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* RequiredSpinOffCrossover: Parodied by the family showing up in New Orleans in ''Chief Wiggum, P.I.'' and Homer dropping by the bar in ''The Love-matic Grampa''.

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* RequiredSpinOffCrossover: RequiredSpinoffCrossover: Parodied by the family showing up in New Orleans in ''Chief Wiggum, P.I.'' and Homer dropping by the bar in ''The Love-matic Grampa''.
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-->'''Moe'': Hey, I'll have you know, I wrote the book on pleasin' the ladies.\\

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-->'''Moe'': -->'''Moe''': Hey, I'll have you know, I wrote the book on pleasin' the ladies.\\
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* WroteTheBook: From "The Love-Matic Grampa":
-->'''Moe'': Hey, I'll have you know, I wrote the book on pleasin' the ladies.\\
'''Grampa''': [[SarcasmMode Yeah]], ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''.

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* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: Happens to Grampa in the intro for ''The Love-Matic Grampa''. Animated in a simplistic style, it shows that Grampa was crushed to death by a falling shelf, and his winged soul flew off "but was lost along the way" (the intro shows him getting sucked into a jet engine and losing his wings), and falls into Moe's love-tester machine, which he ends up possessing.
* WritersCannotDoMath: The Roman numeral copyright date for ''The Love-matic Grampa'' appears to be MCXIIILMCL, which doesn't equate to any actual year in Roman numeral dating. It could be taken as a really convoluted attempt to write the year 2313 (which would actually be MMCCCXIII). In the DVD commentary, the writers admit they just threw random numerals together for RuleOfFunny.

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* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: Happens to Grampa in the intro for ''The Love-Matic Grampa''. Animated in a simplistic style, it shows that Grampa was crushed to death by a falling shelf, and his winged soul flew off "but was lost along the way" (the intro shows him getting sucked into struck by a jet engine and losing his wings), and falls into Moe's love-tester machine, which he ends up possessing.
* WritersCannotDoMath: The Roman numeral copyright date for ''The Love-matic Grampa'' appears to be MCXIIILMCL, which doesn't equate to any actual year in Roman numeral dating. It could be taken as a really convoluted attempt to write the year 2313 (which would actually be MMCCCXIII). In the DVD commentary, the writers admit they just threw random numerals together for RuleOfFunny.RuleOfFunny.
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* TheParody: The spin-off shows are mostly spoofs of ''Series/MiamiVice'', ''Series/MagnumPI'', ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'', ''Series/MyMotherTheCar'', ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn'', The Osmonds, ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'', ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', the Smothers Brothers and ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''.

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* TheParody: The spin-off shows are mostly spoofs of ''Series/MiamiVice'', ''Series/MagnumPI'', ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'', ''Series/MyMotherTheCar'', ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn'', The Osmonds, ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'', ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', the Smothers Brothers ''Series/TheSmothersBrothersComedyHour'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''.
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** "Hi, I'm Troy [=McClure=]! You may remember me from such spinoffs as ''[[Series/SanfordAndSon Son of Sanford and Son]]'' and ''[[Series/AfterMASH After]]Series/{{Mannix}}''"!

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** "Hi, I'm Troy [=McClure=]! You may remember me from such spinoffs as ''[[Series/SanfordAndSon Son of Sanford and Son]]'' and ''[[Series/AfterMASH After]]Series/{{Mannix}}''"!After]]Series/{{Mannix}}''!"

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* ShoutOut: After being beaten up by the bully trio ([[DisproportionateRetribution for calling Kearney gay]]), the Love-Matic Grampa sings ''Daisy'' ala [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]].

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** "Hi, I'm Troy [=McClure=]! You may remember me from such spinoffs as ''[[Series/SanfordAndSon Son of Sanford and Son]]'' and ''[[Series/AfterMASH After]]Series/{{Mannix}}''"!
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After being beaten up by the bully trio ([[DisproportionateRetribution for calling Kearney gay]]), the Love-Matic Grampa sings ''Daisy'' ala [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]].
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-->'''Big Daddy:''' The Chief! Ooh, I suppose I'd best to run. Lord have mercy, I wish I weren't so ''fat''.

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-->'''Big Daddy:''' The Chief! Ooh, I suppose I'd best to run. Lord have o' mercy, I wish I weren't so ''fat''.
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* ReincarnatedAsANonHumanoid: In ''The Love-matic Grampa'' Abe Simpson is reincarnated / haunts a love tester in Moe's bar, which is a parody of ''Series/MyMotherTheCar''.

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Initially, this episode was made due to FOX asking Creator/MattGroening and his crew from ''The Simpsons'' to come up with a brand-new show. They didn't come up with any (that is, until ''Futurama''), but they ''did'' supply three pilots for ''Simpsons'' spinoffs:

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Initially, this episode was made due to FOX asking Creator/MattGroening and his crew from ''The Simpsons'' to come up with a brand-new show. They didn't come up with any (that is, until ''Futurama''), ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''), but they ''did'' supply three pilots for ''Simpsons'' spinoffs:
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: In the "Chief Wiggum, P.I." intro, Ralph adds a "G" to the "P.I." sign on his father's office door. The latter is mad for a second, then laughs along, even patting him on the head in response.

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* OffModel: One of the diners in the restaurant scene in ''The Love-Matic Grampa'' is drawn without any eyes for several frames.
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* OutOfFocus: Lisa has only a single line in the whole episode.

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* OutOfFocus: The real Lisa has only a single line in the whole episode.

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