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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Moe plans to invoke this with Marge on their business trip by booking them in the same room and telling them that the hotel made a "mistake." He still tries to pull it off after Homer joins them on the trip, with the result that he and Homer wind up sharing the bed while Marge takes the couch.

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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Moe plans to invoke this with Marge on their business trip by booking them in the same room and telling them that the hotel made a "mistake." He still tries to pull it off after Homer joins them on the trip, with the result that he and Homer wind up sharing he's forced to share the bed with Homer while Marge takes the couch.
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* ContinuityNod: [[WithFriendsLikeThese This isn't Moe's first attempt to court Marge]], although the first time (in the season 5 finale "Secrets of a Successful Marriage") she was at least theoreticallt separated from Homer--or had been for a couple of hours.

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* ContinuityNod: [[WithFriendsLikeThese This isn't Moe's first attempt to court Marge]], although the first time (in the season 5 finale "Secrets of a Successful Marriage") she was at least theoreticallt theoretically separated from Homer--or had been for a couple of hours.
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* ContinuityNod: This isn't the first time Moe tried to steal Marge from Homer, although the first time (in the season 5 finale "Secrets of a Successful Marriage") they at least were separated, or had been for a couple of hours.

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* ContinuityNod: [[WithFriendsLikeThese This isn't the Moe's first time Moe tried attempt to steal Marge from Homer, court Marge]], although the first time (in the season 5 finale "Secrets of a Successful Marriage") they she was at least were separated, or theoreticallt separated from Homer--or had been for a couple of hours.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Moe's loneliness means that he becomes obsessed with Marge after they become business partners and (on her side) friends.


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* ContinuityNod: This isn't the first time Moe tried to steal Marge from Homer, although the first time (in the season 5 finale "Secrets of a Successful Marriage") they at least were separated, or had been for a couple of hours.
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* TheStinger: Over the credits is a scene of Homer and Marge at Moe's, singing a parody of "Love Will Keep Us Together" (this was actually an outtake from Season 15's "Co-Dependent's Day").

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* TheStinger: Over the credits is a scene of Homer and Marge at Moe's, singing a parody of "Love Will Keep Us Together" (this was actually an outtake from Season 15's "Co-Dependent's Day").Day").
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Moe plans to invoke this with Marge on their business trip by booking them in the same room and telling them that the hotel made a "mistake." He still tries to pull it off after Homer joins them on the trip, with the result that he and Homer wind up sharing the bed while Marge takes the couch.
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'''Original air date:''' 1/30/2005 ''(produced in 2004)''

'''Production code:''' GABF-01
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* SickeninglySweethearts: When Marge tells Homer she would never have an affair with him:

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* SickeninglySweethearts: When Marge tells Homer she would never have an affair with him:Moe:
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* TheStinger: Over the credits is a scene of Homer and Marge at Moe's, singing a parody of "Love Will Keep Us Together". (This was actually an outtake from Season 15's "Co-Dependent's Day". It was put in for no better reason than when this episode originally aired, FOX had agreed to avoid CreditsPushback in cases where something unusual was going on during the end credits, leading to the show's staff deliberately putting additional scenes and other content over the credits just so FOX would have to leave them alone.)

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* TheStinger: Over the credits is a scene of Homer and Marge at Moe's, singing a parody of "Love Will Keep Us Together". (This Together" (this was actually an outtake from Season 15's "Co-Dependent's Day". It was put in for no better reason than when this episode originally aired, FOX had agreed to avoid CreditsPushback in cases where something unusual was going on during the end credits, leading to the show's staff deliberately putting additional scenes and other content over the credits just so FOX would have to leave them alone.)Day").
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'''Homer:''' And you're my Margie-wargie-bargie-fargie-gargie-[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Margie]]-targie-largie.\\

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'''Homer:''' And you're my Margie-wargie-bargie-fargie-gargie-[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Margie-wargie-bargie-fargie-gargie-[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Margie]]-targie-largie.\\
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* MyCard: During the flight to Aruba, a crying Homer tells Marge, "If you ever feel like cheating on Moe, here's my card." He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a card saying, "Homer Simpson -- Plus-Size Butt Model".


