History Recap / TheSimpsonsS7E13TwoBadNeighbors

* BirdsOfAFeather: After each accepting a glass of lemonade, Bush and Flanders begin exchanging "diddlies" and "doodlies" and then briefly speak in unison.

* HypocriticalHumor: Homer is livid that Bush would dare spank his son... whom he regularly strangles.

** Abe claims that Presidents used to spank kids all the time back in his day, and Creator/GroverCleveland spanked him on two nonconsecutive occasions. Cleveland is the only President to have served two nonconsecutive terms in the White House.

* HistoricalInJoke: When George and Homer are grappling with each other, Bush taunts Homer by telling him "I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet!" This is a reference to the time George, seriously ill from gastroenteritis, blew chunks on the then current Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa at a banquet he was meant to give a speech.

* RealitySubtext: The episode gives life to the snark traded between Bush and the show during his presidency, namely the show's famous retort to Bush's statement that he wanted American families to be "a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons" ("Hey, we're just like the Waltons. [[TakeThat We're praying for an end to the depression too]]"). Notably, Barbara is seen as a more accepting and laid-back soul who's friendly to Bart and makes a NotSoDifferentRemark about her and Marge's situations, likely reflecting [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/04/barbara-bush-marge-simpson-letter her good-humored response to a letter from Marge in 1990]].

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Homer gets the idea to attack Bush with locusts from the Bible, which he calls "the prankster's Bible."

* {{Retcon}}: Season 2's "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" implied that Homer spanks Bart so often that he automatically responds to Homer calling him over and patting his knee by assuming spanking position on his lap. In this episode, Homer and Marge don't believe in spanking, which Bush and Abe blame for Bart acting the way he does. It's still grade-A HypocriticalHumor for Homer to be as offended as he is about Bart getting spanked by Bush given his own propensity for ''strangling'' the kid.

* ContinuityNod: Some of the items at the rummage sale are [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E22BloodFeud the Olmec head Mr. Burns gave the family]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1HomersBarbershopQuartet a Be Sharps album]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E12BartGetsFamous Bart's "I didn't do it" shirts]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E14LisaVsMalibuStacy Lisa's "Lisa Lionheart" dolls]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E21LadyBouviersLover Bart's Mary Worth phone]], and [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E10GrampaVsSexualInadequacy Homer and Abe's tonic]]. [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E18BrushWithGreatness One of Marge's Ringo Starr paintings]] is also visible in the attic.

* BrickJoke: When searching through the attic for stuff to sell, Marge finds a jackets that was meant to spell “Disco Stud” but stopped one letter short, spelling “Disco Stu”. A few minutes later, one Disco Stu (in his FirstAppearance) refuses to buy the jacket because “Disco Stu does not advertise”.

* ContinuityNod: Some of the items at the rummage sale are [[TheSimpsonsS2E22BloodFeud the Olmec head Mr. Burns gave the family]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1HomersBarbershopQuartet a Be Sharps album]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E12BartGetsFamous Bart's "I didn't do it" shirts]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E14LisaVsMalibuStacy Lisa's "Lisa Lionheart" dolls]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E21LadyBouviersLover Bart's Mary Worth phone]], and [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E10GrampaVsSexualInadequacy Homer and Abe's tonic]]. [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E18BrushWithGreatness One of Marge's Ringo Starr paintings]] is also visible in the attic.

* ContinuityNod: Some of the items at the rummage sale are [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E12BartGetsFamous Bart's "I didn't do it" shirts]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E14LisaVsMalibuStacy Lisa's "Lisa Lionheart" dolls]], and [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E10GrampaVsSexualInadequacy Homer and Abe's tonic]].

Episode - 3F09\\
First Aired - 1/14/1996

* TimeMarchesOn: The main plot of the episode [[HarsherInHindsight becomes a little harder to watch]] with Barbara Bush's death on April 17, 2018, and [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George Bush Sr.'s]] death 7 months later on November 30, 2018. [[HilariousInHindsight On the other hand, the writers had no idea that there really was a]] [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush George Bush Jr.]].

* PapaWolf: Homer decides to go on a revenge prank campaign with Bart because Bush gave Bart ''one'' slap on the tush in retaliation for Bart acting like ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS''. Also overlaps with DisproportionateRetribution (Bush explaining why it happened doesn't make Homer even so much as tell Bart to say he's sorry).

* ShoutOut: The episode itself is one to ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS''.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: There's a joke in this episode with the punchline being that "Disco Stu" is actually the name of a person. If you've been watching episodes after this one, you'll already know who Disco Stu is, leaving the joke confusing since this is his first appearance.

* DoubleStandardViolenceChildOnAdult: Explored throughout, first with the contrast between how Bart treats Bush and how Bush retaliates, then with the [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] of Homer's anger over the spanking when he throttles Bart on a regular basis.