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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Gil is fired from the real estate agency, someone brings him a box [[KickTheDog that turns out to be empty and tells him to put his stuff there]]. He's dismay that he can't live in it.

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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Gil is fired from the real estate agency, someone brings him a box [[KickTheDog that turns out to be empty and tells him to put his stuff there]]. He's dismay dismayed that he can't live in it.
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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Gil is fired from the real estate agency, someone brings him a box [[KickTheDog that turns out to be empty and tells him to put his stuff there]]. He's dismay that he can live in it.

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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Gil is fired from the real estate agency, someone brings him a box [[KickTheDog that turns out to be empty and tells him to put his stuff there]]. He's dismay that he can can't live in it.
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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Gil is fired from the real estate agency, someone brings him a box [[KickTheDog that turns out to be empty and tells him to put his stuff there]]. He laments that he can live in it.

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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Gil is fired from the real estate agency, someone brings him a box [[KickTheDog that turns out to be empty and tells him to put his stuff there]]. He laments He's dismay that he can live in it.
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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Gil is fired from the real estate agency, someone brings him a box [[KickTheDog that turns out to be empty and tells him to put his stuff there]].

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* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Gil is fired from the real estate agency, someone brings him a box [[KickTheDog that turns out to be empty and tells him to put his stuff there]]. He laments that he can live in it.

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* AlienBlood: After Homer knocks out the Grumple with a bottle to the eye, a yellowish green substance leaks out of the wound.
-->'''Homer:''' What the hell is this thing?



--> '''Gil''': Who wants some eggs a la Harold Stassen?
(Bart and Lisa look blankly)

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--> '''Gil''': Who wants some eggs a la Harold Stassen?
(Bart
Stassen?\\
''(Bart
and Lisa look blankly)blankly)''
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* ComicBookTime: The episode covers ''two'' Simpson Christmases and a whole year during which Gil [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave lives with the family]] between said holidays.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lisa, when Gil is a MallSanta and she asks him for a sold-out Malibu Stacy set. He tips her off to the location of one, which gets him fired on Christmas Eve and causes Marge to feel an obligation to him.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lisa, when Gil is a MallSanta and she Lisa asks him for a MallSanta--Gil--for a sold-out Malibu Stacy set. He tips her off to the location of one, which gets him fired on Christmas Eve and causes Marge to feel an obligation to him.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Homer is exasperated by Marge's inability to get rid of Gil, but the thought of attempting to do so himself never seems to cross his mind.


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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Lisa, when Gil is a MallSanta and she asks him for a sold-out Malibu Stacy set. He tips her off to the location of one, which gets him fired on Christmas Eve and causes Marge to feel an obligation to him.
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* InformedPoverty: [[{{Exaggerated}} Homer claims to only make $6000 a year, but the family has enough to buy a summer home in Arizona]].

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'''Originally aired:''' December 17, 2006

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'''Originally aired:''' December 17, 2006
'''Original air date:''' 12/17/2006

'''Production code:''' JABF-01
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* TakeThat: To former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen's repeated and hopeless runs for President.
--> '''Gil''': Who wants some eggs a la Harold Stassen?
(Bart and Lisa look blankly)
--> '''Gil''': They're always running!


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* TwoDecadesBehind: Gil's joke about Harold Stassen. Stassen died in 2001, five years before this episode first aired, and his last even token run for President of the USA was in 1992.
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* InnerThoughtsOutsiderPuzzlement: "Marge, I have ''no'' idea what you were just thinking about. [[LampshadeHanging Why would you think I did?]]"

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* InnerThoughtsOutsiderPuzzlement: "Marge, I have ''no'' idea what you were just thinking [[{{Flashback}} thinking]] about. [[LampshadeHanging Why would you think I did?]]"
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* InnerThoughtsOutsiderPuzzlement: "Marge, I have ''no'' idea what you were just thinking about. [[LampshadeHanging Why would you think I did?]]"
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** When Gil (as a mall Santa) asks Lisa what her Christmas wish is, she says that what she wants can't be bought at any store. Gil took this to mean Lisa wanted world peace, but she was really referring to a Malibu Stacy doll set that was sold out everywhere (though Lisa does clarify that wishing for world peace is a given.)

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** When Gil (as a mall Santa) asks Lisa what her Christmas wish is, she says that what she wants can't be bought at any store. Gil took this to mean Lisa wanted world peace, but she was really referring to a Malibu Stacy doll set that was sold out everywhere (though Lisa does clarify that wishing for world peace is a given.)given).



* HereWeGoAgain: Marge [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass feels so guilty over getting Gil fired again]] that she and the family buys a summer home from him.

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* HereWeGoAgain: Marge [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass feels so guilty over getting Gil fired again]] that she and the family buys buy a summer home from him.



** Marge ''just'' had decide she wouldn't feel satisfied about Gil leaving unless she had the last word (that being yelling the word "no" to his face), even if that meant driving several states over and march right into his workplace to raise a ruckus. At least she felt regret about getting him fired again.

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** Marge ''just'' had decide decided she wouldn't feel satisfied about Gil leaving unless she had the last word (that being yelling the word "no" to his face), even if that meant driving several states over and march right into his workplace to raise a ruckus. At least she felt regret about getting him fired again.

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