Line #4 Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E14AtLongLastLeave


1	In this, the 500th episode, the town of Springfield has had enough of The Simpsons and banish them to live off the grid.
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3	!! Tropes (YMMV tropes can be found [[YMMV/TheSimpsonsS23E14AtLongLastLeave here]]):
4	* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: This is ultimately Springfield's attitude toward the Simpsons, if their decision to relocate en masse to be near them again is any indication.
5	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: This entire dialogue:
6	-->'''Brockman:''' All Springfielders should now move off the streets and inside their homes. Please avoid the superstitious panic that marked the recent lunar eclipse.
7	-->[a picture of Homer rioting, standing on Abraham Simpson is shown]
8	-->'''Homer:''' Heheh. Sorry dad. I was afraid the dragon wouldn't cough the moon back up.
9	-->'''Grampa:''' You idgit! The dragon always coughs the moon back up.
10	-->'''Lisa:''' I know it's futile but I must again point out, there is no dragon.
11	-->'''Homer:''' Then why am I paying $800 a year in dragon insurance?
12	-->'''Lisa:''' Again, I maintain that money would be better spent on car insurance.
13	-->'''Homer:''' Lisa, everyone knows that dragons do not attack cars. Geez, pick up a book.
14	-->'''Lisa:''' [annoyed] I pick up books like you pick up beers!
15	-->'''Homer:''' Then you have a serious reading problem.
16	* ContinuityNod: Bart's [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E2BrothersLittleHelper pranks]], Homer's [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E11WildBartsCantBeBroken drunken rampage]] (which was blamed on the kids in town in that episode, but there was no scene where the police realize that it was caused by Homer and his drunken friends until now), and Lisa's [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E19TheSquirtAndTheWhale activism]].
17	** Homer mentioned when he first moved to the house he "Used to talk like this" referencing the Walter Matthau voice he used in the early seasons and ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow''.
18	* CouchGag: A collection of the couch gags from the previous episodes, culminating into a mosaic reading "500," which falls apart, revealing Homer and Bart strangling each other in tuxedos.
19	* DisproportionateRetribution:
20	** One of the reasons that the Simpsons are hated is because Maggie (a baby) doesn't talk.
21	** They also find Lisa's acts of activism very irritating.
22	* EnfantTerrible: The people of Springfield accuse Maggie of being this. Her making the "cut your throat sign" only proves their accusation.
23	* EveryoneHasStandards: Springfield proudly calls itself "the meanest town in America", with all of the JerkAss activities it involves, but the events of the episode happen because even they believe that the things the Simpsons have done have escalated to the point they actually (and ''lethally'') endanger the whole town.
24	* {{Hypocrite}}: For all the danger and trouble, lethal and otherwise, that the town piles against the Simpsons, there have been just as many, if not ''more'' instances where a Springfieldian who ''isn't'' a Simpson has nearly brought doom to the town, making them no better than the titular family. They naturally get called out for it in the end.
25	* InternalDeconstruction: [[LongRunner 500 episodes' worth]] of cartoon-grade {{Sitcom}} antics would strain the resources of any small city, and since they all revolve around ''[[TheMainCharactersDoEverything the same family]]'', it seems wisest to just run them out of town.
26	* JerkassHasAPoint:
27	** The entire town no matter how harsh it was, rightfully calls out on the Simpsons for bringing all manner of troubles into their lives. Bart's pranks being less funny and outright mean spirited, Homer's incompetence causing massive property damage, Lisa can't mind her own business and finally, Marge called the worst of all her family because her blindly being self righteous to protect those that did deserve comeuppance which in turn cause all these problems in the first place.
28	** It gets turned around on the town at the end of the episode, as Marge and Homer point out that the people living there are just as horrible as they are, making their ire against the Simpsons completely hypocritical.
29	* JerkassRealization: The townsfolk when Homer and Marge go back to the Outlands as the people there accepted them for who they are. And after being called jerks by Homer.
30	* KarmaHoudini: The entire town doesn't even apologize for banishing the Simpson family, even after moving to the Outlands with them. At the very least, however, they have accepted that they and the Simpsons have more in common than they originally thought.
