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* BeyondTheImpossible: In less than a day since the Pre-Teen Braves nature tour, the Cavalry Kids are able to transform the polluted wasteland back into a healthy and flourishing forest.


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* MoralGuardians: Marge disapproves of Bart and Milhouse watching South Park and switches it for a light-hearted religious sitcom.


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* NoSympathy: After Nelson hugs a tree a second time while calling it his papa, Marge makes a rude remark on why his father never came back for him.


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* TakeThat: Flanders chooses not to press charges since he claims that the supreme court is only good at dictating what women can do with their lives compared to administering justice to some juvenile delinquents.
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* ContrastMontage: There's a montage featuring the Pre-Teen Braves competing against the Cavalry Kids when it comes to their community service projects.
* CounterpartCombatCoordination: The two peer groups fight their respective counterparts: Bart vs Milhouse (former friends), Database vs Martin (nerds), Nelson vs Jimbo (bullies), Ralph vs Cosine (little guys).


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* IdentityImpersonator: Once the real Cavalry Kids are led astray and away from the sporting event, Bart and his friends disguise themselves as their rivals in order to slander the National Anthem and ruin their reputation. Bart even disguises himself as Milhouse to support the illusion.
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* BreakingTheFellowship: Marge has Bart participate in a peer group without Milhouse as she believes something about him "shakes up his soda".



* CheatersNeverProsper: The Pre-Teen Braves swap out their rival's candy bars with laxatives. But this grants the Cavalry Kids a major win since they sell a greater number of candy to the local seniors.
* FightingYourFriend: Bart and Milhouse become rivals when their peer groups battle each other for publicity. It escalates in the climax where the Springfielders who normally get along turn into bitter enemies.
* ForeignCultureFetish: The episode takes jabs at Caucasian peer groups that appropriate Native American culture and outfits. Apu even calls out the Pre-Teen Braves for doing so.



* SexWithTheEx: Lou expresses annoyance at Eddie sleeping with his ex-wife.



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* CanadaEh: Springfielders decide to stop fighting and join together to sing "O Canada", even forming the Maple Leaf emblem while Marge waves the Canadian and Quebec flags.


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* MooseAndMapleSyrup: Springfielders decide to stop fighting and join together to sing "O Canada", even forming the Maple Leaf emblem while Marge waves the Canadian and Quebec flags.
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* CanadaEh: Springfielders decide to stop fighting and join together to sing "O Canada", even forming the Maple Leaf emblem.

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* CanadaEh: Springfielders decide to stop fighting and join together to sing "O Canada", even forming the Maple Leaf emblem.emblem while Marge waves the Canadian and Quebec flags.
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* GRatedDrug: Bart and Milhouse start hallucinating for drinking 40-year old sodas of the Beatles merchandise.

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* GRatedDrug: Bart and Milhouse start hallucinating for after drinking 40-year old sodas of the Beatles merchandise.
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'''Original air date:''' 5/18/2003

'''Production code:''' EABF-16
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: As Milhouse and Bart watch ''South Park'':
-->'''Milhouse:''' I hear those kids' voices are done by grown-ups.
-->'''Bart:''' [[Creator/NancyCartwright Hey, there's nothing wrong with that!]] I just wonder how they keep it so fresh after 43 episodes.[[note]]''The Simpsons'' having celebrated its [[LongRunners 300th episode]] earlier in the season.[[/note]]
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* BiggerThanJesus: Ned loves Music/TheBeatles because they ([[BeamMeUpScotty allegedly]]) declared "they were bigger than Jesus".

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* BiggerThanJesus: Ned loves Music/TheBeatles because they ([[BeamMeUpScotty allegedly]]) declared "they were bigger than Jesus".Jesus"([[BeamMeUpScotty though not using those words]]).
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* BiggerThanJesus: Ned loves the Beatles because they ([[BeamMeUpScotty allegedly]]) declared "they were bigger than Jesus".

