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Episode - 2F08\\
First Aired - 12/18/1994
First Aired - 12/18/1994
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First Aired - 12/18/1994
'''Original air date:''' 12/18/1994
'''Production code:''' 2F08
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** Up to this point in the show, Marge's father [[DisappearedDad has been conspicuously absent even in her flashbacks]], so her skittish reaction to being asked about him and the apparent reveal that he was an airline pilot seems like the lead-up to a revelation as to why he's not around that will explain Marge's trauma around planes. [[FauxHorrific Turns out he wasn't really a pilot but a flight attendant, which embarrassed her]].
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** Up to this point in the show, Marge's father [[DisappearedDad has been conspicuously absent even in her flashbacks]], flashback eisodes]], so her skittish reaction to being asked about him and the apparent reveal that he was an airline pilot seems like the lead-up lead-in to a revelation as to why he's not around that will explain Marge's trauma around planes. [[FauxHorrific Turns out he wasn't really a pilot but a flight attendant, which embarrassed her]].
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** Up to this point in the show, Marge's father [[DisappearedDad has been conspicuously absent even in her flashbacks]], so her skittish reaction to being asked about him and the apparent reveal that he was an airline pilot seems like the lead-up to a revelation as to why he's not around that will explain Marge's trauma around planes. [[FauxHorrific Turns out he wasn't really a pilot but a flight attendant, which embarrassed her]].
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* SquirtingFlowerGag: The episode begins with the crowd at Moe's bar pranking Moe in various ways. Barney asks Moe if he wants to smell his lapel flower. Moe does, and Barney takes the opportunity to light Moe's tie on fire.
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* SquirtingFlowerGag: The episode begins with the crowd at Moe's bar pranking Moe in various ways. Barney asks Moe if he wants to smell his lapel flower. Moe does, and Barney takes the opportunity to [[BaitAndSwitch light Moe's tie on fire.fire]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Grandpa is shown to be still on the plane in a cutaway, he is never mentioned again for the rest of the episode.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** After Grandpa is shown to be still on the plane in a cutaway, he is never mentioned again for the rest of theepisode.episode.
** Homer never gets unbanned from Moe's Tavern. It's easy to imagine why Moe's tiff with him wouldn't last given that Homer's one of his best customers, so it's not a pressing issue.
** After Grandpa is shown to be still on the plane in a cutaway, he is never mentioned again for the rest of the
** Homer never gets unbanned from Moe's Tavern. It's easy to imagine why Moe's tiff with him wouldn't last given that Homer's one of his best customers, so it's not a pressing issue.
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* EpicFail: When Homer is on the plane and presses the button that retracts its landing gear ''even before starting take-off procedures'' wrecking it -funnier still since planes have sensors to prevent that.-
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* EpicFail: When Homer is Homer's extremely brief career as a pilot for Crazy Clown Airlines. For starters, he fails in trying to make his co-pilot, Alan, do all the hard work. Then, after flipping a switch on the plane and presses the button control board, he is admonished by Alan that retracts its "we'll need that to live". Finally, Homer flips another switch, which causes the plane's landing gear ''even before starting take-off procedures'' to retract, wrecking it -funnier the plane.[[note]]Funnier still since planes have sensors to prevent that.- [[/note]]
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* NewJobsAsThePlotDemands: In a previous episode, Marge said that her father used to be in the navy and had a job as a baby photographer when he dated her mother, and suggests that Homer use the same SwearJar tactic her father did to control his cursing. This episode reveals that Grandpa Bouvier later worked as a flight attendant, probably after he got married and had his daughters.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Marge wasn't afraid of flying when the family flew to Washington, D.C. in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E2MrLisaGoesToWashington Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington]]". Also, her father looks different than the one from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWeWas The Way We Was]]" (the episode that tells the story of how Homer and Marge first met when they were in high school) and in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E16BartTheLover Bart the Lover]]", Marge said that her father was in the navy and had a job as a baby photographer (which he nearly lost due to his constant cursing), though Marge's mom could have tried to cover up her husband's airline job as a male flight attendant from Marge until she could come up with a believable lie about his job (in the episode, Marge's mom tells her that her father was a pilot).
