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1	Bart discovers that Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel's daughter, Mary, is the only girl who ever liked him, and the Simpsons head to New York [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E1TheCityOfNewYorkVsHomerSimpson (again)]] so Bart can be with her after finding out that Mary has been hired as a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' writer.
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3	!!!Tropes:
4	* AlmostKiss: Happens between Bart and Mary.
5	* AwfulWeddedLife:
6	-->'''Homer:''' You've learned a very valuable life lesson, boy, which is that love doesn't exist, except briefly between a man and a woman before marriage. After that, it's just hanging out with someone who kind of hates you, but you can't get it together to leave.
7	* BaitAndSwitch: Homer tries to convince Bart not to go to New York on account to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E1TheCityOfNewYorkVsHomerSimpson what happened the last time they were there.]] Cue a flashback of Homer and Marge...in a parody of ''Film/SweetSmellOfSuccess''.
8	* BaitAndSwitchComment:
9	** Bart tells Homer that New York is better now because his two least favorite buildings have been obliterated, setting up for a very tasteless joke about the September 11th attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (since the last time Homer was in New York City, he had to wait at the towers because his car was parked there), but Homer really meant Penn Station and Shea Stadium. ("Lousy outdated relics!")
10	** Mary's parting words to Bart:
11	--->'''Mary:''' Bart, if any girl tries to fix you, let 'em, because you got a couple of big problems. But mostly, you're great!
12	* BorrowedCatchphrase: When Bart visits Jenny from "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly," she shuts him down with an "Eat my shorts!"
13	* CallBack:
14	** To most of Bart's love interests. They even got their original voice actresses.
15	** Also to the last time the Simpsons visited New York City.
16	** The store "Neat & Tidy - Piano Movers" from ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E17HomerTheSmithers Homer the Smithers]]'' is briefly seen during the race at the beginning of the episode.
17	* CallForward: Bart teases Lisa for attending a party with Milhouse as her date and predicts a kid who will look exactly like Milhouse, while Lisa insists "We're not having a baby!" and retorts that at least she ''has'' a date, unlike Bart, whose girlfriends are always temporary. This perfectly predicts their adult lives as seen in the previous season's FlashForward episode "Holidays of Future Passed": Lisa is married to the ever-loyal Milhouse but is a TrulySingleParent to their child (genetically engineered from the best DNA of each of them, therefore [[ButtMonkey none of his]]), while Bart's unhappily divorced and single.
18	* TheCameo: Sideshow Bob briefly tries to kill Bart before a train hits him.
19	* ComicBookTime: {{Kidanova}} or not, good luck going through all these girlfriends after turning nine and before turning eleven.
20	* ContinuityCavalcade: In a montage, Bart visits [[GirlOfTheWeek Jenny from "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly," Darcy from "Little Big Girl," Gina from "The Wandering Juvy," and Nikki from "Stealing First Base."]] We also see that he keeps a photo of himself with Jessica Lovejoy from "Bart's Girlfriend."
21	* CouchGag: One dedicated to ''WesternAnimation/MaggieSimpsonInTheLongestDaycare'', which was released just before this episode aired.
22	* CuckoldHorns: A vendor hands them out at a Shakespeare in the Park performance. One guy buys a pair, then finds his date kissing the man next to her. "It works!"
23	* ExactWords: Mary consoles Bart upon leaving him by saying there will be "other Mary Spucklers"—for instance, [[MassiveNumberedSiblings her two sisters]] [[SettleForSibling who are also named Mary]].
24	* GirlOfTheWeek: {{Lampshaded}} by Lisa, who specifically mentions that "about a week" is as long as Bart can get a girl to stay with him. This causes Bart to doubt his ability to get a girl to really care about him.
25	* {{Kidanova}}: The episode [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges]] the many, many girls Bart has dated throughout the show (the ContinuityCavalcade of references doesn't even cover all of the ones we've seen ''and'' shows [[NoodleIncident a few we haven't seen]]).
26	* MadeOfIron: If subsequent episodes are any evidence, Sideshow Bob [[RuleOfFunny survived being hit by a train head-on]].
27	* ParentalFavoritism: Bart attributes Mary's prettiness in comparison to her siblings to the fact that she was given milk to drink as a kid instead of white paint.
28	* RagsToRiches: The khlav kalash vendor hit it real big and now has a huge company building solely on selling said khlav kalash and crab juice.
29	* TookALevelInJerkass: Darcy and Gina, who ended their relationships with Bart on good terms, were not happy to see him in the least for some reason. Nikki on the other hand still flip-flops on the matter.
30	* VillainDecay: Sideshow Bob sneaks behind Bart and, before having a chance to kill him, is hit by a train and taken away. Bart doesn't even acknowledge Bob's presence.
31	* AWildRapperAppears: {{Parodied}}; when Mary's about to perform a country song she wrote for Bart, Bart offers to "do a rap in the middle of it" and she politely suggests he just listen. He tries to add one anyway.
32	-->'''Mary:''' ''A boy I knew turned up again / Kinda liked him way back when / Chased him 'round the livestock pen...''
33	-->'''Bart:''' Rollin' on my skateboard, pimpin' like a drug lord— ''(she shushes him)''

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