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* SantasExistenceclause: Subverted. Homer finds an old photograph in the farmhouse of what he thinks is himself as a boy meeting Santa Claus. He looks closer and discovers it's Abe dressed as Santa.
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* YesVirginia: Subverted. Homer finds an old photograph in the farmhouse of what he thinks is himself as a boy meeting Santa Claus. He looks closer and discovers it's Abe dressed as Santa.
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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: When Homer and Marge have sex, the audience sees footage of a train going into a tunnel, a rocket taking off, and a line of hot dogs coming off a conveyor belt. Then it turns out it's part of a movie that the kids are watching, as they wonder what their parents are up to.
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* AMistakeIsBorn: Abe tells Homer that he was an accident. This angers Homer to the point of TranquilFury, OOCIsSeriousBusiness which is extremely rare for him]].
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* AMistakeIsBorn: Abe tells Homer that he was an accident. This angers Homer to the point of TranquilFury, OOCIsSeriousBusiness [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness which is extremely rare for him]].
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Planting Homer in the audience to sell the tonic fails not only because of Homer's lousy acting skills but also because Homer's face is in the tonic's label.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: DidntThinkThisThrough: Planting Homer in the audience to sell the tonic fails not only because of Homer's lousy acting skills but also because Homer's face is in the tonic's label.
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* AMistakeIsBorn: Abe tells Homer he's one.
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* AMistakeIsBorn: Abe tells Homer he's one.that he was an accident. This angers Homer to the point of TranquilFury, OOCIsSeriousBusiness which is extremely rare for him]].
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** The music track that plays during the satellite sequence is an obvious parody of the opening theme to X-Files.
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** The music track that plays during the satellite sequence is an obvious parody of the opening theme to X-Files.''[[Series/TheXfiles The X-Files]]''.
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* SnakeOilSalesman: Homer and Grampa's traveling show has all the hallmarks of this, including old-fashioned barking from a platform, and planting people in the audience, but the tonic really does work in this case...until the duo break up.
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* SnakeOilSalesman: Homer and Grampa's traveling show has all the hallmarks of this, including old-fashioned barking from a platform, and planting people in the audience, but the tonic really does work in this case... until the duo break up.
* YesVirginia: Subverted. Homer finds an old photograph in the farmhouse of what he thinks is himself as a boy meeting Santa Claus. He looks closer and discovers it's Abe dressed as Santa.
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* YesVirginia: Subverted. Homer finds an old photograph in the farmhouse of what he thinks is himself as a boy meeting Santa Claus. He looks closer and discovers it's Abe dressed as Santa.
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Bart & Lisa complain that they preferred Homer's half-assed under-parenting far more then his half-assed over-parenting. Homer complains that he's using his whole ass.
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** The music track that plays during the satellite sequence is an obvious parody of the opening theme to X-Files.
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* OffModel: In a deleted scene, when Ralph Wiggum is about to tell his friends their parents are having sex, his nose disappears for a second.
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* OffModel: OffModel:
** In a deleted scene, when Ralph Wiggum is about to tell his friends their parents are having sex, his nose disappears for asecond.second.
** Late in the episode, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/freakybart.png Bart]] momentarily has the upper and lower halves of his head facing in different directions.
** In a deleted scene, when Ralph Wiggum is about to tell his friends their parents are having sex, his nose disappears for a
** Late in the episode, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/freakybart.png Bart]] momentarily has the upper and lower halves of his head facing in different directions.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When Homer and Abe are fleeing an angry mob, Homer tells Abe that the mob only started chasing them after the music started. [[GenreSavvy Homer is proven right]] when he turns the music off.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When After botching the sale in hillbilly country, Homer and Abe are fleeing getting chased by an angry mob, mob. Grandpa blames Homer's poor salesmanship, but Homer tells Abe counters that the mob they only started chasing them after the music started. [[GenreSavvy Homer is proven right]] when he turns Abe turned on "that chase music". He switches off the music off.radio and instantly the hillbillies stop, make disappointed noises, and return home.
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* LovePotion: Grandpa's tonic causes any man who drinks it[[note]]we never actually see any women using it so it's unclear if it affects them the same way[[/note]] to be instantly filled with wild passion, usually resulting in their scooping up the woman they love and running to the nearest bedroom.
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* MadeOfIron: Bart ends up falling off the house roof without any ill effects.
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* NeverMyFault: Abe blames Homer for their getting chased out of Spittle County by angry locals. This despite Abe being the one playing the getaway music that got the locals chasing them and probably planned the sales pitch that angered the locals in the first place.
