History Recap / TheSimpsonsS9E9RealtyBites

* CardboardPrison: The Springfield Penitentiary is apparently run on the honor system, a unlocked door with a "No escaping please" sign is the only thing keeping the prisoners in.

* RazorFloss: Snake uses this to try and decapitate Homer. Homer happens to duck at just the right time, and it gets Kirk's arm instead.

** The house that the Flanders' are interested in plays with this: it's a perfect house, structurally speaking, but it's a ''murder house''. ''They'' are perfectly ok with it, but everybody else is in some way nervous about the whole idea and Marge actually feels like she swindled them for not pointing it out sooner.

* CoolCar: Snake's car, "Lil' Bandit", which he's very protective of. And then it turns out that [[FatIdiot Homer]] purchased it.

* VocalDissonance: When Flanders is excited about the house he's touring, he screams like a woman.

-->'''Chief Wiggam:''' These prestigious, wrought iron security gates are bulletproof, bombproof and battering ram-resistant. Now...

-->'''Chief Wiggam:''' He forgot to lock them.

** George H.W. Bush from "Two Bad Men"

-->'''Snake''': It needs Premium, dude! ''Premium''! '''[[SkywardScream PRRRRREEEEEEMMMMMIIIIUUUUMMMMMM!!!]]'''

Feeling bored with life (once again), Marge takes a job in real estate but is uncomfortable having to bend the truth to make sales, especially when she wants to sell a cursed house to the Flanders. Meanwhile, Homer buys Snake's car at a police auction and Snake breaks out of jail to get it back.

-->'''Snake''': ''[[SarcasmMode Right!]]''

* JerkAss: Hutz definitely qualifies given the fact he enforces GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity in his company and then gives Marge a jacket saying "Fired" right after making it look like he was okay with the whole mess of the climax.

* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: One of the items for sale at the police auction is the main gate of drug kingpin "Johnny D." When the Springfield Police raided his home, they found out the hard way that this gate was utterly impervious to anything, including battering rams, blowtorches, acids and high explosives... and then it turned out that ''Johnny forgot to lock the thing''.

* EpicFail: The raid on the house of drug kingpin "Johnny D." Springfield Police found out the hard way that his compounds' main gate was utterly impervious to anything, including battering rams, blowtorches, acids and high explosives... and then it turned out that ''Johnny forgot to lock the thing''.

* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: Marge felt she cheated the Flanders family by selling them a house were people were murdered, but this makes them like the house ''[[NightmareFetishist even more]]''.

** The brief shot of Kirk in the unemployment line with his arm in a sling will come off as this if you watch the EditedForSyndication version where Kirk getting his arm cut off after Homer dodges the piano wire is cut.

* YouDidTheRightThing: Bart tries to console Marge after she's fired by telling her she did this. Eventually (his words).

'''Lionel Hutz:''' [[RefugeInAudacity "Motivated seller."]]

'''Homer:''' [[BlatantLies Oh yeah, I'm a real expert.]]\\

'''Moe:''' [[ArtisticLicenseCars Myohoff lifters?]]\\

'''Moe:''' [[InvokedTrope I made that last one up]].\\

* ContinuityCavalcade: The people in the unemployment line besides Kirk and Marge are Larry Burns (Mr. Burns' son from "Burns Baby Burns"), Lurleen Lumpkin (from "Colonel Homer," who looks just as worn-out and drug-addled as she did in "Marge vs. The Monorail"), George H.W. Bush (from "Two Bad Men"[[note]]The season seven episode where UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush and his wife, Barbara, move in across the street from The Simpsons and Homer and Bart play pranks on him[[/note]]), and the redheaded hippie writer (modeled after ''Simpsons'' writer George Meyer) from "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show" who was fired for objecting to adding Poochie the dog in a vain attempt at revitalizing ''The Itchy and Scratchy Show''.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Kirk getting his arm sliced off. All he utters is a sad, "Ow!" Also, [[BloodlessCarnage there's no blood or gore]].
* MassOhCrap: Marge, the Flanders', Homer and Snake all have one when Snake's car is about to crash into the Murder House. they get a second one when Wiggum's police cruiser is about to crash into the house as well, after which the house collapses.

* VocalDissonance: Mixed with CallBack: When Flanders is excited about the house he's touring, he screams like a woman.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Marge feels she can't lie to people about the houses they buy, even tries to talk some people out of moving house altogether, and even though the Flanders' tell Marge they'll be happy in the Murder House, she tells them she won't feel right with herself until she returns their deposit. Lisa, however, commends Marge for not compromising her integrity.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Implied with Cookie Kawn, who's number one on the west side and wants to keep it that way. She cheerfully greets Marge, then warns her to stay away from the west side, and then suspiciously asks Nick and Gil if they are talking about the west side, when in fact it was Nick talking about how long he thought Marge would last at Red Blazer Realty.

* CowboyCop: Marge gets the "loose cannon" speech from Hutz just before she's fired.

* HonorBeforeReason: Marge giving back the check because she sold the Flanders the Murder House.

* JerkAss: Hutz definitely qualifies given the fact he just gave Marge a jacket saying "Fired" meaning she's fired.

* MassOhCrap: Marge, the Flanders' Homer and Snake all have one when Snake's car is about to crash into the Murder House. When Wiggum's police cruiser crashes into the house as well, the house collapses.

* MachineEmpathy: At one point Homer drives the Lil' Bandit by Springfield Elementary, and Snake says that the car is "in pain" from the way Homer guns the engine. He also takes a whiff of the exhaust fumes as Homer drives away and is able to determine that Homer is using regular gasoline instead of premium.

** The house that the Flanders' are interested in plays with this: it's a perfect house, structurally speaking, but it's a ''murder house''. ''They'' are perfectly ok with it, but everybody else is in some way nervous about the whole idea and Marge actually feels

* Sole Survivor: Presumably Mrs. Astor from the Jealous Jockey Murders.

--> '''Marge Simpson:''' I'm not getting back in this car until you drive like a sane person!\\
'''Homer Simpson:''' [speeds off] Okaybyeloveya!

'''Homer Simpson:''' [[BlatantLies Oh yeah, I'm a real expert.]]\\
'''Moe Szyslak:''' What is that, a six barrel Holley carb?\\
'''Homer Simpson:''' You betcha!\\
'''Moe Szyslak''': Edelbrock intakes?\\
'''Homer Simpson:''' Nothing but.\\
'''Moe Szyslak:''' [[ArtisticLicenseCars Myohoff lifters?]]\\
'''Homer Simpson:''' Oh, yeah.\\
'''Moe Szyslak:''' [[InvokedTrope I made that last one up]].\\
'''Homer Simpson:''' I see.

* Catchphrase: Nick Callahan, one of the realtors, has one: "Boo-yah!" He says this twice, first when he manages to sell the Whitman place (which Gil had been trying to sell for 21 years), and again when he learns Marge sold the Murder House.

* PunctuatedPounding: Homer indulges in this while fighting snake for L'il Bandit.
-->'''Homer''': YOU!GOING!DOWN!PUNK!

'''Moe Szyslak:''' I made that last one up.\\

* JerkAss: Lionel definitely qualifies given the fact he just gave Marge a jacket saying "Fired" meaning she's fired.

* WhosLaughingNow: When Johnny D's gates are sold at the police auction, Snake laughs at him. He has the last laugh when the next item turns out to be Snake's car.