History Recap / TheSimpsonsS6E9HomerBadman

* SodaCandySplosion: Homer improvises a grenade out of [[SodaCandySplosion a can of cola and a bag of Pop Rocks]] to cover his escape after he steals the Gummi Venus di Milo.

* AwesomeUnderwaterWorld: Homer imagines moving to one of these with his family in a sequence spoofing ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''.

-->'''Homer:''' What's that?
-->'''Conventioneer:''' That is the rarest gummi of them all, the gummi Venus de Milo. Carved by gummi artisans who work exclusively in the medium of gummi.
-->'''Marge:''' Will you two stop saying "gummi" so much?

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When an angry mob shows up outside the Simpson house, Homer is afraid it's the candy vendors who have tracked them down for his theft of the gummi Venus and the destruction of the convention hall.
--> '''Ashley''': ''That's him!'' That's the man who sexually harassed me!
--> '''Homer''': Whew! For a second there I thought I was in big trouble, but it's just a— ''[[DelayedReaction D'OH!!]]''

* IgnoredAesop: Homer is cleared of the allegations against him, particularly with the "Rock Bottom" corrections, yet when the same show accuses Willie of being a pervert, Homer is quick to condemn him.
-->'''Homer:''' That man is sick!
-->'''Marge:''' Groundskeeper Willie saved you, Homer.
-->'''Homer:''' But listen to the music! He's evil!
-->'''Marge:''' Hasn't this experience taught you you can't believe everything you hear?
-->'''Homer:''' Marge, my friend... I haven't learned a thing.
-->(''Marge and the rest of the family groan in frustration, and walk off'')

** Homer has a ImagineSpot where he proposes to go in hiding under the sea, which is a parody of "Under The Sea" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' where Homer eats all the singing and dancing fishes and crabs.

** When ''Rock Bottom'' does a news piece on [[HereWeGoAgain Willie]], they call him [[Wrestling/RoddyPiper "Rowdy Roddy Peeper".]]

* TemptingFate: When Homer sees the Gummy de Milo, he wants Marge to distract everyone so he can steal it, but Marge refuses, stating she doesn't want to make a further spectacle of herself after being dragged about all over the candy convention. She immediately has no choice but to make a spectacle of herself when one of the overstuffed pockets of Homer's specially made coat bursts right open, spilling tons of candy all over the floor around her.
--> '''Marge''': How'd they get there? (chuckles bashfully as she starts picking up candy while everyone else is distracted helping her)
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: When Kent turns on the infrared camera, he mistakes a chicken cooking in the oven for Homer Simpson.
--> '''Kent''': Now, this technology is new to me, but I'm pretty sure that's Homer Simpson in the oven rotating slowly. His body temperature has risen to over 400 degrees. He's literally stewing in his own juices!

* UnreadablyFastText: The media's correction of their false accusations against Homer scrolls up the screen this way. Of course, this is at least partially because it was just one of [[LongList many, many corrections]] they were making that day. They pretty much ''had'' to scroll them that fast or else they'd probably never finish. {{Subverted}} in that the Simpsons themselves ''can'' read the text.

* MadeOfExplodium: Homer [[MacGyvering MacGyvers]] up a combination of Buzz Cola and Pop Rocks to create a large fiery explosion to stop his pursuers.

* OutrunTheFireball: The DVD commentary describes the manner of Homer's escape from the candy convention ([[SodaCandySplosion using a can of Buzz Cola and some Pop Rocks]), complete with a PreMortemOneLiner ("See you in Hell, candy boys!"), as "A parody of every Creator/BruceWillis movie ever made".

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Mixing cola and Pop Rocks will not cause an explosion, but mixing cola with Mentos, famously, will (and even then, it's not like the can was full of napalm).

* OutrunTheFireball: The DVD commentary describes the manner of Homer's escape from the candy convention (using a can of Buzz Cola and some Pop Rocks), complete with a PreMortemOneLiner ("See you in Hell, candy boys!"), as "A parody of every Creator/BruceWillis movie ever made".

* SodaCandySplosion: Homer improvises a grenade out of a can of cola and a bag of Pop Rocks to cover his escape after he steals the Gummi Venus di Milo.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** A minor example, in that what makes the whole ball start running is the fact that Marge is (understandably) horrified at Homer's decision to leave the kids home alone while they go to a candy convention, and insists they hire a babysitter.
** Bart and Lisa eat most of the candy Homer brought home from the convention and wake up sick the next morning.
** Doubling as BaitAndSwitch, a DeletedScene had a man and woman at the candy convention accidentally knocking one's chocolate bar into the other's jar of peanut butter. While one would expect it to be a light-hearted misunderstanding that ends with them sharing their food like in the classic Reese's Peanut Butter Cup commercials, the two are instead horrified that their snacks were ruined by both carelessness and foreign germs to the point of [[FrivolousLawsuit threatening to sue one another.]] Fortunately, Homer takes the snacks from them for himself.
** Everything that happened on the set of ''Ben'' is exactly what would happen if you were to have a wild animal loose in a contained, unnatural environment (albeit it is a TakeThat to how seemingly anyone could get their own talk show in the 80s and 90s and it does take place in the slow-witted town of Springfield).
** Smithers is ''completely right'' about the civilian protesters not being allowed in Sector 7-G of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

* AwesomeUnderwaterWorld: Homer imagines moving to one of these with his family in a sequence spoofing ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid''.

* OffModel: Usually, [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E04/1067949.jpg Professor Frink sports]] OpaqueNerdGlasses. In this episode, [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E09/212011.jpg we see the dots of his eyes in the lenses]].

* StrawFeminist: Ashley Grant condescendingly says men are easily and deservedly manipulated, even children like Bart ([[KickTheSonOfABitch although Bart specifically was being a chauvinist brat toward her]]). That said, [[JerkassHasAPoint she had every reason to think]] Homer was harassing her (Homer's actual reason being pretty ridiculously absurd), her views and character take a massive backseat to the ensuing media circus, and she does admit she was wrong when shown evidence to the contrary.

* BlatantLies: The ''Rock Bottom'' broadcast is incredibly poorly edited to make it seem like Homer confessed to harassment, the dialogue is choppy and the clock in the background keeps changing time ([[RuleOfFunny even though it didn't actually do that in the interview itself]]), and it ends with a frozen shot of Homer "attacking" Jones on the set, including a quick disclaimer about how it's a dramatization and might not have happened. Only a complete idiot would fall for it... unfortunately, Springfield is a city ''populated by'' complete idiots.

--> '''Homer''': Whew! For a second there I thought I was in big trouble, but it's just a— ''[[DelayedReaction DO'H!!]]''

--> '''Homer''': Whew! For a second there I thought I was in big trouble, but it's just a— [[DelayedReaction ''DO'H!!'']]

--> '''Homer''': Whew! For a second there I thought I was in big trouble, but it's just a -''DO'H!!''

After stealing a rare gummi candy (one shaped like the Venus de Milo) from a confection convention, Homer loses it -- and finds it on the butt of the babysitter he hired (a feminist university student) while driving her home, but his successful grab turns into a media circus and women's rights protest after Homer is accused of [[TheChikan inappropriately grabbing]] the babysitter.