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* FantasyCreep: During the earlier years, the creative team prided themselves in keeping it a cartoony looking show that kept at least one foot in reality (eg. Homer could survive falling down a large cliff in a comical way, but his fall and injuries would be played in a realistic way with no cartoon physics). Only the ''Treehouse of Horror'' Halloween specials initially existed as their one breach from reality. After a while however the show started using more surreal and ridiculous plots for gag purposes, with some of these seeping into the main storyline.
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* FakeRelationship: Apu pretending to be married to Marge so he won't have to go through with an arranged marriage in "The Two Nahasapeemapetilons".
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* FeigningIntelligence: In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E10Springfield $pringfield]]", Homer comes across Creator/HenryKissinger's glasses and acts like they're [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses Brainy Specs]], reciting the Scarecrow's "Sum of the Square Root" speech from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
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* FeigningIntelligence: In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E10Springfield $pringfield]]", Homer comes across Creator/HenryKissinger's UsefulNotes/HenryKissinger's glasses and acts like they're [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses Brainy Specs]], reciting the Scarecrow's "Sum of the Square Root" speech from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
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* {{Fetish}}:
** Marge seems to have a thing for Homer's bomber jacket he wore as "Mr. Plow."
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* {{Fetish}}:
**{{Fetish}}: Marge has a fair share of these:
** She seems to have a thing for Homer's bomber jacket he wore as "Mr. Plow."
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** She seems to have a thing for Homer's bomber jacket he wore as "Mr. Plow."
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* GassyGastronomy:
** One episode has Bart sent to a religious school, where he's asked to recite a psalm and starts the "musical fruit" rhyme. Cut to the teacher chasing Bart with the rest of the class, thinking Bart is a demonic entity.
--->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymgOhE0mNWE AVERT YOUR EYES, CHILDREN! He may take on other forms!]]
** In "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment", Homer attempts to brew his own alcohol in the basement, and the stills end up combusting. He tries to hide the explosions from Marge by blaming the smoke on "that bean I had for dinner" (note the singular).
** Barney Gumble is legendary for his tendency to belch a lot, especially since he's TheAlcoholic.
** One episode has Bart sent to a religious school, where he's asked to recite a psalm and starts the "musical fruit" rhyme. Cut to the teacher chasing Bart with the rest of the class, thinking Bart is a demonic entity.
--->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymgOhE0mNWE AVERT YOUR EYES, CHILDREN! He may take on other forms!]]
** In "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment", Homer attempts to brew his own alcohol in the basement, and the stills end up combusting. He tries to hide the explosions from Marge by blaming the smoke on "that bean I had for dinner" (note the singular).
** Barney Gumble is legendary for his tendency to belch a lot, especially since he's TheAlcoholic.
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* FearInducedIdiocy:
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E12MountainOfMadness Mountain Of Madness]]", Mr. Burns makes a fire drill, but only Homer actually escapes, the rest just [[IgnorantAboutFire run around the building in fear]], saying things like "Fire! Fire!".
** In one episode, [[CloudCuckoolander Ralph Wiggum]] says that he's so scared he's forgotten how to [[BringMyBrownPants wet his pants]].
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E12MountainOfMadness Mountain Of Madness]]", Mr. Burns makes a fire drill, but only Homer actually escapes, the rest just [[IgnorantAboutFire run around the building in fear]], saying things like "Fire! Fire!".
** In one episode, [[CloudCuckoolander Ralph Wiggum]] says that he's so scared he's forgotten how to [[BringMyBrownPants wet his pants]].
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* HeroesWantRedheads: This is proven by Mindy Simmons in the episode "The Last Temptation Of Homer" when Homer almost has an affair.
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* FrustratingLie:
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E1KampKrusty Kamp Krusty]]", when Homer promises Bart he can go to summer camp if he gets good grades, Bart tries to change his report card.
--->'''Homer:''' A+!? [[NobodysThatDumb You really don't think much of me do you]]?\\
'''Bart:''' [[BluntNo No, sir]].\\
'''Homer:''' [[DoWrongRight You know, a "D" turns into a "B" so easily]]. You just got greedy.
