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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Homer and Bart wrap up their B-plot in record time by befriending the raccoons that are stealing their homemade beef jerky so that they can involve themselves in the main plot with Lisa. The first story winds up coming back around when they use one of the raccoons as an agent to steal all the cigarettes from the dancers' bags backstage.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: After the dancers desperately look for stuff that could be used as cigarette replacements, Lisa makes a speech against a horrible addiction: ballet.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: After the dancers desperately look for stuff that could be used as cigarette replacements, Lisa makes a speech against a horrible addiction: known health hazard that stunts your growth and is marketed toward children: ballet.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Homer expresses disgust saying how it easy it is in the country for girls to smoke, right as he's putting away his gun in his coat full of weapons in broad daylight.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Homer expresses disgust saying how it easy it is in the country for girls to smoke, right as he's putting away his gun in his coat full of weapons firearms in broad daylight.
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* StageMom: Marge encourages Lisa to take ballet in order to fulfill her dream of being a ballet dancer.
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* StageMom: Marge encourages Lisa to take ballet in order to fulfill her dream of being a ballet dancer.dancer.
* WalkingArsenal: Homer for one singular HypocriticalHumor gag.
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* WalkingArsenal: Homer for one singular HypocriticalHumor gag.
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-->'''Homer''': Cut one and you get two, you can't defeat that!
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-->'''Homer''': Cut one and When you get two, you can't cut them, they multiply! I can’t defeat that!
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-->'''Homer:''' I can't believe you were smoking. Do you know the [[{{Mondegreen}} sturgeon]] general said you're not supposed to?\\
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-->'''Homer:''' I can't believe you were smoking. Do you know the [[{{Mondegreen}} [[MondegreenGag sturgeon]] general said you're not supposed to?\\
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* RecklessGunUsage: When Homer spots Lisa about to smoke, he tosses her cigarette to the ground and shoots at it with a gun before he casually comments on how easy it is for kids to smoke in the country while he stores the gun in his coat full of weapons.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Homer expresses disgust saying how it easy it is in the country for girls to smoke, right as he's putting away his gun in his coat full of weapons in broad daylight.
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* MeatOVision: A non-food variant of this trope occurs in the middle of practice, with Lisa hallucinating the hands of a clock as a pair of cigarettes. The main ballet dancer is also experiencing this hallucination, as she tells Lisa that their next break is "when the big cigarette reaches 1".
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* IResembleThatRemark: Lisa says to Homer that he "never had to be thin and focused." Cut to Homer eating and a burger and asking what she said.
* MeatOVision: A non-food variant of this trope occurs in the middle of practice, with Lisa hallucinating the hands of a clock as a pair of cigarettes. The main ballet dancer is also experiencing this hallucination, as she tells Lisa that their next break is "when the big cigarettereaches 1".hits 9".
* MeatOVision: A non-food variant of this trope occurs in the middle of practice, with Lisa hallucinating the hands of a clock as a pair of cigarettes. The main ballet dancer is also experiencing this hallucination, as she tells Lisa that their next break is "when the big cigarette
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* OverprotectiveDad: Homer's reaction to Lisa almost smoking is to shoot the cigarette several times.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: Maggie gies another demonstartion of her unusual strength by overpowering Bart.
* OverprotectiveDad: Homer's reaction to Lisa almost smoking is to shoot the cigarette several times. However, he later ignores Maggie choking Bart after deciding that "Fatherhodd hurts [his] brain."
* OverprotectiveDad: Homer's reaction to Lisa almost smoking is to shoot the cigarette several times. However, he later ignores Maggie choking Bart after deciding that "Fatherhodd hurts [his] brain."
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* DoorStopper: The "Angelica Button" book is so big that it leaves an indent in asphalt when thrown out a car window.
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* StageMom: Marge encourages Lisa to take ballet in order to fulfill her dream of being a ballet dancer.
* WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner: The couch gag.
* WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner: The couch gag.
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* StageMom: Marge encourages Lisa to take ballet in order to fulfill her dream of being a ballet dancer.
* WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner: The couch gag.dancer.
* WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner: The couch gag.
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* DominoMask: Homer equips a raccoon with one right before sending the raccoon to steal all the ballerinas' cigarettes. The mask doesn't change the raccoon's appearance at all.
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* MeatOVision: A non-food variant of this trope occurs in the middle of practice, with Lisa hallucinating the hands of a clock as a pair of cigarettes. The main ballet dancer is also experiencing this hallucination, as she tells Lisa that their next break is "when the big cigarette reaches 1".
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* ShoutOut:
** Lisa gives a brief synopsis of an [[VerySpecialEpisode anti-smoking episode]] of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''.
** Bart rising from a pile of leg warmers echoes the shot from ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' of Willard rising from the mud.
* SimilarSquad: The family of raccoons are quite similar to the Simpson family, complete with the Homer raccoon strangling the Bart raccoon, and even the Lisa raccoon being a vegetarian, eating an acorn instead of the jerky.
** Lisa gives a brief synopsis of an [[VerySpecialEpisode anti-smoking episode]] of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''.
** Bart rising from a pile of leg warmers echoes the shot from ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' of Willard rising from the mud.
* SimilarSquad: The family of raccoons are quite similar to the Simpson family, complete with the Homer raccoon strangling the Bart raccoon, and even the Lisa raccoon being a vegetarian, eating an acorn instead of the jerky.
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* RuleOfThree: Marge has three stethoscopes at home. One is from her childhood dream of becoming a doctor; one is from she dreamed of being a safe cracker; and the third is from when she dreamed about being a stethoscope salesperson.
