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Not surprising, since this is Homer we're talking about, and this show is notorious for its status quo, so Homer failing to manage the plant and giving it back is the expected outcome.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Homer is not qualified to run a major corporation, especially one that is very unsafe and rundown as the Springfield Nuclear Plant. It also costs him time with his family and exhausts him to the point that he happily gives it back to Mr. Burns in the end.
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* CallBack: As Mr. Burns shows Smithers the plant's hierarchy, Homer is outranked by the inanimate carbon rod from [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer "Deep Space Homer."]] There's also a crossed photograph of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Frank Grimes]].
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* CallBack: As Mr. Burns shows Smithers the plant's hierarchy, Homer is outranked by the inanimate carbon rod from [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer "Deep "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer Deep Space Homer."]] Homer]]". There's also a crossed photograph of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Frank Grimes]].
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* BillionaireWristband: The one Stark Richdale owns is the Trope Image for this.
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'''Original air date:''' 3/16/2003 ''(produced in 2002)''
'''Production code:''' EABF-10
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* TemptingFate: Mr. Burns assures Smithers the environmental effects of him dumping nuclear waste under Legoland won't be felt for years. In the next scene, the Capitol Building and the Eiffel Tower promptly come to life and go on a rampage.
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* TemptingFate: Mr. Burns assures Smithers the environmental effects of him dumping nuclear waste under Legoland won't be felt for years. In the next scene, the Capitol Building and the Eiffel Tower promptly come to life and go on a rampage.rampage.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Running the power plant causes Homer to miss out on time with his family, and the realization that Burns never found time for the people in his life because of the same job causes him to give it up for them.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Running the power plant causes Homer to miss out on time with his family, and the realization that Burns never found time for the people in his life because of the same job causes him to give it up for them.
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Current image is a spoiler from the end of the episode, I wanted to pick one to show off the conflict of Homer being overworked in his new position
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: As the canary is released and flies away, Bart tells it to fly to the Canary Islands. The canary showcases that it's smarter than it looks by flying back into the office, looking up where the Canary Islands are in a globe, and then flying off again.
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* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: As the canary is released and flies away, Bart tells it to fly to the Canary Islands.UsefulNotes/CanaryIslands. The canary showcases that it's smarter than it looks by flying back into the office, looking up where the Canary Islands are in a globe, and then flying off again.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Burns has a canary to serve as fall guy to be arrested for any of his own white-collar crimes, and when Mr. Smithers questions him on the legality of it, Mr. Burns claims that tycoons like him have been doing it for years--for example, [[RuleOfFunny Standard Oil was once owned by a half eaten breakfast]].
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Burns has a canary to serve as fall guy the "fall guy" to be arrested for any of his own white-collar crimes, and when Mr. crimes. When Smithers questions him on the legality of it, Mr. Burns claims on it, the latter explains that tycoons like him have been doing it for years--for it--for example, [[RuleOfFunny Standard Oil was once owned by a half eaten breakfast]].half-eaten breakfast]] (at least according to Burns).
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* MusicAgeDissonance: Homer accidentally switches the music tape he wanted to play for Marge on Valentine's Day with one of Maggie's tapes--as a result, Homer ends up putting his wife to sleep with a lullaby while his youngest child ends up dancing to the [[Music/TomJones Tom Jones's]] "Sex Bomb."
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* MusicAgeDissonance: Homer accidentally switches the music tape he wanted to play for Marge on Valentine's Day with one of Maggie's tapes--as a result, Homer ends up putting puts his wife to sleep with a lullaby while his youngest child ends up dancing to the [[Music/TomJones Tom Jones's]] "Sex Bomb."
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Homer is not qualified to run a major corporation, especially one that is very unsafe and rundown as the Nuclear Plant. It also costs him time with his family and exhausts him to the point that he happily gives it back to Mr Burns.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Homer is not qualified to run a major corporation, especially one that is very unsafe and rundown as the Springfield Nuclear Plant. It also costs him time with his family and exhausts him to the point that he happily gives it back to Mr Burns.Mr. Burns in the end.
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* BaitTheDog: Burns asks Homer to come with him on a walk through the cemetery where he provides a very sincere speech about how living as a CEO and TheChainsOfCommanding and greed has killed off all of Burns' chances to get a family and that Homer shouldn't toss his away, and this is something Homer actually takes to heart... only to discover that Burns laced his beer with knock-out potion and the walk was to take him to a mausoleum he was planning to bury him alive in a la ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado''.
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* BaitTheDog: Burns asks Homer to come with him on a walk through the cemetery where he provides a very sincere speech about how living as a CEO and TheChainsOfCommanding and greed has killed off all of Burns' chances to get a family and that Homer shouldn't toss his away, and this is something Homer actually takes to heart... only to discover that have Burns laced his beer shoot him with knock-out potion a tranquilizer and then reveal that the walk was to take him to a mausoleum he was planning to bury him alive in a la ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado''.
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* RealityEnsues: Homer is not qualified to run a major corporation, especially one that is very unsafe and rundown as the Nuclear Plant. It also costs him time with his family and exhausts him to the point that he happily gives it back to Mr Burns.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Homer is not qualified to run a major corporation, especially one that is very unsafe and rundown as the Nuclear Plant. It also costs him time with his family and exhausts him to the point that he happily gives it back to Mr Burns.
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Fixing redundancy.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Lampshaded with Homer's "Homer's 305th Everything is Back to Normal BBQ". This was episode 306.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Lampshaded with Homer's "Homer's 305th Everything is Back to Normal BBQ". This was episode 306.