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* SickeninglySweethearts: When Marge tells Homer she would never have an affair with him:
-->'''Marge:''' You're my Homie-womie-romie-domie.\\
'''Homer:''' And you're my Margie-wargie-bargie-fargie-gargie-[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Margie]]-targie-largie.\\
'''Moe:''' ''(visibly disgusted)'' I may have dodged a bullet here.
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* TheStinger: Over the credits is a scene of Homer and Marge at Moe's, singing a parody of "Love Will Keep Us Together".

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* TheStinger: Over the credits is a scene of Homer and Marge at Moe's, singing a parody of "Love Will Keep Us Together". (This was actually an outtake from Season 15's "Co-Dependent's Day". It was put in for no better reason than when this episode originally aired, FOX had agreed to avoid CreditsPushback in cases where something unusual was going on during the end credits, leading to the show's staff deliberately putting additional scenes and other content over the credits just so FOX would have to leave them alone.)

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* ArtShift: The ''Cards'' trailer is animated in CGI.



* DrivenToSuicide: Moe, [[BlackComedy to the point the suicide hotline has to block his calls]].

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* DrivenToSuicide: {{Cuckold}}: A cuckoo clock rings, with Homer imagining the bird as Moe, repeating "Cuckold! Cuckold!" Homer doesn't know what the word means, though.
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Moe, [[BlackComedy to the point the suicide hotline has to block his calls]].calls]].
** In Aruba, Moe comments that he "doesn't want to feel anymore pain" and lays splayed out on the sand next to the ocean. A big wave comes over him and a stingray hits him in the face.



* HonoraryUncle: When Marge and Moe leave for the airport, Bart asks where "Uncle Moe" is going.
-->'''Homer''': He's only your ''emotional'' uncle! I'm your ''real'' uncle!
* InflationaryDialogue: Moe objects to the idea of Marge as his business partner.
-->'''Moe''': Now, wait just a minute. One thing Moe Szyslak has never had is a partner. Nor a wife, a friend, a chum, a casual acquaintance, a pen pal, a parrot, a meaningful conversation, a brief hug, or eye contact. [{{Beat}}] [[DrivenToSuicide I'm just going to call the suicide hotline now.]]



* MusicalisInterruptus: Marge, Moe, Bart, and Lisa get a song about renovating Moe's tavern. Moe comes to like the idea, but communicates this in plain verse. Carl tells him to do it in song, and he briefly ad-libs a bad verse, before giving up on that and just saying to get on with it.



* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Homer is about to have a glass of beer, when a man interrupts and says that the place is so dirty it might kill him. Homer asks, "Who are you, the health inspector?" Turns out he ''is'', and he immediately proves it.



* ShowWithinAShow: A trailer for the fictional [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation Dreamworks]] movie ''Cards'' ("With Creator/EddieMurphy as the Jack of Clubs") plays when Marge and Homer are at the Googlplex. Also counts as an ArtShift as the trailer is animated in CGI, much like their films.

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* SceneryDissonance: Invoked by Homer. When Lenny and Carl are about to suggest that Marge likes Moe more than Homer, Homer asks if he can learn the sad truth "at a happy place". Homer, Lenny, and Carl then discuss the situation while riding a log flume ride at Itchy and Scratchy Land.
* ShowWithinAShow: A trailer for the fictional [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation Dreamworks]] movie ''Cards'' ("With Creator/EddieMurphy as the Jack of Clubs") plays when Marge and Homer are at the Googlplex. Also counts as an ArtShift as the trailer is animated in CGI, much like their films.films.
* SomethingWeForgot: When Marge is in Aruba with Homer and Moe, she suddenly remembers that nobody is watching the kids back home. Cut to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie in a hot air balloon...
-->'''Lisa''': Are you sure Mom and Dad want us to enter a European balloon race?\\
'''Bart''': Sure, why not?
* TheStinger: Over the credits is a scene of Homer and Marge at Moe's, singing a parody of "Love Will Keep Us Together".
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Homer won't visit Marge's mother because he hates her (which was established on "Bart vs. Thanksgiving," but at least Marge's mom is civil towards her son-in-law, which is more than anyone can say for Patty and Selma, who always insult him, undermine him, tries to convince Marge to break up with him and take the kids, and have tried to kill him twice).

