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** Homer when he thinks Marge wants to be with Artie.
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** When Homer when he thinks Marge wants to be with Artie.Artie, he decides to simply get out of the way and just kill himself (indirectly, by getting a dangerous job).
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-->'''Homer:''' Next time you see my name will be in the hobo obituaries!
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Artie, who has recreated his and Marge's prom night in a failed effort to impress her, proves he hasn't changed at all since that fateful prom when he lunges at Marge for a ForcefulKiss. Homer, watching from a skylight, sees ''just'' enough of this interaction to think it's mutual and [[PoorCommunicationKills immediately skips town to take a suicidally risky job]].
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Artie, who has recreated his and Marge's prom night in a failed effort to impress her, proves he hasn't changed at all since that fateful prom when he lunges at Marge for a ForcefulKiss. Homer, watching from a skylight, sees ''just'' enough of this interaction to think it's mutual and and [[PoorCommunicationKills immediately skips town to take a suicidally risky job]].
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--->'''Artie:''' A note from Marge Simpson? Well, isn't that a coincidence. I was just thinking about her... ''for the last 20 years!''
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Artie, who has recreated his and Marge's prom night in a failed effort to impress her, proves he hasn't changed at all since that fateful prom when he lunges at Marge for a ForcefulKiss. Homer, watching from a skylight, sees ''just'' enough of this interaction to think it's mutual and [[PoorCommunicationKills immediately skips town to take a suicidally risky job]].
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* DeathSeeker: Homer becomes this when he thinks Marge has fallen for Artie, leaving town to take a dangerous job on an oil rig that he believes will kill him.
-->'''Homer:''' Next time you see my name will be in the hobo obituaries!
-->'''Homer:''' Next time you see my name will be in the hobo obituaries!
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** Homer's "realization" of, "If Marge marries Artie, then I'll never be born!" is one to ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.
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** Homer's "realization" of, "If Marge marries Artie, then I'll never be born!" is one to ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.''Film/BackToTheFuture1''.
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* GuiltyPleasures: Comic Book Guy at the beginning of the episode:
--> "Oh, [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Jar Jar]], everybody hates you but me."
--> "Oh, [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Jar Jar]], everybody hates you but me."
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* BlatantLies: Homer opens up his farewell video to Marge by saying that if she's watching this, then that means he finally figured out how to work the camera. The end of the video reveals that he didn't and got Bart to do it for him instead.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Homer sees Marge and Artie at the prom Artie made, he's worried that Marge getting together with Artie will mean he'll never be born.
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* MailboxBaseball: A variation; in a brief scene, Dr. Hibbert is seen smashing mailboxes with his golf club from the passenger seat of a convertible car, all set to the song "Wooly Bully" by Sam.
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* MailboxBaseball: A variation; in a brief scene, Dr. Hibbert is seen smashing mailboxes with his golf club from the passenger seat of a convertible car, all set to the song "Wooly Bully" by Sam.Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.
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'''Original air date:''' 2/10/2002 ''(produced in 2001)''
'''Production code:''' DABF-04
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* LoudSleeperGag: Homer's intense snoring is making life miserable for Marge, which kicks off the plot. There is a surgery that would correct it, but the family can't afford it. Enter Marge's high school StalkerWithACrush, Artie Ziff, now a tech billionaire, who offers the family $1 million if Marge will spend a weekend with him.
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* LoudSleeperGag: Homer's intense snoring (which he eventually [[ExaggeratedTrope also does while still awake and standing upright]]) is making life miserable for Marge, which kicks off the plot. There is a surgery that would correct it, but the family can't afford it. Enter Marge's high school StalkerWithACrush, Artie Ziff, now a tech billionaire, who offers the family $1 million if Marge will spend a weekend with him.
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* LoudSleeperGag: Homer's intense snoring is making life miserable for Marge, which kicks off the plot. There is a surgery that would correct it, but the family can't afford it. Enter Marge's high school StalkerWithACrush, Artie Ziff, now a tech billionaire, who offers the family $1 million if Marge will spend a weekend with him.
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* FellAsleepDriving: Marge, who is losing sleep over Homer's snoring, is attempting to drive Bart, Lisa and Milhouse to school, when she suddenly falls out of the car and gets some rest, leaving the children [[DinkyDrivers to try and drive her car instead.]]
