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* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the episode, when Homer decides to literally cut the cable to their house, he winds up accidentally cutting power for most of the city. On his third attempt, The whole screen goes static.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the episode, when Homer decides to literally cut the cable to their house, he winds up accidentally cutting power for most of the city. On his third attempt, The the whole screen goes static.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the episode, when Homer decides to literally cut the cable to their house, he winds up accidentally cutting power for most of the city. On his third attempt, The whole screen goes static.
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* {{Expy}}: When Homer watches TV, at one point, a comedian is on who is essentially Creator/JerrySeinfeld, "Don't you hate it when you go to the bathroom and there's no toilet paper?!"
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** The scene in the prologue at Mount Sinai is a pretty obvious spoof of Film/TheTenCommandments, with the carver of graven images selling the Golden Bull and Moses being a Creator/CharltonHeston impression.
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** The scene in the prologue at Mount Sinai is a pretty obvious spoof of Film/TheTenCommandments, ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', with the carver of graven images selling the Golden Bull and Moses being a Creator/CharltonHeston impression.
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* ShoutOut: The sequence where Homer stops the cable guy's truck is a frame-by-frame homage to ''Film/NorthByNorthwest''. The plate on the truck even reads [[FreezeFrameBonus ''1NBNW'']].
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** The scene in the prologue at Mount Sinai is a pretty obvious spoof of Film/TheTenCommandments, with the carver of graven images selling the Golden Bull and Moses being a Creator/CharltonHeston impression.
**The sequence where Homer stops the cable guy's truck is a frame-by-frame homage to ''Film/NorthByNorthwest''. The plate on the truck even reads [[FreezeFrameBonus ''1NBNW'']].
** The scene in the prologue at Mount Sinai is a pretty obvious spoof of Film/TheTenCommandments, with the carver of graven images selling the Golden Bull and Moses being a Creator/CharltonHeston impression.
**The sequence where Homer stops the cable guy's truck is a frame-by-frame homage to ''Film/NorthByNorthwest''. The plate on the truck even reads [[FreezeFrameBonus ''1NBNW'']].
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the very end, when Homer cuts the cable, the picture is replaced by static just before the credits, implying the viewer was also stealing cable.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the very end, when Homer cuts Homer's third attempt to cut the cable, Simpsons' cable hookup causes the picture is replaced by static just before the credits, screen to fill with static, implying that he's just knocked out the viewer was also stealing cable.viewer's cable instead.
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I removed the “Holier than though” example. This example doesn’t really address how it ties in to the trope which is about an “arrogant blowhard who thinks they are better than ‘non-believers’” and who “will not hesitate to remind you at every opportunity how much more moral they are”. While one may think Lisa’s actions were annoying, at no point did she preach to them about how much more moral she was nor claim to be better than them. She was a little girl who’d been taught that stealing would get her, and her family, sent to Hell. I don’t believe this aligns with the trope.
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* HolierThanThou: Lisa ''really'' lays it on thick over the Eighth Commandment. When she guilts Marge into paying for two grapes she sampled at the grocery store, the clerk is annoyed that he has to call in a price check for two grapes.
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I removed the Felony Misdemeanour example. This was about Marge stealing the two grapes from the supermarket. I did this for two reasons. Firstly, the example claimed Marge “tearfully confesses to the cashier” which is not reflected in the scene, where Marge merely states she ate the grapes and asks to be charged for them with no tears at all. Second, this trope is when someone does something mildly wrong but “the show treats it as crossing the Moral Event Horizon or at least coming dangerously close”. In this scene, while Lisa may have guilted Marge into paying for the grapes, the supermarket employee made it quite clear he didn’t care and didn’t see this as a big deal. So even if Lisa treated all stealing as wrong, neither the show nor the other characters presented Marge’s behaviour as particularly bad which would not be an example of this trope.
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Lisa makes Marge feel like a criminal for stealing from her local supermarket (and Marge tearfully confesses to the cashier), which is a bit of an overreaction when you consider that all Marge did was eat ''two grapes''.
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I removed the "this is the part where" example. This trope deals with cases where a "Genre Savvy characters point out that, if this were a movie, a trope would be coming into play right about now, or just to show how well they know the other character(s) in the scene." The examples however were just Bart literally using the phrase "this is the part where" to point out when particular events happened in movies, which is not this trope.
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* ThisIsThePartWhere: "...Jaws eats the boat!" "...Die Hard jumps through the window!" "...Wall Street gets arrested!"
