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* FootPopping: Lisa pops her leg when Hugh and she kiss passionately after they get engaged.
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* LyingFingerCross: Marge crosses both fingers when she promises Lisa to keep Homer in check for the wedding. She forgets they are on a picture phone.
--> '''Lisa:''' Mom, remember when I was little, we'd always planned my dream wedding and you always promised to... you know, well, keep Dad from ruining it?
--> '''Marge:''' ''[crossing her fingers]'' Oh, don't worry, honey, I guarantee your father will behave.
--> '''Lisa:''' Mom, it's a picture phone.
--> '''Marge:''' ''[looking at her fingers]'' What? This? Oh, no, I've just got a touch of the rheumatiz.
--> '''Lisa:''' Oh, OK.
--> '''Marge:''' ''[Whew gesture]''
--> '''Lisa:''' Mom, picture phone.
* MeetCute: Lisa and Hugh bump their heads together at a drinking fountain, he then grabs the last soy pop at the vending machine which Lisa also craved, he steals her an elevator and doesn't share it with her so she has to climb the stairs, and then even snatches the last copy of a book Lisa needs to read. Last part includes reading the book at the same time with a sort of reading race.
--> '''Lisa:''' Mom, remember when I was little, we'd always planned my dream wedding and you always promised to... you know, well, keep Dad from ruining it?
--> '''Marge:''' ''[crossing her fingers]'' Oh, don't worry, honey, I guarantee your father will behave.
--> '''Lisa:''' Mom, it's a picture phone.
--> '''Marge:''' ''[looking at her fingers]'' What? This? Oh, no, I've just got a touch of the rheumatiz.
--> '''Lisa:''' Oh, OK.
--> '''Marge:''' ''[Whew gesture]''
--> '''Lisa:''' Mom, picture phone.
* MeetCute: Lisa and Hugh bump their heads together at a drinking fountain, he then grabs the last soy pop at the vending machine which Lisa also craved, he steals her an elevator and doesn't share it with her so she has to climb the stairs, and then even snatches the last copy of a book Lisa needs to read. Last part includes reading the book at the same time with a sort of reading race.
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* ContinuityNod: Bart plans to study law. It nods to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and will finally get permission from Homer to see ''Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie'' ([[TechnologyMarchesOn Never mind that between 1992 and now, seeing a movie like that would be stupid easy thanks to the Internet]]).
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* FutureLoser: Subverted for Bart, who is a wrecking ball operator working his way through law school.
** This could have also been a ContinuityNod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and will finally get permission from Homer to see ''Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie'' ([[TechnologyMarchesOn Never mind that between 1992 and now, seeing a movie like that would be stupid easy thanks to the Internet]]).
* GaiasLament: Played for laughs where trees in the future are apparently extinct, as shown by a holographic image of a tree, with the description: "In memory of a real tree."
** Not to mention the hideously polluted skyline when Lisa and Hugh marry.
** This could have also been a ContinuityNod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and will finally get permission from Homer to see ''Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie'' ([[TechnologyMarchesOn Never mind that between 1992 and now, seeing a movie like that would be stupid easy thanks to the Internet]]).
* GaiasLament: Played for laughs where trees in the future are apparently extinct, as shown by a holographic image of a tree, with the description: "In memory of a real tree."
** Not to mention the hideously polluted skyline when Lisa and Hugh marry.
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* FutureLoser: Subverted for Bart, who fairly popular in elementary school and proud of his position in the school food chain, is a wrecking ball operator working and a double divorcee in his way through mid-twenties who hits strip clubs to meet girls. He plans to get to law school, though it sounds hilariously delusional.
-->'''Bart:''' Anyway, Hugh, there's more to my life than just the wrecking ball. I also crush cars into cubes. On the side, I promote local tough-man contests. I'm getting out all my aggression till I go to law school.
* GaiasLament:
**This could have also been a ContinuityNod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and will finally get permission from Homer to see ''Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie'' ([[TechnologyMarchesOn Never mind that between 1992 and now, seeing a movie like that would be stupid easy thanks to the Internet]]).
* GaiasLament:Played for laughs where trees in the future are apparently extinct, as shown by a holographic image of a tree, with the description: "In memory of a real tree."
**Not to mention the There is a hideously polluted skyline when Lisa and Hugh marry.skyline.
-->'''Bart:''' Anyway, Hugh, there's more to my life than just the wrecking ball. I also crush cars into cubes. On the side, I promote local tough-man contests. I'm getting out all my aggression till I go to law school.
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* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard [=/=] TheSilentBob: A teenage Maggie is never able to say a word without being interrupted. Ironically, she is described by Homer as being a chatterbox - but then she merely rolls her eyes at her father in silence.
** She's also supposed to have an angelic singing voice, but she gets cut off just as she's preparing to do so. All the audience gets is the sound of her inhaling.
** She's also supposed to have an angelic singing voice, but she gets cut off just as she's preparing to do so. All the audience gets is the sound of her inhaling.
