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* FauxAffablyEvil: Fat Tony and his cronies are rather polite and more than happy to sell Bart and Milhouse, but as soon as they realise Bart has a wire thanks to Chief Wiggum, they immediately try to murder the boys. And after they're arrested, Fat Tony offers to have Legs reattach Homer's thumb while mentioning that Legs once removed a bullet from him and put it in someone else.



* ForWantOfANail: All Homer had to do was wait for Marge to finish cutting the brownies.

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* ForWantOfANail: All Homer had to do was wait for Marge to finish cutting the brownies. Bart's part of the episode would have mostly been unaffected up until Chief Wiggum arrives at 123 Fake St.



* {{Jerkass}}:
** Martin. Instead of getting Otto to stop the bus for Lisa, he tells her to kiss first place in the science fair goodbye and laughs.
** The french teacher and his class who make fun of Lisa for being at the wrong school.
** Chief Wiggum makes Bart and Milhouse act as snitches when he catches them with fireworks. See BadCopIncompetentCop for most of it.



* MamaBear: Marge's reaction to the mafia.

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* MamaBear: Marge's reaction to the mafia.mafia is to throw Linguo at them.


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* NiceGuy: Cletus happily picks up Homer when he's hitchhiking and is sympathetic about Homer's thumb and takes him to Dr. Nick's and was going to take him to Shelbyville before Marge steals his vehicle.


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* PetTheDog: Krusty gives Lisa a ride to school after Mr. Teeny nearly hits her with the limo. She's taken to the wrong school, but it's the thought that counts.
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** An inverted example: "Homer's Day" sees Dr. Nick bemoan the burning of he clinic by remarking "''In''flammable means ''flammable''?! What a country!" During "Bart's Day", after Milhouse's firework laden bike tire flies into Captain [=McCallister=]'s room and lands onto an ether tank:

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** An inverted example: "Homer's Day" sees Dr. Nick bemoan the burning of he his clinic by remarking "''In''flammable means ''flammable''?! What a country!" During "Bart's Day", after Milhouse's firework laden bike tire flies into Captain [=McCallister=]'s room and lands onto an ether tank:
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** CliffhangerCopout: We also had to watch "Bart's Day" to see what led to this situation before it's resolved: Bart turns away from the truck anticipating impact, only to be lightly hit by it as comes to a complete stop. "Ow. Mom...!"

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** CliffhangerCopout: We also had to watch "Bart's Day" to see what led to this situation before it's resolved: resolved rather anticlimatically: Bart turns away from the truck anticipating impact, only to be lightly hit by it as comes to a complete stop. "Ow. Mom...!"



* DespairEventHorizon: Homer gives up on saving his thumb when he realises he can't reach Shelbyville in 20 miles on foot, so he promptly dumps Moe's pickle brine into the trash.

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* DespairEventHorizon: Homer gives up on saving his thumb when he realises realizes he can't reach Shelbyville in 20 miles on foot, so he promptly dumps Moe's pickle brine into the trash.



** Meanwhile, "Bart's Day" serves to explain why Lisa's bike went missing[[note]]Bart took it[[/note]] and why Bart popped out of a sewer manhole[[note]]he and Milhouse were escaping from the mobsters[[/note]] at the end of "Lisa's Day", and why Dr. Nick's clinic burned down[[note]]a failed attempt at making Milhouse's bike be firework powered[[/note]] and Linguo exploded at the end of "Homer's Day"[[note]]it was overloaded by the mobsters' dialect[[/note]].

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** Meanwhile, "Bart's Day" serves to explain why Lisa's bike went missing[[note]]Bart missing[[note]]Milhouse took it[[/note]] and why Bart popped out of a sewer manhole[[note]]he and Milhouse were escaping from the mobsters[[/note]] at the end of "Lisa's Day", and why Dr. Nick's clinic burned down[[note]]a failed attempt at making Milhouse's bike be firework powered[[/note]] and Linguo exploded at the end of "Homer's Day"[[note]]it was overloaded by the mobsters' dialect[[/note]].

