History TheSimpsons / TropesSToZ

** In "Brawl In The Family" Groundskeeper Willie sings and dances around in acid rain.

** In the "Large Marge" episode (which involved her getting GagBoobs and becoming a [[SexSells Booth Babe]]), Marge Simpson wears a sexy backless red dress that emphasizes her new "attributes" for a public appearance.

* ToadLicking: Homer in episode "Missionary: Impossible" is depicted at one point lying on a hammock and picking up toads at random and licking them to get high while stranded on a South Pacific island.

* StockholmSyndrome: 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!

* WeAllLiveInAmerica: Quite some examples. One example is when the Simpsons visit Ireland, and the local police cars have ''"POLICE"'' written all over them instead of ''"GARDA"''.

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** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E9HomerBadman Homer Badman]], Homer is framed as a pervert after seemingly pinching the butt of a babysitter (when he was actually peeling off a rare gummi candy (one shaped like the Venus de Milo that she had unknowingly sat on). Rather than call the police, she rallies a mob and harrasses him for being a pervert. After trying and failing multiple times to clear his name, Groundskeeper Willie saves him by showing Ashley a recording of Homer taking the gummi candy.

* StagingAnIntervention: Homer recalls playing Pictionary earlier in the week. It was really an intervention.
-->'''Homer:''' I hope it's as fun as Pictionary was last week!\\
'''Bart:''' Dad, we weren't playing Pictionary. That was an intervention to stop your drinking.

** Creator/JulieKavner had the distinctive hoarse, gravely tone with her performances as [[TalkingToHimself Marge, Patty, Selma and Mrs. Bouvier,]] but was significantly higher pitched and softer in intonation. Due to the stress of the performances on her vocal chords, all of Kavner's characters have become deeper, and, by season 27, sounding like they've lost their voices.

* TalkingToHimself: Most of the cast of hundreds are voiced by about a dozen people. Yeardley Smith (Lisa) is the only one with a single regular character. The most prominent example of this is the pairing of Mr Burns and Smithers, who interact in almost every episode in which they appear, and are both voiced by Creator/HarryShearer
** Characters that regularly interact who are voiced by the same actor include Homer and Grandpa, Homer and Barney, Krusty and Sideshow Mel (all voiced by Creator/DanCastellaneta), Marge and her sisters (voiced by Creator/JulieKavner), Bart and Nelson (Creator/NancyCartwright), and Chief Wiggum and Lou (Creator/HankAzaria)
** This trope is somewhat lampshaded in "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show", where the same voice actress was revealed to do the voices of both Itchy and Scratchy. Ironically, in real life Itchy and Scratchy AREN'T played by the same actor, as Dan Castellaneta voices Itchy and Harry Shearer voices Scratchy.

* SockItToThem: When Homer and his buddies become a vigilante force because the police can't catch the ClassyCatBurglar stalking the neighborhood, Jimbo joins. He's told that his WeaponOfChoice should be sack full of doorknobs. A news anchor interviewing Homer later mentions that beatings with such a weapon have skyrocketted.

** Writer Bill Oakley [[RefrainFromAssuming insists]] that the episode "Two Bad Neighbors" is not a political attack on George Bush. "It's a ''personal'' attack on George Bush."

** PlayedForDrama in "The Crepes of Wrath" where foreign exchange student Bart is routinely abused, ignored and overworked by Cesar and Ugolin, his "caretakers" who are in reality criminals who make counterfeit wine and their pet donkey is treated more favorably, complete with better living conditions and [[KickTheDog being fed Bart's hat.]]

** One episode has the town declared as the fattest town in America. This greatly concerns Marge and she manages to convince other people to enforce a ban on sugar so that everyone can start eating healthier. Naturally, people resist to the point of smuggling sugar prohibition style. StatusQuoIsGod kicks in at the end where Marge eventually gives up and lets people indulge in their sugar cravings.