History Recap / TheSimpsonsS12E15HungryHungryHomer

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* SmallNameBigEgo: The Mayor of Albuquerque.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The stadium uses napkins with "Albuquerque Isotopes" printed on them before the team has officially moved. This allows Homer to expose their plan to move the team.

* LiteralMetaphor: When asked if he's calling Homer a liar, the head of Duff Brewery says he has footage of Homer with his pants on fire. He's being literal.

* PoliceBrutality: Homer spotted Chief Wiggum and his officers supposedly beating up Snake Jailbird with their batons, so he fends them off with his car. However, it is subverted as it turns out that Snake's shirt is caught on fire and that he actually asked the officers to put it out with their batons; Snake even calls Homer an idiot for scaring the police away, to which Homer angrily responded by driving away and leaving Snake to deal with his problem on his own.

** Homer threatens the hair saloon after they claim they'd be finanically ruined by honoring Marge's coupon with "We'll see about that!" only to smash cut to Homer going over their finances and commenting on their razor thin margins.

--> '''Homer''': You know me, I'll be quirky. Wait a minute, "I'll be quirky"... Albuquerque!

* BerserkButton: Homer says he's fine with [[ThatLiarLies being called a liar]] when he's lying, or when he's about to lie, or when he's just finished lying. But ''not'' when he's telling the truth!

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: After leaves to go on a hunger strike and Marge continues making as much food as she would if he were still at home--her oldest daughter, Lisa, points out that Marge could just try making less food instead of forcing her, Bart and Maggie to eat Homer's share of the food. Marge refuses to do so out of sheer stubbornness.

* ForceFeeding: Marge has gotten so used to making enough food to feed her [[BigEater gluttonous husband]] that when he leaves to go on a hunger strike (which ultimately stretches out to nearly ''two weeks''), she basically forces Bart, Lisa and Maggie to eat Homer's share of the food rather than just make less food (which Lisa points out to Marge). When Bart complains about being too full to eat any more, Marge pressures the kids to keep eating.

** Marge mocks Homer for going on a hunger strike, then forces the kids to eat his share of dinner instead of just making less food (which Lisa points out).

* NotHyperbole: The salon owner wasn't lying when he said he couldn't afford to streak Marge's hair. Homer goes over his books and finds out that the salon's profit margins are razor thin.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When Homer goes on a hunger strike and Marge still makes as much food as she normally does, to the dismay of her kids who can't eat it all, Lisa suggests just making less food but Marge refuses out of sheer stubbornness.

** At home, the opposite happens to his kids -- Bart, Lisa, and Maggie all get fat from Marge getting them to eat Homer's share of the food while he's off doing his hunger strike. When Lisa questions, [[StatingTheSimpleSolution "Couldn't you just make]] ''[[StatingTheSimpleSolution less]]'' [[StatingTheSimpleSolution food, Mom?"]], Marge simply replies, "I don't do things that way, Lisa."

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The stadium uses napkins with "Albuquerque Isotopes" printed on them before the team has officially moved. This allows Homer to deduce that they are planning to move the team and try to stop them.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: By giving Homer a hot dog made with southwestern ingredients (''and'' by [[TooDumbToLive using "Albuquerque Isotopes" wrappers]]), the plan to move the team ''finally'' gets exposed.

* TooDumbToLive:
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Paint-Drinking Pete]] is dumb even by ''this'' show's standards.
** Also, the stadium using napkins with "Albuquerque Isotopes" printed on them before the team has officially moved.

-->'''Mayor of Albuquerque:''' They'll play what I tell 'em to play. [''Walks to a window; menacingly''] '''For I am the mayor of Albuquerque!'''

-->'''First executive:''' [''Cheerfully''] Death is a part of baseball!

* AudienceSurrogate: Homer ends up being one during a point when having gone days without eating, he witnesses and hears the thousands of attendees in the stadium eating their food. Loudly. ''[[HellIsThatNoise All at the same, exact time.]]'' Which drives him to ask, "Must they all chew so loudly?!"

