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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Ironically, the "fact" that kicked off the entire episode was wrong: while the Corliolis effect is real, it's too weak to affect the direction of your average draining vortex, which is far more affected by stuff like the shape of the recipient.

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* TemptingFate: A man stuck on the roof of his house during a lava stream risks and loses his life just to grab for a telephone that happens to ring while he floats by.

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* TemptingFate: A man stuck on the roof of his house during a lava stream volcanic eruption (though natural disasters like that call for an evacuation, so how would that man still be there?) risks and loses his life just to grab for a telephone that happens to ring while he floats by.



* TooDumbToLive: The man on the roof of his house during a volcanic eruption chose to grab for the payphone and die rather than just leave it alone.



** This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Michael Fay in Singapore for vandalism. Unless you grew up around the time that that was news, you wouldn't get the reference.

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** This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Michael Fay in Singapore for vandalism. Unless you grew up around the time that that was news, you most people these days wouldn't get the reference.

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* AdolfHitlarious: Bart phones an elderly Hitler (or a man who looks like him and speaks German like him) in a memorable joke in this episode.

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* AdolfHitlarious: Bart phones an elderly Hitler (or a man who looks like him and speaks German like him) while trying to call people in a memorable joke in this episode.the Southern hemisphere.



* DumbassHasAPoint: Homer tries to explain to the Australian government about punishments.

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* DumbassHasAPoint: Homer tries to explain to the Australian government about punishments.corporal punishment.



* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Bart vs. Australia is Bart facing off against Australia after a phone prank gone wrong.
* {{Expy}}: The First Australian Prime Minister looks just like Snake, while the Australian store clerk shows like that teenage character back in Springfield.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Bart calls an Antarctican research station a penguin inside a solid block of ice is blown against the roof of the house.

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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Bart "Bart vs. Australia Australia" is Bart facing off against Australia after a phone prank gone wrong.
* {{Expy}}: The First Australian Prime Minister looks just like Snake, while the Australian store clerk shows looks like that teenage character back in Springfield.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Bart calls an Antarctican research station a penguin inside a solid block of ice is blown against the roof of the house.
Springfield.



** Bart mistakes a "Rand Mc Nally" logo on his globe for a country, causing Lisa to mock him: "In fact, in Rand Mc Nally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!"

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** Bart mistakes a the "Rand Mc Nally" logo on his globe for a country, causing Lisa to mock him: "In fact, in Rand Mc Nally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!"



* HollowWorld: Apparently the Hindu god Vishnu controls the center of the Earth.

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* HollowWorld: Apparently the Hindu god Vishnu controls the center of the Earth. Earth.
* KangarooPouchRide: Deconstructed for once in Western animation -- Bart and Homer try to get away by stuffing themselves in the pouches of two kangaroos, only to find that it's full of mucus and womb slime. Bart and Homer even comment that it's not like in the cartoons.



* LandDownunder: Almost every stereotype about Australia is squished in.
* LostInTranslation: Bart asks a translator of a South American dictator "which way the water in their toilets turns after flushing?" The translator misinterprets this and tells the dictator "the tides are turning", to which he panicks and jumps out of the window.

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* LandDownunder: LandDownUnder: Almost every stereotype about Australia is squished in.
* LostInTranslation: Bart asks a translator of a South American dictator "which way the water in their toilets turns after flushing?" The translator misinterprets this and tells the dictator "the tides are turning", turning" (meaning that his people are rising up to overthrow him), to which he panicks panics and jumps out of the window.



* RealityEnsues: Homer and Bart just think they can hop into [[KangarooPouchRide kangaroo pouches]] to ride around in, but they're just full of mucus...

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* RealityEnsues: Homer and Bart just think they can hop into [[KangarooPouchRide kangaroo pouches]] to ride around in, but can't because they're just too big and it's full of mucus...mucus.



* TakeThat: This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Michael Fay in Singapore for vandalism.



* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The chance that AdolfHitler was still alive in 1994 was already very doubtful, given that he would be 105 years old. Nowadays... even more so.
** The Simpsons watch a presentation about Australia on a slide projector. Today they would probably use a Powerpoint presentation.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The chance that AdolfHitler was still alive in 1994 was already very doubtful, given that he would be 105 years old. Nowadays... even more so.
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** The Simpsons watch a presentation about Australia on a slide projector. Today they would probably use a laptop with a computer-connected projector and a Powerpoint presentation.presentation (but then we wouldn't get the joke of the "plan B" slide that was supposed to be for an assassination plot against Fidel Castro).
**This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Michael Fay in Singapore for vandalism. Unless you grew up around the time that that was news, you wouldn't get the reference.
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After Bart pranks a child in Australia in order to prove Lisa’s theory, he faces more than he bargains when the family has to go to the nation.

