History Recap / TheSimpsonsS12E2ATaleOfTwoSpringfields

* HehHehYouSaidX: After Homer accidentally leads Olde Springfield to gold, Kent Brockman thanks him, saying "Thanks to you, we're all taking ''golden'' showers now". His crew are heard chuckling from offscreen while he asks what's so funny.

* InnocentInnuendo: After Homer accidentally leads Olde Springfield to gold, Kent Brockman thanks him, saying "Thanks to you, we're all taking ''golden'' showers now". His crew are heard chuckling from offscreen while he asks what's so funny.

** For that matter, the area code problem could have also been avoided from the get go if Springfield had simply made dialing the area code a requirement when making a phone call.
** Or more simply, if Homer bothered to memorize an extra three phone digits.

* TroubledFetalPosition: Upon finding out about the new area code, Homer decides to call everyone he knows and tell them about it. However, he immediately forgets it, and curls up into a ball.

* InnocentInnuendo: After Homer accidentally leads Olde Springfield to gold, Kent Brockman thanks him, saying "Thanks to you, we're all taking ''golden'' showers now." (as in saying they were taking pee showers). His crew are heard chuckling from offscreen while he asks what's so funny.

* InnocentInnuendo: After Homer accidentally leads Olde Springfield to gold, Kent Brockman thanks him, saying "Thanks to you, we're all taking ''golden'' showers now." His crew are heard chuckling from offscreen while he asks what's so funny.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The angry, defiant Who songs Homer lists include "Won't Get Fooled Again," "My Generation" (which fit the description) and "[[RefrainFromAssuming (Mama's Got A)]] Squeeze Box" (which the bandmembers admitted is a joke song, "squeeze box" being a slang term for breasts).

* UpToEleven: The highest notch on Pete Townshend's amplifier is simply labeled "WUH-OOHHH!"

* {{Bowdlerize}}: When Homer tries to blow up the dynamite and it does not work, he chastises Bart for the wiring to which Bart replies "it worked on the test corpse", the closed-captions say "test goat" instead of corpse, this was likely removed for the same reason as the "dynamite cat" scene in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E19TheFront The Front]]"-to avoid referencing animal cruelty in a funny manner.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The town is split into two area codes - 636 and 939, which serve Missouri and Puerto Rico respectively and are over 2,000 miles apart.

-->'''Carl:''' I'm not sure which one's better. The "6" is closer to the "3", so you got convenience there, but the "9" has less to do with Satan, which is a plus in this religious world of ours.

When the Springfield Phone Company introduces a second area code, Homer, angry over being forced to remember three new digits, claims that the people who still have the original area code are all part of the affluent part of the town, and rallies every citizen who were given the new code into dividing the city between Old and New Springfield. Tensions mount as the divided Springfield spirals into town rivalry overnight, and the struggles only get worse as Music/TheWho is supposed to be stopping by for a performance.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The town is split into two area codes - 636 and 939. Due to where they are, Springfield is somewhere on the border between Missouri and Puerto Rico.

* CallBack: When Homer gives The Who a list of songs he wants them to play, they point out they're mostly [[Music/GrandFunkRailroad]] songs. The Season 7 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E24Homerpalooza Homerpalooza]]" reveals that Homer is a huge Grand Funk fan.

* DontExplainTheJoke: While listening to the radio, Homer hears the two [=DJs=] make a crack about Joan Collins being in two when a mattress on the freeway causes a traffic jam. He laughs and exclaims to himself "Joan Collins?? [[ReallyGetsAround That girl sleeps with everybody]]!!"

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The angry, defiant Who songs Homer lists include "Won't Get Fooled Again," "My Generation" and "[[RefrainFromAssuming (Mama's Got A)]] Squeeze Box."
* ArtImitatesArt: Homer standing up to speak at the town meeting is framed to resemble the Creator/NormanRockwell painting "Freedom Of Speech."

When the Springfield Phone Company introduces a second area code, Homer, angry over being forced to remember three new digits, claims that the people who still have the original area code are all part of the affluent part of the town, and rallies every citizen who were given the new code into dividing the city between Old and New Springfield. Tensions mount as the divided Springfield spirals into town rivalry overnight, and the struggles only get worse as ''Music/TheWho'' is supposed to be stopping by for a performance.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The side of Springfield with the old 636 area code declare themselves Olde Springfield.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** Marge laments how the people in Olde Springfield are their neighbors and that they see each other every day. Homer's solution? Build a wall to block them from their sight. Later, Homer brings a bottle of chloroform with him when he tries to sneak into The Who's hotel room... and offers it to the security guard in exchange for him letting them in.
** Homer keeps insisting that the area code change was just dumped onto the citizenry all of a sudden even after Carl and Lenny mention that the city did everything to warn them in advance for the last few months, including dropping leaflets from a balloon and a training camp.
* ComicallySmallBribe: Homer gets a bottle of chloroform to apparently kidnap The Who. [[BaitAndSwitch He instead tries to bribe their bodyguard with it.]]

* SpecialGuest: The Who [[AsHimself as themselves]], of course.