History Recap / TheSimpsonsS7E9SideshowBobsLastGleaming

'''Bob:''' I quite agree. ''([[CommercialBreakCliffhanger He pushes the detonator.]])''

'''Bob:''' I agree. ''([[CommercialBreakCliffhanger He pushes the detonator.]])''

-->'''Bart:''' What a piece of junk.
-->'''Grandpa:''' Junk?! That's the Wright Brothers' plane! At Kitty Hawk in 1902, Charles Lindbergh flew that on a thimble-full of corn oil. Single-handedly won us the Civil War, it did!
-->'''Bart:''' How do you know so much about history?
-->'''Grandpa:''' I pieced it together, mostly from sugar packets.

* TheCameo: Seems [[FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]] and [[DoctorWho The Fourth Doctor]] are esteemed representations of television.

--> '''Woman''': Grandma, this is my friend, Craig. (laugh track)\\
'''Grandma''': "Friend"? You mean you two aren't knockin' boots? (laugh track) Ever do the "back seat mambo", Craigy? (laugh track) Now, I'm gonna haul ass to Lollapalooza! (revs her motorcycle)

* GilliganCut:
--> '''Wiggum''': Shut your word-hole! We gotta get this place clean for the air show!\\
'''Sideshow Bob''': Air show? Buzz-cut Alabamians spewing colored smoke from their whizz jets to the strains of "Rock You Like a Hurricane"? What kind of country-fried rube is still impressed by that?\\
(cut to the Simpsons; Homer, Bart, and Lisa are ecstatic about it)

-->'''Bart:''' Bob, no!
-->'''Lisa:''' Don't you see? That would be taking the easy way out!
-->'''Bob:''' I agree. (''[[CommercialBreakCliffhanger He pushes the detonator.]]'')

*** One of the scenes shows Maggie picking flowers in a field, with the camera zooming into her eye is a parody of the infamous and controversial Daisy ad used by Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 United States presidential election.

--> '''Hapablap''': What in the [[Literature/TheWorldAccordingToGarp World According to Garp]]?!\\
'''Hapablap''': If you don't open that door, I'll tear you up like a Kleenex at a snot party!\\
'''Hapablap''': Sweet Enola Gay, son! I'm gonna come in there and corpse you up! Corpse you up, and mail you to mama!\\
'''Hapablap''': We'll find that headcase faster than Garfield finds lasagna. (nobody laughs) Oh. Sorry, my wife thought that was gangbusters.\\
'''Hapablap''': You know what really frosts my Kelvinator?

* [[spoiler: WheresTheKaboom: Bob attempts to detonate a nuclear bomb, only for it to go off with a disappointing fizzle and fall apart, revealing a family of mice and a 'best before' date of 1959.]]
** [[spoiler: PointlessDoomsdayDevice]]

** ''DrStrangelove''

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Bob claimed that he was doing a good deed by ridding Springfield of TV, but all it really did was make him the top dog in the manger. Also, when Bob sees Springfield give into his demands, he exclaims "I should have made more demands!"

* WhoWritesThisCrap: Sideshow Bob said the way his evil plans ended could have been written by Hollywood's laziest writer.

* ActorAllusion: [[RLeeErmey Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap]] gives Bob the liner "[[FullMetalJacket What is your major malfunction?]]"

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: An Australian man who looks like Rupert Murdoch seen in jail with Sideshow Bob for an unspecified crime. Years later, one of Murdoch's newspapers wiretapped to get news and was shut down, although Murdoch never personally faced any charges.

-->'''Bob:''' I quite agree. (''[[CommercialBreakCliffhanger He pushes the detonator.]]'')

** The esteemed representatives of television include [[Series/FamilyMatters Urkel]] and [[Series/DoctorWho the Fourth Doctor]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: An Australian man who looks like Rupert Murdoch seen in jail with Sideshow Bob for an unspecified crime. Years later, Rupert Murdoch faced charges for one of his newspapers' wiretapping to get news, and was shut down.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Rupert Murdoch (or at least a lookalike of him) is seen in jail with Sideshow Bob for an unspecified crime. Years later, Rupert Murdoch faced charges for one of his newspapers' wiretapping to get news, and was shut down.

* {{Cameo}}: Seems [[DoctorWho The Fourth Doctor]] is an esteemed representation of Television.

Sideshow Bob becomes disturbed when he hears the other inmates laughing at the inane antics of Krusty the Clown's television show and decides to rid the world of television. He escapes while on work duty at a local Air Force Base, which is being cleaned for an annual air show. He steals a 10-megaton nuclear weapon and threatens to detonate it unless Springfield gives in to his demand to shut down all television broadcasts.

* PointlessDoomsdayDevice: Sideshow Bob forgets to check if his bomb still works.