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* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard [=/=] TheSilentBob: A teenage Maggie is never able to say a word without being interrupted. Ironically, she is described by Homer as being a chatterbox - but then she merely rolls her eyes at her father in silence.
**silence. She's also supposed to have an angelic singing voice, but she gets cut off just as she's preparing to do so. All the audience gets is the sound of her inhaling.
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* AscendedExtra[=/=]CanonForeigner[=/=]CanonImmigrant: Believe it or not, The Happy Squirrel arcana has actually become popular in the Tarot community.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Lisa and Marge are talking on the picturephone we are -for a brief moment- led to believe that Homer had left this world.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Lisa and Marge are talking on the picturephone we are -for a brief moment- led to believe that Homer had left this world.
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* AscendedExtra[=/=]CanonForeigner[=/=]CanonImmigrant: AscendedExtra [=/=] CanonForeigner [=/=] CanonImmigrant: Believe it or not, The Happy Squirrel arcana has actually become popular in the Tarot community.
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* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard[=/=]TheSilentBob: HeWhoMustNotBeHeard [=/=] TheSilentBob: A teenage Maggie is never able to say a word without being interrupted. Ironically, she is described by Homer as being a chatterbox - but then she merely rolls her eyes at her father in silence.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: When Homer and Bart hang out the Union Jack to welcome Lisa's British boyfriend Hugh they bring his attention to it by saying: "Here's some American hospitality", whereupon it turns out the flag accidentally caught fire! Homer and Bart try to extinguish the fire by throwing some compost upon it, then give the ravaged remains to Hugh.
* NoisyRobots: Subverted as we Flash Forward to the far future ([[IWantMyJetpack 2010]]) and see what we think are robots overtaking the world. Turns out they're university kids auditioning for the role of The Tin Man for ''The Wizard of Oz''.
* NoisyRobots: Subverted as we Flash Forward to the far future ([[IWantMyJetpack 2010]]) and see what we think are robots overtaking the world. Turns out they're university kids auditioning for the role of The Tin Man for ''The Wizard of Oz''.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: When Homer and Bart hang out the Union Jack to welcome Lisa's British boyfriend Hugh boyfriend, Hugh, they bring his attention to it by saying: "Here's some American hospitality", whereupon it turns out the flag accidentally caught fire! Homer and Bart try to extinguish the fire by throwing some compost upon it, then give the ravaged remains to Hugh.
* NoisyRobots: Subverted as weFlash Forward FlashForward to the far future ([[IWantMyJetpack 2010]]) and see what we think are robots overtaking the world. Turns out they're university kids auditioning for the role of The Tin Man for ''The Wizard of Oz''.
* NoisyRobots: Subverted as we
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** In Lisa's bedroom we can see a poster of Music/TheRollingStones ''Steel Wheelchair'' Tour, a parody of their ''Music/SteelWheels'' tour.
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** In Lisa's bedroom bedroom, we can see a poster of Music/TheRollingStones ''Steel Wheelchair'' Tour, a parody of their ''Music/SteelWheels'' tour.
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* TinMan: A librarian catches Lisa with her fiance-to-be, and questions aloud how two so opposite personalities could ever fall in love. A bystander comments "How would you know, you're a robot?" prompting the robot librarian to shed a single tear... [[NoWaterproofingInTheFuture which then causes her to catch fire]]. Then it happens again when said fiance proposes; the two robots hiding in the bushes to implement plan B also start crying, causing their faces to melt.
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* TinMan: A librarian catches Lisa with her fiance-to-be, and questions aloud how two so opposite personalities could ever fall in love. A bystander comments "How would you know, you're a robot?" robot?", prompting the robot librarian to shed a single tear... [[NoWaterproofingInTheFuture which then causes her to catch fire]]. Then it happens again when said fiance proposes; the two robots hiding in the bushes to implement plan B also start crying, causing their faces to melt.
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* {{Videophone}}: Showcased a conversation between Lisa and Marge using a "picture phone." Marge kept forgetting that Lisa could see her over the phone, and her body language made it more obvious to tell when she was lying.
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* UrExample: Of ''Simpsons'' episodes mainly taking place in the future.
* {{Videophone}}: Showcased a conversation between Lisa and Marge using a "picturephone." phone". Marge kept forgetting that Lisa could see her over the phone, and her body language made it more obvious to tell when she was lying.
* {{Videophone}}: Showcased a conversation between Lisa and Marge using a "picture
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-->'''Lisa:''' Mom, I feel kind of funny wearing white. I mean...Milhouse.\\
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-->'''Lisa:''' Mom, I feel kind of funny wearing white. I mean... Milhouse.\\
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: On hearing Lisa, whom he still harbours a crush for, is getting married to someone else, an angry Milhouse tells Homer he's going to go write Homer's evaluation right that minute. Homer, naturally, starts smiling optimistically.
