History Recap / TheSimpsonsS21E13TheColorYellow

* ComicallySmallBribe: Deconstructed. Hiram sells out Vergil to Col. Burns in exchange for a random prize, which is a pair of new shoes. As a result of this poor showing of moral character, his wife Mabel leaves him to help Virgil escape for good, and when Virgil and Mabel get married, he has to give up one of his shoes to them, which is clearly a blow to him since he pettily keeps the laces. His actions cost him much of his miniscule bribe in the end.

* FoodAsBribe: Virgil manages to win Hiram's favor by making his special hot cakes.

* ThisIsThePartWhere: After blowing up a school stump, Bart tells Willie about the "My Kea" part of the explosion. Cue the stump falling on Skinner's Kea car.

** Before the commercial break, Lisa reads from Eliza's diary who's excited to get her first ''slave''. It then reads that she's excited to her first slave ''to freedom''.

* IGaveMyWord: Hiram Simpson told about his oath to make Col. Burns stop trying to beat Virgil's whereabouts out of him. Col. Burns then decided to bribe Hiram.

* ComicallySmallBribe: Deconstructed. Hiram sells out Vergil to Col. Burns in exchange for a random prize, which is a pair of new shoes. As a result of this poor showing of moral character, his wife Mabel leaves him to help Virgil escape for good, and when Virgil and Mabel get married, he has to give up one of his shoes to them, which is clearly a blow to him since he pettily keeps the laces. His actions cost him much of his miniscule in the end.

* AllForNothing: Hiram sells out Vergil to Col. Burns in exchange for a pair of new shoes. As a result, his wife leaves him to help Vergil escape for good, and when Vergil and Mabel get married, he has to give up one of his shoes to them, which is clearly a blow to him since he pettily keeps the laces. His actions cost him more than they earned him in the end.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Milford Van Houten (Milhouse's ancestor) was so disgusted at Eliza's inability to stand up to Col. Burns that he didn't want to look at her again. Though it's shown in Eliza's video interview that they did get married as adults.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Judging by her expression in the wedding photo in the old film Lisa watches, Eliza was not all that happy to marry Milhouses ancestor.
* BaitAndSwitch:

* BittersweetEnding: Eliza was left behind by her mother with her father and lived the rest of her life regretting her act of cowardice, but Mabel and Virgil did managed to escape to Canada, Lisa finds out that she does have noble ancestors and might not even be related to many of the horrible ones.

** The Simpsons didn't arrive in America until the early 1900s when Abe was a child, as seen in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E23MuchApuAboutNothing "Much Apu About Nothing"]] (although Abe's ancestors ''are'' shown living in Canada at the end of the episode, not the U.S.) Granted, Abe's stories aren't the most reliable of sources.

* BaitAndSwitch: In Eliza's story.

* SeriesContinuityError: The Simpsons didn't arrive in America until the early 1900s when Abe was a child, as seen in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E23MuchApuAboutNothing "Much Apu About Nothing"]] (although Abe's ancestors ''are'' shown living in Canada at the end of the episode, not the U.S.) Granted, Abe's stories aren't the most reliable of sources.
** Also, Lisa should have known that not everyone on Homer's side of the family is an idiot, a criminal, a freak, a sexual deviant, or a failure, as seen in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E17LisaTheSimpson "Lisa the Simpson"]], when she learns that all the women on Homer's side of the family (save for Homer's half-brother, Herb, who, despite going broke twice, was a fairly successful businessman) are smart, emotionally mature, and are in high-paying, respectable careers. And why didn't she think to look into Marge's side of the family for good family members, or Mona's side of the family before she married Abe?

* EveryoneHasStandards: Milford Van Houten (Milhouse's ancestor) was so disgusted at Eliza's inability to stand up to Col. Burns that he didn't want to look at her again.

* BittersweetEnding: Mabel and Virgil managed to escape to Canada, Lisa finds out that she does have noble ancestors and might not even be related to many of the horrible ones, but Eliza was left behind by her mother with her father and lived the rest of her life regretting her act of cowardice.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Homer takes the diary from Lisa to stop her from reading about her one good ancestor. Saying that if she keeps reading she'll only be disappointed. He's right.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When meeting the Krusty Expy Virgil show talent in the Violin, Bart, Lisa and Homer have shown talent in music showing him as the true simpsons ancestor

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When meeting the Krusty [[Expy]] Virgil show talent in the Violin, Bart, Lisa and Homer have shown talent in music showing him as the true simpsons ancestor

* Foreshadowing: When meeting the Krusty [[Expy]] Virgil show talent in the Violin, Bart, Lisa and Homer have shown talent in music showing him as the true simpsons ancestor

* MixedAncestry: It would turn out that Mabel left Hiram and married Virgil, who took her last name and had a son that would go on to father the current family's branch of the Simpson family. Making Lisa and Bart 1/64th black. Abe hid this secret because he feared the reactions of bigots if they found out.

** Also, Lisa should have known that not everyone on Homer's side of the family is an idiot, a criminal, a freak, a sexual deviant, or a failure, as seen in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E17LisaTheSimpsons "Lisa the Simpson"]], when she learns that all the women on Homer's side of the family (save for Homer's half-brother, Herb, who, despite going broke twice, was a fairly successful businessman) are smart, emotionally mature, and are in high-paying, respectable careers. And why didn't she think to look into Marge's side of the family for good family members, or Mona's side of the family before she married Abe?

* UndergroundRailroad: Or, as Bart believes it should be called, "Aboveground Normalroad".

* ImprobableAge: Mr. Burns reacts to mentions of the Civil War era Col. Burns with "I haven't heard my father's name in years."