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* MistakenForProfound: "Bart's Inner Child" has this as a plot point.
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* MistakenForSanta: A variation -- At the beginning of "Holidays of Future Passes", Marge gets the family ready for their Christmas card photo after Thanksgiving dinner, which includes putting a Santa hat on Grampa while he [[FaceplantingInToFood sleeps face-down in his food]]. He then wakes up and is convinced ''he's'' Santa after seeing his reflection with the hat and a "beard" of mashed potatoes.
-->'''Grampa:''' I'm Santa? Oh, now I'll never die!
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* LighterAndSofter: The more recent episodes aren't nearly as dark as the series was back in its heyday in terms of themes and violence.
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* LighterAndSofter: Has constantly jumped between this and DarkerAndEdgier over the years. On a broader scale, though, the first season of the show was much more of a {{Dramedy}} than a straight comedy, with a downbeat tone, relatively subtle humor, and some fairly depressing plotlines and subject matter. It's ultimately unrecognizable from the upbeat, wacky comedy that the show is generally known as.
** The more recent episodes aren't nearly as dark as the series was back in its heyday in terms of themes and violence.
** The more recent episodes aren't nearly as dark as the series was back in its heyday in terms of themes and violence.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam:
** Bart and Homer decide to work as con artists. Grandpa Simpson pretends to help them but secretly lures them into a trap where they were arrested by a government agent who robs them. As it turns out, he's a con artist. Bart and Homer make up a story to explain the robbery, which inadvertently leads to Willie being arrested, put on trial, found guilty, and given a long prison sentence. Out of desperation, Willie steals a bailiff's gun and starts shooting. When Skinner is apparently killed --actually, a ruse with blanks, squibs, and a blood pack--, Homer finally confesses, only for everyone else to admit their deception, down to the judge revealing himself to be Grandpa in a mask and wig. The whole town was working together to teach them a lesson.
--->'''Homer''': I can't believe everyone was in on it!\\
'''Willie''': Willie [[UnwittingPawn wasn't]]!!
** Homer and Marge are framed for murder as contestants of a RealityShow. Even the police are deceived.
** Parodying the final scene of ''Film/StateAndMain'', a fake trial is put on to allow Homer the opportunity to realize that he'd regret it if he lies during the real trial. When Homer expresses his incredulity, Lisa agrees that the massive con was [[LampshadeHanging pretty implausible]].
** Bart and Homer decide to work as con artists. Grandpa Simpson pretends to help them but secretly lures them into a trap where they were arrested by a government agent who robs them. As it turns out, he's a con artist. Bart and Homer make up a story to explain the robbery, which inadvertently leads to Willie being arrested, put on trial, found guilty, and given a long prison sentence. Out of desperation, Willie steals a bailiff's gun and starts shooting. When Skinner is apparently killed --actually, a ruse with blanks, squibs, and a blood pack--, Homer finally confesses, only for everyone else to admit their deception, down to the judge revealing himself to be Grandpa in a mask and wig. The whole town was working together to teach them a lesson.
--->'''Homer''': I can't believe everyone was in on it!\\
'''Willie''': Willie [[UnwittingPawn wasn't]]!!
** Homer and Marge are framed for murder as contestants of a RealityShow. Even the police are deceived.
** Parodying the final scene of ''Film/StateAndMain'', a fake trial is put on to allow Homer the opportunity to realize that he'd regret it if he lies during the real trial. When Homer expresses his incredulity, Lisa agrees that the massive con was [[LampshadeHanging pretty implausible]].
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* MistakenForDestitute: In "The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson", Homer is stuck at the World Trade Center Plaza while he waits for a police officer to unlock his booted car. While he sits on the sidewalk, people passing by start to drop change at him. At first Homer tells them he's not homeless and doesn't need their change but since they don't listen, he decides to take the change and actually calls a passing woman a cheapskate for ''not'' giving him any.
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* MobWar: The Springfield Mafia and the Yakuza (hired by the Investorettes) fights in "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson".
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* MobDebt: Several episodes have Fat Tony's mafia gang engaging in loan sharking. Homer is a frequent victim, and another episode has Krusty running into debt with them after losing most of the money he borrowed from them betting on a basketball game.
