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** Before the second attempt at the driver's license exam, Bart reminds Otto that Homer called him "a sponge". Enranged, Otto pounds on a brick wall hard enough to crumble some of it and yells "Does this look like something a sponge would do?" This parodies a dramatic confrontation in ''Film/TheFly1986'' -- when the slowly transforming scientist, unaware of what's truly happening to him yet, is told by his anxious lover that he must be sick he demonstrates his SuperStrength by punching a wooden support beam and splintering it. "Does this look like a sick man to you?"
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** Before the second attempt at the driver's license exam, Bart reminds Otto that Homer called him "a sponge". Enranged, Enraged, Otto pounds on a brick wall hard enough to crumble some of it and yells "Does this look like something a sponge would do?" This parodies a dramatic confrontation in ''Film/TheFly1986'' -- when the slowly transforming scientist, unaware of what's truly happening to him yet, is told by his anxious lover that he must be sick he demonstrates his SuperStrength by punching a wooden support beam and splintering it. "Does this look like a sick man to you?"
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* BigShutUp: Skinner does this to Ralph while driving the bus. Skinner is stuck in a traffic jam and Ralph starts singing "Hail To The Bus Driver". What happens next is this trope from an angry Skinner.
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* BigShutUp: Skinner does this to Ralph while While driving the bus. school bus, Skinner is stuck outside of a very busy T-junction that won't let him in a traffic jam and and, after the students already sung it once at the start of the hold-up, Ralph starts singing "Hail To The Bus Driver". What happens next is this trope from an angry This turns out to be the straw that breaks the camels back for Skinner.
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'''Skinner:''' SHUT UP!'''SHUT UP!'''
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* OffModel: Comic Book Guy appears selling Spinal Tap t-shirts at the concert, but his color scheme is incorrect.
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* NoodleIncident: Comic Book Guy is at the Spinal Tap concert hawking bootleg T-shirts of the band kicking UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi in the ass. We don't learn exactly how or when Spinal Tap crossed him.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The writers never did resolve how Principal Skinner got out of the traffic jam ([[PlotHole and how Bart got off the bus to go to the Kwik-E-Mart]]).
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The writers never did resolve how Principal Skinner got out of the traffic jam ([[PlotHole and (and how Bart got off the bus to go to the Kwik-E-Mart]]).Kwik-E-Mart).
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* BaldnessMockery: When Homer, while sporting a fringe jacket he had from the '70s, leaves to drive Bart and Milhouse to the Spinal Tap concert, Patty mocks both his coat and his baldness, snarking, "There goes Davy Crockett and his baldskin cap!"
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*BerserkButton: After Otto learns that Homer called him a sponge, he angrily punches a wall at the DMV and went inside to get his bus license.
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* CheapHeat: Spinal Tap uses this to rev up the Springfieldians, though David St. Hubbins needs the name of the town taped to the back of his guitar to remember it, and when they're forced to end the set he says "Good night, Springton" by mistake.
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* CheapHeat: CityShoutOuts: Spinal Tap uses this to rev up the Springfieldians, though David St. Hubbins needs the name of the town taped to the back of his guitar to remember it, and when they're forced to end the set he says "Good night, Springton" by mistake.
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** When the school bus crashes, the bumper, which carries a "How's my Driving?" sticker with phone number, falls off and bounces in front of a group of witnesses to the crash. All of the witnesses run to the phones to call the number to report the bad driving, instead of running to the bus to help the crash victims.
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** When the school bus crashes, the rear bumper, which carries a "How's my Driving?" sticker with phone number, falls off the bus and bounces in front of a group of witnesses to the crash. All of the witnesses run to the phones to call the number to report the bad driving, instead of running to the school bus to help the crash victims.
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** When the school bus crashes, the bumper falls off, which carries a "How's my Driving?" sticker with phone number, and bounces in front of a group of witnesses to the crash. All of the witnesses run to the phones to call the number to report the bad driving, instead of running to the bus to help the crash victims.
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** When the school bus crashes, the bumper falls off, bumper, which carries a "How's my Driving?" sticker with phone number, falls off and bounces in front of a group of witnesses to the crash. All of the witnesses run to the phones to call the number to report the bad driving, instead of running to the bus to help the crash victims.
