History TheSimpsons / TropesIToM

* MediumBlending: The 3D CGI Homer and live action bits in "Treehouse of Horror VI." It was done by [[DreamWorksAnimation Pacific Data Images]] of all companies.

* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: When Gill loses his job on Christmas Eve, the family lets him stay with them. Unfortunately, Gill overstays his welcome for almost a year. Marge, who didn't have it in her to say no, finally has her fill. By then, Gill had gotten a new job and left. Determined to get her newfound gumption out, Marge takes the family to his Gill's workplace and tells him off. When Gill shows weakness in front of Marge's tirade, his workers stop respecting him, resulting in his boss firing him. Out of guilt, Marge and the family buy a vacation house from Gill.

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* JeopardyIntelligenceTest: Homer fails his in "Simpson And Delilah",

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* LighterAndSofter: Compared to FamilyGuy and SouthPark.

* LongLostUncleAesop: Cecil Terwilliger appears as Sideshow Bob's brother, (Voiced by David Hyde Pierce, the actor who plays [[{{Frasier}} Dr. Frasier Crane]]'s brother) ultimately to illustrate himself as the more evil of the pair, allowing Bob an opportunity for redemption. He saves Bart and Lisa Simpson's lives, then the entire city of Springfield from being flooded.

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* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: When Gill loses his job on Christmas Eve, the family lets him stay with them. Unfortunately, Gill overstays his welcome for almost a year. Marge, who didn't have it in her to say no, finally has her fill. By then, Gill had gotten a new job and left. Determined to get her newfound gumption out, Marge takes the family to his Gill's workplace and tells him off. When Gill shows weakness in front of Marge's tirade, his workers stop respecting him, resulting in his boss firing him. Out of guilt, Marge and the family buy a vacation house from Gill.

* MaleFrontalNudity: Subverted mostly in a few episodes such as "Brother From the Same Planet" and "Natural Born Kissers". However, in ''TheSimpsonsMovie'', Bart Simpson skates nude around Springfield until for a brief moment we literally see his "you know what".

* ManateeGag: Oddly enough, Simpsons used it do a lot but then stopped for no real reason. Then ''FamilyGuy'' came along and used them constantly. Then when Simpsons tried to use them again, people accused ''them'' of ripping off ''Family Guy''.

* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: When Gill loses his job on Christmas Eve, the family lets him stay with them. Unfortunately, Gill overstays his welcome for almost a year. Marge, who didn't have it in her to say no, finally has her fill. By then, Gill had gotten a new job and left. Determined to get her newfound gumption out, Marge takes the family to his Gill's workplace and tells him off. As a result, Gill loses the respect of his workers and his boss fires him. Out of guilt, Marge and the family buy a vacation house from Gill.

** 3D, CGI, and claymation are also used when the characters watch parodies of Creator/{{Pixar}}, Davey and Goliath, the California Raisins, WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit, etc.

* InMediaRes: Parodied in "The Telltale Head", in which the opening scene starts playing again near the end of the episode.
--> '''Mob:''' All right! We know this part!

* MundaneUtility: In "Cape Feare", Ned Flanders wears [[NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kruger's glove]]... to trim hedges.

* ListingTheFormsOfDegenerates: The Simpsons references the Sweeney Todd example (see "Other" folder) in the AffectionateP

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** [[FridgeBrillance Which makes sense]]. What Sideshow Bob actually has tattooed on his fingers are the phonetic spellings of the words "love" and "hate", because, unlike real people, he has [[FourFingers 3 non-thumb fingers]] instead of 4, and can't spell the whole words on them.