* MobWar: The Springfield Mafia and the Yakuza (hired by the Investorettes)fights fight in "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson".
* MobWar: The Springfield Mafia and the Yakuza (hired by the Investorettes)
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** Parodied in "Take My Wife, Sleaze", when Bart teaches Homer how to ride a motorcycle that he won, complete with training wheels on the rear.
** Also parodied in "My Mother the Carjacker", during a montage of Homer and [[MissingMom Mona]] making up for lost time. Unfortunately, he rides into an exit ramp coming out of the highway, cutting right before he collides with a semi-truck.
** Parodied in "Take My Wife, Sleaze", when Bart teaches Homer how to ride a motorcycle that he won, complete with training wheels on the rear.
** Also parodied in "My Mother the Carjacker", during a montage of Homer and [[MissingMom Mona]] making up for lost time. Unfortunately, he rides into an exit ramp coming out of the highway, cutting right before he collides with a semi-truck.
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* MouthTapedShut: "We're On the Road to D'oh-where", used as part of a gag where Homer restrains a troublemaking Bart in the car by duct-taping and chaining him to the seat.
-->'''Bart:''' Dad, I think you actually ''enjoy'' seeing your own son suffer.
-->'''Homer:''' I don't enjoy it! Being a father is just a job. Long hours, no pay, and at the end, all you get is someone yelling "You screwed me up".
-->'''Bart:''' Well, maybe if you enjoyed me more, I wouldn't be so screwed up.
-->'''Homer:''' Hey, I enjoy you plenty. [[HypocriticalHumor Talking time is over.]] ''(tapes his mouth shut)''
-->'''Bart:''' Dad, I think you actually ''enjoy'' seeing your own son suffer.
-->'''Homer:''' I don't enjoy it! Being a father is just a job. Long hours, no pay, and at the end, all you get is someone yelling "You screwed me up".
-->'''Bart:''' Well, maybe if you enjoyed me more, I wouldn't be so screwed up.
-->'''Homer:''' Hey, I enjoy you plenty. [[HypocriticalHumor Talking time is over.]] ''(tapes his mouth shut)''
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* MyLittlePanzer: Many Krusty brand products aren't safe for children (or any sane human being, for that matter. Even his home pregnancy test is dangerous)
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* MyLittlePanzer: Many Krusty brand products aren't safe for children (or any sane human being, for that matter. Even his home pregnancy test is dangerous)dangerous).
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* MayItNeverHappenAgain:
** Parodied in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E13RadioBart Radio Bart]]": the only measure the town of Springfield takes to prevent someone from falling again in the well that was the cause of all of the episode's drama is to place a teeny-tiny sign close to it that reads, "Warning: Well".
** Parodied in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E14BartsComet Bart's Comet]]", which ends with the titular comet entering Springfield's polluted atmosphere and then burning itself into a harmless rock. The townsfolk then immediately storm the observatory to destroy it [[InsaneTrollLogic in the belief that this will make sure this never happens again]].
** Parodied in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E13RadioBart Radio Bart]]": the only measure the town of Springfield takes to prevent someone from falling again in the well that was the cause of all of the episode's drama is to place a teeny-tiny sign close to it that reads, "Warning: Well".
** Parodied in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E14BartsComet Bart's Comet]]", which ends with the titular comet entering Springfield's polluted atmosphere and then burning itself into a harmless rock. The townsfolk then immediately storm the observatory to destroy it [[InsaneTrollLogic in the belief that this will make sure this never happens again]].
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** Homer starts a song in "Special Edna", but since the episode is ADayInTheLimelight for Mrs. Krabapple[[note]]also it's in a modified Deleted Scene shown during the credits[[/note]], the camera doesn't follow him when he wanders out of the scene.
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** Mrs. Krabapple in "Flaming Moe's", "Bart the Lover", and is noticeably bustier in opening for The Movie.
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** "Hi, I'm Troy [=McClure,=] you may remember me from such [Medium in which he's appearing] as X and Y (one might be LighterAndSofter to the other's DarkerAndEdgier or both are DenserAndWackier).
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** In "Principla Charming", Homer attempts to introduce Skinner to Selma, but accidentally introduces him to Patty instead.
