History Recap / TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer

* CaligulasHorse: Aside from hiring an illegal Iranian immigrant worker and forcing a missing Brazilian soccer team to work at the plant, Burns also hired a duck named "Stewart" as a low level employee who tows nuclear waste (he also berates it to "get back to work!" when it briefly stops to catch its breath). This may be less outright insanity and more Mr. Burns' cheapness combined with a callous disregard for life. Later in the episode Burns is scanning the security monitors trying to find a pair of employees who are ''not'' currently fighting with each other to send as his representatives to a convention, not only is the duck seen fighting another employee, he's ''winning''.

** Mr. Burns' response to someone charging room service to the company? Unleash the winged monkeys! Fortunately for Homer and Mindy, [[FlawedPrototype they can't fly.]]

* GracefulLoser: When Homer confesses his feelings for Mindy but also says that he does truly love Marge as well, Mindy urges him to think about what he really wants. When he decides to remain with Marge, Mindy is shown as being okay with this and she and Homer part as JustFriends.

* TheLadette: Mindy is essentially a female version of Homer (except she's slim and attractive). She loves drinking beer, watching TV and eating junk food. She also drives a motorbike.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Mr. Burns abducts Brazilian football teams that crash land on his property and make them work on his plant, he'll hire ''ducks'' to haul nuclear waste, but he won't hire women.

** The angel showing Homer what life would be like if he would marry Mindy and leave Marge is a shout out to a similar scene in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''.

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Homer, Lenny and Carl were moaning about the things he couldn't do at work with a woman around, Homer mention peeing on the drinking fountain. Noticing their reactions, he lamely tries to deny he ever did that.

* UnwantedGlassesPlot: Bart not only gets thick glasses, but also oversized shoes and a spray that made his voice sound more nasal than usual. He originally went in for just the glasses, but the optometrist noticed something wrong and recommended Marge take him to another specialist. And so on, and so on, dealing with a wide variety of disorders including strep throat, flat feet, and a dry scalp. It's debatable if he really needed any of the extra treatments or if the doctors were faking since the medical practice they worked for was named [=HMO=] Hibbert Moneymaking Organization.
* VocalEvolution: When Homer's guardian angel takes the form of Colonel Klink, Werner Klemperer reprises the character. His performance is noticably different here than in ''Hogan's Heroes'', with a deeper voice and his accent barely audible. This is because Klemperer had forgotten how to perform Klink's voice by this point, and he relied on a voice director trying to imitate the vocalisations of the original.

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Homer struggles with being tempted by Mindy and then seeing Marge sick as a dog. He tries to distract himself with TV. He sees Kent Brockman promote a historical special about presidential affairs (''Hail to the Cheat''), a nature documentary about flies that have multiple sex partners with "virtually no guilt", and finally gorgeous woman working out to the tagline of "Just do it." Homer runs screaming from the room at that one, while we see it was just a commercial for ringworm examinations.

* DeusExMachina: No satisfactory explanation is given for how Carl, Lenny, Charlie, and Homer managed to escape the toxic gases; the scene simply SmashCuts from the danger scene to Burns's office.