* ListingTheFormsOfDegenerates: The Simpsons references the Sweeney Todd example (see "Other" folder) in the AffectionateParody episode "A Streetcar Named Marge."
-->'''Cast:''' New Orleeeans... Home of pirates, drunks, and whores! New Orleeeans... Tacky, overpriced, souvenir stores!
** Also on TheSimpsons, Mr. Burns refers to his employees as "jackanapes ... LOLLIGAGGERS ... NOODLEHEADS!" Or "goldbrickers ... LAYABOUTS ... SLUGABEDS!"
* LiteralAssKicking: When the Simpsons go to [[LandDownunder Australia]], "Booting" (administered by an angry-looking man wearing an over-sized boot) is a form of corporal punishment. It's even on the country's flag (shown atop this page). Also, disparaging the boot is a bootable offense.
** "Lisa's Date with Density" has this:
-->'''Lisa''': Why do you have to be such a pain all the time? Don't you realize you're getting a bad reputation?
-->'''Nelson''': Don't you realize your butt sticks out?
-->'''Lisa''': It does not!
-->[Nelson kicks Lisa in the butt]
-->'''Lisa''': Hey!
-->'''Nelson''': Ha ha!
* LiteralMinded: From "Fear of Flying", after Bart and Lisa get selected for first class seats:
--> '''Lisa''': Come on, Bart, they're gonna pamper us!
--> '''Bart''': Eew...
--> '''Lisa''': Not literally, of course.
* LittleMissBadass: Maggie Simpson. See BadassAdorable for examples.
* LittleMissSnarker: Lisa and Maggie alike, though Maggie is more specifically of the SilentSnarker variety.
* LiveActionAdaptation: A live version of the opening credits was created in 2006 as a promotional short in the UK.
** It later aired as a special opening to the show. In the US, all the driving footage was mirrored so it looked like they were driving on the right side of the road.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Over one hundred and counting.
** Cletus's family is rather large, and that's putting it mildly:
--> '''Cletus''': Hey, kids! We're eatin' dinner tonight! Come on out, Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dylan, Dermot, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumor, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Chloe, Max, Hunter, Kendall, Caitlin, Noah, Sascha, Morgan, Kyra, Ian, Lauren, Q-bert, Phil!
* LondonEnglandSyndrome: ParodiedTrope. In "The Falcon and the D'ohman", the subtitles misspell the name of Kiev, Ukraine twice in a row before reading something along the lines of, "Come on, how many Kievs do you know about anyway?".
* LongList: In "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge", Homer lists all of his former one-episode jobs in rapid succession.
** In "Girls Just Want to Have Sums", Homer lists all the inventions men made to prove why he considers men superior to women. These include paper, cars, rocket ships, suspension bridges, constitutional government, snow shoes, brass knuckles, pinball machines, and The Renaissance.
* LongLostUncleAesop: Cecil Terwilliger appears as Sideshow Bob's brother, (Voiced by David Hyde Pierce, the actor who plays [[{{Frasier}} Dr. Frasier Crane]]'s brother) ultimately to illustrate himself as the more evil of the pair, allowing Bob an opportunity for redemption. He saves Bart and Lisa Simpson's lives, then the entire city of Springfield from being flooded.
* LongRunners: Has even passed ''{{Gunsmoke}}'' as of 2010. It has now went on for at least 22 years.
** Has such an enormous back catalog that Fox [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/fox-considering-tv-channel-that-plays-nothing-but,61862/ considered]] devoting an ''entire channel'' to the show.
** ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Krusty the Klown Show]]'' has been on television since the fifties; early on it was apparently a serious talk show but later became the slapstick kid-oriented variety show it is today.
* LongRunnerTechMarchesOn: Evident when you compare the 90s episodes with the modern day ones.
* LongSpeechTeaTime: Marge just gets ready for bed while Homer rambles off all the jobs he had before his bodyguard gig, including "hippie," "Smithers," and "homophobe."
** It should be noted that Marge getting ready for bed involves putting rollers in her two and a half feet of hair.
-->I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life: boxer, mascot, astronaut, baby proofer, imitation Krusty, truck driver, hippie, plow driver, food critic, conceptual artist, grease salesman, carny, mayor, grifter, body guard for the mayor, country western manager, garbage commissioner, mountain climber, farmer, inventor, Smithers, Poochie, celebrity assistant, power plant worker, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E-Mart clerk, homophobe, and missionary, but protecting people, that gives me the best feeling of all.
* LopsidedDichotomy: See BatSignal.
* LosingYourHead: Homer in "Treehouse of Horror XVI"