** When the Blockoland souvenir guy refuses to give Lisa the missing piece of her Eiffel Tower kit, Homer [[AngryFistShake angrily shakes his fists]] and tells him there's something to make him remember Homer. Homer then opens his hand and shows a snow globe with his name and face.
** When Homer confronts Mr. Duff over the latter's plan to move the Springfield Isotopes to Albuquerque, the latter shows a vial with what he claims to be a new additive for Duff beer. Unlike what Homer (understandably) suspects, the memory-erasing drug comes from Duffman injecting him with a syringe.

* BittersweetEnding: Homer finally exposes the plan to move the Isotopes to Albuquerque, and the Mayor of Albuquerque decides to give up trying to buy the team...in favour of acquiring the Dallas Cowboys and ''making'' them play baseball.
-->'''Mayor of Albuquerque:''' Looks like we'll have to steal some other baseball team. ''(to his aide)'' See what Dallas wants for the Cowboys.

* TheCassandra: Nobody would believe Homer's claims about the Springfield Isotopes moving to Albuquerque until he pointed out that the hotdogs that were being served at the stadium were topped with popular ''southwestern'' ingredients. It also [[NotHelpingYourCase didn't help the Isotopes' case]] that the napkins had the name "Albuquerque Isotopes" printed on them.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Isotopes have not won even one game since Howard K. Duff VIII has owned it; he's clearly [[SpringtimeForHitler trying to turn them into a disgrace on purpose to justify moving the team.]] Lenny recounts that when he asked for a ticket refund, "they said ''they'' wanted it [his money]."

-->'''Homer:''' There's no "Albuquerque Isotopes", it's the "''Springfield''-"! ...''Oh''.

-->'''Lenny''': [''Sighs''] Sweet Duff.

--> '''Homer''': You know me, I'll be quirky. Wait a minute, "I'll be quirky" ... Albuquerque!

* LosingHorns: Homer returns to the Albuquerque Isotopes room with a group of reporters, only to discover that Duff had already removed the incriminating evidence. The only thing in there is a beatnik playing a mocking tune.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Homer declares that he would go on a hunger strike to expose the truth, which Marge immediately laughs at him, knowing how much of a BigEater he is. She points out that he is literally eating a sausage while making the declaration.
* PaperThinDisguise: When Homer brings the press to Mr. Duff's office to expose the moving plan, Duffman shows up wearing a press hat and a jacket while holding a notebook, claiming he's "Joel Duffman" of "''The Newsly Times''."

* SpecialGuest: Howard K. Duff is voiced by Creator/StacyKeach (from the first ''Cheech and Chong'' movie and played Christopher Titus' hard-assed father, Ken, on the sitcom ''Titus'' [which was in production at the time of this episode's premiere]).
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When Homer goes on a hunger strike and Marge still makes as much food as she normally does, to the dismay of her kids who can't eat it all, Lisa suggests making less food. Marge blatantly refuses.

** At home, the opposite happens to his kids--Bart, Lisa, and Maggie all get fat from Marge getting them to eat Homer's share of the food while he's off doing his hunger strike. When Lisa questions, [[StatingTheSimpleSolution "Couldn't you just make]] ''[[StatingTheSimpleSolution less]]'' [[StatingTheSimpleSolution food, Mom?"]], Marge simply replies, "I don't do things that way, Lisa."
* TemptingFate: Homer tries to reassure his family the people he's protesting against won't let him starve to death. He's then shown a skeleton sitting next to a sign demanding them to clean the ladies' bathroom.

* ThrowTheDogABone: This is one of the few times where a crazy stunt of Homer's succeeds.

* TooDumbToLive: Paint-Drinking Pete is dumb even by ''this'' show's standards--also, the stadium using napkins with "'''Albuquerque''' Isotopes" printed on them before the team has officially moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

* WhatWouldXDo: "New feelings brewing in Duffman! What ... would Jesus do?"

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Homer declares that he would go on a hunger strike to expose the truth, which Marge immediately laughs at him, knowing he is a [[((Understantment}} colossal]] BigEater. She points out that he is literally eating a sausage while making the declaration.

* WaitingSkeleton: As Homer prepares to go on a hunger strike to protest the Isotopes' planned move to Albuquerque, he sees the skeleton of previous striker holding a sign reading "CLEAN THE LADIES ROOM."

* BuiltWithLEGO: [[{{Expy}} Or "Blocko", rather]], regarding the theme park the family visits. Incidentally, Bart ''does'' actually say the word "LEGO" on the way home.