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield "Last Exit to Springfield"]], Ralph tries to lie to the dentist Dr Wolfe about brushing his teeth three times a day. Dr Wolfe picks up on the lie immediately and asks him, "Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?", causing Ralph to break down and sob, "I don't brush! I don't brush!"
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E12GooGooGaiPan Goo Goo Gai Pan]]", the Simpsons and Selma go to China so Selma can adopt a baby while Homer [[FakeRelationship poses as her husband]] in front of the Chinese adoption agent, Madam Wu. When Madame Wu asks what Homer does for a living, Homer was going to say he works in a nuclear power plant but realizes that since they don't know him, he can be whatever he wants. When he sees an acrobatic performance display in the street, he claims he's a Chinese acrobat, which causes Marge and Selma to gasp at his lie, with Marge facepalming and shaking her head. This ends up backfiring on Homer when Madam Wu asks him to substitute for a performer in a Chinese acrobatics display, and Selma forces him to do it so their cover isn't blown.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E1HeLovesToFlyAndHeDohs He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs]]", after Bart discovers that Homer failed to get his dream job and kept it a secret from the family, he convinces Homer to tell the truth to Marge because she started buying expensive groceries. When Homer calls Marge to tell her the bad news, he hears how sad she is and delays telling her the truth, causing Bart to facepalm and shake his head. He plans to tell her on a private jet to lessen the impact of the truth.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E1KampKrusty Kamp Krusty]]", when Homer promises Bart he can go to summer camp if he gets good grades, Bart tries to change his report card.
--->'''Homer:''' A+!? [[NobodysThatDumb You really don't think much of me do you]]?\\
'''Bart:''' [[BluntNo No, sir]].\\
'''Homer:''' [[DoWrongRight You know, a "D" turns into a "B" so easily]]. You just got greedy.
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield "Last Exit to Springfield"]], Ralph tries to lie to the dentist Dr Wolfe about brushing his teeth three times a day. Dr Wolfe picks up on the lie immediately and asks him, "Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?", causing Ralph to break down and sob, "I don't brush! I don't brush!"
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E12GooGooGaiPan Goo Goo Gai Pan]]", the Simpsons and Selma go to China so Selma can adopt a baby while Homer [[FakeRelationship poses as her husband]] in front of the Chinese adoption agent, Madam Wu. When Madame Wu asks what Homer does for a living, Homer was going to say he works in a nuclear power plant but realizes that since they don't know him, he can be whatever he wants. When he sees an acrobatic performance display in the street, he claims he's a Chinese acrobat, which causes Marge and Selma to gasp at his lie, with Marge facepalming and shaking her head. This ends up backfiring on Homer when Madam Wu asks him to substitute for a performer in a Chinese acrobatics display, and Selma forces him to do it so their cover isn't blown.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E1HeLovesToFlyAndHeDohs He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs]]", after Bart discovers that Homer failed to get his dream job and kept it a secret from the family, he convinces Homer to tell the truth to Marge because she started buying expensive groceries. When Homer calls Marge to tell her the bad news, he hears how sad she is and delays telling her the truth, causing Bart to facepalm and shake his head. He plans to tell her on a private jet to lessen the impact of the truth.
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** Doctor Hibbert is the best of all examples of this trope. As a Main/RunningGag, whenever he's shown in flashback, he has a different hairstyle, including a Main/FunnyAfro in Main/TheSeventies, dreadlocks with beads and a Mr. T-style Mohawk at different points in Main/TheEighties, and a high-and-tight in Main/TheNineties.
** A flashback to Mr. Burns' childhood shows him with enormous golden curls, a visual reference to a stereotypical image of a wealthy boy in TheGayNineties.
** A flashback to Mr. Burns' childhood shows him with enormous golden curls, a visual reference to a stereotypical image of a wealthy boy in TheGayNineties.
