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** Season 33 itself is a general bump in animation that nearly matches the movie's.
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* BicolorCowsSolidColorBulls: Played straight most of the time, with cows being bicolor and bulls being single color, except in the episode "Maximum Homerdrive", when one of the bulls has a yellow patch around his eye.
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** In "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", Patty and Selma kidnap MacGyver. However, he starts getting too interested in escaping from their house and annoys them nonstop. To get him away for good, they tie him up and show him pictures of their vacation; he's begging to be let go by the end of it.
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** In "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", Patty and Selma kidnap MacGyver.Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}. However, he starts getting too interested in escaping from their house and annoys them nonstop. To get him away for good, they tie him up and show him pictures of their vacation; he's begging to be let go by the end of it.
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** When Bart and Lisa are shown as skeletons in some episodes, their hair will be included in the skeleton.
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** When Bart and Lisa are shown as skeletons in some episodes, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d3044613f8c547cc9c0a1b40014f64d5.png their hair will be included in the skeleton.skeleton]].
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* BonesDoNotBelongThere:
** When Bart and Lisa are shown as skeletons in some episodes, their hair will be included in the skeleton.
** In the episode "Brother From Another Series", Sideshow Bob gets electrocuted in a flashback and the resulting XRaySparks show that there are bones in his FunnyAfro.
** When Bart and Lisa are shown as skeletons in some episodes, their hair will be included in the skeleton.
** In the episode "Brother From Another Series", Sideshow Bob gets electrocuted in a flashback and the resulting XRaySparks show that there are bones in his FunnyAfro.
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* AlienAutopsyVideo: "Worst Episode Ever" sees Bart and Milhouse uncover a secret room in Comic Book Guy's shop which houses a secret stash of bootleg videos and other illegal video clips. Among the video titles mentioned are "Alien Autopsy" and "Illegal Alien Autopsy".
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* AlienAutopsyVideo: AlienAutopsy: "Worst Episode Ever" sees Bart and Milhouse uncover a secret room in Comic Book Guy's shop which houses a secret stash of bootleg videos and other illegal video clips. Among the video titles mentioned are "Alien Autopsy" and "Illegal Alien Autopsy".
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In ''Blame it on Lisa'', Homer is kidnapped during the family's vacation in Brazil. He's taken from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon Rainforest and back to Rio again in a single day, ''before sunset''. Rio de Janeiro is located in Brazil's southeast, while the Amazon Rainforest is in its north and they are more than 4200km (roughly 2600m) apart, which means that those travels would take several days in real life unless the kidnappers used a supersonic plane (which is very unlikely).
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In ''Blame it on Lisa'', Homer is kidnapped during the family's vacation in Brazil. He's taken from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon Rainforest and back to Rio again in a single day, ''before sunset''. Rio de Janeiro is located in Brazil's southeast, while the Amazon Rainforest is in its north and they are more than 4200km (roughly 2600m) apart, which means that those travels would take several days in real life unless (unless the kidnappers used a supersonic plane (which plane, which is very unlikely).
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In ''Blame it on Lisa'', Homer is kidnapped during the family's vacation in Brazil. He's taken from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon Rainforest and back to Rio again in a single day, ''before sunset''. Rio de Janeiro is located in Brazil's Southeast, while the Amazon Rainforest is in its North and they are more than 4200km (roughly 2600m) apart, which means that those travels would take several days in real life, unless the kidnappers used a supersonic plane (which is very unlikely).
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In ''Blame it on Lisa'', Homer is kidnapped during the family's vacation in Brazil. He's taken from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon Rainforest and back to Rio again in a single day, ''before sunset''. Rio de Janeiro is located in Brazil's Southeast, southeast, while the Amazon Rainforest is in its North north and they are more than 4200km (roughly 2600m) apart, which means that those travels would take several days in real life, life unless the kidnappers used a supersonic plane (which is very unlikely).
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In ''Blame it on Lisa'', when the family travels to Brazil, some kidnappers takes Homer from Rio to the Amazon Rainforest and back to Rio again in a single day, [[TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot before sunset]]. As Rio de Janeiro is located in Brazil's Southeast, while the Amazon Rainforest is in the North, in real life, those travels would take days. Unless the kidnappers used a supersonic plane, which is very unlikely.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In ''Blame it on Lisa'', when the family travels to Brazil, some kidnappers takes Homer is kidnapped during the family's vacation in Brazil. He's taken from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon Rainforest and back to Rio again in a single day, [[TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot before sunset]]. As ''before sunset''. Rio de Janeiro is located in Brazil's Southeast, while the Amazon Rainforest is in the North, in real life, its North and they are more than 4200km (roughly 2600m) apart, which means that those travels would take days. Unless several days in real life, unless the kidnappers used a supersonic plane, which plane (which is very unlikely.unlikely).
