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** Apu claims that Oreos were invented in 1896. They were actually first sold in 1912.

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** Apu claims that Oreos were invented first made in 1896. They were actually first sold introduced to the market in 1912.

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* AnachronismStew: Bart complains about ''ComicStrip/MuttAndJeff'' in the reality show's 1895 setting. ''Mutt and Jeff'' was first published in 1907.

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* AnachronismStew: AnachronismStew:
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Bart complains about how ''ComicStrip/MuttAndJeff'' in the isn't funny. The reality show's 1895 setting. show is set in 1895, and ''Mutt and Jeff'' was first published in 1907.1907.
** Apu claims that Oreos were invented in 1896. They were actually first sold in 1912.

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* AmericansHateTingle: [[invoked]]If the opening is to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in Springfield.

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* AmericansHateTingle: [[invoked]]If In-universe. If the opening is to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in Springfield.Springfield.
* AnachronismStew: Bart complains about ''ComicStrip/MuttAndJeff'' in the reality show's 1895 setting. ''Mutt and Jeff'' was first published in 1907.

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* {{Bowdlerize}}/EditedForSyndication:
** Recent airings of the episode in the UK have cut out the part featuring Creator/BillCosby, due to sexual allegations against him from 2014 onwards.
** When the show originally aired, the Wiseguy's line, "I had to use the good poison. It comes with James Coburn's picture on the bottle," was (crudely) redubbed to say "Lee Marvin" instead of "James Coburn", since Coburn had died nearly two weeks before the airdate. The [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S14E05/368869.jpg art on the bottle]] was [[http://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/File:Helter11.png altered accordingly]].

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* {{Bowdlerize}}/EditedForSyndication:
** Recent airings of
AmericansHateTingle: [[invoked]]If the episode opening is to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in the UK have cut out the part featuring Creator/BillCosby, due to sexual allegations against him from 2014 onwards.
** When the show originally aired, the Wiseguy's line, "I had to use the good poison. It comes with James Coburn's picture on the bottle," was (crudely) redubbed to say "Lee Marvin" instead of "James Coburn", since Coburn had died nearly two weeks before the airdate. The [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S14E05/368869.jpg art on the bottle]] was [[http://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/File:Helter11.png altered accordingly]].
Springfield.



** While the Simpsons' house is being fumigated, the theme of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is playing while they are waiting.
* TakeThat[=/=]AmericansHateTingle: If the opening is to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in Springfield.

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** While the Simpsons' house is being fumigated, the theme of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is playing while they are waiting.
* TakeThat[=/=]AmericansHateTingle: If
act out the opening is credits to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in Springfield.''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', complete with theme music.
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* TakeThat[=/=]AmericansHateTingle: If the beginning is to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in Springfield.

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* TakeThat[=/=]AmericansHateTingle: If the beginning opening is to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in Springfield.
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* ToiletHumor: One of the more interesting and literal examples in the series:

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* ToiletHumor: ToiletHumour: One of the more interesting and literal examples in the series:
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** When the show originally aired, the Wiseguy's line, "I had to use the good poison. It comes with James Coburn's picture on the bottle," was (crudely) redubbed to say "Lee Marvin" instead of "James Coburn", since Coburn had died nearly two weeks before the airdate.

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** When the show originally aired, the Wiseguy's line, "I had to use the good poison. It comes with James Coburn's picture on the bottle," was (crudely) redubbed to say "Lee Marvin" instead of "James Coburn", since Coburn had died nearly two weeks before the airdate. The [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S14E05/368869.jpg art on the bottle]] was [[http://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/File:Helter11.png altered accordingly]].
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* EndOfAnAge: This was the final episode aired to be animated with cels before the show transitioned to digital ink and paint.
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This is [[EndOfAnAge the final episode aired to be animated with cels]] before [[ArtEvolution permanently transitioning to digital ink and paint]]; digital animation had been experimented with before in a few preceding episodes, but after this episode, the technique became a mainstay.

