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* DeadlineNews: The dolphins take over the news while Kent Brockman's reporting, holding his cameraman hostage to make him change the story. Kent defies them, and is beaten to death with a volleyball for his trouble.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: "Night of the Living Dolphins". On one hand, the dolphins hold a vendetta because humans mistreated them and banished them to the ocean. On the other hand, their retaliation is [[DisproportionateRetribution murdering humans in droves]], and they make no exception for innocent humans or even the one who ''helped'' them.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: "Night of the Living Dolphins".Dolphin". On one hand, the dolphins hold a vendetta because humans mistreated them and banished them to the ocean. On the other hand, their retaliation is [[DisproportionateRetribution murdering humans in droves]], and they make no exception for innocent humans or even the one who ''helped'' them.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Marge ends up causing Homer's death by insisting he eat his broccoli, which turns out to be be for you after all.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Marge ends up causing Homer's death by insisting he eat his broccoli, which turns out to be be bad for you after all.
* PoliceAreUseless: Finding Lenny's corpse bearing all the signs of dolphin-related injuries, Chief Wiggum declares the culprits are teenagers.
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* ShoutOut: The intro has the Simpsons as a parody of ''Series/TheMunsters''.
** The shots of the dolphins ominously surrounding the townspeople by sitting on power lines, cars, and rooftops while remaining eerily silent are a tip of the hat to Hitchcock's ''The Birds''.
** The shots of the dolphins ominously surrounding the townspeople by sitting on power lines, cars, and rooftops while remaining eerily silent are a tip of the hat to Hitchcock's ''The Birds''.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** The intro has the Simpsons as a parody of ''Series/TheMunsters''.
** The start of the dolphin attack on Lenny is a parody of the opening of ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.
** The shots of the dolphins ominously surrounding the townspeople by sitting on power lines, cars, and rooftops while remaining eerily silent are a tip of the hat to Hitchcock's''The Birds''.''Film/TheBirds''.
** The intro has the Simpsons as a parody of ''Series/TheMunsters''.
** The start of the dolphin attack on Lenny is a parody of the opening of ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.
** The shots of the dolphins ominously surrounding the townspeople by sitting on power lines, cars, and rooftops while remaining eerily silent are a tip of the hat to Hitchcock's
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* VillainBall: In ''Night of the Living Dolphins'', Springfield is successfully cowed into leaving, until one baby dolphin attacks Lisa just to be a prick. This ends up their RageBreakingPoint and Springfield begins engages in battle against the dolphins. Played with since the dolphins still win, though endured a lot of violence and fatalities to do so just from that one moment of pettiness (especially in the full cut where Springfield brutally murders a ton of dolphins).
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* VillainBall: In ''Night of the Living Dolphins'', Dolphin'', Springfield is successfully cowed into leaving, until one baby dolphin attacks Lisa just to be a prick. This ends up their RageBreakingPoint and Springfield begins engages in battle against the dolphins. Played with since the dolphins still win, though endured a lot of violence and fatalities to do so just from that one moment of pettiness (especially in the full cut where Springfield brutally murders a ton of dolphins).
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* EpicFail: Homer choking to death on a piece of broccoli is one thing, but Homer's ''ghost'' trying to eat the ''exact same'' piece of broccoli, choking and dying '''''again''''' is on a whole other level of failure.
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* BreakingOldTrends: It's the first "Treehouse of Horror" episode not to air on Halloween.
