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* TheBadGuyWins: The evil dolphins win the war, and banish all of Springfield (and, presumably, the entire human race) to the sea.

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* TheBadGuyWins: The evil dolphins win the war, and banish all of Springfield (and, presumably, the entire human race) to the sea.sea. Although this may be subverted if you consider humans as [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the real villains for banishing the dolphins into the ocean in the first place]].

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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The dolphins are this in the third story, especially after their king is freed, who then declares war on humans.

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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The dolphins are this in the third story, especially after their king is freed, who then declares war on humans. Though calling them evil might be debatable considering it was ''[[HumansAreBastards humans]]'' that caused them suffer for thousands of centuries.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In the third act, dolphins have no trouble moving on land (by TailfinWalking) and are not worried about dehydration. Plus there's the whole "getting banished into the ocean where they suffered for millions of years" thing.


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* HumansAreBastards: The reason why dolphins declare war against humans is because humans banished them into the ocean "where they suffered for millions of years".
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* ShownTheirWork: When King Snorky speaks, his mouth doesn't sync to his words. This is because dolphins "speak" through their blowholes which is their only means of breathing (they cannot breathe through their mouths or otherwise they cannot eat without drowning).

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* ShownTheirWork: When King Snorky speaks, his mouth doesn't sync to his words. This is because dolphins "speak" through their blowholes which is their only means of breathing (they cannot breathe through their mouths or otherwise they cannot respiration (hence why cetaceans can eat underwater without drowning).
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* ShownTheirWork: When King Snorky speaks, his mouth doesn't sync to his words. This is because dolphins can only breathe through their blowholes and thus use them to communicate.

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* ShownTheirWork: When King Snorky speaks, his mouth doesn't sync to his words. This is because dolphins can only breathe "speak" through their blowholes and thus use them to communicate.which is their only means of breathing (they cannot breathe through their mouths or otherwise they cannot eat without drowning).
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* ShownTheirWork: When King Snorky speaks, his mouth doesn't sync to his words. This is because dolphins can only breathe through their blowholes and thus use them to communicate.

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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Homer will go to Hell if he misses the deadline.



* YouHave48Hours: Homer will go to Hell if he misses the deadline.
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* WaitingSkeleton: In the "Scary Tales Can Come True" segment, Homer abandons Bart and Lisa in the woods and tells them to "Say hi to your other brother and sister". Bart and Lisa then notice a pair of skeletons resembling themselves.
-->'''Lisa''': Let's face it. They're not great parents.
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* AbusiveParents: Homer and Marge in the second story. Homer throws kids away and Marge berates him for doing that instead of ''selling'' them.

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* AbusiveParents: Homer and Marge in the second story. Homer throws the kids away and Marge berates him for doing that instead of ''selling'' them.
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* TheBadGuyWins: The evil dolphins win the war, and banish all of Springfield to the sea.

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* TheBadGuyWins: The evil dolphins win the war, and banish all of Springfield (and, presumably, the entire human race) to the sea.
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* YouHave48Hours: Homer will go to Hell if he misses the deadline.

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* YouHave48Hours: Homer will go to Hell if he misses the deadline.deadline.
* ZippingUpTheBodybag: When Homer first dies.
-->'''Medical Attendant:''' Sure is easy when they're stiff like this... (''sees Bart and Lisa are upset'') [[VerbalBackspace and very sad]].
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* ShoutOut: The intro has the Simpsons as a parody of ''TheMunsters''.

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* ShoutOut: The intro has the Simpsons as a parody of ''TheMunsters''.''Series/TheMunsters''.
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* RealAfterAll: The witch's boyfriend George Cauldron wasn't made up after all.
* ShoutOut: The intro has the Simpsons as a parody of ''TheMunsters''.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Homer in the second story gets transformed by the wicked witch into [[spoiler:a fish-headed chicken with broom for wings. Apparently he can ''lay eggs'']]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The evil dolphins win the war, and banish all of Springfield to the sea.]]

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* BalefulPolymorph: Homer in the second story gets transformed by the wicked witch into [[spoiler:a a fish-headed chicken with broom for wings. Apparently he can ''lay eggs'']]
eggs''.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The The evil dolphins win the war, and banish all of Springfield to the sea.]]
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* YankTheDogsChain: Homer manages to do one good deed, only to go to Hell for missing the deadline, [[WhatAnIdiot since God did not see that good deed]].

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* BalefulPolymorph: Homer in the second story gets transformed by the wicked witch into [[spoiler: a fish-headed chicken with broom for wings. Apparently he can ''lay eggs'']]

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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The dolphins are this in the third story, especially after their king is freed, who then declares war on humans.
* BalefulPolymorph: Homer in the second story gets transformed by the wicked witch into [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a fish-headed chicken with broom for wings. Apparently he can ''lay eggs'']]eggs'']]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The evil dolphins win the war, and banish all of Springfield to the sea.]]


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* PapaWolf: The first dolphin punched by Homer when the war between Springfield and the dolphins began was the baby dolphin that bit Lisa in the arm only seconds earlier.


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* TooDumbToLive: Lisa removes a six-pack plastic ring from a baby dolphin, who then [[UngratefulBastard bites her in the arm]]. This was the last straw for [[PapaWolf Homer]], and he [[LaserGuidedKarma punches it almost right away]].
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He doesn\'t choke, he chews it, but before he can swallow it, his heart stops and he dies. In this story, Dr. Hibbert hinted that brocolli can kill other people instead of only Homer. And it doesn\'t take that quickly to choke, more likely something that\'s poisonous and/or toxic would, and could stop your heart and/or kill you instantly.