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* RingAroundTheCloseUp: Exaggerated. Lisa's entire romance montage with her boy of the week is a five-second TimeSkip composed by this shot.


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* RoundaboutShot: Exaggerated. Lisa's entire romance montage with her boy of the week is a five-second TimeSkip composed by this shot.
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* GirlOfTheWeek: Gender-inverted example with the boy Lisa meets on the other Springfield school. They have a pretty heart-felt romance and Lisa has to leave him... all in about thirty (out-of-universe) seconds and one RingAroundTheCloseUp TimeSkip.

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* GirlOfTheWeek: Gender-inverted example with the boy Lisa meets on the other Springfield school. They have a pretty heart-felt romance and Lisa has to leave him... all in about thirty (out-of-universe) seconds and one RingAroundTheCloseUp RoundaboutShot TimeSkip.

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* GirlOfTheWeek: Gender-inverted example with the boy Lisa meets on the other Springfield school. They have a pretty heart-felt romance and Lisa has to leave him... all in about thirty (out-of-universe) seconds.

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* GirlOfTheWeek: Gender-inverted example with the boy Lisa meets on the other Springfield school. They have a pretty heart-felt romance and Lisa has to leave him... all in about thirty (out-of-universe) seconds.seconds and one RingAroundTheCloseUp TimeSkip.


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* RingAroundTheCloseUp: Exaggerated. Lisa's entire romance montage with her boy of the week is a five-second TimeSkip composed by this shot.
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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Chief Wiggum all over. The list of stupid thinge he does throughout the episode includes:

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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Chief Wiggum all over. The list of stupid thinge things he does throughout the episode includes:



** Allow Carl to wield his gun GangstaStyle when they raid the actual 123 Fake Street, because it's Carl's birthday.

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** Allow Carl Lou to wield his gun GangstaStyle when they raid the actual 123 Fake Street, because it's Carl's Lou's birthday.
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* {{Fingore}}: Homer's episode is kickstarted when Marge accidentally cuts his thumb off. Though according to Dr. Hibbert, the thumb doesn't count as a finger for their insurance policy.
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-->'''Louie:''' Hey, they's throwing robots at us!\\

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-->'''Louie:''' Hey, they's throwing robots at us!\\throwin' robots!\\
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* MamaBear: Marge's reaction to the mafia.

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** Use Bart and Milhouse to try to infiltrate the local illegal fireworks circle (which would be bad on its own with them being kids and all, but it becomes a hell of a lot worse with the fact that it's manned by Fat Tony and his gags -- members of TheMafia, and people who have ''no'' problem killing kids).

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** Use Bart and Milhouse to try to infiltrate the local illegal fireworks circle (which would be bad on its own with them being kids and all, but it becomes a hell of a lot worse with the fact that it's manned by Fat Tony and his gags crooks -- members of TheMafia, and people who have ''no'' problem killing kids).


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* WouldHurtAChild: Fat Tony and his minions have no problems with executing Bart and Milhouse, two ten year old boys, when he discovers that they were wearing a wire.
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** To ''Film/RunLolaRun''.

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** To ''Film/RunLolaRun''. Music from the film even plays during the "Lisa's Day" segment.

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* GirlOfTheWeek: Gender-inverted example with the boy Lisa meets on the other Springfield school. They have a pretty heart-felt romance and Lisa has to leave him... all in about thirty (out-of-universe) seconds.



* RecycledSet: An animation version. Lisa is mistakenly dropped at West Springfield Elementary, which looks exactly identical to Springfield Elementary. One of the students notes that all schools in the area were drawn from the same floor plan. This is TruthInTelevision in some areas, especially areas with a lot of schools built at the same time.

