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**"...And my parents."

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Although Ned has only to blame himself for failing to buy home insurance in the first place and he put too much faith in God restoring everything back to order for him, when he lashes out at the Springfieldians for failing to build him a proper house he does make some good points about them being all incompetent, selfish, slovenly to get so much as a thanks from him. He also has a point according to his views that a good person shouldn't go through what he has.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Although Ned has only to blame himself for failing to buy home insurance in the first place and he put too much faith in God restoring everything back to order for him, when him. When he lashes out at the Springfieldians for failing to build him a proper house house, he does make some good points about them all being all too incompetent, selfish, and slovenly to get so much as a thanks from him. He also has a point according to his views that a good person shouldn't go through what he has.



* NiceGuy: The Happiest Man in Springfield, who politely clarifies everyone that Ned was referring to himself and thanks them for looking.

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* NiceGuy: The Happiest Man in Springfield, who politely clarifies to everyone that Ned was referring to himself and thanks them for looking.

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** Repressing your rage and other negative emotions is not a good way to deal with them. Because eventually you'll lose control over them and have no coping mechanism.
** Discipining your child is hard, but if you don't, they'll grow up to be cruel and disrespectful.

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** Repressing your rage and other negative emotions is not a good way to deal with them. Because them because eventually you'll lose control over them and have no coping mechanism.
** Discipining Expressing anger isn't always a bad thing, when it's done appropriately and moderately then it can be a healthy response to a bad situation. Suppressing your anger and letting it boil over will get everyone hurt.
** Disciplining
your child is hard, but if you don't, don't do it, they'll grow up to be cruel and disrespectful.disrespectful. On the other hand, if you over-discipline your child then you may cause problems for them in later life.
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* EpicFail: The Springfielders' attempt at rebuilding Ned's house just keeps getting worse, starting at loose nails before revealing the toilet's in the kitchen, one room is so poorly wired that it generates static outside, they ran out of floorboards and painted the dirt and a hallway shrinks to the point of becoming AlienGeometries. And then the entire house falls down, finally driving Ned to [[RageBreakingPoint lash out]].
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'''Krusty the Clown:''' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Mallowmars, oh, that's going in the act.]]\\

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'''Krusty the Clown:''' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Mallowmars, Mallomars, oh, that's going in the act.]]\\
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* UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: The Flanderses' house gets destroyed by a hurricane and Ned goes crazy, shouting at everyone about their biggest flaws. It also reveals that Ned's VerbalTic is due to years of repressed anger due to his parents that would never punish him.
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* ThrowingOutTheScript: Dr. Foster gives Homer a set of cue cards wit insults to read in order to set him off. When none of them work, Homer throws them away and simply helps Ned find something to express his anger about.

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* ThrowingOutTheScript: Dr. Foster gives Homer a set of cue cards wit with insults to read in order to set him off. When none of them work, Homer throws them away and simply helps Ned find something to express his anger about.

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* AlienGeometries: Ned's new house somehow has a hallway that gets smaller and smaller... with Barney trapped in a miniscule room at the end of it.

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* AlienGeometries: Ned's new house somehow has a hallway that gets smaller and smaller... with Barney trapped in a miniscule minuscule room at the end of it.



--> '''Young Ned:''' "Bam! I’m Dick Tracy! Take that, Prune-Face! Now I’m Prune-Face! Bam! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I’m [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Prune Tracy]]! Take that, Dick-"

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--> '''Young Ned:''' "Bam! Bam! I’m Dick Tracy! Take that, Prune-Face! Now I’m Prune-Face! Bam! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I’m [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Prune Tracy]]! Take that, Dick-"Dick-



%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.



* PosterPatchup: In Rod and Todd's room, Todd takes down a poster of Krusty the Clown. Bart explains that the poster was load-bearing and the wall and ceiling immediately begin to crumble.



* RealityEnsues:
** As it turns out, a house built quickly without any expertise isn't bound to stand for very long.
** The spanking that "cured" Ned in his childhood didn't address the underlying issues - the problem remained, he just learned to hide it to avoid punishment. If you only cure the symptoms without addressing the cause, chances are it'll eventually come back.