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After Bart pranks a child in Australia in order to prove Lisa’s theory, to Lisa that the Coriolis effect doesn't affect draining water, he faces more than he bargains when the family has to go to the nation.
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* BananaRepublic: Bart phones a Latin American dictator.

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* BananaRepublic: Bart phones a Latin American dictator. dictator who thinks the phone call is his subjects starting a revolution.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer asking Bart if he can commit fraud to go on a free trip to Florida?

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer asking Bart if he can commit fraud to go on a free trip to Florida?Florida (they would go to Florida later on "Kill the Alligator and Run" -- which is as hated now as this episode was when it first came on -- but not Bart committed fraud there).



* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Bart vs. Australia takes place in… well Australia.

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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Bart vs. Australia takes place in… well Australia.is Bart facing off against Australia after a phone prank gone wrong.
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** Australia doesn't allow the import of invasive species, but Bart just lets his bull frog jump away without anyone at the airport noticing them or prohibiting them from doing this?

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** Australia doesn't allow the import of invasive species, but Bart just lets his bull frog jump away without anyone at the airport noticing them or prohibiting them from doing this?this? Granted, this was made before airport security was tightened because of 9/11, but even back then, they would have cracked down on that.



** The Australian flag looks different.

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** The Australian flag looks different.is not a boot kicking a bare butt.
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* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: Bart unknowingly phones an old age AdolfHitler in an unknown South-American country (implied to be a Spanish-speaking one as a man on a bike passes by and says, "Buenos noches, mein Fuerher").

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* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: Bart unknowingly phones an old age AdolfHitler in an unknown South-American country (implied to be a Spanish-speaking one [[note]]the only South American countries that don't have Spanish as a language are Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, The Falkland Islands, and Suriname, leaving Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Paraguay, and Uruguay -- or "U R Gay" as Homer would say -- as potential places[[/note]] as a man on a bike passes by and says, "Buenos noches, mein Fuerher").
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* AdolfHitlarious: Bart phones Hitler in a memorable joke in this episode.
* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: Bart unknowingly phones an old age AdolfHitler in an unknown South-American country.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Bullfrogs are carnivorous, and would not feed on corn.

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* AdolfHitlarious: Bart phones an elderly Hitler (or a man who looks like him and speaks German like him) in a memorable joke in this episode.
* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: Bart unknowingly phones an old age AdolfHitler in an unknown South-American country.
country (implied to be a Spanish-speaking one as a man on a bike passes by and says, "Buenos noches, mein Fuerher").
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Bullfrogs are carnivorous, and would not feed on corn.

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* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: Bart unknowingly phones an old age AdolfHitler in an unknown South-American country.

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* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: Bart unknowingly phones an old age AdolfHitler in an unknown South-American country.country.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Bullfrogs are carnivorous, and would not feed on corn.
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* ArtisticLinceseZoology: Bullfrogs are carnivorous, and would not feed on corn.
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* ArtisticLinceseBiology: Bullfrogs are carnivorous, and would not feed on corn.

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* ArtisticLinceseBiology: ArtisticLinceseZoology: Bullfrogs are carnivorous, and would not feed on corn.
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* ArtisticLinceseBiology: Bullfrogs are carnivorous, and would not feed on corn.

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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Marge tries to order coffee in Australia, but all the bartender seems to know is beer.



* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Bart calls an Antarctican research station a penguin inside a solid block of ice is blown against the roof of the house.



* GlobalIgnorance: Bart mistakes a "Rand MCNally" logo on his globe for a country, causing Lisa to mock him: "In fact, in Rand MCNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!" Later, Homer looks at the globe, spots Uruguay, and laughs and says "Look at this country! 'UR Gay'! (Laughs)".

