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* ShapedLikeItself: On finding himself in a candy store with Milhouse, Bart says, "We're like two kids in a candy store!"
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Vicki Valentine, as she is still intent on throwing herself behind everything. [[UpToEleven Even the curtain pulling]].
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Vicki Valentine, as she is still intent on throwing herself behind everything. [[UpToEleven Even the curtain pulling]].pulling.
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* LogoJoke: The Gracie Films VanityPlate has the logo moving up to show the cat in the old Little Vicki movie rubbing it is eyes. (This was the only visual change to the Gracie logo for a LogoJoke until Season 28's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart Looking for Mr. Goodbart"]].)
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* LogoJoke: The Gracie Films VanityPlate has the logo moving up to show the cat in the old Little Vicki movie rubbing it is its eyes. (This was the only visual change to the Gracie logo for a LogoJoke until Season 28's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart Looking for Mr. Goodbart"]].)
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The BaitAndSwitch moment were it looks like Vicki is going to get Lisa to sub for the star of the show when Ralph gets sick at the last second, only for her to ask Lisa to help her (Vicki) into Ralph's costume. Vicki didn't think Lisa was good enough to play any part in the show to begin with, so she isn't going to let her sub for the star of it.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The BaitAndSwitch moment were where it looks like Vicki is going to get Lisa to sub for the star of the show when Ralph gets sick at the last second, only for her to ask Lisa to help her (Vicki) into Ralph's costume. Vicki didn't think Lisa was good enough to play any part in the show to begin with, so she isn't going to let her sub for the star of it.
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* CouchGag: Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie (dressed in jungle loincloths) swing onto the couch on a vine. Homer, however, swings by and crashes offscreen.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In-universe; the old "Little Vicki" movie Lisa watches has Vicki's sick cat Powderpuff react to Vicki suddenly being able to tap-dance by rubbing its' eyes in disbelief with obvious fake prop arms held offscreen. This is shown again [[LogoJoke during the Gracie Films logo]] at the end.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In-universe; the old "Little Vicki" movie Lisa watches has Vicki's sick cat Powderpuff react to Vicki suddenly being able to tap-dance by rubbing its' its eyes in disbelief with obvious fake prop arms held offscreen. This is shown again [[LogoJoke during the Gracie Films logo]] at the end.
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* ShirleyTemplate: Little Vicki, of course.
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* TheEnd: The episode ends by cutting away to a "The End" title card right as Homer is about to [[ItMakesSenseInContext get electrocuted by a weasel ball toy]].
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* RealityEnsues: The BaitAndSwitch moment were it looks like Vicki is going to get Lisa to sub for the star of the show when Ralph gets sick at the last second, only for her to ask Lisa to help her (Vicki) into Ralph's costume. Vicki didn't think Lisa was good enough to play any part in the show to begin with, so she isn't going to let her sub for the star of it.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The BaitAndSwitch moment were it looks like Vicki is going to get Lisa to sub for the star of the show when Ralph gets sick at the last second, only for her to ask Lisa to help her (Vicki) into Ralph's costume. Vicki didn't think Lisa was good enough to play any part in the show to begin with, so she isn't going to let her sub for the star of it.
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* TheEnd: The episode ends by cutting away to a "The End" title card right as Homer is about to [[ItMakesSenseInContext get electrocuted by a weasel ball toy]].
* TooDumbToLive: Chief Wiggum [[PoliceAreUseless decides to test a giant mousetrap]], thinking he could take the cheese before the anvil dropped... despite the odds being [[MillionToOneChance "a million to one"]].
* TooDumbToLive: Chief Wiggum [[PoliceAreUseless decides to test a giant mousetrap]], thinking he could take the cheese before the anvil dropped... despite the odds being [[MillionToOneChance "a million to one"]].
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* TheEnd: The episode ends by cutting away to a "The End" title card right as Homer is about to [[ItMakesSenseInContext get electrocuted by a weasel ball toy]].
* TooDumbToLive:TooDumbToLive:
** Chief Wiggum [[PoliceAreUseless decides to test a giant mousetrap]], thinking he could take the cheese before the anvil dropped... despite the odds being [[MillionToOneChance "a million to one"]].