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In this episode written by Tim Long, Artie Ziff, now a tech billionaire, returns and offers Homer a million dollars if he agrees to spend a weekend with Marge so Homer can get money for an operation to help him stop snoring.
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* PetTheDog: Artie admits to Homer that he has always had Marge's love instead of leaving him to die in the oil rig fire.
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* SilentOffer: Dr. Hibbert writes a piece of paper how much he'd charge if Homer agreed to the operation to stop his snoring. Homer writes a counter-proposition saying "Do it for free". Dr. Hibbert doesn’t agree.
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* MailboxBaseball: A variation; in a brief scene, Dr. Hibbert is seen smashing mailboxes with his golf club from the passenger seat of a convertible car, all set to the song "Wooly Bully" by Sam.
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* AccidentallyRealFakeAddress: After angrily leaving Artie Ziff's party, Marge tells the cab driver to send the bill to "Baron Von Kiss-a-lot", in reference to Artie's inappropriate advances towards her. However, the bill, instead of being sent to Artie, is shown in a CutawayGag to be sent to a literal baron of the same name with, naturally, GagLips.
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[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simpsonsproposal.jpg]]
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* BookEnds: Invoked when Homer muses that he will leave the world as he entered it; "kicking, screaming and torn away from the woman I love!"
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* DudeNotFunny: Moe responds to Homer's woes about Artie by jokingly suggesting that he's doing Marge at that very moment. Homer just breaks down crying further and Lenny shoots him a DeathGlare.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: Lenny is ridiculously calm in the face of death by fire, calling it the circle of life.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Artie Ziff. The whole plot highlights that he ''never'' got over her, even using the weekend to try to recreate the dance in which he lost her and do it "right" (somehow believing that this will make her love him), and the very last gag is Marge finding out that the anti-snoring mask Ziff gave them has a camera and a speaker through which Artie can talk to her (and why does she find out? Because he sings an arrangement of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" where he gloats about this).
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* StalkerWithACrush: Artie Ziff. The whole plot highlights that that, in 20 years, he ''never'' got over her, even using the weekend to try to recreate the dance in which he lost her and do it "right" (somehow believing that this will make her love him), and the very last gag is Marge finding out that the anti-snoring mask Ziff gave them has a camera and a speaker through which Artie can talk to her (and why does she find out? Because he sings an arrangement of Eurythmics' Music/{{Eurythmics}}' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of of This)" where he gloats about this).this).
-->'''Artie:''' (''through microphone'') He's a loser, Marge... dump him. (''sung'') I traveled the world and the seven seas. I AM WATCHING YOU THROUGH A CAMERA!
* TakeThat: Marge and her sisters are watching [=BHO=] and ''[[Series/SexAndTheCity Nookie in New York]]'' is followed by this.
-->'''Announcer:''' Coming up next on [=BHO=], it's ''Series/{{Arliss}}''! (''Patty and Selma scream and scramble for the remote.'')
-->'''Artie:''' (''through microphone'') He's a loser, Marge... dump him. (''sung'') I traveled the world and the seven seas. I AM WATCHING YOU THROUGH A CAMERA!
* TakeThat: Marge and her sisters are watching [=BHO=] and ''[[Series/SexAndTheCity Nookie in New York]]'' is followed by this.
-->'''Announcer:''' Coming up next on [=BHO=], it's ''Series/{{Arliss}}''! (''Patty and Selma scream and scramble for the remote.'')
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy:
** Artie helping save Homer when he's about to die on an oil rig and admitting defeat to Homer. Somewhat subverted by the anti-snoring device having a camera and having anti-Homer messages.
** Homer when he thinks Marge wants to be with Artie.
** Artie helping save Homer when he's about to die on an oil rig and admitting defeat to Homer. Somewhat subverted by the anti-snoring device having a camera and having anti-Homer messages.
** Homer when he thinks Marge wants to be with Artie.
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* PetTheDog:
** Artie helping save Homer when he's about to die on an oil rig and admitting defeat to Homer. Somewhat subverted by the anti-snoring device having a camera and having anti-Homer messages.
** Homer when he thinks Marge wants to be with Artie.
** Artie helping save Homer when he's about to die on an oil rig and admitting defeat to Homer. Somewhat subverted by the anti-snoring device having a camera and having anti-Homer messages.
** Homer when he thinks Marge wants to be with Artie.
