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* AesopAmnesia: In "Whacking Day", Lisa didn't have second thoughts about busting the myths of that eponymous Springfield holiday. Though the fact that Springfield was honoring its bicentennial did make things more complicated.
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* FemaleMisogynist: Ms. Hoover has shades of this when she accuses Lisa of "Dead white male bashing," calls her a P.C. thug and it's girls like her that make it difficult for women to get husbands.
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** Marge outright dismisses and insults Lisa's findings without even considering it a possibility. Mrs. Hoover does so as well.
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** Marge outright dismisses and insults Lisa's findings without even considering it a possibility. Mrs. Hoover does so as well.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Springfield's founder Jebediah Springfield was actually a murderous pirate named Hans Sprungfeld, who once tried to assassinate George Washington. And Hollis Hurlbut and Lisa are not the only ones who know the truth, as Mayor Quimby is also shown to know or at least strongly suspect it... and he would [[WouldHurtAChild go so far as to have Lisa murdered]] in order to keep it a secret.
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* AppealToAudacity: Homer is the only person who believes Lisa because he knows her well enough that he knows that she wouldn't say something so insane ''and'' dire about the town's founder unless it was absolutely true.
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* AppealToAudacity: Homer is the only person who believes Lisa because he knows her well enough that he knows Lisa's claims. He recognizes that she wouldn't say something so insane ''and'' dire about the town's founder unless it was absolutely true.
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* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: George Washington is ambushed by a would-be assassin, but out-wrestles him and sends him fleeing; of course, possibly not much of an "upgrade" for him at all, seeing how tough he was said to be.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: George Washington is ambushed by a would-be assassin, but out-wrestles him and sends him fleeing; of course, possibly not much of an "upgrade" for him at all, seeing how tough he was said to be.
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* AlliterativeName: '''H'''ollis '''H'''urlbut.
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* TheComicallySerious: When Lisa jokes about having "Chester A. Arthritis", Hollis only says "You have arthritis?".
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* PokeThePoodle: After Lisa learns the truth about Jebediah Springfield, [[PersonaNonGrata Hollis immediately bans her, her future children, and her future children's children from the historical society]]... for three months.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: At the climax, when Lisa is about to expose the truth about Jebediah Springfield to the crowd attending the parade, we find out that Quimby ordered a sniper to shoot Lisa if she revealed the truth. Quimby tells the sniper to wait so they can hear what she will say, Lisa decides to not tell the truth... [[KickTheDog and the sniper fires anyway]] (whether on his own volition or on Quimby's orders, we don't know), hitting where Lisa was standing one second before.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Lisa goes back to the Historical society to confront Hurlbut, he was in the midst of sweeping the floor. He takes a furtive look around him and starts sweeping the dust under the rug.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Lisa goes back to the Historical society Society to confront Hurlbut, he was in the midst of sweeping the floor. floor. He takes a furtive look around him and starts sweeping the dust under the rug.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: When Lisa goes back to the Historical society to confront Hurlbut, he was in the midst of sweeping the floor. He takes a furtive look around him and starts sweeping the dust under the rug.
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* BreadAndCircuses: A newspaper ad asking for people to join a parade has the headline "Parade to Distract Joyless Citizenry".
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** Apu, at least, is more polite about it than the others. Instead of yelling at Lisa that she's wrong, he uses his "semi-legal" status as the reason that he cannot afford to put up Lisa's unpopular announcement up in his store. Moe, as well, does not direct any venom at Lisa either, but at Homer instead [[(AlternateCharacterInterpretation presumably for encouraging Lisa to spread views that -- in Springfield -- could very well get her killed.)]]
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** Apu, at least, is more polite about it than the others. Instead of yelling at Lisa that she's wrong, he uses his "semi-legal" status as the reason that he cannot afford to put up Lisa's unpopular announcement up in his store. Moe, as well, does not direct any venom at Lisa either, but at Homer instead [[(AlternateCharacterInterpretation instead, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation presumably for encouraging Lisa to spread views that -- in Springfield -- could very well get her killed.)]] ]]
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** Apu, at least, is more polite about it than the others. Instead of yelling at Lisa that she's wrong, he uses his "semi-legal" status as the reason that he cannot afford to put up Lisa's unpopular announcement up in his store. Moe, as well, does not direct any venom at Lisa either, but at Homer instead (presumably for encouraging Lisa to spread views that -- in Springfield -- could very well get her killed.)