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** In "Principla "Principal Charming", Homer attempts to introduce Skinner to Selma, but accidentally introduces him to Patty instead.
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-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Behold, I am Captain Kirk from ''[[Series/StarTrekTheMotionPicture Star Trek One]]''!\\
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-->'''Comic Book Guy:''' Behold, I am Captain Kirk from ''[[Series/StarTrekTheMotionPicture ''[[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture Star Trek One]]''!\\
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam:
** Bart and Homer decide to work as con artists. Grandpa Simpson pretends to help them but secretly lures them into a trap where they were arrested by a government agent who robs them. As it turns out, he's a con artist. Bart and Homer make up a story to explain the robbery, which inadvertently leads to Willie being arrested, put on trial, found guilty, and given a long prison sentence. Out of desperation, Willie steals a bailiff's gun and starts shooting. When Skinner is apparently killed --actually, a ruse with blanks, squibs, and a blood pack--, Homer finally confesses, only for everyone else to admit their deception, down to the judge revealing himself to be Grandpa in a mask and wig. The whole town was working together to teach them a lesson.
--->'''Homer''': I can't believe everyone was in on it!\\
'''Willie''': Willie [[UnwittingPawn wasn't]]!!
** Homer and Marge are framed for murder as contestants of a RealityShow. Even the police are deceived.
** Parodying the final scene of ''Film/StateAndMain'', a fake trial is put on to allow Homer the opportunity to realize that he'd regret it if he lies during the real trial. When Homer expresses his incredulity, Lisa agrees that the massive con was [[LampshadeHanging pretty implausible]].
** Bart and Homer decide to work as con artists. Grandpa Simpson pretends to help them but secretly lures them into a trap where they were arrested by a government agent who robs them. As it turns out, he's a con artist. Bart and Homer make up a story to explain the robbery, which inadvertently leads to Willie being arrested, put on trial, found guilty, and given a long prison sentence. Out of desperation, Willie steals a bailiff's gun and starts shooting. When Skinner is apparently killed --actually, a ruse with blanks, squibs, and a blood pack--, Homer finally confesses, only for everyone else to admit their deception, down to the judge revealing himself to be Grandpa in a mask and wig. The whole town was working together to teach them a lesson.
--->'''Homer''': I can't believe everyone was in on it!\\
'''Willie''': Willie [[UnwittingPawn wasn't]]!!
** Homer and Marge are framed for murder as contestants of a RealityShow. Even the police are deceived.
** Parodying the final scene of ''Film/StateAndMain'', a fake trial is put on to allow Homer the opportunity to realize that he'd regret it if he lies during the real trial. When Homer expresses his incredulity, Lisa agrees that the massive con was [[LampshadeHanging pretty implausible]].
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%%* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Parodied in "G-I-(Annoyed Grunt)".
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* InternetStalking: In 'Lisa the Drama Queen', Homer mentions that he frequently looks at Lisa's social media.
---> '''Homer:''' I search all the children's Facebook pages for unflattering references to me. By the way, I enjoyed the photos of your trip to Yosemite.
---> '''Homer:''' I search all the children's Facebook pages for unflattering references to me. By the way, I enjoyed the photos of your trip to Yosemite.
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** Titania from "Pygmoelian", a blond buxom woman. In the "Beer–Tender of the Year" contest she pulled out all the stops in using her GagBoobs to increase her chances of winning.
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** Titania from "Pygmoelian", a blond buxom woman. In the "Beer–Tender of the Year" contest she pulled out all the stops in using her GagBoobs generous rack to increase her chances of winning.
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* AMatchMadeInStockholm: Homer and his two kidnappers in "Blame It On Lisa".
-->'''Homer:''' Listen, um... I made a little scrapbook to remember the kidnapping. I'm still working on it but, uh, as you can see I've-- Aw, look, this is that cigarette butt you burned me with.\\
'''Kidnapper One:''' You slept like a baby that night.\\
''[everyone shares a laugh]''\\
'''Homer:''' Haha, I remember that, yeah.\\
'''Marge:''' ''[arriving to deliver ransom money]'' Homer, why are you laughing?\\
'''Kidnapper Two:''' He has the Stockholm Syndrome. He has come to identify with his captors.\\
'''Homer:''' ''[excitedly]'' They let me stay up alllll night!