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* RecycledSet: An animation InUniverse version. Lisa is mistakenly dropped at West Springfield Elementary, Elementary by Krusty, which looks exactly identical to Springfield Elementary. One of the students notes that all schools in the area were drawn from the same floor plan. This is TruthInTelevision in some areas, especially areas with a lot of schools built at the same time.
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: InUniverse -- Wolfcastle whines as Marge takes off with his Ferrari that he had to act on several lousy movies to be able to afford it.
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* ScrewThisIAmOuttaHere: The moment Dr. Hibbert offers to cut off Homer's other thumb for symmetry (because their health insurance, for some reason, [[ExactWords explicitly doesn't covers thumbs on their finger protection clause]]), we cut immediately to Marge driving off with Homer, saying that Hibbert's gone crazy and that they're driving to Shelbyville.

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* ScrewThisIAmOuttaHere: ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The moment Dr. Hibbert offers to cut off Homer's other thumb for symmetry (because their health insurance, for some reason, [[ExactWords explicitly doesn't covers thumbs on their finger protection clause]]), we cut immediately to Marge driving off with Homer, saying that Hibbert's gone crazy and that they're driving to Shelbyville.
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* ScrewThisIAmOuttaHere: The moment Dr. Hibbert offers to cut off Homer's other thumb for symmetry (because their health insurance, for some reason, [[ExactWords explicitly doesn't covers thumbs on their finger protection clause]]), we cut immediately to Marge driving off with Homer, saying that Hibbert's gone crazy and that they're driving to Shelbyville.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Turns out that whatever kind of medical insurance the Simpsons have with Dr. Hibbert covers finger reattachment, but [[ExactWords it doesn't considers a thumb a "finger"]]. Hibbert even offers to ''cut off Homer's other thumb'', for "symmetry".

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* ExplosiveOverclocking: As a result of the LogicBomb induced from all the grammatically atrocious English he hears from the gangsters, Linguo starts throwing out sparks which set off the fireworks Bart got from the raid, blowing the robot to smithereens.



* HiddenWire: Wiggum hooks Bart to one to capture the firework smugglers.

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* HiddenWire: Wiggum hooks Bart to one to capture the firework smugglers. For some reason, it has the capacity for two-way broadcast, which Wiggum ends up using to ask Fat Tony if he's Fat Tony ''while Bart and Milhouse are surrounded by armed, trigger-happy gangsters''.
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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Chief Wiggum all over. The list of stupid thinge he does throughout the episode includes:
** Instantly jump to the conclusion that Marge attacked Homer (rather than the severing of his thumb being an accident) and say he will arrest her -- and then ask for her address so he will go do so. Marge obviously gives him (what she thinks is) a fake address, that being 123 Fake Street, and he buys it whole-heartedly.
** Allow Carl to wield his gun GangstaStyle when they raid the actual 123 Fake Street, because it's Carl's birthday.
** Use Bart and Milhouse to try to infiltrate the local illegal fireworks circle (which would be bad on its own with them being kids and all, but it becomes a hell of a lot worse with the fact that it's manned by Fat Tony and his gags -- members of TheMafia, and people who have ''no'' problem killing kids).
** Use the two-way feature of the listening bug he taped onto Milhouse to ask Fat Tony if he's Fat Tony (because he can't recognize the man's voice) -- which blows the kids' cover wide open and nearly gets them killed (all he can think of when he hears what he assumes is gunfire (but are really firecrackers going off as a distraction so the kids can run for it) is to say "my bad").
** Let Fat Tony and his goons to go free (or at least it looks that way) in exchange for them sewing Homer's thumb back on and acting as Lisa's science fair show.
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* YearInsideHourOutside: Downplayed: "Homer's Day" implied that Homer spent quite a while at Moe's Tavern before going off on the Blue Man Group. "Lisa's Day" revealed that it took almost a ''minute''.
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* NoodleIncident: Apparently Homer has ''repeatedly'' gone off on the Blue Man Group when drunk.
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* ForWantOfANail: All Homer had to do was wait for Marge to finish cutting the brownies.

