Line #13 Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E1Homerland


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/homerland_poster.png]]
2	After returning from a nuclear plant convention, Homer begins to act out of character and Lisa, along with a mentally disturbed FBI agent who looks and acts like Creator/ClaireDanes' character from ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' (but is voiced by Creator/KristenWiig), investigate.
3	!!Tropes of this episode:
4	* TheCameo: The [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Griffins]], [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Smiths]], [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow Browns]], and [[WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers Belchers]] all make an appearance in the end credits.
5	* ContinuityNod: Bart's apparently back on Focusyn (at a 20mg dose, presumably lower than the one he was on in "Brother's Little Helper"), which Marge secretly puts in his cereal.
6	* CreditsGag: The end credits are a sequel to this episode's CouchGag (in which Homer isn't let in for the show's 25th season celebration).
7	* GreenAesop: Lisa and the people who told Homer.
8	* MistakenForTerrorist: Homer... though he gets the job done.
9	* NobodyHereButUsBirds: Lisa makes cat sounds to keep Homer from finding out he's spying on her.
10	* NoOSHACompliance: The Springfield Nuclear Factory; the reason Homer's attempt to weaponize the air conditioning to [[StinkBomb stink up the place]] fails because the air conditioning never worked. However, this is exactly what gets the plant shut down by the FBI.
11	* NotWhatItLooksLike: All the signs that seem to indicate Homer has become an Islamitic terrorist who wants to blow up the nuclear plant, turns out to be something else.
12	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Homer isn’t acting like himself. He doesn’t choke Bart, enjoys vegetables, ask for water instead of beer, declines Marge’s offer to have sex, and is kneeling on a prayer mat. This scares Lisa, as she thinks Homer has become a Muslim terrorist, but really, he was hanging out with hippies, the mat is actually an affirmation mat that he's meant to kneel on whenever he feels tempted to drink beer, and his apparent repeated bowing while kneeling on it is because it's hell on his knees and he's strugging to stay up and/or bowed.
13	* RakeTake: One of the early random scenes features Sideshow Bob stepping on a rake.
14	* SayingTooMuch: Mr. Burns ends up blabbing in front of the FBI that the nuclear plant never had a working air conditioning, and that he is planning to move the plant to China. The FBI ends up shutting the plant down.
15	* ShoutOut: Homer asks if the cat was near by asking if it’s like ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''… right into asking if it hates Monday and likes lasagna.
16	* StalkerWithACrush: The FBI Agent that is following Homer becomes obsessed with him (to the point that she barges into the Simpsons' home to both threaten Homer that she's watching and try to seduce him, was flatter when he called her beautiful, and takes time from giving him a PoliceBrutality NoHoldsBarredBeatdown at the episode's denouement ''to steal a kiss from him'').
17	* StatusQuoIsGod: Moe uses a remote-controlled drone with a beer can to undo the changes done to Homer. He comments that the device will pay for itself after one night.
18	* WeWantOurJerkBack: Lisa, of all members of the family, is unsettled when Homer rejects violence and stops eating meat. ({{Subverted}} at the end when, once she understands that these changes aren't indicative of anything sinister, she encourages him to keep up his improved behavior, [[StatusQuoIsGod to no avail]].)
19	-->'''Lisa:''' Bart, why is the dad I always wished for creeping me out?
20	-->'''Bart:''' I don't know. 'Cause you're incapable of experiencing joy?
21	-->'''Lisa:''' ''(A ThoughtBubble appears of the family in a roller coaster car, with the others enjoying themselves and her reading Creator/SylviaPlath.)'' [[JerkassHasAPoint Point taken]].
22	* YouJustToldMe: The FBI Agent claims she learned Millhouse's name this way.

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