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* HandWave: Homer questions how Frank Grimes had a son if he never married. Jr replies that hia father "happened to like hookers".
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* ForeShadowing: There are various hints throughout the episode that indicate who's trying to kill Homer, as Sideshow Bob notices.
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* NoodleIncident: Upon realizing that Homer's runaway Mardi Gras float is heading for the Swordfish Museum, Marge comments "That museum's been ''nothing'' but trouble since it opened."
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* TakeThat: When Marge suggests the prison wasn't a good place to bring the kids, Lisa offers that it "still beats [[DisneyThemeParks Disney's California Adventure]]". The others quickly agree.
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* TakeThat: TakeThat:
** When Marge suggests the prison wasn't a good place to bring the kids, Lisa offers that it "still beats [[DisneyThemeParks Disney's California Adventure]]". The others quicklyagree.agree.
** While staying at the Simpsons' house, Bob watches an episode of ''[[Series/That80sShow That '30s Show]]'':
--->'''Sideshow Bob:''' Tom Shales gave this show a good review. And ''I'm'' the one in prison!
** When Marge suggests the prison wasn't a good place to bring the kids, Lisa offers that it "still beats [[DisneyThemeParks Disney's California Adventure]]". The others quickly
** While staying at the Simpsons' house, Bob watches an episode of ''[[Series/That80sShow That '30s Show]]'':
--->'''Sideshow Bob:''' Tom Shales gave this show a good review. And ''I'm'' the one in prison!
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** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says he's "going to take some advice that was given to me by Lenny, and kill you without delay". (Only to discover he can't go through with it, having grown accustomed to Bart's face.)
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** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, confronting Bart in his room, Bob takes out a knife and says he's "going to take some advice that was given to me by Lenny, and kill you without delay". (Only to discover he can't go through with it, having grown accustomed to Bart's face.)
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** Also a ContinuityNod; Bob has plenty of experience getting shot out of cannons, as revealed way back in "Krusty Gets Busted".
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** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says that he's about to "take some advice that was given to me by Lenny". (Only to discover he can't go through with it, having grown accustomed to Bart's face.)
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** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says that he's about "going to "take take some advice that was given to me by Lenny".Lenny, and kill you without delay". (Only to discover he can't go through with it, having grown accustomed to Bart's face.)
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** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says that he's about to take "some very good advice that was given to me by Lenny". (Only to discover he can't go through with it, having grown accustomed to Bart's face.)
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** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says that he's about to take "some very good "take some advice that was given to me by Lenny". (Only to discover he can't go through with it, having grown accustomed to Bart's face.)
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** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says that he's about to take "some very good advice that was given to me, by Lenny."
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** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says that he's about to take "some very good advice that was given to me, me by Lenny."Lenny". (Only to discover he can't go through with it, having grown accustomed to Bart's face.)
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* BrickJoke: At the bar, Moe and the other patrons mock Bob's inability to kill Bart, with Lenny saying that if it was him, he'd just "slash (Bart's) throat all quiet-like." At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says that he's about to take "some very good advice that was given to me, by Lenny."
* DartboardOfHate: Sideshow Bob plays darts at Moe's, fashioning a likeness of Bart's face out of the darts.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: At one point Lenny asks Sideshow Bob why he doesn't just come up to Bart with a knife "and slit his throat real quick-like". He tries it at the end of the episode, only to discover he's grown accustomed to Bart's face.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: At one point Lenny asks Moe's, the regulars mock Sideshow Bob why Bob's inability to kill Bart, with Lenny suggesting he doesn't just "just come up to Bart behind him with a knife "and and slit his throat real quick-like". He tries it at quick-like".
** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode,only attempting one more time to discover kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says that he's grown accustomed about to Bart's face.take "some very good advice that was given to me, by Lenny."
** BrickJoke: At the end of the episode,
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob is asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. He tries it at the end of the episode, only to discover he's grown accustomed to Bart's face.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: At one point Lenny asks Sideshow Bob is asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart.come up to Bart with a knife "and slit his throat real quick-like". He tries it at the end of the episode, only to discover he's grown accustomed to Bart's face.
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* StunGuns: Wiggum affixes a remote button-controlled "shock garter" to Sideshow Bob's leg, which administers a jolt every time he threatens someone. Or whenever somebody feels like pushing the button.
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* TakeThat: When Marge suggests the prison wasn't a good place to bring the kids, Bart offers that it "still beats [[DisneyThemeParks Disney's California Adventure]]". The others quickly agree.
