History Recap / TheSimpsonsS16E9PrankstaRap

* TheVictimMustBeConfused: Bart fakes his own kidnapping and Milhouse hides him at Kirk's apartment, only for Wiggum to pick up the SmartBall, trace Bart's location, and arrest Kirk (who had no idea Bart was there) as the kidnapper. Bart's attempt to take the heat off Kirk does nothing.

* BrokenAesop: Lisa continuously tries to prove to everyone that lying is bad and they need to come out and have Bart confess the truth, but nobody takes her lesson to heart and would rather prefer everything would be left as it is. [[StatusQuoIsGod All of this is undone without explanation by the next episode, though]].

* CrooksAreBetterArmed: When Lisa obtains a recording of Alcatraz's concert and Wiggum knows there is no other choice, he barges into Alcatraz's house with his revolver to try to take away the tape at gunpoint. Alcatraz and his entire entourage draw semi-automatics and sub-machineguns on him, many of them as GunsAkimbo. Wiggum accepts he's beat and whines about how his career is over.

* StockholmSyndrome: When Bart tries to get Kirk out of trouble, Chief Wiggum assumes this is what's happening.
-->'''Bart:''' Uh, Chief? Is Milhouse's dad gonna be in trouble? He's not really a bad guy.
-->'''Wiggum:''' Now, now, there's no need for you to defend your captor, Bratty Hearst.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the parade honoring Wiggum, Milhouse complains to Bart that he has to admit the lie because he doesn't want his dad to stay in jail. While it turns out that Kirk actually likes being in jail over his apartment, the episode concludes that everyone is happy with the lie, although Milhouse is never seen after the parade despite clearly being unhappy.

* AlienGeometries: Somehow, Alcatraz has a wax museum in the ''basement of his limo''

* ItsAllAboutMe: Lisa wants to expose Bart's lie, even though it will cause nothing but problems for everyone else. It just comes across as her just wanting to feel good about herself and showing that she's morally superior to everyone else to the point that it would seem more of a PhyrricVictory.

* AesopAmnesia: Lisa insists that lying is bad and that the truth should not be buried despite the good the lie was providing and the trouble the truth will cause. Yet back in “Lisa the Iconoclast”, Lisa decided to keep what she had found out about Jeremiah Springfield secret. Before that in “Separate Vocations”, Bart lies about stealing the teacher’s edition textbooks to cover Lisa’s crime.

* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents: Homer and Marge's rap to Bart.

* PoliceAreUseless: Some headlines from the ''Springfield Shopper'', shown in "''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E9PrankstaRap Pranksta Rap]]''": "Wiggum sleeps through riot", "Commission: Wiggum sucks", "Firemen save police chief from tree", and so on.

* TakeAThirdOption: An absurd invocation: rather than having to deal with the hard moral dilemma of exposing the truth about the faked kidnapping, Alcatraz triggers a DancePartyEnding that solves nothing but makes everybody (but Lisa) happy.

* BaitAndSwitchComment: There's a scene with Milhouse throwing a Frisbee without anyone to catch it. He says it's not the same without Bart because Bart usually watches him doing it.

* TakeAThirdOption: An absurd invocation: rather than having to deal with the hard moral dilemma of exposing the truth about the faked kidnapping, Alcatraz triggers a DancePartyEnding that solves nothing but makes everybody (but Lisa) happy.
* TookALevelInJerkAss: Homer and Marge do this by refusing to let Bart go to the Murder 4 Life concert and even intend to spank him when he comes home.
** Lisa and Skinner have also done so by planning to expose Bart's lie. It's made pretty clear from the get-go that if she continues the investigation, everybody from the Chief of Police down to her father are all going to be in trouble, but she insists on exposing the truth. As for Skinner? If the truth comes out, Bart will suffer, and that's all the motivation he needs.

* AesopAmnesia: Lisa insists that lying is bad and that the truth should not be buried despite the good the lie was providing and the trouble the truth will cause. Yet back in “Lisa the Iconoclast”, Lisa decided to keep what she had found out about Jeremiah Springfield secret.

* EasilyForgiven: While Homer is eventually revealed to be in on Bart's cover-up, he doesn't appear to hold any grudges towards Bart for disobeying him, or for Bart mocking Homer in his rap.

* FullBodyDisguise: The start of the the "Miner '49er" number at Alcatraz's concert involves four old FortyNiner-type men and two mules dancing onto the stage, and then peeling off their full-body suits to reveal dancer girls.

* NoodleIncident: The viewers are given no clue to how Homer lost the fortune he got by selling the story about Bart being kidnapped.

--> '''Bart''': if you tell anyone, I'll tell the world you wet your pants watching Harry Potter.\\

* SnowballLie: Bart lying about being kidnapped by Milhouse's father: it makes Chief Wiggum rise to Commissioner, Milhouse's father becomes popular with the ladies (while at prison) and receives more meals a day, and Bart becomes friends with Alcatraz.

* TakeAThirdOption: An absurd invocation: rather than having to deal with the hard moral dilemma of exposing the truth about the faked kidnapping, Alcatraaaz triggers a DancePartyEnding that solves nothing but makes everybody (but Lisa) happy.

** Lisa and Skinner have also done so by planning to expose Bart's lie. It's made pretty clear from the get-go that if she continues the investigation, everybody from the Chief of Police down to her parents are all going to be in trouble, but she insists on exposing the truth. As for Skinner? If the truth comes out Bart will suffer, and that's all the motivation he needs.