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** The CouchGag features the Simpsons as Franchise/XMen characters, with Homer as Professor X, Maggie as Wolverine, Bart as Angel, Lisa as Storm, and Marge as Mystique.
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** The CouchGag features the Simpsons as Franchise/XMen ComicBook/XMen characters, with Homer as Professor X, Maggie as Wolverine, Bart as Angel, Lisa as Storm, and Marge as Mystique.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Lisa's so disillusioned by Homer being made a university professor despite his total lack of comprehension and commitment that she downs a glass of wine.
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* BadBadActing: Taking just a sip of wine, Lisa immediately overplays the drunk persona, exaggerating her "first" slurred word, even though [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E8TheItalianBob she had actually been drunk before]]. Even Bart notes that this is ''very'' bad acting.
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* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: The Shull and Crossbones Society headquarters' entrance door has a sign reading "You must be this rich to enter".
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* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: The Shull and Crossbones Society headquarters' entrance door has a sign reading "You must be this rich to enter".enter" with a picture of [[TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} Uncle Pennybags]] on it.
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* VillainHasAPoint: To some degree ''Mr. Burns'' comes across as the OnlySaneMan when he sees how [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Yale has cowered to the overly sensitive liberal student body]]. Their demands for equal representation, including an anti-nuclear program (and neutral nuclear program), would only exaggerate the issues with administrative bloat. Of course, then Burns goes off to make his own for-profit college with no academic standards whatsoever.
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* VillainHasAPoint: To some degree ''Mr. Burns'' comes across as the OnlySaneMan when he sees how [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Yale has cowered to the overly sensitive liberal student body]].body. Their demands for equal representation, including an anti-nuclear program (and neutral nuclear program), would only exaggerate the issues with administrative bloat. Of course, then Burns goes off to make his own for-profit college with no academic standards whatsoever.
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* Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The reasons the former Ivy League professors were fired.
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* Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The reasons the former Ivy League professors were fired.
-->'''Professor 1''': I celebrated Columbus Day.\\
'''Professor 2''': I referred to God as a "He".\\
'''Professor 3''': I got 5 students pregnant.
-->'''Professor 1''': I celebrated Columbus Day.\\
'''Professor 2''': I referred to God as a "He".\\
'''Professor 3''': I got 5 students pregnant.
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** To refer to God as a "he" is grounds to fire a professor.
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** To Apparantly, to celebrate Columbus Day and to refer to God as a "he" is are grounds to fire a professor.
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Disproportionate Retribution is more what you do than what you say.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Mr. Burns describes a college student as a "young man" and the student holds the fact Burns specified his gender as grounds to declare him worse than Hitler.
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* SeriousBusiness: Mr. Burns describes a college student as a "young man" and the student holds the fact Burns specified his gender as grounds to declare him worse than Hitler.
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* TheCameo: Creator/StanLee shows up at the end of the couch gag and says nothing is so short he can't appear in.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: They feel offended at people who impersonate robots. Bourbon Verlander describes this as the robots being too human.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: They feel offended at by people who impersonate robots. Bourbon Verlander describes this as the robots being too human.
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Broken Aesop is that the message is flawed due to the execution, and Clueless Aesop is that the message can't be explored by the format, neither of which really apply to the story here
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* BrokenAesop: Also crosses over with CluelessAesop. While Mr. Burns was supposed to be on the wrong side for creating For-Profit University and plan to commit fraud from Yale University with fake robots, the episode's portrayal of the younger students' [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad sensitivity and grievances towards any notions of "backwardness"]] made it harder for the audience--particularly for critics who only saw this area rather than a whole message--who would see Mr. Burns having [[VillainHasAPoint legitimate issues on their obnoxious nature]].
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: When Mr. Burns proposes opening a college for nuclear engineering, one of the students claims that it will invite violence on the campus. This comes with a subtitle "Actual line from Yale student."
