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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Bart suspects Milhouse is the rat, he traps him in a locker in the middle of a field, promising Donny he'll let him go "in a couple of hours." This is at the end of Act 2; Milhouse doesn't appear again for the rest of the episode.
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Crosswicking
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* SodaCandySplosion: After learning their new friend Donny is an accomplice of Skinner, Bart and Nelson intend to punish him by giving him crates of Diet Coke and Mentos. Skinner stops them before they can do so, however Donny ultimately pushes the crates together and creates a foamy explosion to help the boys escape.
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They plan to give Bart a suspension, not a detention.
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* CouldntFindAPen: Willie’s journal is carved into his arm with a needle.
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* CouldntFindAPen: Or paper. Willie’s journal is carved into his arm with a needle.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Skinner and Chalmers can legally only give Bart a maximum of 10 days detention in this episode. Past episodes have featured Bart getting detention for much, much longer (four months for playing hooky in "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", 600 days detention for stealing vital teaching resources and backtalking Skinner over it in "Separate Vocations", and, assuming Skinner wasn't kidding, ''1000'' days detention for his unflattering impression of him in "Lisa's Pony").
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* SeriesContinuityError: Skinner and Chalmers can legally only give TheScapegoat: Mulhouse is an unintentional example, with Bart a maximum suspecting him of 10 days detention in this episode. Past episodes have featured Bart getting detention for much, much longer (four months for playing hooky in "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", 600 days detention for stealing vital teaching resources and backtalking Skinner being the mole over it in "Separate Vocations", and, assuming Skinner wasn't kidding, ''1000'' days detention for his unflattering impression Donnie, thinking the latter was jealous of him in "Lisa's Pony").being AlwaysSecondBest.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: As Skinner points out, the most they can get Bart removed from school without expelling him is 10 days.
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* CouldntFindAPen: Willie’s journal is carved into his arm with a needle.
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* {{Irony}}: Marge likes to save on ketchup and mustard bottles by simply emptying out every single ketchup and mustard packet they get from fast food joints into respective bottles, but she feels embarrassed to do the same for the relish.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Skinner and Chalmers can legally only give Bart a maximum of 10 days detention in this episode. Past episodes have featured Bart getting detention for much, much longer (four months for playing hooky in "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", 600 days detention for stealing vital teaching resources and backtalking Skinner over it in "Separate Vocations", and, assuming Skinner wasn't kidding, ''1000'' days detention for his unflattering impression of him in "Lisa's Pony").
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* ContinuityNod: Bart apparently regards [[BullyTurnedBuddy Nelson]] as his "other best friend" since the events of "The Haw-Hawed Couple" a season prior.
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** Homer comments that when he and Bart "first met, [they] didn't really hit it off," recalling their fateful first encounter in "I Married Marge," in which the newborn Bart lit Homer's tie on fire.
** Bart apparently regards [[BullyTurnedBuddy Nelson]] as his "other best friend" since the events of "The Haw-Hawed Couple" a season prior.
** Homer comments that when he and Bart "first met, [they] didn't really hit it off," recalling their fateful first encounter in "I Married Marge," in which the newborn Bart lit Homer's tie on fire.
** Bart apparently regards [[BullyTurnedBuddy Nelson]] as his "other best friend" since the events of "The Haw-Hawed Couple" a season prior.
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* PetTheDog: When Bart is in a funk about Donny stealing his popularity, it's Homer who snaps him out of it with a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: This seems to have been {{Invoked}} by Donny to get in with Bart. He initially positioned himself as TheRival to Bart, causing Bart to pull a particularly epic prank on Skinner to get his status back, at which point he earned Bart's trust by seemingly TakingTheHeat for the offense, claiming that it was a show of respect.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: This seems to have been Apparently {{Invoked}} by Donny to get in with Bart. He initially positioned positions himself as TheRival to Bart, causing Bart to pull a particularly epic prank on Skinner to get his status back, at which point he earned earns Bart's trust by seemingly TakingTheHeat for the offense, claiming that it was a show offense out of respect.respect for Bart's skills.
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* TakingTheHeat: Donny wins Bart's friendship by appearing to do this to get Bart out of trouble with Skinner. Of course, since it's all part of Skinner's plan to use Donny as TheMole, he doesn't get in trouble and is congratulated on the success of his mission behind closed doors.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: This seems to have been {{Invoked}} by Donny to get in with Bart. He initially positioned himself as TheRival to Bart, causing Bart to pull a particularly epic prank on Skinner to get his status back, at which point he earned Bart's trust by seemingly TakingTheHeat for the offense, claiming that it was a show of respect.