* LoudOfWar: In one episode, Skinner, Krabappel and Bart have sealed themselves inside the school. Chief Wiggum tries playing romantic music to try and get them to snap and leave, but Skinner and Krabappel merely begin enjoying a romantic dance. This causes Bart to snap and scream "Turn it off!", which only convinces Wiggum to turn it up louder.
* LoveAtFirstSight: In "Principla Charming", Homer attempts to introduce Skinner to Selma, but accidentally introduces him to Patty instead.
-->'''Skinner:''' ''(dreamily)'' Patty...\\
'''Homer:''' D'oh!! Wrong one!
** Homer pretty much falls in love with Marge the first moment he sees her.
* LoveTriangle: "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" involves Milhouse falling for a girl and Bart getting jealous that he's spending all his time with her instead of him. Similarly, "The Good, The Sad, and the Drugly" has Bart falling for a girl, and Milhouse striving to break them up because Bart never came to visit him while he was suspended (since he was spending all his time with the new girlfriend).
* LoweredRecruitingStandards: NASA decides to let an average person be an astronaut to better its image, which is how Homer ends up on the space shuttle.
* LowSpeedChase:
** Sideshow Bob trying to make an escape in the Wright Brothers' plane, while police cars drive slowly behind him trying to catch him with nets.
** Chief Wiggum chasing the duck who took his badge.
** Grandpa Simpson chasing a tortoise that has his false teeth.
* LyingOnAHillside: Seen in "The Telltale Head" when Bart, Jimbo, Kearney, and Dolph look at the clouds.
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* MagicBrakes: Marge experienced this in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge".
--> '''Marge''': The "brakes cut" light!
* MagicPants: Referenced in "I Am Furious Yellow." After a series of incidents give Homer the appearance of [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], Bart comments, "Thank God his pants stayed on."
* MaleFrontalNudity: Subverted mostly in a few episodes such as "Brother From the Same Planet" and "Natural Born Kissers". However, in ''TheSimpsonsMovie'', Bart Simpson skates nude around Springfield until for a brief moment we literally see his "you know what".
* ManInWhite: Gabriel from the episode "Brawl in the Family", who claims to be a social worker, but Homer sees him as [[ArchangelGabriel an angel]].
* ManMadeHouseFlood: In the episode where Lisa has to contend with being the authority figure of the house when Marge ended up injured from a clock falling on her, Lisa is calling Marge, and it's revealed after briefly talking to Marge that Lisa is currently on a stool in a flooded house, with Homer and Bart playing Marco Polo. It's strongly implied that Bart and Homer caused the flood.
* ManOfAThousandVoices: DanCastellaneta, Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria qualify for that trope from their work on this show alone.
* MakeAWish: The wishbone in the Leftorium episode.
* MakeOutPoint: Springfield being what it is, it overlooks the nuclear plant.
* MakeRoomForTheNewPlot: Appears every so often as a way of forcing the HalfwayPlotSwitch.
* MalignantPlotTumor: It's the standard plot format.
* MamaBear: You dont want to threaten Bart while in a cage wrestling match with Marge.
* ManateeGag: Oddly enough, Simpsons used it do a lot but then stopped for no real reason. Then ''FamilyGuy'' came along and used them constantly. Then when Simpsons tried to use them again, people accused ''them'' of ripping off ''Family Guy''.
* MandatoryLine: In "Simpson Safari", Bart says an out-of-character and out-of-nowhere line after it's revealed that Bushwell has been using chimps to work in her diamond mine: "I think we should look at her research before we condemn her entirely. (everyone stares at him) I haven't said anything in a while."
* ManipulativeEditing: In "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show", Bart admits to a comatose Homer that he often made him angry, and what follows is a long string of brief clips where Homer says "D'oh!" However, in some of the episodes that these clips come from, it wasn't Bart who was making him say "D'oh!", but somebody or something else entirely.
** In "Homer Bad Man", a sensationalist news show blatantly edits an interview with Homer.
* MarilynManeuver: In "Gone Maggie Gone", a nun named Sister Marilyn standing on an air vent gets a draft under her dress and she enjoys it, blowing it up and as she's holding the front of it down, it lifts at leg level.
** A parody of this trope appears in "Home Away from Homer", in a scene with Ned standing on a wind vent in the street. The air blows up his mustache and his shirt, as he's holding the bottom of it down from the front.
* MatryoshkaObject: A couch gag in Season 9 has Homer run in front of the TV alone and the top half of his body pops off to reveal Marge. Inside Marge is Bart, inside him is Lisa and inside her is Maggie.
