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*** And the scene where Bart mocks {{Disney}} is made even funnier when an issue of the Italian Mickey Mouse comic book ''[[http://static.zooomr.com/images/3320416_ccd0e558a2.jpg paid homage to the film.]]''
*** The President's line, "I was elected to LEAD, not to READ," is EERILY similar to Herman Cain stating, after his Libya incident, that the United States "needs a leader not a reader."
*** The President's line, "I was elected to LEAD, not to READ," is EERILY similar to Herman Cain stating, after his Libya incident, that the United States "needs a leader not a reader."
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** In the short scene with TomHanks he comments that "the government has run out of credibility and is borrowing some of mine". [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2112325/Barack-Obama-documentary-narrated-Tom-Hanks-highlights-presidents-achievements.html?ito=feeds-newsxml He's the narrator of an Obama campaign video.]]
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*** For this troper, that's the point where the movie really falls over, since Homer crosses the line from inept but good-hearted to outright jerk who deserves everything he gets. All sympathy for him vanishes at this point.
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* RuinedForever: Some saw the choice of HansZimmer rather than DannyElfman and/or Alf Clausen to score the film as this (Zimmer got the job due to his work with James L. Brooks despite Elfman doing the iconic theme music and Clausen being with the show since the beginning). The music didn't impact the film but it makes you wonder had the latter two done the film.
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* RuinedForever: Some saw the choice of HansZimmer rather than DannyElfman and/or Alf Clausen to score the film as this (Zimmer got the job due to his work with James L. Brooks despite Elfman doing the iconic theme music and Clausen being with the show since partway through the beginning).second season). The music didn't impact the film but it makes you wonder had the latter two done the film.
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** He didn't manipulate Schwarzenegger into sealing off the town - he put it forward as one of several options, and the President ordered it without reading it. The bomb, though, was all his fault, though he was mad with power by then.
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** To make it even worse, the video promptly cuts to Homer and Marge sharing their first dance as husband and wife as "Close To You" plays.
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** Cargill's whole "mad with power" speech.
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** The scene in the EPA truck where [[spoiler: Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are gassed to sleep like animals]] is pretty unnerving.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Russ Cargill arguably starts as this. Sure, sealing Springfield and its citizens in a dome was pretty over the top, but he did it to keep the town's pollution from spreading. This doesn't last though, as he quickly [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope goes off the deep end]] into considerably more power-hungry and [[CompleteMonster sinister]] [[NukeEm territory.]]
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* CompleteMonster: Russ Cargill, who manipulates President Schwarzenegger into first sealing Springfield off from the rest of the world against the town's will, and then attempts to nuke Springfield.
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* CompleteMonster: Russ Cargill, who manipulates President Schwarzenegger into first sealing Springfield off from the rest of the world against the town's will, and then attempts to nuke Springfield.Springfield, killing thousands of people - including ''[[WouldHurtAChild children]]''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Read RuinedForever above
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*** The President's line, "I was elected to LEAD, not to READ," is EERILY similar to Herman Cain stating, after his Libya incident, that the United States "needs a leader not a reader."
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** At least when he sealed the town, [[WellIntentionedExtremist he was trying to prevent the toxins of the city from spreading.]] Outright destroying it [[MoralEventHorizon is just plain wrong.]]
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* TheScrappy: Others see Spider-Pig as this mainly because it was in every single frigging commercial.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Cargill crosses a line when he [[spoiler: plans to blow up Springfield with a small nuke.]] The kicker is that this plan would [[spoiler: kill off thousands of (mostly) innocent people, including ''children''.]] [[CompleteMonster ''And he knows this, and doesn't give a damn.'']]
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* MoralEventHorizon: Cargill crosses a line when he [[spoiler: plans to blow up Springfield with a small nuke.]] The kicker is that this plan would [[spoiler: kill off thousands of (mostly) innocent people, including ''children''.]] [[CompleteMonster ''And And he knows this, and doesn't give a damn.'']]]]
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* MoralEventHorizon: Cargill crosses a line when he [[spoiler: plans to blow up Springfield with a small nuke.]] The kicker is that this plan would [[spoiler: kill off thousands of (mostly) innocent people, including ''children''.]] ''And he knows this, and doesn't give a damn.''
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* MoralEventHorizon: Cargill crosses a line when he [[spoiler: plans to blow up Springfield with a small nuke.]] The kicker is that this plan would [[spoiler: kill off thousands of (mostly) innocent people, including ''children''.]] [[CompleteMonster ''And he knows this, and doesn't give a damn.'''']]
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** And how does he react to this plan's failure? By trying to kill Homer and Bart....for no better reason than to ''make himself feel better''.
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** Homer when he refuses to even try to go back to Springfield and stop Cargill's plan. It's so bad that [[spoiler:Marge takes the kids and leaves, admitting she's not sure why she's still married to Homer.]]
