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* AgeInappropriateDress/BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Maggie’s outfit while dancing to Music/BritneySpears’ "Oops!...I Did It Again". A rare example where the trope is played straight by a baby.

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* AgeInappropriateDress/BareMidriffsAreFeminine: AgeInappropriateDress: Maggie’s outfit while dancing to Music/BritneySpears’ "Oops!...I Did It Again". A rare example where the trope is played straight by a baby.
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* AgeInappropriateDress/BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Maggie’s outfit while dancing to Music/BritneySpears’ "Oops!...I Did It Again". A rare example where the trope is played straight ‘‘by a baby’’.

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* AgeInappropriateDress/BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Maggie’s outfit while dancing to Music/BritneySpears’ "Oops!...I Did It Again". A rare example where the trope is played straight ‘‘by by a baby’’.baby.

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* AgeInappropriateDress/BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Maggie’s outfit while dancing to Music/BritneySpears’ "Oops!...I Did It Again". A rare example where the trope is played straight ‘‘by a baby’’.



* BareYourMidriff: Maggie’s outfit while dancing to Music/BritneySpears’ "Oops!...I Did It Again". A rare example where the trope is played straight ‘‘by a baby’’.
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* BareYourMidriff: Maggie’s outfit while dancing to Music/BritneySpears’ "Oops!...I Did It Again". A rare example where the trope is played straight ‘‘by a baby’’.
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* EarWorm: The majority of the plot happens because Homer's song becomes this on a nearly nation-wide length.


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* GoneHorriblyWrong: Homer composed "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders" as a diss track insulting Ned. Ned likes it and Homer gets fed up with hearing the song day in and day out.
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* ActuallyQuiteCatchy: Ned and his kids actually enjoy the song Homer wrote bashing all three of them. {{Inverted}} with Homer himself, who comes to hate it due to its excessive popularity.

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* ActuallyQuiteCatchy: Ned and his kids actually enjoy the song Homer wrote bashing all three of them. {{Inverted}} with Homer himself, who comes to [[ItsPopularNowItSucks hate it due to its excessive popularity.popularity]][[invoked]].
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* TheAce: Luke Stetson.

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* %%* TheAce: Luke Stetson.
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** Despite what Lisa did to her, Clara did not to tell Luke she sent her down the wrong trail, saying she got lost on her own and that Lisa saved her.

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** Despite what Lisa did to her, Clara did does not to tell Luke she sent her down the wrong trail, saying she got lost on her own and that Lisa saved her.
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** Despite what Lisa did to her, Clara did not to tell Luke she sent her down the wrong trail, saying she got lost on her own and that Lisa saved her.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Reverend Lovejoy is quite happy to lead his church's choir into singing "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders", a song that not only insults Ned (who, for all that Lovejoy hates him for being an overly persnickety fundamentalist, is still one of the church's most fervent and helpful parishioners) but also is slightly sacrilegious.



* NosyNeighbor: The majority of the plot happens because Ned, completely uninvited, barges into the Simpson home to help Homer compose his song.

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* NosyNeighbor: The majority of the plot happens because Ned, completely uninvited, barges into the Simpson home to help Homer compose his song.song, a thing Homer disliked enough to literally kick Ned out and get inspiration to write "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders".
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* NosyNeighbor: The majority of the plot happens because Ned, completely uninvited, barges into the Simpson home to help Homer compose his song.
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'''Original air date:''' 4/27/2003

'''Production code:''' EABF-13

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* {{Irony}}: Homer writes a song about how how hates Ned Flanders. Homer grows to hate his own song while Flanders grows to like it.

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* {{Irony}}: {{Irony}}:
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Homer writes a song about how how hates Ned Flanders. Homer grows to hate his own song while Flanders grows to like it.it.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the Native American tribe that Homer and Bart help out. Their land was damaged by beavers, but the beaver is also their god.
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* PrecociousCrush: At age 13, Luke is five years older than Lisa. She figures this won't matter much when they're 23 and 18 respectively.
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* ActuallyQuiteCatchy: Ned and his kids actually enjoy the song Homer wrote bashing him.

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* ActuallyQuiteCatchy: Ned and his kids actually enjoy the song Homer wrote bashing him.all three of them. {{Inverted}} with Homer himself, who comes to hate it due to its excessive popularity.
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** Beavers are portrayed with [[TypicalCartoonAnimalColors white teeth]], when they should have yellow or orange teeth.