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** Doctor Hibbert is the best of all examples of this trope. As a Main/RunningGag, whenever he's shown in flashback, he has a different hairstyle, including a Main/FunnyAfro FunnyAfro in Main/TheSeventies, The70s, dreadlocks with beads and a Mr. T-style Mohawk at different points in Main/TheEighties, The80s, and a high-and-tight in Main/TheNineties.The90s.
** A flashback to Mr. Burns' childhood shows him with enormous golden curls, a visual reference to a stereotypical image of a wealthy boy inTheGayNineties.TheGay90s.
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** In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", a flashback shows that Homer went to New York City in TheSeventies; while there, Homer got most of his possessions stolen (including a CorruptCop stealing his suitcase), got a load of garbage dumped on him by Creator/WoodyAllen, and was chased by a pimp when a banana peel he flung landed on the pimp. Later in the episode the Simpson family visits present-day (1997) New York City, and it is shown as being greatly improved, much cleaner and safer than the 70s flashback version.
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** In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", a flashback shows that Homer went to New York City in TheSeventies; The70s; while there, Homer got most of his possessions stolen (including a CorruptCop stealing his suitcase), got a load of garbage dumped on him by Creator/WoodyAllen, and was chased by a pimp when a banana peel he flung landed on the pimp. Later in the episode the Simpson family visits present-day (1997) New York City, and it is shown as being greatly improved, much cleaner and safer than the 70s flashback version.
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* GourmetPetFood: {{Inverted}} in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E11BurnsVerkaufenDerKraftwerk "Burns Verkaufen Der Kraftwerk"]]. Bart opens a can of "Carrot Cat Food" which is advertised as 88% ash and 12% carrots. They are actually quite common ingredients, though certainly not in those proportions. Snowball II is understandably disappointed when the food lands in her dish with a puff of gray dust.
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** Done ''extremely'' subtly in "Homer's Barbershop Quartet". Principal Skinner picks up a crude helmet labeled, "Prisoner 24601" and mentions how he wore one just like it in Vietnam. 24601 is a reference to [[Franchise/LesMiserables Jean Valjean]], who was released from prison and lived under an assumed name. Many, ''many'' episodes later, we get "The Principal and the Pauper".
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** Done ''extremely'' subtly in "Homer's Barbershop Quartet". Principal Skinner picks up a crude helmet labeled, "Prisoner 24601" and mentions how he wore one just like it in Vietnam. 24601 is a reference to [[Franchise/LesMiserables [[Literature/LesMiserables Jean Valjean]], who was released from prison and lived under an assumed name. Many, ''many'' episodes later, we get "The Principal and the Pauper".
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* HaplesslyHiding: In "Cape Fear", Sideshow Bob follows the Simpsons to Terror Lake by [[UndersideRide strapping himself to the bottom of their car]]. On the way, Homer drives over several speed bumps, dumps some hot coffee over the side, and gets the random idea to plow through a cactus patch.
-->'''Homer:''' Hey kids, wanna drive through that cactus patch?\\
'''Bart:''' Yeah!\\
'''Lisa:''' Yeah!\\
'''Bob:''' No!\\
'''Homer:''' [[FailedASpotCheck Oop! Two against One!]]\\
''[drives through the cactus patch at Sideshow Bob's expense]''
-->'''Homer:''' Hey kids, wanna drive through that cactus patch?\\
'''Bart:''' Yeah!\\
'''Lisa:''' Yeah!\\
'''Bob:''' No!\\
'''Homer:''' [[FailedASpotCheck Oop! Two against One!]]\\
''[drives through the cactus patch at Sideshow Bob's expense]''
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* HeavenlyConcentricCircles: In the [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI "Treehouse Of Horror XVI"]], Lenny dies and goes to his personal version of Heaven. All of the angels take the form of Carl and hover on the clouds positioned in concentric circles that lead to a light sphere.
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* EdgyBackwardsChairSitting: Dr. Xander does this in "Love Is A Many Strangled Thing" to show Homer how serious he is.
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* HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul: Referenced in "Magical History Tour", which has Marge telling the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (played by Bart) being sabotaged by Antonio Salieri (Lisa as "Sally Eri"). At the end, Lisa brings up that the two composers had a good relationship in real-life, and that Marge took the plot from ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''.