31	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Karma catches up with the Simpsons (for offences like Homer's [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E11WildBartsCantBeBroken drunken rampage]]) after the town are finally tired of putting up with them.
32	* KickTheDog: When Quimby tells the Simpsons that he doesn't want to kick them out, but he has to for the good of the town, he secretly whispers to everyone else that he's only saying that just to spare the Simpsons' feelings. However, Cookie Kwan loudly claims that the Simpsons have no feelings and that even Maggie never cries. An offended Maggie retaliates by making an OffWithHisHead sign to Cookie, who furiously points out that no baby does a sign like that.
33	* NatureTinkling: Bart at one point begs Homer to pull over so he can "drain the inchworm".
34	* NegativeContinuity: By the end of this episode, every Springfielder moved to the Outlands and nobody expressed any intention to return. In the next episode, things are like this one never happened. The implication is seemingly that [[StatusQuoIsGod the Outlands was fully remade in Springfield's image]], similar to how the entire town was moved "five miles down the road" in the 200th episode, "Trash of the Titans." [[RuleOfFunny Don't think about it too hard]].
35	* NobodysThatDumb: Homer and Marge sneak back into Springfield under the disguise of Mr. Burns and Smithers. When Chief Wiggums first spots them, it appears that he fell for it but it's later revealed that he had seen through their disguises and only pretended to be fooled in order to have time to rally the people to arrest Homer and Marge.
36	-->'''Chief Wiggum''': You really thought you could fool me with that Burns and Smithers getup. I mean, I'm not the sharpest pencil in the pencil thing, but I'm least as smart as a cat. Right, Lou?\
37	'''Lou''': Uh, what breed, Chief? I mean, I saw an Abyssinian once who could change channels.\
38	'''Chief Wiggum''': Eh, that is pretty smart.
39	* NotHelpingYourCase: Maggie [[IResembleThatRemark responds]] to accusations of TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior with a ThroatSlittingGesture ("What baby does that?!"), and Homer reacts to the image of him driving a car through the school after a baseball victory in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" by firing a gun at the ceiling and shouting "We won! Whoo-hoo!"
40	-->'''Marge:''' Homer, that is not banishment-hearing behavior!
41	* OpeningShoutOut: With the title replaced by "The Outlands," showing the Simpsons adjusting to their new home.
42	* PetTheDog: Despite arranging for the Simpsons to be kicked out of town (and being glad to be rid of them), Quimby tells them that he's just doing his job as mayor, and that he's sorry that he has to kick them out, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo but he has no choice]]. Though he doesn't mean it, he still says it to spare their feelings.
43	* RetroactiveWish: When the Simpsons were banished from Springfield, Homer announces he'll curse the town into a thousand-year drought and it starts raining soon after. Homer then tries to change it to a thousand-year rain and then the rain stops and a rainbow shows up. Homer weakly tries a "good weather" curse.
44	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: The [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] man who welcomed the family to the Outlands gets out of dodge the moment the other Springfieldians start moving in.
45	--> "That tears it, I'm not comfortable being this close to medical care. I'm outta here."
46	* UngratefulTownsfolk: For all the trouble the Simpsons cause, they've done just as much good for Springfield's community. They've saved Krusty from prison and reunited him with his father, supported Apu when he faced deportation, frequently thwart Sideshow Bob's (and Cecil's) actually terrorism and got Mayor Quimby back into office after Sideshow Bob rigged the election. Yet they still give Bob of all people a vote in exiling the Simpsons. They also start driving out the Outlanders once they move out of Springfield.
47	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
48	** Grandpa Simpson disappears from the story just before The Simpson Family gets exiled from Springfield and the parade that follows it. It's also never stated why the town hates him along with his son's family, though it's implied to be out of GuiltByCoincidence for his son's actions.
49	** It's unknown what happened to Flanders after being rammed out of city hall.
50	** While implied that most of the Outlanders either left or were forced back into civilization once Springfield invaded their territory, we never see this happen.
51	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The Outlands, which is located in a desert, appears to be just a moderately short drive away from the city.

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