History Recap / TheSimpsonsS11E17BartToTheFuture

* {{Manchild}}: Lisa's parents live at the White House with her and all the situation needs is the arrival of Bart for the family to function exactly as it does in the show despite several decades having passed.

* CallBack: Marge's gambling problem from "$pringfield, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling" and Arthur Crandall and his ventriloquist dummy, Gabbo, who had their own kids' show in "Krusty Gets Kancelled."

* {{Manchild}}: When Lisa becomes President, her family moves into the White House with her, where the entire household continues to interact exactly as in the main timeline of the show when she and Bart are eight and ten respectively, with zero maturation of the SiblingRivalry.

* IdenticalGrandson: Just to seal the deal on the White House version of the Simpsons household working exactly as it does in the show despite everybody having aged several decades, Maggie's future self doesn't make it onscreen at all, but Marge is babysitting her identical baby daughter, also named Maggie.

-->'''Bart:''' I knew you'd need some help keeping it real, so I figured I could be, like, your copresident.
-->'''Lisa:''' Copresident? Are you crazy?

* IdenticalGrandson: Just to seal the deal on the White House version of the Simpsons household being functionally identical to the show's version, Maggie's future self doesn't make it onscreen at all, but Marge is babysitting her identical baby daughter, also named Maggie.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: {{Subver|sion}}ted. When the the Indian owner calls Bart by his full name, he reveals that Homer just took a second mortgage and listed bart as collateral. {{Double Subver|sion}}ted immediately when Bart says he is disappointed since he assumed he was an Indian Mystic, to which the owner replies he is, and he starts his lecture about the future.

* ShouldHaveThoughtOfThatBeforeX: Homer eventually responds to Bart's attempt to make him give money by saying he should have thought about that before dropping out of the [=DeVry=] Institute.

* DudeNotFunny: Bart tries to come up with a coolness plan at Camp David, and Krusty suggests opening with a joke: "What's the difference between UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}} and a pancake?" The punchline: "I don't know any pancakes that were nuked by UsefulNotes/{{India}}!" Bart and the others just stare at Krusty in shock, to which Krusty replies, "What? [[TooSoon Too soon]]?"

* DudeNotFunny: Bart tries to come up with a coolness plan at Camp David, and Krusty suggests opening with a joke: "What's the difference between UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}} and a pancake?" The punchline: "I don't know any pancakes that were nuked by UsefulNotes/{{India}}!" Bart and the others stare at Krusty in shock, and Krusty replies, "What? Too soon?"

** Not even Bart finds Krusty's attempt at making a joke out of Pakistan being nuked by India funny.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Not even Bart finds Krusty's attempt at making a joke out of Pakistan being nuked by India funny.

* FromBadToWorse: The park ranger at Larva Lake looks down and sees his hand is crawling with insects; he shakes them off ad then protests the swarm stole his class ring. The bugs return the ring...and eat every bit of flesh off his hand.

* InnocentWhistling: The marching band that accompanies Lisa to dinner does this when she mentions wanting to cut something from the budget.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: {{Double Subver|sion}}ted.

In the second "look-into-the-future" episode, the Simpsons visit an Indian casino after their camping trip to Larval Lake gets canceled due to an insect infestation (that has eaten the comment book and stolen the park ranger's class ring -- followed by the skin, fat, and muscle off his hand), where Bart gets a vision of his future as a [=DeVry=] Institute dropout looking to hit the big time as a musician, while Lisa is the first female President of the United States, trying to get the country back on track after UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's disastrous stint as President.[[note]]Please note that the episode premiered in 2000, almost 17 years before Trump actually became U.S. President (although it was partially inspired by Trump's tentative third-party run in the 2000 election) and that back when this episode premiered, the idea of Donald Trump as U.S. President was still considered a joke.[[/note]]

In the second "look-into-the-future" episode, the Simpsons visit an Indian casino after their camping trip to Larval Lake gets canceled due to an insect infestation (that has eaten the comment book and stolen the park ranger's class ring -- followed by the skin, fat, and muscle off his hand), where Bart gets a vision of his future as a [=DeVry=] Institute dropout looking to hit the big time as a musician, while Lisa is the first female President of the United States, trying to get the country back on track after UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's disastrous stint as President[[note]]please note that, back when this episode premiered, the idea of Donald Trump as U.S. President was still considered a joke[[/note]].

* BadFuture: Homer says, "What a bleak and horrible future we live in!" when he gets shocked by the cord feeding him virtual fudge. Bart corrects him that he means "present."

* TheUnreveal: "Legalize it."

In the second "look-into-the-future" episode, the Simpsons visit an Indian casino after their camping trip to Larval Lake gets canceled due to an insect infestation (that has eaten the comment book and stolen the park ranger's class ring -- followed by the skin, fat, and muscle off his hand), where Bart gets a vision of his future as a [=DeVry=] Institute dropout looking to hit the big time as a musician, while Lisa is the first female President of the United States, trying to get the country back on track after UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's disastrous stint as President.

* BadFuture: Homer says, "What a bleak and horrible future we live in!" when he can't put sauce on his food. Bart corrects him that he means "present."

* SequelEpisode: Spiritually one to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding," a FlashForward with the kids as adults but done more with a focus on Bart rather than Lisa.

* SequelEpisode: Spiritually one to "Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding," a FlashForward with the kids as adults but done more with a focus on Bart rather than Lisa.