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* AmoralAttorney: Wallace Brady, the pro-creationist lawyer, goes for weird manipulative tactics like pretending a baby deer is telling him ScienceIsBad. He ''almost'' succeeds in putting a little girl in jail if not for Marge's own weird manipulative tactic.



* BadassBookworm: Marge.

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* BadassBookworm: Marge. She's the one that thinks up the idea of allowing Homer to do his "missing link" act in court for the sake of Lisa's defense.
* ChewbaccaDefense: In the end, both sides use this. Brady uses a ''baby deer'' at one point as a "witness" of Lisa's "evil", and Lisa's defense is to have Homer trash part of the courtroom with his drunken antics and say that Homer acting like a mad ape is clear evidence of evolution.



* MamaBear: Marge

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* MamaBear: MargeMarge doesn't stands back and allows her daughter to be run over rough-shod by a corrupt law system.



* PreacherMan: Ned Flanders and Reverend Lovejoy
* PoliceAreUseless: Once again, Chief Wiggum while having Lisa arrested while Snake gets off shooting people since they are only able to enforce the last three laws past. He does apologize to her during the case and admits that it's the worst legal system you can get.

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* PreacherMan: Ned Flanders and Reverend Lovejoy
Lovejoy both enforce creationism, but Flanders (as is typical of him by now) is the one who goes all the way to legal action for the sake of his fundamentalism.
* PoliceAreUseless: Once again, Chief Wiggum uses overkill while having Lisa arrested while and on the meanwhile Snake gets off shooting people since they are only able to enforce the last three laws past. He does apologize to her during the case and admits that it's the worst legal system you can get. Snake's shooting is happening right across the street, visible ''right outside the window'', and Wiggum's can only say to (try to) JustIgnoreIt.



* AWizardDidIt: Who ever snitch on Lisa?

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* AWizardDidIt: Who ever snitch on Lisa?Lisa? Because it's never answered, it just looks like when it comes to knowing where to go and apply TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw, Wiggum is just psychic.
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* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Wallace Brady, guest-starred by Larry Hagman, is an overweight southern lawyer in a white suit. He's not really evil per se, but opposes Lisa and greatly supports creationism, not to mention he's not afraid of manipulating the audience at the courtroom with a cute baby deer (Bambi apparently) by claiming evolution took his mother away, with the intent of siding people against Lisa. .

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* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Wallace Brady, guest-starred by Larry Hagman, is an overweight southern lawyer in a white suit. suit on Ned's side. He's not really evil per se, but opposes Lisa and greatly supports creationism, calling evolution a load of "Hollywood hooey", not to mention he's not afraid of manipulating the audience at the courtroom with a cute baby deer (Bambi apparently) by claiming evolution took is what allowed humans to kill his mother away, mother, with the intent of siding people against Lisa. .
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* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Wallace Brady, guest-starred by Larry Hagman, is an overweight southern lawyer in a white suit. He's not really evil per se, but opposes Lisa and greatly supports creationism.

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* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Wallace Brady, guest-starred by Larry Hagman, is an overweight southern lawyer in a white suit. He's not really evil per se, but opposes Lisa and greatly supports creationism.creationism, not to mention he's not afraid of manipulating the audience at the courtroom with a cute baby deer (Bambi apparently) by claiming evolution took his mother away, with the intent of siding people against Lisa. .
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* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Wallace Brady, guest-starred by Larry Hagman, is an overweight southern man in a white suit. He's not really evil per se, but opposes Lisa and greatly supports creationism.

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* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Wallace Brady, guest-starred by Larry Hagman, is an overweight southern man lawyer in a white suit. He's not really evil per se, but opposes Lisa and greatly supports creationism.
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* FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit: Wallace Brady, guest-starred by Larry Hagman, is an overweight southern man in a white suit. He's not really evil per se, but opposes Lisa and greatly supports creationism.
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* TourGuideGag: The audio tour for the museum is narrated by MelanieGriffith, but all she ever says is, "This room's nice", and "This room's nice, too", never once giving a specific detail about anything people are seeing.

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* TourGuideGag: The audio tour for the museum is narrated by MelanieGriffith, Creator/MelanieGriffith, but all she ever says is, "This room's nice", and "This room's nice, too", never once giving a specific detail about anything people are seeing.
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* [[invoked]]MemeticMutation: {{Referenced|Trope}} 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|Trope}} 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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* 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 (remember when they 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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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: {{Parodied|Trope}} with "Film/Grease2: [[RecursiveAdaptation The Musical Based On the Sequel To]] [[Film/{{Grease}} the Movie Based On the Musical]]".
* 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 (remember when they (they once tried to burn Principal Skinner at the stake because of his claims that the Earth revolves around the sun?), sun), the writers probably thought it would be best just to forget that piece of Supreme Court history.



* [[invoked]]MemeticMutation: {{Referenced|Trope}} 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."