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** When the school bus crashes, the bumper falls off, which carries a "How's my Driving?" sticker with phone number, and bounces in front of a group of witnesses to the crash. All of the witnesses run to the phones to call the number to report the bad driving, instead of running to the bus to help the crash victims.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: While he is waiting in the car for Bart and Milhouse to finish the concert, Homer sings seemingly made up lyrics to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Flea Spanish Flea]]. Most people don't realize that those are the actual lyrics, having only ever heard the instrumental by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass (which is what Homer is singing along to), rather than the original by Julius Wechter.
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* BlindingBangs: Many people at the Spinal Tap concert have their hair covering their eyes.
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Episode - 8F21\\
First Aired - 4/23/1992
First Aired - 4/23/1992
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First Aired - 4/23/1992
'''Original air date:''' 4/23/1992
'''Production code:''' 8F21
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Otto tries to defend his driving recod by saying there's never been a single fatality in any of his previous 15 crashes.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Otto tries to defend his driving recod record by saying there's never been a single fatality in any of his previous 15 crashes.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Otto, of course. He drives like a maniac trying to get the kids to school after he makes them late, utterly fails to pass his driving test the first time (and would have failed the second time if Patty didn't help him cheat) and has apparently had fifteen crashes.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Otto tries to defend his driving recod by saying there's never been a single fatality in any of his previous 15 crashes.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Bart practices his electric guitar at the bus stop and thinks it's broken. Otto offers to test it for him, and his impromptu concert he plays for the kids makes them late. He then tries to get the kids to school by going [[DrivesLikeCrazy driving like crazy]], which leads him to crash in the town square.
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* DreadfulMusician: Zigzagged. Bart struggles to learn the guitar, and thinks it's broken. When Otto tests the guitar for Bart, he ''rocks'' it with a skill to match any famous musician.
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* GeniusDitz: Otto's generally pretty clueless, but give him an electric guitar and he is ''spectacular''.
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* DepartmentOfMajorVexation: Surprisingly averted.
** The first time Otto applies for a driver's license, he gets a written exam from Patty almost immediately. He doesn't seem to wait long for the driving test either. Patty also does her job responsibly, noting that Otto failed every part of the driving test and misspelled "bus" on his application form.
** The second time he applies for a license, not only does he get immediate service from Patty, she helps him cheat on the written exam and flat-out ignores all his failures on the driving exam. She does this after learning that Otto shares her loathing of Homer and he tells her a bunch of embarrassing stories about Homer.
** The first time Otto applies for a driver's license, he gets a written exam from Patty almost immediately. He doesn't seem to wait long for the driving test either. Patty also does her job responsibly, noting that Otto failed every part of the driving test and misspelled "bus" on his application form.
** The second time he applies for a license, not only does he get immediate service from Patty, she helps him cheat on the written exam and flat-out ignores all his failures on the driving exam. She does this after learning that Otto shares her loathing of Homer and he tells her a bunch of embarrassing stories about Homer.
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* KarmaHoudini: Principal Skinner and the police are ''extremely'' lenient with Otto for crashing the bus. Skinner would have been more than justified in firing Otto on the spot, but he just suspends Otto without pay until Otto gets his driver's license. The police would have also been justified in arresting Otto for reckless endangerment and dangerous driving, not to mention driving without a license. He doesn't even try and improve his driving skills to get a license. He only gets a driver's license because Patty helps him cheat.
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* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Otto settles in at the Simpsons' house and doesn't even try to get a job, since according to him the only thing he was "good" at was driving the bus. They finally get rid of him when Patty passes his license exam after finding out he's only trying for the license to spite Homer.
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* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Lampshaded by Homer after Bart gives up on playing guitar.
-->'''Homer:''' (to Bart) Hey how come you don't play your guitar anymore?
-->'''Bart:''' I'll tell you the truth, Dad; I wasn't good at it right away so I quit. I hope you're not mad.
-->'''Homer:''' Son, come here. Of course I'm not mad. If something's hard to do then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E13RadioBart shortwave radio,]] your [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E3WhenFlandersFailed karate uniform]], and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.