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** Beavers are portrayed with [[TypicalCartoonAnimalColors white teeth]], teeth, when they should have yellow or orange teeth.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Lisa claims Luke was her first crush, but she's had crushes before, notably on Nelson in Season 8's "Lisa's Date with Density" and Mr. Bergstrom in Season 2's "Lisa's Substitute"

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* SeriesContinuityError: Lisa claims Luke was her first crush, but she's had several crushes before, notably on Mr. Bergstrom in Season 2's "Lisa's Substitute", Nelson in Season 8's "Lisa's Date with Density" Density", and Mr. Bergstrom Jesse in Season 2's "Lisa's Substitute""Lisa the Tree-Hugger"
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Ned and his kids actually enjoy the song Homer wrote bashing him.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: ActuallyQuiteCatchy: Ned and his kids actually enjoy the song Homer wrote bashing him.
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* HiddenDepths: Crossing over with BrilliantButLazy, Homer shows he can be incredibly talented when he wants to be, writing a carol on the piano, coming up with much of the first verse without stopping.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Lisa behaves like this once she learns about Clara and ''immediately'' believes she's Luke's girlfriend. Then it turns out she's his sister and she regrets making her get lost and almost die through drowning.
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* {{Irony}}: Homer writes a song about how how hates Ned Flanders. Homer grows to hate his own song while Flanders grows to like it.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Lisa claims Luke was her first crush, but it was Nelson in Season 8's "Lisa's Date with Density".

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* SeriesContinuityError: Lisa claims Luke was her first crush, but it was she's had crushes before, notably on Nelson in Season 8's "Lisa's Date with Density".Density" and Mr. Bergstrom in Season 2's "Lisa's Substitute"
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* ChristmasEpisode: The first act of this episode is the only reason why this is included on a Christmas-themed DVD.

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* ChristmasEpisode: The first act (and really only the first few minutes) of this episode is the only reason why this is included on a Christmas-themed DVD.
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* ThatCloudLooksLike: Luke tries to assure Lisa that out in the West, people respect animals more, only to find evidence that proves him otherwise. After diverting Lisa's eyes away from a bucket of cow tongues and Cookie about to shoot a chicken tied to a stump, he directs her gaze to the clouds. Lisa finds a cloud shaped like a lamb... who then gets its head cut off by a cloud shaped like an axe.
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This makes it sound much worse that it actually was.


* JerkassBall: Lisa gets this by sending Clara down the wrong path out of jealousy. It doesn't help that she only feels guilty after learning Clara was Luke's ''sister'' and not his ''girlfriend'', meaning she only becomes concerned after realizing Clara wasn't a threat to her relationship with Luke.

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* JerkassBall: Lisa gets this by sending Clara down the wrong path out of jealousy. It doesn't help that she only feels guilty after learning Clara was Luke's ''sister'' and not his ''girlfriend'', meaning she only becomes concerned after realizing Clara wasn't a threat to her relationship with Luke.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Luke calls Lisa despicable for what she did to Clara. Clara also tries to give Lisa a speech about how there's more important things than boys, only to see Bart.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Luke calls Lisa despicable for what she did to Clara. Clara also tries to give Lisa a speech about how there's more important things than boys, only to see Bart.Bart and hit on him.

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* JerkassBall: Lisa gets this by sending Clara down the wrong path out of jealousy.

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* JerkassBall: Lisa gets this by sending Clara down the wrong path out of jealousy. It doesn't help that she only feels guilty after learning Clara was Luke's ''sister'' and not his ''girlfriend'', meaning she only becomes concerned after realizing Clara wasn't a threat to her relationship with Luke.



* SkewedPriorities: Homer is upset that the beavers wrecked a $17 deck of cards from a motel mini-bar that he used as a diversion so he and Bart could destroy the beaver dam.

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* SkewedPriorities: SkewedPriorities:
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Homer is upset that the beavers wrecked a $17 deck of cards from a motel mini-bar that he used as a diversion so he and Bart could destroy the beaver dam.dam.
** Lisa was fine with sending Clara down a dangerous path when she believed Clara was a romantic rival, but gets horrified upon learning she's Luke's sister. Luke understandably calls Lisa out on the awful thing she did.

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* BigBrotherInstinct: Lisa falls in love with a young cowhand, Luke. She [[ClingyJealousGirl endangers the boy's sister]], originally thinking she was his girlfriend. When Lisa confesses, Luke, rather than touched, is appalled that Lisa put his sister in harm's way and burns bridges with her.



* RealityEnsues: Lisa falls in love with a young cowhand, Luke. She [[ClingyJealousGirl endangers the boy's sister]], originally thinking she was his girlfriend. When Lisa confesses, Luke, rather than touched, [[BigBrotherInstinct is appalled that Lisa put his sister in harm's way]] and burns bridges with her.
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* KickTheDog: During Homer's song [[TheDissTrack "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders"]], Homer at one point makes fun of how Flanders' wife is dead. That would be cruel enough ''without'' mentioning that Homer himself is responsible for her death.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lisa overhears her crush Luke expressing his love to a girl named Clara over the phone. When Lisa meets her, she tricks Clara into going the wrong way on the path to a dance, [[OhCrap but finds out that Clara is actually Luke's ''sister'']]. When Lisa eventually comes clean about what happened to Clara, Luke is offended and leaves her.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lisa overhears her crush Luke expressing his love to a girl named Clara over the phone. When Lisa meets her, she tricks Clara into going the wrong way on the path to a dance, [[OhCrap but finds out that Clara is actually Luke's ''sister'']].sister]]. When Lisa eventually comes clean about what happened to Clara, Luke is offended and leaves her.

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