History Recap / TheSimpsonsS20E2LostVerizon

* BrokenAesop: Yes, Marge keeping an eye on the boy who did a transparent act of vandalism the whole episode is smothering.

** Bart starts using Creator/DenisLeary's phone to cause a ruckus while pretending to be Dennis Leary, drives a forklift ''with Milhouse on it'', tricks Leary to play bad roles, and finally leads his family on a search for him and enjoys his time alone at home without being concerned over how worried his family are over him.

* SomethingWeForgot: The family goes to and from Machu Picchu looking for Bart, and once they are back on Springfield Lisa asks if they feel like they missed something. GilliganCut to Maggie, who was left behind in Machu Picchu, being worshipped by an indigenous cult.

* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime: Not content to remove the tracking device from his phone, Bart attaches it to a bird, sending his worried family on a wild tanager chase while he enjoys having the house to himself. What he doesn't realize is that the bird is ''migrating'', resulting in his being left alone for two whole weeks as they fruitlessly search for them in South America. Marge doesn't even bring it up with him when they get home as it's clear he's been punished enough.

* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime: Not content to remove the tracking device from his phone, Bart attaches it to a bird, sending his family on a wild tanager chase while he enjoys having the house to himself. What he doesn't realize is that the bird is ''migrating'', resulting in his being left alone for two whole weeks as they fruitlessly search for them in South America. Marge doesn't even bring it up with him when they get home as it's clear he's been punished enough.

* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime: Not content to remove the tracking device from his phone, Bart attaches it to a bird, sending his family on a wild tanager chase while he enjoys having the house to himself. What he doesn't realize is that the bird is ''migrating'', resulting in his being left alone for two whole weeks. Marge doesn't even bring it up with him when they get home as it's clear he's been punished enough.

* ThePunishmentIsTheCrime: Not content to remove the tracking device from his phone, Bart attaches it to a bird, sending his family on a wild tanager chase while he enjoys having the house to himself. What he doesn't realize is that the bird is ''migrating'', resulting in him being left alone for two whole weeks. Marge doesn't even bring it up with him when they get home as it's clear he's been punished enough.

* ContinuityNod: After not having [[PrankCall prank-called]] [[RunningGag a bar]] since Season 13's "Homer the Moe," Bart relapses big-time, getting a bar directory and using his new cell phone to harass bartenders all over the world.

* ContinuityNod: After not having [[PrankCall prank-called]] [[RunningGag a bar]] since season 13's "Homer the Moe," Bart relapses big-time, getting a bar directory and using his new cell phone to harass bartenders all over the world.

** Lisa learns her family was chasing a bird called a [[SeldomSeenSpecies Scarlet Tanager]] and its migration pattern leads to Machu Picchu, which Lisa had expressed interest in visiting earlier in the episode. She "conveniently" neglects to tell her family this so she can go on the trip she wants.

* TookALevelInDumbass: Marge, she mistook a bird wearing Bart's tracking chip as him. All well and good but the bird was able to reach the Shelbyville Bird Sanctuary in mere minutes and was able to reach another country entirely. If she had been monitoring Bart for a week then she'd know this is an impossible feat and out-of Bart's character.
* TookALevelInJerkass:
** Bart starts using Creator/DenisLeary's phone to cause a ruckus while pretending to be Dennis Leary, drives a forklift ''with Milhouse on it'', tricks Leary to play bad roles, and finally leads his family on a search for him and enjoys his time alone at home without being concerned over how worried his family are over him.
** Marge activates the GPS in Bart's phone and uses it to spy on him around the clock and feels absolutely no shame for violating her son's privacy whatsoever.
** Lisa learns her family was chasing a bird called a [[SeldomSeenSpecies Scarlet Tanager]] and its migration pattern leads to Machu Picchu, which Lisa had expressed interest in visiting earlier in the episode. She "conveniently" neglects to tell her family this so she can go on the trip she wants.
** Although it's a quick gag before the end and NegativeContinuity (or them racing back) will fix it, the Simpsons still left Maggie (''a baby'') in Peru, and don't really start to catch up on that until they are back in the United States.