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This is [[EndOfAnAge the final episode aired to be animated with cels]] before [[ArtEvolution permanently transitioning to digital ink and paint]]; paint]] ("How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", which aired 3 weeks earlier, was the last ''produced'' episode using cel animation); digital animation had been experimented with before in a few preceding episodes, but after this episode, the technique became a mainstay.
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* ImmoralRealityShow: The reality show that the Simpsons signed up to drops them without warning in the jungle (which destroys everything they own at the moment ''and'' kills actor David Lander (who played "Squiggy" in ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' and was placed in the home as a ratings stunt)) and the Simpsons team up at the climax with some people that were contestants in a ''Survivor'' rip-off that were left behind by another production team... because the prize for the final challenge was ''being taken back to civilization''.

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* {{Bowdlerize}}/EditedForSyndication: Recent airings of the episode in the UK have cut out the part featuring Creator/BillCosby, due to sexual allegations against him from 2014 onwards.

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* {{Bowdlerize}}/EditedForSyndication: {{Bowdlerize}}/EditedForSyndication:
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Recent airings of the episode in the UK have cut out the part featuring Creator/BillCosby, due to sexual allegations against him from 2014 onwards.onwards.
** When the show originally aired, the Wiseguy's line, "I had to use the good poison. It comes with James Coburn's picture on the bottle," was (crudely) redubbed to say "Lee Marvin" instead of "James Coburn", since Coburn had died nearly two weeks before the airdate.
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* EpicFail: Several people don't realize they're going to a hockey game until they see the sign at the stadium.
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This is [[EndOfAnAge the final episode aired to be animated with cels]] before [[ArtEvolution transitioning to digital ink and paint]].

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This is [[EndOfAnAge the final episode aired to be animated with cels]] before [[ArtEvolution permanently transitioning to digital ink and paint]].
paint]]; digital animation had been experimented with before in a few preceding episodes, but after this episode, the technique became a mainstay.
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* {{Bowlderize}}/EditedForSyndication: Recent airings of the episode in the UK have cut out the part featuring Creator/BillCosby, due to sexual allegations against him from 2014 onwards.

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* {{Bowlderize}}/EditedForSyndication: {{Bowdlerize}}/EditedForSyndication: Recent airings of the episode in the UK have cut out the part featuring Creator/BillCosby, due to sexual allegations against him from 2014 onwards.
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* EditedFromSyndication: Recent airings of the episode in the UK have cut out the part featuring Creator/BillCosby, due to sexual allegations against him from 2014 onwards.

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* EditedFromSyndication: {{Bowlderize}}/EditedForSyndication: Recent airings of the episode in the UK have cut out the part featuring Creator/BillCosby, due to sexual allegations against him from 2014 onwards.
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* EditedFromSyndication: Recent airings of the episode in the UK have cut out the part featuring Creator/BillCosby, due to sexual allegations against him from 2014 onwards.

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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: When the Simpsons ask the writers of the show for food, they comment they're not allowed to interfere with the show, just ''after'' they had put the Simpsons' house in a river. And just to rub salt he orders to have the house remains burned.

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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: When the Simpsons ask the writers of the show for food, they comment they're not allowed to interfere with the show, just ''after'' they had put the Simpsons' house in a river. And just to rub salt in the wounds, he orders to have all the house remains burned.leftover food will be burned.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The Simpsons team up with other groups that had also been abandoned by the television executives to get revenge on the writers.



'''Homer''': ''[notices Marge and Bart]'' Hey, get out! I'm in here! ''[{{beat}}]'' Oh.

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'''Homer''': ''[notices Marge and Bart]'' Hey, get out! I'm in here! ''[{{beat}}]'' Oh.Oh.
* {{You Monster}}s: Homer calls the television executives this through the confessional camera after learning they had put the house into the river, turning the show into a ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' clone.

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* TakeThat[=/=]AmericansHateTingle: If the beginning is to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in Springfield.



* TakeThat[=/=]AmericansHateTingle: If the beginning is to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in Springfield.
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* TakeThat[=/=]AmericansHateTingle: If the beginning is to be believed, hockey is very unpopular in Springfield.

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This is [[EndOfAnAge the final episode aired to be animated with cels]] before [[ArtEvolution transitioning to digital ink and paint]].



* EndOfAnAge: This is the last episode produced in traditional ink and paint to air on the show.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: When the Simpsons ask the writers of the show for food, they comment they're not allowed to interfere with the show, just ''after'' they had put the Simpsons' house in a river.