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* CommercialBreakCliffhanger: "Lisa's Day" ends with Marge hitting the brakes as Bart (who was last seen running off to answer the door during breakfast) suddenly emerges from a manhole. Not only do we have to wait through the commercials, we also had to watch "Bart's Day" to see what led to this situation before it's resolved. Bart turns away from the truck anticipating impact, only to be lightly hit by it as comes to a complete stop. "Ow. Mom...!"

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* CommercialBreakCliffhanger: "Lisa's Day" ends with Marge hitting the brakes as Bart (who was last seen running off to answer the door during breakfast) suddenly emerges from a manhole. Not only do we have to wait through the commercials, we commercials...
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also had to watch "Bart's Day" to see what led to this situation before it's resolved. resolved: Bart turns away from the truck anticipating impact, only to be lightly hit by it as comes to a complete stop. "Ow. Mom...!"



* DecoyProtagonist: While the episode depicts the events of Homer, Bart and Lisa’s day it is actually a Marge episode as she is the one who holds everything together and makes everything happen. She kicks off everything with breakfast, cuts off Homer's thumb (by accident), starts up the 123 Fake Street which leads to Bart's undercover storyline, does all the driving for both Homer and Lisa, and it’s her fault that Homer has to hitchhike and then walk. And it’s ultimately her who saves the day by tossing Linguo into the fire.

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* DecoyProtagonist: While the episode depicts the events of Homer, Bart and Lisa’s day it is actually a Marge episode as she is the one who holds everything together and makes everything happen. She kicks off everything with breakfast, cuts off Homer's thumb (by accident), starts up the 123 Fake Street which leads to Bart's undercover storyline, does all the driving for both Homer and Lisa, and it’s it's her fault that Homer has to hitchhike and then walk. And it’s ultimately her who saves the day by tossing Linguo into the fire.



** "Bart's Day" serves to explain why Lisa's bike went missing[[note]]Bart took it[[/note]] and why Bart popped out of a sewer manhole[[note]]he and Milhouse were escaping from the mobsters[[/note]] at the end of "Lisa's Day", and why Dr. Nick's clinic burned down[[note]]a failed attempt at making Milhouse's bike be firework powered[[/note]] and Linguo exploded at the end of "Homer's Day"[[note]]it was overloaded by the mobsters' dialect[[/note]].
*** Likewise, "Lisa's Day" serves to explain why Marge left Homer at Moe's[[note]]Lisa asked her to take her to school, and Marge overheard Homer [[NoodleIncident going off on the Blue Man Group again]][[/note]] and why Cletus' truck got stolen during "Homer's Day"[[note]]Lisa and Marge, having snuck into the back, stole it[[/note]].

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** "Lisa's Day" also serves to explain why Marge left Homer at Moe's[[note]]Lisa asked her to take her to school, and Marge overheard Homer [[NoodleIncident going off on the Blue Man Group again]][[/note]] and why Cletus' truck got stolen during "Homer's Day"[[note]]Lisa and Marge, having snuck into the back, stole it[[/note]].
** Meanwhile,
"Bart's Day" serves to explain why Lisa's bike went missing[[note]]Bart took it[[/note]] and why Bart popped out of a sewer manhole[[note]]he and Milhouse were escaping from the mobsters[[/note]] at the end of "Lisa's Day", and why Dr. Nick's clinic burned down[[note]]a failed attempt at making Milhouse's bike be firework powered[[/note]] and Linguo exploded at the end of "Homer's Day"[[note]]it was overloaded by the mobsters' dialect[[/note]].
*** Likewise, "Lisa's Day" serves to explain why Marge left Homer at Moe's[[note]]Lisa asked her to take her to school, and Marge overheard Homer [[NoodleIncident going off on the Blue Man Group again]][[/note]] and why Cletus' truck got stolen during "Homer's Day"[[note]]Lisa and Marge, having snuck into the back, stole it[[/note]].
dialect[[/note]].



