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* HypocritcalHumor: The one denouncing a young Abe for being a man disguised as a woman is a similarly disguised Jasper.

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* HypocritcalHumor: HypocriticalHumor: The one denouncing a young Abe for being a man disguised as a woman is a similarly disguised Jasper.
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* HypocritcalHumor: The one denouncing a young Abe for being a man disguised as a woman is a similarly disguised Jasper.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bart is beaten up at school because his parents ruined Buck Mitchell's marriage and angrily confronts Homer about it. Homer responds that he was similarly beaten up at work and shows Bart a swear word that someone wrote on the back of his head. Whatever it is, it's so bad that ''Bart'' doesn't find it funny.
-->'''Bart:''' ''[[SignificantNameShift ...Papa]].''

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bart is angrily confronts Homer after being beaten up at school because his parents ruined Buck Mitchell's marriage and angrily confronts Homer about it.marriage. Homer responds that he was similarly beaten up at work and shows Bart a swear word that someone wrote on the back of his head. Whatever it is, it's so bad that ''Bart'' doesn't find it funny.
-->'''Bart:''' ''[[SignificantNameShift ...'' ...[[SignificantNameShift Papa]].''
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-->'''Bart:''' ''[[SignificantNameShift...Papa]].''

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-->'''Bart:''' ''[[SignificantNameShift...''[[SignificantNameShift ...Papa]].''
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-->'''Bart:''' ''...Papa.''

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bart is beaten up at school because his parents ruined Buck Mitchell's marriage and angrily confronts Homer about it. Homer responds that he was similarly beaten up at work and shows Bart a swear word that someone wrote on the back of his head. Whatever it is, it's so bad that ''Bart'' doesn't find it funny.
-->'''Bart:''' ''...Papa.''

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Marge and Homer try their luck at celebrity marriage counselling. Original air date: May 21, 2006

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'''Original air date:''' 5/21/2006

'''Production code:''' HABF-16

Marge and Homer try their luck at celebrity marriage counselling. Original air date: May 21, 2006
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Marge and Homer try their luck at celebrity marriage counselling.
Original air date: May 21, 2006

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Marge and Homer try their luck at celebrity marriage counselling.
counselling. Original air date: May 21, 2006



* TookALevelInJerkAss: Pretty much everyone by accusing Homer of screwing with Buck.

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* TookALevelInJerkAss: TookALevelInJerkass: Pretty much everyone by accusing Homer of screwing with Buck.
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* HelloNurse: The reaction at every show of Tabitha's. RunningGag with Bart.

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* HelloNurse: HeadTurningBeauty: The reaction at every show of Tabitha's. RunningGag with Bart.
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--> '''Tabitha''': I came to tell you I'm leaving Buck.\\
'''Marge''': What? No! No! What? No! What?

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--> '''Tabitha''': '''Tabitha:''' I came to tell you I'm leaving Buck.\\
'''Marge''': '''Marge:''' ''({{Gasp}})'' What? No! No! What? ''({{Gasp}})'' No! ''({{Gasp}})'' What?
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Buck likely wouldn't have had the Simpsons attempt to save his marriage with Tabitha if he hadn't noticed Homer and Marge on the stadium's kiss cam.
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* AttackOfTheLivingWhatever: The episode's CouchGag seesthe residents of Springfield being attacked by their couches.

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* AttackOfTheLivingWhatever: AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The episode's CouchGag seesthe sees the residents of Springfield being attacked and eaten by their couches.
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* ChekhovsGun: The Jumbo-Tron. After his disastrous performance at the start, Buck sees Homer and Marge kissing on it and decides he wants to use them to counsel his and Tabitha's marriage. At the end, Tabitha comes on the Jumbo-Tron to tells Buck she wants to stay with him.

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* ChekhovsGun: The Jumbo-Tron.Jumbo-Vision. After his disastrous performance at the start, Buck sees Homer and Marge kissing on it and decides he wants to use them to counsel his and Tabitha's marriage. At the end, Tabitha comes on the Jumbo-Tron Jumbo-Vision to tells Buck she wants to stay with him.


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* TriviallyObvious: When the Kiss Cam starts up on the Jumbo-Vision, Carl points at it and exclaims, "Look, it's a thing!"
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* TookALevelInJerkAss: Pretty much everyone by accusing Homer of screwing with Buck.

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* BrainlessBeauty: Tabitha asks to guess the attendance of the game being played at the end of the episode as a condition of taking him back. The question - like "Guess the Attendance" questions at actual ballgames - is multiple choice. Buck picks "B", but Tabitha reveals that the correct answer is "'C', as in, keeping together."



* HelloNurse: The reaction at every show of Tabitha. RunningGag with Bart.
* JawDrop: Homer and Bart reaction (as well as all the male audience) in the Stadium when Tabitha starts her sexy show.