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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Homer won't visit Marge's mother because he hates her (which was (as established on in "Bart vs. Thanksgiving," but at least Marge's mom is civil towards her son-in-law, which is more than anyone can say for Patty and Selma, who always insult him, undermine him, tries to convince Marge to break up with him and take the kids, and have tried to kill him twice).Thanksgiving").
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* {{Cuckold}}: Homer imagines Moe calling him this, then has to look it up in the dictionary.
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* AscendedMeme: Homer calls himself "Jerkass Homer," the disparaging nickname given by the show's fans for [[{{Flanderization}} his characterization Season 9 and beyond.]]

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* AscendedMeme: Homer calls himself "Jerkass Homer," the disparaging nickname given by the show's fans for [[{{Flanderization}} his characterization Season 9 and beyond.ever since season 9.]]
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* IWasNeverHere: Wiggum after seeing Moe and his customers huddled around the corpse of the old health inspector, even throwing money at them on the way out to buy their scilence ("Buy yourselves a nice dinner!").

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* IWasNeverHere: Wiggum after seeing Moe and his customers huddled around the corpse of the old health inspector, even throwing money at them on the way out to buy their scilence silence ("Buy yourselves a nice dinner!").
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* IWasNeverHere: Wiggum after seeing Moe and his customers huddled around the corpse of the old health inspector, even throwing money at them on the way out ("Buy yourselves a nice dinner!").

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* IWasNeverHere: Wiggum after seeing Moe and his customers huddled around the corpse of the old health inspector, even throwing money at them on the way out to buy their scilence ("Buy yourselves a nice dinner!").
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* IWasNeverHere: Wiggum after seeing Moe and his customers huddled around the corpse of the old health inspector, even throwing money at them on the way out ("Buy yourselves a nice dinner!").
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* ShowWithinAShow: A trailer for the fictional [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation/Dreamworks]] movie Cards ("Staring Creator/EddieMurphy as the Jack of Clubs") plays when Marge and Homer are at the Googlplex. Also counts as an ArtShift as the trailer is animated in CGI, much like their films.

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* ShowWithinAShow: A trailer for the fictional [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation/Dreamworks]] [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation Dreamworks]] movie Cards ("Staring ''Cards'' ("With Creator/EddieMurphy as the Jack of Clubs") plays when Marge and Homer are at the Googlplex. Also counts as an ArtShift as the trailer is animated in CGI, much like their films.

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* NoodleIncident: How Bart, Lisa and Maggie got into a European balloon race at the end.



* PaperThinDisguise: When Homer starts wondering what Marge would say upon the idea of mortgaging their home to save Moe's Tavern, a thought baloon shows up with a 'Marge' who was obviously Moe dressed like her and using tape to keep his Marge-like blue wig. Homer falls for the trick even after the real Marge shows up at the baloon.

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* PaperThinDisguise: When Homer starts wondering what Marge would say upon the idea of mortgaging their home to save Moe's Tavern, a thought baloon balloon shows up with a 'Marge' who was obviously Moe dressed like her and using tape to keep his Marge-like blue wig. Homer falls for the trick even after the real Marge shows up at the baloon.balloon.



* RuleOfFunny: Why Marge ended up sleeping on the couch instead of Moe.

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* RuleOfFunny: Why Marge ended up sleeping on the couch instead of Moe.Moe.
* ShowWithinAShow: A trailer for the fictional [[Creator/DreamworksAnimation/Dreamworks]] movie Cards ("Staring Creator/EddieMurphy as the Jack of Clubs") plays when Marge and Homer are at the Googlplex. Also counts as an ArtShift as the trailer is animated in CGI, much like their films.
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* {{Portmanteau}}: When Homer leaves the brunch after being embarrassed by his children, he says, "I'll see you all at 'lupper'."

