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* IncompatibleOrientation: Smithers is extremely attracted to Mr Burns but that feeling is not mutual.

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* IncompatibleOrientation: Smithers is extremely attracted to Mr Mr. Burns but that feeling is not mutual.mutual, and Burns is likely straight as we've seen him romance women across the series.
* InconsistentSpelling: Itchy & Scratchy CEO Roger Meyers' surname has been inconsistently spelled as both "Meyers" and "Myers" over the course of the series.
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* JerkassGods: Any depiction of {{God}} or some other mythological figure is usually characterized as a {{Jerkass}} like the rest of the cast.
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* InsultingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier:
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS30E6FromRussiaWithoutLove From Russia Without Love]]", when Moe reveals his previous heartbreaks to her, Anastasia [[LackOfEmpathy feigns sympathy]] but then insults him in Russian, calling him "Nightmare Face."
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E20FourGreatWomenAndAManicure Four Great Women and a Manicure]]", [[TheSpeechless Maggie]] holds up a U block and points to her pacifier while sucking on it, with the subtitles "You suck".
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E11TheCrepesOfWrath The Crepes of Wrath]]", when Bart returns to Springfield and watches Homer struggle to get a wine bottle open, he quips "My father--what a buffoon" in French... and Homer delightedly brags about how proud he is of his son's linguistic ability. To add to the joke, the French word for "buffoon" is "bouffon", a cognate that even sounds like its English counterpart--but Homer still can't pick up on the insult.
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* KiddyCoveralls: Bart and Lisa have broken their Limited Wardrobe to wear overalls on occasion, mostly for DownOnTheFarm themed episodes. In flashbacks to when one or the other (or both) were toddlers, Bart and/or Lisa are shown wearing overalls to show how young they are compared to the present.
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* LowerHalfReveal: One ''Treehouse of Horror'' segment had the family visit an island where Dr. Hibbert is turning the people of Springfield into half-animal hybrids. Homer is poking around the stable when he runs into Ned Flanders who at first looks normal. Then, Ned opens the gate he's standing behind to reveal his upper body is now mounted on the body of a cow.
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* IdiosyncraticWipes: In "Alone Again, Natura-Diddly", Lisand Homer argue over using star wipes on Ned's dating tape. The episode then goes to the next scene with a star wipe.

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* IdiosyncraticWipes: In "Alone Again, Natura-Diddly", Lisand Lisa and Homer argue over using star wipes on Ned's dating tape. The episode then goes to the next scene with a star wipe.



** Used again in the season twenty-one episode, ''The Squirt and the Whale'', where Homer describes a happy ending for the whale family in the story by pairing the whale father with a sexy octopus.

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** Used again in the season twenty-one Season 21 episode, ''The Squirt and the Whale'', where Homer describes a happy ending for the whale family in the story by pairing the whale father with a sexy octopus.



** Mr. Burns' evil has been deconstructed many times. In a season 22 episode, he gets amnesia and everyone in town borrows him for 15 minutes at a time. At the end, he gets his memories back, and the town reasons that helping everyone made him well. He does more good deeds, which makes him suffer health defects until he does bad deeds again and starts feeling better again, putting forth the more accurate reasoning that "helping" everyone refuelled his hate for the town, giving him a reason to live again.

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** Mr. Burns' evil has been deconstructed many times. In a season Season 22 episode, he gets amnesia and everyone in town borrows him for 15 minutes at a time. At the end, he gets his memories back, and the town reasons that helping everyone made him well. He does more good deeds, which makes him suffer health defects until he does bad deeds again and starts feeling better again, putting forth the more accurate reasoning that "helping" everyone refuelled his hate for the town, giving him a reason to live again.



** Two season six episodes had this: "Fear of Flying" (when Marge was talking to her therapist about her childhood, where a little girl mocks Marge for liking The Monkees and telling her that they don't write their own songs or play their own instruments -- [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and, worst of all,]] Creator/MichaelNesmith [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wasn't wearing his real hat]]) and "Homer the Great"[[note]]The one where Homer joins The Stonecutters and is named The Chosen One after they nearly kick him out[[/note]] (when Homer remembers when he was excluded from a treehouse club that only let in one person named Homer, and he wasn't it).

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** Two season six Season 6 episodes had this: "Fear of Flying" (when Marge was talking to her therapist about her childhood, where a little girl mocks Marge for liking The Monkees and telling her that they don't write their own songs or play their own instruments -- [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and, worst of all,]] Creator/MichaelNesmith [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wasn't wearing his real hat]]) and "Homer the Great"[[note]]The one where Homer joins The Stonecutters and is named The Chosen One after they nearly kick him out[[/note]] (when Homer remembers when he was excluded from a treehouse club that only let in one person named Homer, and he wasn't it).