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* WaxingLyrical: The announcer for the world series of cockfighting says, "Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the Bayou", quoting the song "[[Music/HankWilliams Jambalaya (On the Bayou)]]".
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: After Moses reads the commandments against idol sculptures and adultery, Homer the Thief asks Moses to read the next commandment, which turns out to be the one against stealing.
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[[caption-width-right:235:[["Come and join you family, Lisa. It won't cost you a thing...'''''except your soul!'''''"]]
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[[caption-width-right:235:[["Come and join you family, Lisa. It won't cost you a thing...'''''except your soul!'''''"]]
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the very end, when Homer cuts the cable, the picture is replaced by static just before the credits, implying the viewers was also stealing cable.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the very end, when Homer cuts the cable, the picture is replaced by static just before the credits, implying the viewers viewer was also stealing cable.
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Do not combine two different tropes. And did she herself see Jimbo trying to steal?
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* InsufferableGenius [=/=] RightlySelfRighteous: Lisa and Marge guilt trip Homer into giving up cable. Homer eventually admits defeat, but tells them he loathes them for it. They just smirk in response. Earlier, Lisa did the same to Marge over testing two grapes in store, Marge was similarly annoyed by it while Lisa just smiled. She's right and both sides sure know it.
* RightlySelfRighteous: Lisa and Marge guilt trip Homer into giving up cable. Homer eventually admits defeat, but tells them he loathes them for it. They just smirk in response. Earlier, Lisa did the same to Marge over testing two grapes in store, Marge was similarly annoyed by it while Lisa just smiled. She's right and both sides sure know it.
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* SkewedPriorities: Lisa chews out Marge for "stealing" two grapes, while in the background Jimbo Jones is visibly stealing several far more valuable items.
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* SoapboxSadie: From the moment Lisa learns about the commandments (especially the eighth, "Thou Shalt Not Steal") she gets on it and guilt-trips her entire family into accepting that stealing is wrong and getting varying degrees of humiliation as a result (Marge is insulted by a jackass clerk and Homer accidentally cuts the power to the entirety of Evergreen Terrace trying to cut the cable).
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* SoapboxSadie: From the moment Lisa learns about the commandments (especially the eighth, "Thou Shalt Not Steal") she gets on it and guilt-trips her entire family into accepting that stealing is wrong and getting varying degrees of humiliation as a result (Marge is insulted by a jackass clerk and Homer accidentally cuts the power to the entirety of Evergreen Terrace trying to cut the cable). Somewhat justified because it stems from fear of her family ending up in hell, which is actually quite normal for a child of her age to have such an exaggerated fear.
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* CompressedVice: In addition to stealing cable, Homer has a persistent case of StickyFingers we've never seen up to this point, albeit it only extends to petty amenities such as office supplies from work and mugs from Moe's Tavern. Just to drive it home, his Biblical equivalent in the intro sequence [[CardCarryingVillain is called]] "Homer the Thief." (This trait would eventually [[CharacterizationMarchesOn become an occasionally-seen feature of his character]], usually when it came to taking stuff from Flanders.)
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* CompressedVice: In addition to stealing cable, Homer has a persistent case of StickyFingers we've never seen up to this point, albeit it only extends to petty amenities such as office supplies from work and mugs from Moe's Tavern. Just to drive it home, his Biblical equivalent in the intro sequence [[CardCarryingVillain is called]] "Homer the Thief." (This trait would eventually [[CharacterizationMarchesOn become an occasionally-seen feature of his character]], usually when it came to the RunningGag of his taking stuff from Flanders.)
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* LoopholeAbuse:
** Bart takes full advantage of his ability to say "hell" to his parents since that was the topic of that week's Sunday School.
--->'''Marge:''' So, what did you children learn about today?
--->'''Bart:''' Hell.
--->'''Homer:''' BART!
--->'''Bart:''' But that's what we learned about. I sure as ''hell'' can't tell you we learned about ''Hell'' unless I say "''hell''", can't I?
--->'''Homer:''' Well, the lad has a point.
--->'''Bart:''' Hell, yes!
--->'''Marge:''' Bart!
--->'''Bart:''' [singing] Hell, hell, hell, hell...
--->'''Marge:''' Bart, you're no longer in Sunday School. Don't swear.
** Later that same day:
--->'''Marge:''' What's gotten into Lisa?
--->'''Bart:''' Beats the ''hell'' outa me.
--->'''Homer:''' BART!
