History Recap / TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice

-->"I [[LiteralMetaphor tackled]] a loafer at work today."

Episode - 3F23\\
First Aired - 11/3/1996

* InsaneTrollLogic: The school in Cypress Creek seems to run on this. One of your students falls off the monkey bars and passes out? Don't take her to the nurse's office and call her parents; put her in the remedial class! [[StepfordSmiler Though she does like it in there at least]]. Bart points out another one:

* BadassBeard: Scorpio, of course. He's not just some corporate pencil-pusher; he's a supervillain and a deadly maniacal killer! Which it doubles as a BeardOfEvil.

* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: When Marge and Lisa tell Homer they're miserable, Marge is bored out of her mind because the gadgets make her housekeeper duties redundant, and Lisa's allergic to all the native flora, Homer mentions that Bart is actually doing well since he hasn't gotten in trouble at school. Bart responds that thanks to his status as a remedial student (he was removed from his first class because he didn't know neither cursive writing nor the multiplication tables) [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction can't get in trouble at school]].

* VillainOfAnotherStory: Hank Scorpio is a bizarre example of this trope. Despite being an explicit on-screen ''Franchise/JamesBond''-style super villain, he is always super nice towards the Simpsons, offering Homer a job at his company Globex Corporation, [[BenevolentBoss treating him as a friend rather than a subordinate]], and being understanding but saddened when Homer has to quit for his family's sake. He's the page image of TheBadGuyWins, but he never once antagonizes the Simpsons (the closest he comes is when he buys Homer a football team as a farewell gift, but gives him the Denver Broncos rather than the Dallas Cowboys as he wanted, and even then he acknowledges that it's not what Homer wanted). Scorpio was ''almost'' the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', but instead the writers went with a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute with the same voice actor.

* BadassBeard [[BeardOfEvil of Evil]]: Scorpio, of course.

* DontCallMeSir: Hank doens't like homer to call him "Boss". Also when Homer calls him Mr. Scorpion, Hank tells him not to do it, subverted since he actually corrected him that it is ''Scorpio'', and double subverted when he points out he shouldn't call him that either.

* VillainOfAnotherStory: Hank Scorpio is a bizarre example of this trope. Despite being an explicit on-screen ''Franchise/JamesBond''-style super villain, he is always super nice towards the Simpsons, offering Homer a job at his company Globex Corporation, [[BenevolentBoss treating him as a friend rather than a subordinate]], and being understanding but saddened when Homer has to quit for his family's sake. He's the page image of TheBadGuyWins, but he never once antagonizes the Simpsons (the closest he comes is when he buys Homer a football team as a farewell gift, but gives him the Denver Broncos rather than the Dallas Cowboys as he wanted, and even then he acknowledges that it's not what Homer wanted). Scorpio was ''almost'' the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', but instead the writers went with a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute with the same voice actor.

* {{Foil}}: While still being villainous, Hank is this to Mr. Burns: Hank is an AffablyEvil and BenevolentBoss who genuinely cares for his employers and is even good friends with Homer. Mr. Burns however is FauxAffablyEvil (mostly) a BadBoss who couldn’t care less about his employers, not to mention Homer who he can’t even bother with remembering the name of.

* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Spoofed. Homer gets a job for the Globex Corporation and the family moves to Cyprus Creek, a town owned and operated by Globex Corp. for its employees, with its own school, shopping center and boardwalk among other things, and presumably all public services are run by the company. The spoof part is that the BenevolentBoss Homer works for, Hank Scorpio, is actually a Film/JamesBond-style supervillain (who's surprisingly nice to his employees), so Cyprus Creek also has its own private army good enough to take on the United States military and a doomsday device apparently capable of destroying France (or Italy, but no one ever chooses Italy over France). By the end of the episode, Scorpio has seized control of the East Coast and not only buys Homer the Denver Broncos, he has the entire team shipped to his front door.

* {{Foil}}: While still being villainous, Hank is this to Mr. Burns: Hank is AffablyEvil, BenevolentBoss who genuenly cares for his employers and is even good friends with Homer. Mr. Burns however is FauxAffablyEvil (mostly) a BadBoss who couldn’t care less about his employers, not to mention Homer who he can’t even bother with remembering the name of.

* CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: When Marge and Lisa tell Homer they're misserable, Marge is bored out of her mind because the gadgets make her housekeeper duties redundant, and Lisa's allergic to all the native flora, Homer mentions that Bart is actually doing well since he hasn't gotten in trouble at school. Bart responds that thanks to his status as a remedial student (he was removed from his first class because he didn't know neither cursive writing nor the multiplication tables) [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction can't get in trouble at school]].

* CompressedVice: The problems that the rest of the Simpson family suffers: Lisa never shows being susceptible to allergies to this level ever again and Bart and Marge are [[DependingOnTheWriter remarkably inconsistent]] in other episodes about whether or not being placed in similar positions again would be pleasurable or irritating (and that is including the episode where Bart by mandate of the local governmnent (manipulated by Sideshow Bob) is ''sent back to kindergarden'').

** Homer follow Scorpio's example to his own team by letting them be on a FirstNameBasis with him. When they later admit to feeling overworked and tired, Homer wants to get them hammocks so they can take relaxing breaks.

* NoAntagonist: An odd example compared to others. While Hank Scorpio is clearly a James Bond villain whose using his company to take over the world, he's not antagonistic ''towards'' the Simpsons. The main conflict comes from the Simpson family members (sans Homer) becoming miserable in Cyprus Creek and Homer having to choose between his happiness with his new job or his family's well-being.

** The episode title is a pun on the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. The final battle in the hollowed-out volcano parodies the one from YOLT, right down to a bikini-clad heroine taking part in it.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The Globex guards shooting Bont after Homer -- thinking he is a "loafer" -- tackles him at Scorpio's command. Only a brief few moments of the guards pumping lead into Bont's prone body are shown, but it can be implied they shot him hundreds of times.

* FemmeFatale: Scorpio's assistant was meant to evoke this. ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsTappedOut'' flat out calls her this since she [[TheyCallHimBarkeep doesn't actually have a name]].