** Elderly old woman Mrs Glick supposedly died in season 23, but has continued to appear in crowd scenes, leaving her official status questionable.

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** Elderly old woman Mrs Glick supposedly died in season Season 23, but has continued to appear in crowd scenes, leaving her official status questionable.



* LimitedWardrobe: Although the Simpsons themselves have been dabbling in varied, brightly-colored jackets since season twenty-five or so.

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* LimitedWardrobe: Although the Simpsons themselves have been dabbling in varied, brightly-colored jackets since season twenty-five Season 25 or so.



** Parodied in the intro to season 24's "Treehouse of Horror" where a botched sacrifice during the Mayan empire brings to life three stone Mayan gods who destroy the world (and according to Mayor Quimby's Mayan ancestor, everything that happened will be [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama's]] fault).

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** Parodied in the intro to season Season 24's "Treehouse of Horror" where a botched sacrifice during the Mayan empire brings to life three stone Mayan gods who destroy the world (and according to Mayor Quimby's Mayan ancestor, everything that happened will be [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama's]] fault).



* MusicalEpisode: "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"[[note]]The season eight episode where The Simpsons hire a nanny after Marge is diagnosed with stress-related hair loss[[/note]], "The President Wore Pearls"[[note]]season 15 episode where Lisa is elected class president[[/note]], "My Fair Laddy"[[note]]season 17 episode where Lisa grooms Groundskeeper Willie into being a proper gentleman[[/note]], and "Yokel Chords"[[note]]season 18 episode where Lisa takes it upon herself to give Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel's children an education[[/note]]. "All Singing, All Dancing" combines this with a ClipShow episode.

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* MusicalEpisode: "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"[[note]]The season eight Season 8 episode where The Simpsons hire a nanny after Marge is diagnosed with stress-related hair loss[[/note]], "The President Wore Pearls"[[note]]season Pearls"[[note]]Season 15 episode where Lisa is elected class president[[/note]], "My Fair Laddy"[[note]]season Laddy"[[note]]Season 17 episode where Lisa grooms Groundskeeper Willie into being a proper gentleman[[/note]], and "Yokel Chords"[[note]]season Chords"[[note]]Season 18 episode where Lisa takes it upon herself to give Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel's children an education[[/note]]. "All Singing, All Dancing" combines this with a ClipShow episode.



** In "Simpsons Spinoff Showcase" Troy [=McClure=] mentions season 9 will have an alien only Homer can see. Kang and Kodos were envisioned as aliens only Homer could see but this concept was deemed too surreal and they were kept only to the Halloween episodes.

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** In "Simpsons Spinoff Showcase" Troy [=McClure=] mentions season Season 9 will have an alien only Homer can see. Kang and Kodos were envisioned as aliens only Homer could see but this concept was deemed too surreal and they were kept only to the Halloween episodes.
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* JokersLoveJunkFood: Homer is a BumblingDad and a ButtMonkey who's also quite rotund. In one early episode, he's shown at the Quick-E-Mart getting excited over the newly stocked "Triple chocolate" ice cream. He drools over a commercial for a cheeseburger with a bun slathered in "rich creamery butter." And in one of the {{Halloween Episode}}s, he flees from an otherwise utopic world where he's wealthy, his hated sisters-in-law are dead, and his children are polite and well-behaved because he was told there was no such thing as [[TrademarkFavoriteFood donuts]] in that world...and [[ShootTheShaggyDog if he'd just waited a few seconds, that problem would have been resolved as well.]] And in another Halloween Episode, he sells his soul for a donut, and his IronicHell has him being force-fed all the donuts in the world...only for him to demand more when he'd eaten all of them!
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* MistakenForToilet:
** Inverted in "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", where Grampa mistakes a porta-potty for an elevator.
--->'''Grampa:''' This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone left an ''awful'' mess down there.
** In "The Wandering Juvie", Homer mistakes a dressing room at Costington's for the bathroom.
--->'''Manager:''' Sir, other customers need to use that dressing room.
--->'''Homer:''' ''Dressing'' room? ...Uh-oh.
** Implied in "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday". Following Homer and his friends wrecking a bus taking them to Miami for the Superbowl, trip organizer Wally Kogen apologizes to the bus driver for them making a mess in the bathroom. The bus driver meekly asks, "What bathroom?"
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E1WhoShotMrBurnsPartTwo Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (Part Two)]], Grampa goes outside the family's house to relieve himself at the outhouse.
--> '''Lisa''': We don't have an outhouse.
--> '''Homer''': ''(gasp)'' My toolshed! ''(runs after Grampa)'' Oh, dad!
** Inverted example: In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E5HelterShelter Helter Shelter]]", while being shown around a 19th century house they'll be staying at for a reality show, Homer mistakes a chamber pot for a helmet.

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