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* LiteralMinded: Homer has a bucket list. Rather than a list of things to do before he dies, however, it's a list of buckets of food [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and cholesterol medicine]].
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* LiteralMinded: Homer has a bucket list. Rather than a list of things to do before he dies, however, it's a list of buckets of food [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and cholesterol medicine]].medicine.
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* EducationMama: Selma and Patty have [[HasTwoMommies both]] been "tiger-mothering" Selma's adopted daughter Ling big-time. She's now proficient in flute, gymnastics and painting, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even Homer and Marge]] are horrified by the treatment it's taking to get her there.
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* EducationMama: Selma and Patty have [[HasTwoMommies both]] both been "tiger-mothering" Selma's adopted daughter Ling big-time. She's now proficient in flute, gymnastics and painting, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even Homer and Marge]] are horrified by the treatment it's taking to get her there.
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Selma's daughter aged up from the last time she appeared while Bart, Lisa and Maggie didn't.
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Like Apu's children, Selma's daughter aged up from the last time she appeared is now a toddler while Bart, Lisa and Maggie didn't.are still the same ages.
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Homer and Marge's first attempts to find potential guardians for the kids include Selma and Patty (who horrify them with their extreme EducationMama treatment of Ling), Kirk and Luann (whose marriage remains [[AwfulWeddedLife alarmingly and publicly unstable]]), and Cletus and Brandine (who have firmly drawn the line at seventeen kids).
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Homer and Marge's first attempts to find potential guardians for the kids include Selma and Patty (who horrify them with their extreme EducationMama treatment of Ling), Kirk and Luann (whose marriage remains [[AwfulWeddedLife alarmingly and publicly unstable]]), and Cletus and Brandine (who have firmly drawn the line at seventeen kids).kids and don't want any more).
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* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: As the family play "[[TabletopGame/{{Catan}} Emissaries to Byzantium]]."
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* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: As the family play "[[TabletopGame/{{Catan}} "[[TabletopGame/SettlersOfCatan Emissaries to Byzantium]]."
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* FiveFiveFive: A babysitter has 555-1231 as her phone number.
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* FiveFiveFive: A babysitter has 555-1231 as her phone number.
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* FiveFiveFive: A babysitter has 555-1231 as her phone number.EvenNerdsHaveStandards: As the family play "[[TabletopGame/{{Catan}} Emissaries to Byzantium]]."
-->'''Bart:''' Why do we have to play this stupid game Lisa likes?
-->'''Lisa:''' I don't like this game. [[TakeThat Nobody likes this game]].
-->'''Bart:''' Why do we have to play this stupid game Lisa likes?
-->'''Lisa:''' I don't like this game. [[TakeThat Nobody likes this game]].
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Homer and Marge's first attempts to find potential guardians for the kids include Selma and Patty (who horrify them with their extreme EducationMama treatment of Ling), Kirk and Luann (whose marriage remains [[AwfulWeddedLife alarmingly and publicly unstable]]), and Cletus and Brandine (who, after seventeen kids, have firmly drawn the line).
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* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Homer and Marge's first attempts to find potential guardians for the kids include Selma and Patty (who horrify them with their extreme EducationMama treatment of Ling), Kirk and Luann (whose marriage remains [[AwfulWeddedLife alarmingly and publicly unstable]]), and Cletus and Brandine (who, after seventeen kids, (who have firmly drawn the line).line at seventeen kids).
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* HandWave: Since Homer and Marge have an obvious choice of guardian in Herb Powell, Homer's highly successful half-brother who adores the kids, we find out that [[NoodleIncident he somehow went bankrupt]] since we last saw him.
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* ImAHumanitarian: After having seventeen children, Cletus and Brandine have vowed that any other living thing attempting to insert him or herself onto the premises goes in the cooking pot. This apparently includes the mailman.
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* TerribleInterviTerribleIntervieweesMontage: Homer and Marge's first attempts to find potential guardians for the kids include Selma and Patty (who horrify them with their extreme EducationMama treatment of Ling), Kirk and Luann (whose marriage remains [[AwfulWeddedLife alarmingly and publicly unstable]]), and Cletus and Brandine (who, after seventeen kids, have firmly drawn the line).
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* EducationMama: Selma and Patty have both been "tiger-mothering" Ling big-time. She's now proficient in flute, gymnastics and painting, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even Homer and Marge]] are horrified by the treatment it's taking to get her there.
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* EducationMama: Selma and Patty have both [[HasTwoMommies both]] been "tiger-mothering" Selma's adopted daughter Ling big-time. She's now proficient in flute, gymnastics and painting, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even Homer and Marge]] are horrified by the treatment it's taking to get her there.
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* EducationMama: Selma and Patty have both been "tiger-mothering" Ling big-time. She's now proficient in flute, gymnastics and painting, but [[EveryoneHasStandards even Homer and Marge]] are horrified by the treatment it's taking to get her there.
-->'''Ling:''' ''Help me.''
-->'''Ling:''' ''Help me.''
