History Recap / TheSimpsonsS18E17MargeGamer

* BewareTheSillyOnes: Bart may sound like a typical online gamer, but Marge made the mistake of nagging him so much he killed her avatar.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Marge said she'd tell everyone how the Shadow Knight gave up some of his life force to revive her character, she didn't consider that his enemies would take advantage of his weakened state.

* RealityEnsues: Bart gives up two-thirds of his lifeforce in order to bring Marge back from the dead. Marge proceeds to tell the other characters in the game about this feat. The Shadow Knight has been shown to be a person who ruthlessly kills people in the game completely unnecessarily and often times just does it for his own amusement, and it's implied he has been doing this for a long time. The second they hear that the Shadow Knight is now terribly weakened, they immediately storm his castle to finish the job.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Bart the Shadow Knight brings Marge back to life with two thirds of his life force, and he noticeably did not try to stop her from telling people about his weakened state. This could well be interpreted as the Shadow Knight choosing to die as atonement for his prior actions.

-->'''Homer:''' But to get you that DVD, I had to become a Creator/{{PBS}} subscriber! Now I'm paying for crap like ''American Masters''!

* RealityEnsues: Bart gives up two thirds of his lifeforce in order to bring Marge back from the dead. Marge proceeds to tell the other characters in the game about this feat. The Shadow Knight has been shown to be a person who ruthlessly kills people in the game completely unnecessarily and often times just does it for his own amusement, and its implied he has been doing this for a long time. The second they hear that the Shadow Knight is now terribly weakened, they inmediatly storm his castle to finish the job.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Bart killed Marge in a fit of rage after he grew tired of her [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents antics]]. However, he only reached his RageBreakingPoint after she brought the HelloKitty expansion pack and threw away all of his gear. Since Bart was the best player in the game, getting that gear would have required some serious LevelGrinding, and Marge destroyed hours, possibly even days of his work.

-->'''Lisa:''' You can't give me a yellow card! You're my father!
-->'''Homer:''' When I put on these shorts, I'm not your father anymore. And judging from how tight they are, I'm not anyone else's either.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: According to Moe, the Shadow Knight once beat his character to death with his own life bar.

-->'''Homer:''' When I put on these shorts, I'm not your father anymore. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar And judging from how tight they are, I'm not anyone else's either.]]

* WorthIt: When Bart's enemies in the game are about to kill his character, he threatens to egg their homes in real life. Mrs. Krappabel says it'll be worth it before [[EyeScream stabbing him in the eye]].

* JerkassHasAPoint: Bart killed Marge in a fit of rage after he grew tired of her AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents antics. However he only reached his RageBreakingPoint after she brought the HelloKitty expansion pack and threw away all of his awesome gear. Since Bat is the best player in the game getting that gear required some serious LevelGrinding Marge destroyed hours even days of work.

* Bowdlerize: In the UK, the Channel 4 reruns of this episode cut out the scene where Bart saves Marge's avatar from Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney by chopping their heads off.

* PassingTheTorch: After Bart the Shadow Knight is killed, [[spoiler:Marge becomes the new Shadow Knight.]]

* WorthIt: When Bart's enemies in the game are about to kill his character, he threatens to egg their homes in real life. One of them says it'll be worth it.

* SpecialGuestStar: Brazilian football great Ronaldo, who dons a Real Madrid kit (though, when the episode premiered, he had already been transferred to A.C. Milan; unfortunately, there wasn't enough time to make this change).

* TruthInTelevision: Homer gives Lisa a DVD about football riots, which opens with a fictional riot between fans of Manchester United and a fictional club called Sussexton Hamptonshire-on-Leath in 1985. In 1985, football hooliganism was at an all-time high in England, and an incident caused mostly by Liverpool supporters before the 1985 European Cup Final at Heysel Stadium in Belgium that saw 39 people - most of them supporters of Liverpool's opponents that night, Italian club Juventus - and 600 people injured, resulted in English clubs being banned from European competitions until the early 1990s.

* StealthPun: The word "gamer" in the title is an anagram of Marge's name.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Marge ends up making a fool out of Bart the Shadow Knight.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A gag in this episode has the Lovejoys telling their daughter Jessica to win and "save our troubled marriage". The very next episode "The Boys of Bummer" has the Lovejoys having bed troubles.

After being chastised for not having an email address, Marge gets into the Internet and gets involved in an online role-playing game, where she defeats the world's biggest enemy: her son, Bart. Meanwhile, Homer becomes a kids' soccer coach and rigs the games so Lisa can win.

-->'''Homer:''' When I put on these shorts, I'm not your father anymore. And judging from how tight they are, I'm not anyone else's either.