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* HatedItemMakeover:
** In one episode, Marge and her son Bart play an online game together. When Marge gives Bart's character's room a Franchise/HelloKitty makeover, he gets mad (since Bart is playing a tough warrior) and kills Marge's avatar.
** In "Summer of 4'2", the friends Lisa makes while at a beach house redecorate the family car with seashells as a gift. Lisa is genuinely touched; Homer, on the other hand...
--->'''Homer:''' Sweet, merciful crap! My car!
--->[Next shot is the car surrounded by seagulls as they drive back home.]
** In one episode, Marge and her son Bart play an online game together. When Marge gives Bart's character's room a Franchise/HelloKitty makeover, he gets mad (since Bart is playing a tough warrior) and kills Marge's avatar.
** In "Summer of 4'2", the friends Lisa makes while at a beach house redecorate the family car with seashells as a gift. Lisa is genuinely touched; Homer, on the other hand...
--->'''Homer:''' Sweet, merciful crap! My car!
--->[Next shot is the car surrounded by seagulls as they drive back home.]
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* GenerationalTrauma:
** This comes up occasionally in the show where it's noted that Homer's abusive treatment of Bart stems in part from his own father Abe's abusive treatment of him.
** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E6BartStar "Bart Star"]]: Homer is initially critical of Bart's peewee football abilities, until he realises how Abe was similarly critical of his gymnastics talent, which ended up sabotaging one of his routines. He therefore resolves to be more supportive and encouraging towards Bart. Not only does this sudden change of behaviour ''immediately'' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness cause Bart to panic, assuming it's a "trap"]], but Homer takes it too far in the other direction, ignoring Bart's obvious lack of talent (and his own protests about said lack of talent) in favour of making the team's new quarterback. All things told, things go worse for Bart than they would have if Homer had remained his usual {{Jerkass}} self.
** This comes up occasionally in the show where it's noted that Homer's abusive treatment of Bart stems in part from his own father Abe's abusive treatment of him.
** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E6BartStar "Bart Star"]]: Homer is initially critical of Bart's peewee football abilities, until he realises how Abe was similarly critical of his gymnastics talent, which ended up sabotaging one of his routines. He therefore resolves to be more supportive and encouraging towards Bart. Not only does this sudden change of behaviour ''immediately'' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness cause Bart to panic, assuming it's a "trap"]], but Homer takes it too far in the other direction, ignoring Bart's obvious lack of talent (and his own protests about said lack of talent) in favour of making the team's new quarterback. All things told, things go worse for Bart than they would have if Homer had remained his usual {{Jerkass}} self.
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* ElderlyAilmentRambling:
** In "The Devil Wears Nada", the supervisor of Sector 7G retires, and Mr. Burns announces that, "much as what was formerly my kidney is now my heart", he's promoting his replacement from within.
** In one Butterfinger commercial, Grampa gets woken up by a loud crunch and tells Lisa to stop biting her Butterfinger bar. When she tells him she isn't eating it, he mutters "Darn osteoporosis".
** In "The Devil Wears Nada", the supervisor of Sector 7G retires, and Mr. Burns announces that, "much as what was formerly my kidney is now my heart", he's promoting his replacement from within.
** In one Butterfinger commercial, Grampa gets woken up by a loud crunch and tells Lisa to stop biting her Butterfinger bar. When she tells him she isn't eating it, he mutters "Darn osteoporosis".
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* GaiasLament: Played for laughs in the episodes "Lisa's Wedding" and "Future-Drama." In the former, trees are extinct, and the the latter, Alaska is a tropical paradise.
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* GaiasLament: Played for laughs in the episodes "Lisa's Wedding" and "Future-Drama." In the former, trees are extinct, and the the latter, Alaska is a tropical paradise.
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* ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: Subverted at Apu's wedding. When a mouse runs out in the the elephant's path, the elephant recoils for a moment... and then proceeds to deliberately step on it.
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* ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: Subverted at Apu's wedding. When a mouse runs out in the the elephant's path, the elephant recoils for a moment... and then proceeds to deliberately step on it.
