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* MeanBoss: Carl becomes this, although while not a bullying jerk he still takes too much advantage of being Homer's boss to make requests around the clock with [[ControlFreak overtly persnickety details]] to the point Homer just doesn't has any free time.
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* MeanBoss: Carl becomes this, although while not a bullying jerk he still takes too much advantage of being Homer's boss to make requests around the clock with [[ControlFreak overtly persnickety details]] to the point of Homer just doesn't has not having any free time.
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* DudeNotFunny: Homer used to mock a colleague by nicknaming him "spitty" until Carl told him of Spitty's condition.
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* DudeNotFunny: Homer used to mock a colleague by nicknaming him "spitty" until Carl told him of Spitty's condition.the condition Spitty [[note]]I mean, Smitty[[/note]] has
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* NonSequiturThud: After being bonked by Marge with a cricket mallet, Ned utters his famous "diddly" while dazed before passing out.
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* DirtyKid: Nelson and Milhouse have some pretty suggestive things to say about Marge's calendar shoot. [[ExtremelyProtectiveChild Bart is not happy]].
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* DirtyKid: Nelson and Milhouse have some pretty suggestive things to say about age-inappropriate commentary on Marge's calendar shoot. [[ExtremelyProtectiveChild Bart is not happy]].
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* AlliterativeName: C. Carl Carlson
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* AlliterativeName: C. Carl CarlsonCarlson.
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* [[invoked]]DudeNotFunny: Homer used to mock a colleague by nicknaming him "spitty" until Carl told him of Spitty's condition.
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* [[invoked]]DudeNotFunny: DirtyKid: Nelson and Milhouse have some pretty suggestive things to say about Marge's calendar shoot. [[ExtremelyProtectiveChild Bart is not happy]].
* DudeNotFunny: Homer used to mock a colleague by nicknaming him "spitty" until Carl told him of Spitty's condition.
* DudeNotFunny: Homer used to mock a colleague by nicknaming him "spitty" until Carl told him of Spitty's condition.
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* CharityWorkplaceCalendar: Some of the Springfield wives pose for a history themed "sexy" calendar. The end results is Marge being the one on all pages of the calendar thanks to the red wine the photographer gave her to help her loosen up to show more skin.
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** When Marge rolls up to church and realizes everyone's talking about her calendar, she's very nervous, but the congregation has nothing but positive things to say.
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Sarkozy was President of France when the episode aired in 2009.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Homer becoming friends with President Emmanuel Macron just as Carl starts an affair with Macron's wife. Carl [[OhCrap is instantly very nervous]] when Homer [[MyGodYouAreSerious provides proof of that]] and uses it to threaten Carl into letting him have free time with Marge.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Homer becoming friends with President Emmanuel Macron Nicolas Sarkozy just as Carl starts an affair with Macron's Sarkozy's wife. Carl [[OhCrap is instantly very nervous]] when Homer [[MyGodYouAreSerious provides proof of that]] and uses it to threaten Carl into letting him have free time with Marge.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Homer becoming friends with President Emmanuel Macron just as Carl starts an affair with Macron's wife. Carl [[OhCrap is instantly very nervous]] when Homer [[MyGodYouAreSerious provides proof of that]] and uses it to threaten Carl into letting him have free time with Marge.
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* MeanBoss: Carl becomes this, although while not a bullying jerk he still takes too much advantage of being Homer's boss to make requests around the clock with [[ControlFreak overtly persnickety details]] to the point Homer just doesn't has any free time.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Parodied. When Burns gives Carl a promotion Homer says that Carl will be just the same only for Carl to say over the PA that "he has become awful in ways the other employees can't possibly imagine". He then uses his new position to request Homer to do things in an overtly persnickety fashion at all hours of the day, killing any free time Homer may have.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After Marge ends up in an argument with Homer, Homer depressingly walks around France, constantly getting his hopes up with stuff that resembles Marge coming back to apologize.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After Marge ends up in an argument with Homer, Homer depressingly walks around France, constantly getting his hopes up with stuff that resembles Marge coming back goes to apologize.Carl to discuss how he took the name of an employee named Smitty and change it… to Spitty.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: We don't see the August page of the calendar but both Marge and Maggie find it very shocking (the latter even dropping the pacifier from her mouth.)
