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* TakeThat: In-universe, apparently Channel Six has already made a "Technical Difficulties" card of Kent Brockman in a straitjacket to use at the right time.

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In-universe, apparently Channel Six has already made a "Technical Difficulties" card of Kent Brockman in a straitjacket to use at the right time.
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** Near the end of Marge's night out with Ruth, the latter takes the former to a remote location to "show her something". She then draws a revolver from her purse in an almost threatening manner. Marge initially thought Ruth was going to "hunt [her] down for sport" until Ruth laughs and just wanted to plink some tin cans.

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** Near the end of Marge's night out with Ruth, the latter takes the former to a remote location to "show her something". She then draws a revolver from her purse in an almost threatening manner. Marge initially thought Ruth was going to "hunt [her] down for sport" until Ruth laughs and just wanted to plink target some tin cans.



* FelonyMisdemeanor: Marge gets charged for destroying a farmers antique cans. While being ordered to pay to replace the cans is reasonable, Marge being charged two thousand dollars in "punitive damages and mental anguish" is rather overkill (especially considering the cans cost only ''50 cents'').

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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Marge gets charged for destroying a farmers an old farmer's "precious antique cans. cans." While being ordered to pay to replace the cans is reasonable, Marge being charged two thousand dollars in "punitive damages and mental anguish" is rather overkill (especially considering the cans cost only ''50 cents'').
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** The episode opens with a rather brutal TakeThat towards [[Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion Garrison Keillor]]. His "jokes" are ridiculously bland and dull, and the Simpsons sit blankly while wondering what the studio audience is laughing at. More generally, the telethon is nearly empty and raised about twenty-three bucks, in a jab at public television and PBS.

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** The episode opens with a rather brutal TakeThat towards [[Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion Garrison Keillor]]. His "jokes" are ridiculously bland and dull, and the Simpsons sit blankly while wondering what the studio audience is laughing at. More generally, the telethon is nearly empty and raised about twenty-three bucks, in a jab at public television and PBS. Marge's donation more than doubles what the telethon's raised so far.

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Is there anything, like Word Of God, that suggests the Take That jab is at sensation-obsessed members of the audience? It seemed like a jab at Keillor and PBS in general.


* BaitAndSwitch: Marge, Ruth and all of the other female fugitives all run off upon hearing police sirens...which turns out to be Kearney wearing a toy siren on his head while riding his bike:

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* BaitAndSwitch: BaitAndSwitch:
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Marge, Ruth and all of the other female fugitives all run off upon hearing police sirens...which turns out to be Kearney wearing a toy siren on his head while riding his bike:



** In a spoof of the ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' ending, Marge and Ruth manage to stop before they go over the cliff. Unfortunately, Homer and Chief Wiggum don't stop in time, go flying into the canyon...and fall the equivalent of about ten feet before they land in a massive garbage pile that breaks their fall.



* TakeThatAudience: While many would consider the near empty telethon to be a jab at public television and PBS, it's actually a moment of ThisLoserIsYou for overly popular culture and mainstream sensation-obsessed members of the audience who don't take the time to pick up some culture and taste.

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* TakeThatAudience: While many would consider ** The episode opens with a rather brutal TakeThat towards [[Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion Garrison Keillor]]. His "jokes" are ridiculously bland and dull, and the near empty Simpsons sit blankly while wondering what the studio audience is laughing at. More generally, the telethon to be is nearly empty and raised about twenty-three bucks, in a jab at public television and PBS, it's actually a moment of ThisLoserIsYou for overly popular culture and mainstream sensation-obsessed members of the audience who don't take the time to pick up some culture and taste.PBS.
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Natter and justifying edit.


* FelonyMisdemeanor: Marge gets charged for destroying a farmers antique cans. While being ordered to pay to replace the cans is reasonable, Marge being charged two thousand dollars in "punitive damages and mental anguish" is rather overkill (especially considering the cans cost only ''50 cents'')(on the other hand, she and Ruth ''were'' treating a random field as a shooting range just because it had plinkable cans in it, obviously without its owner's knowledge or consent, so the actual behaviour on display in the episode is considerably more serious than it looks on the court docket).

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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Marge gets charged for destroying a farmers antique cans. While being ordered to pay to replace the cans is reasonable, Marge being charged two thousand dollars in "punitive damages and mental anguish" is rather overkill (especially considering the cans cost only ''50 cents'')(on the other hand, she and Ruth ''were'' treating a random field as a shooting range just because it had plinkable cans in it, obviously without its owner's knowledge or consent, so the actual behaviour on display in the episode is considerably more serious than it looks on the court docket).cents'').
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Marge gets charged for destroying a farmers antique cans. While being ordered to pay to replace the cans is reasonable, Marge being charged two thousand dollars in "punitive damages and mental anguish" is rather overkill (especially considering the cans cost only ''50 cents'').

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* FelonyMisdemeanor: Marge gets charged for destroying a farmers antique cans. While being ordered to pay to replace the cans is reasonable, Marge being charged two thousand dollars in "punitive damages and mental anguish" is rather overkill (especially considering the cans cost only ''50 cents'').cents'')(on the other hand, she and Ruth ''were'' treating a random field as a shooting range just because it had plinkable cans in it, obviously without its owner's knowledge or consent, so the actual behaviour on display in the episode is considerably more serious than it looks on the court docket).
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* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: Similar to ''Thelma and Louise'', Marge and Ruth's car chase (for a bad brake light) attracts the attention of a huge army of police officers (from two states, even!).