* StockYuck: Homer chokes on a ''brocolli'' and Doctor Hibbert says "It tries to warn you with its terrible taste!"

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* StockYuck: Homer chokes on a ''brocolli'' is killed by ''brocolli,'' which is supposedly toxic in this story, and Doctor Hibbert says "It tries to warn you with its terrible taste!"
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* BrickJoke: A deleted scene showed that Abe would have exploded out of a dolphin after being swallowed by one earlier.
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Homer needs to do a good deed before he can go into Heaven in ''G-ghost Dad'', the Simpson kids get lost in a warped fairy tale world in ''Scary Tales Can Come True'', and dolphins rise from the waters to take over Springfield in ''Night of The Dolphins''.

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Homer needs to do a good deed before he can go into Heaven in ''G-ghost Dad'', ''G-G-G-Ghost D-D-D-Dad'', the Simpson kids get lost in a warped fairy tale world in ''Scary Tales Can Come True'', and dolphins rise from the waters to take over Springfield in ''Night of The Dolphins''.

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* KilledOffScreen: Goldilocks' death in the Three Bear's home.



* OffscreenDeath: Goldilocks' death in the Three Bear's home.
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* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: In "Scary Tales Can Come True" segment, when the witch tries to stuff Homer into her stove, she gets distracted when she hears a knock at her door allowing Homer to overpower her and shove her into the stove and lock her inside.
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* BalefulPolymorph: Homer in the second story gets transformed by the wicked witch into [[spoiler: a fish-headed chicken with broom for wings. Apparently he can also ''lay eggs'']]

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* BalefulPolymorph: Homer in the second story gets transformed by the wicked witch into [[spoiler: a fish-headed chicken with broom for wings. Apparently he can also ''lay eggs'']]
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* BalefulPolymorph: Homer in the second story gets [[spoiler: transformed by the wicked witch into a fish-headed chicken with broom for wings. Apparently he can also ''lay eggs'']]

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* BalefulPolymorph: Homer in the second story gets [[spoiler: transformed by the wicked witch into [[spoiler: a fish-headed chicken with broom for wings. Apparently he can also ''lay eggs'']]

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Homer needs to do a good deed before he can go to Heaven, the Simpson kids get lost in a warped fairy tale world, and dolphins rise from the waters to take over Springfield.

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Homer needs to do a good deed before he can go to Heaven, into Heaven in ''G-ghost Dad'', the Simpson kids get lost in a warped fairy tale world, world in ''Scary Tales Can Come True'', and dolphins rise from the waters to take over Springfield.Springfield in ''Night of The Dolphins''.



* BalefulPolymorph: Homer in the second story gets [[spoiler: transformed by the wicked witch into a fish-headed chicken with broom for wings. Apparently he can also ''lay eggs'']]



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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lisa frees an abused dolphin, who turns out to be king of the dolphins and begins the invasion.

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* OffscreenDeath: Goldilocks' death in the Three Bear's home.
* StockYuck: Homer chokes on a ''brocolli'' and Doctor Hibbert says "It tries to warn you with its terrible taste!"
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lisa frees an abused dolphin, who turns out to be king ''the King'' of the dolphins dolphins- and thus King Snorky begins the invasion.dolphin invasion on Springfield.
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* LosingYourHead


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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lisa frees an abused dolphin, who turns out to be king of the dolphins and begins the invasion.
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* MandatoryLine: Kang and Kodos appear at the end to [[LampshadeHanging complain about the fact that they weren't included in this episode]].
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* HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: Homer is dead and needs to do one good deed to get into Heaven. Ghost!Homer sees Agnes Skinner who wants to cross the street, so he lifts her up and flies her across. She is panicked, not knowing that she's being helped by a ghost. She complains that everyone can see up her bustle, and then she starts struggling out of Ghost!Homer's arms and he accidentally drops her into oncoming traffic.
-->Um, I'm pretty sure she was going to be the next Hitler.

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* HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: Homer is dead and needs (as a ghost) tries to do one good deed this to get into Heaven. Ghost!Homer sees Agnes Skinner who wants to cross Heaven, but ends up dropping Principal Skinner's mom in the street, so he lifts her up and flies her across. She is panicked, not knowing that she's being helped by a ghost. She complains that everyone can see up her bustle, and then she starts struggling out of Ghost!Homer's arms and he accidentally drops her into oncoming traffic.
-->Um,
street.
-->"Um,
I'm pretty sure she was going to be the next Hitler."

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* HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: Homer is dead and needs to do one good deed to get into Heaven. Ghost!Homer sees Agnes Skinner who wants to cross the street, so he lifts her up and flies her across. She is panicked, not knowing that she's being helped by a ghost. She complains that everyone can see up her bustle, and then she starts struggling out of Ghost!Homer's arms and he accidentally drops her into oncoming traffic.
-->Um, I'm pretty sure she was going to be the next Hitler.
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Homer needs to do a good deed before he can go to Heaven, the Simpson kids get lost in a warped fairy tale world, and dolphins rise from the waters to take over Springfield.

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* AbusiveParents: Homer and Marge in the second story. Homer throws kids away and Marge berates him for doing that instead of ''selling'' them.
* ExactWords: In the second story, Homer [[FalseReassurance told his children]] no child would starve in his home. Cut to the next scene with him ditching them at the forest.
* YouHave48Hours: Homer will go to Hell if he misses the deadline.

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