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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: After Homer interrupt's U2's concert, he gets dragged off to the back by security. As the concert resumes, the big screen behind them displays the security guards beating the shit out of Homer.
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* ButtMonkey [=/=] NobodyLovesTheBassist:
** Music/{{U2}}'s bassist, Adam Clayton, is the Butt Monkey to the rest of the band, with The Edge and Larry refusing to let him go with them to Moe's bar and Bono tossing one of his collectible spoons across the airplane while flying to their next gig.

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* ButtMonkey [=/=] NobodyLovesTheBassist:
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** Music/{{U2}}'s bassist, Adam Clayton, [[NobodyLovesTheBassist is the Butt Monkey to the rest of the band, band]], with The Edge and Larry refusing to let him go with them to Moe's bar and Bono tossing one of his collectible spoons across the airplane while flying to their next gig.
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* NotSoInnocentWhistle: When Adam Clayton gets turned down on joining the Edge and Larry Mullen at Moe's, he calls them wankers before quickly turning away to adjust his guitar and whistle.

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* NotSoInnocentWhistle: When Adam Clayton gets turned down on joining the Edge and Larry Mullen at Moe's, he calls them wankers before quickly turning away to adjust his bass guitar and whistle.



** Homer's appearance on the big screen at the U2 concert spoofs Bill Gates' appearance at the 1997 Macworld Expo, in which Gates announced that Microsoft would be investing in the (then-)struggling Apple Inc.

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** Homer's appearance on the big screen at the U2 concert spoofs Bill Gates' appearance at the 1997 Macworld Expo, in which Gates announced that Microsoft Creator/{{Microsoft}} would be investing in the (then-)struggling [[Creator/{{Apple}} Apple Inc.]]
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* ButtMonkey:
** Adam Clayton is portrayed as such within Music/{{U2}}.

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* ButtMonkey:
ButtMonkey [=/=] NobodyLovesTheBassist:
** Music/{{U2}}'s bassist, Adam Clayton Clayton, is portrayed as such within Music/{{U2}}.the Butt Monkey to the rest of the band, with The Edge and Larry refusing to let him go with them to Moe's bar and Bono tossing one of his collectible spoons across the airplane while flying to their next gig.


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-->'''Adam:''' Wankers.
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* BaldnessMockery: When crashing the [=U2=] concert and encountering the baldheaded ([[BaldWomen female]]) producer in charge of the show's graphics, [[HypocriticalHumor Homer]] calls her "Series/{{Kojak}}" and kicks her away after [[DisproportionateRetribution she protests him touching the switchboard.]]

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* BaldnessMockery: When crashing the [=U2=] concert and encountering the baldheaded ([[BaldWomen female]]) (female) producer in charge of the show's graphics, [[HypocriticalHumor Homer]] calls her "Series/{{Kojak}}" and kicks her away after [[DisproportionateRetribution she protests him touching the switchboard.]]

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* BaldnessMockery: When crashing the [=U2=] concert and encountering the baldheaded (female) producer in charge of the show's graphics, [[HypocriticalHumor Homer]] calls her "Series/{{Kojak}}" and kicks her away after [[DisproportionateRetribution she protests him touching the switchboard.]]

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* BaldnessMockery: When crashing the [=U2=] concert and encountering the baldheaded (female) ([[BaldWomen female]]) producer in charge of the show's graphics, [[HypocriticalHumor Homer]] calls her "Series/{{Kojak}}" and kicks her away after [[DisproportionateRetribution she protests him touching the switchboard.]]



* EtTuBrute: If somewhat justifiably, nobody opposes brutally punishing Homer for ruining the town. To punctuate this most of Homer's close friends and family members can be seen in the front rows glaring stoically as the vote is given.



* EtTuBrute: If somewhat justifiably, nobody opposes brutally punishing Homer for ruining the town. To punctuate this most of Homer's close friends and family members can be seen in the front rows glaring stoically as the vote is given.



* NotHelpingYourCase: Homer's vendetta with the professionalism of the local garbagemen is rather valid (they ignore his house, only coming back after he insults them to [[DisproportionateRetribution beat him up and cut off his service]]). However his moronic self righteous tirades never ''once'' put this event in proper context, leading both Marge and Ray Patterson to just think he's being a stupid asshole who owes ''them'' an apology. And then he vows to overthrow Patterson, [[FromBadToWorse and things devolve from there...]]

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* NotHelpingYourCase: Homer's vendetta with the professionalism of the local garbagemen is rather valid (they ignore his house, only coming back after he insults them to [[DisproportionateRetribution beat him up and cut off his service]]). However However, his moronic self righteous tirades never ''once'' put this event in proper context, leading both Marge and Ray Patterson to just think he's being a stupid asshole jerk who owes ''them'' an apology. And then he vows to overthrow Patterson, [[FromBadToWorse and things devolve from there...]]
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-->'''Bono:''' Hold on, people. He's talking about waste management. That affects the whole damn planet!

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-->'''Bono:''' Hold on, people. He's The man's talking about waste management. That affects the whole damn planet!
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* CelebrityCameo: Bono, The Edge, and Adam Clayton from Music/{{U2}} voice themselves in the episode. Drummer Larry Mullen is also depicted but not voiced since he was unavailable for the recording session. The episode also features a brief cameo from U2's manager at the time, Paul [=McGuinness=].



* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Homer gets backstage at a Music/{{U2}} gig by posing as the "poh-tah-to man". He gets in when their manager, Paul McGuinness, asks him, "Where the hell have you been?"

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* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Homer gets backstage at a Music/{{U2}} gig by posing as the "poh-tah-to man". He gets in when their manager, Paul McGuinness, [=McGuinness=], asks him, "Where the hell have you been?"
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** Adam Clayton calls his bandmates The Edge and Larry Mullen "wankers" after they refuse to let him go with them to Moe's. At the end of the episode, while the band is flying to their next show, Mr. Burns says it to them after Bono accidentally hits him with one of Adam's collectible spoons.
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* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Homer gets backstage at a Music/{{U2}} gig by posing as the "poh-tah-to man". He gets in when the guard asks him, "Where the hell have you been?"

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* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Homer gets backstage at a Music/{{U2}} gig by posing as the "poh-tah-to man". He gets in when the guard their manager, Paul McGuinness, asks him, "Where the hell have you been?"
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** Homer ''refuses'' to apologize and make amends with the Garbage company, even when his lawn is increasingly covered in trash. Eventually, Marge decides to secretly forge his signature to write an official apology letter to have the garbage removed. When Homer gloats at his "victory" all day, Marge has enough and tells him what she did, which infuriates him even further and he goes to city hall to get the apology back.

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** Homer ''refuses'' refuses to apologize and make amends with the Garbage company, even when his lawn is increasingly covered in trash. Eventually, Marge decides to secretly forge his signature to write an official apology letter to the Sanitation Commissioner to have the garbage removed. When Homer gloats at his "victory" all day, Marge has enough and tells him what she did, which infuriates him even further and he goes to city hall to get the apology back.



** Finally, out of options, Mayor Quimby finally decides to resort to "Plan B": literally moving the entire town five miles down the road to escape the massive, self-inflicted garbage dump that occupies what was Springfield.

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** Finally, Finally out of options, Mayor Quimby finally decides to resort to "Plan B": literally moving the entire town five miles down the road to escape the massive, self-inflicted garbage dump that occupies what was Springfield.
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** Homer being told by a city hall clerk that he's standing in a line for people who have to register as sex offenders (with Moe coming in and complaining that the sex offender registry line is always long).

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** Homer being told by a city hall clerk that he's standing in a line for people who have to register as sex offenders (with Moe coming in and complaining that the sex offender registry line is there's always long).a line to wait in for everything).
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* MisplacedRetribution: Homer goes on the warpath and ruins a man's career (''and'' tries to kill him -- Patterson also accuses Homer of cutting his brake lines at one point) ''and'' ruins an entire town (although in Homer's defense that one was due to incompetence) because he didn't liked how two trash men treated him and then didn't liked that Marge wrote a letter of apology in his name when they decided to stop picking up his trash.

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* MisplacedRetribution: Homer goes on the warpath and ruins a man's career (''and'' tries to kill him -- Patterson also accuses Homer of cutting his brake lines at one point) ''and'' ruins an entire town (although in Homer's defense that one was due to incompetence) because he didn't liked like how two trash men treated him and then didn't liked like that Marge wrote a letter of apology in his name when they decided to stop picking up his trash.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Homer's campaign promise to have the garbage men do ''all'' of the sanitation work in Springfield is so convenient on paper that it gets him elected, only for it to inevitably drain the town's budget in less than a month. Turns out getting garbage men to do all the work is ludicrously expensive to implement.
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** At City Hall, Homer then starts an argument with Ray Patterson, the Springfield Sanitation Commissioner, and then decides to run for election for Patterson's position purely out of spite.
** Initially, Homer's campaign is a pathetic joke, even embarrassing himself at a Music/{{U2}} Concert he tries to hijack; but (with the help of Moe), he creates several new campaign promises where the garbage men will do ''all'' cleaning and janitorial services in the city round-the-clock, which win the population over. Patterson points out how [[AwesomeButImpractical ludicrous these promises are]], but the residents of Springfield [[IgnoredExpert elect Homer regardless]].
** [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Sure enough]] as Patterson warned, Homer's campaign promises are ''expensive'' to implement. He spends the town's entire annual budget in less than a month. To fix the budget, Homer opts to have other cities pay him to accept their garbage, which he then stores (or rather shoves) into the abandoned underground mine below Springfield.

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** At City Hall, Homer then starts an argument with Ray Patterson, the Springfield Sanitation Commissioner, and then decides to run for election for Patterson's position purely out of spite.
** Initially, Homer's campaign is a pathetic joke, even embarrassing himself at a Music/{{U2}} Concert he tries to hijack; but (with the help of Moe), Moe in creating a new slogan), he creates several new campaign promises where the garbage men will do ''all'' cleaning and janitorial services in the city round-the-clock, which win the population over. Patterson [[OnlySaneMan Patterson]] points out how [[AwesomeButImpractical ludicrous these promises are]], but the residents of Springfield [[IgnoredExpert elect Homer regardless]].
** [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Sure enough]] as Patterson warned, Homer's campaign promises are ''expensive'' to implement. He spends the town's entire annual budget in less than a month. To fix the budget, budget problem, Homer opts to have other cities pay him to accept their garbage, which he then stores (or rather shoves) into the abandoned underground mine below Springfield.

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