History Recap / TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul

* BrokenAesop: PlayedForLaughs. After Moe gets rid of all of the restaurant stuff, he confides to Homer that the restaurant was very stressful and that he's learnt his lesson that he's happier doing what he's always been doing -- and then Homer points out that the reason Moe decided to create the restaurant was that attending the same five drunks every day was not making him enough money, which depresses Moe all over again.

* AintTooProudToBeg: At first Bart mocked the idea of a soul, but after strange things started happening to him, and after his CatapultNightmare where everyone else has their soul but him, Bart asks to buy it back from Milhouse, who demands ten times the amount he paid for it. Later, after Bart tracks Milhouse to his grandma's house in the middle of the night, he says he's willing to do anything to get it back, but Milhouse tells him he traded it for some pogs.

* SevenDeadlySins:
** Lust: Everyone looking disheveled and SexDressed during "In the Garden of Eden", Marge and Homer giggling over memories of making out to the "hymn", and Snake's sexy girlfriend Soshanna.
** Gluttony: Homer grousing over having to wait 40 seconds for a flash-fried buffalo; Homer's brain telling Homer not to call Bart back because he can have Bart's meal.
** Greed: Lovejoy counting his collection plate money, Milhouse gloating over having Bart's soul and demanding ten times what Bart sold it to him for Bart to buy it back, Homer taking Bart's meal (see also Gluttony), and Moe starting Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag because restaurants make more money than bars.
** Sloth: Bart and Milhouse slacking off at their organ-cleaning duties and Milhouse's dad telling Bart to go away because he needs to sleep.
** Wrath: Moe snaps at a little girl for complaining about her drink, Lovejoy getting mad at Bart and Milhouse over the prank, and Bart yelling at Lisa when Lisa keeps mocking him over the loss of his soul during grace.
** Envy: Lisa wants $5 after Bart spent it on dinosaur sponges, Bart envying the souls of the kids in his dreams, and Moe envying restaurants for bringing in more money than bars.
** Pride: Bart prides himself for making an easy five bucks and is too proud to admit that the soul exists (until bad things begin happening to him). He also attempts to sell other conceptual aspects of himself to Lisa due to believing them all worthless.

* SilenceYouFool: Homer's brain tells Homer to be silent so he could steal Bart's spaghetti and Moe balls.

* DreamSequence: Bart dreams he has no soul to row along with him to a magic castle on an island in a lake. Near the end of the episode, he has the same dream again now with his soul along his side.

(''Snake and his date rush out of the restaurant'')

* EyeScream: In "Skinless in Seattle", Itchy saws off the top half of the Space Needle, the point of which lands in — you guessed it — Scratchy's eye. He runs around in pain with the whole thing just slightly lodged in his eye.

* EatTheCamera: The result of the shot after Bart's nightmare in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII Treehouse of Horror II]]" being recycled. (See [[RecycledAnimation Recycled Animation]])

* EatTheCamera: The result of [[RecycledAnimation Recycled Animation.]] after Bart's dream.

* EatTheCamera: The result of [[RecycledAnimation]].

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* EatTheCamera: The result of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RecycledAnimation Recycled Animation.]]

* CluelessAesop: This is an incredibly ambiguous episode due to the fact that it refuses to make its point known. Sometimes, it’s a religious episode, while other times it's not. Sometimes the characters are depicted as TheWoobie while other times they are jerkasses. It doesn’t even say definitively whether or not the soul exists.

* OffModel: Jasper's [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S07E04/60843.jpg briefly seen without his beard]] as the church sings "In the Garden of Eden". It's... unsettling.

* WholePlotReference: The episode borrows its central premise from a subplot of the French-Italian movie ''Film/TheReturnOfDonCamillo'' (1953), in which Catholic believer Doctor Spiletti persuades communist workman Nero (who does not believe that souls are real) to sell him his soul for 1000 lire. Cue Nero feeling increasingly uneasy about the deal (though for no obvious reason) until he begs the doctor to void the bargain, which he does.

* WholePlotReference: The episode borrows its main story from a subplot of the French-Italian movie ''Film/TheReturnOfDonCamillo'' (1953), in which Catholic believer Doctor Spiletti persuades communist workman Nero (who does not believe that souls are real) to sell him his soul for 1000 lire. Cue Nero feeling increasingly uneasy about the deal (though for no obvious reason) until he begs the doctor to void the bargain, which he does.

* WholePlotReference: The episode borrows its main story from a subplot of the French-Italian movie ''Film/TheReturnOfDonCamillo'' (1953), in which communist workman Nero and Catholic believer Doctor Spiletti find they do not agree on whether souls exist, leading to Spiletti persuading Nero to sell him his soul for 1000 lire. Cue Nero feeling increasingly uneasy about the deal (though for no obvious reason) until he begs the doctor to void the transaction, which he does.

** The ''JustForFun/ItchyAndScratchy'' episode is called "[[Film/SleeplessInSeattle Skinless in Seattle]]".

** The ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode is called "[[Film/SleeplessInSeattle Skinless in Seattle]]".

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Things start becoming a bit odd for soulless Bart, such as not being able to open automatic doors, his pets hissing wildly at him, and... not being able to breathe on the glass. But it's never firmly established if he really did lose his soul.

* ChildHater: The B-plot sees Moe's efforts to turn the bar into a family restaurant flailing due to being one of these.