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** As it turns out, a house built quickly without any expertise isn't bound to stand for very long.
** The spanking that "cured" Ned in his childhood didn't address the underlying issues - the problem remained, he just learned to hide it to avoid punishment. If you only cure the symptoms without addressing the cause, chances are it'll eventually come back.



* TeachHimAnger: Dr. Foster decides to snap Ned out of his breakdown by having Homer anger him intentionally.

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* TeachHimAnger: Dr. Foster decides to snap Ned out of his breakdown by having Homer anger him intentionally. Subverted when it doesn't work, as Homer's scripted insults fall flat. Instead, when Homer starts probing Ned about things that do annoy him, it gets him to rant about the Post Office for a bit before saying he hates his parents.



* ThrowingOutTheScript: Dr. Foster gives Homer a set of cue cards to read in order to set him off. When none of them work, Homer throws them away and simply helps Ned find something to express his anger about.

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* ThrowingOutTheScript: Dr. Foster gives Homer a set of cue cards wit insults to read in order to set him off. When none of them work, Homer throws them away and simply helps Ned find something to express his anger about.
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* AnguishedOutburst: Ned suffers greatly due to the hurricane blowing his house down, the Leftorium being looted, and TheAllegedHouse his friends and neighbors built literally overnight collapses. The final straw was him trying to clean his glasses only for a less to fall out of the frame, which leads to him unleashing his ReasonYouSuckSpeech on those present.

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* AnguishedOutburst: Ned suffers greatly due to the hurricane blowing his house down, the Leftorium being looted, and TheAllegedHouse his friends and neighbors built literally overnight collapses. The final straw was him trying to clean his glasses only for a less lens to fall out of the frame, which leads to him unleashing his ReasonYouSuckSpeech on those present.

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* DissonantSerenity: After his ReasonYouSuckSpeech, Ned gets into his car, listening to "Aloha Oe", and he drives straight through the gates of Calmwood Mental Hospital. He also, very cheerily, adds the threat that he will run over anybody who pisses him off to his announcement that he will no longer bottle up his rage.

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* DissonantSerenity: After his ReasonYouSuckSpeech, Ned gets into his car, listening to "Aloha Oe", and he drives straight through the (locked) gates of Calmwood Mental Hospital. He also, very cheerily, adds the threat that he will run over anybody who pisses him off to his announcement that he will no longer bottle up his rage.


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* SmallRoleBigImpact: The nurse who brought Ned his medication recognized him from all those years ago and is the one who told Dr. Foster what happened, getting him involved and revealing to us the source of Ned's repressed anger problems.
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* AnguishedOutburst: Ned suffers greatly due to the hurricane blowing his house down, the Leftorium being looted, and TheAllegedHouse his friends and neighbors built literally overnight collapses. The final straw was him trying to clean his glasses only for a less to fall out of the frame, which leads to him unleashing his ReasonYouSuckSpeech on those present.
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A hurricane blows through Springfield, and Flanders' house is the only one that takes damage, leaving the Flanders' homeless and reeling. Things get worse when everyone comes together to rebuild Ned's house (rather poorly) and Ned goes on the mother of all tirades, calling everyone out for their personality flaws, then commits himself to a mental hospital, where Ned's childhood therapist reveals why he lashed out.

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A hurricane blows through Springfield, and Flanders' house is the only one that takes damage, leaving the Flanders' Flanders homeless and reeling. Things get worse when everyone comes together to rebuild Ned's house (rather poorly) and Ned goes on the mother of all tirades, calling everyone out for their personality flaws, then commits himself to a mental hospital, where Ned's childhood therapist reveals why he lashed out.
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** Discipining your child is hard, but if you don't, they'll groe up to be cruel and disrespectful.

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** Discipining your child is hard, but if you don't, they'll groe grow up to be cruel and disrespectful.

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* AnAesop:
** Repressing your rage and other negative emotions is not a good way to deal with them. Because eventually you'll lose control over them and have no coping mechanism.
** Discipining your child is hard, but if you don't, they'll groe up to be cruel and disrespectful.
** Make sure you have insurance for your house and/or place of business. You never know when you might need it.



