History YMMV / TheSimpsonsS5E10Springfield

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Homer is made out to be a victim of the GamblingRuinsLives trope because Marge is spending all of her time gambling at the casino, resulting in the house going to hell and Lisa's EpicFail at the school state pageant, even bursting into the casino to [[WhatTheHellHero call Marge out for not being there for the family]]. However, most of the problems in this episode aren't caused by Marge's addiction and the potential drain you think it'd place on the family's finances. Instead, they're caused by [[MenCantKeepHouse Homer being unable to act as a competent homemaker to save his life]], with him even [[NeverMyFault blaming Marge]] for "not being there to keep him from acting stupid" after a burglar scare that ''he'' caused. Even worse, when Marge realizes that she has an addiction and plans to get help for it, Homer A) acts as if this addiction is worse than anything he's ever done (despite that certainly ''not'' being the case), and B) he rejects the idea of Marge

** Sears (where Homer had previously been caught stealing watches from) has had its popularity and ad revenue plummet in TheNewTens; as of 2021, it's down to just 29 stores and is on the verge of vanishing completely.

* MemeticMutation: “Bart, I don’t want to alarm you, but there might be a boogeyman or boogeymen in the house!” followed by Bart's scream has been subject to all sorts of remixes on [=YouTube=] and Twitter.

* HarsherInHindsight: The Siegfried and Roy expies (Gunter and Erst) getting attacked by their white tiger, Anastasia, would become a reality when Roy Horn got attacked by his white tiger in 2003. In the writers' defense, they knew this would happen someday (whether they were joking or not is up for debate) and were not surprised when it did.

** Siegfried and Roy (the magician duo who inspired the Ernst and Gunther characters) retired their long-running show in 2003 [[CareerEndingInjury after the latter's real-life tiger attack left him disabled]] (though the actual attack made the one in this episode relevant when it happened in 2003). And both men died with a year of one another; Roy Horn would die in 2020 due to complications from COVID-19 while Siegfried Fischbacher died of pancreatic cancer in early 2021.

** Bart [[StartMyOwn starts his own casino]], with blackjack, but (presumably) no hookers, before fellow Matt Groening creation [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]] names the trope six years later.

** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Younger viewers may have to look up who Gerry Cooney is and why Otto punched him out.]]
* ValuesDissonance: Was Homer teaching Maggie to gamble supposed to come as a shock? If so it'd be lost on a British audience. British gambling laws allow minors to gamble, albeit on arcade games that dispense tokens and/or tickets to the winners, kind of like what America has with Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Busters [[note]]For overseas readers, both Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Busters are restaurants/arcade centers, the only difference being Chuck E. Cheese is intended for kids and Dave & Busters isn't[[/note]]. Unless it's by the seaside, in which case gambling with real money (albeit small stakes) is not only legal in the UK and parts of Europe but is a normal part of growing up, teaching kids the valuable lesson of "Don't bet what you can't lose."

* HilariousInHindsight: Bart [[StartMyOwn starts his own casino]], with blackjack, but (presumably) no hookers, before fellow Matt Groening creation [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]] names the trope six years later.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The Siegfried and Roy expies (Gunter and Erst) getting attacked by their white tiger, Anastasia, would become a reality when Roy Horn got attacked by his white tiger in 2003. In the writers' defense, they knew this would happen someday (whether they were joking or not is up for debate) and were not surprised when it did.

* ValuesDissonance: Was Homer teaching Maggie to gamble supposed to come as a shock? If so it'd be lost on a British audience. British gambling laws allow minors to gamble, albeit on arcade games that dispense tokens and/or tickets to the winners, kind of like what America has with Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Busters [[note]]For overseas readers, both Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Busters are restaurants/arcade centers, the only difference being Chuck E. Cheese is intended for kids and Dave & Busters isn't[[/note]].
** Unless it's by the seaside, in which case gambling with real money (albeit small stakes) is not only legal in the UK and parts of Europe but is a normal part of growing up, teaching kids the valuable lesson of "Don't bet what you can't lose."

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The Siegfried and Roy expies (Gunter and Erst) getting attacked by their white tiger, Anastasia, would become a reality when Roy Horn got attacked by his white tiger in 2003. In the writers' defense, they knew this would happen someday (whether they were joking or not is up for debate) and were surprised when it did.

* ValuesDissonance: Was Homer teaching Maggie to gamble supposed to come as a shock? If so it'd be lost on a British audience. British gambling laws allow minors to gamble, albeit on arcade games that dispense tokens and/or tickets to the winners, kind of like what America has with Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Busters [[note]]For overseas readers, both Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Busters are restaurants-cum-arcade centers, the only difference being Chuck E. Cheese is for kids and Dave & Busters isn't[[/note]].

* MemeticMutation: “Bart, I don’t want to alarm you, but there might be a boogeyman or boogeymen in the house!” has been subject to all sorts of remixes on YouTube and Twitter.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The Siegfried and Roy expies (Gunter and Erst) getting attacked by their white tiger, Anastasia, would become a reality when Roy Horn got attacked by his white tiger in 2004. In the writers' defense, they knew this would happen someday (whether they were joking or not is up for debate) and were surprised when it did.