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* HelloNurse: The reaction at every show of Tabitha.Tabitha's. RunningGag with Bart.
* JawDrop: Homer and Bart Every man's reaction (as well as all the male audience) in the Stadium when Tabitha starts kicks off her sexy show.risque performance while singing ''the national anthem'' at the beginning of the episode.

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* ChekhovsGun: The Jumbo-Tron. After his disastrous performance at the start, Buck sees Homer and Marge kissing on it and decides he wants to use them to counsel his and Tabitha's marriage. At the end, Tabitha comes on the Jumbo-Tron to tells Buck she wants to stay with him.
* GrandRomanticGesture: Subverted. At the end, the Duff Blimp spells out a message that says "I Love You Buck". Buck, obviously thinking Tabitha is behind it, is so invigorated he hits the ball straight into the Blimp, causing it to crash and revealing Homer is behind the message.



* JawDrop: Homer and Bart reaction (as well, all the male audience) in the Stadium when Tabitha start her sexy show.

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* JawDrop: Homer and Bart reaction (as well, well as all the male audience) in the Stadium when Tabitha start starts her sexy show.show.
* MistakenForCheating: Homer gives Tabitha a neck rub with greasy fingers while eating fried chicken. Buck overhears through the door, assumes they're having sex and punches Homer out.



* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Buck overhears Tabitha giving Homer a backrub and assumes they're having sex.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: At the start of the episode, in Springfield Stadium, Tabitha sings the first few bars of the American national anthem at the game, then strips down to lingerie and launches into one of her own songs with lascivious dancing. Naturally her husband is not happy.

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* NoodleIncident: The argument that led to Homer arguing with Marge about whether a monkey can mow their lawn or not.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Buck overhears Homer giving Tabitha giving Homer a backrub neck rub after her show and assumes they're having sex.
* PetTheDog:
** Homer is hardly the best father to Bart, but him asking Buck to sign baseballs for Bart is a nice gesture. And also quite a funny one when it's revealed there are dozens of them.
** He also cares enough about Buck and Tabitha's marriage that he carries out a GrandRomanticGesture on Tabitha's behalf to try and save it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but Buck accidentally screws it up]]. Luckily, Tabitha wants to stay with Buck anyway.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Buck overhears Tabitha moaning and Homer praising the fried chicken he's eating, and, instead of asking what's going on when he enters Tabitha's dressing room, he immediately assumes the worst and punches Homer out, twice, so once again his marriage is on the rocks.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: At the start of the episode, in Springfield Stadium, Tabitha sings the first few bars of the American national anthem at the game, then strips down to lingerie and launches into one of her own songs with lascivious dancing. Naturally her husband is not happy.happy and his game that night suffers badly as a result.
* SpearCarrier: Isotopes player Tito at the end, saying he doesn't care about the revived marriage of Buck and Tabitha because bandits just kidnapped his mother.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The melody to Tabitha's "Sexy Marriage Land" sounds a bit like the one to BritneySpears's "Toxic".
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* JawDrop: Homer and Bart reaction (as well, all the male audience) in the Stadium when Tabitha start her sexy show.
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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: At the start of the episode, in Springfield Stadium, Tabitha sings the first few bars of the American national anthem at the game, then strips down to lingerie and launches into one of her own songs with lascivious dancing. Naturally her husband is not happy. Naturally her husband Buck is not happy.

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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: At the start of the episode, in Springfield Stadium, Tabitha sings the first few bars of the American national anthem at the game, then strips down to lingerie and launches into one of her own songs with lascivious dancing. Naturally her husband is not happy. Naturally her husband Buck is not happy.

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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Tabitha. And her husband is not happy.

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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Tabitha. And ShamelessFanserviceGirl: At the start of the episode, in Springfield Stadium, Tabitha sings the first few bars of the American national anthem at the game, then strips down to lingerie and launches into one of her own songs with lascivious dancing. Naturally her husband is not happy. Naturally her husband Buck is not happy.

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Marge and Homer try their luck at celebrity marriage counselling.



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* {{Fanservice}}: Tabitha Vixx.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Buck overhears Tabitha giving Homer a backrub and assumes they're having sex.

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* {{Fanservice}}: HelloNurse: The reaction at every show of Tabitha. RunningGag with Bart.
* MsFanservice:
Tabitha Vixx.
Vixx. So much so that in her show a sign warns "first ten rows may get horny".
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Buck overhears Tabitha giving Homer a backrub and assumes they're having sex.sex.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Tabitha. And her husband is not happy.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Tabitha Vixx.

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* {{Fanservice}}: Tabitha Vixx.Vixx.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Buck overhears Tabitha giving Homer a backrub and assumes they're having sex.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:BrokenRecord:
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Original air date: May 21, 2006

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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
--> '''Tabitha''': I came to tell you I'm leaving Buck.\\
'''Marge''': What? No! No! What? No! What?
* {{Fanservice}}: Tabitha Vixx.

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