Line #11 Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E17ApocalypseCow


1	Bart tries to save his new cow from the slaughterhouse — and ends up nearly married to a hillbilly girl named Mary.
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3	!! Tropes:
4	* AccidentalProposal: Bart presents Lou to Mary in the hopes of saving his cow from being slaughtered. However, her parents view this as him proposing to marry her.
5	* BaitAndSwitch: During the montage of Bart and Lou bonding, Bart is handling a branding iron, making it look like he's about to brand Lou...but he's actually making a collar sign for him.
6	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Transclown-O-Morphs''. As their theme song says, the transclown-o-morphs are "transforming clowns that morph".
7	* FeedByExample:
8	** During the bonding montage, Bart tried to feed Lou grass, but Lou refused to eat it, so Bart tried to show him it tasted good. Bart ended up hogging the grass.
9	** When Maggie refuses to eat her baby food, Homer and Marge use sock puppets to convince her to, with Homer's puppet eating the food. The tactic works, but before Maggie eats a bite, Lisa comes in talking about Bart's situation.
10	* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The tactic of switching Homer with the cow is given away briefly by the fact that when Lou moos, not only does his mouth not move, but it doesn’t sound like Creator/TressMacNeille
11	* KickTheDog: Lisa hides a CD player under Bart's bed with sounds of cows and other farm animals to guilt trip him into giving up meat.
12	* LazilyGenderFlippedName: Bart names his calf 'Lulubelle'. Mary suggests he calls him just 'Lou' because he's a young bull. Bart likes it because it rhymes with Moo.
13	* MeaningfulName: Mary got her name because she's the one her parents expected to get married. It's mentioned that ''all'' of the Spuckler's children were named after what they would do when they grew up. Yes, the Spucklers were that crazy. Also a display of a NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom.
14	-->'''Cletus:''' Isn't that right, Stabbed-in-jail?
15	-->'''Stabbedinjail:''' ''(wielding a whittled spear)'' We'll see who stabs who.
16	* MerchandiseDriven: The transforming clowns that morph use their show to sell their cereal. When they're losing, one of them says it's because someone isn't buying it.
17	* PartiallyConcealedLabelGag: Homer is going to save Bart's cow, Lou, from slaughter. He looks through binoculars and sees a "laughter house," which he likes the idea of. He zooms out and notices it's a slaughterhouse, and screams.
18	%%* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Lou.
19	* SeriesContinuityError: A minor one as back in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E21TheBartOfWar The Bart Of War]]", Marge said the 4-H Club were renamed to the 5-H Club after they were forced to admit homosexuals.
20	* ShoutOut: Creator/TressMacNeille gets mentioned a couple times in this episode, meaning that the woman who voices dozens of characters on ''The Simpsons'' is famous enough InUniverse that Bart and Homer can recognize her voice.
21	* ShowWithinAShow: Bart and Lisa watch an animated show ''Transclown-O-Morphs''.
22	* SpitTake: Upon hearing about Bart getting married, Homer's ''[[RuleOfFunny sock puppet]]'' spits out the food in its mouth.
23	* TakeThat:
24	** "4-H: It's ''still'' a thing."
25	** When Bart is using an industrial bundling machine, the hay comes out as blocks of hay, the water he drives through comes out as blocks of water that quickly soak into the ground, and the manure? The bundles come out as packed [=DVD=]s of ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd Pirates of the Caribbean 3]]''.
26	** The opening segment is a dig at Merchandise-driven franchises such as ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', and shows overreliant on product placement in general.
27	** The way cows are farmed takes a pretty hard hit.
28	--->'''Bart:''' Wow, Lou, what happened to you? You got fat.\
29	'''Lisa:''' Of ''course'' he got fat. The food he ate was laced with growth hormones.\
30	''(Lou licks Bart's arm; the area he licked immediately grows a thick patch of hair)''

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