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* AdamWesting: Creator/AdamWest plays himself in "Mr. Plow".
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* AdamWesting: Creator/AdamWest [[Creator/AdamWest The trope namer himself]] plays an exaggerated version of himself in "Mr. Plow".
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*** Several sequences from the original opening theme song stick out, animated by Silverman, including Lisa dancing while playing her saxophone and Marge gracefully turning her head, with her hair flowing.
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*** Several sequences from the original opening theme song stick out, animated by Silverman, Kevin Petrilak, including Lisa dancing while playing her saxophone and Marge gracefully turning her head, with her hair flowing.
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** Creator/DonHertzfeldt's [[CouchGag/TheSimpsons Couch Gag]] parodies this trend to horrifying effect -- first Homer fiddles with a time-traveling remote that viscerally morphs him back to his crude 1989 model, then in a panicked attempt to undo the rewind, he launches into a far future where he and his family are grotesque mutant caricatures that barely resemble their original selves.
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** Creator/DonHertzfeldt's [[CouchGag/TheSimpsons Couch Gag]] parodies this trend to horrifying effect -- first Homer fiddles with a time-traveling remote that viscerally morphs him back to his crude 1989 model, cruder 1987 design, then in a panicked attempt to undo the rewind, he launches into a far future where he and his family are grotesque mutant caricatures that barely resemble their original selves.
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** ''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'', an obvious parody of Tom and Jerry, removes the classic "Wile. E. Coyote immunity" from the scenario and each cartoon typically ends with Itchy the mouse brutally murdering Scratchy the cat.
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* BoringVacationSlideshow:
** In "Krusty Gets Busted", Homer is not looking forward to seeing Patty and Selma's vacation slides of their trip to Mexico. He stops on the Kwik-E-Mart on his way home, leading to him seeing Krusty (actually Sideshow Bob) robbing the store. Bart and Lisa do end up watching the slideshow, and don't enjoy it.
** In "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", Patty and Selma kidnap MacGyver. However, he starts getting too interested in escaping from their house and annoys them nonstop. To get him away for good, they tie him up and show him pictures of their vacation; he's begging to be let go by the end of it.
** In "Flaming Moe's," Homer has a boring night watching Patty and Selma's vacation pictures, so he goes to find a drink in the kitchen; he doesn't have any, leading to him creating the Flaming Homer that sets up the plot of the episode.
** In "Krusty Gets Busted", Homer is not looking forward to seeing Patty and Selma's vacation slides of their trip to Mexico. He stops on the Kwik-E-Mart on his way home, leading to him seeing Krusty (actually Sideshow Bob) robbing the store. Bart and Lisa do end up watching the slideshow, and don't enjoy it.
** In "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", Patty and Selma kidnap MacGyver. However, he starts getting too interested in escaping from their house and annoys them nonstop. To get him away for good, they tie him up and show him pictures of their vacation; he's begging to be let go by the end of it.
** In "Flaming Moe's," Homer has a boring night watching Patty and Selma's vacation pictures, so he goes to find a drink in the kitchen; he doesn't have any, leading to him creating the Flaming Homer that sets up the plot of the episode.
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* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E5LisaTheVegetarian Lisa the Vegetarian]]":
** Music/PaulMcCartney and Apu agree that Lisa shouldn't try to force her beliefs on those who choose not to follow her lifestyle. Her attempts to use extremism as a form of activism only discredits the cause and does more harm than good. That's the message; in order to truly support a cause; find equilibrium and perform your activism in moderation.
** Music/PaulMcCartney and Apu agree that Lisa shouldn't try to force her beliefs on those who choose not to follow her lifestyle. Her attempts to use extremism as a form of activism only discredits the cause and does more harm than good. That's the message; in order to truly support a cause; find equilibrium and perform your activism in moderation.
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* AnAesop:
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E6MoaningLisa Moaning Lisa]]": "Don't try to bottle up your emotions. If you want to be sad, be sad. You will always have your family or friends to help see you through your crisis." Also, when a loved one is feeling depressed or despondent, the ''worst'' thing you can do is try to cheer them up, as it will only make them feel worse, because it's the nature of those kinds of conditions that they can't "just snap out of it." What Lisa needed was for her emotions to be ''validated'' and it's only when Marge tells her she has an absolute right ''not to be happy'' does she legitimately feel better.
-->'''Marge''': It's okay Lisa, [[StepfordSmiler you don't have to smile now]].\\
'''Lisa''': But I feel like smiling!
