History Recap / TheSimpsonsS5E10Springfield

* WetBlanketWife: Marge's typical role is sent up and {{Subverted}} throughout the episode. Everyone expects her to be the [[TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight lone dissenter]] when the suggestion of building a casino comes up, but [[NotSoAboveItAll she actually thinks it'd be great for the economy]], which doesn't stop Homer from remembering it differently and [[RunningGag repeatedly getting on her case]] about her supposed resistance. When she later develops a gambling addiction, [[SwappedRoles it's up to Homer to be the Wet Blanket]]. Once he successfully convinces her that she has a problem, he's more happy than not to finally get to be RightlySelfRighteous.

* WetBlanketWife: Marge's typical role is sent up and {{Subverted}} throughout the episode. Everyone expects her to be the [[TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight lone dissenter]] when the suggestion of building a casino comes up, but [[NotSoAboveItAll she actually thinks it'd be great for the economy]], which doesn't stop Homer from remembering it differently and [[RunningGag repeatedly getting on her case]] about her supposed resistance. When she later develops a gambling addiction, [[SwappedRoles it's up to Homer to be the Wet Blanket]]. Once he successfully convinces her that she has a problem, he's more happy than not to be the one who gets to be RightlySelfRighteous for once in his life.

Episode - 1F08\\
First Aired - 12/16/1993

* HiddenDepths: Barney has five years of training in modern dance, six years of tap.

* HilariousInFlashback: When Abe was a young man, Springfield was named one of America's 400 fastest-growing towns and had such a booming economy that [[LiteralMetaphor the streets were paved with gold]]--a far cry from the DyingTown it's become by the show's present.

* WetBlanketWife: Marge's typical role is sent up and {{Subverted}} throughout the episode. Everyone expects her to be the [[TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight lone dissenter]] when the suggestion of building a casino comes up, but [[NotSoAboveItAll she actually thinks it'd be great for the economy]], which doesn't stop Homer from remembering it differently and [[RunningGag repeatedly getting on her case]] about her supposed resistance. When she later develops a gambling addiction, [[SwitchedRoles it's up to Homer to be the Wet Blanket]]. Once he successfully convinces her that she has a problem, he's more happy than not to be the one who gets to be RightlySelfRighteous for once in his life.

* WetBlanketWife: Marge's typical role is sent up and {{Subverted}} throughout the episode. Everyone expects her to be the [[TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight lone dissenter]] when the suggestion of building a casino comes up, but [[NotSoAboveItAll she actually thinks it'd be great for the economy]], which doesn't stop Homer from remembering it differently and [[RunningGag repeatedly getting on her case]] about her supposed resistance. When she later develops a gambling addiction, [[RoleReversal it's up to Homer to be the Wet Blanket]]. Once he successfully convinces her that she has a problem, he's more happy than not to be the one who gets to be RightlySelfRighteous for once in his life.

* EpicFail: The Florida costume Homer makes for Lisa is so bad that Principal Skinner says it obviously was made without any help from parents. The only other costume to be declared as such is Ralph's Idaho, which consists of a piece of paper with "Idaho" written on it and taped on his shirt.

'''Homer:''' (upset) You promised Lisa to help her with her costume. You made her cry. Then I cried. (begins tearing up) [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Then Maggie laughed.]] She's such a little trouper.

* ChildrenAreCruel: Burns has a flashback of him ramming a poor worker repeatedly with a bumper car when he was a child, breaking the man's legs and only stopping long enough to hear the man's pleas for him to stop before continuing.

* CrazyMemory: Homer's "phonographic memory" is certainly this with the following:
** Marge's hair and dress colors are reversed (yet she has blue hair in the randomly place curlers) with a rainbow necklace. She starts chanting about legalized gambling while waving a rolling pin and standing on a table before devolving into BlahBlahBlah.
** A three-headed Apu
** An old man wearing a polka dot bikini
** Flanders with a baseball glove
** An alligator wearing a suit
** A baby with a beard
** A man with flowers growing out of his ears
** A woman with a jack-in-the box style neck
** A muscular Homer receiving a phone call from the President by a blue tentacle before reality cuts back in.

* BlahBlahBlah: Marge in Homer's "photographic memory".

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Lisa complains about Marge's absence in the home due to her gambling problem and there being nothing to eat for breakfast, Homer himself improvises by pouring a jar of cloves and a bottle of Tom Collins mix into a frozen pie crust. Even though Homer is a BigEater with a BizarreTasteInFood, all it takes is one bite of his meal to realize how disgusting it is and conclude that they do need Marge around.

* GilliganCut: After gambling is approved by unanimous vote, Homer says that this is something that will bring better things for the children. Cut to a panning shot of the park with the Jeremiah Springfield statue, which has become a full-blown Sodom and Gomorrah-style WretchedHive in mere seconds.

* SanitySlippage: Burns' sanity gradually erodes--a la Howard Hughes--the more he works in the casino. He grows a long shaggy beard and ridiculously long fingernails, becomes obsessed with germs, starts wearing tissue boxes on his feet, preserves his own urine in jars, and insists a model of an airplane he built is real, functioning airplane that he tries to get Smithers to board at gunpoint.

* DamnedByFaintPraise: The episode opens up with a documentary from the 50s talking about how Springfield is blossoming into a major power. Its positive traits include: being in the top 400 fastest-growing cities, being the home of celebrity "Professor Rubbermouth" (a man who can fit several billiard balls in his mouth), and making half of America's galoshes. It concludes by issuing a warning to a competitor... Utica.