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* CelebrityParadox: Creator/SteveBuscemi (Dwight) had previously played himself in Season 14's "Brake My Wife, Please".
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* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Taken UpToEleven where Dwight, after escaping prison, has a newspaper that not only has the Simpsons' home address, but also ''the security code for their alarm!''
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* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Taken UpToEleven where Dwight, after escaping prison, has a newspaper that not only has the Simpsons' home address, but also ''the security code for their alarm!''
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* AlliterativeName: Sergeant Serious
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* AlliterativeName: Sergeant Serious'''Ser'''geant '''Ser'''ious, '''D'''wight '''D'''iddlehopper.
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* AlliterativeName: Sergeant Serious
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* PlagiarismInFiction: Krusty wonders how he can be considered a worse clown than Sergeant Serious since he stole all of Sergeant Serious' jokes.
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* TooDumbToLive: That's right, Agnes, make a homophobic crack at two men with guns.
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* TooDumbToLive: That's right, Agnes, make Agnes makes a homophobic crack at two men with guns.armed bank robbers.
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* AssholeVictim: Agnes Skinner getting shot at (though it misses her), when she makes a homophobic crack.
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* SuperSerum: The ''Itchy & Scratchy'' short in the episode parodies the controversy of baseball players taking steroids, with Scratchy doing so on advice from Itchy. He becomes a baseball superstar... only to be the focus of scandal years later when Congress grills him about it. It only gets worse for him when the muscles grow out of control.
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* SuperSerum: The ''Itchy & Scratchy'' short in the episode parodies the controversy of baseball players taking steroids, with Scratchy doing so on advice from Itchy. He becomes a baseball superstar... only to be the focus of scandal years later when Congress grills him about it. It only gets worse for him when the muscles grow out of control.control.
* TooDumbToLive: That's right, Agnes, make a homophobic crack at two men with guns.
* TooDumbToLive: That's right, Agnes, make a homophobic crack at two men with guns.
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* BodyHorror: Dwight saves Chief Wiggum from falling into the middle of the swaying ships by dropping himself into the gears to stop the attraction.
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--->'''Dwight''': ''Dammit!''
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* EpicFail: Dwight escapes from prison by going through the prison waste pipe. Right next to it, he finds out there was a pure mountain spring water pipe he could've gone through.
--->'''Dwight''': ''Dammit!''
--->'''Dwight''': ''Dammit!''
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* KarmaHoudini: Dwight's accomplice gets away with shooting down Gil in a panic due to Wiggum's [[PoliceAreUseless incompetence]] at handing the situation unfolding at the bank.
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* PoliceCodeForEverything: Lou says there's a 64-G in progress. Wiggum stares blankly.
--> '''Lou''': Come on, chief, you know this.\\
'''Wiggum''': Oh, a shooty-stealy.
--> '''Lou''': Come on, chief, you know this.\\
'''Wiggum''': Oh, a shooty-stealy.
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* {{Padding}}: The ''Itchy & Scratchy'' short could've been easily removed from the episode without affecting the plot. That's almost always the case, but it's particularly egregious here, as it's over a minute long.
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* {{Padding}}: The ''Itchy & Scratchy'' short could've been easily removed from the episode without affecting the plot. That's almost always the case, but it's particularly egregious here, as it's over a minute long.
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* StupidCrooks: Implied. Dwight undergoes the bank robbery without gloves, a mask, or covering himself up, meaning that his DNA would be present at the crime scene and CCTV would capture him, though it probably wouldn't have made much difference due to how PoliceAreUseless. His accomplice doesn't fare better as he starts shooting everyone the moment things go differently which alert the police.
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* StupidCrooks: Implied. Dwight undergoes the bank robbery without gloves, a mask, or covering himself up, meaning that his DNA would be present at the crime scene and CCTV would capture him, though it probably wouldn't have made much difference due to how PoliceAreUseless. His accomplice doesn't fare better as he starts shooting everyone the moment things go differently which alert the police.police.
* SuperSerum: The ''Itchy & Scratchy'' short in the episode parodies the controversy of baseball players taking steroids, with Scratchy doing so on advice from Itchy. He becomes a baseball superstar... only to be the focus of scandal years later when Congress grills him about it. It only gets worse for him when the muscles grow out of control.
