History Recap / TheSimpsonsS6E3AnotherSimpsonsClipShow

* ClipShow: The episode intentionally takes this to its extreme and barely has any new animation (except for the beginning where Marge is reading ''The Bridges of Madison County''), meaning that even the framing scenes of The Simpsons in the kitchen are [[StockFootage recycled]] from past episodes (mostly from the season two episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E11OneFishTwoFishBlowfishBlueFish One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish]]".) The episode was allegedly put together at extremely short notice after the start of the new season was shifted forwards a few weeks by Fox, which may account for the small amount of new animation (even by a clip show's standards) and the AlanSmithee writing credit.

* BrokenAesop: The Simpsons family sees things as all but one of the romances ending badly, but Lisa and Bart at least maintained good relationships with their mates after the moments shown, something neither of them remember to bring up, while Homer and Marge's outside attractions were casualties of their greater love for each other. As a result, it seems like the episode is bending things and dealing in absolutes on romance- either you stay together or you’re miserable, with no in-between- to make its message work.

* SpecialGuest: Creator/AlbertBrooks as Jacques (credited as A. Brooks); Creator/SaraGilbert as Laura Powers; Creator/KelseyGrammer as Sideshow Bob; Creator/PhilHartman as Troy [=McClure=]; Creator/JonLovitz as Artie Ziff; Creator/MichellePfeiffer as Mindy Simmons; Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel (All voices are only within clips.)

[[caption-width-right:350:[[HalfTruth "It's a]] ''[[HalfTruth new]]'' [[HalfTruth episode."]]]]

** Homer tells Marge what happened to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer Mindy Simmons]] after Homer told her that they can never be together: she [[TheAlcoholic hit the bottle pretty hard]] and lost her job at the plant, even though later episodes would have her clean and sober. She could have gone to rehab and become a recovering alcoholic, or the story could be a rumor and Homer, being gullible, believes it. Or Homer could be lying.

* RecycledAnimation: Parodied when Bart and Lisa watch an ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon that we as an audience have seen in a previous episode, causing Marge to ask them how many times they can watch that particular cartoon. They lampshade by answering that it's a new episode made from stock footage. This is also self-referential comedy because the entire episode itself is made from stock footage from previous ''Simpsons'' episodes, only with occasional new dialogue spliced over them.

* SpecialGuest: Creator/AlbertBrooks as Jacques (credited as A. Brooks); Creator/SaraGilbert as Laura Powers; Creator/KelseyGrammer as Sideshow Bob; Creator/PhilHartman as Troy [=McClure=]; Creator/JonLovitz as Artie Ziff; Creator/MichellePfeiffer as Mindy Simmons; Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel [All voices are only within clips.]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The scene of the kids watching ''Itchy and Scratchy'' (the one where Itchy ties Scratchy's tongue to the moon) and Lisa explaining that this particular cartoon is using RecycledAnimation is clearly using animation from an early episode of the show itself (specifically "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E12KrustyGetsBusted Krusty Gets Busted]]").

Episode - 2F33\\
First Aired - 9/25/1994

* BrokenAesop: The Simpsons family sees things as all but one of the romances ending badly, but Lisa and Bart at least maintained good relationships with their mates after the moments shown, something neither of them remember to bring up. As a result, it seems like the episode is bending things and dealing in absolutes on romance- either you stay together or you’re miserable, with no in-between- to make its message work.

* FirstLove: Bart calls Laura Powers from "New Kid on the Block" "the only girl I ever loved." Up to this point in the series, it's true.

* CallBack: Homer tells Marge what happened to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer Mindy Simmons]] after Homer told her that they can never be together: she [[TheAlcoholic hit the bottle pretty hard]] and lost her job at the plant, even though later episodes would have her clean and sober. She could have gone to rehab and become a recovering alcoholic, or the story could be a rumor and Homer, being gullible, believes it. Or Homer could be lying.

* FirstLove: Bart calls Laura Powers "the only girl I ever loved." Up to this point in the series, it's true.

** Well, not ENTIRELY. Some animation is indeed new, but probably only amounts to maybe five minutes max.

* CallBack: Homer tells Marge what happened to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer Mindy Simmons]] after Homer told her that they can never be together: she [[TheAlcoholic hit the bottle pretty hard]] and lost her job at the plant, even though later episodes would have her clean and sober. She could have gone to rehab and become a recovering alcoholic, or the story could be a rumor and Homer, being gullible, believes it.