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* SeriesContinuityError: Marge wasn't afraid of flying when the family flew to Washington, D.C. in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E2MrLisaGoesToWashington Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington]]". Also, her father looks different than the one from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWeWas The Way We Was]]" (the episode that tells the story of how Homer and Marge first met when they were in high school) and in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E16BartTheLover Bart the Lover]]", Marge said that her father was in the navy and had a job as a baby photographer (which photographer, which he nearly lost due to his constant cursing), though Marge's mom could have tried to cover up her husband's airline job as a male cursing. He had those jobs before he married Grandma Bouvier, so he likely got the flight attendant from Marge until she could come up with a believable lie about job after he returned to civilian life and had his job (in daughters. In the episode, Marge's mom tells her that her father was a pilot).pilot.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Dr. Zweig insists that the Monkees were about "political and social upheaval", even though they were a glorified, corporate-backed BoyBand.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Moe and his patrons are never shown forgiving Homer and letting him back into the bar, but later episodes show Homer returning as if nothing happened.
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* UnscrewedSaltShaker: Homer plays the sugar variation. This is actually deconstructed by showing how someone in real life would react. Homer ends up banned from Moe's, being forced to look for another place to hang out, triggering the events for the episode.
* VictimOfCircumstanceWithNoJobQualifications: Homer becomes this after he's banned from Moe's and tries to find another bar to drink at. He ends up finding one at Springfield airport, when he also finds a pilot's uniform to blend in. A staff member pulls Homer into the job as Homer continues to protest. After trying to push the job onto a co-pilot, Homer then causes the plane to crash while ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance still on the ground, not moving at all, and parked at the gate!]]''
--> '''Staff Member:''' You're not just pretending to be a pilot to drink are you?
--> '''Homer:''' ''[defeated]'' Yes.
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[laughing]'' You fly boys crack me up.
--> ''[cut to inside of jet airliner, where Homer is being shoved into the cockpit]''
--> '''Homer:''' I keep telling you, I'm not a pilot!
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[angrily and frustrated]'' And I keep telling you, you fly boys crack me up!
* VictimOfCircumstanceWithNoJobQualifications: Homer becomes this after he's banned from Moe's and tries to find another bar to drink at. He ends up finding one at Springfield airport, when he also finds a pilot's uniform to blend in. A staff member pulls Homer into the job as Homer continues to protest. After trying to push the job onto a co-pilot, Homer then causes the plane to crash while ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance still on the ground, not moving at all, and parked at the gate!]]''
--> '''Staff Member:''' You're not just pretending to be a pilot to drink are you?
--> '''Homer:''' ''[defeated]'' Yes.
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[laughing]'' You fly boys crack me up.
--> ''[cut to inside of jet airliner, where Homer is being shoved into the cockpit]''
--> '''Homer:''' I keep telling you, I'm not a pilot!
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[angrily and frustrated]'' And I keep telling you, you fly boys crack me up!
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* UnscrewedSaltShaker: Homer plays the sugar variation. This is actually deconstructed by showing how someone in real life would react. Homer ends up banned from Moe's, Moe's due to the prank who everyone found in [[FauxHorrific bad taste]], being forced to look for another place to hang out, triggering the events for the episode.
* VictimOfCircumstanceWithNoJobQualifications: Homer becomes this after he's banned from Moe's and tries to find another bar to drink at. He ends up finding one at Springfield airport, when he also finds a pilot's uniform to blend in. A staff member pulls Homer into the job as Homer continues to protest. After trying to push the job onto a co-pilot, Homer then causes the plane to crash while ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance still on the ground, not moving at all, and parked at the gate!]]''
--> '''Staff Member:''' You're not just pretending to be a pilot to drink are you?
--> '''Homer:''' ''[defeated]'' Yes.
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[laughing]'' You fly boys crack me up.
--> ''[cut to inside of jet airliner, where Homer is being shoved into the cockpit]''
--> '''Homer:''' I keep telling you, I'm not a pilot!
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[angrily and frustrated]'' And I keep telling you, you fly boys crack me up!episode.
