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* PortraitPaintingPeephole: This is how Burns and Smithers spy on Homer and Marge as they discuss the hefty settlement offer and learn that Bart's injuries were being played up for a bigger amount of money.
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* MoralGuardians: Satan tells Bart to "lie, cheat and listen to HeavyMetal music", in reference to the claim of many ultraconservative Christian fundamentalist preachers in the US who claimed metal music has Satanic messages.

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* MoralGuardians: Satan tells Bart to "lie, cheat cheat, steal and listen to HeavyMetal music", in reference to the claim of many ultraconservative Christian fundamentalist preachers in the US who claimed metal music has Satanic messages.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It was a pretty open and shut case (particularly given how Burns incriminates himself during the trial), but Homer blew it by rejecting the initial offer, listening to Hutz, and ignoring Marge, who throws the HeroBall and confesses everything in court.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It was a pretty open and shut case OpenAndShutCase (particularly given how Burns incriminates himself during the trial), but Homer blew it by rejecting the initial offer, listening to Hutz, and ignoring Marge, who throws the HeroBall and confesses everything in court.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Marge's telling the truth and costing Homer the case likely saved him from being sued by Burns for his own fraud, fired from his job (and Burns ''would'' have been justified in firing Homer for trying to defraud him) or facing criminal charges over Bart's perjury (which Homer himself is responsible for, as the episode does show that 10 year-old Bart does need to be spoon-fed the lies he's supposed to tell)s. What does it get her? Homer whines that Marge cost him his "one big chance" and somehow considers that a justification for ending a ten-year marriage and causing havoc in his children's lives.
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* NotaryNonsense: Mr. Burns insults his team of high-priced lawyers when it seems like they are losing the trial by calling them "overpriced, under-brained, glorified notary publics!" They all hang their heads in shame at this remark.
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* OffModel: During the cross-examination of Marge, when the Blue-Haired Lawyer asks her for her opinion on Dr. Nick, [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S02E10/1019902.jpg a shot of him mistakenly has him appear in both the foreground and background]], while previous iterations of the same shot, such as [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S02E10/1008441.jpg this one]], correctly has him only appear in the foreground.
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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Satan apparently owns a computer to store the files of whom should be in Hell and who doesn't. Also InUniverse: later designs of Satan in the show would look different.

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* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Satan apparently owns a computer to store the files of whom who should be in Hell and who doesn't.shouldn't. Also InUniverse: later designs of Satan in the show would look different.
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I removed the “Self-Inflicted Hell” example. This trope is about how “whatever you expect to happen when you die is pretty much what you get”. However, the example deals with how Bart’s actions landed him in Hell which is not the same as this trope.


* SelfInflictedHell: Bart could have avoided going to Hell if he hadn't spit over the side of the escalator that brought him to Heaven.

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