* TakeThat: Lisa's line about ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' recycling footage to make new cartoons, and Marge's line, "Yes, but when was the last time anyone talked about ''Ren and Stimpy''?" At the time this episode aired, ''Ren and Stimpy'' was run by Games Animation (after its original creator, Creator/JohnKricfalusi, was fired) and its popularity was on the wane[[note]]mostly because Nickelodeon was phasing out its more daring, experimental kids' cartoons for ones that were a bit safer and crowd-pleasing[[/note]].

* BottleEpisode[=/=]ClipShow: The episode intentionally takes this to its extreme and barely has any new animation (except for the beginning where Marge is reading ''The Bridges of Madison County''), meaning that even the framing scenes of The Simpsons in the kitchen are [[StockFootage recycled]] from past episodes (mostly from the season two episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E11OneFishTwoFishBlowfishBlueFish One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish]]".) The episode was allegedly put together at extremely short notice after the start of the new season was shifted forwards a few weeks by Fox, which may account for the small amount of new animation (even by a clip show's standards) and the AlanSmithee writing credit.

* TakeThat: Lisa's line about ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' recycling footage to make new cartoons, and Marge's line, "Yes, but when was the last time anyone talked about ''Ren and Stimpy''?" At the time this episode aired, ''Ren and Stimpy'' was run by Games Animation (after its original creator, Creator/JohnKricfalusi, was fired) and its popularity was on the wane, mostly because Nickelodeon was phasing out its more daring, experimental kids' cartoons for ones that were a bit safer and crowd-pleasing (though it wouldn't be until the late 1990s with ''The Fairly Oddparents'' and ''[=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=]'' that Nickelodeon would actually find it[[note]]and ''Invader Zim'' tried to break that, but sadly couldn't[[/note]]. The mid-1990s Nicktoons like ''Kablam'' and ''[=CatDog=]'' were in that strange middle ground of being clones of ''Ren and Stimpy'' and ''Animaniacs'' in terms of gross and suggestive humor, but feeling restrained or otherwise [[ExecutiveMeddling meddled with]]).

* TakeThat: Lisa's line about ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' recycling footage to make new cartoons, and Marge's line, "Yes, but when was the last time anyone talked about ''Ren and Stimpy''?" At the time this episode aired, ''Ren and Stimpy'' was run by Games Animation (after its original creator, Creator/JohnKricfalusi, was fired) and its popularity was on the wane, mostly because Nickelodeon was phasing out its more daring, experimental kids' cartoons for ones that were a bit safer and crowd-pleasing.

* CallBack: Homer tells Marge what happened to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer Mindy Simmons]] after Homer told her that they can never be together: she [[TheAlcoholic hit the bottle pretty hard]] and lost her job at the plant, even though later episodes would have her clean and sober. She could have gone to rehab and become a recovering alcoholic, or the story could be a rumor that Homer heard through Lenny, Carl, and/or Charlie, or Homer was lying to keep Marge happy instead of saying "She still works there, it's super awkward."

** During Lisa's story, Lisa's explanation on why nobody was wearing jackets despite it being the middle of February: It was unusually warm for that time of year.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The scene of the kids watching ''Itchy and Scratchy'' and Lisa explaining that this particular cartoon is using RecycledAnimation is clearly using animation from an early episode of the show itself (specifically "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E12KrustyGetsBusted Krusty Gets Busted]]").
* RecycledAnimation: Parodied when Bart and Lisa watch an ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon that we as an audience have seen in a previous episode, causing Marge to ask them how many times they can watch that particular cartoon? They lampshade by answering that it's a new episode made from stock footage. This is also selfreferential comedy because the entire episode itself is made from stock footage from previous ''Simpsons'' episodes, only with occasional new dialogue spliced over them.

* TakeThat: Lisa's line about ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' recycling footage to make new cartoons, and Marge's line, "Yes, but when was the last time anyone talked about ''Ren and Stimpy''?" At the time this episode aired, ''Ren and Stimpy'' was run by Games Animation.