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E9ItchyAndScratchyAndMarge Itchy & Scratchy & Marge]]" shows us exactly what happens to a show if it deviates from itself in order to please the MoralGuardians. Marge also learns that censorship necessarily breeds hypocrisy, TV shows (or any form of media) shouldn't be censored just because someone doesn't like it, standing up for what you believe in sometimes isn't worth the trouble (especially if it destroys the livelihood of everyone else around you), and no matter what choices you make, there's always going to be consequences.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E2MrLisaGoesToWashington Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington]]": Idealistic belief in the political system can lead people to turn a blind eye or not notice political corruption happening under their noses, but that doesn't mean the system won't try and fix that corruption once it's genuinely aware of it. In other words, 'the price of freedom is eternal vigilance'.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E9HomerBadman Homer Badman]]": [[ManipulativeEditing Editing news for entertainment purposes]], [[WitchHunt as well as over-the-top or wrongful accusations]], can destroy peoples' lives, and you shouldn't believe everything you hear on TV.
* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E5LisaTheVegetarian Lisa the Vegetarian]]":
** Music/PaulMcCartney and Apu agree that Lisa shouldn't try to force her beliefs on those who choose not to follow her lifestyle. Her attempts to use extremism as a form of activism only discredits the cause and does more harm than good. That's the message; in order to truly support a cause; find equilibrium and perform your activism in moderation.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E14TheItchyAndScratchyAndPoochieShow The Itchy And Scratchy and Poochie Show]]": Don't change art in an attempt to please others, because you may end up destroying perfectly good material in the process.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E8LisaTheSkeptic Lisa the Skeptic]]": People have a right to their beliefs, no matter how silly you may find them, and intolerance cuts both ways.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E17LisaTheSimpson Lisa the Simpson]]": Lisa's TV speech about putting your brain to good use and not letting it go to waste is ''very'' powerful.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E1LardOfTheDance Lard of the Dance]]": Don't rush to grow up. Enjoy your childhood while you still have it.
** In two episodes, anger is a healthy and natural emotion to have and being angry doesn't automatically make you a villain if you a have a justifiable reason to be angry but it must be controlled and monitored in a healthy way.
*** For Ned in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E8HurricaneNeddy Huricane Neddy]]", he bottled-up his anger because he never saw his anger as just or fair towards people who had earned his ire (such as Homer stealing his possessions under the excuse of "borrowing"). When Ned reaches his breaking point, he berates the Springfieldians for failing to build him a proper house and he needlessly lashes out at them again for being incompetent, selfish, slovenly. When Ned finally calms down, he commits himself to psychatric hospital because he saw his own anger as unhealthy and a sign of mental illness (despite his anger having some merit). When the doctors speak to him, they tell him that it's unhealthy for Ned to bottle-up his anger like that and he needs to process his anger in a healthy way and in short, controlled bursts.
*** For Homer in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E18IAmFuriousYellow I am Furious (Yellow)]]", he has violent anger issues and when he learns how his actions effect others and how his anger had made him a laughing stock on the internet, his first response is to bottle up his anger for the rest of his life. While Homer did need to do something about his anger, his suppressed rage instead came out on his body as boils that could have killed him if Bart didn't set him off with his prank.
** The gender segregation in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E19GirlsJustWantToHaveSums Girls Just Want to Have Sums]]" doesn't solve gender inequality, so Lisa has to give a speech at the end that feminism is about equality for both sexes and there has to be a balance between both sides.
** As despised as it is, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer The Boys of Bummer]]" shows us that [[FelonyMisdemeanor shaming someone for a minor offense]] can have [[DrivenToSuicide detrimental effects on their psyche]].
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E16SkyPolice Sky Police]]" has Marge tell the people of Sprinfield that you shouldn't depend on your faith to solve problems and you can't categorize situations as an act of God. It's pretty clear that the audience is supposed to take the home the same message.
--->'''Marge''': God's plan? God isn't some video gamer up there controlling us like we were [[VideoGame/PacMan Pac-Men]] and VideoGame/{{Dig Dug}}s. God isn't Sky Police. God didn't do this. I lied to my husband and made my kids lie, too. We did this.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E01TheSerfsons The Serfsons]]": The episode gives a lesson about death and the afterlife. Death is a painful inevitability of life and it's best to mourn and grieve than try to selfishly control the fate of another. You're entitled to your beliefs, as long as you respect the faiths of others.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E6MoaningLisa Moaning Lisa]]": "Don't try to bottle up your emotions. If you want to be sad, be sad. You will always have your family or friends to help see you through your crisis." Also, when a loved one is feeling depressed or despondent, the ''worst'' thing you can do is try to cheer them up, as it will only make them feel worse, because it's the nature of those kinds of conditions that they can't "just snap out of it." What Lisa needed was for her emotions to be ''validated'' and it's only when Marge tells her she has an absolute right ''not to be happy'' does she legitimately feel better.
