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* KidsDrivingCars: Apparently all of Cletus's kids can drive.
* MotiveDecay: Burns doesn't really care about Marge's mother anymore, he just wanted to be a dick to Abe.

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* KidsDrivingCars: Apparently Apparently, all of Cletus's kids can drive.
* MotiveDecay: Burns doesn't really care about Marge's mother anymore, mother, anymore; he just wanted to be a dick to Abe.
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* OffModel: Hoppy, Duffman's scarlet macaw, would sometimes be shown with three toes pointing forward and one pointing back. In other scenes, he has two toes pointing forward and two pointing back (correct for a parrot).

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* ADayInTheLimelight: Maggie has a subplot involving her befriending backyard animals and leading them to rescue a possum friend captured by Cletus. One of the few Maggie stories the show has ever done that didn't also have major focus on other family members (in fact they have almost no involvement whatsoever).


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* ADayInTheLimelight: Maggie has a subplot involving her befriending backyard animals and leading them to rescue a possum friend captured by Cletus. One of the few Maggie stories the show has ever done that didn't also have major focus on other family members (in fact they have almost no involvement whatsoever).
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* KidsDrivingCars: Apparently all of Cletus's kids can drive.
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** From a gag of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E10TheSpringfieldFiles]] Doctor Hibbert's foundness of fine Cuban cigars.

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** From a gag of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E10TheSpringfieldFiles]] [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E10TheSpringfieldFiles "The Springfield Files"]] Doctor Hibbert's foundness of fine Cuban cigars.

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* CallBack: [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E21LadyBouviersLover The rivalry between Mr. Burns and Grandpa Simpson]] is briefly revived.

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[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E21LadyBouviersLover The rivalry between Mr. Burns and Grandpa Simpson]] is briefly revived.revived.
** From a gag of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E10TheSpringfieldFiles]] Doctor Hibbert's foundness of fine Cuban cigars.
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* BoringVacationSlideshow: Patty and Selma propose showing slides, and Homer sighs in relief when it turns out it's only a small box... which unfortunately turns out to be a 5 TB USB stick with over 50,000 slide carousels.

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"A Streetcar Named Marge" and "Four Great Women and a Manicure"'s Maggie plots also are pretty wholly Maggie focused


* ADayInTheLimelight: Maggie has a subplot involving her befriending backyard animals and leading them to rescue a possum friend captured by Cletus. Other than the theatrical shorts, this is the first Maggie centric plot the show had ever done that wasn't focused more on one of the other family members (in fact they have almost no involvement whatsoever).

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* ADayInTheLimelight: Maggie has a subplot involving her befriending backyard animals and leading them to rescue a possum friend captured by Cletus. Other than One of the theatrical shorts, this is the first few Maggie centric plot stories the show had has ever done that wasn't focused more didn't also have major focus on one of the other family members (in fact they have almost no involvement whatsoever).


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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Maggie is able to communicate with all of the other animals.

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* BrainBleach: Homer literally pours bleach on his eyes after seeing Patty naked in the shower. He then pours some onto Bart's eyes as a precaution, and is later seen pouring into his ear in an attempt to bleach out the memory.

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* BrainBleach: Homer A running gag with Homer. He literally pours bleach on his eyes after seeing Patty naked in the shower. He then pours some onto Bart's eyes as a precaution, and is later seen pouring into his ear in an attempt to bleach out the memory.


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* CruelToBeKind: After seeing Patty in the shower Homer grabs a bottle of bleach [[BrainBleach to burn his eyes]]. When Bart walks by wondering what happened Homer preemptively does the same to him, with Bart calling out through the tears "What the hell, man?" As soon as Homer explains why he did so, Bart hugs him in gratitude.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Maggie has a subplot involving her befriending backyard animals and leading them to rescue a possum friend captured by Cletus. Other than the theatrical shorts, this is the first Maggie centric plot the show had ever done that wasn't focused more on one of the other family members (in fact they have almost no involvement whatsoever).


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* FunWithSubtitles: Maggie and all the animals communicate in their respective sounds, but subtitled so that everyone knows what is going on. Maggie outlines a battleplan in a few pacifier sucks that takes up a paragraph of words on the screen, on for only a second to guarantee it to be a FreezeFrameBonus.

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* ArtShift: "Maggie's Extraordinary Animal Adventure" has more detailed backgrounds than the main story, and a bit of bloom too,

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* ArtShift: "Maggie's Extraordinary Animal Adventure" has more detailed backgrounds than the main story, and a bit of bloom too,too.
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* MotiveDecay: Burns doesn't really care about Marge's mother anymore he just wanted to be a dick to Abe.

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* MotiveDecay: Burns doesn't really care about Marge's mother anymore anymore, he just wanted to be a dick to Abe.
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* EpicFail: Dr. Nick Riviera somehow missed the fact one of his patients was pregnant until the baby's birth. He also doesn't recognize umbilical cords.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: When Patty and Selma swear off smoking, they dump all their cigarettes into a bowl and burning them. They end up setting their mother's house on fire.


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* OverlyLongGag: After swearing off smoking, Patty and Selma put the cigarettes they were smoking into a bowl...followed by all the other cigarettes they had, including packs.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Patty and Selma swear off smoking for good... at least until they end up taking it up again to cover the bad smell of their apartment.