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* OlderAndWiser: ... sort of. Homer's mellowed in his old age, but in terms of actual intelligence, he's still an oaf.
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-->'''Homer:''' Little Lisa, Lisa Simpson. You know, I always felt you were the best thing my name ever got attached to. Since the time you learned to pin your own diapers, you've been smarter than me.
-->'''Lisa:''' Oh, Dad --
-->'''Homer:''' No, no, let me finish. I just want you to know I've always been proud of you. You're my greatest accomplishment and you did it all yourself. You helped me understand my own wife better and taught me to be a better person, but you're also my daughter, and I don't think anybody could have had a better daughter than you--
-->'''Lisa:''' Dad, you're babbling.
-->'''Homer:''' See? You're still helping me.
-->'''Lisa:''' Oh, Dad --
-->'''Homer:''' No, no, let me finish. I just want you to know I've always been proud of you. You're my greatest accomplishment and you did it all yourself. You helped me understand my own wife better and taught me to be a better person, but you're also my daughter, and I don't think anybody could have had a better daughter than you--
-->'''Lisa:''' Dad, you're babbling.
-->'''Homer:''' See? You're still helping me.
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-->'''Homer:''' Little Lisa, Lisa Simpson. You know, I always felt you were the best thing my name ever got attached to. Since the time you learned to pin your own diapers, you've been smarter than me.
-->'''Lisa:'''me.\\
'''Lisa:''' Oh, Dad--
-->'''Homer:'''--\\
'''Homer:''' No, no, let me finish. I just want you to know I've always been proud of you. You're my greatest accomplishment and you did it all yourself. You helped me understand my own wife better and taught me to be a better person, but you're also my daughter, and I don't think anybody could have had a better daughter thanyou--
-->'''Lisa:'''you--\\
'''Lisa:''' Dad, you'rebabbling.
-->'''Homer:'''babbling.\\
'''Homer:''' See? You're still helping me.
-->'''Lisa:'''
'''Lisa:''' Oh, Dad
-->'''Homer:'''
'''Homer:''' No, no, let me finish. I just want you to know I've always been proud of you. You're my greatest accomplishment and you did it all yourself. You helped me understand my own wife better and taught me to be a better person, but you're also my daughter, and I don't think anybody could have had a better daughter than
-->'''Lisa:'''
'''Lisa:''' Dad, you're
-->'''Homer:'''
'''Homer:''' See? You're still helping me.
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-->'''Woman:''' I've been waiting for you, Lisa.
-->'''Lisa:''' ''({{gasp}})'' How did you know my name?
-->'''Woman:''' [[SubvertedTrope Your nametag.]]
-->'''Lisa:''' ''({{gasp}})'' How did you know my name?
-->'''Woman:''' [[SubvertedTrope Your nametag.]]
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-->'''Woman:''' I've been waiting for you, Lisa. \n-->'''Lisa:''' \\
'''Lisa:''' ''({{gasp}})'' How did you know myname?
-->'''Woman:'''name?\\
'''Woman:''' [[SubvertedTrope Your nametag.]]
'''Lisa:''' ''({{gasp}})'' How did you know my
-->'''Woman:'''
'''Woman:''' [[SubvertedTrope Your nametag.]]
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* NoLongerWithUs: Subverted.
-->'''Marge:''' "You're getting married! Oh, if only your father was still here to see this... but he left for work five minutes ago!"
-->'''Marge:''' "You're getting married! Oh, if only your father was still here to see this... but he left for work five minutes ago!"
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* NoLongerWithUs: Subverted.
-->'''Marge:''' "You're getting married! Oh, if only your father was still here toSubverted; see this... but he left for work five minutes ago!"BaitAndSwitchComment.
-->'''Marge:''' "You're getting married! Oh, if only your father was still here to
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Lisa and Marge talk on the picturephone we are -for a brief moment- led to believe that Homer had left this world.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Lisa and Marge talk on the picturephone we are -for a brief moment- led to believe that Homer had left this world.
--> '''Marge:''' [[NoLongerWithUs If only your father was still with us]]. But he left for work a few minutes ago.
--> '''Marge:''' [[NoLongerWithUs If only your father was still with us]]. But he left for work a few minutes ago.
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** This could have also been a Continuity Nod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and will finally get permission from Homer to see ''Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie'' ([[TechnologyMarchesOn Never mind that between 1992 and now, seeing a movie like that would be stupid easy thanks to the Internet]]).
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** This could have also been a Continuity Nod ContinuityNod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and will finally get permission from Homer to see ''Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie'' ([[TechnologyMarchesOn Never mind that between 1992 and now, seeing a movie like that would be stupid easy thanks to the Internet]]).
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* InsistentTerminology: When introducing Hugh and Lisa to the extention, Homer tells them that if a building inspector comes by, it's a window-box.
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* InsistentTerminology: When introducing Hugh and Lisa to the extention, extension, Homer tells them that if a building inspector comes by, it's a window-box.
