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1	'''Original air date:''' 4/2/2006
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3	'''Production code:''' HABF-09
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5	After attempting assisted suicide when the town blames him for losing out on an NFL franchise, Grampa decides to get a new lease on life and becomes a matador.
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8	!! This episode provides examples of...
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10	* AdultsAreUseless: When Abe gets called out by Homer after losing the expansion team, he notes that the family let him watch Maggie. Only to ask "You left me with a baby?" when Marge asks about Maggie's whereabouts. He also manages to mangle Bart and Lisa's names in the process.
11	* AnimalWrongsGroup: Lisa gets irked with the whole "recycle the Springfield Meltdowns field and turn it into a bull-fighting arena" scheme and convinces Grandpa to release the bulls. The "wrongs" part is that they both decided to just allow the bulls to rampage through Springfield, causing '''massive''' collateral damage and potential fatalities while they watched from a balloon.
12	* BaitAndSwitch: While helping Grampa train while pretending to be a bull, Bart looks set to crash his bike (with horns attached to it to help Abe practice) into Homer from behind while he's bending down to pick up a penny. Bart manages to put the brakes on, stopping the bike before he collides with his father's ass...and then Homer turns around and [[GroinAttack skewers his crotch]] on the horns.
13	* BlackWidow: A female executive says she didn't kill her "husband to get control of his franchise to give a team to Los Angeles".
14	* BullSeeingRed: As the bulls stampede through Springfield, Gil, recently hired at [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands yet another job]], emerges happily from the dry cleaners with his brand new red uniform.
15	* CallBack: The bullfight commentator is the excited soccer announcer from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E5TheCartridgeFamily The Cartridge Family]]".
16	* CharlieChaplinShoutOut: Grampa thinks he's dead and thinks he's in Heaven. His notion is further proven when he sees a Chaplin impersonator holding an advertising sign, and is amazed that he can talk.
17	* ContrivedCoincidence: Of all the houses in town, the football commissioner ended up in front of the Simpsons' house where Abe mistakes him for a thief.
18	* DarkerAndEdgier:
19	** What Homer wants a hypothetical "Cap'n Crunch" movie to be.
20	---> '''Homer''': Will it be "R" or hard "R"?
21	** The episode itself also qualifies, featuring abuse, suicide references, animal cruelty, and more.
22	* DidntThinkThisThrough: In honor of Commissioner Bud Armstrong choosing the Springfield Isotopes to be the next major league team, the town changes all the street names to reference football. This gets Bud lost once he visits, as the street names no longer match the ones on his map of Springfield.
23	* DoubleEntendre: "Old Man Beats Meat".
24	* DrivenToSuicide: After becoming the pariah of the town, Abe considers ending his life by using Dr. Egoyan's diePod and decides to go with it when nobody calls him in the 24 hours he was reconsidering it.
25	* EvenEvilHasStandards: It seems even corrupt NFL executives can't stand Los Angeles.
26	-->'''Rich Texan:''' I'm sick of LA. They got earthquakes, wildfires, Benniffers, Brangelinas, and that potty mouth Creator/SarahSilverman. To hell with all of them!\
27	'''Female Executive:''' I didn't kill my husband to get control of his franchise to give a team to Los Angeles!
28	* EveryoneHasStandards: For all his love of the LiteralAssKicking and of tormenting Homer in general, Bart is horrified when he nearly rear-ends a bent-over Homer with his bike while it's outfitted with a viking helmet to serve as Abe's "test bull." He hastily brakes, only for Homer to turn around and walk [[GroinAttack groin-first]] into the horns anyway.
29	* IHaveAFamily: {{Parodied}} with the bullfight announcer, who pleads with the bulls attacking him by saying, "I have a wife and three girlfriends!"
30	* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: When Grampa is contemplating suicide, Jasper asks him if he can have his blanket and liver if he decides to go through with it.
31	-->'''Grampa''': Blanket? Sure. Liver? [[BigNever NEVER!]]
32	* InterruptedSuicide: Abe's was interrupted by a new law being passed in the nick of time.
33	* ItCanThink: Used as the final gag: Grandpa and Lisa are safe from the bulls' rampage because they are on a balloon... and then the bulls tie balloons to themselves and fly up to where they are to get ''them'' as well.
34	* LaserGuidedKarma: Wiggum arrests the doctor assisting in Grampa's suicide over the murder of a previous patient- Wiggum's brother-in-law.
