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* AnAesop: Addictions like overeating aren't just harmful for you physically, they're also ''expensive''.
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* AnAesop: Addictions like overeating aren't just harmful for you physically, they're also ''expensive''.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The representatives of Scammer and Z-Dog. Their vending machines and the wares they produce are meant to get kids hooked on unhealthy snack foods.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The representatives of Scammer and Z-Dog. Their vending machines and the wares they produce are meant to get kids hooked on unhealthy snack foods.foods without any regard for their health solely for profit--the school gets 50% (or so they claim). They even admit that the machines are equipped with MindControl devices designed to disrupt the children's judgement centers.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The representatives of Scammer and Z-Dog. Their vending machines and the wares they produce are meant to get kids hooked on unhealthy snack foods.
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** Bart becomes so addicted to the junk food from the vending machines he decides to exclusively eat from them from now on, leading to his obesity.

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** Bart becomes so addicted to the junk food from the vending machines that he decides to exclusively eat from them from now on, them, leading to his obesity.him becoming obese in just three weeks.
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* BigEater:
** Bart becomes so addicted to the junk food from the vending machines he decides to exclusively eat from them from now on, leading to his obesity.
** Kent Brockman confesses to gorging on kettle corn during commercial breaks.


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* FormerlyFit: Action star Rainier Wolfcastle's apparently let himself go pretty badly, ending up at Sprangler's fat camp.
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* SpecialGuest: Albert Brooks not only voices Tab Spangler, but also briefly reprises his role as Jacques from ''Life on the Fast Lane''.
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* CompressedVice: As soon as the school's new vending machines are turned on, Bart develops a major junk food addiction, which causes him to become severely obese in a mere three weeks and even have a heart attack. When Bart sees what his parents put themselves through to pay for fat camp, he overcomes said addiction instantly--by smashing all the new vending machines.

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* CompressedVice: As soon as the school's new vending machines are turned on, Bart develops a major junk food addiction, which causes him to become severely obese in a mere three weeks and even have a heart attack. When Bart sees what his parents put themselves through to pay for fat camp, he overcomes said addiction instantly--by instantly--by going straight to the source, smashing all the new vending machines.
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* CompressedVice: As soon as the school's new vending machines are turned on, Bart develops a major junk food addiction, which causes him to become severely obese in a mere three weeks and even have a heart attack. When Bart sees what his parents put themselves through to pay for fat camp, he overcomes said addiction instantly.
* ContinuityNod: In-universe in the episode's Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, where Scratchy checks off every box depicting the many ways Itchy has killed or maimed him.[[note]]These include being churned into butter ("Butter Off Dead"), decapitated by a windmill ("What's Nuked, Pussycat?"), impaled by the Space Needle ("Skinless in Seattle"), squashed by the moon ("Flay Me to the Moon"), printed into money ("The Buck Chops Here"), tricked into eating himself ("Esophagus Now"), hung by his own intestine ("Why Do Fools Fall in Lava?"), impaled on a cactus ("Germs of Endearment"), and killed in a plane crash with Buddy Holly ("Bleeder of the Pack").[[/note]]

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* CompressedVice: As soon as the school's new vending machines are turned on, Bart develops a major junk food addiction, which causes him to become severely obese in a mere three weeks and even have a heart attack. When Bart sees what his parents put themselves through to pay for fat camp, he overcomes said addiction instantly.
instantly--by smashing all the new vending machines.
* ContinuityNod: ContinuityCavalcade: In-universe in the episode's Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, where Scratchy checks off every box depicting the many ways Itchy has killed or maimed him.[[note]]These include being churned into butter ("Butter Off Dead"), decapitated by a windmill ("What's Nuked, Pussycat?"), impaled by the Space Needle ("Skinless in Seattle"), squashed by the moon ("Flay Me to the Moon"), printed into money ("The Buck Chops Here"), tricked into eating himself ("Esophagus Now"), hung by his own intestine ("Why Do Fools Fall in Lava?"), impaled on a cactus ("Germs of Endearment"), and killed in a plane crash with Buddy Holly ("Bleeder of the Pack").[[/note]]
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'''Original air date:''' 5/1/2005

'''Production code:''' GABF-11
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Downplayed with Bart, who skateboards from the school to the Simpson house even while obese. However, he's far less graceful than he is in the opening and has a heart attack shortly after arriving.

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* {{Acrofatic}}: Downplayed with Bart, who skateboards from the school to the Simpson house even while obese. However, he's far less graceful than he is in the opening typical opening, and each step of his trip takes a bit longer than it normally would. He has a heart attack shortly after arriving.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Downplayed with Bart, who skateboards from the school to the Simpson house even while obese. However, he's far less graceful than he is in the opening and has a heart attack shortly after arriving.
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* NutritionalNightmare: The snacks provided by the vending machines are ridiculously unhealthy, with a can of soda containing ingredients such as hydrogenated petroleum oil, monosodium poisonate, and ''partially deweaponised plutonium''.
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* CompressedVice: As soon as the school's new vending machines are turned on, Bart develops a major junk food addiction, which causes him to become severely obese in a mere three weeks and even have a heart attack. When Bart sees what his parents put themselves through to pay for fat camp, he overcomes said addiction instantly.
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* ContinuityNod: In-universe in the episode's Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, where Scratchy checks off every box depicting the many ways Itchy has killed or maimed him.

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* ContinuityNod: In-universe in the episode's Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, where Scratchy checks off every box depicting the many ways Itchy has killed or maimed him.[[note]]These include being churned into butter ("Butter Off Dead"), decapitated by a windmill ("What's Nuked, Pussycat?"), impaled by the Space Needle ("Skinless in Seattle"), squashed by the moon ("Flay Me to the Moon"), printed into money ("The Buck Chops Here"), tricked into eating himself ("Esophagus Now"), hung by his own intestine ("Why Do Fools Fall in Lava?"), impaled on a cactus ("Germs of Endearment"), and killed in a plane crash with Buddy Holly ("Bleeder of the Pack").[[/note]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The robot Marge in Homer's ImagineSpot has a gun, shooting him repeatedly until he's dead. [[ThinkingOutLoud The lamenting out loud about why he gave it a gun]].

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* AIIsACrapshoot: The robot Marge in Homer's ImagineSpot has a gun, shooting him repeatedly until he's dead. [[ThinkingOutLoud The Then lamenting out loud about why he gave it a gun]].
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* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]. At one point, Homer casually claims he lost his job ''off-screen''. Like it's an afterthought.
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* TemporaryBulkChange: Bart becomes obese after eating too many snacks.

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* TemporaryBulkChange: Bart becomes obese after eating too many snacks. Kent Brockman, Rainier Wolfcastle, and Apu also had this happen since they're also at the camp with Bart.
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* DrunkOnMilk: Homer somehow manages to overdo it on the milkshakes and acts like his regular drunken self when asking Lisa to take a picture of him with all the milkshake cups on the bed.

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