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* HypocriticalHumor: Immediately after Moe says he doesn't want Santa's Little Helper in his bar for being "unsanitary", he praises Snowball II for sitting in a plate of food.
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* DirtyCoward: How Homer views Santa's Little Helper after abandoning him in the treehouse fire.
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* HopeSpot: After getting left for dead in the fire, Homer sees Santa's Little Helper come back in, thinking he's come to save him. Instead, Santa's Little Helper only came back to pull out the roast chicken from the fire to eat and once again abandoned Homer.
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Snowball's female. The episode inaccurately refers to her as "he"- she's been referred to as she so many times, including this episode
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* {{Jerkass}}: After being saved by Snowball II, Homer starts abusing Santa's Little Helper horribly and is more than willing to have him be taken by his original owner. He does regret it. At the end of the episode, though, he starts criticizing Snowball II for not doing anything after he saved him, only for Marge to point out he woke Homer up when he stopped breathing. Then Homer blames the cat again for eating the last can of tuna...which Homer had eaten.
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* {{Jerkass}}: After being saved by Snowball II, Homer starts abusing Santa's Little Helper horribly and is more than willing to have him be taken by his original owner. He does regret it. At the end of the episode, though, he starts criticizing Snowball II for not doing anything after he she saved him, only for Marge to point out he she woke Homer up when he stopped breathing. Then Homer blames the cat again for eating the last can of tuna...which Homer had eaten.
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* AnachronismStew: The Rin Tin Tin episode shows him fighting in World War II and biting Adolf Hitler on the butt. Rin Tin Tin was a real animal actor who appeared in 27 films, but died in 1932, well before the start of World War II.
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* BlasphemousBoast: Homer promises to build Bart a new treehouse "so grand, it'll be an affront to God Himself."
-->'''Bart:''' Can it have a rope ladder you can pull up after you?
-->'''Homer:''' Only if it's an affront to God.
-->'''Bart:''' Can it have a rope ladder you can pull up after you?
-->'''Homer:''' Only if it's an affront to God.
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* IHaveNoSon: Or rather I Have No Dog. Homer pays dearly for saying that. As in losing the money Santa's Little Helper got as a celebrity.
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* IHaveNoSon: Or rather I Have No Dog. Homer pays dearly for saying that. As in losing the money Santa's Little Helper got as a celebrity. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse It's never shown if the original owner got Homer's money or if Duff simply kept it.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Homer looks for some new lumber to rebuild Bart's treehouse, he and Bart pass by the lumberyard. When Bart asks Homer why he did that, Homer tells him that only losers buy lumber, and he's going to get free wood from nature's lumberyard as he pulls into a forest, implying he's going to chop down trees to make wood. In the next scene, it's revealed that he and Bart are stealing railroad ties from a train track.
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'''Original air date:''' 5/4/2003
'''Production code:''' EABF-14
'''Production code:''' EABF-14
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* PunBasedTitle: The title of the episode is a combination of "Literature/OldYeller" (a fictional dog) and "yellow belly" (slang for "coward").
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* UngratefulBastard: Homer briefly becomes attached to Snowball II after she saves his life but has fully lost interest in her again by the end of the episode, even though we learn that she saved his life a second time in the interim.
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* BatmanGambit: The family's plan for getting Santa's Little Helper back from his former owner and the Duff Beer company relies on publicly staging a setup for a heroic canine rescue, knowing that he'll be too scared to go through with it and won't be attractive as a mascot anymore because of it.
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* LovableCoward: Santa's Little Helper.
-->'''Homer:''' He may have been a dirty, stinking coward, but show me a Simpson that isn't!
-->'''Homer:''' He may have been a dirty, stinking coward, but show me a Simpson that isn't!
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** When Lisa questions why Suds McDuff has human girlfriends in a Duff Beer commercials, Marge replies that "people do strange things all the time in ads, like eat Arby's".
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** When Lisa questions why Suds McDuff [=McDuff=] has human girlfriends in a Duff Beer commercials, Marge replies that "people do strange things all the time in ads, like eat Arby's".
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* ContinuitySnarl: Officially, Snowball II is female, but she's constantly referred to with masculine pronouns in the episode.
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* CallBack: The man who abandoned SLH way back in the first episode, returns here to reclaim him after the pooch becomes famous.
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* CallBack: The man who abandoned SLH Santa's Little Helper way back [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E1SimpsonsRoastingOnAnOpenFire in the first episode, episode]] returns here to reclaim him after the pooch becomes famous.famous.
* ContinuityNod: Homer has a list ranking all of his family members. Ranked dead last? [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E10VivaNedFlanders His Vegas wife]].
* ContinuityNod: Homer has a list ranking all of his family members. Ranked dead last? [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E10VivaNedFlanders His Vegas wife]].
