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3	'''Original air date:''' 11/12/2006
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5	'''Production code:''' HABF-21
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7	Homer ends up enlisted in the U.S. Army after trying to get his kids out of a recruiting deal.
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9	!!Tropes:
10	* ArmedFarces: Homer is put in charge of the stupidest corp to make the military look good when they use them as enemy.
11	* ArmiesAreEvil: The U.S. Army uses Springfield as the acting ground for an urban warfare exercise and later declares full-on War on Terror levels of martial law (including profiling) to get Homer when he goes AWOL... which he did because the colonel in charge of the exercise went full-blown GeneralRipper and declared that the exercise would be played with ''live ammunition'', including giving a KillOnSight order for Homer and his "opposing force", composed of equally dumb privates. It's even mentioned in one scene that the general's manhunt of Homer is costing the Army several billion dollars per day, but the general doesn't want to hear it.
12	* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Homer tries to lure applicants to the army by offering them the chance to kill people. Anyone who did this in real life would be discharged on the spot.
13	* ClownCar: In the Army promotion video, an Apache attack helicopter can carry four musicians and their instruments in the single seat pilot rear section, and still take off afterwards (meaning there was, at least, still a fifth person remaining in the pilots seat to fly the helicopter).
14	* ContinuityNod: When Homer joins the Army, Marge refers to him going into space ("Deep Space Homer"), attending clown college ("Homie the Clown"), and joining the Navy ("Simpson Tide").
15	* CreditsGag: The colonel places everyone listed in the credits to front-line infantry (except guest voice Creator/KieferSutherland, who is placed in the coast guard).
16	* CruellaToAnimals: Krusty is shown getting red paint splashed on his fur coat by Lisa and putting on a panda skin coat, panda cub slippers and monkey mittens.
17	-->'''Krusty:''' Yep, I'm a real class act.
18	* CutawayGag: Parodied after Moe lets Homer hide out in his tavern.
19	-->'''Homer''': Thanks, Moe. How can I ever repay you?\
20	'''Moe''': Hey, some things mean more to me than money...\
21	''[cut to Moe accepting a stack of dollar bills in the colonel's tent]''\
22	'''Moe''': ...like a whole LOT of money!\
23	'''Colonel''': Why'd you just say that sentence fragment?\
24	'''Moe''': Eh, long story.
25	* DrillSergeantNasty: The colonel (voiced by Creator/KieferSutherland). Once the boot camp is over, he sends everybody to frontline infantry.
26	* EveryoneHasStandards: The premise of the episode is that even Springfield is too smart for the army.
27	* FailedASpotCheck: The over the top American Army ad is bad enough, but their use of the RUSSIAN song [[EpicFail "Arise, Russian People"]] is this. Even those that don't speak Russian would catch on to hearing the word "Russkie", but apparently, the Army is too dumb for that.
28	* InsaneAdmiral: The Army Colonel gives his men real ammunition for the drill with the intent of actually killing Homer and the others he finds too worthless to be soldiers. He declares martial law on Springfield to find them and rounds up any man who even vaguely fits Homer's description.
29	* InsistentTerminology: When the fat/bald people are rounded up, Superintendent Chalmers complains that he's just balding.
30	-->'''Chalmers:''' Does anybody appreciate the "ding"?
31	-->'''Skinner:''' I appreciate the "ding", sir.
32	* MandatoryLine: Lisa doesn't have a major role in this episode because she's at a PETA protest.
33	* OhCrap: Bart and Milhouse when they find out the bullies no longer have to refrain from picking on them.
34	* ReadTheFinePrint: The Colonel carries around the National Broccoli Day proclamation around, because it gives him permission to ''invade American cities whenever he damn well feels like it''.
35	* ShoutOut:
36	** The song played during the recruitment video is "Arise Ye Russian People" from ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', a patriotic Russian film with an epic soundtrack composed by Sergei Prokofiev.
37	** [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] is one of the people the helicopter shoots in the terribly done army ad.
38	** Cletus' Christmas card the previous December is a parody of one of the many infamous photos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
39	** Homer leads a small remote controlled helicopter into a room full of explosives, locking it in. The chopper lights a match to see in the dark, and is then blown up. The screen that the Colonel is watching the entire thing on switches off the camera, and up comes the ThatsAllFolks VanityPlate from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
40	** When Homer imagines a captain to give him advice, he thinks of Advertising/CapnCrunch.
41	--->'''Cap'n Crunch''': Stay crunchy in milk!
42	* SmellyFeetGag: The bullies work at a show store at the mall. Bart realizes that if they're mean to customers, they'll lose their jobs, and takes the opportunity to prank them. He sticks out his foot towards Kearney.
43	-->'''Bart:''' What size do I smell like?
44	* SoapboxSadie: Lisa takes the moment wherein all of the Army forces are hung over and have declared an ''ipso facto'' surrender to Homer's "opposing force" to give a little speech about how the Army will never win against a city full of dedicated insurgents... she's interrupted by Marge once the speech reaches high (InUniverse) levels of UnfortunateImplications.
45	* SpannerInTheWorks: Homer turns a training simulation into a full town invasion after deciding to celebrate Chinese New Year with a flare gun, which blinded the opposing side since they were all using night-vision at the time. Instead of capturing them, Homer panics and orders his team to run, leading to them being on the lam.
46	* SuddenNameChange: The Squeaky Voiced Teen is called Mr Friedman here. His last name was Peterson back in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E14LisaVsMalibuStacy Lisa Vs Malibu Stacy]]".
47	* TakeThat: Basically, this episode says that "Springfield is the dumbest city in America and even they're too smart for the Army".
48	* TelecomTree: Marge rallies everyone in Springfield for her plan to get rid of the U.S. Army's occupation of Springfield. She even has a diagram of this, which starts with her calling Ned Flanders and Helen Lovejoy, who call two more people[[note]]Selma and Lenny for Ned, Patty and Carl for Helen[[/note]], who each call two more people[[note]]identities unknown[[/note]], and from that point forward it's eight solid chains, which includes Nelson Muntz calling Mr. Burns, and Krusty the Clown calling Ralph Wiggum and telling him to call Lindsay Naegle, who didn't get the message as Ralph had put the phone down and she wasn't present at the reservoir to put [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink Marge's plan]] into action.
49	* TotallyRadical: The army recruitment strategy is this for young teens and kids, although it fails to impress teens.
50	* UnfortunateImplications: InUniverse. Marge interrupts Lisa's speech to the general when she notices that it stopped sounding like "Springfield beat you" and is becoming more like "America can never win UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror".
51	* VirtualTrainingSimulation: Discussed. When Lenny's car gets run over by a tank, an army general nearby tells him that he's just in a simulation. Lenny says, "then I'd better do my part", [[DelayedReaction and then]] screams in pain loudly.
52	* WaterSourceTampering: The occupation of Springfield only ends when Marge convinces everyone to pour alcohol into the reservoir, and once the battalion gets drunk and passes out, several gun-wielding residents surround the Colonel when he wakes up and Marge negotiates a truce.
53	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: According to the army soldiers who try and fail to convince the bullies to join, Springfield is in America's dumbest state.

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