History Recap / TheSimpsonsS7E10TheSimpsons138thEpisodeSpectacular

* ExactWords: The announcer asks which two popular Simpsons characters died in the past year, with the answer being Bleeding Gums Murphy (who died in season 6's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E22RoundSpringfield Round Springfield]]") and Dr. Marvin Monroe, but it's incorrect because "they were never popular."[[note]]Monroe's survival was later retconned into a much later episode, making this either wrong or DatedHistory.[[/note]]

* Fake trivia in the commercial break bumpers (one about the FreezeFrameBonus during the opening credits when Maggie is put through the grocery store checkout scanner and one about which two popular characters died in the past year[[note]]which is a trick question, as, while Dr. Marvin Monroe and Bleeding Gums Murphy did die, they were never popular[[/note]])

* Real deleted scenes, including Krusty getting cancelled after his arrest for trying to sell a pornographic photo book to minors in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled Krusty Gets Kancelled]]" (and a subsequent scene where Krusty is told his show is canceled and will be replaced with a hemorrhoid informercial, with Krusty begging to play either a hemorrhoid sufferer or one of the "After" guys); Homer's head being used as a bowling ball in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV The Devil and Homer Simpson]]"[[note]](along with Bart trying to sell his soul for a Formula-One racing car, and Lionel Hutz coming back with a box of pizza, thinking he lost the case, but when Marge tells him they won, he reveals the box was empty all along)[[/note]]; Homer eating food from his mom's undelivered care packages and talking about how he's taking the nuclear plant down from the inside in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E8MotherSimpson Mother Simpson]]", Apu showing a Bollywood film to The Simpsons in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E13HomerAndApu Homer and Apu]]"; Mr. Burns using a robotic Richard Simmons to scare Homer away in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E18BurnsHeir Burns' Heir]]"; and a montage of alternate scenes made for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)]]" to keep the real shooter's identity secret until broadcast, presenting everyone from Moe to Tito Puente to Santa's Little Helper as the culprit. This is followed by a complete alternate ending in which Smithers turned out to be the culprit all along (which would have conflicted with the plot point about the attempted murderer being someone having Simpson family DNA).

* NightmareFuel: [[https://frinkiac.com/video/S07E10/tzD07p9Mb8s007b3F5vhnGSdVC0=.gif the unnerving, physically implausible, and unexpected way in which Smithers emerges before shooting Burns.]]

* NightmareFuel: [[https://frinkiac.com/video/S07E10/tzD07p9Mb8s007b3F5vhnGSdVC0=.gif unnerving, physically implausible, and unexpected way in which Smithers emerges before shooting Burns]].

** The drawings of Krusty and Grampa are a jab at the animation quality of the early shorts.

* FreezeFrameBonus / UnreadablyFastText: Troy, under Groening's supposed insistence, gives credit to the staff behind ''The Simpsons''... and shows a two second scroll of names that whizz up the screen. [[http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/3F31.html The names are actual staff members.]]

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The end credits showing different scenes of various ''male'' characters being naked.

* ClipShow: Albeit with even more LampshadeHanging of the concept than usual for this show, and the only ''Simpsons'' clip show that doesn't have the Simpsons family sitting around and remembering past adventures.
** Notably, the producers tried to avoid the usual clip show tropes as much as possible, with the inclusion of previously-unreleased deleted scenes and the rare Tracey Ullman shorts (which, pilot short aside, aren't even available on DVD outside of this clip show). As [=McClure=] points out, Act Two's DeletedScenes montage is arguably a DefiedTrope.

The third ''Simpsons'' ClipShow, albeit presented as a retrospective/anniversary special of the series rather than as a normal episode with the characters reminiscing (as seen with "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" and "Another Simpsons Clip Show").