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* TakeThat: When Marge suggests the prison wasn't a good place to bring the kids, Bart Lisa offers that it "still beats [[DisneyThemeParks Disney's California Adventure]]". The others quickly agree.
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-->'''Marge:''' ''[shrugging]'' Meh.
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* UnusuallyUnintrestingSight: Lampshaded, when various people show up to attack the "Homer" dummy Sideshow Bob rigs to lure the killer. Including Homer himself.
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* UnusuallyUnintrestingSight: UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Lampshaded, when various people show up to attack the "Homer" dummy Sideshow Bob rigs to lure the killer. Including Homer himself.
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* TakeThat: When Marge suggests the prison wasn't a good place to bring the kids, Bart offers that it "still beats [[DisneyThemeParks Disney's California Adventure]]". The others quickly agree.
* TropeCoTropeOfTheWeek: Bob is housed at "Campbell's Chunky Soup Maximum Security Prison".
* UnusuallyUnintrestingSight: Lampshaded, when various people show up to attack the "Homer" dummy Sideshow Bob rigs to lure the killer. Including Homer himself.
-->'''Homer:'''
-->'''Sideshow Bob:'''
-->'''Marge:'''
* TropeCoTropeOfTheWeek: Bob is housed at "Campbell's Chunky Soup Maximum Security Prison".
* UnusuallyUnintrestingSight: Lampshaded, when various people show up to attack the "Homer" dummy Sideshow Bob rigs to lure the killer. Including Homer himself.
-->'''Homer:'''
-->'''Sideshow Bob:'''
-->'''Marge:'''
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. He tried it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew accustomed to Bart's face.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' Now, Mr. Simpson. Is it possible you're living a double or ''triple'' life that your wife doesn't know about?
-->'''Homer:''' Triple? ''[looks around]'' No. Definitely no.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bobwas is asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. He tried tries it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew episode, only to discover he's grown accustomed to Bart's face.
-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' Now, Mr. Simpson. Is it possible you're living a double or ''triple'' life that your wife doesn't know about?
-->'''Homer:''' Triple? ''[looks around]'' No. Definitely no.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob
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* ArtShift: As of this episode, the show fully switched over to digital paint. Like the previous two instances (Season 7's "Radioactive Man" and Season 12's "Tennis the Menace"), it wasn't well-received.well-received, since at the time of this episode's airing in 2002, digital ink was not very common and traditional cel animation wouldn't become defunct until two years later.[[note]]To say ''nothing'' about the shift to HD a few seasons later[[/note]]
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* CallBack: Most of Homer's past enemies were from previous episodes, including [[spoiler:the son of deceased nuclear plant worker, Frank Grimes]].
* [[spoiler:DeadGuyJunior: Frank Grimes, Jr. is the person trying to kill Homer.]]
* ForeShadowing: There are various hints throughout the episode that indicate whose trying to kill Homer, as Sideshow Bob notices.
* [[spoiler:DeadGuyJunior: Frank Grimes, Jr. is the person trying to kill Homer.]]
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* CallBack: Most of Homer's past enemies were from previous episodes, including [[spoiler:the the son of deceased nuclear plant worker, Frank Grimes]].
Grimes.
*[[spoiler:DeadGuyJunior: ComicallyMissingThePoint: As Moe, Carl, and Lenny give Sideshow Bob advice on how to kill Bart, Homer shuts them up--not because they were threatening his son, but so Bob can think.
* DeadGuyJunior: Frank Grimes, Jr. is the person trying to killHomer.]]
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* RecruitingTheCriminalRecruitingTheCriminal: In this case, Bob is the recruited criminal.
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* SeriesContinuityError: [[spoiler:This episode features the third different gravestone used for Frank Grimes. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", the gravestone simply read "Grimes", while "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]" read "Frank 'Grimey' Grimes". Here it reads "Frank Grimes (Homer's Enemy)".]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. [[spoiler:He tried it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew accustomed to Bart's face.]]
* [[spoiler:YouKilledMyFather: The reason Frank Grimes, Jr. tries to kill Homer.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. [[spoiler:He tried it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew accustomed to Bart's face.]]
* [[spoiler:YouKilledMyFather: The reason Frank Grimes, Jr. tries to kill Homer.]]
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* SeriesContinuityError: [[spoiler:This This episode features the third different gravestone used for Frank Grimes. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", the gravestone simply read "Grimes", while "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]" read "Frank 'Grimey' Grimes". Here it reads "Frank Grimes (Homer's Enemy)".]]
Enemy)".