* HandsOffParenting: Ned's beatnik parents didn't believe in discipline, thus making Ned a very troublesome brat.

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* HandsOffParenting: HandsOffParenting:
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Ned's beatnik parents didn't believe in discipline, thus making Ned a very troublesome brat.


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* HardTruthAesop: Even the kindest most wonderful people on the planet can still get angry from time to time. Also, they may have major issues or baggage you don't learn about until it comes out all at once.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Showing how this can still happen as late as the eighth season when it comes to a [[LongRunners long-running show]] like this one, Dr. Foster mentions that he first met Ned about thirty years ago, and Ned looks to be about Bart's age in the flashbacks, which would put the present-day Ned in his late 30s or early 40s. In "Viva Ned Flanders" two seasons later, Ned would be established as actually being 60 years old.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Showing how this can still happen as late as the eighth season when it comes to a [[LongRunners long-running show]] like this one, Dr. Foster mentions that he first met Ned about thirty years ago, and Ned looks to be about Bart's age in the flashbacks, which would put the present-day Ned in his late 30s or early 40s. In "Viva Ned Flanders" two seasons later, Ned would be established as actually being 60 years old.old, which has since remained his canonical age.

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-->'''Ned''': Now calm down, Nedilly-diddly-diddly-diddly-doodly, they did their best, shodilly-iddly-iddly-diddly. Gotta be nice, hostility-ility-biddly-diddly... '''AW, HELL-DIDDLY-DING-DONG-CRAP!''' '''CAN'T YOU MORONS DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!!!!''' ''[everyone gasps]''

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-->'''Ned''': Now calm down, Nedilly-diddly-diddly-diddly-doodly, they did their best, shodilly-iddly-iddly-diddly. Gotta be nice, hostility-ility-biddly-diddly... '''AW, HELL-DIDDLY-DING-DONG-CRAP!''' '''CAN'T AW, HELL-DIDDLY-DING-DONG-'''CRAP! CAN'T YOU MORONS DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!!!!''' ''ANYTHING'' RIGHT?!''' ''[everyone gasps]''



* WhamLine: '''''"[[RageBreakingPoint AW, HELL DIDDLY DING DONG CRAP!!!]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness CAN'T YOU MORONS DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!?!]]"'''''

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* WhamLine: '''''"[[RageBreakingPoint "'''[[RageBreakingPoint AW, HELL DIDDLY DING DONG CRAP!!!]] HELL-DIDDLY-DING-DONG]] ''[[RageBreakingPoint CRAP!]]'' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness CAN'T YOU MORONS DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!?!]]"'''''DO]] ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness ANYTHING]]'' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness RIGHT?!]]'''"
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--->'''Homer:''' ''(directly towards mirror)'' Aw that's it, you just can't insult this guy. You call him a moron and he just sits there, grinning moronly.\\

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--->'''Homer:''' ''(directly towards mirror)'' Aw that's it, you just can't insult this guy. [[InsultToRocks You call him a moron and he just sits there, grinning moronly.\\]]\\
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* ThrowingOutTheScript: Dr. Foster gives Homer a set of cue cards to read in order to set him off. When none of them work, Homer throws them away and simply helps Ned find something to express his anger about.
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* AgeInappropriateArt: Todd is seen wearing what is very obviously a Music/ButtholeSurfers t-shirt, but he is drawn so that it reads "Buttho Surfers" or in a wide shot where the full name is illegible.


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* CurseCutShort:
--> '''Young Ned:''' "Bam! I’m Dick Tracy! Take that, Prune-Face! Now I’m Prune-Face! Bam! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I’m [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Prune Tracy]]! Take that, Dick-"
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so, you see, the thing about Sarcasm Blind is that it's about sarcasm


* SarcasmBlind: Homer, unable to see that Ned's comment "You are the worst human being I have ever met" is scathing criticism, instead of just a "meh"-type insult.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ned '''rarely''' gets angry.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ned '''rarely''' gets angry.angry, and this episode sees him going on a rage-fuelled tirade against the whole town.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
** By way of a CurseCutShort:
--> '''Young Ned:''' "Bam! I’m Dick Tracy! Take that, Prune'Face! Now I’m Prune-Face! Bam! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I’m [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Prune Tracy]]! Take that, Dick-"
** The show gets away with putting Todd in what is very obviously a Music/ButtholeSurfers t-shirt by drawing him in such a way that it reads "Buttho Surfers" or in a wide shot where the full name is illegible.