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* CorrespondenceCourse: Bart believes the rantings of a UFOlogist who is "head of the Spaceology Department at the Correspondence School of Tampa." Never mind that the word "Spaceology" doesn't actually mean anything...
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* PhonyDegree: Bart believes the rantings of a UFOlogist who is "head of the Spaceology Department at the Correspondence School of Tampa." Never mind that the word "Spaceology" doesn't actually mean anything...
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* CorrespondenceCourse: Bart believes the rantings of a UFOlogist who is "head of the Spaceology Department at the Correspondence School of Tampa." Never mind that the word "Spaceology" doesn't actually mean anything...
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* ChaseScene: Subverted after the hillbillies of Spittle County see through Homer and Abe's snake oil tactics. They start chasing Homer and Abe in a truck, but immediately give up once Homer turns off the banjo getaway music Abe was playing.
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* TorchesAndPitchforks: Subverted after the hillbillies of Spittle County see through Homer and Abe's snake oil tactics. They start chasing Homer and Abe in a truck, but immediately give up once Homer turns off the banjo getaway music Abe was playing.
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* BookDumb: The hillbillies of Spittle County may not be well-educated, but they're not stupid either. When Homer claims to have never met Abe before, one of the rednecks immediately asks why his face is on the bottle. Cut to the ChaseScene.
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* BookDumb: The hillbillies of Spittle County who listen to Homer and Abe's pitch may not be well-educated, but they're not stupid either. When Homer claims to have never met Abe before, one of the rednecks immediately asks why his face is on the bottle. Cut to the ChaseScene.
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* BookDumb: The hillbillies of Spittle County may not be well-educated, but they're not stupid either. When Homer claims to have never met Abe before, one of the rednecks immediately asks why his face is on the bottle. Cut to the ChaseScene.
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* ChaseScene: Subverted after the hillbillies of Spittle County see through Homer and Abe's snake oil tactics. They start chasing Homer and Abe in a truck, but immediately give up once Homer turns off the banjo getaway music Abe was playing.
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* LoveHotel: The Aphrodite Inn where Homer and Marge go to try and rekindle the spark in their relationship.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Parents becoming sex-obsessed? Alien vampire invasion! It escalates to the point that when Mulhouse of all people tries to say there's got to be something sensible about what is going on, he's accused of being a vampire himself and mobbed by the other kids.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Parents becoming sex-obsessed? Alien vampire invasion! It escalates to the point that when Mulhouse Milhouse of all people tries to say there's got to be something sensible about what is going on, he's accused of being a vampire himself and mobbed by the other kids.
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* YesVirginia: Subverted. Homer finds an old photograph in the farmhouse of what he thinks is himself as a boy meeting Santa Claus. He looks closer and discovers it's Abe dressed as Santa.
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* MadeOfIncendium: Abe's tonic instantly sets the farmhouse's living room ablaze when he throws a bottle of it in the fireplace.
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* MadeOfIncendium: Abe's tonic instantly Abe sets the farmhouse's living room ablaze when he throws a bottle of it his tonic in the fireplace.
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* MadeOfIncendium: Abe's tonic instantly sets the farmhouse's living room on fire when he throws a bottle of it in the fireplace.
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* MadeOfIncendium: Abe's tonic instantly sets the farmhouse's living room on fire ablaze when he throws a bottle of it in the fireplace.
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* MadeOfIncendium: Abe's tonic instantly sets the farmhouse's living room on fire when he throws a bottle of it in the fireplace.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One scene has Homer and Marge doing some nude kissing and groping, but nothing is seen because they are under the sheets. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E10TheSimpsons138thEpisodeSpectacular The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular]]", another version of this scene is shown, and this time, they're over the sheets.
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* SarcasmBlind: When Lisa jokingly suggests that the adults of Springfield have become reverse vampires who have to get home before dark, all the other kids become terrified of the idea, and instantly accept it. Much to Lisa's frustration.
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* SarcasmBlind: When Lisa jokingly suggests that the adults of Springfield have become reverse vampires who have to get home before dark, all the other kids become terrified of the idea, and instantly accept it. [[SurroundedByIdiots Much to Lisa's frustration.frustration]].
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* MoralMyopia: When Grampa in a fit of rage tells Homer that he was an accident Homer abandons him on the roadside. When he informs Marge of this she reminds him that he tells Bart he’s an accident all the time.
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* AMistakeIsBorn: Abe tells Homer he's one.
* MoralMyopia: When Grampa in a fit of rage tells Homer that he was an accident Homer abandons him on the roadside. When he informs Marge of this she reminds him that he tells Barthe’s he's an accident all the time.time, Homer retorts that it's "cute" when ''he'' does it.