** Bart takes full advantage of his ability to say "hell" to his parents since that was the topic of that week's Sunday School.
--->'''Marge:''' So, what did you children learn about today?
--->'''Bart:''' Hell.
--->'''Homer:''' BART!
--->'''Bart:''' But that's what we learned about. I sure as ''hell'' can't tell you we learned about ''Hell'' unless I say "''hell''", can't I?
--->'''Homer:''' Well, the lad has a point.
--->'''Bart:''' Hell, yes!
--->'''Marge:''' Bart!
--->'''Bart:''' [singing] Hell, hell, hell, hell...
--->'''Marge:''' Bart, you're no longer in Sunday School. Don't swear.
** Later that same day:
--->'''Marge:''' What's gotten into Lisa?
--->'''Bart:''' Beats the ''hell'' outa me.
--->'''Homer:''' BART!
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* CompressedVice: In addition to stealing cable, Homer has a persistent case of StickyFingers we've never seen before, albeit it only extends to petty amenities such as office supplies from work and mugs from Moe's Tavern. Just to drive it home, his Biblical equivalent in the intro sequence [[CardCarryingVillain is called]] "Homer the Thief." (This trait would eventually [[CharacterizationMarchesOn be incorporated into his character more]], usually when it came to taking stuff from Flanders.)
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* CompressedVice: In addition to stealing cable, Homer has a persistent case of StickyFingers we've never seen before, up to this point, albeit it only extends to petty amenities such as office supplies from work and mugs from Moe's Tavern. Just to drive it home, his Biblical equivalent in the intro sequence [[CardCarryingVillain is called]] "Homer the Thief." (This trait would eventually [[CharacterizationMarchesOn be incorporated into become an occasionally-seen feature of his character more]], character]], usually when it came to taking stuff from Flanders.)
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* CompressedVice: In addition to stealing cable, Homer has a persistent case of StickyFingers we've never seen before, albeit it only extends to petty amenities such as office supplies from work and mugs from Moe's Tavern. Just to drive it home, his Biblical equivalent in the intro sequence [[CardCarryingVillain is called]] "Homer the Thief."
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* CompressedVice: In addition to stealing cable, Homer has a persistent case of StickyFingers we've never seen before, albeit it only extends to petty amenities such as office supplies from work and mugs from Moe's Tavern. Just to drive it home, his Biblical equivalent in the intro sequence [[CardCarryingVillain is called]] "Homer the Thief."" (This trait would eventually [[CharacterizationMarchesOn be incorporated into his character more]], usually when it came to taking stuff from Flanders.)
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** When Homer says he only invited a few close friends to watch the fight, and then Apu shows up, it's meant as a joke: the idea is that Homer [[HypocriticalHumor has actually invited anyone and everyone to watch the fight]], even if they're less a "close friend" and more just a "guy I see at the convenience store a lot". Since this episode aired, however, the show has really built up the friendship between Apu and the Simpson family, to the point where him showing up at a gathering of Homer's close friends would make complete sense.
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** When Homer says he only invited a few close friends to watch the fight, and then Apu shows up, it's meant as a joke: the idea is that Homer [[HypocriticalHumor has actually invited anyone and everyone to watch the fight]], even if they're less a "close friend" and more just a "guy I see at the convenience store a lot". Since this episode aired, however, the show has really built up the friendship between Apu and the Simpson family, to the point where him showing up at a gathering of Homer's close friends would make complete sense. It also creates some weird continuity issues after Season 5's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1HomersBarbershopQuartet Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]" where Homer and Apu were in a music group together in the 80s.
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* SlummingIt: Mr. Burns attends Homer's fight-viewing party so he can experience lower-middleclass life despite being able to easily afford the program himself.
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* CompressedVice: In addition to stealing cable, Homer has a persistent case of StickyFingers we've never seen before, albeit it only extends to petty stuff such as office supplies from work and mugs from Moe's Tavern. Just to drive it home, his Biblical equivalent in the intro sequence [[CardCarryingVillain is called]] "Homer the Thief."
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* CompressedVice: In addition to stealing cable, Homer has a persistent case of StickyFingers we've never seen before, albeit it only extends to petty stuff amenities such as office supplies from work and mugs from Moe's Tavern. Just to drive it home, his Biblical equivalent in the intro sequence [[CardCarryingVillain is called]] "Homer the Thief."
