History Recap / TheSimpsonsS7E2RadioactiveMan

* DownerEnding: Bart never gets to be Fallout Boy, and despite his and Mickey Rooney's best efforts, Milhouse refuses to continue acting. And thanks to Springfield's price gouging and Mayor Quimby inventing new taxes on the fly to take them for every dime, the film crew runs out of money and the movie is cancelled. Leans more towards BittersweetEnding once the production team comes back to Hollywood and they are treated much better, with the possibility of a quick recovery.

* OffModel: This was the first episode to be done in digital ink and paint (back when 99% of animation was still done with cels and traditional ink and paint; digital ink and paint was mostly just done in high-budget movies prior to circa 2000-2001, and [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy some cartoons used cels until 2005]]), so a lot of the color and character designs will look off for those who aren't used to seeing it this way. It's obvious the that the software used wasn't exactly top-of-the-line.

** Bart is rejected for the part of Fallout Boy despite his natural talent due to being an inch too short, despite the fact that all sorts of filming techniques exist that can be used to make characters look taller or shorter as needed.
** Milhouse is subjected to an extreme dose of x-rays and comments that he's sitting on a broken bottle, with the director telling him to "[[ThrowItIn use it]]."

* BatmanParody: The ''Radioactive Man'' film is directly parodying the Batman blockbusters of the 1990s, including a call-back to the 1960s TV series, where a wacky villain is shown named the Scoutmaster and the fight scenes have onomatopoeic words flashing to the screen.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Scoutmaster from the 1960s Radioactive Man is modeled after Creator/PaulLynde.
* NonAnswer: When Wiggum unleashes the police department's dogs to find Milhouse, the Van Houtens ask Wiggum if they are going to just find Milhouse or find and ''kill'' Milhouse. Wiggum does a silent OhCrap for a second before mumbling out gibberish as an answer, which an [[PapaWolf angry Kirk]] points out.

* CelebrityParadox: Bart refers to Arnold Schwarzenegger at one point, meaning he exists in the ''Simpsons'' universe alongside Rainier Wolfcastle who parodies him. In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', he turns out to be President.

** Milhouse's stunt double is also horrifically run over by a truck and suffers severe injuries. While stunt doubles do run the risk of sustaining injuries in place of the actors, there are always measures in place to ensure the stunts are done as safely as possible without injuring the doubles.

** Milhouse is disillusioned with playing a hero onscreen and says that TrueHeroes are people who work to cure heart disease and end world hunger. Bart calls those heroes inferior to movie heroes because they haven't actually succeeded at their goals, while the movie heroes get "results."

-->"No wonder no one came to my birthday party."

-->Ha-ha! Wait a minute...that hurt. So that's why nobody came to my birthday party.

* StealthPun: The villain in the clip we see of the ''Series/Batman1966''-esque Radioactive Man adaptation is an AmbiguouslyGay scoutmaster. It's "camp" on multiple levels.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: "Get me two plane tickets to the state that Springfield is in." Of course, the viewer never finds out where, because they cut to the next scene and it's never mentioned again.

"Radioactive Man" is the second episode of the seventh season of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (production number 2F17), first aired on September 24, 1995. In this episode, a Hollywood studio decides to make a movie about the popular comic book superhero, ''Radioactive Man'', in Springfield, with Milhouse being selected to portray RM's sidekick Fallout Boy. Things however hit a downward spiral rather quickly.

* OffModel: This was the first episode to be done in digital ink and paint (back when 90% of animation was still done with cels and traditional ink and paint; digital ink and paint was mostly just done in high-budget movies prior to circa 1997-98), so a lot of the color and character designs will look off for those who aren't used to seeing it this way. It's obvious the that the software used wasn't exactly top-of-the-line.

** One scene involves Ranier Wolfcastle being swept away in a river of actual acid with no one on set wearing anything more than a pair of safety goggles for protection.

** Milhouse is subjected to an extreme dose of x-rays and comments that he's sitting on a broken bottle, with the director telling him to "use it."

** Two of the sound effect cards in the '70s Radioactive Man scene are "SNUH!" and "BORT!" SNUH was the name of the anti-cartoon violence organization Marge started in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E9ItchyAndScratchyAndMarge Itchy & Scratchy & Marge]]. Bort was the unexpectedly popular souvenir license plate in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand Itchy & Scratchy Land]].
** That the original actor for Radioactive Man is dead was first established in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E21ThreeMenAndAComicBook Three Men And A Comic Book]].

* DancePartyEnding: The flashback to the '70s Radioactive Man movie ends with all the characters dancing alongside scantily clad women.

* ParentalNeglect: Milhouse's parents ignore what he wants and force him to be an actor against his will and then buy incredibly expensive stuff that they intend to have Milhouse pay for.

* TheGogglesDoNothing: This episode is the trope namer. Wolfcastle ''is'' wearing them when the acid sequence is filmed, but it's real acid being used, so: "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"

* OffModel: This was the first episode to be done in digital ink and paint (back when 90% of animation was still done with cels and traditional ink and paint), so a lot of the color and character designs will look off for those who aren't used to seeing it this way.

** All this is lampshaded in one scene where they paint horses so they look like cows, because according to them, cows don't really look like cows on the screen. And when they want horses, they tie a lot of dogs together.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Gary, the black nerd from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E3HomerGoesToCollege Homer Goes to College]]," has a [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/4/42/Radioactive_Man_%28020%29.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130622123601 noticeably different appearance]] this episode.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Gary, the black nerd from "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E3HomerGoesToCollege Homer Goes to College]]," has a [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/4/42/Radioactive_Man_%28020%29.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130622123601 noticeably different appearance]] this episode.