History Recap / TheSimpsonsS16E13MobileHomer

* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: While Lisa is performing CPR on Homer and instructs Bart to handle the chest compressions, Bart comes at him with everything available.

%%* KickTheDog: Marge and Homer's issues aside, she's super rude and judgemental to the RV people.
* LatexPerfection: The couch gag has Homer do a DramaticUnmask to reveal Sideshow Bob, who’s hair should not fit under such a mask.

* FinancialAbuse: Marge seizes full control of Homer's money that he earns while she's a stay at home parent.

* KickTheDog: Marge and Homer's issues aside, she's super rude and judgemental to the RV people.

--->'''Homer''': ''Augh!'' [[NotHelpingYourCase My hemophilia!]]

* JerkassBall:
** Marge. She's financially abusive to Homer, forces her family into poverty in the name of scrimping and manipulates the kids and tries to force them to take sides when she and Homer fight over the RV.
** Homer as well when he implies that he doesn't care if he leaves his family anything after he dies. He also tries to manipulate the kids and force them to take sides when he and Marge fight over the RV.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Marge is right to be concerned that the family will be in trouble if Homer dies, but the way she goes about it and how she acts like a massive {{Jerkass}} to Homer and seizes control of the money despite him earning every cent of it made it hard to side with her.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Marge, who becomes such a penny-pincher towards Homer and the kids (to the point of FinancialAbuse) out of fear that Homer will soon die without her or her kids receiving any money, leaving them with absolutely nothing.

One day, while attempting to clean the garage while the rest of the family is out, Homer comes across some spiders. He attempts to get rid of them, but his incompetence nearly costs him his life before his family arrives home in time to save him. Under Marge's advice, Homer attempts to get life insurance, but is deemed uninsurable. Fearing for her future in the likely event Homer should die, Marge decides to start building up a nest egg for her family. However, Homer is upset by how her approach to saving the income he makes is cheapening their lives, and buys a mobile home for himself to spite her. Things between Homer and Marge get worse from there, leaving it up to Bart and Lisa to defuse the situation themselves. The episode was written by Tim Long.

* RichesToRags: Brenda, the character in the movie Marge watches.

* AdultFear:
** Homer and Marge when the kids make off with the RV.
-->'''Homer:''' It's every parent's worst nightmare: they've stolen a car ''and'' they're home alone.
** Marge's fears about what will happen to her and the kids if Homer dies.

* WalkingDisasterArea: Homer is acknowledged to be one by an insurance company and they refuse to insure him because of this.

** During the garage incident, one of the spiders ominously descends towards Homer, remniscient of a scene from ''Film/{{Arachnaphobia}}''.

* RealityEnsues: When Homer and Marge try to get him life insurance, his laundry list of health problems and constant near death accidents make it impossible for him to get any.

** During the garage incident, one of the spiders ominously descends towards Homer, remniscient of a scene from the film Arachnaphobia.

* WalkingDisasterArea: Homer is acknowledged to be one by an insurance company and [[RealityEnsues they refuse to insure him because of this]].

* TookALevelInJerkass:
** Marge. She's financially abusive to Homer, forces her family into poverty in the name of scrimping and manipulates the kids and tries to force them to take sides when she and Homer fight over the RV.
** Homer as well when he implies that he doesn't care if he leaves his family anything after he dies. He also tries to manipulate the kids and force them to take sides when he and Marge fight over the RV.

* ShoutOut: The kids find a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones]] Fun Map" in the RV and Homer wrote a message reading "Dino short for dinosaur? Remember to ask Jeeves" (on international airings, "Ask Jeeves" is replaced with Wikipedia).
* During the garage incident, one of the spiders ominously descends towards Homer, remniscient of a scene from the film Arachnaphobia.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Marge is right to be concerned that the family will be in trouble if Homer dies, but the way she goes about it and how she acts like a massive {{Jerkass}} to Homer and seizes control of the money despite him earning every cent of it made it hard to side with her.

* NoodleIncident: The photos in the family vacation album, which show snapshots of Homer being beaten up by Mickey and Goofy a Disney park, getting stuck in Lincoln's nose on Mount Rushmore and getting stabbed all the way through the chest with a baquette in France.

** Obviously Marge's fears about what will happen to her and the kids if Homer dies.

** Marge does so in this episode. She's financially abusive to Homer, forces her family into poverty in the name of scrimping and manipulates the kids and tries to force them to take sides when she and Homer fight over the RV.

* [[RightForTheWrongReasons Wrong for the Right Reasons]]: Marge is right to be concerned that the family will be in trouble if Homer dies, but the way she goes about it and how she acts like a massive {{Jerkass}} to Homer and seizes control of the money despite him earning every cent of it made it hard to side with her.
* WalkingDisasterArea: Homer is acknowledged to be one by an insurance company and RealityEnsues -- they refuse to insure him.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Homer and Marge have differing views on how to handle their finances. Homer is uninsurable, wasteful with money and prone to near death experiences, so Marge has a right to be worried about them not having any savings should he die. However Homer is right that he earned every penny of it, and living as cheaply as possible over something that might not happen is sucking a lot of the fun out of life.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Marge does so in this episode.
** Homer as well when he implies that he doesn't care if he leaves his family anything after he dies.

One day, while attempting to clean the garage while the rest of the family is out, Homer comes across some spiders. He attempts to get rid of them, but his incompetence nearly costs him his life before his family arrives home in time to save him. Under Marge's advice, Homer attempts to get life insurance, but is deemed uninsurable. Fearing for her future in the likely event Homer should die, Marge decides to start building up a nest egg for her family. However, Homer is upset by how her approach to saving the income he makes is cheapening their lives, and buys a mobile home for himself to spite her. Things between Homer and Marge get worse from there, leaving it up to Bart and Lisa to defuse the situation themselves.