History Recap / TheSimpsonsS3E18SeparateVocations

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out if the kids ever learned their vocational tests were mixed up.

* EveryoneHasStandards: When Lisa points out that Bart used to appreciate the value of a prank, Bart responds, "Yeah, but even I had my limits." Lisa was also aware that she went too far, but went through with it anyway, feeling she has nothing to lose anymore and cries.
-->"I know. I know!"

* PersonalitySwap: After the test results, Bart becomes hall monitor while Lisa fills the role of rebellious prankster vacated by Bart.
-->'''Marge:''' Bart's grades are up a little this term. But Lisa's are way down.\\
'''Homer:''' Oh, we always have one good kid and one lousy kid. Why can't ''both'' our kids be good ?\\
'''Marge:''' We have ''three'' kids, Homer.\\
'''Homer:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Marge, the dog doesn't count as a kid!]]

* RoleSwapPlot: The results of their aptitude tests gradually cause Bart and Lisa to switch their standard FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling roles at school.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: In Lisa's case, it's more like holding a JerkassBall rather than being "evil", per se. After her [[IneptAptitudeTest discouraging test results]] and the [[BrutalHonesty equally discouraging words]] of the music instructor, Lisa no longer sees the need to be a good student or person. She essentially gives up on both and starts acting rude and obnoxious to everyone.

* YellowSashOfPower. As hall monitor, Bart rules with ruthless efficiency. The image at the top of this episode's page is a scene from this episode.

Episode [=8F15=]\\
First Aired 2/27/92

* BreakTheCutie: Learning that the only thing she is worthy of is being a housewife and being rejected from becoming a professional saxophone player due to her stubby fingers broke Lisa down to the point of becoming a rebellious student.

** She is broken further when she realizes she went too far stealing the textbooks.
* BrutalHonesty: "Yeah, well, I'll be frank with you Lisa, and when I say 'frank,' I mean, you know, devastating."

--->'''Skinner''': 500 days!
--->'''Bart''': Ooh, big man!
--->'''Skinner''': 600 days!
--->''*beat*''
--->'''Bart''': [[DeadpanSnarker Maybe I'll just shut my big mouth.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: When Lisa points out that Bart used to appreciate the value of a prank, Bart responds, "Yeah, but even I had my limits."
** Even Lisa was aware that she went too far, but went through with it anyway, feeling she has nothing to lose anymore and cries.

* FunWithAcronyms: The Career Aptitude Normalizing Test (CANT)

* IneptAptitudeTest: According to the CANT, Bart is best suited to be a policeman, while Lisa will be a homemaker. The machine that analyzes the tests is seen malfunctioning when it gets to Bart's test.
** That being said, while Lisa's results are questionable, Bart succeeds as an authority figure. Had Lisa not gone bad, who knows how far he could've gone.

* TheLancer: Bart becomes one to Principal Skinner.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Bart gets 400 days detention over some answer books being stolen that he took the fall for (Skinner then increases it to ''600''). And that's Skinner being lenient thanks to Bart's previous work as a hall monitor, according to Bart stealing the books is grounds for expulsion.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Lisa points out that Bart used to appreciate the value of a prank, Bart responds, "Yeah, but even I had my limits."

* RealityEnsues: Bart quickly learns that firing a gun involves recoil.

* UnfortunateName: Mr. Glascock, a supply teacher, who was forced to quit because of how people wouldn't stop mocking his name. He quit again after Lisa stole the teachers' textbooks.

* PercussiveMaintenance: When the machine that analyzes the tests stops working, a man starts hitting it with a broomstick until it starts working again.

--->'''Skinner'': 500 days!

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: In Lisa's case, it's more like holding a JerkassBall rather than being "evil", per se. After her [[IneptAptitudeTest discouraging test results]] and the [[BrutalHonesty equally discouraging words]] of the music instructor, Lisa no longer sees the need to be a good student or person. She essentially gives up on both and starts acting rude and obnoxious to everyone.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: More like JerkassBall rather than "evil", per se. After Lisa's [[IneptAptitudeTest test results]] and the discouraging words of the music instructor she no longer sees the need to be a good student and becomes a very rude person.

* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: Lisa becomes a delinquent after getting "Homemaker" in an IneptAptitudeTest and being told that she'll never become a professional jazz musician due to her stubby fingers. This culminates with her committing an expulsion worthy offense (stealing all of the teachers' guides) to which Bart takes the fall, not wanting her to ruin her life.