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* AWizardDidIt: InUniverse; Lisa had a test in her class with every answer being "God did it". Easy A for everyone!
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* BatmanGambit: Marge is able to help Lisa win the case by giving her husband a beer without opening it. Homer being Homer his desperation to open it causes him to start acting like an ape, and Ned being Ned gets so fed up with his neighbor acting like that in a courtroom and calls him a "Monkey Faced Gorilla.".
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* BatmanGambit: Marge is able to help Lisa win the case by giving her husband a beer without opening it. Homer being Homer in his desperation to open it causes him to start acting like an ape, and Ned being Ned gets so fed up with his neighbor acting like that in a courtroom and calls him a "Monkey Faced Gorilla.".
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* MamaBear: Marge doesn't stands back and allows her daughter to be run over rough-shod by a corrupt law system.
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* MamaBear: Marge doesn't stands stand back and allows allow her daughter to be run over rough-shod by a corrupt law system.
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* FirstKiss: Bart has his first kiss in this episode. (This [[SeriesContinuityError ignores the events]] of "The Wandering Juvie," but that was more of a ForcefulKiss than anything else.)
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* FirstKiss: Bart has his first kiss in this episode. (This [[SeriesContinuityError ignores the events]] of ignores]] his statement in "The Wandering Juvie," but Way We Weren't" that was more of a ForcefulKiss than anything else.he's kissed three girls.)
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Finding himself at a boring museum exhibit, Bart tells Homer that as his father it's his job to protect him from such things. In response, Homer offers him a drink from his flask.
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* FirstKiss: Bart has his first kiss in this episode.
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* FirstKiss: Bart has his first kiss in this episode. (This [[SeriesContinuityError ignores the events]] of "The Wandering Juvie," but that was more of a ForcefulKiss than anything else.)
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* GracefulLoser: When Lisa tells Ned she respects his beliefs, Ned admits than he wishes the world would "evolve" a few more kids like her.
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* WorthyOpponent: Ned calls Lisa a "worthy adversary."
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'''Original air date:''' 5/14/2006
'''Production code:''' HABF-14
'''Production code:''' HABF-14
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* HollywoodLaw: Flanders and Lovejoy browbeat Skinner into teaching Creationism at school, and later the mayor approves a law that makes it illegal to teach the Theory of Evolution. ''[=McLean=] vs Arkansas Board of Education'' in 1981 established that teaching creationism in schools is against the Constitution, so it should have been easy for Lisa to force the issue, though you do hear about states like Kansas trying to replace evolution with creationism and considering how everyone in Springfield is backwards and anti-intellectual (they once tried to burn Principal Skinner at the stake because of his claims that the Earth revolves around the sun), the writers probably thought it would be best just to forget that piece of Supreme Court history.
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* HollywoodLaw: Flanders and Lovejoy browbeat Skinner into teaching Creationism at school, and later the mayor approves a law that makes it illegal to teach the Theory of Evolution. ''[=McLean=] vs Arkansas Board of Education'' in 1981 established that teaching creationism in schools is against the Constitution, so it should have been easy for Lisa to force the issue, though you do hear about states like Kansas trying to replace evolution with creationism and considering how everyone in Springfield is backwards and anti-intellectual (they once tried to burn Principal Skinner at the stake because of his claims that the Earth revolves around the sun), the writers probably thought it would be best just to forget that piece of Supreme Court history.issue.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: This episode is heavily inspired by the public debates over teaching "Intelligent Design" in schools in the United States, which had earned some political traction by the mid-2000's. Earlier in 2005, the much-publicised [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_evolution_hearings Kansas evolution hearings]] took place, while shortly after Season 17 started airing the trial of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District]] started, all on this issue.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Parodied in the Hall of Man scene. Ned is horrified by [[FauxHorrific the sight of hominids in a display, indisputable fossil records]] and worst of all -- {{GASP}} -- a ''unisex bathroom''.
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* PoliceBrutality: Lisa, a second-grade student, is threatened ''at gunpoint'' for teaching evolution.
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* JerkassBall: Flanders wants to enforce creationism after a bad trip at a museum. Even Lovejoy tells him that the Bible should be taken lightly in this regard.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Flanders wants to enforce creationism after a bad trip at a museum. Even Lovejoy tells him that the Bible should be taken lightly in this regard.
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* BatmanGambit: Marge is able to help Lisa win the case by giving her husband a beer without opening it. Homer being Homer his desperation to open it causes him to start acting like an ape, and Ned being Ned gets so feed up with his neighbor acting like that in a courtroom and calls him a "Monkey Faced Gorilla.".
* BlatantLies: The documentary comparing religion and evolution claims to be unbiased, but shows the Theory of Evolution as being written in blood and Darwin as a “cowardly drunk” dancing with Satan.
* BlatantLies: The documentary comparing religion and evolution claims to be unbiased, but shows the Theory of Evolution as being written in blood and Darwin as a “cowardly drunk” dancing with Satan.
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* BatmanGambit: Marge is able to help Lisa win the case by giving her husband a beer without opening it. Homer being Homer his desperation to open it causes him to start acting like an ape, and Ned being Ned gets so feed fed up with his neighbor acting like that in a courtroom and calls him a "Monkey Faced Gorilla.".
* BlatantLies: The documentary comparing religion and evolution claims to be unbiased, but shows the Theory of Evolution as being written in blood and Darwin as a“cowardly drunk” "cowardly drunk" dancing with Satan.
