History Recap / TheSimpsonsS18E17MargeGamer

* ContinuityNod: When Marge looks herself up on ''Website/{{Google}}'', three of the [[FreezeFrameBonus website links]] she recieves from the search engine reference [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E9RealtyBites her brief career in real estate]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E20TheWayWeWerent her time in Camp Landaman]], and [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E7IceCreamOfMargieWithTheLightBlueHair her popsicle stick sculptures earlier this season]].

* BadassBaritone: The Shadow Knight's voice is very deep when his helmet is on, not so much when it is off.

* StealthPun: The word "gamer" in the title is an anagram of Marge's name.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: According to Moe, the Shadow Knight once beat his character to death [[NinjaProp with his own life bar]]. The Shadow Knight himself later gets an incredibly bloody death when he is blinded, loses his limbs, and later gets disemboweled.

* {{Satire}}: Marge's reaction to the standard elfic female character followed by the line "Who designed this character? Probably a man!", is a satirical take on the prejudice of puritanical and average-looking women that only men, particularly heterosexual men, design and draw beautiful and alluring female characters (proceeding then to create an extremely average-looking character resembling her, as proof of her narcissism and hypocrisy), while in reality countless female artists design and draw beautiful and sexually appealing female characters along with male ones. This is particularly noticeable in the fanfiction artist communities and in the Japanese and Korean anime, manga and video game industries.

* {{Satire}}: Marge's reaction to the standard elfic female character followed by the line "Who designed this character? Probably a man!", is a satirical take on the prejudice of puritanical and average-looking women that only men, particularly heterosexual men, design and draw beautiful and alluring female characters (proceeding then to create an extremely average-looking character resembling her, as proof of her narcissism and hypocrisy), while in reality countless female artists design and draw beautiful and sexually appealing female characters along with male ones. This is particularly noticeable in the fanfiction artist communities and in the Japanese and Korean anime, manga and video game industries.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: {{Parodied}}. "Moe" proves unusually helpful to Homer and Bart because he's an identical imposter.

* DeusExMachina: A Moe lookalike, who has the considerably less-helpful real Moe tied up behind the bar, gives Homer and Bart the exact advice they need to solve their respective problems.

* TheBartender: {{Parodied}} and PlayedForLaughs. Moe gives Homer and Bart, who have drifted to his bar at a loss, some sound, sane advice for solving their respective problems with Lisa and Marge. Since Moe isn't usually like this at all, Homer jokes, "What have you done with the real Moe?" and they all have share a laugh...as the camera pans away to reveal that the real Moe ''is'', in fact, BoundAndGagged in the room behind the bar.

* BigDamnHeroes: The Shadow Knight saves Marge from Ralph, Jimbo, and Kearney when they prepare to eat her.

* RealityEnsues: Bart gives up two-thirds of his lifeforce in order to bring Marge back from the dead. The Shadow Knight has been shown to be a person who ruthlessly kills people in the game completely unnecessarily and often times just does it for his own amusement, and it's implied he has been doing this for a long time. The second they figure out that the Shadow Knight is now terribly weakened, they immediately storm his castle to finish the job.

* BloodierAndGorier: The Shadow Knight's death is pretty gruesome by the standards of this show. It involves him being [[EyeScream stabbed in the eye]], [[GroinAttack kicked in the "jewels"]], beaten with his own severed limbs and disembowelled. Then people dance around with his entrails as if they were party streamers.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the UK, the Channel 4 reruns of this episode cut out the scene where Bart saves Marge's avatar from Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney by chopping their heads off.

* TakeThat

* WorfHadTheFlu: The only reason the Shadow Knight falls before all of the other characters is due to the fact he lost two thirds of his life force to bring Marge back to life along with sheer numbers, despite the fact he still technically should have been able to fight them.

-->'''Bart:''' Mom, you're making me look bad in front of my minions.
-->'''Marge:''' If they think less of you because of me, then they're not really your minions.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: According to Moe, the Shadow Knight once beat his character to death with his own life bar. The Shadow Knight himself later gets an incredibly bloody death when he is blinded, loses his limbs, and later gets disembowelled.

* WorthIt: When Bart's enemies in the game are about to kill his character, he threatens to egg their homes in real life. Ms. Krabappel says it'll be worth it before [[EyeScream stabbing him in the eye]]. Mr Largo says he lives in a log right before he delivers a GroinAttack.

** Bart's character, the Shadow Knight, is visually based on Arthas the Lich King from ''WorldOfWarcraft''
** The MMO game's title Earthland Realms sounds like ''ForgottenRealms'', one of the world settings of DungeonsAndDragons.

* BloodierAndGorier: The Shadow Knight's death is one of the few times the Simpsons enters Family Guy violence, even if the death itself is tame by Family Guy standards.

* WorthIt: When Bart's enemies in the game are about to kill his character, he threatens to egg their homes in real life. Ms. Krabappel says it'll be worth it before [[EyeScream stabbing him in the eye]].

* ContinuityNod: When Marge looks herself up on ''Website/{{Google}}'', three of the website links she recieves from the search engine reference [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E9RealtyBites her brief career in real estate]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E20TheWayWeWerent her time in Camp Landaman]], and [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E7IceCreamOfMargieWithTheLightBlueHair her popsicle stick sculptures earlier this season]].

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Marge Googles herself, the first result is a callback to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E7IceCreamOfMargieWithTheLightBlueHair Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)]]".