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** Chief Wiggum [[PoliceAreUseless decides to test a giant mousetrap]], thinking he could take the cheese before the anvil dropped... despite the odds being [[MillionToOneChance "a million to one"]].
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* YouGetMeCoffee: After Lisa gets her TrickedOutShoes, she asks Vicki for a spot in the recital other than operating the curtain. Little Vicki tries to discourage Lisa, but then Ralph gets sick from eating the plastic candy props for the recital. Vicki declares that only one person can fill in the leading role left by Ralph, so she turns to Lisa, and asks her to... ''help her into Ralph's costume.''
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* YouGetMeCoffee: After Lisa gets her TrickedOutShoes, she asks Vicki for a spot in the recital other than operating the curtain. Little Vicki tries to discourage Lisa, but then Ralph gets sick from eating the plastic candy props for the recital. Vicki declares that only one person can fill in the leading role left by Ralph, so she turns to Lisa, and asks her to... ''help her into Ralph's costume.''''
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Lisa initially criticises the Tango Dancer's choice of partner until said partner shares [[NamesTheSame Lisa's name]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: {{Hypocrite}}:
** Lisa initially criticises the Tango Dancer's choice of partner until said partner shares [[NamesTheSame Lisa'sname]].name]].
** Vicki yells at Marge "Don't live through your child!" when that's clearly what she's doing with her students.
** Lisa initially criticises the Tango Dancer's choice of partner until said partner shares [[NamesTheSame Lisa's
** Vicki yells at Marge "Don't live through your child!" when that's clearly what she's doing with her students.
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* PantyShot: A rare one from Lisa is seen while laying on the floor after Homer trips her.
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* AbortedArc: Homer's laser eye surgery and eyes crusting over subplot comes to an abrupt end after he's tricked into driving Kearney and the other bullies trick him into buying them cigarettes and Jack Daniels by Kearney impersonating Marge's voice. By his next appearance, his eyes are back to normal.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As snooty and condescending as Little Vicki is, she is right that Lisa isn't able to tap dance and to not put her in the play.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Vicki is not only based on Creator/ShirleyTemple, but the butler in her old movie is based on Bill "Mister Bojangles" Robinson.
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* LogoJoke: The Gracie Films VanityPlate has the logo moving up to show the cat in the instruction video rubbing it is eyes. (This was the only visual change to the Gracie logo for a LogoJoke until Season 28's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart Looking for Mr. Goodbart"]].)
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* LogoJoke: The Gracie Films VanityPlate has the logo moving up to show the cat in the instruction video old Little Vicki movie rubbing it is eyes. (This was the only visual change to the Gracie logo for a LogoJoke until Season 28's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart Looking for Mr. Goodbart"]].)
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: In-universe; the old "Little Vicki" movie Lisa watches has Vicki's sick cat Powderpuff react to Vicki suddenly being able to tap-dance by rubbing its' eyes in disbelief with obvious fake prop arms held offscreen. This is shown again [[LogoJoke during the Gracie Films logo]] at the end.
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* LogoJoke: The Gracie Films VanityPlate has the logo moving up to show the cat in the instruction video rubbing it is eyes. (This is the only visual change to the Gracie logo for a LogoJoke to date.)
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* LogoJoke: The Gracie Films VanityPlate has the logo moving up to show the cat in the instruction video rubbing it is eyes. (This is was the only visual change to the Gracie logo for a LogoJoke to date.until Season 28's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E18LookingForMrGoodbart Looking for Mr. Goodbart"]].)
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* LogoJoke: The Gracie Films VanityPlate has the logo moving up to show the cat in the instruction video rubbing it is eyes.
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* LogoJoke: The Gracie Films VanityPlate has the logo moving up to show the cat in the instruction video rubbing it is eyes. (This is the only visual change to the Gracie logo for a LogoJoke to date.)
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Vicki's line after discovering Lisa's shoes ("I'm ever so pissed") sometimes cut out on television and follows on with Lisa apologising.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Vicki's line after discovering Lisa's shoes ("I'm ever so pissed") is sometimes cut out on television and follows on with Lisa apologising.
