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* PoppingButtons: After Homer regains his fat, one of the buttons from his pants go flying and knock out Marge.
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* AdaptationalSlimness: InUniverse and [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzagged]]. Homer is required to lose weight in order to play Everyman, a character who was designed to be overweight. However, Homer ends up ditching his diet and thus Everyman switches from being fat to thin depending on the scene.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After Everyman becomes a comic book sensation everywhere, a film studio committee learns about it and decide to make a movie out of it. Unfortunately, it turns out they got interested too late since some other studio got to the franchise before them a few days ago.
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** After Everyman becomes a comic book sensation everywhere, a film studio committee learns about it and decide to make a movie out of it. Unfortunately, it turns out they got interested too late since some other studio got to the franchise before them a few daysago.ago.
** After seeing Homer’s performance, the trainer implies that he thinks Homer will win an award… and then his line of “I smell Oscar” referred to [[ExactWords a man named Oscar]] who [[ThePigPen smelled horrible]].
** After Everyman becomes a comic book sensation everywhere, a film studio committee learns about it and decide to make a movie out of it. Unfortunately, it turns out they got interested too late since some other studio got to the franchise before them a few days
** After seeing Homer’s performance, the trainer implies that he thinks Homer will win an award… and then his line of “I smell Oscar” referred to [[ExactWords a man named Oscar]] who [[ThePigPen smelled horrible]].
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* ClarkKenting: The movie’s take on Avery Mann gives him a pair of glasses in his civilian identity.
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* StockFootageFailure: InUniverse, the camera angles switch between showing Homer as slim and Homer being overweight.
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* RecycledPremise: This episode uses the same premise as the episode "Radioactive Man"; both episodes center around the filming of a blockbuster superhero movie with one of the male Simpsons auditioning for the role and not having the right body type to play the character they auditioned for, and both movies end up being a disaster because something happened to one of the lead characters (complete with in-universe StockFootageFailure that utterly ruins the experience). The main differences are that Homer still gets the part (while Bart doesn't), he just has to get into shape first, and the Radioactive Man movie ran out of budget before it was even finished, while the Everyman movie ''was'' finished, but it opened to such poor reception that it would have been better if it hadn't been.
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* StevenUlyssesPerhero: The real identity of Everyman is "Avery Mann''.
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* AuthorAvatar: Avery "Everyman" Mann is clearly this to Comic Book Guy InUniverse: he's similarly overweight and gains his powers from comic books. Incredibly, he's ''not'' a ParodySue, and the result, beloved by kids all over Springfield, seems to be a pretty fun meta comic.
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-->'''Bart:''' Who knew a troubled person could be creative?
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* HiddenDepths: Comic Book Guy isn't just a connoisseur of the form but a talented comic book artist and writer himself. While Bart and Milhouse discuss the unexpectedness of this development, Nelson, executing perfect ballet as he's completing a graffiti mural, comments, "Still waters run deep."
