History Recap / TheSimpsonsS17E8TheItalianBob

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The Simpsons drive past a crashed cheese truck, and dodge all it's Italian cheeses falling their way, with Lisa cautiously listing them all (mozzarella, parmigiano, provolone, etc, all in Italian phrases). Finally, their car gets crushed by a giant mortadella (an Italian sausage). When Homer assures the family that he as the "cheese insurance", Marge points out that it doesn't cover mortadella. Cue BigNO from Homer.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The Simpsons drive past a crashed cheese truck, and dodge all its Italian cheeses falling their way, with Lisa cautiously listing them all (mozzarella, parmigiano, provolone, etc, all in Italian phrases). Finally, their car gets crushed by a giant mortadella (an Italian sausage). When Homer assures the family that he as the "cheese insurance", Marge points out that it doesn't cover mortadella. Cue BigNO from Homer.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The Simpsons drive past a crashed cheese truck, and dodge all it's Italian cheeses falling their way, with Lisa cautiously listing them all (mozzarella, parmigiano, provolone, etc, all in Italian phrases). Finally, their car gets crashed by a giant mortadella (an Italian sausage). When Homer assures the family that he as the "cheese insurance", Marge points out that it doesn't cover mortadella. Cue BigNO from Homer.

* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.[[note]]On the DVDCommentary of "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)," Seth [=MacFarlane=] claimed that the notorious gag of [[spoiler:Quagmire raping Marge and then killing her family]] was his [[DisproportionateRetribution "little shot back"]] for this joke. Make of what what you will.[[/note]]

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The Simpsons drive past a crashed cheese truck, and dodge all it's Italian cheeses falling their way, with Lisa cautiously listing them all (mozzarella, parmigiano, provolone, etc, all in Italian phrases). Finally their car gets crashed by a giant mortadella (an Italian sausage). When Homer assures the family that he as the "cheese insurance", Marge points out that it doesn't cover mortadella. Cue BigNO from Homer.

* OddNameOut: The Simpsons drive past a crashed cheese truck, and dodge all it's Italian cheeses falling their way, with Lisa cautiously listing them all (mozzarella, parmigiano, provolone, etc, all in Italian phrases). Finally their car gets crashed by a giant mortadella (an Italian sausage). When Homer assures the family that he as the "cheese insurance", Marge points out that it doesn't cover mortadella. Cue BigNO from Homer.

* OddNameOut: The Simpsons drive past a crashed cheese truck, and dodge all it's Italian cheeses falling their way, with Lisa cautiously listing them all (in Italian phrases). Finally their car gets crashed by a giant mortadella (an Italian sausage). When Homer assures the family that he as the "cheese insurance", Marge points out that it doesn't cover mortadella. Cue BigNO from Homer.

* OddNameOut: The Simpsons drive past a crashed cheese truck, and dodge all it's Italian cheeses falling their way, with Lisa cautiously listing them all (in Italian phrases). Then their car gets crashed by a giant mortadella (an Italian sausage). When Homer assures the family that he as the "cheese insurance", Marge points out that it doesn't cover mortadella. Cue BigNO from Homer.

* SpaghettiAndGondolas: Can be seen in the village. {{Justified}}, as this stereotype refers to the Tuscany region and the village is indeed in Tuscany.

* NeverMyFault: After a drunk Lisa reveals Bob's criminal past, he swears a vendetta on the family even though it was his idea to let Lisa drink wine.

* {{Retcon}}: Homer at one point says he never went to college, despite going to college in the episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Homer Goes to College]]. Then again, maybe that's why Bob said "stop the presses."

* OliveGarden: Can be seen in the village. {{Justified}}, as this stereotype refers to the Tuscany region and the village is indeed in Tuscany.

* OliveGarden: Can be seen in the village.

-->'''Lisa:''': "Dad, you're driving on an ancient Roman aqueduct."
-->'''Homer:''': "What am I supposed to use it for? Transporting water to distant urban centers?! Lazy Romans."

* GoodBadTranslation:
** "Plagiarismo" is not the correct Italian word for "plagiarism". It's "plagio".
** Krusty makes a joke about "a wife showing him her 'Naples'". The joke falls flat because one Italian correctly remarks: "We call it 'Napoli.'"

* AllPartOfTheShow: When Bob's family disguise themselves as extras to kill the Simpsons in the Colosseum, Lisa tells the audience that it's no act and that they're really trying to kill them. Nobody is convinced.
** Also a key part of the show that the attempted murders are not part of. Not a show, within a show, within not-a-show, within a show, within a show.

* NationalStereotypes: Several references to Italy are made, including stylish cars, spaghetti, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pompeïi, the Pontevecchio Bridge, Creator/FedericoFellini, Italian cheese, chianti, Tuscany, TheMafia, vendetta, olive gardens, aqueducts, the Colosseum, opera and Venice.
** Bart makes a tiny reference to Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio too, after watching a horrible educational video at the start of the episode: "What is this crap? This is worse than 'Wheelchair-nocchio.'"

* {{Opera}}: The final scene takes place at an opera.
* Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}: Sideshow Bob disguises himself as Pagliaccio, and gives a far better performance than Krusty did.

* UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini: Lisa scolds Homer for imitating Mussolini on the balcony. He claims he's imitating Creator/DonaldTrump, though. Weirdly enough, this episode aired in 2005, twelve years before Trump would enter office.

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* GoodBadTranslation: "Plagiarismo" is not the correct Italian word for "plagiarism". It's "plagio".

--> '''Bart''': "Please help us, Krusty. We don't want to be the first Christians to die at the Colosseum."
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance:
** '''Marge''': "Bart, Bob is a family man now. You can't be a bad person if you have a family."

The Simpsons are going to Italy...to help Mr. Burns retrieve his sports car, and end up in an Italian village where Sideshow Bob is now married with a son.

* WhoWritesThisCrap: Krusty says this when his opera act starts to go south.

* UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini: Lisa scolds Homer for imitating Mussolini on the balcony. He claims he's imitating Creator/DonaldTrump, though.