* TookALevelInJerkass: Flanders want 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 want 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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* BadassBookworm: Marge

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* BadassBookworm: MargeMarge.



* TookALevelInJerkass: Flanders

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* TookALevelInJerkass: FlandersFlanders want 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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* NuclearOption: [[spoiler: Homer being ape like when trying to open a beer bottle, of course]]

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* NuclearOption: [[spoiler: Homer being ape like when trying to open a beer bottle, of course]]course.

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* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler: Nelson, twice.]]

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* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler: Nelson, twice.]]twice. The first time, he looks like Milhouse poorly disguised as Lisa. The second time, he's impersonating one of Ned's sons.


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* PaperThinDisguise: As part of a plan to help Lisa to escape, Bart brings Milhouse wearing Lisa's clothes and wearing a Lisa wig. Subverted when "Milhouse" takes off his mask, revealing himself to be Nelson.
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* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: Read below on "PoliceAreUseless". Also bear in mind that Wiggum enforces this law by ''bringing a SWATTeam to deal with an eight-year-old girl''.
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* LatexPerfection: [[spoiler: Nelson, twice.]]
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* NoodleIncident: Homer's summer to-do list includes [[BreadEggsMilkSquick "Find, destroy Atlantis."]]
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* TourGuideGag: The audio tour for the museum is narrated by MelanieGriffith, but all she ever says is, "This room's nice", and "This room's nice, too", never once giving a specific detail to anything people are seeing.

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* TourGuideGag: The audio tour for the museum is narrated by MelanieGriffith, but all she ever says is, "This room's nice", and "This room's nice, too", never once giving a specific detail to about anything people are seeing.
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* TourGuideGag: The audio tour for the museum is narrated by MelanieGriffith. But all she ever says is, "This room's nice", and "This room's nice, too", never once giving a specific detail to anything people are seeing.

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* TourGuideGag: The audio tour for the museum is narrated by MelanieGriffith. But MelanieGriffith, but all she ever says is, "This room's nice", and "This room's nice, too", never once giving a specific detail to anything people are seeing.
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* TourGuideGag: The audio tour for the museum is narrated by MelanieGriffith. But all she ever says is, "This room's nice", and "This room's nice, too", never once giving a specific detail to anything people are seeing.
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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.

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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.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 (remember when they 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.



* MamaBear: Does making sure for your daughter doesn't go to jail count? If so, then Marge.

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* MamaBear: Does making sure for your daughter doesn't go to jail count? If so, then Marge.Marge
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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.
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* ShoutOut: The episode is a reference to the Scopes Trial of 1925, where John Thomas Scopes was changed for teaching evolution at a state-funded school.

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* ShoutOut: The episode is a reference to the Scopes Trial of 1925, where John Thomas Scopes was changed charged for teaching evolution at a state-funded school.
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!!This episode contains examples of ([[YMMV/TheSimpsonsS17E21TheMonkeySuit]]):

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!!This episode contains examples of ([[YMMV/TheSimpsonsS17E21TheMonkeySuit]]):
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Flanders
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* PoliceAreUseless: Once again, Chief Wiggum while having Lisa arrested while Snake gets off shooting people. He does apologize to her during the case.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Once again, Chief Wiggum while having Lisa arrested while Snake gets off shooting people. people since they are only able to enforce the last three laws past. He does apologize to her during the case.case and admits that it's the worst legal system you can get.
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* NuclearOption: [[spoiler: Homer being ape trying to open a beer bottle, of course]]

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* NuclearOption: [[spoiler: Homer being ape like when trying to open a beer bottle, of course]]
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* MamaBear: Does making for your daughter doesn't go to jail count? If so, then Marge.

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* MamaBear: Does making sure for your daughter doesn't go to jail count? If so, then Marge.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Once again, Chief Wiggum while having Lisa arrested. He does apologize to her during the case.

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* PoliceAreUseless: Once again, Chief Wiggum while having Lisa arrested.arrested while Snake gets off shooting people. He does apologize to her during the case.

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* MamaBear: Does making for your daughter doesn't go to jail count? If so, then Marge.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Does anyone know why Snake was shooting people or caught doing so?

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Does anyone know why Snake was shooting people or caught doing so?
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When Ned Flanders and Reverend Lovejoy manage to force the schools to teach creationism, Lisa faces jail time for teaching evolution. Her only hope lands in Marge, who comes up with a solution to save her daughter.

:Tropes of this episode:

* BadassBookworm: Marge
* PreacherMan: Ned Flanders and Reverend Lovejoy
* PoliceAreUseless: Once again, Chief Wiggum while having Lisa arrested. He does apologize to her during the case.
* NuclearOption: [[spoiler: Homer being ape trying to open a beer bottle, of course]]
* ShoutOut: The episode is a reference to the Scopes Trial of 1925, where John Thomas Scopes was changed for teaching evolution at a state-funded school.
* AWizardDidIt: Who ever snitch on Lisa?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Does anyone know why Snake was shooting people or caught doing so?

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