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* ButNotTooChallenging: By Lisa’s own admission when she sees the Eliminator, in perfect HypocriticalHumor, she wanted a school that would challenge her more than Springfield Elementary, but one that she could actually do.

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* ButNotTooChallenging: By Lisa’s own admission when she sees the Eliminator, in perfect HypocriticalHumor, she wanted a school that would challenge her more than Springfield Elementary, but one with a challenge that she could actually do.
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* ButNotTooChallenging: By Lisa’s own admission when she sees the Eliminator, in perfect HypocriticalHumor, she wanted a school that would challenge her more than Springfield Elementary, but one that she could actually do.
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* BadassBookworm: Despite the other cadets hating her because she's not a boy, Lisa loves the military school because it has rigid structure and teachings.

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* BadassBookworm: BadassBookworm[=/=]LittleMissBadass: Despite the other cadets hating her because she's not a boy, Lisa loves the military school because it has rigid structure and teachings.
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* DestinationRuse: Homer and Marge trick Bart and Lisa into going to military school ([[BrickJoke and later, to their dental appointments]]) by telling them that they are going to Disneyland.
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** Bart didn't consider the fact that his MegaphoneGag prank, mostly because he used ''fifteen'' different megaphones instead of just three or four, would be playing with fire on a massive scale.[[note]]In universe, [[ArtisticLicensePhysics at least.]][[/note]]


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* StealthPun:
** The shock wave from Bart's reckless usage of the [[MegaphoneGag megaphones]] causes him to briefly get sent flying backwards into a load of boxes, eventually leading to the first girl attending a military academy. One could say that he was opening Pandora's[[note]][[ShownTheirWork according to Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman ever created]][[/note]] Box.
** The Eliminator is a precarious tightrope that has thorny bushes below, with the objective being to get across safely, all in accordance with the initial objectives of an uber-conservative reform school. All in all, you'd better try to avoid getting [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar bushwhacked.]]


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* ThrewMyBikeOnTheRoof: {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Bart, who destroys an assload of private property not out of any actual malice, but rather a ''very'' unwise attempt at {{it amus|ed me}}ing him.

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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Ignore a wildly firing automatic weapon until it runs out of ammo.

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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: ArtisticLicenseGunSafety:
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Ignore a wildly firing automatic weapon until it runs out of ammo.


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** Only RuleOfFunny justifies the military school having a GrenadeLauncher (military academies and ROTC only have rifles, at the most).
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* RecoiledAcrossTheRoom: When Lisa manages to point her stuck-on-autofire gun at the ground it [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S08E25/722204.jpg launches her into the air.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Ignore a wildly firing automatic weapon until it runs out of ammo.
** Give a full-sized assault rifle to an eight-year-old.
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* OnlyOneFindsItFun: During the showings of the "Sand" documentary and "The Moon of Earth" in Miss Hoover's class, [[TheDitz Ralph Wiggum]] is the only one that actually appears to be interested, while everyone else (including [[ApatheticTeacher Miss Hoover]]) is visibly bored.
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* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Begging his parents not to leave him at military school, Bart offers to "be good sometimes".
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* {{Zeerust}}: The cheesy and outdated short black and white movie on the Moon that Lisa's classroom watches at the start of the episode wouldn't feel out of place in a [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Fallout]] game.
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* WhamLine: "And so am I!"
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* EveryoneHasStandards: After Homer throws rocks at the cadets and expresses his disappointment that they 'not so disciplined' because they recoiled in pain, the horrified Commandant points out to him that they're only just children, not experienced soldiers.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: After Homer throws rocks at the cadets and expresses his disappointment that they they're 'not so disciplined' because they recoiled in pain, the horrified Commandant points out to him that they're only just children, not experienced soldiers.



* ImAHumanitarian: A mannequin of a woman preparing to eating a baby is shown at the police station:

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* ImAHumanitarian: A mannequin of a woman preparing to eating eat a baby is shown at the police station:
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How in the frick did that happen?


* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lisa comes to the school looking for a challenge but nearly gives up when confronted with The Eliminator. Bart lampsVIDEO GAME SPOILERS DO NOT READ!! this: "I thought you wanted a challenge".

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lisa comes to the school looking for a challenge but nearly gives up when confronted with The Eliminator. Bart lampsVIDEO GAME SPOILERS DO NOT READ!! lampshades this: "I thought you wanted a challenge".
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* SmarterThanYouLook: Thanks to his years with a slingshot (and the assumption that because he's a public school student, he knows how to handle guns and other weapons), Bart knows how to use a rocket launcher. In fact, Bart is such a master, he gets Skinner's car from a far distance away.

