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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Judge Snyder repeals the ban on sugar after realizing he didn't actually have the authority to enact it.
** Homer tries to use ReversePsychology on a toucan. It fails, since it is an animal (and therefore unfamiliar with such a concept, plus Homer letting go of the map to feign disinterest allows it to fly away with it).
** Judge Snyder repeals the ban on sugar after realizing he didn't actually have the authority to enact it.
** Homer tries to use ReversePsychology on a toucan. It fails, since it is an animal (and therefore unfamiliar with such a concept, plus Homer letting go of the map to feign disinterest allows it to fly away with it).
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
**SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Judge Snyder repeals the ban on sugar after realizing he didn't actually have the authority to enact it.
** Homer tries to use ReversePsychology on a toucan. It fails, since it is an animal (and therefore unfamiliar with such a concept, plus Homer letting go of the map to feign disinterest allows it to fly away with it).it.
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** Homer tries to use ReversePsychology on a toucan. It fails, since it is an animal (and therefore unfamiliar with such a concept, plus Homer letting go of the map to feign disinterest allows it to fly away with it).
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* SheetOfGlass: After sugar becomes illegalized and Homer attempts to smuggle it from an island, he gets chased by Chief Wiggum's police boat. During the chase, Homer comes across two workers on boats holding a sheet of glass, ducking to avoid breaking it. Chief Wiggum swerves to avoid crashing into the glass and a mother on a jet ski pushing a baby carriage, eventually getting his police boat beached.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Exactly ''[[WhoWritesThisCrap who]]'' wrote that sugar contract, and why would they write a contract that means they have to give a bunch of smugglers an illegal substance for absolutely free?
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* FatFlex: Homer states that he can stop sucking his gut in now that everyone's happy about being fat. He has to exhale ''twice'' to let it all hang out.
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* NotHyperbole: The sugar smugglers' contract literally did not had a written clause that demanded Homer to pay them. The leader of the smugglers gets angry and [[WhoWritesThisCrap demands to know which of his goons wrote the contract]] once Homer leaves and he gives the document a once over.
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* NotInMyContract: Homer doesn't pay the sugar smugglers because he claims it wasn't part of the deal. Their leader double checks the contract, finds out it really wasn't, and demands to know which of his subordinates actually wrote it.
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* NotInMyContract: Homer doesn't pay the sugar smugglers because he claims it wasn't part of the deal. Their leader [[ReadTheFinePrint double checks the contract, contract]], finds out it really wasn't, and demands to know [[WhoWritesThisCrap which of his subordinates actually wrote it.it]].
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Misuse. Fusing to another example instead.
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* NotInMyContract: Homer said that and fled when the sugar-smugglers tried to collect payment. Their leader then read the contract and realized Homer was right.
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* NotInMyContract: Homer said that and fled when doesn't pay the sugar-smugglers tried to collect payment. sugar smugglers because he claims it wasn't part of the deal. Their leader then read double checks the contract contract, finds out it really wasn't, and realized Homer was right.demands to know which of his subordinates actually wrote it.
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* WhoWritesThisCrap: Homer doesn't pay the sugar dealer because he claims it wasn't part of the deal. The guy double checks the contract, finds out it really wasn't, and demands to know which of his subordinates actually wrote it.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Garth Motherloving. Not only is his birth name apparently "[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]", but the button to drop sugar on the docks is labelled “obey bad guy.”
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* CardCarryingVillain: Garth Motherloving. Not only is his birth name apparently "[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]", but the button to drop sugar on the docks is labelled “obey bad guy.”guy,” and every entry in his day-planner is just “evil deeds”.
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* CaptainErsatz: Count Fudgula, an obvious parody of Count Chocula.
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* CaptainErsatz: Count Fudgula, an obvious parody of [[Advertising/MonsterCereals Count Chocula.Chocula]].
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* CardCarryingVillain: Garth Moverloving. Not only is his birth name apparently "[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]", but the button to drop sugar on the docks is labelled “obey bad guy.”
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* CardCarryingVillain: Garth Moverloving.Motherloving. Not only is his birth name apparently "[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]", but the button to drop sugar on the docks is labelled “obey bad guy.”