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* TearJerker: Homer returning to his cabin and finding none of the family, but a video tape [[spoiler:where Marge announces that she's leaving him.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Marge:''' Lately, what's keeping us together is my ability to overlook everything you do. And I overlook these things because...\\
'''Homer:''' Because?\\
'''Marge:''' Well, that's the thing. I just don't know how to finish that sentence anymore. So I'm leaving with the kids to help Springfield, and we're never coming back. And to prove to myself that this is the end... I taped this over our wedding video. Goodbye, Homie.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Marge:''' Lately, what's keeping us together is my ability to overlook everything you do. And I overlook these things because...\\
'''Homer:''' Because?\\
'''Marge:''' Well, that's the thing. I just don't know how to finish that sentence anymore. So I'm leaving with the kids to help Springfield, and we're never coming back. And to prove to myself that this is the end... I taped this over our wedding video. Goodbye, Homie.]]
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That\'s not Fridge anything. As I recall, Maggie\'s jaw dropped.
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* NightmareFuel - Might count as HighOctaneNightmareFuel. The entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to '''''MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY''''' ([[FridgeHorror including the baby; there were five nooses, one for each family member]].
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* NightmareFuel - Might count as HighOctaneNightmareFuel. The entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to '''''MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY''''' ([[FridgeHorror including (including the baby; there were five nooses, one for each family member]].member.)
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* CompleteMonster: Russ Cargill, who manipulates President Schwartzenegger into first sealing Springfield off from the rest of the world against the town's will, and then attempts to nuke Springfield.
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* CompleteMonster: Russ Cargill, who manipulates President Schwartzenegger Schwarzenegger into first sealing Springfield off from the rest of the world against the town's will, and then attempts to nuke Springfield.
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* NightmareFuel - Might count as HighOctaneNightmareFuel. This Troper CAN'T be the only one who was deeply, deeply disturbed on a primal level that the entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to '''''MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY''''' ([[FridgeHorror including the baby; there were five nooses, one for each family member]]--unless they were gonna lynch Homer twice due to his weight, but, considering how sociopathic the show's humor has become, it doesn't seem likely). Seeing characters who have been present for one's entire life turn suddenly apparently quite seriously homicidal almost brought several viewers to tears. There's such a thing as taking PlayedForLaughs too far.
** Have you forgotten "The Telltale Head" where the town wanted to kill Bart for defacing (literally) the statue of Jebediah Springfield? And again in "Bart's Inner Child" where this time Bart was a simply a bad role-model the town ''chose'' to follow? A running gag throughout the series is that Springfield quickly falls into violent mob mentality.
** Have you forgotten "The Telltale Head" where the town wanted to kill Bart for defacing (literally) the statue of Jebediah Springfield? And again in "Bart's Inner Child" where this time Bart was a simply a bad role-model the town ''chose'' to follow? A running gag throughout the series is that Springfield quickly falls into violent mob mentality.
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* NightmareFuel - Might count as HighOctaneNightmareFuel. This Troper CAN'T be the only one who was deeply, deeply disturbed on a primal level that the The entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to '''''MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY''''' ([[FridgeHorror including the baby; there were five nooses, one for each family member]]--unless they were gonna lynch Homer twice due to his weight, but, considering how sociopathic the show's humor has become, it doesn't seem likely). Seeing characters who have been present for one's entire life turn suddenly apparently quite seriously homicidal almost brought several viewers to tears. There's such a thing as taking PlayedForLaughs too far.
** Have you forgotten "The Telltale Head" where the town wanted to kill Bart for defacing (literally) the statue of Jebediah Springfield? And again in "Bart's Inner Child" where this time Bart was a simply a bad role-model the town ''chose'' to follow? A running gag throughout the series is that Springfield quickly falls into violent mob mentality.member]].
** Have you forgotten "The Telltale Head" where the town wanted to kill Bart for defacing (literally) the statue of Jebediah Springfield? And again in "Bart's Inner Child" where this time Bart was a simply a bad role-model the town ''chose'' to follow? A running gag throughout the series is that Springfield quickly falls into violent mob mentality.
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* MoralEventHorizon: He doesn't qualify for CompleteMonster status by virtue of [[LaughablyEvil being mostly played for laughs and having some of the film's funniest lines]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist he is trying to keep the town's pollution from spreading]], but Cargill crosses a line when he [[spoiler: plans to blow up Springfield with a small nuke.]] The kicker is that this plan would [[spoiler: kill off thousands of (mostly) innocent people, including ''children''.]] ''And he knows this, and doesn't give a damn.''
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* MoralEventHorizon: He doesn't qualify for CompleteMonster status by virtue of [[LaughablyEvil being mostly played for laughs and having some of the film's funniest lines]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist he is trying to keep the town's pollution from spreading]], but Cargill crosses a line when he [[spoiler: plans to blow up Springfield with a small nuke.]] The kicker is that this plan would [[spoiler: kill off thousands of (mostly) innocent people, including ''children''.]] ''And he knows this, and doesn't give a damn.''