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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: When the Simpsons ask the writers of the show for food, they comment they're not allowed to interfere with the show, just ''after'' they had put the Simpsons' house in a river. And just to rub salt he orders to have the house remains burned.
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* EndOfAnAge: This is the last episode produced in traditional ink and paint to air on the show.

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The family ends up on an ''1800 House''-type reality show after Lisa's newly-obtained hockey stick from a Russian player infests the house with termites.

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The family ends up on an ''1800 ''The 1900 House''-type reality show after Lisa's newly-obtained hockey stick from a Russian player infests the house with termites.



* ShoutOut: The exterminator company's name was "A Bug's Death" and their truck had a design that resembled WesternAnimation/ABugsLife.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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The exterminator company's name was "A Bug's Death" and their truck had a design that resembled WesternAnimation/ABugsLife.''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''.



* ToiletHumor: One of the more interesting and literal examples in the series
--> '''Bart''': {He opens the kitchen door and the termite-damaged knob comes off.} Hey, Mom. Our crapshack's going to Hell.
--> '''Marge''': {offended} Bart, watch your potty mouth!
--> ''Homer suddenly falls through the ceiling onto the kitchen table while still seated on the toilet.''
--> '''Homer''': {notices Marge and Bart} Hey, get out! I'm in here! {beat} Oh.

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* ToiletHumor: One of the more interesting and literal examples in the series
series:
--> '''Bart''': {He opens ''[opens the kitchen door and the termite-damaged knob comes off.} Hey, Mom. Our off]'' Hey Mom, our crapshack's going to Hell.
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Hell.\\
'''Marge''': {offended} ''[offended]'' Bart, watch your potty mouth!
--> ''Homer
mouth!\\
''[Homer
suddenly falls through the ceiling onto the kitchen table while still seated on the toilet.''
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toilet]''\\
'''Homer''': {notices ''[notices Marge and Bart} Bart]'' Hey, get out! I'm in here! {beat} ''[{{beat}}]'' Oh.
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** While the Simpsons' house is being fumigated, the theme of KingOfTheHill is playing while they are waiting.

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** While the Simpsons' house is being fumigated, the theme of KingOfTheHill ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is playing while they are waiting.
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* ShoutOut: The exterminator company's name was "A Bug's Death" and their truck had a design that resembled ABugsLife.

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* ShoutOut: The exterminator company's name was "A Bug's Death" and their truck had a design that resembled ABugsLife.WesternAnimation/ABugsLife.
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** While the Simpsons' house is being fumigated, the theme of KingOfTheHill is playing while they are waiting.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: When the Simpsons ask the writers of the show for food, they comment they're not allowed to interfere with the show, just ''after'' they had put the Simpsons' house in a river.
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* GoodIsBoring: The Simpsons soon become much nicer after living a 19th-century, but ratings plummet.
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* ShoutOut: The exterminator company's name was "A Bug's Death" and their truck had a design that resembled ABugsLife.

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* ShoutOut: The exterminator company's name was "A Bug's Death" and their truck had a design that resembled ABugsLife.ABugsLife.
* ToiletHumor: One of the more interesting and literal examples in the series
--> '''Bart''': {He opens the kitchen door and the termite-damaged knob comes off.} Hey, Mom. Our crapshack's going to Hell.
--> '''Marge''': {offended} Bart, watch your potty mouth!
--> ''Homer suddenly falls through the ceiling onto the kitchen table while still seated on the toilet.''
--> '''Homer''': {notices Marge and Bart} Hey, get out! I'm in here! {beat} Oh.
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The family ends up on an ''1800 House''-type reality show after Lisa's newly-obtained hockey stick from a Russian player infests the house with termites.

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* GilliganCut: When a pipe fell on Homer's head at the plant, Burns was afraid he'd hold out for millions. Cut to the next scene with Homer and the family going to a hockey game to enjoy the skybox. And Homer didn't even realize it was a hockey game before Lisa pointed it out. In fact, several people didn't realize they were going to a hockey game until they read the sign at the stadium.
* ShoutOut: The exterminator company's name was "A Bug's Death" and their truck had a design that resembled ABugsLife.

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