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Context Recap / TheSimpsonsS22E15TheScorpionsTale

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1	Lisa discovers a rare desert plant that turns aggressive animals docile, while a pharmaceutical company wants to buy it off her to create a new drug.
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3	!! Tropes:
4	* AllGermansAreNazis: Grandpa doesn't believe Hottenhoffer when he claims not to have been around during World War II.
5	* BaitAndSwitchComment:
6	** After Lisa's run-in with the scorpions, she say the plants that calmed them down saved her from a terrible fate: not getting an A for her next Science Project.
7	** When Homer first witnesses the effects of the liquid drug on the scorpions, having seen Grandpa being incredibly ratty as a result of having been evicted from the Retirement Castle, he deduces that, if it work on tough animals… it could work on tough stains. He then decides to use it on Grandpa after using the substance to clean his shirts
8	* DoubleStandard:
9	** Upon learning of Lisa's discovery, Homer comments that she'd be a scientist if she were a boy. Although he might just think there's a special word for female scientists...
10	** Earlier, Grandpa mocks Lisa by saying no boy will want to marry a female pointdexter. Of course, nothing says he thinks highly of male pointdexters, either.
11	* EyeScream: The side effect of the drug causes people’s eyeballs to fall out and hang by their optic nerves.
12	* GuestStar: Creator/WernerHerzog as Walter Hottenhoffer.
13	* NoSympathy: Chalmers laughes at Skinner when Bart tricks him into thinking he's about to step on a rattlesnake, then coldly remarks that Skinner took a sick day he didn't have after when Skinner points out [[NoodleIncident he was previously bitten by a rattlesnake]], and when Skinner points out he would have lost his foot otherwise, merely remarks that Seymour would have had a spare foot.
14	* ShoutOut:
15	** To ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'' at the desert.
16	** The head of the pharmaceutical company claims to be [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Augustus Gloop]].
17	** The main plot (a young genius discovers a naturally-occurring drug that makes animals and people docile, but with horrific side effects) is very similar to Stephen King's short story [[Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes "The End of the Whole Mess"]].
18	* ShownTheirWork:
19	** The roadrunner from the beginning has two toes in front and two in back like in real life.
20	** The skeleton of the shark that [[ItMakesSenseInContext got eaten by a school of herring]] is quite accurate to what an actual shark's skeleton looks like, down to being cartilaginous and lacking ribs.
21	* SpoofAesop: Skinner sums up the lesson as “If you’re on a field trip, don’t wonder off”. Hottenhoffer adds [[BrickJoke “If you’re a little boy in a chocolate factory]], don’t drink from the river of chocolate.”

Context Recap / TheSimpsonsS22E15TheScorpionsTale