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* AnvilOnHead: Wiggum gets it when going "[[TooDumbToLive a million-to-one]]" with the giant mousetrap. The first puma the cops let out [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike does the exact same thing]] but to presumably more fatal results.
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* AnvilOnHead: Wiggum gets it when going "[[TooDumbToLive a million-to-one]]" with the giant mousetrap. The first puma lion the cops let out [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike does the exact same thing]] but to presumably more fatal results.
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/FrankWelker as the pumas Wiggum lets out in the mall.
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/FrankWelker as the pumas lions Wiggum lets out in the mall.
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* AnvilOnHead: Wiggim Wiggum gets it when going "[[TooDumbToLive a million-to-one]]" with the giant mousetrap. The first puma the cops let out [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike does the exact same thing]] but to presumably more fatal results.
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/FrankWelker as the pumas Wiggem lets out in the mall.
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** Homer follows suit at the end when Frink's weasel ball toy entices then electrocutes him.
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* AnvilOnHead: Wiggim gets it when going "[[TooDumbToLive a million-to-one]]" with the giant mousetrap. The first puma the cops let out [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike the exact same thing]] but to presumably more fatal results.
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* ShoutOut: ''Tango de la Muerte'' has some similarities to Film/{{Strictly Ballroom}}.
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* ShoutOut: ''Tango de la Muerte'' has some similarities to Film/{{Strictly Ballroom}}.''Film/{{Strictly Ballroom}}''.
* SpecialGuest: Creator/FrankWelker as the pumas Wiggem lets out in the mall.
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* TooDumbToLive: Chief Wiggum decides to test a giant mousetrap, thinking he could take the cheese before the anvil dropped... despite the odds being [[MillionToOneChance "a million to one"]].
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* TooDumbToLive: Chief Wiggum [[PoliceAreUseless decides to test a giant mousetrap, mousetrap]], thinking he could take the cheese before the anvil dropped... despite the odds being [[MillionToOneChance "a million to one"]].
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* FunWithAcronyms: Bart writes "1 8 P P" on Homer's eye test, which he reads ("I ate pee pee.").
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* FunWithAcronyms: Bart writes "1 "I 8 P P" PP" on Homer's eye test, which he reads ("I ate pee pee.").
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* ICantDance: Subverted in that Lisa is terrible at tap. However, it's implied that she could have been much better at it if she got some more specialized instruction than the rote "tappa tappa tappa" method Little Vicki used.
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* ICantDance: Subverted in that Lisa is terrible at tap. However, it's implied that she could have been much better at it if she got some more specialized instruction than [[AntiMentor the rote "tappa tappa tappa" method Little Vicki used.used]].
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* TheGlassesGottaGo: The shy librarian in ''Tango de la Muerte'' turns out to be beautiful when she takes her glasses off.
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* InstantExpert: In one of Vicki Valentine's old movies, she claims she can't dance, but is able to instantly copy her butler's advanced tap dancing.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Bart writes "1 8 P P" on Homer's eye test, which he reads ("I ate pee pee.").
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* ILikeThoseOdds: Police Chief Wiggum says this word for word when he tries to seize cheese from a trap before the [[AnvilOnHead anvil falls on him]]. The odds were a million to one.
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* ILikeThoseOdds: Police Chief Wiggum says this word for word when he tries to seize asks Lou the odds of seizing cheese from a trap before the [[AnvilOnHead anvil falls on him]]. The Lou says the odds were a million to one.one, and Wiggum says the trope name word-for-word.
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* TooDumbToLive: Chief Wiggum when he decided to test the trap, thinking he could take the cheese before the anvil dropped... despite the odds being [[AMillionIsAStatistic "a million to one"]].
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* TooDumbToLive: Chief Wiggum when he decided decides to test the trap, a giant mousetrap, thinking he could take the cheese before the anvil dropped... despite the odds being [[AMillionIsAStatistic [[MillionToOneChance "a million to one"]].