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** Apu, at least, is more polite about it than the others. Instead of yelling at Lisa that she's wrong, he uses his "semi-legal" status as the reason that he cannot afford to put up Lisa's unpopular announcement up in his store. Moe, as well, does not direct any venom at Lisa either, but at Homer instead (presumably [[(AlternateCharacterInterpretation presumably for encouraging Lisa to spread views that -- in Springfield -- could very well get her killed.) )]]
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** Apu, at least, is more polite about it than the others. Instead of yelling at Lisa that she's wrong, he uses his "semi-legal" status as the reason that he cannot afford to put up Lisa's unpopular announcement up in his store. Moe, as well, does not direct any venom at Lisa either, but at Homer instead (presumably for encouraging Lisa to spread views that -- in Springfield -- could very well get her killed.)
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* CallBack: Sprungfeld's confession mentions his shooting a buffalo, something established way back in "The Telltale Head". Here, he clarifies the buffalo had in fact been tame. He'd just shot it.
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* CallBack: Sprungfeld's confession mentions his shooting a buffalo, something established way back in "The "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E8TheTelltaleHead The Telltale Head".Head]]". Here, he clarifies the buffalo had in fact been tame. He'd just shot it.
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* FakeUltimateHero / VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jebediah Springfield.
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* FakeUltimateHero / VillainWithGoodPublicity: FakeUltimateHero[=/=]VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jebediah Springfield.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Apu refers to himself as a "semi-legal immigrant," which would later be explored in "Much Apu About Nothing."
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Apu refers to himself as a "semi-legal immigrant," which would later be explored in "Much "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E23MuchApuAboutNothing Much Apu About Nothing."Nothing]]".
* SinsOfOurFathers: "You are ''banned'' from this historical society! And your children! And your children's children! ... For three months".
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* StylisticSuck: The movie about Jebediah the school kids watch. Examples include an obvious stuntman, Troy [=McClure=] riding a blatantly fake buffalo (with the squeaking of the prop left in the film), two extras pushing the fake buffalo into a crowd then trying to look inconspicuous, and the boom mic slipping into frame.
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* StylisticSuck: The movie about Jebediah the school kids watch. Examples include an obvious stuntman, Troy [=McClure=] riding a blatantly fake buffalo (with the squeaking of the prop left in the film), two extras pushing the fake buffalo into a crowd then trying to look inconspicuous, and [[VisibleBoomMic the boom mic slipping into frame.frame]].
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* ThePowerOfLegacy: Lisa does a rare backtrack in her quest to expose the truth about a man because doing otherwise would demolish whatever good faith Springfield has that was born out of looking up to Jedediah Springfield.
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* MaintainTheLie: What Lisa ultimately decides to do, because of the positive influence that the legend of Jebediah Springfield has on the town.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Just as Wiggum checks Jebediah's skull for the silver tongue, he begs the founder to forgive them and that they mean "no disrespect." Five seconds later, he uses the skull as a ventriloquist dummy, to the delight of everyone present.
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* MuseumOfBoredom: To everybody else in town but Lisa, the Jebediah Springfield Museum is this.
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* CerebusRetcon: To other episodes that showcased Springfield as a cool historical figurehead, such as "The Telltale Head". Turns out that Jebediah Springfield was such a hard-core vile son of a bitch that [[KickTheSonOfABitch Bart's little crime ends up being a little karmic]].
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** Hans Springfield decided to write down a letter to confess all of his crimes only when he was dying of Diphtheria. Among multiple other ruthlessly violent things he did during his lifetime, he tried to assassinate George Washington. He also has no problem calling all of the citizens of Springfield past, present and future (because they followed him into founding the town) a bunch of idiots.
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** Hans Springfield decided to write down a letter to confess all of his crimes only when he was dying of Diphtheria.Diphtheria and did so with much glee (he even wrote down his EvilLaugh!). Among multiple other ruthlessly violent things he did during his lifetime, he tried to assassinate George Washington. He also has no problem calling all of the citizens of Springfield past, present and future (because they followed him into founding the town) a bunch of idiots.