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar
** By way of a CurseCutShort:
--> '''Young Ned:''' "Bam! I’m Dick Tracy! Take that, Prune'Face! Now I’m Prune-Face! Bam! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I’m [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Prune Tracy]]! Take that, Dick-"
** The show gets away with putting Todd
GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in what is very obviously a Music/ButtholeSurfers t-shirt by drawing him in such a way that it reads "Buttho Surfers" or in a wide shot where the full name is illegible.future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Showing how this can still happen as late as the eighth season when it comes to a [[LongRunners long-running show]] like this one, Dr. Foster mentions that he first met Ned about thirty years ago, and Ned looks to be about Bart's age in the flashbacks, which would put the present-day Ned in his late 30s or early 40s. In "Viva Ned Flanders" two seasons later, Ned would be established as actually being 60 years old.
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* NoodleIncident: What turned Flanders' dad from an [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E22 army commander]] into an anti-discipline beatnik?
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** Even when Ned rips into Moe, he still acknowledges him as a person; even Moe was surprised by this.

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** Even when Ned rips into Moe, he still acknowledges him as a person; even Moe was surprised by this. See IResembleThatRemark above.
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'''Lenny:''' [[LockOutOfTheLoop Hey, I've only been here a few minutes. What's going on?]]\\

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'''Lenny:''' [[LockOutOfTheLoop [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Hey, I've only been here a few minutes. What's going on?]]\\
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* UngratefulBastard: Ned commits himself because he regards himself as one.

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* UngratefulBastard: After Ned's tantrum towards the townsfolk who rebuilt his house (albeit incompetently), Ned commits himself because he regards himself as one.

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* ButtMonkey: Ned, of course. He loses his house in the hurricane, didn't get home insurance (because he considers insurance a form of gambling), the Leftorium was looted shortly afterwards, he gets a paper cut while reading the Bible in the church, and his newly-rebuilt house collapses soon after he sees how shoddily it was constructed. He interprets all of this as God punishing him, and he finally reaches his RageBreakingPoint when he tries to clean his glasses after the house collapses and the lens falls out and breaks.
* CallBack: Also in the hospital is Ms. Botz from "Some Enchanted Evening".
* TheCameo: [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic Jay Sherman]] is incarcerated at the mental hospital.

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* ButtMonkey: Ned, of course. He loses his house in the hurricane, didn't get home insurance (because he considers insurance a form of gambling), the Leftorium was looted shortly afterwards, he gets a paper cut while reading the Bible in the church, and his newly-rebuilt house collapses soon after he sees how shoddily it was constructed. He interprets all of this as God punishing him, and he finally reaches his RageBreakingPoint when he tries to clean his glasses after the house collapses collapses, and the lens falls out and breaks.
* CallBack: Also in the hospital is Ms. Botz from "Some Enchanted Evening".
* TheCameo: Among the mental hospital patients are staff writer John Swartzwelder, [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E13SomeEnchantedEvening Lucille Botz the Babysitter Bandit]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic Jay Sherman]] is incarcerated at the mental hospital.Sherman]].
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* TheCameo: [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic Jay Sherman]] is in the mental hospital.
-->"[[CatchPhrase It stinks!]] It stinks! It stinks!"\\
"Yes, Mr. Sherman, everything stinks."

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* TheCameo: [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic Jay Sherman]] is in incarcerated at the mental hospital.
-->"[[CatchPhrase -->'''Jay:''' [[CatchPhrase It stinks!]] [[MadnessMantra It stinks! It stinks!"\\
"Yes,
stinks!]]\\
'''Doctor:''' Yes,
Mr. Sherman, everything stinks."