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* RuleOfThree: Marge has three stethoscopes at home. One is from her childhood dream of becoming a doctor; one is from she dreamed her dream of being a safe cracker; and the third is from when she dreamed about being a stethoscope salesperson.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
-->'''Homer:''' I can't believe you were smoking. Do you know the [[{{Mondegreen}} sturgeon]] general said you're not supposed to?\\
'''Lisa:''' A sturgeon is a fish.\\
'''Homer:''' And a very wise fish he is!
-->'''Homer:''' I can't believe you were smoking. Do you know the [[{{Mondegreen}} sturgeon]] general said you're not supposed to?\\
'''Lisa:''' A sturgeon is a fish.\\
'''Homer:''' And a very wise fish he is!
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-->'''Homer''': Cut one and you get two, you can't defeat that!
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* BalletEpisode
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* BalletEpisodeBalletEpisode: For Lisa.
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* CallBack: In the previous season's "Jazzy and the Pussycats", Homer at one point mentions trying to become a Mexican wrestler. At the end of the episode, when Marge says she's learned that she shouldn't make her children carry out her dream career, Bart asks Homer if that means he can stop training to be a Mexican wrestler (To which Homer says no and makes him practice right there and then).
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* CallBack: In the previous season's "Jazzy and the Pussycats", Homer at one point mentions trying to become a Mexican wrestler. At the end of the episode, when Marge says she's learned that she shouldn't make her children carry learns AnAesop about parents not living out her dream career, their career dreams through their kids, Bart asks Homer if that means he can stop training to be a Mexican wrestler (To (to which Homer says no and makes him practice right there and then).
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* SmokingIsCool: The ballet dancers think this, as smoking helps them focus in their lessons.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Lisa at first thinks this, until she has a dream where it's revealed her feminist heroes used to smoke too, so she begins inhaling the secondhand smoke from her classmates. In the end, Lisa begins using nicotine patches for kids.
* SmokingIsNotCool: Lisa at first thinks this, until she has a dream where it's revealed her feminist heroes used to smoke too, so she begins inhaling the secondhand smoke from her classmates. In the end, Lisa begins using nicotine patches for kids.
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* HandyFeet: One of the ballet dancers shows Lisa her ability to light and smoke a cigarette using only her toes.
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* CallBack: In the previous season's "Jazzy and the Pussycats", Homer at one point mentions trying to become a Mexican wrestler. At the end of the episode, when Marge says she's learned that she shouldn't make her children carry out her dream career, Bart asks Homer if that means he can stop training to be a Mexican wrestler (To which Homer says no and makes him practice right there and then).
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* MonumentOfHumiliationAndDefeat: Apparently, after Homer [[NoodleIncident lost his war with the earthworms]], they had him construct one of these.
-->'''Bart''': Dad, you never win a fight with animals. Remember when you lost that war with the worms?
-->'''Homer''': That was not a defeat, that was a phased withdrawal.
-->'''Bart''': Oh, yeah? They made you build this statue! ''(points at statue of Homer bowing before a worm, titled "Worms are better than me")''
-->'''Bart''': Dad, you never win a fight with animals. Remember when you lost that war with the worms?
-->'''Homer''': That was not a defeat, that was a phased withdrawal.
-->'''Bart''': Oh, yeah? They made you build this statue! ''(points at statue of Homer bowing before a worm, titled "Worms are better than me")''
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* WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner: The couch gag.
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* WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner: WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner: The couch gag.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: After the dancers desperately look for stuff that could be used as cigarette replacements, Lisa makes a speech against a horrible addiction: ballet.
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* RetroactiveWish: While having sex with his lover, Mayor Quimby prays for a cigarette. Right after that, the cigarettes Homer and Lisa stole from the dancers and threw away land on him. He then thanks the Lord and offers one to the lover, who refuses because she's pregnant. Mayor Quimby then asks the Lord for another favor.
* RuleOfThree: Marge has three stethoscopes at home. One is from her childhood dream of becoming a doctor; one is from she dreamed of being a safe cracker; and the third is from when she dreamed about being a stethoscope salesperson.
* RuleOfThree: Marge has three stethoscopes at home. One is from her childhood dream of becoming a doctor; one is from she dreamed of being a safe cracker; and the third is from when she dreamed about being a stethoscope salesperson.
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StageMom: Marge encourages Lisa to take ballet in order to fulfill her dream of being a ballet dancer.
* WileECoyoteandTheRoadRunner: The couchgag.
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* WileECoyoteandTheRoadRunner: The couch
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* OverprotectiveDad: Homer's reaction to Lisa almost smoking is to shoot the cigarette several times.
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* CouldntFindALighter: One of the girls uses her finger as a lighter.
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* CouldntFindALighter:CouldntFindALighter: One of the girls uses her finger as a lighter.
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* MustHaveNicotine: The ballet dancers.
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dancers when they lose their cigarettes.
*OfCourseISmoke: LisaStageMom
* MustHaveNicotine: The ballet
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* Ballet Episode
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* Ballet EpisodeBalletEpisode
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Lisa takes up ballet and becomes addicted to the secondhand smoke from the other dancers; Homer and Bart meet a family of raccoons that have eaten Homer's beef jerky stash.
!!Tropes:
*Ballet Episode:
*CircleOfShame: Comic Book Guy in line waiting in line for the Angelina Button book release.
*MustHaveNicotine: The ballet dancers.
*OfCourseISmoke: Lisa
*WileECoyoteandTheRoadRunner: The couch gag.
Lisa takes up ballet and becomes addicted to the secondhand smoke from the other dancers; Homer and Bart meet a family of raccoons that have eaten Homer's beef jerky stash.
!!Tropes:
*Ballet Episode:
*CircleOfShame: Comic Book Guy in line waiting in line for the Angelina Button book release.
*MustHaveNicotine: The ballet dancers.
*OfCourseISmoke: Lisa
*WileECoyoteandTheRoadRunner: The couch gag.
