History Recap / TheSimpsonsS5E7BartsInnerChild

-->"Doctor, you've cured all my problems!" ''(immediately downs a glass of liquor and then UpToEleven uses his finger to chase out the last few drops)''

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-->'''Troy [=McClure=]:''' A few weeks ago, I was a washed-up actor with a drinking problem. [[DistinctionWithoutADifference Then Brad Goodman came along and gave me this job and a can of fortified wine]]. ''(sips)'' Ahh! [[DrowningTheirSorrows Sweet liquor eases the pain]].
* ArtifactOfDoom: The trampoline. Its sinister nature is implied with how eager Krusty is in getting rid of it (and how he pulls a gun out when Homer tries to give it back) and shown in full force when it injures every person who uses it.

** Then, by the end of the episode, when Do What You Feel Day progresses, everyone is initially having fun, until instances of crudeness and selfishness increases to the point where the day just turns into complete chaos. The lesson is yes, you should have time to do as you feel, but there is a point to control and being in tune with yourself for the benefit of everyone else around you, as complete abandon tends to ruin everyone else's day.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Marge's RightlySelfRighteous nature is called out in the episode. After nagging Homer and giving him the cold shoulder after [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin obtaining a trampoline leads to countless injuries]], Homer finally snaps back, noting that though she ''was'' right about the trampoline being a bad idea, her no-thrills nature is no healthier a lifestyle (not to mention her excessive strictness/nagging makes her come off as very insufferable), something she is rather stirred by. The reason she decides to embrace StatusQuoIsGod at the end is simply that she assumes that being an insufferable nag would have prevented a city-wide riot ''somehow'' (and that she (like the rest of her family, probably bar Lisa) doesn't want to put an effort in self-improvement).

* IncrediblyLameFun: When Homer challenges Marge to name something fun she's done in the past month, she comes up with having made sloppy joes... which he proclaims promptly to just not be fun.

-->'''Homer''': Tramampoline! Trabopoline! (rushes out of the house)

** The "Do As We Say" festival(s), from which the "Do What You Feel" festival is supposed to be a major departure. The only information we get about the "Do As We Say" festival is that it was started in 1946 by [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand German settlers.]]
** As Homer rushes out to get the free trampoline, Marge calls out "Please, don't bring home anymore old crutches!"

** ''[=McGarnagle=]'' is a loose cannon CowboyCop in the style of Film/DirtyHarry. He even looks and sounds like Creator/ClintEastwood.

* SleepsInTheNude: After the trampoline is stolen, Homer is sitting in bed at night in his sleepwear and talks to an irritated Marge that's wrapped up in the bed sheet. But when Homer accuses Marge of not being more willing to try new things, Marge sits up and faces him in denial, revealing that she is [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E07/365864.jpg completely naked underneath the sheet]]. Oddly, her collar can be seen in [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E07/370452.jpg closeup shots.]]

* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: After watching the self-help video, Homer and Marge try to comunicate by just saying how they are feeling instead of actually making a scene.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: After the Simpsons' experience with trampoline ownership turns into a disaster, Marge berates Homer for it and points out that she warned him of the potential dangers. But Homer turns it on her by noting that while she may have been right about the trampoline being dangerous, he's at least willing to go out and try new things/experiences--Marge, on the other hand, never does anything of the sort, and Homer says that if everyone lived like her, they'd just do the same things all the time (like work and go to church). The kids, albeit with nervous shame, side with Homer about Marge's buzzkill tendencies.

* NeverMyFault: When chaos ensues in the "Do What You Feel" festival because some folks "didn't feel" like doing their job, nobody insists on the fact that they should have done their job regardless or accept that they goofed, they all just point the blame elsewhere (Lovejoy blames Goodman first, but then Apu says that ''Bart'' is at fault and they all try to catch him).

* AGodAmI: Bart feels like this...until Lisa points out that he's sitting on an ice cream sandwich and later when he becomes sick of everyone acting like him.

* SkewedPriorities: Homer potentially kills someone backing out of their driveway because he believes that they're off to buy the trampoline he wants.

-->'''Smithers''': Sir, in the spirit of the festival and everything I -- I'd just like to say that ... I love you.

* FlashbackBackBack: Played straight when Marge watches the video of Brad Goodman ending on the symptom "Chronic Nagging ... nagging ... nagging", then it's parodied when Selma says that her and Patty's TV is on the fritz.

* IncrediblyLameFun: When Homer challenges Marge to name something fun she's done in the past month, she comes up with having made sloppy joes ... which he proclaims promptly to just not be fun.

* ClingyMacGuffin: The trampoline. He couldn't return it to Krusty, and when he tried to throw it from a cliff, it hit a rock, and it bounced back directly on top of him.

* FanDisservice: Patty and Selma ride horseback naked, but the townspeople are all disgusted by it (except the Sea Captain).

-->'''Skinner:''' ''(in a tree with a slingshot)'' Eat my shorts, young man.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Goodman's teaching was, in a nutshell, being more like Bart in the sense of "Don't worry too much about life." Not only does all of Springfield takes it UpToEleven (more like "Don't give a shit about anything, even the stuff that ''can endanger people'' if you don't give a shit"), but start to imitate Bart's mannerisms (which gives him a short identity crisis) and decides to blame Goodman (to the point he appears to be worshiped like a false God in a quick gag) and Bart when everything goes pear-shaped because of said irresponsibility.

After Homer buys a trampoline for the backyard (and nearly every kid in town ends up injured from it), Marge realizes that she's a bossy nag who doesn't know how to have any fun, so she listens to a supposed self-help guru named Brad Goodman, who begins using Bart as a role model on how people should act.

* AesopAmnesia: Lampshaded and highly played with. At the end of the episode, Homer goes on about how it is Bart's fault in that he should have been a better role model, while Marge exclaims that self-improvement is "meant only for those in big cities" and decides to go back to her killjoy demeanor believing it's the right thing to do ("[[ItsAllMyFault I knew if only I had nagged more]]"), when Lisa pushes through their nonsense that self-improvement is a lot of hard work and long investment of self-discovery. Homer emphasizes in Lisa's insight in that's what he means in that everyone is fine the way they are, and is further reinforced when he corrects himself after Lisa comes to tell him to settle down when watching ''[=McGarnagle=]''.

-->'''Lisa:''' This is madness. He's just peddling a bunch of easy answers!
-->'''Carl:''' ''(with an armful of Goodman's books)'' And how!