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* FilePhotoGag: A perennial joke. To wit:
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in "Homer Defined", when Smithers pulls up an old file photo of Homer on hand at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in which he still has hair.
** In "Marge Vs. The Monorail": A photograph of Homer with his mouth stuffed with dozens of cigarettes somehow became his file photo at the local news station.
** In "Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part Two", the file photo the police have of Homer shows him with a black eye, a bandage on his head, and wearing a "Haig in '88" t-shirt.
** "The Springfield Files": Channel 6 News uses a file photo of Homer that shows him with his tongue stuck to a lamppost.
** "Simpson Tide": Channel 6 again shows Homer in Red Square, dressed to the nines in a ushanka and fur coat doing That Russian Squat Dance with a bottle of vodka in one hand. Especially bad considering he's accidentally steered a nuclear submarine into Russian territory.
** "Treehouse of Horror IX": After his death at the hands of Snake!Homer, Channel 6 shows a photo of Moe Syzlak caught hitching up his pants while coming out of an outhouse.
** In "A Tale of Two Springfields", the "file photo" of Homer and his friends sitting on a stoop spoofs The Who's album cover of Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy.
** In "The Great Louse Detective", it shows a picture of Homer angrily shaking his fist at a Gorilla in his cage at a zoo, who has somehow gotten a hold of Homer's pants.
** "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play": Yet another Channel 6 appearance, with a distressed Marge holding a drunken, drooling, beer-hat wearing Homer in the famous position of Michaelangelo's La Pieta.
** In the episode "Any Given Sundance", Principal Skinner pulls out a file labeled "Simpson" and brings up a newspaper clipping of Homer fighting a giant octopus with the headline, "Aquarium to stop serving beer" as Skinner comments on how he's a local character of note.
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in "Homer Defined", when Smithers pulls up an old file photo of Homer on hand at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in which he still has hair.
** In "Marge Vs. The Monorail": A photograph of Homer with his mouth stuffed with dozens of cigarettes somehow became his file photo at the local news station.
** In "Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part Two", the file photo the police have of Homer shows him with a black eye, a bandage on his head, and wearing a "Haig in '88" t-shirt.
** "The Springfield Files": Channel 6 News uses a file photo of Homer that shows him with his tongue stuck to a lamppost.
** "Simpson Tide": Channel 6 again shows Homer in Red Square, dressed to the nines in a ushanka and fur coat doing That Russian Squat Dance with a bottle of vodka in one hand. Especially bad considering he's accidentally steered a nuclear submarine into Russian territory.
** "Treehouse of Horror IX": After his death at the hands of Snake!Homer, Channel 6 shows a photo of Moe Syzlak caught hitching up his pants while coming out of an outhouse.
** In "A Tale of Two Springfields", the "file photo" of Homer and his friends sitting on a stoop spoofs The Who's album cover of Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy.
** In "The Great Louse Detective", it shows a picture of Homer angrily shaking his fist at a Gorilla in his cage at a zoo, who has somehow gotten a hold of Homer's pants.
** "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play": Yet another Channel 6 appearance, with a distressed Marge holding a drunken, drooling, beer-hat wearing Homer in the famous position of Michaelangelo's La Pieta.
** In the episode "Any Given Sundance", Principal Skinner pulls out a file labeled "Simpson" and brings up a newspaper clipping of Homer fighting a giant octopus with the headline, "Aquarium to stop serving beer" as Skinner comments on how he's a local character of note.
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* TheFatEpisode:
** Although Homer is already pretty fat to begin with, a key plot point of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E7KingSizeHomer King Size Homer]]" has Homer deliberately gain weight to be considered obese, so his job would consider him disabled and allow him to work from home.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E17TheHeartbrokeKid The Heartbroke Kid]]", after a snack-vending machine is installed in Springfield Elementary, Bart develops an addiction for the snacks, causing him to quickly gain weight in a three-week period. After he gets a heart attack, the rest of the family [[StagingAnIntervention stages an intervention]] in order to get Bart sent to a FatCamp.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS33E5LisasBelly Lisa's Belly]]" is a downplayed example. Lisa and Bart both gain weight due to the use of steroids that gives them a big belly, leaving Lisa (in Marge's words) "chunky". Bart loses the weight after getting in with the bullies and exercising, but the storyline is dropped in the next episode featuring Lisa.