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* BiggerThanJesus: Ned loves the Beatles Music/TheBeatles because they ([[BeamMeUpScotty allegedly]]) declared "they were bigger than Jesus".


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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: During the stadium brawl, Moe finds himself about to fight Drederick Tatum.
-->'''Moe''': Oh, geez. How did this happen?
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* BrokenWindowWarning: The Cavalry Kids throw Ralph (with a threatening note taped to him) through the Simpsons' front window.
-->'''Ralph''': I'm a brick!
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Being sent back to TLP per TRS


* BillboardEpic: After successfully diverting the Cavalry Kids from the Isotopes game, Homer sees a sign saying "Drink Duff", prompting him to drink a can of it. He walks off, but doesn't go far before he sees another sign saying "Have Another Duff", so he drinks another can. This is all preceeded by him saying, "People will do anything a sign tells them."
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* OhCrap: Mr. Burns's reaction to seeing Indian smoke signals.
-->'''Monty Burns''': Oh no, the Pawnee have returned. [[NoodleIncident They probably want their souls back]].
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* LastOfHisKind: Invoked. The Preteen Braves meet a Mohican and he says each one just pretends to be the last one to score girls.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Spoofed in a deleted scene as Bart and Milhouse watch ''SouthPark'':

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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Spoofed in a deleted scene as Bart and Milhouse watch ''SouthPark'':
-->'''Milhouse:''' You know what I've always wondered: what state is South Park in?
-->'''Bart:''' Colorado.
-->'''Milhouse:''' Woah, just like us...sometimes.

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* BillboardEpic: After successfully diverting the Cavalry Kids from the Isotopes game, Homer sees a sign saying "Drink Duff", prompting him to drink a can of it. He walks off, but doesn't go far before he sees another sign saying "Have Another Duff", so he drinks another can. This is all preceeded by him saying, "People will do anything a sign tells them."



-->'''Milhouse:''' Well, Bart, we've learned that war is not the answer.
-->'''Bart:''' Except to all of America's problems.
-->'''Milhouse:''' Amen.

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-->'''Milhouse:''' Well, Bart, we've learned that war is not the answer.
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answer.\\
'''Bart:'''
Except to all of America's problems.
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problems.\\
'''Milhouse:'''
Amen.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeISting: After singing "O Canada", Bart and Milhouse make up with each other:

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* MyCountryTisOfTheeISting: MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: After singing "O Canada", Bart and Milhouse make up with each other:

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* BiggerThanJesus: Ned loves the Beatles because they ([[BeamMeUpScotty allegedly]]) declared "they were bigger than Jesus".




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* MushroomSamba: After drinking the Beatles sodas, Bart imagines Milhouse as Music/JohnLennon in the different phases of his life, from Beatlemania to Sgt. Pepper to "Let It Be" to "Double Fantasy".
* MyCountryTisOfTheeISting: After singing "O Canada", Bart and Milhouse make up with each other:
-->'''Milhouse:''' Well, Bart, we've learned that war is not the answer.
-->'''Bart:''' Except to all of America's problems.
-->'''Milhouse:''' Amen.
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* GRatedDrug: Bart and Milhouse start hallucinating for drinking 40-year old sodas of the Beatles merchandise.

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* CanadaEh: Springfielders decide to stop fighting and join together to sing "O Canada", even forming the Maple Leaf emblem.
* GRatedDrug: Bart and Milhouse start hallucinating for drinking 40-year old sodas of the Beatles merchandise.merchandise.

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After Bart and Milhouse are caught by the police sneaking inside Ned's ''Beatles'' memorabilia basement, Bart is put in a peer group called "Pre-Teen Braves" in order to be supervised by an adult (Marge), until they come head-to-head with Milhouse's peer group "Cavalry Kids".

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* GRatedDrug: Bart and Milhouse start hallucinating for drinking 40-year old sodas of the Beatles merchandise.

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