History Recap / TheSimpsonsS19E7HusbandsAndKnives

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Bart tells Comic Book Guy he can't keep mistreating his customers, he smugly tells them that they're free to find somewhere else to buy comic books. Then looks through the window and remarks to them that: "[[SarcasmMode Maybe they sell comics at the dry cleaners,]] no? Perhaps they sell comics at the mattress store, no? [[RuleOfThree Oh, perhaps you could buy your comics]] [[OhCrap at that new comic store that just opened across the street.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before the HalfwayPlotSwitch, Comic Book Guy and the kids discuss a DC story that "never really happened" owing to being AllJustADream. Guess how the third act winds up.

* GetOut: When Comic Book Guy claims that it isn't an AnalogyBackfire to use Superman moving to Gotham City as an example of an impossible event given that the story using that plot was AllJustADream and therefore "never really happened," Bart gets this reaction from him by pointing out that [[DistinctionWithoutADifference none of these stories "really happened"]].

* ThisCannotBe: Comic Book Guy's reaction to a new comic book shop opening in town, which he likens to Superman moving to Gotham City. Martin Prince immediately [[AnalogyBackfire cites a comic in which he did just that]], which Comic Book Guy counters by saying it was an imaginary story. Bart points out that [[BerserkButton all the stories in comics are imaginary]] and earns himself a GetOut

* ThisCannotBe: Comic Book Guy's reaction to a new comic book shop opening in town.
-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Creator/PhilipKDick, it can't be! It's as if Superman moved to Gotham City!
-->'''Martin:''' [[AnalogyBackfire ...Which he did, in World's Finest Comics #94. See?]]
-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' It was an imaginary story dreamt by Jimmy Olsen after he was kicked in the head by Supergirl's horse Comet. It never really happened.
-->'''Bart:''' [[BerserkButton None of these things ever]] ''[[BerserkButton really]]'' [[BerserkButton happened]].
-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' [[GetOut Get out of my store]].

-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Creator/PhillipKDick, it can't be! It's as if Superman moved to Gotham City!

-->'''ComicBookGuy:''' [[GetOut Get out of my store]].

* AnalogyBackfire: Comic Book Guy greets the appearance of a new comic book shop in town with "[[ThisCannotBe It's as if Superman moved to Gotham City]]!", to which Martin Prince cites a comic in which he did just that. When Comic Book Guy counters that this was an "imaginary story," Bart points out that [[BerserkButton all the stories in comics are imaginary]], provoking a GetOut response.

* AnalogyBackfire: Comic Book Guy greets the appearance of a new comic book shop in town with "[[ThisCannotBe It's as if Superman moved to Gotham City]]!", to which Martin Prince points out a comic in which he did just that. When Comic Book Guy counters that this was an "imaginary story," Bart tells him that [[BerserkButton all the stories in comics are imaginary]], provoking a GetOut response.

* AnalogyBackfire: Comic Book Guy greets the appearance of a new comic book shop in town with "[[ThisCannotBe It's as if Superman moved to Gotham City]]!" Martin Prince points out a comic in which he did just that. When Comic Book Guy counters that this was an "imaginary story," Bart tells him that [[BerserkButton all the stories in comics are imaginary]], provoking a GetOut

* BreakTheHaughty: It's revealed that Comic Book Guy feels free to be continuously rude and dismissive to his young customers because he owns the only comic book shop in town and they have no choice but to shop with him. This comes back to bite him in a big way when a new comic shop opens and he's forced to close his store, having never given his customers any other reason to stick with him.

* BreakTheHaughty: It's revealed that Comic Book Guy feels free to be continuously rude and dismissive to his young customers because he owns the only comic book shop in town. This comes back to bite him in a big way when a new comic book shop opens and he's forced to close his store, having never given his customers any other reason to stick with him

'''Martin:''' Which he did in ''World's Finest Comics'' #94. See?\\

* RantInducingSlight: Upon Milhouse asking Alan Moore which of the Watchman Babies are his favorite, he responds with a very heated rant about how corporations take ideas and milk them for all they're worth:
-->'''Alan Moore:''' You see what these bloody corporations do? They take your ideas and ''suck'' them. Suck them like leeches until they've gotten every last drop of the ''marrow from your bones!''

... whereupon he wakes up in his hospital bed, revealing that everything after his gastric band surgery was AllJustADream. Deciding she loves Homer as he is, Marge insisted the surgeon reverse the surgery. The episode ends with Moore, Spiegelman, and Clowes watching Homer and Marge walking arm-in-arm, before ignoring a meteor heading for the Earth in favour of an underpaid comic artists' convention with a cash bar.

* RealityEnsues: Homer opts for a stomach stapling procedure and he loses a significant amount of weight. Unfortunately, rapid weight loss from previously obese people usually results in excess skin folds. His efforts to look more attractive was not as easy of a fix as he thought it would be.

... whereupon he wakes up in his hospital bed, revealing that everything after his gastric band surgery was AllJustADream. Deciding she loves Homer as he is, Marge insisted the surgeon reverse the surgery. The episode ends with Moore, Spiegelman, and Clowes watching Homer and Marge walking arm-in-arm, before ignoring a meteor heading for the Earth in favor of an underpaid comic artists' convention with a cash bar.

* TakeThat: To [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]] and her longtime boyfriend, Steadman Graham. During an appearance on ''[[{{Expy}} Opal]]'', Marge inquires as to when "Straightman" will finally pop the question and she in turns hands out expensive German cuckoo clocks to excited audience members as a means of distraction.