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Lisa is a GranolaGirl and SoapboxSadie who is (from a statistical point of view) the family's greatest supporter for healthy living, but she immediately supports Bart's and Homer's plan to smuggle sugar into the city when the alternative is [[AnythingButThat eating steamed limes]].
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Meddling Parents is now a disambiguation page.
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* MeddlingParents: To get Bart and Lisa to cut down on sugar worried that they're getting to be as fat as their father, Marge enacts a sugar ''ban'' on the town of Springfield.
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* ReversePsychology: Homer tries this on a toucan that steals his map to the sugar rendezvous point. [[ReversePsychologyBackfire It fails.]]
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* ReversePsychology: ReversePsychologyBackfire: Homer tries this on a toucan that steals his map to the sugar rendezvous point. [[ReversePsychologyBackfire It fails.]]fails -- the toucan just flies away with the map.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: While burning most of the sugary sweets and food products in town, the police throw a pile of Butterfingers into the flames. The fire rejects the Butterfingers, causing Chief Wiggum to comment that "even the fire doesn't want them”. The Simpsons used to advertise Butterfingers (with Bart commenting "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!") and it's a well-known [[PopCultureUrbanLegends urban legend]] that this joke allegedly got Nestlé to get rid of the show as an advertisement venue.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: While burning most of the sugary sweets and food products in town, the police throw a pile of Butterfingers into the flames. The fire rejects the Butterfingers, causing Chief Wiggum to comment that "even the fire doesn't want them”. them.” The Simpsons used to advertise Butterfingers (with Bart commenting "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!") and it's a well-known [[PopCultureUrbanLegends urban legend]] that this joke allegedly got Nestlé to get rid of the show as an advertisement venue.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Garth Moverloving. Not only is his birth name apparently } "[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]", but the button to drop sugar on the docks is labelled “obey bad guy”.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Garth Moverloving. Not only is his birth name apparently } "[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]", but the button to drop sugar on the docks is labelled “obey bad guy”.guy.”
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* CardCarryingVillain: Garth Moverloving. Not only is his birth name apparently }[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]”, but the button to drop sugar on the docks is labelled “obey bad guy”.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Garth Moverloving. Not only is his birth name apparently }[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]”, } "[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]", but the button to drop sugar on the docks is labelled “obey bad guy”.
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* CardCarryingVillain: Garth Moverloving. Not only is his birth name apparently }[[UnfortunateNames Hitler]]”, but the button to drop sugar on the docks is labelled “obey bad guy”.
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--->'''Marge:''' I guess you just can't use the law to nag.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Whichever one of the sugar smugglers wrote out the contract which said that they would give Homer and the others the sugar without getting paid.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Whichever one of the sugar smugglers that wrote out the contract which said that they would give Homer and the others the sugar without getting paid.
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'''Original air date:''' 1/20/2002 ''(produced in 2001)''
'''Production code:''' DABF-03
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Marge starts a protest to rid the town of sugar and sugar-laced foods after Springfield is named America's fattest town. In protest of her protest, Homer goes into sugar-smuggling.
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Marge starts a protest to rid the town of sugar and sugar-laced foods after Springfield is named America's fattest town. The source? The Motherloving Sugar Corporation, owned by the AffablyEvil Garth Motherloving (guest star Creator/BenStiller). In protest of her protest, Homer goes into sugar-smuggling.
* TheCameo: Among the participants of the human triangle is [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E14TheItchyAndScratchyAndPoochieShow Roy]].
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The entire episode plays with the idea of sugar being equatable to a drug, especially during the scene where Homer, Mr. Burns, Apu, and Count Fudgula smuggle sugar into Springfield. The scene that best hammers this in is when Disco Stu sucks up lines of sugar through a straw in a manner akin to snorting cocaine (which is funny, considering a report in 2012 stated that sugar addiction is similar to cocaine addiction).
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The entire episode plays with the idea of sugar being equatable to a drug, especially during the scene where Homer, Mr. Burns, Apu, Apu and Count Fudgula smuggle sugar into Springfield. The scene that best hammers this in is when Disco Stu sucks up lines of sugar through a straw in a manner akin to snorting cocaine (which is funny, considering a report in 2012 stated that sugar addiction is similar to cocaine addiction).