Troy [=McClure=], whom you may remember from such Fox Network specials as ''Alien Nose Job'' and ''Five Fabulous Weeks of The Chevy Chase Show'', opens the program with a look at creator Creator/MattGroening -- who is depicted as a crazed, right-wing Southerner who came up with the Simpsons to pay off his gambling debts -- and clips from the original ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' shorts. After that, there's:

* Actual deleted scenes from several episodes, including Krusty getting cancelled after his arrest for trying to sell a pornographic photo book to minors in "Krusty Gets Kancelled" (and a subsequent scene where Krusty is told his show is canceled and will be replaced with a hemorrhoid informercial, with Krusty begging to play either a hemorrhoid sufferer or one of the "After" guys), Homer's head being used as a bowling ball in "The Devil and Homer Simpson,"[[note]]along with Bart trying to sell his soul for a Formula-One racing car, and Lionel Hutz coming back with a box of pizza, thinking he lost the case, but when Marge tells him they won, he reveals the box was empty all along[[/note]], Homer eating food from his mom's undelivered care packages and talking about how he's taking the nuclear plant down from the inside in "Mother Simpson," Apu showing a Bollywood film to The Simpsons in "Homer and Apu," Mr. Burns using a robotic Richard Simmons to scare Homer away in "Burns' Heir," and a montage of alternate scenes made for "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" to keep the real shooter's identity secret until broadcast, presenting everyone from Moe to Tito Puente to Santa's Little Helper as the culprit. This is followed by a complete alternate ending in which Smithers turned out to be the culprit all along (which would have conflicted with the plot point about the attempted murderer being someone having Simpson family DNA).

[=McClure=] closes the show with the real reason people want to watch the show: "Hardcore nudity!" (albeit PG-rated hardcore nudity).

* ArtShift: The purposefully bad drawings of Grampa Simpson and Krusty the Clown that look as if a kindergartener drew them.
* BitingTheHandHumor: Troy [=McClure's=] self-introduction (see above) mocks some of Fox's most embarrassing efforts of TheNineties -- the DocumentaryOfLies ''Alien Autopsy'' and ''The Chevy Chase Show'', a late night talk show that lasted less than two months in 1993.

** Notably, the producers tried to avoid the usual clip show tropes as much as possible, with the inclusion of previously-unreleased deleted scenes and the rare Tracey Ullman shorts (which, pilot short aside, aren't even available on DVD outside of this clip show). As Troy [=McClure=] points out, Act Two's DeletedScenes montage is arguably a DefiedTrope.

* DomesticOnlyCartoon: To date, this is the only episode of the series to be fully animated in America, with no Korean outsourcing involved. This is because there was very little new footage that needed animating, and what little was required was just the outside shot of the Springfield Amphitheater (with the sign gag that the next day's event is an "Alternate Lifestyle Prom"), and all the scenes involving Troy sitting, standing, and talking to the audience. The episode was also digitally colored in America.
* ExactWords: The announcer asks which two popular Simpsons characters died in the past year, with the answer being Bleeding Gums Murphy (who did die in season 6's "Round Springfield") and Dr. Marvin Monroe, but it's incorrect because "they were never popular." [[note]]Dr. Marvin Monroe's survival was later retconned into a much later episode, making this either wrong or DatedHistory.[[/note]]
* FreezeFrameBonus / UnreadablyFastText: Troy, under Matt Groening's supposed insistence, gives credit to the staff behind ''The Simpsons''... and shows a two second scroll of names that whizz up the screen. [[http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/3F31.html The names are actual staff members.]]

-->'''Groening''': GIT OUTTA MAH OFFICE! (''shoots [[CameraAbuse into the camera]]'')
* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Troy [=McClure=] shows the first of the [[Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow Tracey Ullman era]] Simpsons shorts and, after it's over, looks confused before quickly saying that [[BlatantLies the Simpsons haven't changed a bit since then.]]

** Matt Groening is portrayed as an old, bald, gun-toting maniac who shoots at the camera crew who tries to interview him.

** The drawings of Krusty and Abe Simpson are a jab at the animation quality of the early shorts.
** At the end of the deleted scenes, Troy's shown having fallen asleep, and has to be prodded with a stick to wake up.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Creator/MattGroening was drawn to look like Creator/JohnFord.

