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* SeriousBusiness: A kid's social status at Springfield Elementary can be affected by what pencil holder they own. Everyone supposedly picks on the kids who own the Pöpli, [[EvenNerdsHaveStandards even]] [[NotSoAboveItAll Lisa]].
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* BabyFeverTrigger:BabyFeverTrigger: Manjula playing with Maggie is what finally pushes her and Apu to start trying for children.

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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Apu and Manjula thought they would. [[AvertedTrope They were wrong. Very, very wrong.]]
* BagOfHolding: Dr. Hibbert's lab coat: [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/465160.jpg Closed]]; [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/471160.jpg Open]].

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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Apu and Manjula thought they would.babies would improve their life. [[AvertedTrope They were wrong. Very, very wrong.]]
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* BagOfHolding: Dr. Hibbert's lab coat: coat can hold seven newborns: [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/465160.jpg Closed]]; [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/471160.jpg Open]].
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** See ADayInTheLimelight [[note]]though the "Sideshow Marge" one ''would've'' been explained in a DeletedScene from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E13DayOfTheJackanapes Day of the Jackanapes]]" that would've featured a {{Flashback}} to the incident in question[[/note]].
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Not only that but, why did the snake-like robots have to be full of poison?

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Not only that but, why did the snake-like robots have to be full of poison?poison? [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E2TheParentRap It even causes a lot of night terrors for Homer afterwards]].
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Allen Wrench claims that he was found in a meteor and needs tungsten to live. He could just be a man in a bizarre mascot costume who only said that to mess with Bart though.

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Allen Wrench claims that he was found in a meteor and needs tungsten to live. He could just be a man human SHØP employee in a bizarre mascot costume who only said that decided to mess with Bart though.
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* BagOfHolding: Dr. Hibbert's lab coat: [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/465160.jpg Closed]]; [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/471160.jpg Open]].
-->'''Dr. Hibbert:''' Now say hello to your other seven children.

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* MetalMuncher: Allen Wrench, SHØP's mascot, is really an alien who was enslaved by the store and lives off of tungsten, which he confides to the family.
-->''Robotic voice'': I need tungsten to live! '''Tungsten!'''



** It is never explained exactly ''why'' Lisa and the rest of the school hate the Pöpli kids.
[[labelnote:Well...]] the Pöpli is a rather plain almost mug-like holder, compared to the more attractive designs like the see-saw-like Krönk. People who like the Pöpli, like Marge, might be seen as boring and characterless, hence no-one wants to make friends with them. [[/labelnote]]

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** It is never explained exactly ''why'' Lisa and the rest of the school hate the Pöpli kids.
kids. [[labelnote:Well...]] the Pöpli is a rather plain almost mug-like holder, compared to the more attractive designs like the see-saw-like Krönk. People who like the Pöpli, like Marge, might be seen as boring and characterless, hence no-one wants to make friends with them. [[/labelnote]]
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: Apu turns on the couple's new TV just as a report breaks about the Shelbyville Nonuplets, signaling an end to the corporate gifts.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Allen Wrench claims that he was found in a meteor and needs tungsten to live. He could just be a man in a bizarre mascot costume who just said that to mess with Bart though.

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Allen Wrench claims that he was found in a meteor and needs tungsten to live. He could just be a man in a bizarre mascot costume who just only said that to mess with Bart though.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Allen Wrench claims that he was found in a meteor and needs tungsten to live.

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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Allen Wrench claims that he was found in a meteor and needs tungsten to live. He could just be a man in a bizarre mascot costume who just said that to mess with Bart though.
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* SurpriseMultipleBirth: Exaggerated and PlayedForLaughs when Apu arrives at the hospital, believing Manjula has only had one child...
-->'''Manjula:''' Oh, my sweet husband, say hello to your firstborn child.
-->'''Apu:''' You shall be the jewel of our lives.
-->'''Dr Hibbert:''' Aww. Now say hello to your other seven children! [''opens doctor's coat to reveal more babies'']
-->'''Apu:''' My... whaaa?!
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* OffModel:
** The Octuplets [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/466160.jpg have no faces]] the first time we see them.
** [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/484560.jpg Apu's mustache vanishes when he's shocked from finding out that he's got octuplets]].



* PlotHole: In-Universe, when Homer has written a script to help Apu and Manjula get pregnant which portray the couple as a pair of teenagers having their first time before the boy goes away, the explanations he has for his leaving are going to college, being shipped off to the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar and a bone-digging expedition.
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'''Original air date:''' 11/21/1999

'''Production code:''' BABF-03
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Excluding Maggie, Lisa was the only Simpson who ''wasn't'' secretly slipping Manjula fertility drugs. She gives the others a very WhatTheHellHero look when they reveal their involvement.
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** Manjula was being slipped fertility drugs not only by her husband but by Homer, Marge ''and'' Bart. The details of this are never explained.
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* ComicBookTime: Within the episode itself, as Manjula goes through nine months of pregnancy and the Simpsons remain "the family with one baby."
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* Jerkass: The workers of the local companies who decide to revoke Apu and Manjula's gifts upon hearing of the feat of a Shelbyvillian woman. One of them even attempts to steal a cushion that the Nahasapeemapetilons already owned before being called out.