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** The old Krusty was modelled after [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]].
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** The old Krusty was modelled after [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]]. Marx]].
** Hugh's wristwatch communicator makes the same beeping sound as the communicators on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
** Hugh's wristwatch communicator makes the same beeping sound as the communicators on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
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* SpecialGuest: Mandy Patinkin as Hugh.
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* SpecialGuest: Mandy Patinkin Creator/MandyPatinkin as Hugh.
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** Not to mention the hideously polluted skyline when Lisa and Hugh marry.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Believe it or not, the line about the Music/TheRollingStones having a reunion tour was supposed to be a joke about how it would never happen. Also, the Jim Carrey film festival, this being before the likes of ''Film/{{The Truman Show}}'' and ''Film/{{Man On The Moon}}''.
** The soy pops in the vending machine, considering that soy products are more common now than they were in the 1990s.
** The Happy Squirrel Tarot that was created as an offhanded joke has actually started seeing use in Tarot decks - albeit usually as a novelty or joke item.
** The soy pops in the vending machine, considering that soy products are more common now than they were in the 1990s.
** The Happy Squirrel Tarot that was created as an offhanded joke has actually started seeing use in Tarot decks - albeit usually as a novelty or joke item.
* InsistentTerminology: When introducing Hugh and Lisa to the extention, Homer tells them that if a building inspector comes by, it's a window-box.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: They look completely human, until they cry. Then their heads burst into flames and melt.
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'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Whatever.
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'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Whatever.Whatever.
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* DaddysGirl: Homer and Lisa's bond is fully displayed in this episode.
-->'''Homer:''' Little Lisa, Lisa Simpson. You know, I always felt you were the best thing my name ever got attached to. Since the time you learned to pin your own diapers, you've been smarter than me.
-->'''Lisa:''' Oh, Dad --
-->'''Homer:''' No, no, let me finish. I just want you to know I've always been proud of you. You're my greatest accomplishment and you did it all yourself. You helped me understand my own wife better and taught me to be a better person, but you're also my daughter, and I don't think anybody could have had a better daughter than you--
-->'''Lisa:''' Dad, you're babbling.
-->'''Homer:''' See? You're still helping me.
-->'''Homer:''' Little Lisa, Lisa Simpson. You know, I always felt you were the best thing my name ever got attached to. Since the time you learned to pin your own diapers, you've been smarter than me.
-->'''Lisa:''' Oh, Dad --
-->'''Homer:''' No, no, let me finish. I just want you to know I've always been proud of you. You're my greatest accomplishment and you did it all yourself. You helped me understand my own wife better and taught me to be a better person, but you're also my daughter, and I don't think anybody could have had a better daughter than you--
-->'''Lisa:''' Dad, you're babbling.
-->'''Homer:''' See? You're still helping me.
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* AscendedExtra-CanonForeigner-CanonImmigrant: Believe it or not, The Happy Squirrel tarot has actually obtained one of these statuses in the Tarot community.
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'''Lisa:''' "Pertaining to a process involving a randomly-determined sequence of observations. Ha-ha-ha." [they make out]
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'''Lisa:''' "Pertaining to a process involving a randomly-determined sequence of observations. Ha-ha-ha." [they Ha-ha-ha. ''(they make out]out)''
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* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard / TheSilentBob: A teenage Maggie is never able to say a word without being interrupted. Ironically, she is described by Homer as being a chatterbox - but then she merely rolls her eyes at her father in silence.
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* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard / TheSilentBob: HeWhoMustNotBeHeard[=/=]TheSilentBob: A teenage Maggie is never able to say a word without being interrupted. Ironically, she is described by Homer as being a chatterbox - but then she merely rolls her eyes at her father in silence.
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** The Happy Squirrel Tarot that was created as an offhanded joke has actually started seeing use in Tarot decks. Albeit usually as a novelty or joke item.
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** The Happy Squirrel Tarot that was created as an offhanded joke has actually started seeing use in Tarot decks. Albeit decks - albeit usually as a novelty or joke item.
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-->'''Lisa:''' [=*=]''{{gasp}}''[=*=] How did you know my name?
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-->'''Lisa:''' [=*=]''{{gasp}}''[=*=] ''({{gasp}})'' How did you know my name?
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'''Bart:''' We had one in his honor. ''[Lisa stares at him]'' ''I'' had one in his honor. ''[Lisa continues to stare at him]'' I went to a strip club.
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'''Bart:''' We had one in his honor. ''[Lisa ''(Lisa stares at him]'' him)'' ''I'' had one in his honor. ''[Lisa ''(Lisa continues to stare at him]'' him)'' I went to a strip club.
