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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Lisa enrolls in the military school because she thinks it is more intellectually stimulating than Springfield Elementary, yet the episode never shows her in the inside of a classroom. It would have either been a small silver lining [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor to a particularly grueling cloud]] (and/or more ammunition for being bullied by the other students) or fodder for a "TinyFishInANormalPond" joke.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Lisa enrolls in the military school because she thinks it is more intellectually stimulating than Springfield Elementary, yet the episode never shows her in the inside of a classroom. It would have either been a small silver lining [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor to a particularly grueling cloud]] (and/or more ammunition for being bullied by the other students) or fodder for a "TinyFishInANormalPond" joke."NormalFishInATinyPond" joke (which would probably increase Lisa’s despair).
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Lisa enrolls in the military school because she thinks it is more intellectually stimulating than Springfield Elementary, yet the episode never shows her in the inside of a classroom. It would have either been a small silver lining [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor to a particularly grueling cloud]] (and/or more ammunition for being bullied by the other students) or fodder for a "TinyFishInANormalPond" joke.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The sequence where Bart is given a grenade launcher because he's a public school student and, therefore, has experience with "small arms" will come off as in bad taste these days thanks to news reports of school shootings like Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Parkland.
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* HarsherInHindsight: HarsherInHindsight:
** The sequence where Bart is given a grenade launcher because he's a public school student and, therefore, has experience with "small arms" will come off as in bad taste these days thanks to news reports of school shootings like Columbine, Sandy Hook, andParkland.Parkland.
** The episode "Simple Simpson" turns one joke of this episode a retroactive SadisticChoice: you can either call the police and Wiggum won't care about helping you or you can try taking the law into your own hands (like Homer did by acting as Pie Man) and you'll be lucky if Wiggum doesn't decides to order his officers to KillOnSight the "vigilante".
** The sequence where Bart is given a grenade launcher because he's a public school student and, therefore, has experience with "small arms" will come off as in bad taste these days thanks to news reports of school shootings like Columbine, Sandy Hook, and
** The episode "Simple Simpson" turns one joke of this episode a retroactive SadisticChoice: you can either call the police and Wiggum won't care about helping you or you can try taking the law into your own hands (like Homer did by acting as Pie Man) and you'll be lucky if Wiggum doesn't decides to order his officers to KillOnSight the "vigilante".
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** After Bart's latest prank, Chief Wiggum suggests putting Bart on behavior-modifying drugs, to which Marge declines, saying that he needs discipline, not drugs (resulting in him being sent to the military academy). In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E2BrothersLittleHelper a later episode]], Bart ''would'' be given behavior-modifying drugs, and the side effects of said drugs would cause him to go on a tank rampage that Wiggum has to arrest him for.
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** The general's speech to the graduating class definitely places the episode before the rise of (some would say obsession with) drone warfare in the United States military.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: InUniverse with the old ''The Moon of Earth'' film, where a string is clearly visibly holding the moon in the opening scene.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The MilitarySchool where delinquent kids are sent is a trope that has largely died out after the 90's. The show does seem to anticipate this, as the decline in popularity of military schools and the fact that most of its tactics are increasingly seen as child abuse is alluded to and referenced throughout.
** Lisa joining a boys-only military academy was based on the events around Shannon Faulkner's attempt to be the first girl to enroll in The Citadel and the hazing she received upon enrollment.
** The MilitarySchool where delinquent kids are sent is a trope that has largely died out after the 90's. The show does seem to anticipate this, as the decline in popularity of military schools and the fact that most of its tactics are increasingly seen as child abuse is alluded to and referenced throughout.
** Lisa joining a boys-only military academy was based on the events around Shannon Faulkner's attempt to be the first girl to enroll in The Citadel and the hazing she received upon enrollment.
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Character bashing disguised as an Alternative Character Interpretation (complete with Weasel Words), Were Still Relevant Dammit fits more under Ripped From The Headlines.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Marge's cassette to Lisa - an attempt to make her daughter feel better or a calculated attempt to make Lisa feel homesick and want to come home? Note the language Marge uses; it's all about reminding Lisa that she has people who love her - ''at home''. And singing "My Sunshine" could come across as an attempt to make Lisa feel guilty for not being at home - "please don't take my sunshine away". Also note that she didn't send Bart ''[[ParentalFavoritism anything]]'' (most likely because he's being punished and they're not coddling him until he learns his lesson, like how Homer banned Bart from seeing "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie The Itchy and Scratchy Movie]]" until Bart became a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court).
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* WereStillRelevantDammit: Lisa decides to apply to the military school Bart's been sent to, which had previously not allowed girls. Anyone watching at the time could see it was clearly inspired by Shannon Faulkner's real-life struggle to be admitted to the Citadel military college in South Carolina.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The sequence where Bart is given a grenade launcher because he's a public school student and, therefore, has experience with "small arms" will come off as in bad taste these days thanks to news reports of school shootings like Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Parkland.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: HarsherInHindsight: The sequence where Bart is given a grenade launcher because he's a public school student and, therefore, has experience with "small arms" will come off as in bad taste these days thanks to news reports of school shootings like Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Parkland.
