History Recap / TheSimpsonsS7E19AFishCalledSelma

* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: When Selma confronts Troy about their sham marriage, he spins it as a good thing because unlike many other sham celebrity marriages, they know where they stand. Being desperate, Selma agrees to go along with the charade because she'll no longer be alone, and she'll get the perks of being a celebrity's wife.

* BeautyMark: Selma gains a small but noticeable one of these when she starts dressing like a celebrity wife.

** Selma ends up marrying Troy, but learns it's just a ploy by Troy to improve his career. She is convinced to continue the marriage, citing all the perks, until Troy decides to have a baby with Selma. She leaves Troy, not wanting to bring a child into a loveless marriage.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: When Troy tries to have sex with Selma to conceive a child, he just keeps making roaring noise at the door of their bedroom. Selma wants to break the ice and offers him some wine. He quickly runs to the bed, empties both glasses, and returns to the door to continue with the roaring.

* RealMenWearPink: Troy's casual sweater and wedding tuxedo.

-->'''Troy''': [laughing] That's too funny! I can't remember when I've heard a funnier anecdote. [laughing] All right, now you tell one.

Incidentally, ''Vulture'' did [[https://www.vulture.com/2017/07/the-simpsons-planet-of-the-apes-musical-oral-history-zauis.html "An Oral History of The Simpsons’ Classic Planet of the Apes Musical"]] that gets much more than you'd expect out of discussing a 2:00 long joke.

* RefugeInAudacity: Troy's sexual attraction to (and possibly harassment of) fish. The writers were upfront that they chose it because it was the most bizarre fetish they could think of, blowing past being perverted and going into the realm of pure absurdity.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' didn't release [[Film/TheMuppetMovie their first movie]] until 1979. This episode suggests there was a movie called ''The Muppets Go Medieval'' that was released in 1977[[labelnote:*]]this episode aired one month after the release of ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland''[[/labelnote]].

* SpecialGuest: Creator/JeffGoldblum as [=MacArthur=] Parker. Oddly, because the ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' musical is such an iconic moment for Creator/PhilHartman, people forget that Goldblum is in this episode too (and this premiered just a few months prior to the release of ''Film/IndependenceDay''). The fact that he is not a CelebrityStar but voicing a one-off secondary character might also be a factor.

* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Subverted; it looks like Homer might object, but he's too busy humming the tune to Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll, Part 2" in his head.

* TheBeard: Selma, for Troy (only Troy isn't gay, just allegedly sexually attracted to sea life).

* ShoutOut: The musical ''Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!'', in addition to being a parody of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'', also contains the number "Dr. Zaius", set to Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus". See also PunnyName above.

* SpecialGuest: Creator/JeffGoldblum as [=MacArthur=] Parker. Oddly, because the ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' musical is such an iconic moment for Creator/PhilHartman, people forget that Goldblum is in this episode too (and this premiered just a few months prior to the release of ''Film/IndependenceDay''). The fact that he is not a CelebrityStar but voicing a one-off secondary character might also be a factor.

Incidentally, ''Vulture'' did [[https://www.vulture.com/2017/07/the-simpsons-planet-of-the-apes-musical-oral-history-zauis.html "An Oral History of The Simpsons’ Classic Planet of the Apes Musical"]] that gets much more than you'd expect out discussing a 2:00 long joke.

Incidentally, *Vulture* did [[https://www.vulture.com/2017/07/the-simpsons-planet-of-the-apes-musical-oral-history-zauis.html "An Oral History of The Simpsons’ Classic Planet of the Apes Musical"]] that gets much more than you'd expect out discussing a 2:00 long joke.

-->'''George Taylor''': Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape! \\

* BaitAndSwitch: As Troy and Selma are in the middle of a makeout session, he then pulls away, takes out some breath spray, says "Just a sec" and initially aims the container at his mouth, only to then spray it into ''hers''.

* GeniusBonus: The crack at Hugh Grant's expense is even funnier for those who recall that the Divine Brown scandal coincided with/mildly distracted from the release of ''Film/NineMonths'', because this episode's SpecialGuest Creator/JeffGoldblum played a friend of Grant's character in that film. (It was a 20th Century Fox release on top of that.)