* BlatantLies: The documentary comparing religion and evolution claims to be unbiased, but shows the Theory of Evolution as being written in blood and Darwin as a
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* FauxHorrific: Flanders can't stomach the idea of a museum teaching the world that humanity evolved from monkeys. His horrified reactions to the displays in the Hall of Man -- and worse, a ''unisex bathroom'' -- are played with horror music for comedic effect.
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* HollywoodLaw: ''[=McLean=] vs Arkansas Board of Education'' in 1981 established that teaching creationism in schools is against the Constitution, so it should have been easy for Lisa to force the issue, though you do hear about states like Kansas trying to replace evolution with creationism and considering how everyone in Springfield is backwards and anti-intellectual (they once tried to burn Principal Skinner at the stake because of his claims that the Earth revolves around the sun), the writers probably thought it would be best just to forget that piece of Supreme Court history.
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* HollywoodLaw: Flanders and Lovejoy browbeat Skinner into teaching Creationism at school, and later the mayor approves a law that makes it illegal to teach the Theory of Evolution. ''[=McLean=] vs Arkansas Board of Education'' in 1981 established that teaching creationism in schools is against the Constitution, so it should have been easy for Lisa to force the issue, though you do hear about states like Kansas trying to replace evolution with creationism and considering how everyone in Springfield is backwards and anti-intellectual (they once tried to burn Principal Skinner at the stake because of his claims that the Earth revolves around the sun), the writers probably thought it would be best just to forget that piece of Supreme Court history.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: ''[=McLean=] vs Arkansas Board of Education'' in 1981 established that teaching creationism in schools is against the Constitution, so it should have been easy for Lisa to force the issue, though you do hear about states like Kansas trying to replace evolution with creationism and considering how everyone in Springfield is backwards and anti-intellectual (they once tried to burn Principal Skinner at the stake because of his claims that the Earth revolves around the sun), the writers probably thought it would be best just to forget that piece of Supreme Court history.
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* BatmanGambit: Marge is able to help Lisa win the case by giving her husband a beer without opening it. Homer being Homer his desperation to open it causes him to start acting like an ape, and Ned being Ned gets so feed up with his neighbour acting like that in a courtroom and calls him a "Monkey Faced Gorilla.".
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* BatmanGambit: Marge is able to help Lisa win the case by giving her husband a beer without opening it. Homer being Homer his desperation to open it causes him to start acting like an ape, and Ned being Ned gets so feed up with his neighbour neighbor acting like that in a courtroom and calls him a "Monkey Faced Gorilla.".
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* HollywoodLaw: ''[=McLean=] vs Arkansas Board of Education'' in 1981 established that teaching creationism in schools is against the Constitution, so it should have been easy for Lisa to force the issue, though you do hear about states like Kansas trying to replace evolution with creationism and considering how everyone in Springfield is backwards and anti-intellectual (they once tried to burn Principal Skinner at the stake because of his claims that the Earth revolves around the sun), the writers probably thought it would be best just to forget that piece of Supreme Court history.
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* BlatantLies: The documentary comparing religion and evolution claims to be unbiased, but shows the Theory of Evolution as being written in blood and Darwin as a “cowardly drunk” dancing with Satan.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Bart realizes that it's the last day of summer, and there's a lot that he still has to do. After winning a baseball game, doing an otivation at the end of a play, and having his FirstKiss, he visits the museum with his family. There, they mess around in the weapons exhibit, while Flanders goes into the evolution exhibit that starts the main plot.
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* LimitedAnimation: When Homer picks up and throws his dinner plate, the food remains completely static while his facial expression twitches rapidly.
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* [[invoked]]MemeticMutation: Referenced when Bart watches a ''Film/MenInBlack''-like movie where the Jay {{expy}} exclaims, "Get outta my face, you raggedy maggots!" This causes Bart to comment, "Oh, so ''that's'' why everyone's been saying that all summer."
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* [[invoked]]MemeticMutation: Referenced when Bart watches a ''Film/MenInBlack''-like movie where the Jay {{expy}} exclaims, "Get outta my face, you raggedy maggots!" This causes Bart to comment, "Oh, so ''that's'' why everyone's been saying that all summer."
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: At the dinner table, Homer claims to always be open to new ideas. Cue him throwing a fit when seeing onions in the pees.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: At the dinner table, Homer claims to always be open to new ideas. Cue him throwing a fit when seeing onions in the pees.peas.
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* ArmourPiercingQuestion: When Lisa's lawyer asks Ned if he honestly thinks that Homer couldn't be related to an ape, Ned reluctantly admits that he can't.
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* ArmourPiercingQuestion: ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Lisa's lawyer asks Ned if he honestly thinks that Homer couldn't be related to an ape, Ned reluctantly admits that he can't.
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** The episode is a reference to the Scopes Trial of 1925, where John Thomas Scopes was charged for teaching evolution at a state-funded school. Film aficionados will recognize the trial for having previously been the basis for ''Film/InheritTheWind'' in 1960; the film itself was used as reference material for the episode.
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** The episode is a reference to the Scopes Trial of 1925, where John Thomas Scopes was charged for teaching evolution at a state-funded school. Film Theater aficionados will recognize the trial for having previously been the basis for ''Film/InheritTheWind'' ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'' in 1960; 1955; the 1960 film itself adaptation was used as reference material for the episode.
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** The episode is a reference to the Scopes Trial of 1925, where John Thomas Scopes was charged for teaching evolution at a state-funded school.
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** The episode is a reference to the Scopes Trial of 1925, where John Thomas Scopes was charged for teaching evolution at a state-funded school. Film aficionados will recognize the trial for having previously been the basis for ''Film/InheritTheWind'' in 1960; the film itself was used as reference material for the episode.