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* GlobalIgnorance: GlobalIgnorance:
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Bart mistakes a "Rand MCNally" Mc Nally" logo on his globe for a country, causing Lisa to mock him: "In fact, in Rand MCNally, Mc Nally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!" people!"
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Later, Homer looks at the globe, spots Uruguay, and laughs and says "Look at this country! 'UR Gay'! (Laughs)".(Laughs)".
** When the Simpsons arrive in Australia and Lisa tells Homer "it's summer here, not winter" he disappointingly throws his sled away.
* HollowWorld: Apparently the Hindu god Vishnu controls the center of the Earth.



** A koala bear touches an electric device twice, gets electrocuted, falls down and immediately climbs up again in the tree.



* ShoutOut: The Australian showing Bart a spoon rather a knife is a reference to Film/CrocodileDundee, where the knife welding robber change his tune when he saw Dundee's large Bowie knife. Dundee already appeared earlier in this episode during the slideshow the American representative displayed.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** In Tobias' home in Australia a framed picture of Ayers' Rock can be seen.
** Bart's joke: "I hear a dingo eating your baby" is a reference to Film/ACryInTheDark.
** When the plane lands in Australia we see rubble from Skylab under the airport's ground.
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The Australian showing Bart a spoon rather a knife is a reference to Film/CrocodileDundee, where the knife welding robber change his tune when he saw Dundee's large Bowie knife. Dundee already appeared earlier in this episode during the slideshow the American representative displayed.displayed.
** Film/MadMax: Wez from "Mad Max: The Road Warrior 2" can be seen in the crowd chasing after The Simpsons.


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** The laundry ship that takes the Simpsons back home is named "SS Walter Mondale", after the Democratic politician who lost the presidential elections in 1984.


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** A koala bear touches an electric device twice, gets electrocuted, falls down and immediately climbs up in the tree again.

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* AdolfHitlarious: Bart phones Hitler in a memorable joke in this episode.



* ArtisticLicenseGeography: All RuleOfFunny, of course, but here goes:
** Kangaroos living that close to an airport?
** Australia doesn't allow the import of invasive species, but Bart just lets his bull frog jump away without anyone at the airport noticing them or prohibiting them from doing this?
** Australian law doesn't require the booting of convicts.
** The Australian flag looks different.



* EmbarrassingSlide: One slide in the projector is the US government's plan B for Cuba, which the diplomat quickly takes out and swallows with the words: "Oops! Let's pretend we didn't see that, did we?"
* EveryoneChasingYou: Happens to The Simpsons in the end.



* FlushingToiletScreamingShower: While Homer is showering Bart keeps flushing the toilet, causing him to scream because of the changing temperatures.
* GlobalIgnorance: Bart mistakes a "Rand MCNally" logo on his globe for a country, causing Lisa to mock him: "In fact, in Rand MCNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!" Later, Homer looks at the globe, spots Uruguay, and laughs and says "Look at this country! 'UR Gay'! (Laughs)".



* LandDownunder: Almost every stereotype about Australia is squished in.



* MyCountryThisOfTheeThatISting: The fence of the American embassy "made with pride in the U.S.A." malfunctions half way.
* PapaWolf: Homer… as far as keeping Bart from getting booted.

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* MyCountryThisOfTheeThatISting: {{Mooning}}: Bart shows his buttocks to the offended Australian people.
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting:
The fence of the American embassy "made with pride in the U.S.A." malfunctions half way. \n* PapaWolf: Homer… as far as keeping Bart from getting booted.



* TakeThat: This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Michael Fay that happened Singapore for vandalism.
* TemptingFate: A man stuck on the roof of his house during a lava stream risks and loses his life just to grab for a telephone that happens to ring while he floats by.
** A koala bear touches an electric device twice, gets electrocuted, falls down and immediately climbs up again in the tree.

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* TakeThat: This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning OurFounder: A statue of Michael Fay that happened Singapore for vandalism.
* TemptingFate: A man stuck on the roof of his house during a lava stream risks and loses his life just to grab for a telephone that happens to ring while he floats by.
an Australian convict who looks like Snake Jailbird can be seen.
** A koala bear touches an electric device twice, gets electrocuted, falls down and immediately climbs up again in the tree.tree.
* PapaWolf: Homer… as far as keeping Bart from getting booted.



* ShoutOut: The Australian showing Bart a spoon rather a knife is a reference to Film/Crocodile Dundee, where the knife welding robber change his tune when he saw Bowie knife Dundee. Dundee already appeared earlier in the slideshow the American representative displayed.