* Actual deleted scenes from several episodes, including Krusty getting cancelled after his arrest for trying to sell a pornographic photo book to minors in "Krusty Gets Kancelled," Homer's head being used as a bowling ball in "The Devil and Homer Simpson," Homer eating food from his mom's undelivered care packages and talking about how he's taking the nuclear plant down from the inside in "Mother Simpson," Apu showing a Bollywood film to The Simpsons in "Homer and Apu," Mr. Burns using a robotic Richard Simmons to scare Homer away in "Burns' Heir," and a montage of alternate scenes made for "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" to keep the real shooter's identity secret until broadcast, presenting everyone from Moe to Tito Puente to Santa's Little Helper as the culprit. This is followed by a complete alternate ending in which Smithers turned out to be the culprit all along (which would have conflicted with the plot point about the attempted murderer being someone having Simpson family DNA).

[=McClure=] closes the show with the real reason people want to watch the show: "Hardcore nudity!" (albeit PG-rated hardcore nudity). The episode closes out with a montage of naked male characters set to "Shake Your Booty" by K.C. and the Sunshine Band.

* AlanSmithee: Jon Vitti wrote the episode under the pseudonym "Penny Wise", because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show. Director Creator/DavidSilverman used the pseudonym "Pound Foolish".

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* ExactWords: The announcer asks which two popular Simpsons characters died in the past year, with the answer being Bleeding Gums Murphy (who did die in season 6's "Round Springfield") and Dr. Marvin Monroe, but it's incorrect because "they were never popular." [[note]]And Dr. Marvin Monroe was never actually stated to have died and shows up in a much later episode, making this either wrong or DatedHistory.[[/note]]

* TakeThat: There's one to the O.J. Simpson criminal trial's jury, when it's noted that the Smithers-as-culprit ending to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7WhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr. Burns?]]" could not work because it would require ignoring "all the Simpson [=DNA=] evidence", which was what the jury was accused of doing.

* SpecialEditionTitle: This episode not only features a ColdOpen featuring Troy [=McClure=] setting up the episode's premise, but also an EpisodeTitleCard replacing the actual title screen. It also omits the transition through the "P" in "Simpsons" (since the title uses the marketing logo rather than the usual in-show logo).
* TakeThat: There's one to the O.J. Simpson criminal trial's jury, when it's noted that the Smithers-as-culprit ending to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7WhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr. Burns?]]" could not work because it would require ignoring "all the Simpson [=DNA=] evidence", which was what the jury was accused of doing.
-->''And that would be downright nutty.''
** Note that, in the context of the scene, he's wrong, since the alternate ending still includes Burns' fight with Maggie, so the DNA evidence would simply become a red herring.
* TakeThatUs: The whole episode runs on this.

** After recalling Mr. Burns was shot by "the baby", he goes apatheticly silent for a while. He then coughs to cover it.

* AlanSmithee: Jon Vitti wrote the episode under the pseudonym "Penny Wise", because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show. Director Creator/DavidSilverman used the pseudonym "Proud Foolish".

* AlanSmithee: Jon Vitti wrote the episode under the pseudonym "Penny Wise", because he did not want to be credited for writing a clip show.

Troy [=McClure=], whom you may remember from such Fox Network specials as ''Alien Nose Job'' and ''Five Fabulous Weeks of The Chevy Chase Show'', opens the program with a look at creator Matt Groening -- who is depicted as a crazed, right-wing Southerner who came up with the Simpsons to pay off his gambling debts -- and clips from the original ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' shorts. After that, there's:

* TakeThat: There's one to the O.J. Simpson criminal trial's jury, when it's noted that the Smithers-as-culprit ending to "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" could not work because it would require ignoring "all the Simpson [=DNA=] evidence", which was what the jury was accused of doing.

** Troy's reaction to the earliest Simpson's episode is stunned silence.