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* AppealToAudacity: Homer is the only person who believes Lisa because he knows her well enough that he knows that she wouldn't say something so insane ''and' dire about the town's founder unless it was absolutely true.
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* FamousFamousFictional: Hurlbut claims that the Jebediah confession has as much credibility as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Dummar the Howard Hughes will]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries the Hitler Diaries]], and [[RefugeInAudacity the Emancipation]] ''[[RefugeInAudacity Retraction]]''.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
-->'''Chief Wiggum''': Jebediah Springfield has been replaced with a skeleton!
-->'''Hollis Hurlbut''': [[SurroundedByIdiots No, that's the skeleton]] ''[[SurroundedByIdiots of]]'' [[SurroundedByIdiots Jebediah]].
-->'''Chief Wiggum''': Jebediah Springfield has been replaced with a skeleton!
-->'''Hollis Hurlbut''': [[SurroundedByIdiots No, that's the skeleton]] ''[[SurroundedByIdiots of]]'' [[SurroundedByIdiots Jebediah]].
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* PetTheDog: Homer believe Lisa's theory and goes out of his way to support her when all others in Springfield, including Marge, doubt or deride her for expressing such views.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Moe exclaims that while he supports pretty much any prejudice you could name, Lisa's denouncing of Jebediah Springfield disgusts him.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: EveryoneHasStandards:
** Moe exclaims that while he supports pretty much any prejudice you could name, Lisa's denouncing of Jebediah Springfield disgustshim.him.
** Even if Lisa is the kind of person that would expose a truth even if that means destroying someone's life because she believes it's the right thing to do, the fact that exposing this truth would destroy the hopes and dreams and sacrifices of countless generations of Springfield citizens past, present and future is something that makes her decide to keep it buried.
** Moe exclaims that while he supports pretty much any prejudice you could name, Lisa's denouncing of Jebediah Springfield disgusts
** Even if Lisa is the kind of person that would expose a truth even if that means destroying someone's life because she believes it's the right thing to do, the fact that exposing this truth would destroy the hopes and dreams and sacrifices of countless generations of Springfield citizens past, present and future is something that makes her decide to keep it buried.
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* StylisticSuck: The movie about Jebediah the school kids watch. Examples include an obvious stuntman, Troy [=McClure=] riding a blatantly fake buffalo (with the squeaking of the prop left in the film), and two extras pushing the fake buffalo into a crowd then trying to look inconspicuous.
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* PersonaNonGrata: Played with when an outraged Hollis Hurlbut, who after first hearing the news about the real Jebediah Springfield from Lisa, have Lisa banned from the historical society... for three months.
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* CallBack: Sprungfeld's confession mentions his shooting a buffalo, something established way back in "The Telltale Head". Here, he clarifies the buffalo had in fact been tame. He'd just shot it.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Moe exclaims that while he supports pretty much any prejudice you could name, Lisa's denouncing of Jebediah Springfield disgusts him.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Marge outright dismisses and insults Lisa's findings without even considering it a possibility. Mrs. Hoover does so as well.
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* {{Jerkass}}: {{Jerkass}}:
** Marge outright dismisses and insults Lisa's findings without even considering it a possibility. Mrs. Hoover does so aswell.well.
** Ms. Hoover, especially toward Lisa.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Homer laments having been called a "greasy thug", and how much it hurts him. Then, his solution for making Lisa feel better is grease himself up, go around to the museum and smash everything with a baseball bat.
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-->'''Mrs. Krabapple:''' "Embiggens"? Never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.
-->'''Ms. Hoover:''' I don't know why, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
-->'''Ms. Hoover:''' I don't know why, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
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* HonorBeforeReason: The situation with Sprungfeld stands out all the more (especially because of latter-season Flanderization) because it's a pretty rare time where Lisa decides on her own volition to ''not'' go down this path in the end, after an entire episode of trying to expose Jebediah come hell or high water.
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* PersonaNonGrata: Played with when an outraged Hollis Hurlbut, who after first hearing the news about the real Jebediah Springfield from Lisa, have Lisa banned from the historical society...for three months.
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* NoodleIncident: Apparently no town meeting in Springfield has ended without someone digging up a corpse. What were those other times?
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* NoodleIncident: Apparently Apparently, no town meeting in Springfield has ended without someone digging up a corpse. What were those other times?