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Maggie in the episode.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Maggie in the episode.episode?
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: During "Lisa's Day", Chief Wiggum unwittingly lets Fat Tony know there's someone with a bug to record his conversation. Afterwards, Wiggum, Lisa and the viewers hear gunshots from Fat Tony's side. "Bart's Day" reveals to the viewers the noise to be some fireworks lit by Bart to use a distraction while he and Milhouse escape.

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* OnceMoreWithClarity: During "Lisa's Day", Chief Wiggum unwittingly lets Fat Tony know there's someone with a bug to record his conversation. Afterwards, Wiggum, Lisa and the viewers hear gunshots from Fat Tony's side. "Bart's Day" reveals to the viewers the noise to be some fireworks lit by Bart to use cause a distraction while he and Milhouse escape.

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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/RunLolaRun''.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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To ''Film/RunLolaRun''.



* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: Lisa's reaction to Homer trying to "feed" Linguo beer.

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* WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings: Lisa's reaction to Homer trying to "feed" Linguo beer.beer.
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Too Dumb To Live is a Death Trope. It requires the character be killed from their stupidity. Dumb actions in general are What An Idiot and belong on the YMMV tab.


* TooDumbToLive: Or in Homer's case, "too dumb and impatient to realize that one shouldn't reach into a pan when your wife is using a knife to cut the brownies on the wrong side."
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In this homage to such movies as ''Go'' and ''Run, Lola, Run'', Homer's severed thumb, Lisa's mad rush to school, and Bart and Milhouse encountering the local Mafia are interconnected to show how each of these events are related.

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In this homage to such movies as ''Go'' ''Film/{{Go}}'' and ''Run, Lola, Run'', ''Film/RunLolaRun'', Homer's severed thumb, Lisa's mad rush to school, and Bart and Milhouse encountering the local Mafia are interconnected to show how each of these events are related.



** An inverted example: "Homer's Day" sees Dr. Nick bemoan the burning of he clinic by remarking "''In''flammable means ''flammable''?! What a country!" During "Bart's Day", after [[ItMakesSenseInContext Milhouse's firework laden bike tire]] flies into Captain [=McCallister=]'s room and lands onto an ether tank:
--->'''Dr. Nick''': [[ForegoneConclusion Don't worry, it's inflammable!]] (tank explodes) ...let's keep this our little secret.

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** An inverted example: "Homer's Day" sees Dr. Nick bemoan the burning of he clinic by remarking "''In''flammable means ''flammable''?! What a country!" During "Bart's Day", after [[ItMakesSenseInContext Milhouse's firework laden bike tire]] tire flies into Captain [=McCallister=]'s room and lands onto an ether tank:
--->'''Dr. Nick''': [[ForegoneConclusion Don't worry, it's inflammable!]] inflammable! (tank explodes) ...let's keep this our little secret.
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* HiddenWire: Wiggum hooks Bart to one to capture the firework smugglers.
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** An inverted example: "Homer's Day" sees Dr. Nick bemoan the burning of he clinic by remarking "''In''flammable means ''flammable''?! What a country!" During "Bart's Day", after [[ItMakesSenseInContext Milhouse's firework laden bike tire]] flies into Captain McCallister's room and lands onto an ether tank:

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** An inverted example: "Homer's Day" sees Dr. Nick bemoan the burning of he clinic by remarking "''In''flammable means ''flammable''?! What a country!" During "Bart's Day", after [[ItMakesSenseInContext Milhouse's firework laden bike tire]] flies into Captain McCallister's [=McCallister=]'s room and lands onto an ether tank:
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** An inverted example: "Homer's Day" sees Dr. Nick bemoan the burning of he clinic by remarking "''In''flammable means ''flammable''?! What a country!" During "Bart's Day", after [[ItMakesSenseInContext Milhouse's firework laden bike tire]] flies into Captain McCallister's room and lands onto an ether tank:
--->'''Dr. Nick''': [[ForegoneConclusion Don't worry, it's inflammable!]] (tank explodes) ...let's keep this our little secret.

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