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* BrainyBaby: Two-year-old Lisa is nearly as articulate and smart as her eight-year-old counterpart, pulling a WoundedGazelleGambit on the bullies and correctly understanding the meaning of the word "crown" (referring to Jack's head rather than, as Bart assumes, a literal crown) in the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill."
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* HypocriticalHumor: Homer strangles Bart for hitting Lisa with the Phonic Frog. Bart picks up a lamp and smashes it on Homer's head to save himself. Homer's response to Bart's behavior?
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* Homer strangles Bart for hitting Lisa with the Phonic Frog. Bart picks up a lamp and smashes it on Homer's head to save himself. Homer's response to Bart's behavior?
* Homer strangles Bart for hitting Lisa with the Phonic Frog. Bart picks up a lamp and smashes it on Homer's head to save himself. Homer's response to Bart's behavior?
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* TooDumbToLive: Bart's been warned of stranger danger and, seeing strangers on the sidewalk, drives his tricycle into heavy traffic to avoid them. He's promptly outdone by Ralph Wiggum:
-->'''Ralph:''' Your brother is stupid! ''([[HypocriticalHumor He stands inside the tire of a moving truck and sings as it rolls away]])''
-->'''Ralph:''' Your brother is stupid! ''([[HypocriticalHumor He stands inside the tire of a moving truck and sings as it rolls away]])''
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Bart and Lisa get trapped on top of the Springfield Tire Fire, and Homer bends a tree for them to reach. The branch he's holding breaks, sending them shooting across town...straight through the window of their bedroom for a safe landing on Bart's clown bed.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Bart and Lisa get trapped on top of the Springfield Tire Fire, and Homer bends a nearby tree for them to reach. The branch he's holding breaks, sending them shooting across town...straight through the window of their bedroom for a safe landing on Bart's clown bed.
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* SiblingRivalry: The classic rivalry between Bart and Lisa was ''much'' worse when Bart was four and Lisa was two, to the point where the current Bart and Lisa are [[EveryoneHasStandards quite confused by all of Homer's pictures of them fighting]] and wonder how they ever developed "the uneasy alliance we enjoy today]].
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* SiblingRivalry: The classic rivalry between Bart and Lisa was ''much'' worse when Bart was four and Lisa was two, to the point where the current Bart and Lisa are [[EveryoneHasStandards quite confused by all of Homer's pictures of them fighting]] and wonder how they ever developed "the uneasy alliance we enjoy today]]. today."
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* SiblingRivalry: The classic rivalry between Bart and Lisa was ''much'' worse when Bart was four and Lisa was two, to the point where the current Bart and Lisa are [[EveryoneHasStandards quite confused by all of Homer's pictures of them fighting]] and wonder how they ever developed "the uneasy alliance we enjoy today]].
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-->'''Marge:''' It all began six years ago. The president of back then was [[TriviallyObvious the president]]. [[ShapedLikeItself The popular music of those times was all the rage]].
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-->'''Marge:''' It all began six years ago. [[ShapedLikeItself The president of back then was [[TriviallyObvious the president]]. [[ShapedLikeItself president. The popular music of those times was all the rage]].
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* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Spoofing the introductions of similar [[WholeEpisodeFlashback flashback episodes]] in earlier seasons of the LongRunner, which clearly anchored the stories in specific years before ComicBookTime got stretched to its breaking point:
-->'''Marge:''' It all began six years ago. The president of back then was [[TriviallyObvious the president]]. [[ShapedLikeItself The popular music of those times was all the rage]].
-->'''Marge:''' It all began six years ago. The president of back then was [[TriviallyObvious the president]]. [[ShapedLikeItself The popular music of those times was all the rage]].
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-->'''Marge:''' It all began six years ago. The president of back then was the president. The popular music of those times was all the rage.
-->'''Marge:''' It all began six years ago. The president of back then was the president. The popular music of those times was all the rage.
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* InvisiblePresident: Variant. It’s It's mentioned that the President in the flashback was "the President.""
