History Recap / TheSimpsonsS7E24Homerpalooza

* BrokenAesop: Marge tries to bring out the Aesop that "it doesn't matter if you're cool to people, you need to be true to yourself" and Homer brings up "you don't need other people to tell you that you're cool", but Bart and Lisa shoot them both down and Marge just angrily says that it's impossible to tell what the hell youth wants these days. To further drive the point home, neither of the kids actually elaborate on their own point about what it actually takes to be cool. However, the last line does imply that Homer might be on to something.
--> '''Homer''': Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told you're cool.
--> '''Bart''': Sure you do!
--> '''Lisa''': How else would you know?

** When Homer, a rock-and-roll fan, comments that he was most fond of the music growing up a DescriptionCut occurs to show a teenage Homer and Barney singing to Leo Sayer's "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" - a disco-pop song with a heavy use of falsetto.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Homer's stomach started growling strangely, the tour organizer says "Homer, nothing's more important to me than the health and well-being of my freaks. I'm sending you to a vet."

--> '''Homer''': Maybe if you're cool, you don't need others to tell you you are.
--> '''Bart''': Of course you do!

* BrokenAesop: Marge tries to bring out the Aesop that "it doesn't matter if you're cool to people, you need to be true to yourself" and Homer brings up "you don't need other people to tell you that you're cool", but Bart and Lisa shoot them both down and Marge just angrily says that it's impossible to tell what the hell youth wants these days. To further drive the point home, neither of the kids actually elaborate on their own point about what it actually takes to be cool.

* TheStoner: Apparently Music/CypressHill got so high they ordered a London Symphony Orchestra.
** Makes it more funny in that Music/CypressHill uses the orchestra as it that sounds like something they would do when high. It was originally for Music/PeterFrampton, who was on stage at the time.

* TotallyRadical: Homer's on the nose attempts to look cool and hip are a big part of the episode.

'''Abe:''' I used to be 'with it', until they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what's 'it' sounds weird and scary to me. ''It'll happen to you!''

** Otto hallucinating that his shoes are talking to him (specifically, what they're saying) is a slightly paraphrased version of the LyricalColdOpening to the title track of Music/{{Prince}}'s album [[Music/NineteenNinetyNineAlbum 1999]].

** Homers failed attempt at blending in at the music festival includes doing the iconic "Keep On Truckin'" walk created by counter-culture cartoonist Creator/RobertCrumb.

* {{Mondegreen}}: InUniverse example, when Homer buys a Rastafarian hat and shows it off to his kids, Bart protests that he can't wear that hat, Homer says he's been "safarian" since before his kids were born.

* SelfServingMemory: Homer thinks back to his teenage years as his GloryDays, while the actual flashbacks show him as an unpopular dork who was just too much of a doofus to realise it. The highpoint of his high school years was being an unwanted spectator to ''someone elses'' GloryDays, this being the ''Dazed And Confused'' parody mentioned below. The only real camraderie he had was with [[OnlyFriend Barney]].

* BrokenAesop: Marge tries to bring out the Aesop that "it doesn't matter if you're cool to people, you need to be true to yourself" and Homer brings up "you don't need other people to tell you that you're cool", but Bart and Lisa shoot them both down and Marge just angrily says that it's impossible to tell what the hell youth wants these days.

* {{Kevlard}}: Homer uses his body fat to stop cannonballs when performing in a freak show. [[RealityEnsues His body still accumulates damage over doing this repeatedly]], which would have inevitably killed him if he continued.