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* NoisyRobots: Subverted as we Flash Forward to the far future ([[IWantMyJetpack 2010]]) and see what we think are robots overtaking the world. Turns out they're university kids auditioning for the role of The Tin Man for ''The Wizard of Oz''
* NoLongerWithUs:
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* NoisyRobots: Subverted as we Flash Forward to the far future ([[IWantMyJetpack 2010]]) and see what we think are robots overtaking the world. Turns out they're university kids auditioning for the role of The Tin Man for ''The Wizard of Oz''
Oz''.
* NoLongerWithUs: Subverted.
* NoLongerWithUs: Subverted.
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* TarotTroubles: Averted when the Death card comes up, Lisa is terrified, but the gypsy calmly explains that Death just means change and isn't automatically a bad thing. Then she freaks out after drawing The Happy Squirrel.
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* TarotTroubles: Averted when Parodied. When the Death card comes up, Lisa is terrified, but the gypsy calmly explains that Death just means change and isn't automatically a bad thing. Then she freaks out after drawing The Happy Squirrel.
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''' Marge:''' ''[dismissive]'' Oh, Milhouse doesn't count.
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''' Marge:''' ''[dismissive]'' ''(dismissive)'' Oh, Milhouse doesn't count.
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* WorldWarThree: Moe scolds Hugh because he's British and claims: "We saved your ass in WorldWarTwo". Hugh responds: "And we saved your ass in WorldWarThree." Moe admits: "True."
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* WorldWarThree: Moe scolds Hugh because he's British and claims: "We saved your ass in WorldWarTwo". Hugh responds: "And we saved your ass ''your'' arse in WorldWarThree." Moe admits: "True."
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* HilariousInHindsight: Believe it or not, the line about the Rolling Stones having a reunion tour was supposed to be a joke about how it would never happen. Also, the Jim Carrey film festival, this being before the likes of ''{{The Truman Show}}'' and ''{{Man On The Moon}}''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Believe it or not, the line about the Rolling Stones Music/TheRollingStones having a reunion tour was supposed to be a joke about how it would never happen. Also, the Jim Carrey film festival, this being before the likes of ''{{The ''Film/{{The Truman Show}}'' and ''{{Man ''Film/{{Man On The Moon}}''.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: When Homer and Bart hang out the Union Jack to welcome Lisa's British boyfriend Hugh they bring his attention to it by saying: "Here's some American hospitality", whereupon it turns out the flag accidentally caught fire! Homer and Bart try to extinguish the fire by throwing some compost upon it, then give the ravaged remains to Hugh.
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** In Lisa's bedroom we can see a poster of Music/TheRollingStones ''Steel Wheelchair'' Tour, a parody of their ''Music/SteelWheels'' tour.
** The old Krusty was modelled after [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]].
** In Lisa's bedroom we can see a poster of Music/TheRollingStones ''Steel Wheelchair'' Tour, a parody of their ''Music/SteelWheels'' tour.
** The old Krusty was modelled after [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]].
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* GentlemanAndAScholar: Hugh is at first this seems to be, but is immediately subverted at the end of the episode, becoming in a JerkAss.
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* GentlemanAndAScholar: Hugh is at first this seems to be, be this, but is immediately subverted at the end of the episode, becoming in a JerkAss.
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* WeHaveThoseToo: Hugh tells Homer that they have the "pull my finger" joke in Britain.
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* WeHaveThoseToo: Hugh tells Homer that they have the "pull my finger" joke in Britain. But Homer just wants him to pull his finger.
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** This could have also been a Continuity Nod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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** This could have also been a Continuity Nod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.Court and will finally get permission from Homer to see ''Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie'' ([[TechnologyMarchesOn Never mind that between 1992 and now, seeing a movie like that would be stupid easy thanks to the Internet]]).
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Bored by Springfield's lame attempt at a Renaissance Fair, Lisa wanders into a fortune teller's tent, and is told the story of her future. Fifteen years later, Lisa is a gifted college student, and falls in love with the similarly bright Hugh Parkfield. Hugh proposes, and Lisa brings him to Springfield to meet her family. The other Simpsons being themselves, {{Hilarity Ensues}}.
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Bored by Springfield's lame attempt at a Renaissance Fair, Lisa wanders into a fortune teller's fortuneteller's tent, and is told the story of her future. Fifteen years later, where she shows Lisa is her future as a gifted college student, and university student who falls in love with for a proper, British gentleman who attends the similarly bright Hugh Parkfield. Hugh proposes, same university as she does, but must choose between her family and Lisa brings him to Springfield to meet her family. The other Simpsons being themselves, {{Hilarity Ensues}}.
lover when he asks her to marry him.
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* BitingTheHandHumor: Marge's comment about how FOX has become a hardcore sex channel in 2010.
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* CocaPepsiInc: Kent Brockman working for "CNNBCBS: A Division of ABC". [[BitingTheHandHumor Fox, on the other hand, became a hardcore porn channel so gradually that nobody even noticed]].
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* CocaPepsiInc: Kent Brockman working for "CNNBCBS: A Division of ABC". [[BitingTheHandHumor Fox, on the other hand, became a hardcore porn channel so gradually that nobody even noticed]].
