History Recap / TheSimpsonsS15E6TodayIAmAClown

* TruthInTelevision: Rabbi Krustofski tells Krusty that he has to eat Chinese food at Christmas. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-American_patronage_of_Chinese_restaurants This is an actual occurrence in American Jewish communities.]] Chinese restaurants were the only restaurants that were guaranteed to be open on Christmas Day,

* SoapboxSadie: Lisa manages to [[UnwittingInstigatorofDoom unwillingly]] destroys Homer's career in TV by convincing him to use his talk show to talk about socially important stuff.

* DeadlyDodging: In "A Briss Before Dying", a good deal of damage Scratchy suffers is a result of Itchy dodging while Scratchy tries to circumcise him.

* ImagineSpot: Homer has one where he saves [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Abraham Lincoln's]] life and is rewarded by appearing next to him in the five-dollar-bill. He later has one where he and Lincoln save [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John Kennedy]].

* OffModel: At the end of the episode, Patty and Selma are given pointy noises as opposed to their usually round ones.

* ThisExplainsSoMuch: When the Hibbert family sees Homer strangle Bart on TV, Dr. Hibbert comments, "So, that's why Bart has all those broken tracheal bones. Tight bow tie, my ass!"

-->'''Dr. Hibbert:''' [[ThisExplainsSoMuch So that's why Bart has all those broken tracheal bones]]. [[CutHimselfShaving Tight bow tie, my ass!]]

* IWillShowYouX: Homer exclaims "I'll audience you!" as he stranges Bart, after Bart tells him he lost his stranglehold on the audience for not taking his advice to live fast, die young, and leave a big fat corpse.

-->'''Dr. Hibbert:''' [[ThisExplainsSoMuch So that's why Bart has all those broken tracheal bones]]. Tight bow tie, my ass!

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Krusty is told he is not a Jewish man because he never had a Bar Mitzvah. At the age of 13, a Jewish male is expected to have been educated enough to be personally responsible for following the commandments. A Bar Mitzvah is a celebration of this event, not a ceremony where they bestow manhood or Judaism on you, like how Christians and Catholics have baptism, Communion, and confirmation. In fact, Jews who never had a Bar Mitzvah is not even a rare occurrence; many less religious Jews forgo them. Also, many Jews throughout the 20th century went without them because of both World Wars and the Holocaust.
** Even having a Bar Mitzvah as an adult is not a rare or unusual occurrence. Many Jews who couldn't have them during wartime had them years or even decades later. A man in Israel could not have his Bar Mitzvah because his family was fighting in WWI, so he had it as an adult...100 years later, at the age of 113.

* BitingTheHandHumor: At Fox again. Their office is a trailer and Krusty is disgusted at the idea of working with him.

* ContinuityNod: Dr. Hibbert reveals Santa's Little Helper had impregnated his dog, Rosa Barks. After he leaves, Lisa reminds everyone that Santa's Little Helper was supposedly neutered the last time he had puppies. As she says this, [[BreakingTheFourthWall she was reading the first Simpsons episode guide]], ''The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family''.

-->'''Homer'': You hit him high, I'll hit him low! ''[Homer and Lincoln deliver a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Lee Harvey Oswald]''

* ImaginaryFriend: Lisa knows a lot about Judaism since she used to have a Jewish imaginary friend named Rachel Cohen. [[spoiler: Rachel shows up as a murderous spirit in the "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" story "BFF R.I.P.".]]

* HoistBuHisOwnPetard: Homer decides to listen to Lisa's suggestions on how to improve his talk show over Bart. it ends poorly when her ideas for topics alienate his viewerbase, with choking out Bart [[NeverMyFault over this]] being the last straw, canceling it completely.

* SoapboxSadie: Lisa manages to unwillingly destroy Homer's career in TV by convincing him to use his talk show to talk about socially important stuff.