* FunnyBackgroundEvent: If you look closely in the panning shot of the mental hospital rooms, one of the mental patients is a caricature of ''Simpsons'' writer John Swartzwelder (and in a later scene, someone has a protest sign that reads, "Free John Swartzwelder!") and another is Lucille Botz (The Babysitter Bandit from season one's "Some Enchanted Evening," sating viewers' claims that Lucille is a KarmaHoudini, as she is now caught and either copped an insanity plea or was revealed off-screen to be criminally insane).

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: If you look closely in the panning shot of the mental hospital rooms, one of the mental patients is a caricature of ''Simpsons'' writer John Swartzwelder (and in a later scene, someone has a protest sign that reads, "Free John Swartzwelder!") and another is Lucille Botz (The Babysitter Bandit from season one's "Some Enchanted Evening," Evening", sating viewers' claims that Lucille is a KarmaHoudini, as she is now caught and either copped an insanity plea or was revealed off-screen to be criminally insane).



--> '''Young Ned:''' "Bam! I’m Dick Tracy! Take that, Prune Face! Now I’m Prune Face! Bam! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I’m [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Prune Tracy]]! Take that, Dick-"

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--> '''Young Ned:''' "Bam! I’m Dick Tracy! Take that, Prune Face! Prune'Face! Now I’m Prune Face! Prune-Face! Bam! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I’m [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Prune Tracy]]! Take that, Dick-"



* HypocriticalHumor: In a deleted scene where Flanders chastises Milhouse as well.

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* HypocriticalHumor: In a A deleted scene where shows Flanders chastises chastising Milhouse as well.



** Despite his animosity towards Ned, Homer acts pretty nice to him throughout the episode, joining the rest of the town in building him a new home (even if it was terrible), helps the doctors in teaching him anger, and is happy for Ned at the end.

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** Despite his animosity towards Ned, Homer acts pretty nice to him throughout the episode, throughout, joining the rest of the town in building him a new home (even if it was terrible), helps the doctors in teaching him anger, and is happy for Ned at the end.



** Considering how much Creator/MattGroening hated [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns "A Star is Burns"]], it shouldn't be surprising that [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic Jay Sherman]] is shown as one of the patients at Calmwood Memorial Hospital, saying everything stinks, though one could interpret it as a TakeThat against Groening.

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** Considering how much Creator/MattGroening Groening hated [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns "A Star is Burns"]], it shouldn't be surprising that [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic Jay Sherman]] is shown as one of the patients at Calmwood Memorial Hospital, saying everything stinks, though one could interpret it as a TakeThat against Groening.
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'''Ned:''' ''(gasps sarcastically)'' Do I hear the sound of butting in? It's gotta be little Lisa Simpson, Springfield's answer to a question NO ONE ASKED!\\

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'''Ned:''' ''(gasps sarcastically)'' Do I hear the sound of butting in? It's gotta be little Lisa Simpson, Springfield's [[SoapboxSadie answer to a question NO ONE ASKED!\\ASKED!]]\\



'''Ned:''' What do we have here, the long flabby arm of the law?! The last case you got to the bottom of WAS A CASE OF MALLOMARS!\\
'''Krusty the Clown:''' Mallowmars, oh, that's going in the act.\\

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'''Ned:''' What do we have here, [[PoliceAreUseless the long flabby arm of the law?! law?!]] The last case you got to the bottom of WAS A CASE OF MALLOMARS!\\
'''Krusty the Clown:''' [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Mallowmars, oh, that's going in the act.\\]]\\



'''Lenny:''' Hey, I've only been here a few minutes. What's going on?\\

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'''Lenny:''' [[LockOutOfTheLoop Hey, I've only been here a few minutes. What's going on?\\on?]]\\



* WhamLine: '''''"[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness AW, HELL DIDDLY DING DONG CRAP!!! CAN'T YOU MORONS DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!?!]]"'''''

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* WhamLine: '''''"[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness '''''"[[RageBreakingPoint AW, HELL DIDDLY DING DONG CRAP!!! CRAP!!!]] [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness CAN'T YOU MORONS DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!?!]]"'''''

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