* MayDecemberRomance: The Simpsons did it as one episode shows that Apu is significantly older than Manjula. Also, Mr. Burns fell in love with Marge at one point. Then there's Bart and his older babysitter Laura Powers, and Homer + Mindy, and Sideshow Bob + his Italian wife Francesca, and probably a few others.
** Mr. Burns also fell in love with a girlfriend of Snake's...she appears to be in her late twenties to early thirties.
** Apu and Manjula were shown to be relatively the same in age in The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons. The Simpsons is notorious with its regard to continuity. Apart from that one flashback, Manjula generally seems to be younger than Apu (who is slightly greying).
** A recent episode had Krusty and his new co-star, Princess Penelope. Their exact ages are uncertain, but Penelope is "under thirty-three," and was a fan of Krusty's show when she was a little girl.
** Comic Book Guy and Agnes Skinner.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: When Bart sells his soul in the eponymous episode, things start becoming a bit odd for him, such as not being able to open automatic doors, his pets hissing wildly at him and...not being able to breathe on glass...but it's never firmly established if he diegetically lost his soul.
* McLeaned: Maggie Roswell/"Maude Flanders". Maggie eventually came back, but Maude Flanders is still dead.
* MediumBlending: The 3D CGI Homer and live action bits in "Treehouse of Horror VI." It was done by [[DreamWorksAnimation Pacific Data Images]] of all companies.
** 3D, CGI, and claymation are also used when the characters watch parodies of Creator/{{Pixar}}, Davey and Goliath, the California Raisins, WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit, etc.
** Homer lands in live action L.A. at the end of "Homer 3" (part of "Treehouse of Horror VI"). Similarly, in "The Terror of Tiny Toon" (part of "Treehouse of Horror IX"), Bart, Lisa, Itchy and Scratchy fall into the live action "Live With Regis & Kathie Lee" (as it was then titled) show. Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford both appear as themselves.
* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In one of the couch gags, the Simpsons run in and their Tracey Ullman-era selves are already sitting on the couch. Both pairs scream in terror and run out.
** Another couch gag had Homer walking onto a parody of TheBeatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where the Tracey Ullman Simpsons are part of the crowd.
* MemeticMutation: Parodied in-universe in "Bart Gets Famous", where we see people laughing at uses of the phrase "I didn't do it" during inappropriate moments (during a hold up at the Kwik-E-Mart after Apu sounds an alarm, Diamond Joe Quimby getting caught in bed with another woman by his wife, and during a fire when Patty and Selma are suspected to have caused it).
* MenCantKeepHouse: In the episode "Little Big Mom", Marge is recovering in the hospital, so the family maintains the house. The lazy males Bart and Homer turn the place into a filthy sack in minutes, much to the dismay of Lisa who is the only one trying to introduce some order and cleanliness, but with no success. She later tricks them into thinking they got leprosy from living in very dirty conditions so they would clean the house, again with no good results.
** Also seen in "Marge in Chains", when the house becomes a dump in ten minutes due to Marge being in jail. Grampa even fights off a wily toilet croc.
** A less extreme version occurs in "Take My Wife, Sleaze" when, after Marge is kidnapped by the Hell's Satans, Homer is baffled why the breakfast isn't made and why Bart and Lisa aren't at school.
* MetaGuy: Comic Book Guy.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: From "A Star is Born-Again":
--> '''Flanders''': Why would that Twinkie want to go out with a ding-dong like me?
--> '''Homer''': Flanders, I mix Twinkies and Ding-Dongs all the time. In Europe, they call it a Dinkie!
** In "Secrets of a Successful Marriage":
--> '''Homer''': For you see, marriage... is a lot like an orange. First, you have the skin... (lustfully) then the sweet, sweet innards. (devours orange)
** In "The New Kid on the Block":
--> '''Homer''': Son, a woman is a lot like a... a refrigerator! They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice, and... um... Oh, wait a minute. Actually, a woman is more like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! (drinks a beer) But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!
** In "Homer the Heretic":
--> '''Homer''': Kids, let me tell you about ''another'' so-called "wicked" guy. He had long hair and some wild ideas, and ''he'' didn't always do what other people thought was right. And that man's name was... I forget. But the point is... I forget that, too. Marge, you know who I'm talking about. He used to drive that blue car?
* MickeyMousing: Occurs on occasion.
* MidnightSnack: A favorite habit of Homer.
