History Recap / TheSimpsonsS9E2ThePrincipalAndThePauper

* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Skinner while handing out flyers for a strip show in Capital City.
-->"Oh yes. Oh yes. Capital City's nakedest ladies. They're not even wearing a smile! Nod suggestively."

--> '''Edna:''' To Capitol City.

--> '''Marge:''' Because the streets of Capitol City are no place for three un-escorted ladies.

** When it's revealed that Skinner was actually a man called Armin Tamzarian, he gives his identity back to the real Seymour Skinner and exiles himself to Capitol City, his home town. There's no reason why the two Skinners couldn't have stayed in Springfield; Armin Tamzarian could have stayed with Agnes under his real name and the real Seymore Skinner could have bought his own place with the money Armin made as a principal. However, the real Skinner is exiled and Armin is given back the identity of Seymour Skinner.

* GasolineLastsForever: Armin Tamzarian goes to the storage locker where he keeps all his stuff from his rebel days. His old motorcycle is in there and, despite being untouched for almost three decades, it still works perfectly and gets him to Capitol City. Later {{Subverted|Trope}} as he's seen pushing his motorcycle through a Capitol City street in a latter scene.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The events of the episode have been all but completely disavowed in the seasons that followed. The most blatant example of this happened in Season 26, which clearly depicted a young Skinner as Agnes' child. This continues into the season 29 episode "Grampy, Can You Hear Me?"

--> '''Gramdpa:''' 'Cause Jasper didn't wanna come by himself.

* OffModel: Judge Snyder appeared in this episode with yellow skin rather than his normal African American skin.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E16LisaTheIconoclast "Lisa the Iconoclast"]], where an esteemed Springfielder's past is exposed as fraudulent, but in the end, Springfield decides to preserve the lie rather than deal with the truth.

* IHaveNoSon: One is an impostor and the other is a total stranger.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Agnes and Edna tell Marge that they prefer Armin over the real Seymore Skinner, and after the former two refer to Armin as a "weenie":

* PreferableImpersonator: Played for BlackComedy: everyone ends up preferring Armin over the real Skinner (although Agnes Skinner, Seymour's mother, explicitly does it because [[MyBelovedSmother she doesn't likes the real Seymour being independent]]) and, although honoring him as a hero, kick him out of town by literally tying him to a railroad car and then carry on pretending Armin was Seymour Skinner all along under ''penalty of torture'' if this is ever spoken of again.

** The later episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E9IAnnoyedGruntBot "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot"]] features a CallBack to this episode's events (Skinner criticizes Lisa for pretending the death of her cat never happened by calling a similar one the same name, asking if that isn't kind of a cheat. She responds "I guess it is, Principal ''Tamzarian''." Skinner takes her point, and walks away). The DVDCommentary for "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot" confirms that Al Jean inserted the line as a TakeThat to this episode[[invoked]]. Everybody present at the session fervently denies having ever liked the episode's premise.