Line #4 Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E13TheOldManAndTheKey


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3	'''Original air date:''' 3/10/2002
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5	'''Production code:''' DABF-09
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7	Grampa dates an old woman who only likes him because he has a driver's license.
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9	!! Tropes:
10	* BaitAndSwitch:
11	** One would expect that Abe would drive all the way to Branson to get back Zelda's love. When they finally reunite, Abe tells Zelda that he hates her, and calls her a "hoochie".
12	** When Abe, Zelda, Homer and Marge go to a drive-in for a double date, the brakes keep getting hit and one would expect Abe to be the one responsible for it. While Abe is the one driving the car, it's Homer who keeps hitting the brakes because he doesn't trust Abe to know when to do it.
13	* BorrowedCatchphrase: Abe uses "Woohoo!" multiple times in this episode.
14	* CallBack: Bart had previously visited Branson as part of his, Milhouse's, Martin's, and Nelson's road trip to the Knoxville World's Fair in Season 7's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E20BartOnTheRoad Bart on the Road]]."
15	* {{Calvinball}}: Bart and Homer's game of "Scrabbleship", a combination of ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}''.
16	-->'''Bart:''' B-6.\
17	'''Homer:''' You sunk my Scrabbleship!\
18	'''Lisa:''' This game makes no sense.\
19	'''Homer:''' Tell that to the good men who just lost their lives. Semper fi!
20	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Obviously Homer banning Abe from driving after he and his friends abuse his driving privileges is basically Homer treating his father like a parent disciplining his teenage rebel son.
21	* EnmityWithAnObject: For his license, Abe chooses a newspaper photo of him with the headline "Old Man Yells at Cloud". He then shows the license to the same cloud and says "How do you like that?"
22	* FullNameUltimatum: When Homer tells "Abraham J. Simpson" that he's lost his driving privileges.
23	* GoldDigger: Zelda, who only wanted to date Grampa because he had a driver's license. The moment Grampa is banned from driving, Zelda dumps him.
24	* HollywoodBoardGames: Homer and/or Bart are often seen creating weird game hybrids with [[CalvinBall nonsensical rules]]. Both of them are BookDumb but also occasionally creative, especially if they want to have fun. They do this with ''TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}'' in this episode. Comically, Homer takes it way too seriously, mourning the soldiers who die when a ship is sunk.
25	* HonkingArrivingCar: After Lisa comments that they have no way of traveling to Branson, Missouri, a novelty horn interrupts, and a bus headed to Branson, MO stops directly in front of the Simpsons' house. However, when Ned, Rod, and Todd Flanders get on the bus, Homer insists that they "wait for the next one."
26	* HumiliationConga: Abe publicly calls out on Zelda for only liking him for his license, and dumping him when Homer bans him from driving. He even gets the crowd to chant "Hoochie, Hoochie" to further twist the knife.
27	* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: In Bronson, Missouri, everyone looks and talks like Creator/CharlesBronson.
28	* JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites: Abe acts like a wild teenager while Homer acts as the stern father.
29	-->'''Homer:''' He's gotta learn, Marge. The way my dad made ''me'' learn!
30	-->'''Marge:''' He ''is'' your dad!
31	-->'''Homer:''' ''(beat)'' Cosmic.
32	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is an obvious reference to ''The Old Man and the Sea''.
33	* LogoJoke: "This has been a Gracie Films pray-sen-tay-shun."
34	* MockHollywoodSign: The stage backdrop for the musical revue in Branson.
35	* NotSoAboveItAll: When Homer complains about Abe staying out all night with "some hoochie" while borrowing his car.
36	-->'''Abe:''' She's no hoochie! Her name is Zelda, and she understands me!
37	-->'''Marge:''' ...Grampa, I gotta tell ya, she's a stone-cold hoochie!
38	* PuffOfLogic: Abe finds Music/TennesseeErnieFord backstage and claims that [Abe] knows for sure that [Ford's] dead--when Ford claims, "No you just think I'm dead," Abe claims that he was one of Ford's biggest fans and shows that he even clipped his obituary. When Abe shows Ford his own obituary, Ford suddenly crumbles into dust.
39	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "[[FullNameUltimatum Abraham J. Simpson]], you are ''never! Driving! Again! '''EVER!'''" And for added effect, [[StaggeredZoom the camera cuts closer to Homer's pith with each punctuation to the point that when he say "EVER" his mouth covers up the whole screen]].
40	* RiddleForTheAges: How did Abe [[EnmityWithAnObject develop an enmity with]] ''a cloud'', of all things?
41	* {{Revenge}}: This turns out to be Abe's motivation for following Zelda to Branson.
42	* RoadTripPlot: The third act has Abe and Bart drive thousands of miles to Branson to follow Zelda because Abe hates her, and wants to publicly humiliate her for being a hoochie.
43	* RussianReversal: Yakov Smirnov says "In Soviet Union, revue watches you!".
44	* ShoutOut:
45	** The end credits is one to ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', with the Simpsons waving at the camera throughout and Lisa imitating the Creator/{{Filmways}} sign-off as "This has been a Gracie Films pray-sen-tay-shun".
46	** The death race between Abe's friends and the Souvenir Jackitos spoofs the race in ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'', while their confrontation at the Kwik-E-Mart is from ''Theatre/WestSideStory''.
47	** The Souvenir Jaquitos' jackets are of ''Film/JurassicPark'', ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Taz]]'', Planet Hollywood and Hard Rock Cafe.
48	** To ''Series/TheMunsters'' when the family finally finds Abe in Branson.
49	--->'''Marge:''' It's Grampa!\
50	'''Homer:''' Munster?\
51	'''Marge:''' No, Simpson.\
52	'''Homer:''' Oh, darn, darn, darn! [stomps foot like Herman, complete with sound effects, {{screen shake}} and plaster falling from ceiling.]
53	* SkewedPriorities: One of Los Souvenir Jaquitos refuses to take off his jacket even when it's on fire because [[TooDumbToLive he'd rather die]] than having people not knowing where he does his shopping.
54	* SpecialGuest: Creator/OlympiaDukakis as Zelda and Bill Saluga (a.k.a. the "you can call me Ray, or you can me Jay" guy) AsHimself.
55	* TheVoiceless: Gloria, Snake's girlfriend, doesn't speak this time due to Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus' absence.
56	* WhosLaughingNow: Abe asks the cloud "who's laughing now" while showing it his license.
57	* WinkDing: Abe explains to Patty at the DMV that his right eye is his "winkin' eye." Cue perfectly executed wink, complete with "ding" noise.
58	-->'''Patty:''' I'll give you your license if you never do that again.
59	-->'''Abe:''' Oh, everything's the last time I do everything.
60	* WorstNewsJudgementEver: Abe yelling at a cloud somehow made the headlines.
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63	--> [[LogoJoke This has been a Gracie Films pree-zen-tay-shun.]]

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