* VictimOfCircumstanceWithNoJobQualifications: Homer becomes this after he's banned from Moe's and tries to find another bar to drink at. He ends up finding one at Springfield airport, when he also finds a pilot's uniform to blend in. A staff member pulls Homer into the job as Homer continues to protest. After trying to push the job onto a co-pilot, Homer then causes the plane to crash while ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance still on the ground, not moving at all, and parked at the gate!]]''
--> '''Staff Member:''' You're not just pretending to be a pilot to drink are you?
--> '''Homer:''' ''[defeated]'' Yes.
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[laughing]'' You fly boys crack me up.
--> ''[cut to inside of jet airliner, where Homer is being shoved into the cockpit]''
--> '''Homer:''' I keep telling you, I'm not a pilot!
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[angrily and frustrated]'' And I keep telling you, you fly boys crack me up!
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* NoEnding: After Marge has conquered her fear of flying, she and Homer board a plane. The plane then crashes into the ocean, Homer tells Marge that a carp is swimming around her feet, and then the episode cuts to the credits without any explanation of whether or not they were rescued.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Homer's quest to find a new bar after getting banned from Moe's isn't addressed again after Marge reveals her fear of flying.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Homer's quest After Grandpa is shown to find be still on the plane in a new bar after getting banned from Moe's isn't addressed cutaway, he is never mentioned again after Marge reveals her fear for the rest of flying.the episode.
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* VictimOfCircumstanceWithNoJobQualifications: Homer becomes this after he's banned from Moe's and tries to find another bar to drink at. He ends up finding one at Springfield airport, when he also finds a pilot's uniform to blend in. A staff member pulls Homer into the job as Homer continues to protest. After trying to push the job onto a co-pilot, Homer then causes the plane to crash while ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance still on the ground, not moving at all, and parked at the gate!]]''
--> '''Staff Member:''' You're not just pretending to be a pilot to drink are you?
--> '''Homer:''' ''[defeated]'' Yes.
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[laughing]'' You fly boys crack me up.
--> ''[cut to inside of jet airliner, where Homer is being shoved into the cockpit]''
--> '''Homer:''' I keep telling you, I'm not a pilot!
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[angrily and frustrated]'' And I keep telling you, you fly boys crack me up!
--> '''Staff Member:''' You're not just pretending to be a pilot to drink are you?
--> '''Homer:''' ''[defeated]'' Yes.
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[laughing]'' You fly boys crack me up.
--> ''[cut to inside of jet airliner, where Homer is being shoved into the cockpit]''
--> '''Homer:''' I keep telling you, I'm not a pilot!
--> '''Staff Member:''' ''[angrily and frustrated]'' And I keep telling you, you fly boys crack me up!
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* PaperThinDisguise: Subverted. Homer walks into Moe's in a paper-thin disguise that Moe sees through immediately, but it turns out he was wrong, it wasn't Homer but a stranger who just happens to look and sound like Homer in disguise.
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* PaperThinDisguise: Subverted. Homer walks into Moe's in a paper-thin disguise that Moe sees through immediately, but it turns out he was wrong, it wasn't Homer [[MistakenForAnImposter but a stranger who just happens to look and sound like Homer in disguise.disguise]].
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* SquirtingFlowerGag: The episode begins with the crowd at Moe's bar pranking Moe in various ways. Barney asks Moe if he wants to smell his lapel flower. Moe does, and Barney takes the opportunity to light Moe's tie on fire.
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** Grandpa screams like Kevin from ''Film/HomeAlone'' when he realizes his family left him on the plane midflight.
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** Homer tries to cure Marge by giving her some "films about air travel" with "upbeat titles": ''[[Film/AccidentalHero Hero]]'', ''Film/{{Fearless|1993}}'' and ''Film/{{Alive}}'', all films centered around horrific plane crashes.
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* CouchGag: The family forms a chorus line joined by Vegas dancers and animals.
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* SelectiveEnforcement: Lenny and Barney play pranks on Moe which involve setting him on fire and setting a cobra on him. Homer, in an attempt to join in the "harmless" fun, loosens the lid on a sugar cellar, resulting in what Moe angrily calls "the old sugar-me-do". This gets Homer banned from the bar.