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* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: Similar to ''Thelma and Louise'', Marge and Ruth's car chase (for a bad brake light) attracts the attention of a huge army of police officers (from two states, even!). Marge is also sentenced for shooting the antique cans to pay the farmer: fifty cents for the cans… and ''two thousand dollars'' for "mental anguish".
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* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: Similar to ''Thelma and Louise'', Marge and Ruth's car chase (for a bad brake light) attracts the attention of a huge army of police officers (from two states, even!).


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* RunForTheBorder: Ruth tries to run for the state border to escape the Springfield police, but other surprise an army of police cars from the other state come rushing towards them as they approach the border, making her take a turn towards (unknown to her) a canyon.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Ruth manages to lose Chief Wiggum by turning off her taillights in the dark. He assumes that her car was a "ghost car", and says that there are ghost cars all over that highway, meaning he's fallen for that trick many times before.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Ruth manages to lose Chief Wiggum by turning off her taillights in the dark. He assumes that her car was a "ghost car", and says that there are ghost cars all over that highway, meaning he's fallen for that trick many times before.[[note]]In any reasonable world, Wiggum should be the ''first'' person to know what a “ghost car” actually refers to in law enforcement: a police car similar to an unmarked car, but with reflective graphics only visible under light or at certain angles.[[/note]]

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-->'''Diner owner''': You stupid kid! You scared away all of my business!

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-->'''Diner owner''': You stupid kid! You scared know that drives away all of my business!



** Homer's ImagineSpot of what the ballet is is also shared by Lenny.

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** Homer's ImagineSpot of what the ballet is is also shared by Lenny.



* {{Determinator}}: Intent on keeping his promise to Marge, Homer makes it quite a distance dragging a full vending machine. [[KnowWhenToFoldEm He gives up upon getting his other hand stuck in another vending machine]].



-->'''Kent:''' *beat* IT'S IN ''REVELATIONS'', PEOPLE!\\

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-->'''Kent:''' --->'''Kent:''' *beat* IT'S IN ''REVELATIONS'', PEOPLE!\\


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* EatingTheEyeCandy: Ruth and Marge are both very appreciative of the male ballet dancer's... attributes.
-->'''Ruth:''' ''[appreciatively]'' Vyachepov's loins oughta be outlawed.\\
'''Marge:''' ''[giggles like a schoolgirl]''


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* PoliceAreUseless: Ruth manages to lose Chief Wiggum by turning off her taillights in the dark. He assumes that her car was a "ghost car", and says that there are ghost cars all over that highway, meaning he's fallen for that trick many times before.


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* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: The Springfield police send every car they've got after Ruth and Marge after they evaded Chief Wiggum.
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-->'''Kent:''' *beat* IT'S IN ''REVELATIONS'', PEOPLE!\\
'''*cue "Technical Difficulties" card featuring caricature of Kent in a straitjacket*'''
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This is probably subjective, but I always interpreted the joke with Wiggum's chase music was that he actually meant to put Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows on the stereo


* AMFMCharacterization: Wiggum shows, once again, that he's an idiot cop when he accidentally puts a tape of the Music/LesleyGore song "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" while trying to play a more proper "chase sequence" music and just starts singing along.

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* AMFMCharacterization: Wiggum shows, once again, that he's an idiot cop when he accidentally puts a tape of the Music/LesleyGore song "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" while trying to play accompany a more proper "chase sequence" music high speed chase and just starts singing along.



* BadToTheBone: Parodied. Ruth places a cassette of Music/GunsNRoses' "Welcome to the Jungle" in her car stereo to show she's a rebel, but plays Music/LesleyGore's "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" instead for a few seconds before switching to the proper tape. When Wiggum makes the same mistake while trying to play "chase sequence" music on his patrol car, he just starts singing alongside Homer.

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* BadToTheBone: Parodied. Ruth places a cassette of Music/GunsNRoses' "Welcome to the Jungle" in her car stereo to show she's a rebel, but plays Music/LesleyGore's "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" instead for a few seconds before switching to the proper tape. When Wiggum makes puts a tape with the same mistake while trying to play "chase sequence" music on song into his patrol car, squad car's stereo as he prepares to give chase to Marge and Ruth in a later scene but he just starts happily singing alongside Homer.



* WrongSongGag: Ruth places a cassette of Music/GunsNRoses' "Welcome to the Jungle" in her car stereo in an attempt to show that she's a rebel. It ends up playing Music/LesleyGore's "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" instead for a few seconds before it switches to the proper tape. Wiggum later makes the same mistake whilst he's trying to play "chase sequence" music on his patrol car. He's not too bothered by it however, and sings along with Homer.

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* WrongSongGag: Ruth places a cassette of Music/GunsNRoses' "Welcome to the Jungle" in her car stereo in an attempt to show that she's a rebel. It ends up playing Music/LesleyGore's "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" instead for a few seconds before it switches to the proper tape. Wiggum later makes seems to make the same mistake whilst while he's trying to play "chase sequence" music on his patrol car. He's not too bothered by it however, and sings car, but the fact that he just starts happily singing along with Homer.without missing a beat suggests the song wasn't actually a mistake this time.
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** Where did the "Always do opposite of what Bart says" card come from? Judging by Bart's reaction, it seems to have been there for some time.

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