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* ArtShift: "Maggie's Extraordinary Animal Adventure" has more detailed backgrounds than the main story, and a bit of bloom too,


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* FreezeFrameBonus: During one segment of "Maggie's Extraordinary Animal Adventure", Maggie outlines a rescue plan via an on-screen subtitle that's so long that, due to not being on screen for long, it ends with the sentence, "If you've read all this, congratulations, you're a genius!"

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* BalloonBelly: Homer imagines Patty and Selma being overweight, which soon devolves to them and Homer competing over who is fatter.

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* BalloonBelly: Homer Marge imagines Patty and Selma being overweight, which soon devolves to them and Homer competing over who is fatter.fatter.
-->'''Homer''': No one out-fats Homer Simpson!



* WallCrawl: Bart asks Lisa if he could climb walls with his grandmother's denture cream in his hands, then immediately attempts to do it and falls. Lisa tells him, "Next time, you should wait for my answer."

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* WallCrawl: Bart asks Lisa if he could climb walls with his grandmother's denture cream in his hands, then immediately attempts to do it and falls. Lisa tells him, "Next time, you should wait for my answer.""
* WhamEpisode: In a sense. After decades of never holding any real significance to the show, we finally learn Marge's father is dead from lung cancer.
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* BalloonBelly: Homer imagines Patty and Selma being overweight, which soon devolves to them and Homer competing over who is fatter.



* DaydreamSurprise: Homer and Patty appear to kiss, but then it turns out Homer is imagining the scenario.



* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Once again, Mr. Burns and Grandpa Simpson compete for Grandma Bouvier. This time, Mr. Burns has no interest in her, he just doesn't want Abe to have her.

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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Once again, Mr. Burns and Grandpa Simpson compete for Grandma Bouvier. This time, Mr. Burns has no interest in her, he just doesn't want Abe to have her.her.
* TakeAThirdOption: When Cletus asks Brandine whether she'd like to name the possum before or after they eat it, she responds, "During."
* WallCrawl: Bart asks Lisa if he could climb walls with his grandmother's denture cream in his hands, then immediately attempts to do it and falls. Lisa tells him, "Next time, you should wait for my answer."
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* OpeningShoutOut: Marge tells Homer she's going to let Patty sleep on their couch, but Homer replies, "That's where we do our {{Couch Gag}}s!" He then shows her that the monster truck family from the latest iteration of the gag are still at the couch.

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* OpeningShoutOut: Marge tells Homer she's going to let Patty sleep on their couch, but Homer replies, "That's where we do our {{Couch Gag}}s!" He then shows her that the monster truck family from the latest iteration of the gag [[BrickJoke are still at the couch.couch]].
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Once again, Mr. Burns and Grandpa Simpson compete for Grandma Bouvier. This time, Mr. Burns has no interest on her just doesn't want Abe to have her.

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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Once again, Mr. Burns and Grandpa Simpson compete for Grandma Bouvier. This time, Mr. Burns has no interest on her in her, he just doesn't want Abe to have her.
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* MotiveDecay: Burns doesn't really care about Marge's mother anymore he just wanted to be a dick to Abe.
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* OffModel: Hoppy, Duffman's scarlet macaw, would sometimes be shown with three toes pointing forward and one pointing back. In other scenes, he (correctly) has two toes pointing forward and two pointing back.

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* OffModel: Hoppy, Duffman's scarlet macaw, would sometimes be shown with three toes pointing forward and one pointing back. In other scenes, he (correctly) has two toes pointing forward and two pointing back.back (correct for a parrot).
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* OffModel: Hoppy, Duffman's scarlet macaw, would sometimes be shown with three toes pointing forward and one pointing back. In other scenes, he (correctly) has two toes pointing forward and two pointing back.

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Patty and Selma give up smoking.

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Patty and Selma give up smoking.
smoking. Meanwhile, Maggie befriends some animals.


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* TheBusCameBack: Spider-Pig returns to help Maggie on her rescue mission.
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* BrainBleach: Homer literally pours bleach on his eyes after seeing Patty naked in the shower. He then pours some onto Bart's eyes as a precaution, and is later seen pouring into his ear in an attempt to bleach out the memory.
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* OpeningShoutOut: Marge tells Homer she's going to let Patty sleep on their couch, but Homer replies, "That's where we do our {{Couch Gag}}s!" He then shows her that the monster truck family from the latest iteration of the gag are still at the couch.
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* CallBack: [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E21LadyBouviersLover The rivalry between Mr. Burns and Grandpa Simpson]] is briefly revived.



* ParentalNeglect: Patty and Selma's mother allowed them to smoke because it made them look cool.

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* ParentalNeglect: Patty and Selma's mother allowed them to smoke because it made them look cool.cool.
* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Once again, Mr. Burns and Grandpa Simpson compete for Grandma Bouvier. This time, Mr. Burns has no interest on her just doesn't want Abe to have her.
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Patty and Selma give up smoking.

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Dr. Hibbert is upset that Selma is smoking in a hospital and directs her to a corridor where the doctors congregate for this purpose.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When Patty and Selma learn that their father died of lung cancer, they ask how their mother could let them smoke in spite of this.
* HandsGoDown: Cletus asks his kids which ones can drive and all of them raise their hands. He later asks how many are sober and all but one lower their hands.
* ParentalNeglect: Patty and Selma's mother allowed them to smoke because it made them look cool.

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