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** The third act does an extended riff on ''Film/ExMachina'', made more obvious when the FemBot's actual robot bodies are seen.
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* VillainHasAPoint: To some degree ''Mr. Burns'' comes across as the OnlySaneMan when he sees how [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Yale has cowered to the overly sensitive liberal student body]]. Their demands for equal representation, including an anti-nuclear program (and neutral nuclear program), would only exaggerate the issues with administrative bloat. Of course, then Burns goes off to make his own for-profit college with no academic standards whatsoever.
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* BrokenAesop: Also crosses over with CluelessAesop. While Mr. Burns was supposed to be on the wrong side for creating For-Profit University and plan to commit fraud from Yale University with fake robots, the episode's portrayal of the younger students' [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad sensitivity and grievances towards any notions of "backwardness"]] made it harder for the audience--particularly for critics who only [[CompletelyMissingThePoint saw this area rather than a whole message]]--who would see Mr. Burns having [[VillainHasAPoint legitimate issues on their obnoxious nature]].
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* BrokenAesop: Also crosses over with CluelessAesop. While Mr. Burns was supposed to be on the wrong side for creating For-Profit University and plan to commit fraud from Yale University with fake robots, the episode's portrayal of the younger students' [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad sensitivity and grievances towards any notions of "backwardness"]] made it harder for the audience--particularly for critics who only [[CompletelyMissingThePoint saw this area rather than a whole message]]--who message--who would see Mr. Burns having [[VillainHasAPoint legitimate issues on their obnoxious nature]].
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* GodwinsLaw: Mr Burns gets called "worse than Hitler" just for referring to a male student as a "fellow".
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* OpeningShoutOut: Homer shows a clip of the opening theme to his class as a lesson on always checking your back pocket for radioactive rods, [[EpicFail with a rod in his back pocket.]]
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** The CouchGag features the Simpsons as expies of Marvel characters.
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** The CouchGag features the Simpsons as expies of Marvel characters.Franchise/XMen characters, with Homer as Professor X, Maggie as Wolverine, Bart as Angel, Lisa as Storm, and Marge as Mystique.
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Misuse. Broken Pedestal applies to a person the character looked up to turning out to not be so good. Locations do not count.
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* BrokenPedestal: Yale becomes this to Mr. Burns when he finds out how politically correct they became.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A former Ivy League Professor says he was fired because five of his students became pregnant.
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** The entrance door to the Skull and Crossbones Society has [[TabletopGame/Monopoly Mr. Monopoly's]] face on it.
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** The entrance door to the Skull and Crossbones Society has [[TabletopGame/Monopoly [[TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}} Mr. Monopoly's]] face on it.
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* BrokenAesop: Also crosses over with CluelessAesop. While Mr. Burns was supposed to be on the wrong side for creating For-Profit University and plan to commit fraud from Yale University with fake robots, yet the younger students' [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad sensitivity and grievances towards any notions of "backwardness"]] made it harder for the audience--particularly for critics who only [[CompletelyMissingThePoint saw this area rather than a whole message]]--who would see Mr. Burns having [[VillainHasAPoint legitimate issues on their obnoxious nature]].
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* BrokenAesop: Also crosses over with CluelessAesop. While Mr. Burns was supposed to be on the wrong side for creating For-Profit University and plan to commit fraud from Yale University with fake robots, yet the episode's portrayal of the younger students' [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad sensitivity and grievances towards any notions of "backwardness"]] made it harder for the audience--particularly for critics who only [[CompletelyMissingThePoint saw this area rather than a whole message]]--who would see Mr. Burns having [[VillainHasAPoint legitimate issues on their obnoxious nature]].
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* BrokenAesop: Also crosses over with CluelessAesop. While Mr. Burns was supposed to be on the wrong side for creating For-Profit University and plan to commit fraud from Yale University with fake robots, yet the younger students' [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad sensitivity and grievances towards any notions of "backwardness"]] made it harder for the audience--particularly for critics who only [[CompletelyMissingThePoint saw this area rather than a whole message]]--who would see Mr. Burns having [[VillainHasAPoint legitimate issues on their obnoxious nature]].
