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* MistakenForGay: Homer is surprised to see that Sideshow Bob has a wife, as he's always assumed Bob was "out loud and proud." Bob shrugs and says that he "experimented a bit."

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* MistakenForGay: Homer is surprised to see that Sideshow Bob has a wife, as he's always assumed Bob was "out loud and proud." Bob shrugs and says that he "experimented a bit."bit" when he was younger.

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* MistakenForGay: Homer is surprised to see that Sideshow Bob has a wife, as he's always assumed Bob was "out loud and proud." Bob shrugs and says that he "experimented a bit."



* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.[[note]]On the DVDCommentary of "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)," Seth MacFarlane claimed that the notorious gag of [[spoiler:Quagmire raping Marge and then killing her family]] was his [[DisproportionateRetribution "little shot back"]] for this joke. Make of what what you will.[[/note]]

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* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.[[note]]On the DVDCommentary of "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)," Seth MacFarlane [=MacFarlane=] claimed that the notorious gag of [[spoiler:Quagmire raping Marge and then killing her family]] was his [[DisproportionateRetribution "little shot back"]] for this joke. Make of what what you will.[[/note]]
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* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.

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* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism. [[note]]On the DVDCommentary of "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)," Seth MacFarlane claimed that the notorious gag of [[spoiler:Quagmire raping Marge and then killing her family]] was his [[DisproportionateRetribution "little shot back"]] for this joke. Make of what what you will.[[/note]]
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* UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini: Lisa scolds Homer for imitating Mussolini on the balcony. He claims he's imitating DonaldTrump, though.

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* UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini: Lisa scolds Homer for imitating Mussolini on the balcony. He claims he's imitating DonaldTrump, Creator/DonaldTrump, though.
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* GladiatorGames: While in the Colosseum Bart shows his historical ignorance by saying: "Oh no! We're going to be the first Christians to die in the Colosseum!"

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* GladiatorGames: While in the Colosseum Bart shows his historical ignorance by saying: "Oh no! We're going telling Krusty: "We don't want to be the first Christians to die in at the Colosseum!" Colosseum."



* Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}: Sideshow Bob disguises himself as Pagliacci, and gives a far better performance than Krusty did.

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* Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}: Sideshow Bob disguises himself as Pagliacci, Pagliaccio, and gives a far better performance than Krusty did.
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* LoopholeAbuse: Mr. Burns had Homer bring his new car from Italy to save tax money.

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* LoopholeAbuse: Mr. Burns had Homer bring his new car from Italy to save tax money. He also paid for the whole family just because.
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* FaceHeelTurn: At first Francesca knew nothing of her husband's multiple murder attempts. When she does become aware, she helps Bob try to kill the Simpsons family.
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* {{Retcon}}: Homer at one point says he never went to college, despite going to college in the episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Homer Goes to College]]. Then again, maybe that's why Bob said "stop the presses."
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* BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Subverted when the Simpsons' car is hit by several Italian cheeses.
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** Bart makes a tiny reference to Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio too, after watching a horrible educational video at the start of the episode: "What is this crap? This is worse than "Wheelchair-nocchio."

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** Bart makes a tiny reference to Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio too, after watching a horrible educational video at the start of the episode: "What is this crap? This is worse than "Wheelchair-nocchio."'Wheelchair-nocchio.'"

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Corrected misspellings.


* ArtisticLicense: {{Cars}}: Driving a car over an aquaduct is pretty impossible.

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* ArtisticLicense: {{Cars}}: ArtisticLicenseCars: Driving a car over an aquaduct aqueduct is pretty impossible.



* BlessedAreTheCheeseMakers: Subverted when the Simpsons' car is hit by several Italian cheeses.

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* BlessedAreTheCheeseMakers: BlessedAreTheCheesemakers: Subverted when the Simpsons' car is hit by several Italian cheeses.



-->'''Lisa:''': "Dad, you're driving on an ancient Roman aquaduct."

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-->'''Lisa:''': "Dad, you're driving on an ancient Roman aquaduct.aqueduct."



-->'''Bob:''' Revenge is a dish best served...''family style''.

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-->'''Bob:''' [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Revenge is a dish best served...]] ''family style''.



