History YMMV / TheSimpsonsMovie

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Come on. Did anyone really thing they would really [[spoiler: blow up Springfield and kill every character we all knew and love, including the simpsons]]?

** Earlier, when the mob surrounds their house, Marge urges Homer to try to save them by going outside and apologizing, to which Homer says he can't risk the mob attacking the rest of the family if he breeches their security. Carl shouts from outside that they're only interested in Homer and don't care about the others. The exchange is clearly meant to show Homer as a DirtyCoward as he keeps coming up with more excuses not to go outside, but as the family attempts to escape it's clear that the mob ''does'' have designs on everybody, and when Homer attempts the apology it's as useless as you'd expect.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Thanks to the AnimationAgeGhetto. Not that the [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons original TV series]] was ever intended for kids in the first place, but the movie is slightly RuderAndCruder than the show. Special mentions go to Bart skateboarding naked with uncensored shots of his buttocks and briefly his genitalia[[note]]which is drawn very unrealistically, to prevent this movie from getting the "R" rating, and gets censored or cut out in television broadcasts. It is still shocking, given that it is the first occurrence of full-frontal nudity in ''The Simpsons''[[/note]] and Marge saying "[[PrecisionFStrike goddamn]]", which never would have made it into a TV episode. The nudity scene with Bart and Marge's curse word caused the movie to get the "PG-13" rating, meaning that children under the age of 13 shouldn't watch without an adult. Some of the producers were worried that just because of the scene with Bart skateboarding naked, the movie could be rated "R", meaning that it's forbidden for minors to watch the movie without a parent or guardian. Despite this, Malaysia was lenient enough to give it a U rating.[[note]]the equivalent to the MPAA's G rating[[/note]] Likewise, the movie had several tie-ins with children's companies like Burger King and was advertised heavily during Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} and Creator/CartoonNetwork commercial breaks. To top it all off, it was a nomination for Favorite Animated Movie in the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards, but ended up losing to the far more family-oriented ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''.

** During the scene where Bart shoots at a stack of bricks Homer carries on his back, a fake promo for ''[[Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?]]'' is shown on the bottom of the screen. Come 2024, [[https://oslaproductions.com/show/647/are-you-smarter-than-a-celebrity a casting call]] for a show with this very same title appeared.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The references to ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'', ''Film/AnInconvenientTruth'', ''Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader'', ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', Music/GreenDay performing the theme song at the beginning, and a joke about "President Schwarzenegger", all of which date the movie to the mid/late-2000s.

** There's also something morbidly hilarious about Burns (in one of the [[TheStinger stingers]]) politely asking Smithers to kill himself because it "[[NightmareFetishist might be fun to watch]]". Especially since, knowing Smithers, he ''would'' probably do it.

** The angry mob scene has become a popular reaction for cases of HePannedItNowHeSucks or other controversial opinions.

** Should Hank Scorpio have been the BigBad instead of the SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Russ Cargill? Some argue that an established antagonist would've been better, while others argue that having him as the BigBad would have meant [[CharacterDerailment taking away the]] AffablyEvil [[CharacterDerailment demeanor which made him so popular]]. And, there's also the fact that [[ContinuityLockOut audiences who hadn't seen "You Only Move Twice" wouldn't know who he is or his history with the Simpson family]].

* BrokenBase: Is the film just as good as the classic years of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''? Is it not as good as the golden age but still better than the show after SeasonalRot set in? Does it instead suffer from the same plotting and characterization issues that plague the recent seasons? Or is it an enjoyable but flawed experience that just didn't quite live up to the hype?

* MemeticMutation: Spider Pig, Spider Pig, does whatever a Spider Pig does... Which ended up becoming a DiscreditedMeme soon after due to just [[TrailerJokeDecay how much it was pushed in the marketing]].

* HeartwarmingInHindsight:
** The warm relationship that Ned forms with Bart still gets the occasional ContinuityNod in the show. Even so, episodes like "Pulpit Friction" and "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" demonstrate that Bart really ''does'' [[WeWantOurJerkBack prefer Homer as his father]] and wouldn't want him to act like Ned.

** During the ending credits, the French anthem is sung with lyrics stating that Springfield doesn't have an anthem so they decided to plagiarize the French one. The season 26 episode "Walking Big & Tall" is about Lisa writing a new anthem for Springfield after learning that the old one was plagiarized.

** The choice of depicting Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger as the president instead of [[TheAhnold his long-established expy Rainier Wolfcastle]], even though Schwarzenegger is both drawn and portrayed as Wolfcastle, has baffled many fans. However, the season 7 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2RadioactiveMan Radioactive Man]]" [[ExpyCoexistence had already established that Schwarzenegger also existed in the Simpsons universe]], with Bart's comment "Want results? You have to go to the Schwarzeneggers, the [[Creator/SylvesterStallone Stallones]], [[TakeThat and to a lesser extent]], the [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Van Dammes]].".

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The whole scene of Bart skateboarding across town in the nude is hilariously absurd, but one scene in particular pushes it into this. While most of the event has Bart's genitalia conveniently covered by moving SceneryCensor, one long hedge results in a lengthy shot of Bart getting blocked from view ...with a long enough gap that shows off his junk (and ''only'' his junk), ''[[RefugeInAudacity in a PG-13 movie!]]''

** After the CerebusRetcon this movie pulls on a classic RunningGag, it's nice to know that [[LighterAndSofter following Disney's buyout of Fox]] in Season 30, [[TookALevelInKindness Homer no longer strangles Bart]].

** After the CerebusRetcon this movie pulls on a classic RunningGag, it's nice to know that [[LighterAndSofter following Disney's buyout of Fox]] in Season 30, Homer no longer strangles Bart.