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Moe develops the photos and Marge thinks he's asking her if she'd like a "matte" finish. He just means he'll write "[[Creator/MattGroening Matt]]" in the right-hand corner.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Moe develops the photos and Marge thinks he's asking her if she'd like a "matte" finish. He just means he'll write "[[Creator/MattGroening Matt]]" in the right-hand corner.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When Bart and Lisa ask the young Milhouse for help, he runs into his house to get Kirk, only to be immediately distracted by a cartoon on TV. Then Kirk walks in...and is immediately distracted by the same cartoon.
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* UninhibitedMusclePower: When Bart and Lisa get trapped on top of the Springfield Tire Fire, Marge mentions that she's read about parents gaining hysterical strength when their kids are in danger. Homer says he's "kind of feeling it." Then Marge adds that they just bought them new shoes, causing Homer to bend an ''entire tree'' down to where the kids can reach it.
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-->'''Marge:''' It all began six years ago. The president of back then was the president. The popular music of those times was all the rage.
-->'''Marge:''' It all began six years ago. The president of back then was the president. The popular music of those times was all the rage.
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* AdultFear: Bart and Lisa escaping into town on their own is about the only time when Marge and Homer are worried about them [[FreeRangeChildren being out by themselves]]. Of course, they were much younger at this point in time.
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* TheRunaway: Bart and Lisa escaping into town on their own is about the only time when Marge and Homer are worried about them [[FreeRangeChildren being out by themselves]]. Of course, they were much younger at this point in time.
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* UselessBystanderParent: While looking at the photos of Bart and Lisa fighting and picking on each other, Marge questions Homer, who took the pictures, why he didn't intervene. Homer's answer is that the light was too perfect to step in.
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* InvisiblePresident: Variant. It’s mentioned that the President in the flashback was “the President”.
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* AdultFear: Bart and Lisa escaping into town on their own is about the only time when Marge and Homer are worried about them [[FreeRangeChildren being out by themselves]]. Of course, they were much younger at this point in time.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The majority of the story takes place six years prior when Bart was 4 and Lisa was 2. They were fighting so much that Marge and Homer were at their wits end; during a brunch double-date with the Flanders, Bart and Lisa end up escaping their babysitter and go on an adventure around town.
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** Ditto Grandma Flanders from the same episode.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Even pedal cars, apparently!
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* HypocriticalHumor: Homer strangles Bart for hitting Lisa with the Phonic Frog. Bart picks up a lamp and smashes it on Homer's head to save himself. Homer's response to Bart's behavior?
-->'''Homer''': Where is he learning all this violence?
-->'''Homer''': Where is he learning all this violence?
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* TakeThat: Moe claims Bart and Lisa used to fight "like creationists and common sense".
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* CallBack: Bart's monster clown bed makes it's first appearance since "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E10LisasFirstWord Lisa's First Word]]" way back in season 4.
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* CallBack: Bart's monster clown bed makes it's first appearance since 'Lisa's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E10LisasFirstWord Lisa's First Word' Word]]" way back in season 4.
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* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler:At At the end of the episode, Homer is called out for giving the story three different endings.]]
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Homer ''shoots'' a pizza the guys want him to help eat to show he's more concerned about his lost kids.
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The discovery of an old film strip prompts Homer to tell the story of Bart and Lisa's sibling rivalry when they were younger.
!! Tropes:
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] While Homer and Marge were looking for Bart and Lisa, Homer entered a municipal building and started telling about the missing kids until Marge interrupted him because the building served as headquarters for social services.
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, Homer is called out for giving the story three different endings.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Back when Bart and Lisa were younger, she pulled one to trick some bullies into leaving Bart alone.
!! Tropes:
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] While Homer and Marge were looking for Bart and Lisa, Homer entered a municipal building and started telling about the missing kids until Marge interrupted him because the building served as headquarters for social services.
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, Homer is called out for giving the story three different endings.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Back when Bart and Lisa were younger, she pulled one to trick some bullies into leaving Bart alone.
