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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The title is a reference to ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington''.
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** The title is this to ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington''. The plot is similar too, with Lisa being a patriotic idealist as she enters Washington, becoming disillusioned when she witnesses the corruption there. Just like Mr. Smith, she goes to the Lincoln Memorial to ask him for advice and then uses her talents to criticize the system, which does result in the arrest of the corrupt people she witnessed.
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* WholePlotReference: The plot is similar to ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'', with Lisa being a patriotic idealist as she enters Washington, becoming disillusioned when she witnesses the corruption there. Just like Mr. Smith, she goes to the Lincoln Memorial to ask him for advice and then uses her talents to criticize the system, which does result in the arrest of the corrupt people she witnessed.
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* CouchGag: The family sits on the couch, and Homer pulls out Santa's Little Helper from underneath him.
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** After witnessing corruption, Lisa watches a group of politicians near the Capitol and imagines them as cats scratching each other's backs and filthy pigs who are fed money by Uncle Sam and wipe their mouths with the American flag.
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** After witnessing corruption, Lisa watches a group of politicians near the Capitol and imagines them as fat cats scratching each other's backs and filthy pigs who are fed money from a trough by Uncle Sam and wipe their mouths with the American flag.
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* SpoofAesop: The lesson Bart takes from Lisa's speech is to stand up for what he believes in. Of course, he says that after he beamed the pianist simply for annoying him.
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* SpoofAesop: The lesson Bart takes from Lisa's speech is to stand up for what he believes in. Of course, he says that after he beamed beaned the pianist simply for annoying him.
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* AmericanEagle: Lisa enters an essay writing contest with a theme of patriotism. She cycles into Springfield forest and calls out to nature to inspire her, and an eagle lands on a tree branch in front of her and spreads its wings, prompting her to write a brilliant essay that wins the first round of the competition.
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* BaitAndSwitch: George (H.W) Bush does this with a diplomat when he receives the bill to expel Bob Arnold.
-->'''George Bush''': Okay, this should make my bosses very happy.
-->'''Diplomat''': [[ManBehindTheMan Your bosses?]]
-->'''George Bush''': Yep. All 250 million of them.
-->'''George Bush''': Okay, this should make my bosses very happy.
-->'''Diplomat''': [[ManBehindTheMan Your bosses?]]
-->'''George Bush''': Yep. All 250 million of them.
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* BaitAndSwitch: George (H.W) Bush does this with a diplomat when he receives the bill to expel Bob Arnold.
Arnold, he at first seems to imply that he's working for hidden manipulators, before revealing that his "bosses" are in fact his voter base.
-->'''George Bush''': Okay, this should make my bosses veryhappy.
-->'''Diplomat''':happy.\\
'''Diplomat''': [[ManBehindTheMan Yourbosses?]]
-->'''Georgebosses?]]\\
'''George Bush''': Yep. All 250 million of them.
-->'''George Bush''': Okay, this should make my bosses very
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'''Diplomat''': [[ManBehindTheMan Your
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'''George Bush''': Yep. All 250 million of them.
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* NakedOnArrival: The Simpsons visit the White House, where they see Barbara Bush taking a bath. At first, she is startled, but then she just starts guiding them about the room.
** Normally there would be all kinds of charges leveled against the Simpsons, but they have a special pass put together by Reading Digest.
** Normally there would be all kinds of charges leveled against the Simpsons, but they have a special pass put together by Reading Digest.
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* MonstrousSeal: Homer reads a magazine article that describes the bark of the sea lion as a noise all polar explorers dread.
* NakedOnArrival: The Simpsons visit the White House, where they see Barbara Bush taking a bath. At first, she is startled, butthen when she just sees they have VIP tourist passes, she sighs and starts guiding them about the room.
** Normally there would be all kinds of charges leveled against the Simpsons, but they have a special pass put together by Reading Digest.room.
* NakedOnArrival: The Simpsons visit the White House, where they see Barbara Bush taking a bath. At first, she is startled, but
** Normally there would be all kinds of charges leveled against the Simpsons, but they have a special pass put together by Reading Digest.
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-->''(scoffs as he tosses it in the trash)'' I'll make sure he gets it!
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* IronicEcho: Lisa causes a ruckus in the chamber room for making such an insulting and scandal provoking essay, saying that she was inspired by her corrupt inspiration. Later, Bart throws something at an annoying singer who won’t shut up. When Lisa admonishes Bart for this, he claims that her speech inspired him to do that.
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* IronicEcho: Lisa causes a ruckus in the chamber room for making such an insulting and scandal provoking essay, saying that she was inspired by her corrupt inspiration. Later, Bart throws slingshots something at an annoying singer who won’t shut up. When Lisa admonishes Bart for this, he claims that her speech inspired him to do that.
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** The Simpsons stay in the Watergate Hotel and visit the IRS Building, the National Air and Space Museum, the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, the Capitol and the Winifred Beecher Howe Memorial.
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** The Simpsons stay in the Watergate Hotel and visit the IRS Building, the National Air and Space Museum, the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, the Capitol and the (fictional) Winifred Beecher Howe Memorial.