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* {{Portmanteau}}: When Homer leaves the brunch after being embarrassed by his children, he says, "I'll see you all at 'lupper'.""
* RuleOfFunny: Why Marge ended up sleeping on the couch instead of Moe.
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* AscendedMeme: Homer calls himself "Jerkass Homer," the disparaging nickname given by the show's fans for [[{{Flanderization}} his post Season 9 character.]]

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* AscendedMeme: Homer calls himself "Jerkass Homer," the disparaging nickname given by the show's fans for [[{{Flanderization}} his post characterization Season 9 character.and beyond.]]
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* PaperThinDisguise: When Homer starts wondering what Marge would say upon the idea of mortgaging their home to save Moe's Tavern, a thought baloon shows up with a 'Marge' who was obviously Moe dressed like her and using tape to keep his Marge-like blue wig. Homer falls for the trick even after the real Marge shows up at the baloon.
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* FoodFight: Bart instigates one between himself and Lisa by launching a hot dog down her throat ("You ate meat! You ate meat!"), ruining the brunch for Homer.



* ObnoxiousInLaws: Homer won't visit Marge's mother because he hates her (which was established on "Bart vs. Thanksgiving," but at least Marge's mom is civil towards her son-in-law, which is more than anyone can say for Patty and Selma, who always insult him, undermine him, tries to convince Marge to break up with him and take the kids, and have tried to kill him twice).

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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Homer won't visit Marge's mother because he hates her (which was established on "Bart vs. Thanksgiving," but at least Marge's mom is civil towards her son-in-law, which is more than anyone can say for Patty and Selma, who always insult him, undermine him, tries to convince Marge to break up with him and take the kids, and have tried to kill him twice).twice).
* {{Portmanteau}}: When Homer leaves the brunch after being embarrassed by his children, he says, "I'll see you all at 'lupper'."
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* {{Cuckold}}: Homer imagines Moe calling him this, then has to look it up in the dictionary.
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* AscendedMeme: Homer calls himself "Jerkass Homer," the disparaging nickname given by the show's fans for [[{{Flanderization}} his post Season 9 character.]]
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Homer won't visit Marge's mother because he hates her (which was established on "Bart vs. Thanksgiving," but Marge's mom at least tolerates Homer, which is more than anyone can say for Patty and Selma, who always insult him and have tried to kill him twice).

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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Homer won't visit Marge's mother because he hates her (which was established on "Bart vs. Thanksgiving," but at least Marge's mom at least tolerates Homer, is civil towards her son-in-law, which is more than anyone can say for Patty and Selma, who always insult him, undermine him, tries to convince Marge to break up with him and take the kids, and have tried to kill him twice).
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* DrivenToSuicide: Moe, to the point the suicide hotline is no longer accepting his calls.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Moe, [[BlackComedy to the point the suicide hotline is no longer accepting has to block his calls.calls]].



* ObnoxiousInLaws: Homer won't visit Marge's mother because he hates her.

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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Homer won't visit Marge's mother because he hates her.her (which was established on "Bart vs. Thanksgiving," but Marge's mom at least tolerates Homer, which is more than anyone can say for Patty and Selma, who always insult him and have tried to kill him twice).
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When Moe's Tavern is shut down by the health department, Homer takes out a second mortgage without consulting Marge to finance the bar’s return, but Marge finds out and decides to protect her investment by becoming Moe's business partner and renovating the tavern into a pub.

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* BlatantLies: One week after a sanitary inspector died at Moe's, Moe said his corpse was still there because the garbage was collected at Wednesdays.
* DrivenToSuicide: Moe, to the point the suicide hotline is no longer accepting his calls.
* KarmicDeath: Moe had a friend who used to work as a sanitary inspector and overlook Moe's irregularities. He died by eating one of Moe's eggs.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Homer won't visit Marge's mother because he hates her.

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