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* RealJokeName: The man who looks just like homer really is called "Guy Incognito".
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* RealJokeName: The man who looks just like homer Homer really is called "Guy Incognito".
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* PaperThinDisguise: Subverted. Homer walks into Moe's in a paper-thin disguise that Moe sees through immediately, but it turns out he was wrong, it wasn't Homer but a stranger who just happens to look and sound like Homer in disguise.
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* IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough: Homer's search for a new bar to hang out at sees him in ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', where he finds (with a ZanyScheme going on in the background) Norm Peterson asking for another:
--->'''Woody:''' I think you've had enough, Mr. Peterson. My chiropractor says I can't carry you home any more.\\
'''Norm:''' Just gimme another beer, you brain-dead hick! ''[grabs bottle, smashes it]'' I'll kill you! (to the other patrons) I'll kill all of you! [Cliff and Frasier hold him down]\\
'''Cliff:''' Whoa, settle down, Normy. Gotta save those pipes for karaoke!\\
[Homer panics and suddenly departs. Cut to Norm more settled down in a corner.]\\
'''Norm:''' I love you guys... [starts crying, and camera holds for uncomfortably long time; ''Cheers'' leitmotif plays]
--->'''Woody:''' I think you've had enough, Mr. Peterson. My chiropractor says I can't carry you home any more.\\
'''Norm:''' Just gimme another beer, you brain-dead hick! ''[grabs bottle, smashes it]'' I'll kill you! (to the other patrons) I'll kill all of you! [Cliff and Frasier hold him down]\\
'''Cliff:''' Whoa, settle down, Normy. Gotta save those pipes for karaoke!\\
[Homer panics and suddenly departs. Cut to Norm more settled down in a corner.]\\
'''Norm:''' I love you guys... [starts crying, and camera holds for uncomfortably long time; ''Cheers'' leitmotif plays]
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* RealJokeName: The man who looks just like homer really is called "Guy Incognito".
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* JustPlaneWrong: Some of the flying scenes show the same plane go from having four engines in one shot to three engines in another.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Marge (who grew up in the 1960s) discovered her father was a flight attendant as a child. At that time, flight attendants were almost exclusively women and Marge (as well as her father himself) were ashamed by his profession. Dr. Zweig comforts her by telling her how in modern times, male flight attendants are more common which makes her father sound progressive.
-->'''Marge:''' (in tears) My father was a ''stewardess!''
-->'''Dr. Zweig:''' Marge, there's nothing to be ashamed of here. Today male flight attendants or "stewards" are common.
-->'''Marge:''' They are?
-->'''Dr. Zweig:''' Yes, thanks to trailblazers like your father. You might say he was a pioneer!
-->'''Marge:''' (uplifted) Yeah, you might even say he was an American hero!
-->'''Dr. Zweig:''' Let's not go nuts.
-->'''Marge:''' (in tears) My father was a ''stewardess!''
-->'''Dr. Zweig:''' Marge, there's nothing to be ashamed of here. Today male flight attendants or "stewards" are common.
-->'''Marge:''' They are?
-->'''Dr. Zweig:''' Yes, thanks to trailblazers like your father. You might say he was a pioneer!
-->'''Marge:''' (uplifted) Yeah, you might even say he was an American hero!
-->'''Dr. Zweig:''' Let's not go nuts.
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/AnneBancroft as Dr. Zweig; Creator/TedDanson as Sam Malone; Creator/WoodyHarrelson as Woody Boyd; Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli; John Ratzenberger as Cliff Clavin; George Wendt as Norm Peterson. Bancroft's husband Creator/MelBrooks accompanied her to the recordings, with her saying "I can't get rid of him!" This led to Brooks getting his own appearance in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E17HomerVsPattyAndSelma Homer vs. Patty and Selma]]".
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/AnneBancroft as Dr. Zweig; Creator/TedDanson as Sam Malone; Creator/WoodyHarrelson as Woody Boyd; Rhea Perlman Creator/RheaPerlman as Carla Tortelli; John Ratzenberger Creator/JohnRatzenberger as Cliff Clavin; George Wendt Creator/GeorgeWendt as Norm Peterson. Bancroft's husband Creator/MelBrooks accompanied her to the recordings, with her saying "I can't get rid of him!" This led to Brooks getting his own appearance in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E17HomerVsPattyAndSelma Homer vs. Patty and Selma]]".