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** Reading Digest is similar to the real life Reader's Digest.
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** Reading Digest ''Reading Digest'' is similar to the real life Reader's Digest.''Reader's Digest''.
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* HiddenDepths: Resident bully Nelson Muntz performs an inspiring and heartfelt speech against flag-burning.
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'''Marge:''' Homer, [[SpoiledByTheFormat he obviously got out alive if he wrote the article]].\\
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'''Marge:''' Homer, [[SpoiledByTheFormat he obviously got out alive if he wrote the article]].article.\\
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* IronicEcho: Lisa causes a ruckus in the chamber room for making such an insulting and scandal provoking essay, saying that she was inspired by her corrupt inspiration. Later, Bart throws something at an annoying singer who won’t shut up. When Lisa admonishes Bart for this, he claims that her speech inspired him to do that.
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* AnimationBump: When Lisa is imagining the District of Columbia as a rotten wasteland filled with symbolic pigs, the animation is given much more detail.
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* BreakTheCutie: After Lisa sees how Bob Arnold really was, she tearfully ripped up the original speech she was preparing to give that was inspired from him.
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* BlandNameProduct: The Reading Digest magazine Homer is reading is a stand-in for the for the real magazine Reader's Digest.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: One of the pieces of junk mail Homer receives at the beginning of the episode has the headline "Here's Some Good News For Homer Simp''soy''".
-->''(scoffs as he tosses it in the trash)'' I'll make sure he gets it!
-->''(scoffs as he tosses it in the trash)'' I'll make sure he gets it!
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* RushmoreRefacement: The fake lobbyist tricks Bob Arnold with a proposal to replace a President's head with an oil derrick.
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* EagleLand: Zigzagged. The members of government can be corrupt, but Lisa's essay, even though it causes her to lose a contest, is what ends exposing Arnold, showing that people can bring down corrupt forces.
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* EagleLand: Zigzagged. The members of government can be corrupt, but Lisa's essay, even though it causes her to lose a contest, is what ends up exposing Arnold, showing that people can bring down corrupt forces.
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** The satirical pianist is a spoof of MarkRussell.
** Reading Digest is similar to the real life ReadersDigest.
** Reading Digest is similar to the real life ReadersDigest.
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** The satirical pianist is a spoof of MarkRussell.
Mark Russell.
** Reading Digest is similar to the real lifeReadersDigest.Reader's Digest.
** Reading Digest is similar to the real life
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'''Marge:''' Homer, [[SpoilerFormat he obviously got out alive if he wrote the article]].\\
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'''Marge:''' Homer, [[SpoilerFormat [[SpoiledByTheFormat he obviously got out alive if he wrote the article]].\\
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'''Marge:''' Homer, he obviously got out alive if he wrote the article.\\
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'''Marge:''' Homer, [[SpoilerFormat he obviously got out alive if he wrote the article.article]].\\
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** Doubly so for Bart, considering that in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E11TheCrepesOfWrath The Crepes of Wrath]]" he is greeted in France by the same method.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: The episode shows President Bush signing the bill to expel Congressman Bob Arnold from the House of Representatives. Expulsion of a congressman only requires an investigation and a 2/3rds majority vote in the House, not the signature of the President.
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* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Congressman Arnold meeting with and even taking donations from lobbyists isn't illegal, but doing it in a private, under the table meeting without records is.
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* UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson: Lisa visits his monument.
** TakeThat: In an (imaginary) conversation, the statue rants about how the Lincoln Memorial is constantly crowded, and about how people care more about Lincoln than about him.
** TakeThat: In an (imaginary) conversation, the statue rants about how the Lincoln Memorial is constantly crowded, and about how people care more about Lincoln than about him.
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* UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson: TakeThat: Lisa visits his monument.
** TakeThat:the UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson monument. In an (imaginary) conversation, the statue rants about how the Lincoln Memorial is constantly crowded, and about how people care more about Lincoln than about him.
** TakeThat:
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: At first, Bob Arnold seems like a decent guy, as evidenced by Moe and Barney's opinion of him, and even Lisa's.
* BrokenPedestal: Lisa looked up to Bob Arnold, hoping that she could vote for him once she's old enough.
* BrokenPedestal: Lisa looked up to Bob Arnold, hoping that she could vote for him once she's old enough.
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* HeelFaithTurn: According to a newspaper, Bob Arnold becomes a born-again Christian after his conviction. (This is a fairly obvious TakeThat at the many RealLife criminals who claim to find religion in an attempt to win sympathy, and perhaps a reduced sentence.)
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Lisa writes a second essay exposing Bob Arnold's corruption, which leads to him getting caught in an FBI sting operation, expelled from Congress, and sent to prison.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Marge snickers at the phallic shape of the Washington Monument. Homer tells Marge to "grow up".
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* NotSoAboveItAll: The GettingCrapPastTheRadar moment mentioned above.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: The GettingCrapPastTheRadar moment mentioned above.Marge snickers at the phallic shape of the Washington Monument. Homer tells Marge to "grow up".