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* InsultBackfire: Mr. Burns considers it a compliment when someone says he's worse than AdolfHitler.
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* InsultBackfire: Mr. Burns considers it a compliment when someone says he's worse than AdolfHitler.UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
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* BrokenPedestal: Yale becomes this to Mr. Burns when he finds out how politically correct they became.
* TheCameo: Creator/StanLee shows up at the end of the couch gag and says nothing is so short he can't appear in.
* TheCameo: Creator/StanLee shows up at the end of the couch gag and says nothing is so short he can't appear in.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Mr. Burns describes a college student as a "young man" and the student holds the fact Burns specified his gender as grounds to declare him worse than Hitler.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A former Ivy League Professor says he was fired because five of his students became pregnant.
* InsultBackfire: Mr. Burns considers it a compliment when someone says he's worse than AdolfHitler.
* InsultBackfire: Mr. Burns considers it a compliment when someone says he's worse than AdolfHitler.
* ShoutOut: The CouchGag features the Simpsons as expies of Marvel characters.
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* TakeThat: Homer tells the other professors it's their duty as Americans to either stop evil billionaires or [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump elect them for the highest position in the country]].
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* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: The Shull and Crossbones Society headquarters' entrance door has a sign reading "You must be this rich to enter".
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* EpicFail: Homer hits a home run but can't reach third base within the next five minutes and is too exausted to keep going past it.
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** When Bourbon Verlander offers to buy Burns University on the proviso that Homer comes along, Mr. Burns says he must check Homer's value to the power plant before making a decision. After Smithers whispers the value to Mr. Burns, he decides to ''pay'' Verlander to take Homer away.
* InsuranceFraud: During the epilogue, one of the professors suggests Marge should kill Homer for the insurance money.
** Homer hits a home run but can't reach third base within the next five minutes and is too exausted to keep going past
** When Bourbon Verlander offers to buy Burns University on the proviso that Homer comes along, Mr. Burns says he must check Homer's value to the power plant before making a decision. After Smithers whispers the value to Mr. Burns, he decides to ''pay'' Verlander to take Homer away.
* InsuranceFraud: During the epilogue, one of the professors suggests Marge should kill Homer for the insurance money.
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Mr. Burns opens a for-profit university, with Homer as one of its professors.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Burns' for-profit university merely sells diplomas. The guy he sells the university to plans to pass robots as students to earn government grants.
* EpicFail: Homer hits a home run but can't reach third base within the next five minutes and is too exausted to keep going past it.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad:
** Refer to God as a "he" is grounds to fire a professor.
** Bourbon Verlander's life-like robots feel offended at people who impersonate robots.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: They feel offended at people who impersonate robots. Bourbon Verlander describes this as the robots being too human.
* StartMyOwn: Because even Yale wouldn't promote nuclear power, Mr. Burns decides to start his own university.
* TakeThat: Homer tells the other professors it's their duty as Americans to either stop evil billionaires or [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump elect them for the highest position in the country]].
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Burns' for-profit university merely sells diplomas. The guy he sells the university to plans to pass robots as students to earn government grants.
* EpicFail: Homer hits a home run but can't reach third base within the next five minutes and is too exausted to keep going past it.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad:
** Refer to God as a "he" is grounds to fire a professor.
** Bourbon Verlander's life-like robots feel offended at people who impersonate robots.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: They feel offended at people who impersonate robots. Bourbon Verlander describes this as the robots being too human.
* StartMyOwn: Because even Yale wouldn't promote nuclear power, Mr. Burns decides to start his own university.
* TakeThat: Homer tells the other professors it's their duty as Americans to either stop evil billionaires or [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump elect them for the highest position in the country]].