* SuperSerum: The ''Itchy & Scratchy'' short in the episode parodies the controversy of baseball players taking steroids, with Scratchy doing so on advice from Itchy. He becomes a baseball superstar... only to be the focus of scandal years later when Congress grills him about it. It only gets worse for him when the muscles grow out of control.
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* ShoutOut: Obviously, the title parodies ''Literature/IKnowWhyTheCagedBirdSings'' by Maya Angelou.
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* RuleOfThree: Hans Moleman hands over a money bag to Dwight during the robbery, and a blue dye pack expldoes in his face. As he goes to use a tissue to wipe his face, the tissue box turns out to contain a dye pack too, which also blows up at him. And then when he sees a clerk staring at him, he pistol-whips him, and that clerk also turns out to be a dye pack, completely covering Dwight in blue dye. Then he turns to the hostages and irritably asks if anyone else is a dye pack.
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* RuleOfThree: Hans Moleman hands over a money bag to Dwight during the robbery, and a blue dye pack expldoes explodes in his face. As he goes to use a tissue to wipe his face, the tissue box turns out to contain a dye pack too, which also blows up at him. And then when he sees a clerk staring at him, he pistol-whips him, and that clerk also turns out to be a dye pack, completely covering Dwight in blue dye. Then he turns to the hostages and irritably asks if anyone else is a dye pack.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The police only get Dwight in the robbery because he gives himself up, and Chief Wiggum's attempt to save Marge from Dwight at the end ends up causing ''him'' to have to be rescued. The police also said that Dwight's letter that he'll return to prison after unfinished piece of buciness sounded fair.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The police only get Dwight in the robbery because he gives himself up, and Chief Wiggum's attempt to save Marge from Dwight at the end ends up causing ''him'' to have to be rescued. The police also said that Dwight's letter that he'll return to prison after unfinished piece of buciness business sounded fair.
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* StupidCrooks: Implied. Dwight undergoes the bank robbery without gloves, a mask, or covering himself up, meaning that his DNA would be present at the crime scene and CCTV would capture him, though it probably wouldn't have made much difference due to how PoliceAreUseless.
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* StupidCrooks: Implied. Dwight undergoes the bank robbery without gloves, a mask, or covering himself up, meaning that his DNA would be present at the crime scene and CCTV would capture him, though it probably wouldn't have made much difference due to how PoliceAreUseless. His accomplice doesn't fare better as he starts shooting everyone the moment things go differently which alert the police.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The police only get Dwight in the robbery because he gives himself up, and Chief Wiggum's attempt to save Marge from Dwight at the end ends up causing ''him'' to have to be rescued.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The police only get Dwight in the robbery because he gives himself up, and Chief Wiggum's attempt to save Marge from Dwight at the end ends up causing ''him'' to have to be rescued. The police also said that Dwight's letter that he'll return to prison after unfinished piece of buciness sounded fair.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the prisoner escapes, Marge is constantly worried that he's waiting for an opportunity to catch her. When she's inside a dressing room and notices a pair of eyes looking through a hole in the door, she opens the door and finds Moe.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the prisoner Dwight escapes, Marge is constantly worried that he's waiting for an opportunity to catch her. When she's inside a dressing room and notices a pair of eyes looking through a hole in the door, she opens the door and finds Moe.
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** Dwight himself. He was abandoned by his mother when he was a boy, he had three dye packs blow up in his face during the robbery, Marge was too nervous to visit him in prison, he escaped prison through a sewer pipe instead of a clean one next to him, and he throws himself into the gears of the Viking ship ride to save Chief Wiggum.
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** Dwight himself. He was abandoned by his mother when he was a boy, he had three dye packs blow up in his face during the robbery, Marge was too nervous to visit him in prison, he escaped prison through a sewer pipe instead of a clean one dispensing spring water next to him, and he throws himself into the gears of the Viking ship ride to save Chief Wiggum.
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* OhCrap: Marge's reaction when Dwight is revealed as a robber at the bank, and Homer's reaction when Marge is able to tell him she's a hostage. When Marge gets out after Dwight gives himself up, he and Marge share a very relieved hug.
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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** Marge's reaction when Dwight is revealed as a robber at the bank, and Homer's reaction when Marge is able to tell him she's a hostage. When Marge gets out after Dwight gives himself up, he and Marge share a very relieved hug.