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* CardCarryingVillain: A brief intro sequence depicts an Old Testament version of Homer who answers to "Homer the Thief" having a friendly chat in the Israelite camp at the base of Mount Sinai with "Zohar the Adulterer" and a professional "Carver of Graven Images." When Moses comes down from the mountain and starts reading aloud from his new stone tablets, the trio are less than thrilled.
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* CardCarryingVillain: A brief intro sequence depicts an Old Testament version of Homer who answers to "Homer the Thief" having a friendly chat in the Israelite camp at the base of Mount Sinai with "Zohar the Adulterer" and a professional the local "Carver of Graven Images." When Moses comes down from the mountain Mount Sinai and starts reading aloud from his new stone tablets, the trio are less than thrilled.
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* CardCarryingVillain: A brief intro sequence depicts an Old Testament version of Homer who answers to "Homer the Thief" having a friendly chat with "Zohar the Adulterer" and a professional "Carver of Graven Images." When Moses comes down from Mount Sinai and starts reading aloud from his new stone tablets, the trio are less than thrilled.
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* CardCarryingVillain: A brief intro sequence depicts an Old Testament version of Homer who answers to "Homer the Thief" having a friendly chat in the Israelite camp at the base of Mount Sinai with "Zohar the Adulterer" and a professional "Carver of Graven Images." When Moses comes down from Mount Sinai the mountain and starts reading aloud from his new stone tablets, the trio are less than thrilled.
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* CardCarryingVillain: A brief intro sequence depicts an Old Testament version of Homer who answers to "Homer the Thief" having a friendly chat with "Zohar the Adulterer" and a professional "Carver of Graven Images." When Moses comes down from Mount Sinai and starts reading aloud from his new stone tablets, the trio are less than thrilled.
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* CompressedVice: In addition to stealing cable, Homer has a persistent case of StickyFingers we've never seen before, albeit it only extends to petty stuff such as office supplies from work and mugs from Moe's Tavern. Just to drive it home, his Biblical equivalent in the intro sequence [[CardCarryingVillain is called]] "Homer the Thief."
-->'''Lovejoy:''' You're here for a reason. Is your father stealing bread?
-->'''Lisa:''' Maybe. I don't watch him every minute.
-->'''Lovejoy:''' You're here for a reason. Is your father stealing bread?
-->'''Lisa:''' Maybe. I don't watch him every minute.
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** The line refers to state and municipal ordinances in those two states attempted during the 1980s that sought to prohibit cable systems from transmitting objectionable content offered by mainstream and adult-oriented pay television services, through lawsuits filed by HBO and other groups, were struck down in district and circuit courts on First Amendment grounds.
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** The line refers to state and municipal ordinances in those two states attempted during the 1980s that sought to prohibit cable systems from transmitting objectionable content offered by mainstream and adult-oriented pay television services, services that, through lawsuits filed by HBO and other groups, were struck down in district and circuit courts on First Amendment grounds.
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Dewicked trope
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* AdultFear: While Lisa's nightmarish ImagineSpot shows her fears of going to Hell depicted in FireAndBrimstoneHell style, Homer's shows his fears of being isolated from his family (or at least everyone [[TheUnfavorite but Bart]]).
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Homer gets an illegal cable hook-up, which causes Lisa to worry for her father's soul, as she learned about the 8th Commandment[[note]] even though the Roman Catholic and Lutheran sects of Christianity have "Thou shalt not steal" down as the seventh commandment, meaning that the first two commandments -- "Thou shalt not have other gods before Me" and "Thou shalt not worship any graven images" -- are merged together[[/note]] in Sunday school ("Thou shalt not steal") and begins seeing theft everywhere she looks.
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Homer gets an illegal cable hook-up, which causes Lisa to worry for her father's soul, as she learned about the 8th Commandment[[note]] even though the Roman Catholic and Lutheran sects of Christianity have "Thou shalt not steal" down as the seventh commandment, meaning that the first two commandments -- "Thou shalt not have other gods before Me" and "Thou shalt not worship any graven images" -- are merged together[[/note]] Commandment in Sunday school ("Thou shalt not steal") and begins seeing theft everywhere she looks.
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* DistantPrologue: "Mt. Sinai: 1220 B.C."
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* DistantPrologue: "Mt. Sinai: 1220 B.C."", when the commandments are first announced.
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Lisa makes Marge feel like a criminal for stealing from her local supermarket (and Marge tearfully confesses to the cashier), which is a bit of an overreaction when you consider that all Marge did was eat ''two grapes''.
