YMMV / The Simpsons S 6 E 10 Grampa Vs Sexual Inadequacy

• Accidental Aesop: Being involved in your kids' lives is fine, but be considerate of them and their boundaries. Homer trying to "over-parent" Bart and Lisa leaves them feeling more annoyed than cherished.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Are the kids actually unaware of sex, or do they just prefer Bart's Epileptic Trees to Lisa's Occam's Razor? A Deleted Scene seems to point at the latter when, finding out the truth, they're unperturbed and Bart spins a whole new conspiracy theory off it.
  Bart: Sex, eh? And where you find sex, you'll find the mole people!
• Harsher in Hindsight: The Season 28 episode "A Father's Watch" establishes that The Chain of Harm between Simpson fathers and sons stretches long before Abe, and that despite his efforts at Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting as seen in this episode, Homer is himself a participant when it comes to Bart, calling him a "screwup" just as Abe called him and making him fear he'll never escape the trend.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: The flashback to Homer's childhood shows him imitating President Kennedy, with Mona saying "Oh, Abe, maybe our Homer could grow up to be President some day...", only to have Abe put him down. In "Bart To The Future", we see that in the distant future, Homer's daughter Lisa has since become the President, the exact dream Abe discouraged Homer from achieving. Given Homer's determination to encourage his children as his father never encouraged him...
  Homer: Someday you'll thank me for all this scary love.
• Parody Displacement: Milhouse's speech outlining his conspiracy theory is a parody of Kevin Costner's similar speech in JFK, with "we're through the looking glass" being a direct quote. When people reference the scene and line these days, they're almost always doing it as a Milhouse Shout-Out.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Al Gore is depicted as the Vice President, cementing this as an episode that could only come from the '90s.

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