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* TelecomTree: Marge rallies everyone in Springfield for her plan to get rid of the U.S. Army's occupation of Springfield. She even has a diagram of this, which starts with her calling Ned Flanders and Helen Lovejoy, who call two more people[[note]]Selma and Lenny for Ned, Patty and Carl for Helen[[/note]], who each call two more people[[note]]identities unknown[[/note]], and from that point forward it's eight solid chains, which includes Nelson Muntz calling Mr. Burns, and Krusty the Clown calling Ralph Wiggum and telling him to call Lindsay Naegle, who didn't get the message as Ralph had put the phone down and she wasn't present at the reservoir to put [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink Marge's plan]] into action.

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* WaterSourceTampering: The occupation of Springfield only ends when Marge convinces everyone to pour alcohol into the reservoir, and once the battalion gets drunk and passes out, several gun-wielding residents surround the Colonel when he wakes up and Marge negotiates a truce.
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* ClownCar: In the Army promotion video, an Apache attack helicopter can carry four musicians and their instruments in the single seat pilot rear section, and still take off afterwards (meaning there was, at least, still a fifth person remaining in the pilots seat to fly the helicopter).
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'''Original air date:''' 11/12/2006

'''Production code:''' HABF-21

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* ContinuityNod: Mention of Homer's time in the Navy in "Simpson Tide".

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* ContinuityNod: Mention of Homer's time in When Homer joins the Army, Marge refers to him going into space ("Deep Space Homer"), attending clown college ("Homie the Clown"), and joining the Navy in "Simpson Tide".("Simpson Tide").



-->'''Krusty:''' Yep I'm a real class act.

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-->'''Krusty:''' Yep Yep, I'm a real class act.act.
* CutawayGag: Parodied after Moe lets Homer hide out in his tavern.
-->'''Homer''': Thanks, Moe. How can I ever repay you?\\
'''Moe''': Hey, some things mean more to me than money...\\
''[cut to Moe accepting a stack of dollar bills in the colonel's tent]''\\
'''Moe''': ...like a whole LOT of money!\\
'''Colonel''': Why'd you just say that sentence fragment?\\
'''Moe''': Eh, long story.



* SmellyFeetGag: Kearney is being annoyed by Bart

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** When Homer imagines a captain to give him advice, he thinks of Advertising/CapnCrunch.
--->'''Cap'n Crunch''': Stay crunchy in milk!
* SmellyFeetGag: Kearney is being annoyed by The bullies work at a show store at the mall. Bart realizes that if they're mean to customers, they'll lose their jobs, and takes the opportunity to prank them. He sticks out his foot towards Kearney.



* SuddenNameChange: The Squeaky Voiced Teen is called Mr Freedman here. His last name was Peterson back in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E14LisaVsMalibuStacy Lisa Vs Malibu Stacy]]".

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* SuddenNameChange: The Squeaky Voiced Teen is called Mr Freedman Friedman here. His last name was Peterson back in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E14LisaVsMalibuStacy Lisa Vs Malibu Stacy]]".


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* VirtualTrainingSimulation: Discussed. When Lenny's car gets run over by a tank, an army general nearby tells him that he's just in a simulation. Lenny says, "then I'd better do my part", [[DelayedReaction and then]] screams in pain loudly.

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* SpannerInTheWorks: Homer turns a training simulation into a full town invasion after deciding to celebrate Chinese New Year with a flare gun, which blinded the opposing side since they were all using night-vision at the time. Instead of capturing them, Homer panics and orders his team to run, leading to them being on the lam.
* SoapboxSadie: Lisa takes the moment wherein all of the Army forces are hung over and have declared an ''ipso facto'' surrender to Homer's "opposing force" to give a little speech about how the Army will never win against a city full of dedicated insurgents... she's interrupted by Marge once the speech reaches high (InUniverse) levels of UnfortunateImplications.