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* SmarterThanYouLook: Thanks to his years with a slingshot (and the assumption that because he's a public school student, he knows how to handle guns and other weapons), Bart knows how to use a rocket grenade launcher. In fact, Bart is such a master, he gets Skinner's car from a far distance away.
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Fixed the rest of the 'Truth is Beauty' quote.


-->'''Cadet''': [''Talking to instructor while the Simpsons are watching''] Truth is beauty and beauty is truth, sir!
-->'''Lisa''': [''Swooning at this discovery''] Oh, that's beautiful! They have poetry class!
-->'''Teacher''': [''Talking to the cadet''] But the truth can be harsh and disturbing. How can that be considered "beautiful"?

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-->'''Cadet''': [''Talking to instructor while the Simpsons are watching''] Truth is beauty and beauty is beauty; beauty, truth, sir!
-->'''Lisa''': [''Swooning at this discovery''] They're discussing poetry! Oh, that's beautiful! They have poetry class!
we never do that at my school.
-->'''Teacher''': [''Talking to the cadet''] But the truth can be harsh and disturbing. disturbing! How can that be considered "beautiful"?
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Honestly not sure where the original poster got that incorrect 'ruined' quote from.


* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lisa comes to the school looking for a challenge but nearly gives up when confronted with The Eliminator. Bart lampshades this: "I thought you wanted a challenge".

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lisa comes to the school looking for a challenge but nearly gives up when confronted with The Eliminator. Bart lampshades lampsVIDEO GAME SPOILERS DO NOT READ!! this: "I thought you wanted a challenge".



-->'''Marge''': Oh, he ruined the poem.

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-->'''Marge''': Oh, he ruined sure sucked the fun out of ''that'' poem.
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* ArtisticLicenseExplosives: Yeah, if Skinner was that close to his car actually exploding, it's highly unlikely he'd be alive.

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* ArtisticLicenseExplosives: Yeah, if One scene has Bart fire a grenade launcher over the horizon, resulting in Principal Skinner's car being blown up with him next to it and giving him AshFace. If Skinner was that close to his car actually exploding, it's highly unlikely he'd be alive.
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* ArtisitcLicenseExplosives: Yeah, if Skinner was that close to his car actually exploding, it's highly unlikely he'd be alive.

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* ArtisitcLicenseExplosives: ArtisticLicenseExplosives: Yeah, if Skinner was that close to his car actually exploding, it's highly unlikely he'd be alive.
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* StrawMisogynist: The cadets bullying Lisa. They harass her and want to see her fail specifically because she’s the only female cadet - though it’s more because Lisa’s enrolment inconvenienced the boys by forcing them to vacate an entire dormitory to accommodate her.

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* StrawMisogynist: The cadets bullying Lisa. They harass her and want to see her fail specifically because she’s the only female cadet - though it’s more because Lisa’s enrolment inconvenienced enrollment inconveniencing the boys by forcing them to vacate an entire dormitory to accommodate her.her certainly didn't help matters.
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* ArtisitcLicenseExplosives: Yeah, if Skinner was that close to his car actually exploding, it's highly unlikely he'd be alive.
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* GoToYourRoom: Inverted. Bart anticipates this from Homer and Marge when they're punishing him, but because Bart's room is full of toys, Homer sends him to the garage instead. Bart is later seen escaping on a ride-on lawnmower, proving what little good this did.

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* GoToYourRoom: Inverted. Bart anticipates this from Homer and Marge when they're punishing him, but because Bart's room is full of toys, Homer sends him to the garage instead. Bart is later almost instantly seen escaping on a ride-on lawnmower, proving what little good this did.



%% * StrawMisogynist: The classsmates bullying Lisa are these. They harass her and want to see her fail.

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%% * StrawMisogynist: The classsmates cadets bullying Lisa are these. Lisa. They harass her and want to see her fail.fail specifically because she’s the only female cadet - though it’s more because Lisa’s enrolment inconvenienced the boys by forcing them to vacate an entire dormitory to accommodate her.
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[[caption-width-right:238: "My killing teacher says I'm a natural."]]

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[[quoteright:238:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bt.gif]] Bart is shipped off to military school after a particularly destructive prank (lining up 15 police bullhorns and unleashing a soundwave that shatters all the glass in town) -- and Lisa tags along (despite that the military school is boys-only and the other cadets don't take kindly to change) after finding public school education has become a grind.

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'''Original air date:''' 5/18/1997

'''Production code:''' 4F21

Bart is shipped off to military school after a particularly destructive prank (lining up 15 police bullhorns and unleashing a soundwave that shatters all the glass in town) -- and Lisa tags along (despite that the military school is boys-only and the other cadets don't take kindly to change) after finding public school education has become a grind.

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