-->'''Homer:''' Listen, um... I made a little scrapbook to remember the kidnapping. I'm still working on it but, uh, as you can see I've-- Aw, look, this is that cigarette butt you burned me with.\\
'''Kidnapper One:''' You slept like a baby that night.\\
''[everyone shares a laugh]''\\
'''Homer:''' Haha, I remember that, yeah.\\
'''Marge:''' ''[arriving to deliver ransom money]'' Homer, why are you laughing?\\
'''Kidnapper Two:''' He has the Stockholm Syndrome. He has come to identify with his captors.\\
'''Homer:''' ''[excitedly]'' They let me stay up alllll night!
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** In the episode "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", when Bart is discovered to have head lice on class picture day (as a result of playing with a monkey Milhouse found), he comments "Nothing ever happens to Milhouse." We then see Milhouse standing there pale, wrapped in a blanket, muttering "Cold, so very, very cold."
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** In the episode "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", when Bart is discovered to have head lice on class picture day (as a result of playing with a monkey Milhouse found), he comments comments, "Nothing ever happens to Milhouse." We then see Milhouse standing there pale, wrapped in a blanket, muttering muttering, "Cold, so very, very cold."
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* InnocentAwkwardQuestion: When the Flanderses go to a museum, Rod and Todd see an exhibit that explains that humans evolved from chimp-like animals. One of them, not understanding, asks if [[MissingMom their dead mother]] was a monkey, since he can't remember. This stumps the father, Ned, who is a creationist, and he eventually says that God made humans. The boys are then confused, since he claims a stork brought them, so Ned blurts out, "There's no such thing as storks! It's all God!". So the boys kneel down and pray in front of a taxidermied stork.
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* [[InsaneTrollLogic/TheSimpsons Insane Troll Logic]]
* [[Jerkass/TheSimpsons Jerkass]]
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!!Other Tropes
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* [[InsaneTrollLogic/TheSimpsons Insane Troll Logic]]
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!!Other Tropes
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* KidCom: Season 1 leaned towards this - while Homer & Marge got a good amount of focus, the show focused much more on the adventures of Bart, Lisa & even Maggie, and Bart in particular was treated as effectively the defacto protagonist. This slowly shifted over the course of Season 2, and by Season 3 the show moved away from this trope and focused much more on Homer.
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* InterruptedIntimacy: Happens a couple of times to Homer and Marge, [[PrimalScene often because the kids walk in]]. Others reasons include [[DropInCharacter Ned Flanders]] [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E19LeftBehind knocking at their door]], or [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E25NaturalBornKissers a maid walking in their hotel room]]. Although in the latter case, Homer and Marge notice they're aroused by the risk of being surprised in the act by someone.
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* InterruptedIntimacy: Happens a couple of times to Homer and Marge, [[PrimalScene often because the kids walk in]]. Others reasons include [[DropInCharacter Ned Flanders]] [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E19LeftBehind knocking at their door]], a [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E5TheDevilWearsNada Carl phone call]], or [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E25NaturalBornKissers a maid walking in their hotel room]]. Although in the latter case, Homer and Marge notice they're aroused by the risk of being surprised in the act by someone.
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* InterruptedIntimacy: Happens a couple of times to Homer and Marge, [[PrimalScene often because the kids walk in]]. Others reasons include [[DropInCharacter Ned Flanders]] [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E19LeftBehind knocking at their door]], or [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E25NaturalBornKissers a maid walking in their hotel room]]. Although in the latter case, Homer and Marge notice they're aroused by the risk of being surprised in the act by someone.
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** Krusty's father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky, was killed off in the season 26 season premiere. However, he continued to appear in the series, still voiced by Jackie Mason, either as a ghost or a vision of Krusty when he comes close to death. It remains to be seen if this will continue with Mason's death in July 2021.
** Elderly old woman Mrs Glick supposedly died in season 23, but has continued to appear in crowd scenes, leaving her official status questionable.
** 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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'''Rainer Wolfcastle:''' [[UpToEleven 1 highway]], [[BeyondTheImpossible 0 city]].