** Although Homer is already pretty fat to begin with, a key plot point of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E7KingSizeHomer King Size Homer]]" has Homer deliberately gain weight to be considered obese, so his job would consider him disabled and allow him to work from home.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E17TheHeartbrokeKid The Heartbroke Kid]]", after a snack-vending machine is installed in Springfield Elementary, Bart develops an addiction for the snacks, causing him to quickly gain weight in a three-week period. After he gets a heart attack, the rest of the family [[StagingAnIntervention stages an intervention]] in order to get Bart sent to a FatCamp.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS33E5LisasBelly Lisa's Belly]]" is a downplayed example. Lisa and Bart both gain weight due to the use of steroids that gives them a big belly, leaving Lisa (in Marge's words) "chunky". Bart loses the weight after getting in with the bullies and exercising, but the storyline is dropped in the next episode featuring Lisa.
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** Played with in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWe/"Was "The Way We Was"]]. Teenage Homer is walking on the side of the road, after he ran out of money to pay for his limousine rental for the prom, and Marge arrives in her own car to offer Homer a ride, after Artie Ziff brought her back home. However, Homer initially mistakes Marge's friendly tooting of the horn on her arrival for some blowhard driver being overly aggressive.
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** Played with in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWe/"Was [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E12TheWayWeWas "The Way We Was"]]. Teenage Homer is walking on the side of the road, after he ran out of money to pay for his limousine rental for the prom, and Marge arrives in her own car to offer Homer a ride, after Artie Ziff brought her back home. However, Homer initially mistakes Marge's friendly tooting of the horn on her arrival for some blowhard driver being overly aggressive.
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* FlushTheEvidence: In "Love, Springfieldian Style", Lisa as Nancy Spuggen and Nelson as Sid Vicious get hooked on chocolate [[GRatedDrug as if it were cocaine or heroin]]. Their chocolate spree involves them snorting lines, cooking (melting chocolate powder on spoons), and flushing chocolate bars down the toilet when the police come a-knocking.
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* FakeOrgasm:
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E23BartsFriendFallsInLove Bart's Friend Falls in Love]]", Bart's class watches a sex ed film narrated by Troy [=McClure=] and starring bunnies, during which Edna Krabappel casually accuses the female bunny of faking an orgasm.
---> '''Troy [=McClure=]''': Then came the big day. Fluffy and Fuzzy got married! That night came the honeymoon...\\
'''Kids''': Ewwww!\\
'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[Puffing a cigarette]'' She's faking it.
** {{Parodied|Trope}} in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet Brother from the Same Planet]]". Homer asks Bart if he remembers the fun times they used to have together when he would push Bart on a swing, but Bart dismissively says he was "faking it."
---> '''Homer''': ''[Gasp]'' Liar!\\
'''Bart''': Oh yeah? Remember this? ''"Higher, dad! '''Higher!''' Wheeeeee... '''WHEEEEEE...''' Push harder, dad, c'mon! Higher! '''Higher!''' Faster!"''\\
'''Homer''': Stop it! Stop it! ''[Covering his ears and running away]'' '''STOP IT!'''
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E23BartsFriendFallsInLove Bart's Friend Falls in Love]]", Bart's class watches a sex ed film narrated by Troy [=McClure=] and starring bunnies, during which Edna Krabappel casually accuses the female bunny of faking an orgasm.
---> '''Troy [=McClure=]''': Then came the big day. Fluffy and Fuzzy got married! That night came the honeymoon...\\
'''Kids''': Ewwww!\\
'''Mrs. Krabappel''': ''[Puffing a cigarette]'' She's faking it.
** {{Parodied|Trope}} in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet Brother from the Same Planet]]". Homer asks Bart if he remembers the fun times they used to have together when he would push Bart on a swing, but Bart dismissively says he was "faking it."