-->'''Homer:''' (to Bart) Hey how come you don't play your guitar anymore?
-->'''Bart:''' I'll tell you the truth, Dad; I wasn't good at it right away so I quit. I hope you're not mad.
-->'''Homer:''' Son, come here. Of course I'm not mad. If something's hard to do then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E13RadioBart shortwave radio,]] your [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E3WhenFlandersFailed karate uniform]], and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Discussed in-universe by Spinal Tap during a pre-show interview. As a result of the fall of communism in Europe, the band saw a rise in popularity in former Eastern Bloc countries.
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* EmptyFridgeEmptyLife: The misery of Otto's life is hammered home by his landlord listing his meager few possessions in his refrigerator (a jar of mustard and a couple of old cycle magazines, with Otto [[ComicallyMissingThePoint surprised that he had mustard]]).
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* EmptyFridgeEmptyLife: The misery of Otto's life is hammered home by his landlord listing his meager few possessions in his refrigerator (a jar of mustard and a couple of old cycle Psycho magazines, with Otto [[ComicallyMissingThePoint surprised that he had mustard]]).
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: While driving the bus, Principal Skinner sings along to the kids' "Hail to the Bus Driver" song even though it's meant to be insulting to the driver. ("He drinks and he cusses, He stinks up the busses.")
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: ActuallyQuiteCatchy: While driving the bus, Principal Skinner sings along to the kids' "Hail to the Bus Driver" song even though it's meant to be insulting to the driver. ("He drinks and he cusses, He stinks up the busses.")
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* AdultFear: When Marge and Lisa watch the news report about the riot that broke out at the Spinal Tap concert, Marge comments that she hopes Bart is OK. Lisa says, "See for yourself,", just as onscreen, a screaming Bart swings around on something and then drops to the floor. The first thing Marge does when Bart arrives home is to hug him in relief.
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* WhisperedThreat: Otto tells Lisa a story about a crazed maniac killer, ending the story by whispering to her that ''he'' was that maniac. [[WhatAnIdiot Cue a blood-curdling scream from Lisa]] and him trying to allay her fears via a JustJokingJustification.
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* WhisperedThreat: Otto tells Lisa a story about a crazed maniac killer, ending the story by whispering to her that ''he'' was that maniac. [[WhatAnIdiot Cue a blood-curdling scream from Lisa]] Lisa and him trying to allay her fears via a JustJokingJustification.
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* ShoutOut: Homer says of Otto "This is not ''Series/HappyDays'' and he is not the Fonz." Otto then comes in and says "Hey, Mr. S!" like Fonzie would call Richie's father "Mr. C."
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Homer says of Otto "This is not ''Series/HappyDays'' and he is not the Fonz." Otto then comes in and says "Hey, Mr. S!" like Fonzie would call Richie's father "Mr. C."
** Homer says of Otto "This is not ''Series/HappyDays'' and he is not the Fonz." Otto then comes in and says "Hey, Mr. S!" like Fonzie would call Richie's father "Mr. C."
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** When staying with the Simpsons, Otto asks Marge if they have anything 'written from the vampire's point of view', likely referring to Anne Rice's vampire novels.
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** When staying with the Simpsons, Otto asks Marge if they have anything 'written from the vampire's point of view', likely referring to Anne Rice's Creator/AnneRice's vampire novels.
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* * LogoJoke: The Gracie Films jingle is done in the style of Otto's guitar.
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* CouchGag: Santa’s Little Helper is asleep on the couch. When the family comes in, he wakes up and growls ferociously, causing the family to back away slowly.
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** Otto thinks he's supposed to run down the cardboard cutouts of pedestrians on the driving test course.
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** Otto thinks he's supposed to run down the cardboard cutouts of pedestrians traffic cones on the driving test course.
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* InstantExpert: Bart assumed he would be like this upon playing a guitar. [[RealityEnsues He soon finds out he is wrong]], so he eventually stopped.
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* InstantExpert: Bart assumed he would be like this upon playing a guitar. [[RealityEnsues He soon finds out he is wrong]], wrong, so he eventually stopped.
