History Recap / TheSimpsonsS11E17BartToTheFuture

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, 16 years before Trump was actually elected U.S. President (although it was partially inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign Trump's tentative third-party run in the 2000 election]]) and that back when this episode premiered, [[ItWillNeverCatchOn 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 the episode premiered in 2000, 16 years before Trump was actually elected 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]]

!! Tropes:

* 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." The episode also extrapolates Bart's OddFriendship with Ralph from "This Little Wiggy," another Dan Greaney-penned episode.

'''Casino Owner:''' ''[mysteriously]'' ''Who says I'm not?''

--->'''Casino Owner:''' Unless you change your deceitful ways, I foresee a life of bitterness and failure for you...''Bart Simpson''.\\

* 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.

* OffModel: Carl is white when Bart gets feedback plugging in his guitar at Nelson's Crab Shack.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: According to Lisa's advisers, the previous administration's decision to invest in the nation's children was a ''[[EpicFail big]]'' mistake.
-->'''Aide''': The balanced breakfast program just created a generation of ultra-strong super-criminals!\\
'''Milhouse''': And midnight basketball taught them to function without sleep.

* FamousForBeingFirst[=/=]OverlyNarrowSuperlative: When an adult Lisa is giving a press conference, she states she's proud to be "the first ''straight'' female president".

* BaitAndSwitch:
** Upon finding himself evicted and penniless, Bart says despondently, "There's only one way out of this mess" and [[DrivenToSuicide aims a futuristic ray gun at his head]]. Turns out it's a device for beaming the news directly into your brain and he just wanted to check his lotto numbers.
** At the dinner, Lisa enquires as to the whereabouts of Maggie, at which point Marge pulls out what is an apparently unaged baby Maggie. And then she clarifies that this one is [[LegacyCharacter the daughter of Maggie Sr]].

** Upon finding himself evicted and penniless, Bart says despondently, "There's only one way out of this mess" and [[DrivenToSuicide aims a futuristic ray gun at his head]]. Turns out it's a device for beaming the news directly into your brain and he just wanted to check his lotto numbers.

* FamousForBeingFirst: When an adult Lisa is giving a press conference, she states she's proud to be "the first ''straight'' female president".

* BaitAndSwitch: At the dinner, Lisa enquires as to the whereabouts of Maggie, at which point Marge pulls out what is an apparently unaged baby Maggie. And then she clarifies that this one is [[LegacyCharacter the daughter of Maggie Sr]].

* CampGay: After Bart talks Ned into lending him money, Ned relents but says it's only because he hasn't "outed Rod and Todd." If Ned weren't blind, he would probably realize that Bart doesn't exactly need to.

-->'''Casino Owner:''' That's Crazy Talk!

-->'''Park Ranger''': ''([[BodyHorror looking at his skeletal hand]]) [[SarcasmMode Oh thanks a lot!]]

* {{Manchild}}: When Lisa becomes President, Homer, Marge and Bart (and Maggie, [[TheGhost seemingly]]) immediately move in with her, and the resultant household and its pivotal SiblingRivalry function exactly as in the show despite several decades having passed.

* MultipleChoiceFuture: The casino owner indicates that this is a potential future for Bart if he continues on his current trajectory rather than an inevitable outcome, meaning the episode is still in continuity with the RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf depicted in "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie"' and implied to still be going forward in "Lisa's Wedding."

* TheAllSolvingHammer: Bart's manipulative ploy of preference is to tell people that they "used to be cool." This fails on Lisa, who was ''never'' cool.

* TheAllSolvingHammer: Bart's manipulative ploy of preference is to tell people, "What happened to you, man? You used to be cool." This fails on Lisa, who was ''never'' cool.

* DumbassNoMore: Ralph Wiggum has outgrown his non-sequitur-spewing {{Cloudcuckoolander}} behavior to the point of acting as a voice of reason to Bart.

* {{Manchild}}: When Lisa becomes President, Homer, Marge and Bart (and Maggie, [[TheGhost seemingly]]) immediately move in with her, and the resultant household and its SiblingRivalry function exactly as in the show despite several decades having passed.

* {{Manchild}}: When Lisa becomes President, Homer, Marge and Bart (and Maggie, [[TheGhost seemingly]]) immediately move in with her and the resultant household functions exactly as it does in the show despite several decades having passed.