** Marge again when Dwight breaks out of prison and knows that she is the "unfinished piece of business" Kent Brockman is referring to.
** Marge's reaction when Dwight is revealed as a robber at the bank, and Homer's reaction when Marge is able to tell him she's a hostage. When Marge gets out after Dwight gives himself up, he and Marge share a very relieved hug.
** Marge again when Dwight breaks out of prison and knows that she is the "unfinished piece of business" Kent Brockman is referring to.
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* ArtisticLicencePhysics: While spying on Marge after breaking out of prison, Dwight is able to watch her from behind a flying kite that can somehow take his weight.
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* ArtisticLicencePhysics: ArtisticLicensePhysics: While spying on Marge after breaking out of prison, Dwight is able to watch her from behind a flying kite that can somehow take his weight.
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* ArtisticLicencePhysics: While spying on Marge after breaking out of prison, Dwight is able to watch her from behind a flying kite that can somehow take his weight.
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* DangerTakesABackSeat: The prisoner waits for Marge on the back seat, but it turns out he boarded the wrong car.
* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Taken UpToEleven where the prisoner, after escaping prison, has a newspaper that not only has the Simpsons' home address, but also ''the security code for their alarm!''
* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Taken UpToEleven where the prisoner, after escaping prison, has a newspaper that not only has the Simpsons' home address, but also ''the security code for their alarm!''
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* ButtMonkey:
** Gil turns up for his new job at the bank as a security guard, only to be repeatedly shot by Dwight's accomplice.
** Dwight himself. He was abandoned by his mother when he was a boy, he had three dye packs blow up in his face during the robbery, Marge was too nervous to visit him in prison, he escaped prison through a sewer pipe instead of a clean one next to him, and he throws himself into the gears of the Viking ship ride to save Chief Wiggum.
* DangerTakesABackSeat:The prisoner Dwight waits for Marge on the back seat, seat of a car, but it turns out he boarded the wrong car.
car, before getting into Marge's.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Agnes Skinner references this trope when she says during the bank robbery she doesn't deserve to die, because she only went into the bank to check the date.
* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Taken UpToEleven wherethe prisoner, Dwight, after escaping prison, has a newspaper that not only has the Simpsons' home address, but also ''the security code for their alarm!''alarm!''
* FreudianSlip: Marge's line to Dwight at the amusement park: "Well, this mom is not gonna say bug-eye. I mean, good bye!"
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted. Dwight is willing to attempt one when he throws himself into the gears of the Viking ship ride at the amusement park to save Chief Wiggum. However, [[MadeOfIron he somehow survives this and makes a full recovery, after having to be hospitalized]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Jasper is shot in the arm by Dwight during the robbery and all he does is cover the bleeding wound and say, "You said diabetic, right?", after Dwight inquired [[ItMakesSenseInContext whether anyone else was a dye pack during the robbery]].
* OhCrap: Marge's reaction when Dwight is revealed as a robber at the bank, and Homer's reaction when Marge is able to tell him she's a hostage. When Marge gets out after Dwight gives himself up, he and Marge share a very relieved hug.
* ParentalNeglect: Dwight's mother evidently took him to an amusement park as a child and abandoned him there. Dwight kidnaps Marge and takes her there so he can relive the time he lost.
* PoliceAreUseless: The police only get Dwight in the robbery because he gives himself up, and Chief Wiggum's attempt to save Marge from Dwight at the end ends up causing ''him'' to have to be rescued.
* RuleOfThree: Hans Moleman hands over a money bag to Dwight during the robbery, and a blue dye pack expldoes in his face. As he goes to use a tissue to wipe his face, the tissue box turns out to contain a dye pack too, which also blows up at him. And then when he sees a clerk staring at him, he pistol-whips him, and that clerk also turns out to be a dye pack, completely covering Dwight in blue dye. Then he turns to the hostages and irritably asks if anyone else is a dye pack.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Dwight's accomplice in the robbery flees in a panic after shooting Gil.
* StupidCrooks: Implied. Dwight undergoes the bank robbery without gloves, a mask, or covering himself up, meaning that his DNA would be present at the crime scene and CCTV would capture him, though it probably wouldn't have made much difference due to how PoliceAreUseless.