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* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Lisa is chasing an esquilax when she finds the fortune teller's tent.
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* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Lisa is chasing an esquilax "esquilax" when she finds the fortune teller's tent.
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'''Lisa:''' "Pertaining to a process involving a randomly-determined sequence of observations". [they make out]
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'''Lisa:''' "Pertaining to a process involving a randomly-determined sequence of observations". observations. Ha-ha-ha." [they make out]
** The soy pops in the vending machine, considering that soy products are more common now than they were in the 1990s.
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'''Bart:''' We had one in his honor. ''[Lisa stares at him]'' I had one in his honor. ''[Lisa continues to stare at him]'' I went to a strip club.
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'''Bart:''' We had one in his honor. ''[Lisa stares at him]'' I ''I'' had one in his honor. ''[Lisa continues to stare at him]'' I went to a strip club.
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* NoisyRobots: Subverted as we Flash Forward to the far future ([[IWantMyJetpack 2010]]) and see what we think are a group of robots clanking by, but it's really just several college kids going to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' auditions in Tin Man costumes.
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* NoisyRobots: Subverted as we Flash Forward to the far future ([[IWantMyJetpack 2010]]) and see what we think are a group of robots clanking by, but it's really just several college overtaking the world. Turns out they're university kids going to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' auditions in auditioning for the role of The Tin Man costumes.for ''The Wizard of Oz''
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The first full FlashForward episode.
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* TechnicalVirgin: Lisa wonders if she should wear white for her wedding as there was Milhouse, before she and Marge agree that Milhouse doesn't count.
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* TechnicalVirgin: Lisa wonders if she should wear white for her wedding as there she had sex with Milhouse when she was Milhouse, before a teenager (then broke up with him by telling him she and might not get married). Marge agree assures Lisa that Milhouse doesn't count.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Set in the far future year of...2010, in which the show was still going strong and the characters hadn't aged a day. Who knew?
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Set in the far future year of...2010, in which the show was still going strong and the characters hadn't aged a day. Who knew?TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture
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* AscendedExtra/CanonForeigner/CanonImmigrant: Believe it or not, The Happy Squirrel tarot has actually obtained one of these statuses in the Tarot community.
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* AscendedExtra/CanonForeigner/CanonImmigrant: AscendedExtra-CanonForeigner-CanonImmigrant: Believe it or not, The Happy Squirrel tarot has actually obtained one of these statuses in the Tarot community.
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* AscendedExtra/CanonForeigner/CanonImmigrant: Believe it or not, The Happy Squirrel tarot has actually obtained one of these statuses in the Tarot community.
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** The Happy Squirrel Tarot that was created as an offhanded joke has actually started seeing use in Tarot decks. Albeit usually as a novelty or joke item.
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* CocaPepsiInc: Kent Brockman working for "CNNBCBS: A Division of ABC". [[BitingTheHandHumor Fox, on the other hand, became a hardcore porn channel so gradually that nobody even noticed]].
* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Future Moe Szyslak has an eyepatch.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Lisa is chasing an esquilax when she finds the fortune teller's tent.
* FutureLoser: Subverted for Bart, who is a wrecking ball operator working his way through law school.
**This could have also been a Continuity Nod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
* GaiasLament: Played for laughs where trees in the future are apparently extinct, as shown by a holographic image of a tree, with the description: "In memory of a real tree."
* GeekyTurnOn: Lisa and Hugh are reading a book together to decide who could read it faster:
-->'''Hugh:''' I'll get the dictionary.\\
'''Lisa:''' Why?\\
'''Hugh:''' You'll see when you get there: the word "stochastic".\\
'''Lisa:''' "Pertaining to a process involving a randomly-determined sequence of observations". [they make out]
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Hugh is at first this seems to be, but is immediately subverted at the end of the episode, becoming in a JerkAss.
* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard / TheSilentBob: A teenage Maggie is never able to say a word without being interrupted. Ironically, she is described by Homer as being a chatterbox - but then she merely rolls her eyes at her father in silence.
**She's also supposed to have an angelic singing voice, but she gets cut off just as she's preparing to do so. All the audience gets is the sound of her inhaling.
* EyepatchAfterTimeSkip: Future Moe Szyslak has an eyepatch.
* FollowTheWhiteRabbit: Lisa is chasing an esquilax when she finds the fortune teller's tent.
* FutureLoser: Subverted for Bart, who is a wrecking ball operator working his way through law school.
**This could have also been a Continuity Nod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
* GaiasLament: Played for laughs where trees in the future are apparently extinct, as shown by a holographic image of a tree, with the description: "In memory of a real tree."