---> '''Homer''': ''[Gasp]'' Liar!\\
'''Bart''': Oh yeah? Remember this? ''"Higher, dad! '''Higher!''' Wheeeeee... '''WHEEEEEE...''' Push harder, dad, c'mon! Higher! '''Higher!''' Faster!"''\\
'''Homer''': Stop it! Stop it! ''[Covering his ears and running away]'' '''STOP IT!'''
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* GenderIncompetence:
** The female members of the family are depicted as being far more competent than male ones. This goes to the point that the men are rendered as bungling idiots (Homer and sometimes Bart) while the women are rendered as innately clever, cunning, wise, or even good in a fight (Marge, Lisa, and Maggie).
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one episode, where it's revealed that it's a genetic trait for Simpson men to end up as stupid losers. Simpson women, on the other hand, are invariably geniuses. Notably, the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Simpson gene]] [[LamarckWasRight responsible for the male Simpson's stupidity]] [[CanonDisContinuity is never mentioned again]], and future episodes [[RetCon give other explanations for Homer and Bart's stupidity,]] like a crayon lodged in Homer's brain and (in Bart's case) a combination of ADHD, a pathological need for attention, and a generally bad experience during his first day at school; a woman heavily implied to be Homer's older half-sister was about Homer's intellect. Although Homer and Bart are usually shown as being less intelligent than Marge or Lisa, they're perhaps more likeable (at least until Homer's {{Jerkass}} tendencies went into orbit) and socially adept, balancing things out somewhat.
** The female members of the family are depicted as being far more competent than male ones. This goes to the point that the men are rendered as bungling idiots (Homer and sometimes Bart) while the women are rendered as innately clever, cunning, wise, or even good in a fight (Marge, Lisa, and Maggie).
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one episode, where it's revealed that it's a genetic trait for Simpson men to end up as stupid losers. Simpson women, on the other hand, are invariably geniuses. Notably, the [[ArtisticLicenseBiology Simpson gene]] [[LamarckWasRight responsible for the male Simpson's stupidity]] [[CanonDisContinuity is never mentioned again]], and future episodes [[RetCon give other explanations for Homer and Bart's stupidity,]] like a crayon lodged in Homer's brain and (in Bart's case) a combination of ADHD, a pathological need for attention, and a generally bad experience during his first day at school; a woman heavily implied to be Homer's older half-sister was about Homer's intellect. Although Homer and Bart are usually shown as being less intelligent than Marge or Lisa, they're perhaps more likeable (at least until Homer's {{Jerkass}} tendencies went into orbit) and socially adept, balancing things out somewhat.
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* GagBoobs:
** The "Large Marge" episode, where Marge is accidentally given breast implants.
** Then there's [[MeaningfulName Titania]] during the Duff bartender contest.
** Ditto Booberella.
** The "Large Marge" episode, where Marge is accidentally given breast implants.
** Then there's [[MeaningfulName Titania]] during the Duff bartender contest.
** Ditto Booberella.
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* FuneralCut:
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", Frank Grimes loses it and starts acting as dumb as he thinks Homer is, including handling electrical wires without safety gloves. The camera [[ReactionShot cuts to the others' reaction]] to Grimes being shocked off-screen, then cuts again to his funeral.
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E18SimpsonsBibleStories Simpsons Bible Stories]]", King David ([[UniversalAdaptorCast Bart]]) is thrown out of town by Goliath (Nelson) and meets Ralph Wiggum (portraying a shepard), who idolises him. David tells him that he is no longer his hero, so Ralph walks into the sunset, intending to face Goliath himself. Cut to the gravestone. [[spoiler:Later on however, Goliath gets killed by a gravestone to the neck... Ralph's gravestone. It turns out Ralph isn't dead after all.]]
