanwhile, Lisa files a complaint to President UsefulNotes/BillClinton over an unfair judgment at the county fair's Battle of the Bands.
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* AbsenteeActor: Maggie never appears once in this episode.
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* AssPull[[invoked]]: Lampshaded InUniverse with the reveal that the jockeys are a secret society of elves. Homer believes for a few seconds that he's hallucinating or that the encounter was a dream. Later on, when he casually says that the jockeys are elves, Marge reacts by saying a BigWhat
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* ShockingSwerve: The aforementioned reveal that the jockeys are a secret society of elves. Lampshaded InUniverse with Homer believing for a few seconds that he's hallucinating or that the encounter was a dream and later on when he casually says that the jockeys are elves Marge reacts by saying a BigWhat
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* LogoJoke: This was one of the episodes that repeated characters' lines for the Gracie Films logo.
-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Worst episode ever.
-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Worst episode ever.
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* CouchGag: The family leaps into the room, all dressed in karate uniforms. They chop the couch to pieces while Homer does a spinning kick and clicks on the TV with the remote.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: It appears that the evil jockeys are weakened by water. It doesn't kill them, but it does immobilize them long enough to put them in a trash bag.
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* TakeThat: ...which Clinton counters by stating he's a lousy president.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lisa is right that the Ogdenville band cheated, though few appear to care.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Lisa is right that the Ogdenville band cheated, though few appear to care. The judge takes no action but abolishing a planned "Good Sports" trophy due to the particularly antagonistic way Lisa expresses this.
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* LaughThemselvesSick: Both Homer and Marge begin rolling on the floor laughing after getting caught up in their own bizarre fantasies.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The horse jockeys have no qualms about whipping ten-year-old Bart with their riding crops when the boy begins to pass them. This continues until Duncan begins knocking the jockeys off their horses.
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* TakeThatAudience: "Anybody care what this guy [the Comic Book Guy] thinks?" In fact, this was a main criticism of this episode.
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* TakeThatAudience: Homer, referring to [[AudienceSurrogate Comic Book Guy]], asks "Anybody care what this guy [the Comic Book Guy] thinks?" In fact, this was a main criticism of this episode.thinks?", to which everyone responds "NO!".