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart.[[spoiler:He He tried it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew accustomed to Bart's face.]]
face.
*[[spoiler:YouKilledMyFather: YouKilledMyFather: The reason Frank Grimes, Jr. tries to kill Homer.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart.
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* ForeShadowing: There are various hints throughout the episode that indicate whose trying to kill Homer, as Sideshow Bob notices.
** When Bart examines the spa invitation sent to Homer by the killer, he discovers a black smudge on it.
** When the killer traps Homer in the sauna room, he uses an enormous wrench.
** When the killer tries to shoot Homer and escapes, he uses a tow truck.
** When Bart examines the spa invitation sent to Homer by the killer, he discovers a black smudge on it.
** When the killer traps Homer in the sauna room, he uses an enormous wrench.
** When the killer tries to shoot Homer and escapes, he uses a tow truck.
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* SeriesContinuityError: [[spoiler:This episode features the third different gravestone used for Frank Grimes. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", the gravestone simply read "Grimes", while "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddly Alone Again, Natura-Diddly]]" read "Frank 'Grimey' Grimes". Here it reads "Frank Grimes (Homer's Enemy)".]]
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* SeriesContinuityError: [[spoiler:This episode features the third different gravestone used for Frank Grimes. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", the gravestone simply read "Grimes", while "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddly "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily Alone Again, Natura-Diddly]]" Natura-Diddily]]" read "Frank 'Grimey' Grimes". Here it reads "Frank Grimes (Homer's Enemy)".]]
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* SeriesContinuityError: [[spoiler:This episode features the third different gravestone used for Frank Grimes. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", the gravestone simply read "Grimes", while [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddly Alone Again, Natura-Diddly]] read "Frank 'Grimey' Grimes". Here it reads "Frank Grimes (Homer's Enemy)".]]
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* SeriesContinuityError: [[spoiler:This episode features the third different gravestone used for Frank Grimes. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", the gravestone simply read "Grimes", while [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddly "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddly Alone Again, Natura-Diddly]] Natura-Diddly]]" read "Frank 'Grimey' Grimes". Here it reads "Frank Grimes (Homer's Enemy)".]]
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* BrickJoke: At the bar, Moe and the other patrons mock Bob's inability to kill Bart, with Lenny saying that if it was him, he'd just "slash (Bart's) throat all quiet-like." At the end of the episode, attempting one more time to kill Bart, Bob takes out a knife and says that he's about to take "some very good advice that was given to me, by Lenny."
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* SeriesContinuityError: [[spoiler:This episode features the third different gravestone used for Frank Grimes. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]", the gravestone simply read "Grimes", while [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddly Alone Again, Natura-Diddly]] read "Frank 'Grimey' Grimes". Here it reads "Frank Grimes (Homer's Enemy)".]]
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* HumanCannonball: Bob gets into the cannon on one of the Mardi Gras floats and lights the fuse in order to launch himself into the air and save Homer from getting ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on one of the swordfish in the swordfish museum.
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* SaunaOfDeath: First attempt on Homer's life. He was actually already in danger by being in the sauna at all because of his obesity and heart problems. The sauna controls helpfully included the setting [[InventionalWisdom "murder"]].
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. [[spoiler:He tried it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew accustomed to Bart'sface]].face.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. [[spoiler:He tried it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew accustomed to Bart's
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* {{Jerkass}}: Homer's friends at the bar actually give Sideshow Bob advice and encouragement to kill Bart.
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* {{CallBack}}: Most of Homer's past enemies were from previous episodes, including [[spoiler:the son of deceased nuclear plant worker, Frank Grimes]].
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* [[DeadGuyJunior: Frank Grimes, Jr. is the person trying to kill Homer.]]
* RecruitingTheCriminal
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. [[spoiler:He tried it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew accustomed to Bart'sface]].face]].
* [[spoiler:YouKilledMyFather: The reason Frank Grimes, Jr. tries to kill Homer.]]
* RecruitingTheCriminal
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Someone's out to kill Homer — and only Sideshow Bob can figure out who that is.
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Someone's out to kill Homer, after Homer gets locked into a sauna by a hooded man — and only Sideshow Bob can figure out who that is.
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Someone's out to kill Homer — and only Sideshow Bob can figure out who that is.
!! Tropes:
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. [[spoiler:He tried it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew accustomed to Bart's face]].
!! Tropes:
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sideshow Bob was asked why he doesn't just shoot Bart. [[spoiler:He tried it at the end of the episode and it turns out he grew accustomed to Bart's face]].