** Subverted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E6DohInTheWind D'oh-in' In The Wind]]", where Homer tries to become a hippie. Homer had accidentally ruined an entire shipment of his hippie friends' juice business and secretly tried to save it by harvesting vegetables from their secret garden. He learns too late that the vegetables in question were drugged, and this attracted the police to the farm, willing to kill them. Homer makes a RousingSpeech and places flowers in the policemen's rifles, but the last rifle goes off as he is placing the flower into it. Scene cuts to a graveyard which is right next to a hospital, but it turns out Homer is in the hospital.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E9IAnnoyedGruntBot I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot]]":
*** The real Snowball II (not Snowball V a.k.a. Snowball II) dies in a classic ThatPoorCat when Dr. Hibbert runs her over off-screen. The next scene shows a gravestone marked Snowball II and a yet-to-be-buried shoe box.
*** Snowball III is found floating in an aquarium. Then it cuts to Snowball III's headstone.
*** Coltrane (aka Snowball IV) jumps out the window when Lisa plays her saxophone. Then it cuts to the headstone marked Coltrane.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", Frank Grimes loses it and starts acting as dumb as he thinks Homer is, including handling electrical wires without safety gloves. The camera [[ReactionShot cuts to the others' reaction]] to Grimes being shocked off-screen, then cuts again to his funeral.
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E18SimpsonsBibleStories Simpsons Bible Stories]]", King David ([[UniversalAdaptorCast Bart]]) is thrown out of town by Goliath (Nelson) and meets Ralph Wiggum (portraying a shepard), who idolises him. David tells him that he is no longer his hero, so Ralph walks into the sunset, intending to face Goliath himself. Cut to the gravestone. [[spoiler:Later on however, Goliath gets killed by a gravestone to the neck... Ralph's gravestone. It turns out Ralph isn't dead after all.]]
** Subverted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E6DohInTheWind D'oh-in' In The Wind]]", where Homer tries to become a hippie. Homer had accidentally ruined an entire shipment of his hippie friends' juice business and secretly tried to save it by harvesting vegetables from their secret garden. He learns too late that the vegetables in question were drugged, and this attracted the police to the farm, willing to kill them. Homer makes a RousingSpeech and places flowers in the policemen's rifles, but the last rifle goes off as he is placing the flower into it. Scene cuts to a graveyard which is right next to a hospital, but it turns out Homer is in the hospital.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E9IAnnoyedGruntBot I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot]]":
*** The real Snowball II (not Snowball V a.k.a. Snowball II) dies in a classic ThatPoorCat when Dr. Hibbert runs her over off-screen. The next scene shows a gravestone marked Snowball II and a yet-to-be-buried shoe box.
*** Snowball III is found floating in an aquarium. Then it cuts to Snowball III's headstone.
*** Coltrane (aka Snowball IV) jumps out the window when Lisa plays her saxophone. Then it cuts to the headstone marked Coltrane.
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* HeinousnessRetcon: Kamp Krusty as a whole undergoes this in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E15KampKrustier Kamp Krustier]]". In the original "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E1KampKrusty Kamp Krusty]]", the campers were treated genuinely cruelly, being forced to eat gruel, sleep in freezing barren shacks, and manufacture wallets in what Lisa described as "a Dickensian sweatshop", with Mr. Black, the camp's owner, being a CardCarryingVillain who revels in his awful treatment of the kids. In "Kamp Krustier", despite the premise being them being traumatised by the experience, the camp's actual cruelty and slave labour are forgotten about and the kids' bad memories of it are reduced to FauxHorrific PokeThePoodle offences like having to watch a bad production of ''Film/TheParentTrap'' with the one seemingly genuine trauma [[spoiler:a kid drowning trying to escape, turning out to be a mistake]], while Mr. Black is nowhere to be seen and never mentioned. Also, Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney are depicted as having taken part in the rebellion against the camp when in the original episode, they were the counsellors that the other kids were rebelling against following suffering their vicious abuse.
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* HairMemento: In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star is Burns]]", Homer feels inadequate compared to their houseguest [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic Jay Sherman]], so he tells Marge to leave him for Jay and cuts off a piece of her hair to remember her by.
-->'''Homer''': It's just you and me now, lock of hair.
-->'''Homer''': It's just you and me now, lock of hair.