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* SoapboxSadie: Lisa takes the moment wherein all of the Army forces are hung over and have declared an ''ipso facto'' surrender to Homer's "opposing force" to give a little speech about how the Army will never win against a city full of dedicated insurgents... she's interrupted by Marge once the speech reaches high (InUniverse) levels of UnfortunateImplications.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Homer turns a training simulation into a full town invasion after deciding to celebrate Chinese New Year with a flare gun, which blinded the opposing side since they were all using night-vision at the time. Instead of capturing them, Homer panics and orders his team to run, leading to them being on the lam.
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* SuddenNameChange: The Squeaky Voiced Teen is called Mr Freedman here. His last name was Peterson back in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E14LisaVsMalibuStacy Lisa Vs Malibu Stacy]]".
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-->'''Krusty:''' Yep I'm a real class act.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Homer turns a training simulation into a full town invasion after deciding to celebrate Chinese New Year with a flare gun, which blinded the opposing side since they were all using night-vision at the time. Instead of capturing them, Homer panics and orders his team to run, leading to them being on the lam.
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* SmellyFeetGag: Kearney is being annoyed by Bart
-->'''Bart:''' What size do I smell like?

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* CreditsGag: The colonel places everyone listed in the credits to front-line infantry (except guest voice Kiefer Sutherland, who is placed in the coast guard).

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* CreditsGag: The colonel places everyone listed in the credits to front-line infantry (except guest voice Kiefer Sutherland, Creator/KieferSutherland, who is placed in the coast guard).



* DrillSergeantNasty: The colonel (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland). Once the boot camp is over, he sends everybody to frontline infantry.

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* DrillSergeantNasty: The colonel (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland).Creator/KieferSutherland). Once the boot camp is over, he sends everybody to frontline infantry.



* ShoutOut: The song played during the recruitment video is "Arise Ye Russian People" from ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', a patriotic Russian film with an epic soundtrack composed by Sergei Prokofiev.

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The song played during the recruitment video is "Arise Ye Russian People" from ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', a patriotic Russian film with an epic soundtrack composed by Sergei Prokofiev.



** Cletus's Christmas card the previous December is a parody of one of the many infamous photos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

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** Cletus's Cletus' Christmas card the previous December is a parody of one of the many infamous photos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.



* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: According to the army soldiers who try and fail to convince the bullies to join, Springfield is in America's dumbest state.

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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: According to the army soldiers who try and fail to convince the bullies to join, Springfield is in America's dumbest state.state.
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** Jason Vorhees is one of the people the helicopter shoots in the terribly done army ad.

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** [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Vorhees Voorhees]] is one of the people the helicopter shoots in the terribly done army ad.
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* UnfortunateImplications: InUniverse. Marge interrupts Lisa's speech to the general when she notices that it stopped sounding like "Springfield beat you" and is becoming more like "America can never win TheWarOnTerror".

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* UnfortunateImplications: InUniverse. Marge interrupts Lisa's speech to the general when she notices that it stopped sounding like "Springfield beat you" and is becoming more like "America can never win TheWarOnTerror".UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror".
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* UnfortunateImplications: InUniverse. Marge interrupts Lisa's speech to the general when she notices that it stopped sounding like "Springfield beat you" and is becoming more like "America can never win TheWarOnTerror".
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* SeriesContinuityError: One of the biggest. In one scene, Lenny is talking to a soldier and is half-crushed by a tank. It then cuts to inside Moe's Tavern, where Lenny is seen fine and unscathed.
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** Homer leads a small remote controlled helicopter into a room full of explosives, locking it in. The chopper lights a match to see in the dark, and is then blown up. The screen that the Colonel is watching the entire thing on switches off the camera, and up comes the ThatsAllFolks VanityPlate from LooneyTunes.

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** Homer leads a small remote controlled helicopter into a room full of explosives, locking it in. The chopper lights a match to see in the dark, and is then blown up. The screen that the Colonel is watching the entire thing on switches off the camera, and up comes the ThatsAllFolks VanityPlate from LooneyTunes.''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
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* InsaneAdmiral: The Army Colonel gives his men real ammunition for the drill with the intent of actually killing Homer and the others he finds too worthless to be soldier's. He declares martial law on Springfield to find them and rounds up any man who even vaguely fits Homer's description.

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* InsaneAdmiral: The Army Colonel gives his men real ammunition for the drill with the intent of actually killing Homer and the others he finds too worthless to be soldier's.soldiers. He declares martial law on Springfield to find them and rounds up any man who even vaguely fits Homer's description.

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