** Krusty makes a joke about "a wife showing him her "Naples". The joke falls flat because one Italian correctly remarks: "We call it "Napoli".
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** Krusty makes a joke about "a wife showing him her "Naples". 'Naples'". The joke falls flat because one Italian correctly remarks: "We call it "Napoli".
'Napoli.'"
* HistoricalInjoke: HistoricalInJoke:



** '''Marge''':"Bart, Bob is a family man now. You can't be a bad person if you have a family."

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** '''Marge''':"Bart, '''Marge''': "Bart, Bob is a family man now. You can't be a bad person if you have a family."



* NationalStereotypes: Several references to Italy are made, including stylish cars, spaghetti, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pompeïi, the Pontevecchio Bridge, Creator/FedericoFellini, Italian cheese, chianti, Toscany, TheMafia, vendetta, olive gardens, aquaducts, the Colosseum, opera and Venice.
** Bart makes a tiny reference to Literature/{{Pinocchio}} too, after watching a horrible educational video at the start of the episode: "What is this crap? This is worse than "Wheelchair-nocchio."

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* NationalStereotypes: Several references to Italy are made, including stylish cars, spaghetti, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pompeïi, the Pontevecchio Bridge, Creator/FedericoFellini, Italian cheese, chianti, Toscany, Tuscany, TheMafia, vendetta, olive gardens, aquaducts, aqueducts, the Colosseum, opera and Venice.
** Bart makes a tiny reference to Literature/{{Pinocchio}} Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio too, after watching a horrible educational video at the start of the episode: "What is this crap? This is worse than "Wheelchair-nocchio."



* Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}: Sideshow Bob disguises himself as Pagliacci, and gives a far better performance than Krusty did.



* Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}: Sideshow Bob disguises himself as Pagliacci, and gives a far better performance than Krusty did.
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* VacationEpisode: The Simpsons travel to Italy.
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* ArtisticLicense:{{Cars}}: Driving a car over an aquaduct is pretty impossible.

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* ArtisticLicense:{{Cars}}: ArtisticLicense: {{Cars}}: Driving a car over an aquaduct is pretty impossible.


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* TranslationByVolume: The elderly woman Homer approaches doesn't know any English, so he decides to shout out all of the details of the Lamborgotti Fasterossa in her face.
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* Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}: Sideshow Bob disguises himself as Pagliacci.

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* Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}: Sideshow Bob disguises himself as Pagliacci. Pagliacci, and gives a far better performance than Krusty did.

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Pretty sure the writers knew that, which means it is not an example


* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.
** Doubles as a case of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer, as both those shows are made by the same person.

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* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.
** Doubles as a case of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer, as both those shows are made by the same person.
plagiarism.
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* BenitoMussolini: Lisa scolds Homer for imitating Mussolini on the balcony. He claims he's imitating DonaldTrump, though.

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* BenitoMussolini: UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini: Lisa scolds Homer for imitating Mussolini on the balcony. He claims he's imitating DonaldTrump, though.

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* ShoutOut: The song Sideshow Bob sings while squashing grapes with his feet is a reference to Nancy Sinatra's song "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".

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* ShoutOut: The song Sideshow Bob sings while squashing grapes with his feet is a reference to Nancy Sinatra's song "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".


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** Doubles as a case of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer, as both those shows are made by the same person.
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-->'''Homer:''': "What am I supposed to use it for? Transporting water to distant urban centers?! Lazy romans."

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-->'''Homer:''': "What am I supposed to use it for? Transporting water to distant urban centers?! Lazy romans.Romans."



** Krusty makes a joke about "a wife showing him her "Naples". The joke falls flat because one Italian correctly remarks: "We call it "Napoli".



** Marge:"Bart, Bob is a family man now. You can't be a bad person if you have a family."

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** Marge:"Bart, '''Marge''':"Bart, Bob is a family man now. You can't be a bad person if you have a family."

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* ArtisticLicense/{{Cars}}: Driving a car over an aquaduct is pretty impossible.

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* ArtisticLicense/{{Cars}}: ArtisticLicense:{{Cars}}: Driving a car over an aquaduct is pretty impossible.


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* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
-->'''Lisa:''': "Dad, you're driving on an ancient Roman aquaduct."
-->'''Homer:''': "What am I supposed to use it for? Transporting water to distant urban centers?! Lazy romans."