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--> '''Guy''': GoodbyeCruelWorld [He lands in the pile.] [[LampshadeHanging Hello ironic twist!]]
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--> '''Guy''': GoodbyeCruelWorld [He '''Guy:''' GoodbyeCruelWorld. [he lands in the pile.] [[LampshadeHanging Hello ironic twist!]]
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-->'''Homer''': Count Fudgula? I thought you were trying to get off the stuff.\\
'''Count Fudgula''': I'm a monster; don't look at me.
'''Count Fudgula''': I'm a monster; don't look at me.
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'''Count
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** One of the sweets burned in the fire is a promotional chocolate statuette of Creator/JohnnyDepp from ''Film/{{Chocolat}}''.
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** One of the sweets burned in the fire is a promotional chocolate statuette of Creator/JohnnyDepp from ''Film/{{Chocolat}}''. It melts in a horrifying, human-esque manner.
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** Garth Motherloving bribes Homer into helping his plot by showing him a smoking [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Oompa-Loompa]].
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** Garth Motherloving bribes Homer into helping his plot by showing him a smoking [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Oompa-Loompa]].
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-->'''Chief Wiggum''': Not even the fire wants them.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Not only does [[ButtMonkey Gil]] win his first case as a lawyer, but he also defeats the Blue-Haired Lawyer (whose only real courtroom defeat in the series up to this point was in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day the Violence Died]]) in order to do so.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Not only does [[ButtMonkey Gil]] win his first case as a lawyer, but he also defeats the Blue-Haired Lawyer (whose only real courtroom defeat in the series up to this point was in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day the Violence Died]]) in order to do so.
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-->'''Chief Wiggum''': Wiggum:''' Not even the fire wants them.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Not only does [[ButtMonkey Gil]] win his first case as a lawyer, but he also defeats the Blue-Haired Lawyer (whose only real courtroom defeatin the series up to this point was in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day the Violence Died]]) Died]]") in order to do so.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Not only does [[ButtMonkey Gil]] win his first case as a lawyer, but he also defeats the Blue-Haired Lawyer (whose only real courtroom defeat
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Redundant; there’s a YMMV link up on top already.
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!!This episode contains examples of: ([[YMMV/TheSimpsonsS13E8SweetsAndSourMarge YMMV Examples here]])
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!!This episode contains examples of: ([[YMMV/TheSimpsonsS13E8SweetsAndSourMarge YMMV Examples here]])of:
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* MoodWhiplash: When Marge wins her case against Motherloving, Homer tells Marge that he's [[SoProudOfYou so proud of her]]. Then Judge Snyder immediately bans sugar from Springfield based on Marge's evidence, prompting Homer to angrily state to her "Get in the car."
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* MoodWhiplash: MoodWhiplash:
** The jumper mentioned in DrivenToSuicide seems pleasantly surprised that his suicide attempt was foiled by landing in Homer's people ball.
** When Marge wins her case against Motherloving, Homer tells Marge that he's [[SoProudOfYou so proud of her]]. Then Judge Snyder immediately bans sugar from Springfield based on Marge's evidence, prompting Homer to angrily state to her "Get in the car."
** The jumper mentioned in DrivenToSuicide seems pleasantly surprised that his suicide attempt was foiled by landing in Homer's people ball.
** When Marge wins her case against Motherloving, Homer tells Marge that he's [[SoProudOfYou so proud of her]]. Then Judge Snyder immediately bans sugar from Springfield based on Marge's evidence, prompting Homer to angrily state to her "Get in the car."
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Oh, that was there. Sorry.
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* AnythingButThat: Lisa objects to Homer's plan to smuggle sugar into Springfield... until she hears that Marge prepared steamed limes for dessert, telling them "Godspeed".
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* AnythingButThat: Lisa objects to Homer's plan to smuggle sugar into Springfield... until she hears that Marge prepared steamed limes for dessert, telling them "Godspeed" before they go.
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* AnythingButThat: Lisa objects to Homer's plan to smuggle sugar into Springfield... until she hears that Marge prepared steamed limes for dessert, telling them "Godspeed" before they go."Godspeed".
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* AnythingButThat: Lisa objects to Homer's plan to smuggle sugar into Springfield... until she hears that Marge prepared steamed limes for dessert, telling them "Godspeed" before they go.