* GeekyTurnOn: Lisa and Hugh are reading a book together to decide who could read it faster:
-->'''Hugh:''' I'll get the dictionary.\\
'''Lisa:''' Why?\\
'''Hugh:''' You'll see when you get there: the word "stochastic".\\
'''Lisa:''' "Pertaining to a process involving a randomly-determined sequence of observations". [they make out]
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Hugh is at first this seems to be, but is immediately subverted at the end of the episode, becoming in a JerkAss.
* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard / TheSilentBob: A teenage Maggie is never able to say a word without being interrupted. Ironically, she is described by Homer as being a chatterbox - but then she merely rolls her eyes at her father in silence.
**She's also supposed to have an angelic singing voice, but she gets cut off just as she's preparing to do so. All the audience gets is the sound of her inhaling.
* INeverToldYouMyName: Occurs where Lisa is talking to the fortune teller:
-->'''Woman:''' I've been waiting for you, Lisa.
-->'''Lisa:''' [=*=]''{{gasp}}''[=*=] How did you know my name?
-->'''Woman:''' [[SubvertedTrope Your nametag.]]
* InflationaryDialogue: A non-numerical example:
-->'''Bart:''' Wow, Lisa, looking at you makes me want to get married for a third time. I met a really nice exotic dancer the other night at Hugh's bachelor party.\\
'''Lisa:''' Hugh didn't have a bachelor party.\\
'''Bart:''' We had one in his honor. ''[Lisa stares at him]'' I had one in his honor. ''[Lisa continues to stare at him]'' I went to a strip club.
-->'''Woman:''' I've been waiting for you, Lisa.
-->'''Lisa:''' [=*=]''{{gasp}}''[=*=] How did you know my name?
-->'''Woman:''' [[SubvertedTrope Your nametag.]]
* InflationaryDialogue: A non-numerical example:
-->'''Bart:''' Wow, Lisa, looking at you makes me want to get married for a third time. I met a really nice exotic dancer the other night at Hugh's bachelor party.\\
'''Lisa:''' Hugh didn't have a bachelor party.\\
'''Bart:''' We had one in his honor. ''[Lisa stares at him]'' I had one in his honor. ''[Lisa continues to stare at him]'' I went to a strip club.
* NoisyRobots: Subverted as we Flash Forward to the far future ([[IWantMyJetpack 2010]]) and see what we think are a group of robots clanking by, but it's really just several college kids going to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' auditions in Tin Man costumes.
* NoLongerWithUs:
-->'''Marge:''' "You're getting married! Oh, if only your father was still here to see this... but he left for work five minutes ago!"
* OldNewBorrowedAndBlue: Lisa's pearls are old, her dress is new, she borrows a locket from Hugh's mother, and a lock of Marge's hair is blue.
* NoLongerWithUs:
-->'''Marge:''' "You're getting married! Oh, if only your father was still here to see this... but he left for work five minutes ago!"
* OldNewBorrowedAndBlue: Lisa's pearls are old, her dress is new, she borrows a locket from Hugh's mother, and a lock of Marge's hair is blue.
* SuperSpeedReading: Lisa and Hugh bond over speed-reading the one textbook they both wanted. They appear to finish it in an afternoon.
* TarotTroubles: Averted when the Death card comes up, Lisa is terrified, but the gypsy calmly explains that Death just means change and isn't automatically a bad thing. Then she freaks out after drawing The Happy Squirrel.
* TechnicalVirgin: Lisa wonders if she should wear white for her wedding as there was Milhouse, before she and Marge agree that Milhouse doesn't count.
* TearsFromAStone: Robots aren't supposed to have emotions, but cry at sentimental events and short themselves out.
* TinMan: A librarian catches Lisa with her fiance-to-be, and questions aloud how two so opposite personalities could ever fall in love. A bystander comments "How would you know, you're a robot?" prompting the robot librarian to shed a single tear... [[NoWaterproofingInTheFuture which then causes her to catch fire]]. Then it happens again when said fiance proposes; the two robots hiding in the bushes to implement plan B also start crying, causing their faces to melt.
* TarotTroubles: Averted when the Death card comes up, Lisa is terrified, but the gypsy calmly explains that Death just means change and isn't automatically a bad thing. Then she freaks out after drawing The Happy Squirrel.
* TechnicalVirgin: Lisa wonders if she should wear white for her wedding as there was Milhouse, before she and Marge agree that Milhouse doesn't count.
* TearsFromAStone: Robots aren't supposed to have emotions, but cry at sentimental events and short themselves out.
* TinMan: A librarian catches Lisa with her fiance-to-be, and questions aloud how two so opposite personalities could ever fall in love. A bystander comments "How would you know, you're a robot?" prompting the robot librarian to shed a single tear... [[NoWaterproofingInTheFuture which then causes her to catch fire]]. Then it happens again when said fiance proposes; the two robots hiding in the bushes to implement plan B also start crying, causing their faces to melt.
* {{Videophone}}: Showcased a conversation between Lisa and Marge using a "picture phone." Marge kept forgetting that Lisa could see her over the phone, and her body language made it more obvious to tell when she was lying.