** Gil turns up for his new job at the bank as a security guard, only to be repeatedly shot by Dwight's accomplice.
** Dwight himself. He was abandoned by his mother when he was a boy, he had three dye packs blow up in his face during the robbery, Marge was too nervous to visit him in prison, he escaped prison through a sewer pipe instead of a clean one next to him, and he throws himself into the gears of the Viking ship ride to save Chief Wiggum.
* DangerTakesABackSeat:
* DisproportionateRetribution: Agnes Skinner references this trope when she says during the bank robbery she doesn't deserve to die, because she only went into the bank to check the date.
* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Taken UpToEleven where
* FreudianSlip: Marge's line to Dwight at the amusement park: "Well, this mom is not gonna say bug-eye. I mean, good bye!"
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted. Dwight is willing to attempt one when he throws himself into the gears of the Viking ship ride at the amusement park to save Chief Wiggum. However, [[MadeOfIron he somehow survives this and makes a full recovery, after having to be hospitalized]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Jasper is shot in the arm by Dwight during the robbery and all he does is cover the bleeding wound and say, "You said diabetic, right?", after Dwight inquired [[ItMakesSenseInContext whether anyone else was a dye pack during the robbery]].
* OhCrap: Marge's reaction when Dwight is revealed as a robber at the bank, and Homer's reaction when Marge is able to tell him she's a hostage. When Marge gets out after Dwight gives himself up, he and Marge share a very relieved hug.
* ParentalNeglect: Dwight's mother evidently took him to an amusement park as a child and abandoned him there. Dwight kidnaps Marge and takes her there so he can relive the time he lost.
* PoliceAreUseless: The police only get Dwight in the robbery because he gives himself up, and Chief Wiggum's attempt to save Marge from Dwight at the end ends up causing ''him'' to have to be rescued.
* RuleOfThree: Hans Moleman hands over a money bag to Dwight during the robbery, and a blue dye pack expldoes in his face. As he goes to use a tissue to wipe his face, the tissue box turns out to contain a dye pack too, which also blows up at him. And then when he sees a clerk staring at him, he pistol-whips him, and that clerk also turns out to be a dye pack, completely covering Dwight in blue dye. Then he turns to the hostages and irritably asks if anyone else is a dye pack.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Dwight's accomplice in the robbery flees in a panic after shooting Gil.
* StupidCrooks: Implied. Dwight undergoes the bank robbery without gloves, a mask, or covering himself up, meaning that his DNA would be present at the crime scene and CCTV would capture him, though it probably wouldn't have made much difference due to how PoliceAreUseless.
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* DangerTakesABackSeat: The prisoner waits for Marge on the back seat, but it turns out he boarded the wrong car.
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* DangerTakesABackSeat: The prisoner waits for Marge on the back seat, but it turns out he boarded the wrong car.car.
* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Taken UpToEleven where the prisoner, after escaping prison, has a newspaper that not only has the Simpsons' home address, but also ''the security code for their alarm!''
* EndangeringNewsBroadcast: Taken UpToEleven where the prisoner, after escaping prison, has a newspaper that not only has the Simpsons' home address, but also ''the security code for their alarm!''
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the prisoner escapes, Marge is constantly worried that he's waiting for an opportunity to catch her. When she's inside a dressing room and notices a pair of eyes looking through a hole in the door, she opens the door and finds Moe.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the prisoner escapes, Marge is constantly worried that he's waiting for an opportunity to catch her. When she's inside a dressing room and notices a pair of eyes looking through a hole in the door, she opens the door and finds Moe.Moe.
* DangerTakesABackSeat: The prisoner waits for Marge on the back seat, but it turns out he boarded the wrong car.
* DangerTakesABackSeat: The prisoner waits for Marge on the back seat, but it turns out he boarded the wrong car.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the prisoner escapes, Marge is constantly worried that he's waiting for an opportunity to catch her. When she's inside a dressing room and notices a pair of eyes looking through a hole in the door, she opens the door and finds Moe.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After the prisoner escapes, Marge is constantly worried that he's waiting for an opportunity to catch her. When she's inside a dressing room and notices a pair of eyes looking through a hole in the door, she opens the door and finds Moe.