* MightyLumberjack: In the episode, ''The Blunder Years'', Marge becomes infatuated with the lumberjack that is the mascot for a brand of paper towels.
* MilitaryMoonshiner: Referenced in "Brother from Another Series" after Sideshow Bob is released from prison:
-->'''Cecil Terwilliger:''' Now make yourself at home. Perhaps a glass of Bordeaux? I have the '82 Chateau Latour and a rather indifferent Rausan-Segla.
-->'''Sideshow Bob:''' I've been in prison, Cecil. I'll be happy just as long as it doesn't taste like orange drink fermented under a radiator.
-->'''Cecil Terwilliger:''' ...[[TakeThat that would be the Latour, then]].
* MissedTheBus: A recurring occurrence is for Bart & Lisa to miss the school bus. Once Bart's missing the bus eventually led to him being [[ItMakesSenseInContext tried as the head of the Springfield Mafia]].
** Another example: The early version of the series' intro had Bart steal the sign from a bus stop while riding by on his skateboard, resulting in the bus passing right by the waiting crowd of people standing there, forcing them all to chase after it in a humorous manner.
* MissingTrailerScene: A commercial for "Homer at the Bat" depicts Barney and Wade Boggs engaging in a burping contest.
** Also from Season 3, a commercial for "Colonel Homer" has this scene when Bart and Lisa are in Lurleen Lumpkin's recording studio (this promo can be viewed on the Season 3 DVD as a special feature through the episode menu):
-->'''Lisa:''' I never thought I'd see another woman in Dad's life.
-->'''Bart:''' What are you talking about? There's Sara Lee, Aunt Jemima, Betty Crocker...
** A commercial for the S14 episode "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" has Homer being arrested for saying North Dakota doesn't exist.
* MistakenForExhibit: In "Mom and Pop Art," Mr. Burns mistakes Homer's failed attempts at D.I.Y. crafting for fine art and buys them for large amounts of money.
* MistakenForGay: "Homer's Phobia", in which Homer thinks Bart is gay.
* MistakenForMasturbating: In "Like Father Like Clown", it is implied that Krusty's father thinks he is masturbating in the bathroom, it turns out he was doing a comedy routine with a seltzer bottle.
* MistakenForProfound: "Bart's Inner Child" has this as a plot point.
* MistakenForTerrorist: "Mypods and Boomsticks."
** Also that one time when Apu started yowling after having his tongue scalded with hot coffee, and then put a wet towel on his head (that looked like a turban)... It was in the S16 episode "Midnight Rx". That was after Apu was caught at the Canadian border after Homer, Grampa, Flanders and Apu were smuggling (illegal) Canadian prescription drugs from Winnipeg.
* MisterSeahorse: Arthur Fortune (a parody of Richard Branson) gets the two male pandas he donated to the zoo to mate in the episode "Monty Can't Buy Me Love".
* ModelPlanning: A few episodes, such as when they try to use a rocket to stop the comet in "Bart's Comet". Each time, the model ends with Moe's Bar destroyed in flames.
* MoneyDearBoy: Harry Shearer is the only voice actor on the show who has admitted that it's gone downhill. But he'll still gladly take those paychecks.
** Also invoked in-universe with Krusty, who frequently puts his name and image on all kinds of low-quality merchandise for money.
* MonkeysOnATypewriter:
-->'''Burns''': [[ATaleOfTwoCities It was the best of times]], it was the ''blurst'' of times!?!" You stupid monkey!
* MoralDilemma: "Homer vs. Dignity": Burns tempting Homer to throw fish guts at the crowd for $1 million. Homer is torn between staying lower-middle class and being hated by the entire town. Ultimately, though, he chooses the right path.
* MotivationalLie: When Bart gets super glue all over him, Dr. Hibbert tells him about the painful in jections Bart will have to get in his spine. Bart begins sweating in terror, causing the glue to come off.
-->'''Dr. Hibbert:''' Nothing dissolves glue better than human sweat. I knew Bart would panic and start perspiring at the sight of this button applicator!\\
'''Bart:''' Couldn't you have just turned the heat up a little?\\
'''Dr. Hibbert:''' [sinister] Oh, heavens no! It had to be terror sweat!
* MotorcycleJousting: happens in an episode where Homer wins a motorcycle in a steak eating contest.
* MouthFlaps: The Simpsons was revolutionary for TV animation in that there were upwards of 30 different mouth positions used to correspond to the dialog. On many shows, you're lucky if you get half that.
* MsFanservice: Tabitha Vixx from "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play".
** Mayor Quimby's fling in "Whacking Day" and "Bart's Inner Child".
* MultiArmedMultitasking: A cutaway shot of the Earth shows a vaguely Hindu-esque being frantically pressing buttons in the core, apparently to keep the world working. He pauses briefly to wipe his forehead with one of his hands and sigh with exhaustion.
* MultipleChoicePast: The details of Grandpa's war service change depending on the telling. Sometimes he wasn't even there at all.
