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* AsHimself: Mark [=McGwire=], who arrives to provide a distraction with his home run showcasing while the MLB satellite's data is taken away... hidden under his cap.
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** When Marge reports Bart's disappearance to the police, Lou the police officer makes a drawing of ComicStrip/{{Dennis the Menace|US}}.
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** When Marge reports Bart's disappearance to the police, police (tow-headed, snub nose, often seen with a slingshot), Lou the police officer makes a drawing of ComicStrip/{{Dennis the Menace|US}}.
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** As Bart rolls through the streets of Springfield in a tank, he sings the refrain of "Don't Stop" by Music/FleetwoodMac.
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Homer and Marge take Bart back to the lab for observation, and are told that a change in his medication might alleviate his paranoia. An alarmed Bart refuses, downs a large dose of Focusyn, and flees the drug lab. He proceeds to sneak onto the Fort Fragg military base and steal a tank, which he drives to the playground of Springfield Elementary before his family catch up with him. But before he agrees to Marge's plea to get out of the tank, he fires a single round into the sky... and a satellite with the MLB logo falls to Earth, confirming Bart's accusations. But before they can process this revelation, then-single-season home run record holder Mark [=McGwire=] shows up and distracts the Springfielders with a home run demonstration while he hides the printout of their personal details. Their adventures over, Homer and Marge decide to take Bart off Focusyn and put him on Ritalin instead.
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Homer and Marge take Bart back to the lab for observation, and are told that a change in his medication might alleviate his paranoia. An alarmed Bart refuses, downs a large dose of Focusyn, and flees the drug lab. He proceeds to sneak onto the Fort Fragg military base and steal a tank, which he drives to the playground of Springfield Elementary before his family catch up with him. But before he agrees to Marge's plea to get out of the tank, he fires a single round into the sky... and a satellite with the MLB logo falls to Earth, confirming Bart's accusations. But before they Before the townsfolk can process this revelation, then-single-season home run record holder Mark [=McGwire=] shows up and distracts the Springfielders them with a home run demonstration while he hides the printout of their personal details. Their adventures over, Homer and Marge decide to take Bart off Focusyn and put him on Ritalin instead.
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Bart is diagnosed with ADD after his latest prank during a "Fire Prevention Day" assembly at school, but his new medication makes him paranoid.
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When Springfield's Volunteer Fire Fighters put on a demonstration of fire prevention and safety at Springfield Elementary, Bart is diagnosed his usual mischievous self, culminating in using the hose to fill the school gym with ADD after water until the doors burst and he rides out on a basketball backboard. Principal Skinner tells Homer and Marge that Bart has Attention Deficit Disorder, and unless they agree to put him on an experimental, untested new drug called Focusyn intended to treat ADD, he'll be expelled. Marge is dubious, but a visit to the company that produces Focusyn persuades her to give it a shot. She, in turn, persuades Bart to start taking the drug.
To the amazement of all, including Bart himself, the drug appears to work, and he becomes focused, productive, and well-behaved, and begins tutoring a Navajo boy in hislatest prank during a "Fire Prevention Day" assembly at school, spare time; however, Lisa notes that he also seems to have lost his sense of fun. Homer and Marge decide to celebrate Bart's turnaround by going to see ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'', but when they return, Lisa tells them Bart's behaviour has taken a turn for the bizarre. They find him in his new bedroom in the grip of intense paranoia, having hung coat hangers from his ceiling, wrapped himself in tin foil, and tied a metal trash can lid to his head; he tells them that UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball are spying on everyone in Springfield and collecting their personal information.
Homer and Marge take Bart back to the lab for observation, and are told that a change in his medicationmakes might alleviate his paranoia. An alarmed Bart refuses, downs a large dose of Focusyn, and flees the drug lab. He proceeds to sneak onto the Fort Fragg military base and steal a tank, which he drives to the playground of Springfield Elementary before his family catch up with him. But before he agrees to Marge's plea to get out of the tank, he fires a single round into the sky... and a satellite with the MLB logo falls to Earth, confirming Bart's accusations. But before they can process this revelation, then-single-season home run record holder Mark [=McGwire=] shows up and distracts the Springfielders with a home run demonstration while he hides the printout of their personal details. Their adventures over, Homer and Marge decide to take Bart off Focusyn and put him paranoid.
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* TakeThat: When Homer and Marge try to get Bart on board with the idea of taking (prescription) drugs, they name several of his "favourite stars" who take drugs, all of whom had made headlines for their substance abuse in the years leading up to this episode's air date.
-->'''Bart:''' I don't wanna take ''drugs!''\\
'''Homer:''' Sure you do! All your favourite stars have used drugs. Brett Butler, Tim Allen...\\
'''Marge:''' Tommy Lee...\\
'''Homer:''' Andy Dick...\\
'''Bart:''' He's just flamboyant!\\
'''Homer:''' [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba Yeah, and I'm a size 4.]]
-->'''Bart:''' I don't wanna take ''drugs!''\\
'''Homer:''' Sure you do! All your favourite stars have used drugs. Brett Butler, Tim Allen...\\
'''Marge:''' Tommy Lee...\\
'''Homer:''' Andy Dick...\\
'''Bart:''' He's just flamboyant!\\
'''Homer:''' [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba Yeah, and I'm a size 4.]]
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* TankGoodness: The climax of the episode is Bart stealing a tank from the local army base and going on a rampage. At first it looks like he's going to blow the town up, but then he manages to shoot the MLB's SpySatellite with the tank's main gun.
