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** Bart believes he and a wild untrained elephant can [[WithCatlikeTread sneak off in the middle of the night]] and then walk to Africa.
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** When Homer, Marge, and Lisa are looking for Bart and Stampy, they [[FollowTheChaos follow a trail of destruction]] that seemed to be caused by the elephant. But then it's revealed it was because of a tornado, much to Homer's chagrin...until he sees that it had swept up Patty and Selma.

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** When Homer, Marge, and Lisa are looking for Bart and Stampy, they [[FollowTheChaos follow a trail of destruction]] that seemed to be caused by the elephant. But then it's revealed it was because of a tornado, much to Homer's chagrin...until he sees that it had swept up [[ObnoxiousInLaws Patty and Selma.Selma]].
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* BeyondTheImpossible: Homer [[NoodleIncident apparently once]] had his head in the mouth of a giant sloth, despite the fact that the species has been extinct for 12,000 years.
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* BlandNameProduct: The cleaning products Homer uses in the basement are "Mr. Cleanser", "Bubble Off" (Scrubbing Bubbles), "Terrapin Wax", and something just labelled "Cleanser" with a lance-wielding knight (possibly Ajax).
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* TalkingAnimal: When Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II become ignored by the Simpsons in favor of Stampy, they try several stunts to win them back, including this (not that it worked).
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** The same goes for Bart himself, who repeatedly turns down a $10,000 prize for an elephant that neither he nor his family is equipped to take care of. Justified since Bart is a self-described stupid ten-year-old who doesn't always think things through.

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** The same goes for Bart himself, who repeatedly turns down a $10,000 prize for an elephant that neither he nor his family is equipped to take care of. Justified since Of course, Bart is a self-described stupid ten-year-old who only ten years old and doesn't always think things through.

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* CassandraTruth: Parodied with Chief Wiggum, who (somewhat understandably) disregards calls about an elephant rampage and (less understandably) brushes off calls about an officer down.



* PoliceAreUseless: Chief Wiggum replies with heavy sarcasm to all the calls his station gets, which includes those of people reporting Stampy's rampage and ''an officer saying he's down'' (this one gets the most cruel of the retorts, with Wiggum hollering to the injured or maybe dying man "[[AndImTheQueenOfSheba ...and I'm Edward G. Robinson!]]" then hanging up on him).

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* PetTheDog: After being a rude jerk to Bart, Stampy takes Bart for a ride on its back at the end of the episode.
* PoliceAreUseless: Chief Wiggum and his copes are overpowered by criminals to the point of losing their uniforms. Later, Chief Wiggum replies with heavy sarcasm to all the calls his station gets, which includes those of people reporting Stampy's rampage and ''an officer saying he's down'' (this one gets the most cruel of the retorts, with Wiggum hollering to the injured or maybe dying man "[[AndImTheQueenOfSheba ...and I'm Edward G. Robinson!]]" then hanging up on him).

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