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* HistoricalInjoke:
--> '''Homer''': "Stupid Italy. Wish you'd never been unified by Victor Emmanuel II. If only you'd stayed a loose confederation of city-states, trading with each other and occasionally warring."
--> '''Bart''': "Please help us, Krusty. We don't want to be the first Christians to die at the Colosseum."
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance:
** Marge:"Bart, Bob is a family man now. You can't be a bad person if you have a family."


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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting:
--> '''Bart''': "What's with the Canadian flag on your backpack?"
--> '''Lisa''': "Well, some people in Europe have the impression that America has made some stupid choices in the past, oh, five years. So, for the next week, I'm from Canada."
--> '''Bart''': "I think dad may blow your cover."
--> '''Homer''' (battling over a flag): "That flag is mine! Don't mess with Texas! Shock and awe, losers! Shock and awe!"
* NationalStereotypes: Several references to Italy are made, including stylish cars, spaghetti, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pompeïi, the Pontevecchio Bridge, Creator/FedericoFellini, Italian cheese, chianti, Toscany, TheMafia, vendetta, olive gardens, aquaducts, the Colosseum, opera and Venice.
** Bart makes a tiny reference to Literature/{{Pinocchio}} too, after watching a horrible educational video at the start of the episode: "What is this crap? This is worse than "Wheelchair-nocchio."


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* ShoutOut: The song Sideshow Bob sings while squashing grapes with his feet is a reference to Nancy Sinatra's song "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".
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Creator, Not A Trope


* FedericoFellini: Homer watches one of his films in his car.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: When Bob's family disguise themselves as extras to kill the Simpsons in the Colessium, Lisa tells the audience that it's no act and that they're really trying to kill them. Nobody is convinced.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: When Bob's family disguise themselves as extras to kill the Simpsons in the Colessium, Colosseum, Lisa tells the audience that it's no act and that they're really trying to kill them. Nobody is convinced.convinced.
* ArtisticLicense/{{Cars}}: Driving a car over an aquaduct is pretty impossible.



* GladiatorGames: While in the Colosseum Bart shows his historical ignorance by saying: "Oh no! We're going to be the first Christians to die in the Colosseum!"
* GoodBadTranslation: "Plagiarismo" is not the correct Italian word for "plagiarism". It's "plagio".



* TheMafia: Referred to only once, according to an old village lady turns the small Italian village is run by the Mafia.

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* TheMafia: Referred to only once, according to an old village lady turns the their small Italian village is run by the Mafia.
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* BenitoMussolini: Lisa scolds Homer for imitating Mussolini on the balcony. He claims he's imitating DonaldTrump, though.
* BlessedAreTheCheeseMakers: Subverted when the Simpsons' car is hit by several Italian cheeses.


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* FedericoFellini: Homer watches one of his films in his car.


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* TheMafia: Referred to only once, according to an old village lady turns the small Italian village is run by the Mafia.
* OliveGarden: Can be seen in the village.
* {{Opera}}: The final scene takes place at an opera.
* Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}: Sideshow Bob disguises himself as Pagliacci.
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* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.

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* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[FamilyGuy [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[AmericanDad [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.
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--<'''Bob:''' Revenge is a dish best served...''family style''.

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--<'''Bob:''' -->'''Bob:''' Revenge is a dish best served...''family style''.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: When Bob's family disguise themselves as extras to kill the Simpsons in the Colessium, Lisa tells the audience that it's no act and that they're really trying to kill them. Nobody is convinced.
* ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino: When Bob swears a vendetta on the family, Marge looks in an Italian-American dictionary and is shocked that "vendetta" means "vendetta" in English.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Provides the page image.
--<'''Bob:''' Revenge is a dish best served...''family style''.



* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.

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* TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.plagiarism.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Krusty says this when his opera act starts to go south.
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* ShoutOut: [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.

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* ShoutOut: TakeThat: According to an Italian police book, [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.
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The Simpsons are going to Italy...to help Mr. Burns retrieve his sports car, and end up in an Italian village where Sideshow Bob is now married with a son.

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* LoopholeAbuse: Mr. Burns had Homer bring his new car from Italy to save tax money.
* ShoutOut: [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] is wanted for plagiarism and [[AmericanDad Stan Smith]] for plagiarism of plagiarism.

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