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* MilkmanConspiracy: Bart seemingly goes crazy by the third act and starts to think that the MLB is spying on the city... [[ProperlyParanoid which they are]]. With a SpySatellite and memorabilia with a SpyCamera implanted in it somewhere.
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* MilkmanConspiracy: Bart seemingly goes crazy by the third act and starts to think that the MLB is spying on the city... [[ProperlyParanoid which they are]]. With a SpySatellite and memorabilia with a SpyCamera SpyCam implanted in it somewhere.
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* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: The only thing the doctors that diagnosed Bart can think of after the Focusyn seemingly drives him nuts is to give him more drugs (which is standard procedure for weaning someone off, but Marge still calls them out on this for good reason).
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* BlandNameProduct: Subverted with Focusyn, which seems to be a stand-in for Ritalin until the end of the episode, when Marge says she's getting Bart off of Focusyn... and back on Ritalin.
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* BorrowedCatchPhrase: When Bart aims his tank at Springfield Elementary, Mrs. Krabapple, in an uninterested tone, utters Helen Lovejoy's "Think of the children."
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The Major Baseball League was indeed spying on people, [[TheUnReveal but rather than explain why]], Mark [=McGwire=] dazzles the crowd with some dingers.
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-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' Looks like the kid who roughed up the Wilson widow.
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--->[[LogoJoke Oh, why'd you have to shush, you ruined the whole show.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: Bart tells Lisa, "Did you know most people use ten percent of their brains?" Instead of saying something like, "Thanks to these pills, I'm using more than that.", but instead he says, "I am now one of them."
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* DerangedAnimation: The poses when Homer tries Focusyn.
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* {{Irony}}: Everybody neglects the fact that Bart's unrelated prank of flooding the gymnasium accidentally saved Flanders' life by dousing the flames when Flanders set himself on fire. Even Bart was only thinking about his prank and couldn't predict the current would save Flanders strictly by chance.
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* RiddleForTheAges / TheUnReveal: Why was the MLB spying on Springfield?
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** [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} "When I can't stop my fiddlin', I just takes me Ritalin, I'm poppin' and sailin', man!"]]
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** [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} "When I can't stop my fiddlin', I just takes me Ritalin, I'm poppin' and sailin', man!"]]man!"]]
** The title references Music/TheRollingStones song "Mother's Little Helper", which is also about drug addiction.
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** When Marge reports Bart's disappearance to the police, someone makes a drawing of [[WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]].
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** [[{{Popeye}} When I can't stop my fiddlin', I just takes me Ritalin, I'm poppin' and sailin', man!]]
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** Hosey the Bear, which can be seen in the beginning of the episode, is a reference to the United States Forest Service's mascot Smokey Bear.
** After Bart has flooded the school gym, Skinner can be seen wiping mud off his eyes in an homage to [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Oliver Hardy]].
** Homer and Marge go to see ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''.
** When Marge reports Bart's disappearance to the police,someone Lou the police officer makes a drawing of [[WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis ComicStrip/{{Dennis the Menace]].
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**[[{{Popeye}} When [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} "When I can't stop my fiddlin', I just takes me Ritalin, I'm poppin' and sailin', man!]]man!"]]
** After Bart has flooded the school gym, Skinner can be seen wiping mud off his eyes in an homage to [[Creator/LaurelAndHardy Oliver Hardy]].
** Homer and Marge go to see ''Film/{{Showgirls}}''.
** When Marge reports Bart's disappearance to the police,
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* {{CallBack}}: Homer mentions that he was banned from a water park for ten years (which, at the time of this episode's premiere, would be incorrect), which could be a reference to when he got stuck on the H2-WHOA! ride at Mt. Splashmore on the episode "Brush With Greatness." If it's not, then it's a NoodleIncident.
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* {{CallBack}}: CallBack: Homer mentions that he was banned from a water park for ten years (which, at the time of this episode's premiere, would be incorrect), which could be a reference to when he got stuck on the H2-WHOA! ride at Mt. Splashmore on the episode "Brush With Greatness." If it's not, then it's a NoodleIncident.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Skinner is horrified when Willy suggests killing Bart by dragging a hoe through his back and making it look like suicide.
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** When Marge reports Bart's disappearance to the police, someone makes a drawing of [[WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]].
** [[{{Popeye}} When I can't stop my fiddlin', I just takes me Ritalin, I'm poppin' and sailin', man!]]
** When Marge reports Bart's disappearance to the police, someone makes a drawing of [[WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]].
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* OfCourseISmoke: The straight-edged Ned tries to smoke a cigarette while performing in the fire safety play, though his coughing is actually the least of his problems as he inadvertently sets his pants ablaze.
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* OfCourseISmoke: The straight-edged Ned tries to smoke a cigarette while performing in the fire safety play, though his coughing is actually the least of his problems as he inadvertently sets his pants ablaze.ablaze.
* ShoutOut: [[{{Popeye}} When I can't stop my fiddlin', I just takes me Ritalin, I'm poppin' and sailin', man!]]
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* OfCourseISmoke: The straight-edged Ned tries to smoke a cigarette while performing in the fire safety play, though his coughing is actually the least of his problems as he inadvertently sets his pants ablaze.
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Bart is diagnosed with ADD after his latest prank during a "Fire Prevention Day" assembly at school, but his new medication makes him paranoid.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The Major Baseball League was indeed spying on people.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The Major Baseball League was indeed spying on people.