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* ShoutOut: The Australian showing Bart a spoon rather a knife is a reference to Film/Crocodile Dundee, Film/CrocodileDundee, where the knife welding robber change his tune when he saw Dundee's large Bowie knife Dundee. knife. Dundee already appeared earlier in this episode during the slideshow the American representative displayed.



* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The Simpsons watch a presentation about Australia on a slide projector. Today they would probably use a Powerpoint presentation.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: TakeThat: This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Michael Fay in Singapore for vandalism.
* TemptingFate: A man stuck on the roof of his house during a lava stream risks and loses his life just to grab for a telephone that happens to ring while he floats by.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The chance that AdolfHitler was still alive in 1994 was already very doubtful, given that he would be 105 years old. Nowadays... even more so.
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The Simpsons watch a presentation about Australia on a slide projector. Today they would probably use a Powerpoint presentation.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer asking Bart if he can commit fraud to go on a free trip to Florida.

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* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: Bart unknowingly phones an old age AdolfHitler in an unknown South-American country.
* BananaRepublic: Bart phones a Latin American dictator.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer asking Bart if he can commit fraud to go on a free trip to Florida.Florida?



* MamaBear: Marge
* PapaWolf: Homer… as far as keeping Bart from getting booted

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* KangaroosRepresentAustralia: As soon as The Simpsons arrive in Australia the first one appears.
* KarmaHoudini: Bart is never punished for what he has done.
* LostInTranslation: Bart asks a translator of a South American dictator "which way the water in their toilets turns after flushing?" The translator misinterprets this and tells the dictator "the tides are turning", to which he panicks and jumps out of the window.
* MamaBear: Marge
Marge.
* MyCountryThisOfTheeThatISting: The fence of the American embassy "made with pride in the U.S.A." malfunctions half way.
* PapaWolf: Homer… as far as keeping Bart from getting bootedbooted.
* NationalStereotypes: Australians really don't come off too well in this episode.



* TemptingFate: A man stuck on the roof of his house during a lava stream risks and loses his life just to grab for a telephone that happens to ring while he floats by.
** A koala bear touches an electric device twice, gets electrocuted, falls down and immediately climbs up again in the tree.



* ShoutOut: The Australian showing Bart a spoon rather a knife is a reference to the Crocodile Dundee, where the knife welding robber change his tune when he saw Bowie knife Dundee.

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* ShoutOut: The Australian showing Bart a spoon rather a knife is a reference to the Crocodile Film/Crocodile Dundee, where the knife welding robber change his tune when he saw Bowie knife Dundee.Dundee. Dundee already appeared earlier in the slideshow the American representative displayed.
** When the Simpsons leave the embassy by helicopter it's a direct shout-out a famous photo of the Americans leaving Vietnam after the Communist takeover in 1975.



* [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than He Looks]]: Bart’s ability to taunt the Australians, and he [[spoiler: moons them with the message, Don't Tread on Me,]] even Lisa was got by surprise on how he did it.

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* [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than He Looks]]: Bart’s ability to taunt the Australians, and he [[spoiler: moons them with the message, Don't "Don't Tread on Me,]] Me", written on his buttocks]] even Lisa was got by surprise on is surprised how he did it.it?
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The Simpsons watch a presentation about Australia on a slide projector. Today they would probably use a Powerpoint presentation.

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* RealityEnsures: Homer and Bart think they can hop into [[KangarooPouchRide kangaroo pouches]] to ride around in, but they're just full of mucus

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* RealityEnsures: RealityEnsues: Homer and Bart just think they can hop into [[KangarooPouchRide kangaroo pouches]] to ride around in, but they're just full of mucusmucus...
* ScareChord: The koala riding the helicopter back to American soil.
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* RealityEnsures: Homer and Bart think they can hop into [[KangarooPouchRide kangaroo pouches]] to ride around in, but they're just full of mucus
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* BannedInChina: Aussies ''really'' don't like this episode.
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* BannedInChina: Aussies ''really'' don't like this episode.
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* SingingInTheShower: Homer at the beginning of the episode... before Bart begins to [[FlushingToiletScreamingShower flush the toilet constantly]].
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The episode in aired 1995, which seems eerie to watch after the 1997-98 South Pacific cyclone season, where a Category 1 tropical cyclone got French Polynesia, near Australia, which resulted in 10 deaths. Why is that eerie... the name of the storm was Bart.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment/HarsherInHindlight: The episode in aired 1995, which seems eerie to watch after the 1997-98 South Pacific cyclone season, where a Category 1 tropical cyclone got French Polynesia, near Australia, which resulted in 10 deaths. Why is that eerie... the name of the storm was Bart.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment/HarsherInHindlight: FunnyAneurysmMoment: The episode in aired 1995, which seems eerie to watch after the 1997-98 South Pacific cyclone season, where a Category 1 tropical cyclone got French Polynesia, near Australia, which resulted in 10 deaths. Why is that eerie... the name of the storm was Bart.

