YMMV / The Simpsons S 15 E 18 Catch Em If You Can

• Memetic Mutation: The Miami scene showing two young men listening to boombox music followed by two elderly men carrying an antique record player playing The Andrews Sisters has become this.
• Unintentional Period Piece: This episode has the characters renting VHS tapes from a parody of Blockbuster Video, which dates the episode around the early 2000s as that was the last time VHS was still being rented out from video store chains. Also all major video store chains would go under in the 2010s.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The episode tries to portray Bart and Lisa’s determination to catch Homer and Marge as cruel, however the two parents just come off as lazy and selfish opting to blame their children for not being able to spend time together instead of actually trying to do it. During FAMILY movie night, instead of getting a movie for the family, Marge only brought a movie for her and Homer, which Bart and Lisa obviously didn’t enjoy. Also the two only chased after their parents because they lied to them about where they were going, not to prevent them from having fun. In fact, Bart was perfectly willing to stay in the paid for hotel room when he and Lisa were ditched by them a second time. Upon finally catching up to them, upon seeing how sad they were, they opted to spend the day by themselves so that their parent could have some alone time. Only to find that Homer and Marge had ditched them again. All in all Bart and Lisa are shown to be perfectly willing to give Homer and Marge some romantic time, their parents are just unwilling to go through the effort to make that time.