* WhenIWasYourAge: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] when Carl says "You know, Homer, when I was your age, it was the future, because I'm younger than you. Just, uh, something to think about."
* WhenIWasYourAge: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] when Carl says "You know, Homer, when I was your age, it was the future, because I'm younger than you. Just, uh, something to think about."
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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Homer knows about Carl's affair with the President of France's wife and uses this as blackmail to force Carl into giving Homer his old job back.
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** When Homer gets his old job back and surprises Marge by coming home, he sees her and Flanders hugging on the front porch. Homer clenches his fist and angrily asks himself "Is Marge having an affair with my worst friend?" before shrugging "Nah" and politely greets Ned as he takes Marge inside.
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* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: With Homer gone a lot more often, Marge contemplates an affair with Flanders. Flanders appears tempted himself, but they were never really going to go through with it.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: After the surprise positive reaction to her photoshoot Marge was in a very frisky mood, but Homer's new job left him too physically and mentally exhausted for anything. An ImagineSpot representation of her excitement was a large cruise liner ship named SS Libido being powered by numerous muscular men shoveling coal. Homer's ImagineSpot was an old man unable to get his tiny fishing boat started, and [[CementShoes committed suicide by dropping the motor into the water with him tied to it]].
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: After the surprise positive reaction to her photoshoot Marge was in a very frisky mood, but Homer's new job left him too physically and mentally exhausted for anything. An ImagineSpot representation of her excitement was a large cruise liner ship named SS Libido being powered by numerous muscular men shoveling coal. Homer's ImagineSpot was an old man unable to get his tiny fishing boat started, and [[CementShoes committed suicide by dropping the motor into the water with him tied to it]].
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* StacysMom: Marge gets a lot of attention for her scandalous photoshoot, which she ends up being okay with. But Bart has to deal with everyone, including Skinner and Chalmers, having a copy of the calendar.
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Marge becomes the Ms. Fanservice of Springfield after sexy pictures of her end up on a charity calendar. Meanwhile, Homer becomes Carl's personal assistant.
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In this episode written by Tim Long, Marge becomes the Ms. Fanservice of Springfield after sexy pictures of her end up on a charity calendar. Meanwhile, Homer becomes Carl's personal assistant.
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* AlliterativeName: C. Carl Carlson
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* MysteriousMiddleInitial: C. Carl Carlson
* OffingTheOffspring: Ned Flanders would rather put stones in his sons' pockets and throw them at sea than let them live with homosexuals.
* OffingTheOffspring: Ned Flanders would rather put stones in his sons' pockets and throw them at sea than let them live with homosexuals.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After Marge ends up in an argument with Homer, Homer depressingly walks around France, constantly getting his hopes up with stuff that resembles Marge coming back to apologize.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Homer knows about Carl's affair with the President of France's wife and uses this as blackmail to force Carl into giving Homer his old job back.
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* DudeNotFunny: Homer used to mock a colleague by nicknaming him "spitty" until Carl told him of Spitty's condition.
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* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]]DudeNotFunny: Homer used to mock a colleague by nicknaming him "spitty" until Carl told him of Spitty's condition.condition.
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* BlatantLies: The stink bomb party Bart's attending next to Janey's has nothing to do with the tea party at Janey's.
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Marge becomes the Ms. Fanservice of Springfield after sexy pictures of her end up on a charity calendar. Meanwhile, Homer becomes Carl's personal assistant.
!! Tropes:
* DudeNotFunny: Homer used to mock a colleague by nicknaming him "spitty" until Carl told him of Spitty's condition.
!! Tropes:
* DudeNotFunny: Homer used to mock a colleague by nicknaming him "spitty" until Carl told him of Spitty's condition.
