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* HeartwarmingInHindsight: See below. "Bart to the Future" shows a future in which Lisa becomes president--the exact dream Abe discouraged Homer from achieving. Given Homer's determination to [[BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting encourage his children as his father never encouraged him]]...
-->'''Homer:''' Someday you'll thank me for all this scary love.
* HilariousInHindsight: The flashback to Homer's childhood shows him imitating President Kennedy, with Mona saying "Oh, Abe, maybe our Homer could grow up to be President some day...". In "Bart To The Future", we see that in the distant future, Homer's daughter Lisa has since become the President.
-->'''Homer:''' Someday you'll thank me for all this scary love.
* HilariousInHindsight: The flashback to Homer's childhood shows him imitating President Kennedy, with Mona saying "Oh, Abe, maybe our Homer could grow up to be President some day...". In "Bart To The Future", we see that in the distant future, Homer's daughter Lisa has since become the President.
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* HeartwarmingInHindsight: See below. The flashback to Homer's childhood shows him imitating President Kennedy, with Mona saying "Oh, Abe, maybe our Homer could grow up to be President some day...", only to have Abe put him down. In "Bart to To The Future", we see that in the Future" shows a future in which distant future, Homer's daughter Lisa becomes president--the has since become the President, the exact dream Abe discouraged Homer from achieving. Given Homer's determination to [[BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting encourage his children as his father never encouraged him]]...
-->'''Homer:''' Someday you'll thank me for all this scary love. \n* HilariousInHindsight: The flashback to Homer's childhood shows him imitating President Kennedy, with Mona saying "Oh, Abe, maybe our Homer could grow up to be President some day...". In "Bart To The Future", we see that in the distant future, Homer's daughter Lisa has since become the President.
-->'''Homer:''' Someday you'll thank me for all this scary love.
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* AccidentalAesop: Being involved in your kids' lives is fine, but be considerate of them and their boundaries. Homer trying to "over-parent" Bart and Lisa leaves them feeling more annoyed than cherished.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The [[LongRunner Season 28]] episode "A Father's Watch" establishes that TheChainOfHarm between the Simpson men stretches long before Abe, and that despite his efforts at BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting as seen in this episode, Homer is himself a participant when it comes to Bart, calling him a "screwup" just as Abe called him.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The [[LongRunner Season 28]] episode "A Father's Watch" establishes that TheChainOfHarm between the Simpson men fathers and sons stretches long before Abe, and that despite his efforts at BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting as seen in this episode, Homer is himself a participant when it comes to Bart, calling him a "screwup" just as Abe called him.him and making him fear he'll never escape [[LoserSonOfLoserDad the trend]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: The [[LongRunner Season 28]] episode "A Father's Watch" establishes that TheChainOfHarm of abusive treatment from father to son in the Simpson family stretches long before Abe, and that despite his efforts at BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting as seen in this episode, Homer is himself a participant when it comes to Bart, calling him a "screwup" just as Abe called him.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The [[LongRunner Season 28]] episode "A Father's Watch" establishes that TheChainOfHarm of abusive treatment from father to son in between the Simpson family men stretches long before Abe, and that despite his efforts at BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting as seen in this episode, Homer is himself a participant when it comes to Bart, calling him a "screwup" just as Abe called him.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The [[LongRunner Season 28]] episode "A Father's Watch" establishes that TheChainOfHarm of abusive treatment from father to son in the Simpson family stretches long before Abe, and that despite his efforts at BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting as seen in this episode, Homer is himself a participant when it comes to Bart, calling him a "screwup" just as Abe called him.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the kids unaware of sex, or do they just prefer Bart's EpilepticTrees to Lisa's OccamsRazor? A DeletedScene seems to point at the latter when, finding out the truth, they're unperturbed and Bart spins a whole new wild theory off it.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the kids actually unaware of sex, or do they just prefer Bart's EpilepticTrees to Lisa's OccamsRazor? A DeletedScene seems to point at the latter when, finding out the truth, they're unperturbed and Bart spins a whole new wild conspiracy theory off it.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the kids unaware of sex, or do they just prefer Bart's EpilepticTrees to Lisa's OccamsRazor? A DeletedScene seems to point at the latter when, finding out the truth, they're unperturbed and Bart spins a whole new wild theory off it.
-->'''Bart:''' Sex, eh? And where you find sex, you'll find the ''mole people!''
-->'''Bart:''' Sex, eh? And where you find sex, you'll find the ''mole people!''
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* HeartwarmingInHindsight: See below. "Bart to the Future" shows a future in which Lisa becomes president--the exact dream Abe discouraged Homer from achieving. Given Homer's determination to [[BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting encourage his children as his father never encouraged him]]...
-->'''Homer:''' Someday you'll thank me for all this scary love.
-->'''Homer:''' Someday you'll thank me for all this scary love.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The flashback to Homer's childhood shows him imitating President Kennedy, with Mona saying "Oh, Abe, maybe our Homer could grow up to be President some day...". In "Bart To The Future", we see that in the distant future, Homer's daughter Lisa has since become the President.
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* ParodyDisplacement: Milhouse's speech outlining his conspiracy theory is a parody of Creator/KevinCostner's similar speech in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', with "we're through the looking glass" being a direct quote. When people reference the scene these days, it's usually recognized as a ''Simpsons'' ShoutOut.
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* ParodyDisplacement: Milhouse's speech outlining his conspiracy theory is a parody of Creator/KevinCostner's similar speech in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', with "we're through the looking glass" being a direct quote. When people reference the scene and line these days, it's usually recognized they're almost always doing it as a ''Simpsons'' Milhouse ShoutOut.
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* ParodyDisplacement: Milhouse's speech outlining his conspiracy theory is a parody of Creator/KevinCostner's similar speech in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', with "we're through the looking glass" being a direct quote. People generally think of it as a ''Simpsons'' invention, however.
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* ParodyDisplacement: Milhouse's speech outlining his conspiracy theory is a parody of Creator/KevinCostner's similar speech in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', with "we're through the looking glass" being a direct quote. People generally think of it When people reference the scene these days, it's usually recognized as a ''Simpsons'' invention, however.ShoutOut.
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* ParodyDisplacement: Milhouse's speech outlining his conspiracy theory is a parody of Creator/KevinCostner's similar speech in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', with "we're through the looking glass" being a direct quote. People generally think of it as a ''Simpsons'' invention, however.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: UsefulNotes/AlGore is depicted as the Vice President, cementing this as an episode that could only come from the '90s.
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