* MurderByCremation: "Funeral for a Fiend".
* MushroomSamba: a few episodes, but "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer," Bart and Milhouse's syrup Squishee bender on "Boy Scoutz N The Hood," and the sequence in "Selma's Choice" where Lisa drinks the tainted water on the "Little Land of Duff" ride and freaks out are the most well-known.
** Also "D'oh-in' in the Wind" when the townspeople hallucinate from the carrots and peyote drink that Homer made.
* MusicalEpisode: "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", "The President Wore Pearls", "My Fair Laddy", "Yokel Chords"; "All Singing, All Dancing" is pretty much non-stop musical numbers, aside from the first couple of minutes.
* MutilationConga: frequently heaped upon Homer.
* TheMutiny: "Simpson Tide" although it is more-or-less unintentional.
* MundaneWish: in the second [[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse of Horror]], Homer gets a [[TheMonkeysPaw monkey's paw]] good for four wishes. The first wish is used by Maggie, who wishes for a new pacifier. The second is used by Bart, who wishes for the Simpsons to be rich and famous. Third is Lisa, who wishes for World Peace. (Homer: "Lisa, that was very selfish of you!") After aliens TakeOverTheWorld because nobody knows how to fight back (due to the world peace thing), Homer decides to use the final wish by getting very specific so it [[LiteralGenie won't backfire]].
-->'''Homer:''' "I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard, and, '''and''' I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises. You got it?"
--->''[The monkey's paw closes its finger in understanding. A turkey sandwich materializes. Homer takes it.]''
-->'''Homer:''' "Hey!" ''*digs in*'' "Not bad. Nice, hot mustard. Good bread. The turkey's a little dry." ''*In realization*'' "The turkey's a little dry! Oh, foe, the cursed teeth! What demon from the depths of hell created thee!?"
* MundaneUtility: In "Cape Feare", Ned Flanders wears [[NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kruger's glove]]... to trim hedges.
-->'''Ned:''' Maude, these new finger razors make hedge trimming as much fun as sitting through church.
* MyCard: Malloy again.
** Also Lionel Hutz in his debut appearance.
* MyEyesAreUpHere: Demonstrated in "The Frying Game" when Homer is talking to Carmen Electra.
--> '''Carmen Electra''': Uh, Homer, my eyes are up ''here''.
--> '''Homer''': I've made my choice. (continues to stare at her breasts)
* MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou: Bart and Lisa used a variant of this on the players when they were at a minor league baseball game:
-->'''Bart''': You throw like my sister!
-->'''Lisa''': Yeah! You throw like me!
* MyLittlePanzer: Many Krusty brand products aren't safe for children.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Referenced in the "Easy-Bake Coven" segment of "Treehouse of Horror VIII", with Marge and her sisters as witches (which makes this also an actual ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'').
-->'''Patty''': So, you finally left Durwood.
-->'''Marge''': His name is Homer!
** Moe often calls Marge things like Madge or Midge, though this is more of affectionate nicknaming since it's obvious he has a crush on her. There's also this scene from "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe":
--->'''Homer''': See Marge, it's just what you wanted. Me spending the day with Mugsy.
--->'''Marge''': Maggie!
--->'''Homer''': Marge, you're not naggy. You just set the bar impossibly high.
--->'''Marge''': Well can you at least bring a sweater for Maggie?
--->'''Homer''': Impossibly high.
** The season two episode "Bart's Dog Gets an F" had the dog's name read as "Satan's Little Helper" by the dog trainer instead of "Santa's Little Helper".
** When Bart fills out a credit card application in "The Canine Mutiny" using Santa's Little Helper's name, he gets a card in the name of "Santos L. Halper." Reverend Lovejoy even uses the "Satan's Little Helper" name in the episode.
* MyopicArchitecture: PlayedForLaughs. One scene in the nuke plant involved going through several layers of increasing security to reach a control room, which was seen to also feature an ill-fitting, flapping screen door leading directly to the parking lot.
* MysteriousInformant: Smithers, in "Sideshow Bob Roberts".
* MysteryBox: What Mr. Burns tries to bribe some safety inspectors with in "Two Cars on Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish".
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* ListingTheFormsOfDegerates: The Simpsons references the Sweeney Todd example (see "Other" folder) in the AffectionateParody episode "A Streetcar Named Marge."

** Also on TheSimpsons, Mr. Burns refers to his employees as "jackanapes ... LOLLIGAGGERS ... NOODLEHEADS!" Or
"goldbrickers ... LAYABOUTS ... SLUGABEDS!"