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* {{Expy}}: The First Australian Prime Minster looks just like Snake, while the Australian store clerk shows like that teenage character back in Springfield.

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* {{Expy}}: The First Australian Prime Minster Minister looks just like Snake, while the Australian store clerk shows like that teenage character back in Springfield.Springfield.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment/HarsherInHindlight: The episode in aired 1995, which seems eerie to watch after the 1997-98 South Pacific cyclone season, where a Category 1 tropical cyclone got French Polynesia, near Australia, which resulted in 10 deaths. Why is that eerie... the name of the storm was Bart.



* TakeThat: This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Micheal Fay that happened Singapore for vandalism.

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* TakeThat: This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Micheal Michael Fay that happened Singapore for vandalism.

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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Home just writes a check rather ask you called… Bart!
* AwesomeAussie
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer asking Bart if he can commit fraud to go on a free trip to Florida
* HilariousInHindsight: Bart prank calling Australia, Lost Verizon, and the Simpsons in Florida, Kill Alligator and Run.

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\n* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Home just writes a check rather ask you called… Bart!\n* AwesomeAussie\n------------------------------------------------------------
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer asking Bart if he can commit fraud to go on a free trip to Florida
* HilariousInHindsight: Bart prank calling Australia, Lost Verizon, and the Simpsons in Florida, Kill Alligator and Run.
Florida.



* TakeThat: This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Micheal Fay that happened Singapore for the crime of vandalism.

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* TakeThat: This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Micheal Fay that happened Singapore for the crime of vandalism.



* [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than He Looks]]: Bart’s ability to taunt the Australians, and he [[spoiler: moons them with the message, Don't Tread on Me,]] even Lisa was got by surprise on how he did it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Bart’s bullfrog… he’s didn’t get her up on the way back. She has to a number on Australia.

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* [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than He Looks]]: Bart’s ability to taunt the Australians, and he [[spoiler: moons them with the message, Don't Tread on Me,]] even Lisa was got by surprise on how he did it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Bart’s bullfrog… he’s didn’t get her up on the way back. She has to a number on Australia.
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* PapaWolf: Homer… as far as keeping him from getting

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* PapaWolf: Homer… as far as keeping him Bart from getting booted
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* Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Bart vs. Australia takes place in… well Australia.

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* Exactly What It Says on the Tin: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Bart vs. Australia takes place in… well Australia.
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After Bart pranks a child in Australia in order to prove Lisa’s theory, he faces more than he bargains when the family has to go to the nation.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Home just writes a check rather ask you called… Bart!
* AwesomeAussie
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer asking Bart if he can commit fraud to go on a free trip to Florida
* HilariousInHindsight: Bart prank calling Australia, Lost Verizon, and the Simpsons in Florida, Kill Alligator and Run.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Homer tries to explain to the Australian government about punishments.
* Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Bart vs. Australia takes place in… well Australia.
* {{Expy}}: The First Australian Prime Minster looks just like Snake, while the Australian store clerk shows like that teenage character back in Springfield.
* MamaBear: Marge
* PapaWolf: Homer… as far as keeping him from getting
* TakeThat: This episode aired in 1995, a year after the caning of Micheal Fay that happened Singapore for the crime of vandalism.
* ShoutOut: The Australian showing Bart a spoon rather a knife is a reference to the Crocodile Dundee, where the knife welding robber change his tune when he saw Bowie knife Dundee.
* [[SmarterThanYouLook Smarter Than He Looks]]: Bart’s ability to taunt the Australians, and he [[spoiler: moons them with the message, Don't Tread on Me,]] even Lisa was got by surprise on how he did it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Bart’s bullfrog… he’s didn’t get her up on the way back. She has to a number on Australia.

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