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'''Rainer Wolfcastle:''' [[UpToEleven 1 highway]], highway, [[BeyondTheImpossible 0 city]].
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* 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."
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* MagicPants: Referenced in "I Am Furious Yellow." After a series of incidents give Homer the appearance of [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], Bart comments, "Thank God his pants stayed on."
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* InstructionalFilm: * A RunningGag is Springfield Elementary's use of instructional films that are no longer fit for purpose, if they ever were. Problems range from casual depiction of attempted suicide, videos about space travel that were poorly researched even for the 50's and transparent meat lobby propoganda that shows a bit too much detail on how slaughterhouses work.
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* InstructionalFilm: * A RunningGag is Springfield Elementary's use of instructional films that are no longer fit for purpose, if they ever were. Problems range from casual depiction of attempted suicide, videos about space travel that were poorly researched even for the 50's and transparent meat lobby propoganda that shows a bit too much detail on how slaughterhouses work.
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* MemorialForTheAntagonist:
** "Homer's Enemy" ends with [[spoiler:the funeral of Frank Grimes, the titular enemy, after he finally snapped and electrocuted himself in a fit of insanity. As one last indignity, Homer falls asleep during the service, and Grimes' coffin is lowered into the ground to the sound of [[TheFunInFuneral everyone present laughing at Homer's antics]]]].
** In "Funeral for a Fiend", [[spoiler:the family learn of Sideshow Bob's passing and agree to attend his funeral, despite all the times Bob had tried to kill them (and particularly Bart). Subverted when it turns out the whole thing was [[FakingTheDead faked]] as part of Bob's latest elaborate revenge plot: the moment Bart is left alone with the coffin, Bob bursts out of it brandishing a knife]].
** "Homer's Enemy" ends with [[spoiler:the funeral of Frank Grimes, the titular enemy, after he finally snapped and electrocuted himself in a fit of insanity. As one last indignity, Homer falls asleep during the service, and Grimes' coffin is lowered into the ground to the sound of [[TheFunInFuneral everyone present laughing at Homer's antics]]]].
** In "Funeral for a Fiend", [[spoiler:the family learn of Sideshow Bob's passing and agree to attend his funeral, despite all the times Bob had tried to kill them (and particularly Bart). Subverted when it turns out the whole thing was [[FakingTheDead faked]] as part of Bob's latest elaborate revenge plot: the moment Bart is left alone with the coffin, Bob bursts out of it brandishing a knife]].
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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E16LisaTheIconoclast Lisa the Iconoclast]]", Lisa discovers that the founder of Springfield was actually a murderous pirate. When she fails to prove it, the curator of the Jebediah Springfield Museum isn't happy about the accusation:
--->"You are banned from this historical society! And your children! And your children's children! ''{{beat}}'' ...for three months."
** When Homer Simpson has his name legally changed to "Max Power" in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E13HomerToTheMax Homer to the Max]]", his father Abraham isn't happy.
--->'''Abraham:''' Oh, wait a minute! The family name is my legacy to you! I got it from my father, and he got it from his father. And he traded a mule for it. And that mule went on to save spring break.
** In the episode "''Like Father, Like Clown''", Krusty does this when he talks about his family's religious tradition:
---> '''Krusty''': My father was a rabbi. His father was a rabbi. ''His'' father... Well, you get the idea.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E16LisaTheIconoclast Lisa the Iconoclast]]", Lisa discovers that the founder of Springfield was actually a murderous pirate. When she fails to prove it, the curator of the Jebediah Springfield Museum isn't happy about the accusation:
--->"You are banned from this historical society! And your children! And your children's children! ''{{beat}}'' ...for three months."
** When Homer Simpson has his name legally changed to "Max Power" in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E13HomerToTheMax Homer to the Max]]", his father Abraham isn't happy.
--->'''Abraham:''' Oh, wait a minute! The family name is my legacy to you! I got it from my father, and he got it from his father. And he traded a mule for it. And that mule went on to save spring break.
** In the episode "''Like Father, Like Clown''", Krusty does this when he talks about his family's religious tradition:
---> '''Krusty''': My father was a rabbi. His father was a rabbi. ''His'' father... Well, you get the idea.