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* TheVoiceless: Frasier Crane during the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' segment. According to the DVD Commentary, they just couldn't work out a time where Kelsey Grammer could've recorded some lines for this episode.
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* TheVoiceless: Frasier Crane during the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' segment. According to the DVD Commentary, they just couldn't work out a time where Kelsey Grammer Creator/KelseyGrammer could've recorded some lines for this episode.
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: The patrons of Moe's Tavern proceed to play pranks on Moe. Lenny causes him to get bit by a cobra, Barney causes him to be lit on fire, and Homer simply winds up causing some sugar to be spilled. And of course, Homer's prank causes him to be banned from the bar for life.
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: The patrons of Moe's Tavern proceed to play pranks on Moe. Lenny causes him to get bit bitten by a cobra, Barney causes him to be lit on fire, and Homer simply winds up causing some sugar to be spilled. And of course, Homer's prank causes him to be banned from the bar for life.
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* DecoyProtagonist / HalfwayPlotSwitch: The episode starts with Homer trying to find a new bar, but then suddenly switches to Marge dealing with her acrophobia.
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* DecoyProtagonist / HalfwayPlotSwitch: DecoyProtagonist: The episode starts with Homer trying to find a new bar, but then suddenly switches to Marge dealing with her acrophobia.
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* YourCheatingHeart: During the ''Cheers'' scene.
--> '''Carla''': Sammy, you're too old to go on a date with two twins on the same night you're supposed to marry Diane without Rebecca knowing.\\
'''Sam''': Alright, Carla, I'll make you a bet. If this affects my major-league comeback, I'll sell the bar.
--> '''Carla''': Sammy, you're too old to go on a date with two twins on the same night you're supposed to marry Diane without Rebecca knowing.\\
'''Sam''': Alright, Carla, I'll make you a bet. If this affects my major-league comeback, I'll sell the bar.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: You have to admit it, Guy Incognito is a pretty cool-sounding name. Too bad it sounds like the kind of hastily-made fake name Homer would adopt to hide his true identity, and only made the poor guy look all the more suspicious.
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* BlackComedyCannibalism: When Marge's fear of flying resurfaces, Homer tries buying movies of planes to help calm her. [[WhatAnIdiot Of course]] he chooses ''Film/{{Alive}}'' on the basis of its title.
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* BlackComedyCannibalism: When Marge's fear of flying resurfaces, Homer tries buying movies of planes to help calm her. [[WhatAnIdiot [[DidntThinkThisThrough Of course]] he chooses ''Film/{{Alive}}'' on the basis of its title.
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* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse, and exaggerated for laughs. Homer’s prank of unscrewing the salt shaker is the most harmless of the three pranks Moe suffers, but it’s the only one that pisses off everybody, because of the mess it leaves behind, no less.
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* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse, and exaggerated Exaggerated for laughs. Homer’s prank of unscrewing the salt shaker is the most harmless of the three pranks Moe suffers, but it’s the only one that pisses off everybody, because of the mess it leaves behind, no less.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The first half of the episode has Homer trying to find a new bar after being banned from Moe's. Then the second half forgets about that story-line as it focuses on Marge's fear of flying.
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** Right after Marge's panic attack on the airplane before it's supposed to take off ("Let me off, let me off, let me off, let me off!") the next shot shows the plane taking off, accompanied by a triumphant variation of ''The Simpsons'' theme, making you think the family is still on board the plane and Marge is feeling better... but then the camera pans to show the Simpsons family standing nearby with their luggage watching the plane leave, to which the music takes a downbeat note.
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* DecoyProtagonist: The episode starts with Homer trying to find a new bar, but then suddenly switches to Marge dealing with her acrophobia.
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* DecoyProtagonist: DecoyProtagonist / HalfwayPlotSwitch: The episode starts with Homer trying to find a new bar, but then suddenly switches to Marge dealing with her acrophobia.