* VirginInAWhiteDress: Lisa and Marge briefly discuss this as they are a church-going family.
-->'''Lisa:''' Mom, I feel kind of funny wearing white. I mean...Milhouse.\\
''' Marge:''' ''[dismissive]'' Oh, Milhouse doesn't count.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Hugh tries to put his proposal on a big electrical letterboard saying "Lisa, will you do me the honor of giving me your hand in the holy tradition of matrimo—", before it shorts out. He falls to "Plan B": sending out a cow wearing a sign that says just: "Marry Me."
* WeHaveThoseToo: Hugh tells Homer that they have the "pull my finger" joke in Britain.
* VirginInAWhiteDress: Lisa and Marge briefly discuss this as they are a church-going family.
-->'''Lisa:''' Mom, I feel kind of funny wearing white. I mean...Milhouse.\\
''' Marge:''' ''[dismissive]'' Oh, Milhouse doesn't count.
* WackyMarriageProposal: Hugh tries to put his proposal on a big electrical letterboard saying "Lisa, will you do me the honor of giving me your hand in the holy tradition of matrimo—", before it shorts out. He falls to "Plan B": sending out a cow wearing a sign that says just: "Marry Me."
* WeHaveThoseToo: Hugh tells Homer that they have the "pull my finger" joke in Britain.
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'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Whatever.
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'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Whatever. \n
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The Esquilax, a literal example. Also the famous two-headed dog, born with only one head.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The Esquilax, a literal example. Also the famous two-headed dog, hound, born with only one head.
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-->'''Lunchlady Doris:'' Yon meat, 'tis sweet as summer's wafting breeze.\\
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-->'''Lunchlady Doris:'' Doris:''' Yon meat, 'tis sweet as summer's wafting breeze.\\
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The Esquilax, a literal example. Also the famous two-headed dog, born with only one head.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Set in the far future year of...2010, in which the show was still going strong and the characters hadn't aged a day. Who knew?
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Set in the far future year of...2010, in which the show was still going strong and the characters hadn't aged a day. Who knew?knew?
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe:
-->'''Lunchlady Doris:'' Yon meat, 'tis sweet as summer's wafting breeze.\\
'''Homer:''' Can I have some?\\
'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Mine ears are only open to the pleas of those who speak ye olde English.\\
'''Homer:''' Sweet maiden of the spit, grant now my boon, that I might sup on some suckling pig this noon.\\
'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Whatever.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe:
-->'''Lunchlady Doris:'' Yon meat, 'tis sweet as summer's wafting breeze.\\
'''Homer:''' Can I have some?\\
'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Mine ears are only open to the pleas of those who speak ye olde English.\\
'''Homer:''' Sweet maiden of the spit, grant now my boon, that I might sup on some suckling pig this noon.\\
'''Lunchlady Doris:''' Whatever.
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* MixAndMatchCritter: "And here, out of the mists of history... the legendary Esquilax! A horse with the head of a rabbit, and the body... [[CallingARabbitASmerp of a rabbit!]]"
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* MixAndMatchCritter: "And here, out of the mists of history... the legendary Esquilax! A horse with the head of a rabbit, and the body... [[CallingARabbitASmerp [[CallingARabbitASmeerp of a rabbit!]]"
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* MixAndMatchCritter: "And here, out of the mists of history... the legendary Esquilax! A horse with the head of a rabbit, and the body... [[CallingARabbitASmerp of a rabbit!]]"
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* FutureEpisode
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* SpecialGuestStar: Mandy Patinkin as Hugh.
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* SpecialGuestStar: SpecialGuest: Mandy Patinkin as Hugh.
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Bored by Springfield's lame attempt at a Renaissance Fair, Lisa wanders into a fortune teller's tent, and is told the story of her future. Fifteen years later, Lisa is a gifted college student, and falls in love with the similarly bright Hugh Parkfield. Hugh proposes, and Lisa brings him to Springfield to meet her family. The other Simpsons being themselves, {{Hilarity Ensues}}.
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* FutureEpisode
* HilariousInHindsight: Believe it or not, the line about the Rolling Stones having a reunion tour was supposed to be a joke about how it would never happen. Also, the Jim Carrey film festival, this being before the likes of ''{{The Truman Show}}'' and ''{{Man On The Moon}}''.
* SpecialGuestStar: Mandy Patinkin as Hugh.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Set in the far future year of...2010, in which the show was still going strong and the characters hadn't aged a day. Who knew?
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* FutureEpisode
* HilariousInHindsight: Believe it or not, the line about the Rolling Stones having a reunion tour was supposed to be a joke about how it would never happen. Also, the Jim Carrey film festival, this being before the likes of ''{{The Truman Show}}'' and ''{{Man On The Moon}}''.
* SpecialGuestStar: Mandy Patinkin as Hugh.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Set in the far future year of...2010, in which the show was still going strong and the characters hadn't aged a day. Who knew?