35	* MistakenForAfterlife: After the Springfield Police prevented the doctor from assisting Grandpa's suicide (while Grandpa was passed out), Grandpa wakes up believing he's in Heaven (the Chaplin impersonator reinforces this)... and then he comes across the Simpsons at Luigi's restaurant, where he believes for a moment that either Homer or Bart went on a MurderSuicide spree and killed the whole family.
36	* MistakenForThief: Abe believes the commissioner to be this after witnessing a documental of undercover burglars, thought to be fair for Abe, the commissioner acted similarly to Snake's usual pattern of robbing houses by asking for a bathroom or phone and stealing photos of children, [[NotHelpingYourCase with the commissioner glancing suspiciously at one photo of Bart and Lisa posted on the fridge]]
37	* NeverMyFault: The town blames Abe for ruining their chances of getting a football team, though they aren't exactly blameless, as it was their decision to change the signs that caused the guy to get lost in the first place. On top of that, no one bothered to send him an escort.
38	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to Abe mistaking the commissioner of pro football for a burglar and holding him hostage, Springfield loses out on their football team. Of course, the town bears as much fault in this, since (a) the town changed the names to ALL the town's streets and (b) did not arrange to either meet the commissioner or tell him of the changes.
39	** Abe's decision to release all the bulls results in all of them causing mayhem throught the city and attacking [[InnocentBystander innocent citizens]] that weren't at the bullfighting arena.
40	* NoodleIncident: Bart somehow flips the classroom upside down for the chalkboard gag.
41	* NotHelpingYourCase: After his screw-up Homer demands Abe justify his contributions to the family, which Abe claims is watching Maggie, prompting Marge to ask where Maggie is. Abe expresses surprise that they left her with him.
42	* OhCrap:
43	** The doctor who was about to assist Abe's suicide when he learned one of his previous patients was Chief Wiggum's brother-in-law.
44	** Also Luigi when he gets cornered by the bulls while pushing a wheelbarrow holding crates of veal.
45	** And Lisa and Grandpa when the bulls figure out how to fly and get ''them''.
46	* OverlyLongName: The name of the Springfield Meltdowns' stadium was originally "Duff Beer Krusty Burger Buzz Cola Costington's Department Store Kwik-E-Mart Stupid Flanders Park". After its conversion into a bullfighting stadium, it was renamed to the far more wieldy "Springfield Estadio de Toros".
47	* PersonaNonGrata: Thanks to Abe costing the town their football team, he is reviled by everyone, to the point where Reverend Lovejoy arranges the sign outside the church to read "Jesus Hates You" as Abe is passing and for a bunch of firemen to throw him ''into'' a burning building.
48	* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: Of ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'', which also dealt with assisted suicide.
49	* {{Pun}}: The assisted suicide machine is called the [=DiePod=]. With one setting labeled as "[[Music/MegaDeth MegaDeath]]".
50	* SameContentDifferentRating: Because of the references to assisted suicide, animal cruelty, crude innuendo (i.e. "Old Man Beats Meat"), discriminatory language[[note]]the "Down Syndrome" pun where Lenny follows Carl's declaration of having "Melt Mania" by saying he has "Down Syndrome"[[/note]], and scenes of bullying and harassment (Abe becoming a town pariah), this episode was given a TV-14 rating in America, while Australia gave this an M rating and the UK gave this episode a 15 rating.
51	* ShoutOut:
52	** The [=DiePod=]. With one setting labeled as "Music/MegaDeth". It's not clearly defined whether it's an actual setting on the suicide machine, or the thing has ''actual'' Megadeth music on it.
53	** The suicide room sequence resembles Sol's assisted suicide on ''Film/SoylentGreen''.
54	** [[WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw El Kaboing]] swings in during LA's "Springfield Blows" song. While [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] is among the singers.
55	* SuicideAsComedy: Grampa wants to be euthanized and most of it is played for laughs.
56	* SuicideIsShameful: When Marge hears that Grampa wanted to be euthanized, she is quite shocked and says that suicide is a sin.
57	--> '''Marge:''' Suicide?! Grampa, killing yourself is a sin. God wants us to die of old age after years of pain and reduced mobility.
58	* TakeThat: The entire city of LA makes an entire song simply stating how Springfield sucks and how they should get the new football team.
59	* TemptingFate: The announcer at the stadium declaring relief that his broadcast booth is up high while the bulls rampage through the streets below. Cue a bull emerging from the lift doors behind him.
60	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out if the NFL reluctantly gives the expansion team to LA, or if they just drop the plans all together.
61	* YourMom: When Sideshow Mel applauds the football themed street names, Jimbo taunts him for speaking aloud to himself. Mel fires back with "Isn't your mother a well known whore?". Jimbo gasps at Mel's comeback and states that he won this round.

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