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* TriviallyObvious: When Homer and Marge take the kids on a drive out of town to look for potential guardians for them, Homer gives the kids name tags with descriptions of them. Bart's simply says "The Boy."
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* TriviallyObvious: When Homer and Marge take the kids on a drive out of town to look for potential guardians for them, Homer gives the kids name tags with descriptions of them. While Lisa's indicates that she's TheSmartGuy and Maggie TheQuietOne, Bart's simply says "The Boy."
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* TriviallyObvious: When Homer and Marge take the kids on a drive out of town to look for potential guardians for them, Homer gives the kids name tags describing them. Bart's simply says "The Boy."
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* TriviallyObvious: When Homer and Marge take the kids on a drive out of town to look for potential guardians for them, Homer gives the kids name tags describing with descriptions of them. Bart's simply says "The Boy."
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* TriviallyObvious: When Homer and Marge take the kids on a drive out of town to look for potential guardians for them, Homer gives the kids name tags describing them. Bart's simply says "The Boy."
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Based on a conversation where Homer and Marge discuss their kids' future, it's not in Connecticut.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Based on a conversation where Homer and Marge discuss their kids' future, it's not in Connecticut.Connecticut.
* WhoWillTakeTheKids: The basis of the main plot.
* WhoWillTakeTheKids: The basis of the main plot.
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* RichesToRags and NoodleIncident: When the Simpsons tried to contact Homer's illegitimate half-brother Herb, they learned he went broke again for reasons unknown (though it's most likely implied that the current recession may have caused him to lose his fortune).
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* RichesToRags and NoodleIncident: RichesToRags: When the Simpsons tried to contact Homer's illegitimate half-brother Herb, they learned he went broke again [[NoodleIncident for reasons unknown (though it's most likely implied that the current recession may have caused him to lose his fortune).unknown]].
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Selma's daughter aged up from the last time she appeared while Bart, Lisa and Maggie didn't.
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* StageMom: Patty and Selma are very pushy towards the latter's adopted daughter and that's the reason Homer and Marge give up on the idea of wanting them as guardians for Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
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* TemptingFate: When Homer, Marge, Lenny and Carl are trying to rescue Santa's Little Helper from a twister, Lenny comments that they're safe inside their van. The twister then rips the van's body apart.
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* TemptingFate: When Homer, Marge, Lenny and Carl are trying to rescue Santa's Little Helper from a twister, Lenny comments that they're safe inside their van. The twister then rips the van's body apart.apart.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Based on a conversation where Homer and Marge discuss their kids' future, it's not in Connecticut.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Based on a conversation where Homer and Marge discuss their kids' future, it's not in Connecticut.
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* FiveFiveFive: A babysitter has 555-1231 as her phone number.
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* LiteralMinded: Homer has a bucket list. Rather than a list of things to do before he dies, however, it's a list of buckets of food [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and cholesterol medicine]].
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: When Homer and Marge are trapped inside a bank's revolving door, Homer writes what he believes it might be the last thing he'll ever write: save her first.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: When Homer and Marge are trapped inside a bank's revolving door, Homer writes what he believes it might be the last thing he'll ever write: save her first.
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* RichesToRags and NoodleIncident: When the Simpsons tried to contact Homer's illegitimate half-brother Herb, they learned he went broke again for reasons unknown (though it's most likely implied that the current recession may have caused him to lose his fortune).
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* RichesToRags and NoodleIncident: When the Simpsons tried to contact Homer's illegitimate half-brother Herb, they learned he went broke again for reasons unknown (though it's most likely implied that the current recession may have caused him to lose his fortune).fortune).
* TemptingFate: When Homer, Marge, Lenny and Carl are trying to rescue Santa's Little Helper from a twister, Lenny comments that they're safe inside their van. The twister then rips the van's body apart.
* TemptingFate: When Homer, Marge, Lenny and Carl are trying to rescue Santa's Little Helper from a twister, Lenny comments that they're safe inside their van. The twister then rips the van's body apart.
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* RichesToRags: When the Simpsons tried to contact Homer's illegitimate half-brother Herb, they learned he went broke again.
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* RichesToRags: RichesToRags and NoodleIncident: When the Simpsons tried to contact Homer's illegitimate half-brother Herb, they learned he went broke again.again for reasons unknown (though it's most likely implied that the current recession may have caused him to lose his fortune).
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Homer and Marge decide to name a legal guardian for their children should (Heaven forbid) the day come that Homer and Marge die or are unable to care for the kids, but when Homer's brother, Herb, goes broke ([[NoodleIncident for reasons unknown]]) and everyone else in town refuses, Bart and Lisa pick a young, yuppie couple that Marge and Homer fear will replace them while they're still alive.
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* HappilyAdopted: The yuppie couple were better parents than Homer and Marge.
* RichesToRags: When the Simpsons tried to contact Homer's illegitimate half-brother Herb, they learned he went broke again.
!! Tropes:
* HappilyAdopted: The yuppie couple were better parents than Homer and Marge.
* RichesToRags: When the Simpsons tried to contact Homer's illegitimate half-brother Herb, they learned he went broke again.