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* DidYouDie: Homer reads the family a tale of wilderness survival.
-->'''Homer:''' "Then I heard the sound that all Arctic explorers dread: the pitiless bark of the sea lion!" ''[gasp]'' He'll be killed!\\
'''Marge:''' Homer, he obviously got out alive if he wrote the article.\\
'''Homer:''' Don't be so... ''[flips page]'' Oh, you're right.
-->'''Homer:''' "Then I heard the sound that all Arctic explorers dread: the pitiless bark of the sea lion!" ''[gasp]'' He'll be killed!\\
'''Marge:''' Homer, he obviously got out alive if he wrote the article.\\
'''Homer:''' Don't be so... ''[flips page]'' Oh, you're right.
* HumbleHero: The FBI agent performing the sting operation says he's just doing his job.
* MassOhCrap: During his tour of the cockpit, Bart presses the button that causes the passengers' oxygen masks to deploy. Homer screams "We're all gonna die!" and every other passenger begins panicking.
* OhCrap: A Senator's aide was at the essay contest and informs his boss of what Lisa said about Bob Arnold.
-->'''Aide:''' A little girl is losing faith in democracy!\\
'''Senator:''' Good Lord!
* RageBreakingPoint: Bart is continually annoyed by the pianist at the essay contest. In the final scene, he can't take it anymore and knocks him out with his slingshot.
-->'''Aide:''' A little girl is losing faith in democracy!\\
'''Senator:''' Good Lord!
* RageBreakingPoint: Bart is continually annoyed by the pianist at the essay contest. In the final scene, he can't take it anymore and knocks him out with his slingshot.
* SpoofAesop: The lesson Bart takes from Lisa's speech is to stand up for what he believes in. Of course, he says that after he beamed the pianist simply for annoying him.
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* TooDumbToLive: After one of the judges suspects Homer of helping Lisa with her essay, she asks him if he's interested in politics or anything for that matter. After Homer shrugs it off with the words "I don't know", the judge asks him to touch his nose with his eyes closed, which Homer fails to do. ''Twice!'' (Before speaking to Homer, the judge suspected he had been giving Lisa help. ''After'' speaking to Homer, she considered giving Lisa extra points for doing so well despite him.)
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** After one of the judges suspects Homer of helping Lisa with her essay, she asks him if he's interested in politics or anything for that matter. After Homer shrugs it off with the words "I don't know", the judge asks him to touch his nose with his eyes closed, which Homer fails to do. ''Twice!'' (Before speaking to Homer, the judge suspected he had been giving Lisa help. ''After'' speaking to Homer, she considered giving Lisa extra points for doing so well despite him.))
** Homer thought he received a million dollar check prize in the mail and took it to the bank. The clerk tells him it's not valid, specifically pointing to how "This is not a check" is clearly written on it.
** After one of the judges suspects Homer of helping Lisa with her essay, she asks him if he's interested in politics or anything for that matter. After Homer shrugs it off with the words "I don't know", the judge asks him to touch his nose with his eyes closed, which Homer fails to do. ''Twice!'' (Before speaking to Homer, the judge suspected he had been giving Lisa help. ''After'' speaking to Homer, she considered giving Lisa extra points for doing so well despite him.
** Homer thought he received a million dollar check prize in the mail and took it to the bank. The clerk tells him it's not valid, specifically pointing to how "This is not a check" is clearly written on it.
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* IntimidatingRevenueService: The Simpsons pass by the IRS Building in Washington D.C.
-->'''Homer''': BOOO!
-->'''IRS Worker''' (looking out the window): Aw, boo yourself!
-->'''Homer''': BOOO!
-->'''IRS Worker''' (looking out the window): Aw, boo yourself!
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* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: When Lisa tries to ask Thomas Jefferson's monument for advice, Jefferson feels angry because, compared to Lincoln, nobody visits him. Then, in a SarcasmMode, he starts naming all the so-called "unimportant things" he did for the United States.
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* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: When Lisa tries to ask Thomas Jefferson's monument for advice, Jefferson feels angry because, compared to Lincoln, nobody visits him. Then, in a SarcasmMode, SarcasmMode rant, he starts naming all the so-called "unimportant things" he did for the United States. States.
-->'''Thomas Jefferson''': No one ever comes to see me. I don't blame them. I never did anything important! Just the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, the dumbwaiter...!
-->'''Thomas Jefferson''': No one ever comes to see me. I don't blame them. I never did anything important! Just the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, the dumbwaiter...!
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* SwappedRoles: The Washington Monument scene, where ''Marge'' makes the immature observation and ''Homer'' reprimands it.
-->'''Homer''': Oh, Marge, grow up.
-->'''Homer''': Oh, Marge, grow up.
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Lisa becomes a finalist in a patriotic essay contest and travels to UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, only to have her faith in the American way shattered when she witnesses a senator taking a bribe and planning to destroy a forest.
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Lisa becomes a finalist in a patriotic essay contest and travels to UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, only to have her faith in the American way shattered when she witnesses a senator congressman taking a bribe and planning to destroy a forest.
