History Recap / TheSimpsonsS21E2BartGetsAZ

* ShoutOut: The self-help book that Bart gets Krabappel, "The Answer", is a parody of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(book) The Secret]]''. Allegedly, the book can tell you what is your dream, and it tells Krabappel that her dream is to bake muffins.

* AdultsAreUseless: Zack clearly heard Homer admit he abuse Bart when he said the drawing will [[ImpliedDeathThreat really represent his last birthday]] but he actually buy Homer lies and don't even bother to investigate.

* IgnoringBySinging: As Zack rants that the school is letting all of its students down, Skinner instructs the students to do this.

* OffModel: During the close up of the candy bar Edna has for breakfast, the pink sleeve of her house coat can be seen. However the next shot featuring Edna has her in her regular outfit.

* BaitAndSwitch: Bart tries on the third act to spike Zack's (the new teacher's) coffee in the same way as he and his classmates spiked Krabappel's, but he cannot bring himself to do so out of guilt for what Krabappel is going through and confesses doing this to Skinner... who will not hire Krabappel back because Zack is doing a very good job. The dilemma is taken out of their hands when it turns out that Zack drinks coffee with vodka, which he does in school right on that moment and turns him into a belligerent drunk that insults all of the kids and tells them that they have no future. Groundskeeper Willie drags Zack away after that with the remark "It's always the good ones that go crazy the fastest".

* CoolTeacher: [[EnthusiasticNewbieTeacher Brand-new Tufts University graduate]] Zack Vaughn's first order of business is to give the kids their confiscated phones back, since unlike [[TheArtifact early 90s relic Edna Krabappel]] he's hip enough to use 2009 technology as an educational tool, and his methods of engaging his class using text messages and viral videos prove highly effective. The episode goes on to explain why teachers like him are nonexistent at Springfield Elementary: it's ''such'' a SuckySchool that anyone with enough perspective to see how badly it's letting its students down will GoMadFromTheRevelation.

* ArtifactTitle: The title is of course a CallBack to Season 2's "Bart Gets an F" (similar to "Bart's Dog Gets an F" and "Lisa Gets an A"), but while most viewers read it as referring to Edna's replacement Zack as the "Z" that Bart gets, according to writer Matt Selman, it originally described a literal event in the episode, where Zack's drunken rant began with him giving all the students [[FMinusMinus Z grades]]. Even after the scene was rewritten, the staff liked the title enough to keep it.

* ArtifactTitle: The title is of course a CallBack to Season 2's "Bart Gets an F" (similar to "Bart's Dog Gets an F" and "Lisa Gets an A"), but while most viewers read it as a referring to Edna's replacement Zack as the "Z" that Bart gets, according to writer Matt Selman, it originally described a literal event in the episode, where Zack's drunken rant began with him giving all the students [[FMinusMinus Z grades]]. Even after the scene was rewritten, the staff liked the title enough to keep it.

* CoolTeacher: [[EnthusiasticNewbieTeacher Brand-new Tufts University graduate]] Zack Vaughn's first order of business is to give the kids their confiscated phones back, since unlike [[TheArtifact 1990 relic Edna Krabappel]] he's hip enough to use 2009 technology as an educational tool, and his methods of engaging his class using text messages and viral videos prove highly effective. The episode goes on to explain why teachers like him are nonexistent at Springfield Elementary: it's ''such'' a SuckySchool that anyone with enough perspective to see how badly it's letting its students down will GoMadFromTheRevelation.

* ItsAllMyFault: Technically, Mrs. Krabappel's entire class--right down to TeachersPet Martin Prince--was in on the plot to get her drunk and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill each student contributed]] [[KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet his or her own personally-pilfered alcohol]]. While it was still Bart's fault in that the scheme was his idea and the others took their marching orders from him, no one else was fussed enough about it to own up or try to make things right.

* KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet: Bart describes having his 4th-grade classmates get alcohol as "the easy part" of his plan, and we're treated to a montage of how various kids accomplish it: Milhouse opens his parents' cabinet with a crowbar, prissy Martin Prince breaks open his mom's chocolate liqueurs, Dr. Hibbert's son draws wine straight through the cork of the bottle with his dad's syringe, and Nelson grabs stray drinks at the strip club while the patrons are distracted by his mom's routine. Ironically given [[TheAlcoholic his household]], Bart is the only one who orders out (lying about his age online to receive a shipment of "Absolut Krusty").

* ItsAllMyFault: Technically, Mrs. Krabappel's entire class--right down to TeachersPet Martin Prince--was in on the plot to get her drunk and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill each student contributed]] [[KidsRaidingTheWineCabinet his or her own personally-pilfered alcohol]]. While it was still Bart's fault in that the scheme was his idea, nobody else owned up or tried to make things right.

* ArtifactTitle: The title is of course a CallBack to Season 2's "Bart Gets an F" (similar to "Bart's Dog Gets an F" and "Lisa Gets an A"), but while most viewers read it as a referring to Edna's replacement Zack as the "Z" that Bart gets, according to writer Matt Selman, it originally described an actual event in the episode, where Zack's drunken rant began with him giving all the students [[FMinusMinus Z grades]]. Even after the scene was rewritten, the staff liked the title enough to keep it.