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** Have you forgotten "The Telltale Head" where the town wanted to kill Bart for defacing (literally) the statue of Jebediah Springfield? And again in "Bart's Inner Child" where this time Bart was a simply a bad role-model the town ''chose'' to follow? A running gag throughout the series is that Springfield quickly falls into violent mob mentality.
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* RuinedForever: Some saw the choice of HansZimmer rather than DannyElfman and/or Alf Clausen to score the film as this (Zimmer got the job due to his work with James L. Brooks despite Elfman doing the iconic theme music and Clausen being with the show since the beginning). The music didn't impact the film but it makes you wonder had the latter two done the film.
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* NightmareFuel - Might count as HighOctaneNightmareFuel. This Troper CAN'T be the only one who was deeply, deeply disturbed on a primal level that the entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to '''''MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY''''' ([[FridgeHorror including the baby; there were five nooses, one for each family member]]). Seeing characters who have been present for one's entire life turn suddenly apparently quite seriously homicidal almost brought several viewers to tears. There's such a thing as taking PlayedForLaughs too far.
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* NightmareFuel - Might count as HighOctaneNightmareFuel. This Troper CAN'T be the only one who was deeply, deeply disturbed on a primal level that the entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to '''''MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY''''' ([[FridgeHorror including the baby; there were five nooses, one for each family member]]).member]]--unless they were gonna lynch Homer twice due to his weight, but, considering how sociopathic the show's humor has become, it doesn't seem likely). Seeing characters who have been present for one's entire life turn suddenly apparently quite seriously homicidal almost brought several viewers to tears. There's such a thing as taking PlayedForLaughs too far.
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* NightmareFuel - Might count as HighOctaneNightmareFuel. This Troper CAN'T be the only one who was deeply, deeply disturbed on a primal level that the entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to /MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY./ Seeing characters who have been present for one's entire life turn suddenly apparently quite seriously homicidal almost brought several viewers to tears. There's such a thing as taking PlayedForLaughs too far.
** The epiphany scene is quite scary as well...
** The epiphany scene is quite scary as well...
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* NightmareFuel - Might count as HighOctaneNightmareFuel. This Troper CAN'T be the only one who was deeply, deeply disturbed on a primal level that the entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to /MOB-RUSH '''''MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY./ FAMILY''''' ([[FridgeHorror including the baby; there were five nooses, one for each family member]]). Seeing characters who have been present for one's entire life turn suddenly apparently quite seriously homicidal almost brought several viewers to tears. There's such a thing as taking PlayedForLaughs too far.
**The Homer's epiphany scene is quite scary as well...
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* NightmareFuel - Might count as HighOctaneNightmareFuel. This Troper CAN'T be the only one who was deeply, deeply disturbed on a primal level that the entire lovable, colorful, dysfunctional-but-essentially-good cast of the Simpsons 'minor' characters were trying to /MOB-RUSH AND LYNCH THE SIMPSON FAMILY./ Seeing characters who have been present for one's entire life turn suddenly apparently quite seriously homicidal almost brought several viewers to tears. There's such a thing as taking PlayedForLaughs too far.far.
** The epiphany scene is quite scary as well...
** The epiphany scene is quite scary as well...
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*** And the scene where Bart mocks {{Disney}} is made even funnier when an issue of the Italian Mickey Mouse comic book ''[[http://static.zooomr.com/images/3320416_ccd0e558a2.jpg paid homage to the film.]]''
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* MoralEventHorizon: He doesn't qualify for CompleteMonster status by virtue of [[LaughablyEvil being mostly played for laughs and having some of the film's funniest lines]], and [[WellIntentionedExtremist he is trying to keep the town's pollution from spreading]], but Cargill crosses a line when he [[spoiler: plans to blow up Springfield with a small nuke.]] The kicker is that this plan would [[spoiler: kill off thousands of (mostly) innocent people, including ''children''.]] ''And he knows this, and doesn't give a damn.''
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*** Called out in a post-movie episode when Mr. Burns announces that he's going to put a dome over the city as he ''holds a copy of the book''. He relents when he is told it's been done before.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Spider-Pig.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Springfield being domed brings to mind a certain [[PowerRangersRPM show]] which was adapted from another [[{{EngineSentaiGo-onger}} show]] with an environmental theme as well. Bonus points for the fact that Fox used to air the franchise.
** Similarly, Stephen King's ''Under the Dome'', published two years after the movie, features a town under a dome and a GreenAesop.
* MemeticMutation: Spider Pig, Spider Pig, does whatever a Spider Pig does...
* HilariousInHindsight: Springfield being domed brings to mind a certain [[PowerRangersRPM show]] which was adapted from another [[{{EngineSentaiGo-onger}} show]] with an environmental theme as well. Bonus points for the fact that Fox used to air the franchise.
** Similarly, Stephen King's ''Under the Dome'', published two years after the movie, features a town under a dome and a GreenAesop.
* MemeticMutation: Spider Pig, Spider Pig, does whatever a Spider Pig does...