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After seeing a film about a shy, bookish, Spanish girl who becomes a tango dancer's partner in a contest, Lisa begs Marge to let her take tango lessons, but ends up taking tap lessons from a former 1930s child star modelled after Creator/ShirleyTemple and tries to hide the fact that she's terrible at tap from Homer and Marge. Meanwhile, Homer gets laser eye surgery and Bart and Milhouse hide out at the mall after Nelson announces that he's going to summer camp with them.
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After seeing a film about a shy, bookish, Spanish girl who becomes a tango dancer's partner in a contest, Lisa begs Marge to let her take tango lessons, but ends up taking tap lessons from a former 1930s child star modelled modeled after Creator/ShirleyTemple and tries to hide the fact that she's terrible at tap from Homer and Marge. Meanwhile, Homer gets laser eye surgery and Bart and Milhouse hide out at the mall after Nelson announces that he's going to summer camp with them.
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* AntiMentor: Vicki is a dance instructor who expects her students to get by with almost no actual instruction. This is on top of being a tremendous {{Jerkass}} who uses the class [[VicariouslyAmbitious to relive her glory days]], showing no regards to her students' wellbeing (she made sure they smiled during a show by ''[[FrozenFace stapling their mouths in place]]''), and openly demeaning her less gifted students.
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* AntiMentor: Vicki is a dance instructor who expects her students to get by with almost no actual instruction. This is on top of being a tremendous {{Jerkass}} who uses the class [[VicariouslyAmbitious to relive her glory days]], showing no regards to her students' wellbeing (she made sure they smiled during a show by ''[[FrozenFace stapling their mouths in place]]''), and openly demeaning her less gifted students.
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* SadistTeacher: Vicki is a straight-up {{Jerkass}} who has NoSympathy towards Lisa, and kicks her out of the class at the end of the episode.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Homer's laser eye subplot stopped with him blinded by his eye crust and taken to the liquor store by Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney (with Kearney driving and pretending to be Marge). It's never brought up again nor do viewers see what happened when Homer tried to buy Jack Daniels and cigarettes for the trio. Also, it's never explained how Bart & Milhouse got out of the mall, since the plot disappears after the puma eats the ball.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Homer's laser eye subplot stopped with him blinded by his eye crust and taken to the liquor store by Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney (with Kearney driving and pretending to be Marge). It's never brought up again nor do viewers see what happened when Homer tried to buy Jack Daniels and cigarettes for the trio.Also, it's Next we see, Homer is at the dance recital, and his eyes are fine.
** It's never explained how Bart & Milhouse got out of the mall, since the plot disappears after the puma eats the ball.
** Homer's laser eye subplot stopped with him blinded by his eye crust and taken to the liquor store by Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney (with Kearney driving and pretending to be Marge). It's never brought up again nor do viewers see what happened when Homer tried to buy Jack Daniels and cigarettes for the trio.
** It's never explained how Bart & Milhouse got out of the mall, since the plot disappears after the puma eats the ball.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Vicki's following line "I'm ever so pissed" - after discovering Lisa's shoes - is sometimes cut out on television and follows on with Lisa apologising.
-->'''Vicki:''' Self-tapping shoes? I'm ''ever'' so pissed!
-->'''Vicki:''' Self-tapping shoes? I'm ''ever'' so pissed!
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Vicki's following line "I'm ever so pissed" - after discovering Lisa's shoes - is ("I'm ever so pissed") sometimes cut out on television and follows on with Lisa apologising.
-->'''Vicki:''' Self-tapping shoes? I'm ''ever'' so pissed!apologising.
-->'''Vicki:''' Self-tapping shoes? I'm ''ever'' so pissed!
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* NoodleIncident: Vicki Valentine mentions that she once ruined [[Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies Buddy Ebsen's]] credit rating.
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* NoodleIncident: Vicki Valentine mentions that she once ruined [[Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies Buddy Ebsen's]] credit rating. When asked why she would do that, she says Buddy knows why.
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* RealityEnsues: The BaitAndSwitch moment were it looks like Vicki is going to get Lisa to sub for the star of the show when Ralph gets sick at the last second, only for her to ask Lisa to help her (Vicki) into Ralph's costume. Vicki didn't think Lisa was good enough to play any part in the show to begin with, so she isn't going to let her sub for the star of it.