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* Jerkass: {{Jerkass}}: The workers of the local companies who decide to revoke Apu and Manjula's gifts upon hearing of the feat of a Shelbyvillian woman. One of them even attempts to steal a cushion that the Nahasapeemapetilons already owned before being called out.

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* Jerkass: The workers of the local companies who decide to revoke Apu and Manjula's gifts upon hearing of the feat of a Shelbyvillian woman. One of them even attempts to steal a cushion that the Nahasapeemapetilons already owned before being called out.



** When Homer is proposing his own show to replace the one with the octopulets, Kidkill asks "It's not just you prancing around in a monkey suit, is it?", to which Homer says "Not anymore.". One wonders what sort of show that would have been.

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** When Homer is proposing his own show to replace the one with the octopulets, Kidkill asks "It's not just you prancing around in a monkey suit, is it?", to which it?" Homer says "Not anymore.". One wonders what sort of show that would have been.



* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Not only that but, why did the snake-like robots have to be full of poison?

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Not only that but, why did the snake-like robots have to be full of poison?poison?
* YankTheDogsChain: Despite having octuplets, the Nahasapeemapetilons initially were granted free products by companies to help them raise their kids in a better condition, but this is quickly undone by the news of a Shelbyvillian birthing nine kids, revoking their help in favor of the latter and leaving the struggling octuplet family behind.
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* DeathSeeker: Apu becomes this as a result of having to look after so many kids, to the point that he describes a dream where he died as "beautiful".
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[[labelnote:Well...]] the Pöpli is a rather plain almost mug-like holder, compared to the more attractive designs like the see-saw-like Kr&ouml:nk. People who like the Pöpli, like Marge, might be seen as boring and characterless, hence no-one wants to make friends with them. [[/labelnote]]

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[[labelnote:Well...]] the Pöpli is a rather plain almost mug-like holder, compared to the more attractive designs like the see-saw-like Kr&ouml:nk.Krönk. People who like the Pöpli, like Marge, might be seen as boring and characterless, hence no-one wants to make friends with them. [[/labelnote]]
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[[labelnote:Well...]] the Pöpli is a rather plain almost mug-like holder, compared to the more attractive designs like the see-saw-like Kr&ouml:nk. People who like the Pöpli, like Marge, might be seen as boring and characterless, hence no-one wants to make friends with them.

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[[labelnote:Well...]] the Pöpli is a rather plain almost mug-like holder, compared to the more attractive designs like the see-saw-like Kr&ouml:nk. People who like the Pöpli, like Marge, might be seen as boring and characterless, hence no-one wants to make friends with them. [[/labelnote]]

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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The faux-Swedish SHØP, with a cafeteria named "FUD" that serves "plopenlugen" and "doodlemunch".



** When Homer is proposing his own show to replace the one with the octopulets, Kidkill asks "It's not just you prancing around in a monkey suit, is it?", to which Homer says "Not anymore.". One wonders what sort of show that was.

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[[labelnote:Well...]] the Pöpli is a rather plain almost mug-like holder, compared to the more attractive designs like the see-saw-like Kr&ouml:nk. People who like the Pöpli, like Marge, might be seen as boring and characterless, hence no-one wants to make friends with them.
** When Homer is proposing his own show to replace the one with the octopulets, Kidkill asks "It's not just you prancing around in a monkey suit, is it?", to which Homer says "Not anymore.". One wonders what sort of show that was.would have been.

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* OffModel: The Octuplets [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/466160.jpg have no faces]] the first time we see them.

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The Octuplets [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/466160.jpg have no faces]] the first time we see them.them.
** [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S11E07/484560.jpg Apu's mustache vanishes when he's shocked from finding out that he's got octuplets]].

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* NoodleIncident: See ADayInTheLimelight [[note]]though the "Sideshow Marge" one ''would've'' been explained in a DeletedScene from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E13DayOfTheJackanapes Day of the Jackanapes]]" that would've featured a {{Flashback}} to the incident in question[[/note]].

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** When Homer is proposing his own show to replace the one with the octopulets, Kidkill asks "It's not just you prancing around in a monkey suit, is it?", to which Homer says "Not anymore.". One wonders what sort of show that was.
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* CouchGag: The Simpsons sit on the couch and the wall spins around to reveal a Vincent Price-esque mad scientist and a shackled and scared Ned Flanders on the other side of the wall.
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* UnfortunateNames: Mr. Kidkill.

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