History Recap / TheSimpsonsS3E10FlamingMoes

** Homer hiding his face behind a cloth while addressing a crow, while hiding on the ceiling is a reference to the ending of ''Theatre/PhantomOfTheOpera''.

* RunningGag: This episode introduces one of the series' running gags: the perpetually burning Springfield Tire Yard [[note]]The yard itself was briefly seen before in Homer's Odyssey, but it wasn't on fire there, even though a later episode established that the tire fire has been burning since the mid-1980s[[/note]].

* ShoutOut: Several references to ''Cheers'', and one to ''Phantom of the Opera''.
* SpecialGuest: Creator/PhilHartman as Lionel Hutz
* WhatTheHellHero: Colette was angry at Moe when she learned that the drink was originally Homer's which Moe stole. Later, she tells him he should sell the drink and give half the money to Homer. But it was too late, and for that she broke up with him and left to pursue a movie career.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The name Flaming Moe. The writers assumed the censors didn't get it. [[note]]"Mo" is short for "homosexual," for those who don't know.[[/note]]

* RunningGag: This episode introduces one of the series' running gags: the perpetually burning Springfield Tire Yard [[note]]The yard itself was briefly seen before in Homer's Odyssey, but it wasn't on fire there[[/note]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Colette was angry when she learned that the drink was originally Homer's which Moe stole. Later, she tells him he should sell the drink and give half the money to Homer. But it was too late, and for that she broke up with him and left to pursue a movie career.

{{Expy}}: Collette for [[Series/{{Cheers}} Diane Chambers]].

'''Moe:''' Don't worry, baby, my mother won't be home for another 20 minutes.

* {{Defictionalization}}: The Flaming Homer/Moe became real in the form of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank "Purple drank" aka "Sizzurp"]] in the 2000s.

* WhatTheHellHero: Colette was angry that she learned that the drink was originally Homer's which Moe stole. Later, she tells him he should sell the drink and give half the money to Homer. But it was too late, and for that she broke up with him and left to pursue a movie career.

'''Homer:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!]] ''[leaves the room, slamming the door. Pokes his head back in]'' [[CaptainObvious Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.]] ''[closes the door]''\\

* NothingPersonal: Moe tells Homer he's sorry for stealing his drink, and "it's nothing personal. This is business."

-->'''Homer:''' Why would I say your name, son?\\

''[Homer punched him for talking]''
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Homer invokes this when he saw the results when Maggie got to Lisa and her friends.
* ShoutOut: Several references to ''Cheers'', and one to ''Phantom of the Opera''.
* SpecialGuest: Creator/PhilHartman as Lionel Hutz
* WhatTheHellHero: Moe's waitress Colette was angry that he stole Homer's drink. Later, she tells him he should sell the drink and give half the money to Homer. But it was too late, and for that she broke up with him and left to pursue a movie career.

* SpecialGuest: Creator/PhilHartman as Lionel Hutz

* [[AsHimself As Themselves]]: Music/Aerosmith (Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford)

!!Tropes:

* ShoutOut: Several references to ''Cheers'', and one to ''Phantom of the Opera''.

Moe steals Homer's recipe for a cocktail that becomes the toast of Springfield.

* HeroicBSOD: "Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe. Moe."
* MesACrowd: Homer starts seeing Moe everywhere in the HeroicBSOD above.

* PunnyName: Bart's prank call of this episode backfired because there was indeed a person named "Hugh Jass" at the Moe's. Hugh was a good sport about that.
* ShoutOut: Several references to Cheers, and one to Phantom of the Opera.

* PunnyName: Bart's prank call of this episode backfired because there was indeed a person named "Hugh Jazz" at the Moe's. Hugh was a good sport about that.