* MoralMyopia: When Grampa in a fit of rage tells Homer that he was an accident Homer abandons him on the roadside. When he informs Marge of this she reminds him that he tells Bart
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Bart is freaking out over thinking the umbrella in the tree was UFO, and Marge refused to let him sleep with her and Homer.
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: When Bart is freaking out over thinking the umbrella in the tree was a UFO, and Marge refused to let him sleep with her and Homer.Homer because they were in the middle of sex.
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* FisticuffProvokingComment: Happens twice.
** The first time, Homer and Abe are at the mall trying to peddle Abe's homemade aphrodisiac. Homer approaches a man saying, "Hello sir! Yes, you look like a man who needs help satisfying his wife." The would-be customer responds by punching him in the face.
** The second time occurs after Grampa's aphrodisiac results in Springfield's adults spending all their time in their bedrooms and abandoning the city to the children. Bart attributes the absence of grown-ups to an invasion plan by "the saucer people" but Milhouse sharply disagrees stating it's the result of "a massive government conspiracy" and accuses Bart of being part of it. Bart reacts by attacking Milhouse and the two briefly scuffle on the floor before Lisa breaks up the fight.
** The first time, Homer and Abe are at the mall trying to peddle Abe's homemade aphrodisiac. Homer approaches a man saying, "Hello sir! Yes, you look like a man who needs help satisfying his wife." The would-be customer responds by punching him in the face.
** The second time occurs after Grampa's aphrodisiac results in Springfield's adults spending all their time in their bedrooms and abandoning the city to the children. Bart attributes the absence of grown-ups to an invasion plan by "the saucer people" but Milhouse sharply disagrees stating it's the result of "a massive government conspiracy" and accuses Bart of being part of it. Bart reacts by attacking Milhouse and the two briefly scuffle on the floor before Lisa breaks up the fight.
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** After years of Professor Frink as Jerry Lewis' Nutty Professor character, we see him as Buddy Love after he drinks the tonic.
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** After years of Professor Frink as Jerry Lewis' Creator/JerryLewis' [[Film/TheNuttyProfessor1963 Nutty Professor Professor]] character, we see him as Buddy Love after he drinks the tonic.tonic.
* SilentTreatment: Homer gives his father the silent treatment when he calls him an accident.
-->'''Marge:''' Homie, are you really going to ignore Grampa for the rest of your life?\\
'''Homer:''' Of course not, Marge. Just for the rest of ''his'' life.
* SilentTreatment: Homer gives his father the silent treatment when he calls him an accident.
-->'''Marge:''' Homie, are you really going to ignore Grampa for the rest of your life?\\
'''Homer:''' Of course not, Marge. Just for the rest of ''his'' life.
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'''Marge:''' You tell Bart he was an accident all the time - you did it at breakfast.\\
'''Homer:''' But when ''I'' do it, it's cute!
'''Homer:''' But when ''I'' do it, it's cute!
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'''Marge:''' You tell Bart he was an accident all the time - you did it at breakfast.never wanted to have Bart.\\
'''Homer:'''But I know that, you're not supposed to tell the boy!\\
'''Marge:''' You tell Bart all the time - you did it at breakfast.\\
'''Homer:''' Yeah, but when ''I'' do it, it's cute!
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'''Marge:''' You tell Bart all the time - you did it at breakfast.\\
'''Homer:''' Yeah, but when ''I'' do it, it's cute!
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* SarcasmBlind: When Lisa jokingly suggests that the adults of Springfield have become reverse vampires who have to get home before dark, all the other kids become terrified of the idea, and instantly accept it. Much to Lisa's annoyance.
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* SarcasmBlind: When Lisa jokingly suggests that the adults of Springfield have become reverse vampires who have to get home before dark, all the other kids become terrified of the idea, and instantly accept it. Much to Lisa's annoyance.frustration.
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'''Record Player:''' ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration_(Kool_%26_the_Gang_song) Ce-le-brate good times, come on!]]''\\
'''Gore:''' ''(still monotone)'' I will.
'''Gore:''' ''(still monotone)'' I will.
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'''Gore:''' ''(still monotone)'' I
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When Homer and Abe are fleeing an angry mob, Homer tells Abe that the mob only started chasing them after the music started. Homer is proven right when he turns the music off.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: When Homer and Abe are fleeing an angry mob, Homer tells Abe that the mob only started chasing them after the music started. [[GenreSavvy Homer is proven right right]] when he turns the music off.