-->'''Marge''': It's okay Lisa, [[StepfordSmiler you don't have to smile now]].\\
'''Lisa''': But I feel like smiling!
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E9ItchyAndScratchyAndMarge Itchy & Scratchy & Marge]]" shows us exactly what happens to a show if it deviates from itself in order to please the MoralGuardians. Marge also learns that censorship necessarily breeds hypocrisy, TV shows (or any form of media) shouldn't be censored just because someone doesn't like it, standing up for what you believe in sometimes isn't worth the trouble (especially if it destroys the livelihood of everyone else around you), and no matter what choices you make, there's always going to be consequences.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E2MrLisaGoesToWashington Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington]]": Idealistic belief in the political system can lead people to turn a blind eye or not notice political corruption happening under their noses, but that doesn't mean the system won't try and fix that corruption once it's genuinely aware of it. In other words, 'the price of freedom is eternal vigilance'.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E9HomerBadman Homer Badman]]": [[ManipulativeEditing Editing news for entertainment purposes]], [[WitchHunt as well as over-the-top or wrongful accusations]], can destroy peoples' lives, and you shouldn't believe everything you hear on TV.
* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E5LisaTheVegetarian Lisa the Vegetarian]]":
** Music/PaulMcCartney and Apu agree that Lisa shouldn't try to force her beliefs on those who choose not to follow her lifestyle. Her attempts to use extremism as a form of activism only discredits the cause and does more harm than good. That's the message; in order to truly support a cause; find equilibrium and perform your activism in moderation.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E14TheItchyAndScratchyAndPoochieShow The Itchy And Scratchy and Poochie Show]]": Don't change art in an attempt to please others, because you may end up destroying perfectly good material in the process.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E8LisaTheSkeptic Lisa the Skeptic]]": People have a right to their beliefs, no matter how silly you may find them, and intolerance cuts both ways.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E17LisaTheSimpson Lisa the Simpson]]": Lisa's TV speech about putting your brain to good use and not letting it go to waste is ''very'' powerful.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E1LardOfTheDance Lard of the Dance]]": Don't rush to grow up. Enjoy your childhood while you still have it.
** In two episodes, anger is a healthy and natural emotion to have and being angry doesn't automatically make you a villain if you a have a justifiable reason to be angry but it must be controlled and monitored in a healthy way.
*** For Ned in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E8HurricaneNeddy Huricane Neddy]]", he bottled-up his anger because he never saw his anger as just or fair towards people who had earned his ire (such as Homer stealing his possessions under the excuse of "borrowing"). When Ned reaches his breaking point, he berates the Springfieldians for failing to build him a proper house and he needlessly lashes out at them again for being incompetent, selfish, slovenly. When Ned finally calms down, he commits himself to psychatric hospital because he saw his own anger as unhealthy and a sign of mental illness (despite his anger having some merit). When the doctors speak to him, they tell him that it's unhealthy for Ned to bottle-up his anger like that and he needs to process his anger in a healthy way and in short, controlled bursts.
*** For Homer in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E18IAmFuriousYellow I am Furious (Yellow)]]", he has violent anger issues and when he learns how his actions effect others and how his anger had made him a laughing stock on the internet, his first response is to bottle up his anger for the rest of his life. While Homer did need to do something about his anger, his suppressed rage instead came out on his body as boils that could have killed him if Bart didn't set him off with his prank.
** The gender segregation in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E19GirlsJustWantToHaveSums Girls Just Want to Have Sums]]" doesn't solve gender inequality, so Lisa has to give a speech at the end that feminism is about equality for both sexes and there has to be a balance between both sides.
** As despised as it is, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer The Boys of Bummer]]" shows us that [[FelonyMisdemeanor shaming someone for a minor offense]] can have [[DrivenToSuicide detrimental effects on their psyche]].
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E16SkyPolice Sky Police]]" has Marge tell the people of Sprinfield that you shouldn't depend on your faith to solve problems and you can't categorize situations as an act of God. It's pretty clear that the audience is supposed to take the home the same message.
--->'''Marge''': God's plan? God isn't some video gamer up there controlling us like we were [[VideoGame/PacMan Pac-Men]] and VideoGame/{{Dig Dug}}s. God isn't Sky Police. God didn't do this. I lied to my husband and made my kids lie, too. We did this.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E01TheSerfsons The Serfsons]]": The episode gives a lesson about death and the afterlife. Death is a painful inevitability of life and it's best to mourn and grieve than try to selfishly control the fate of another. You're entitled to your beliefs, as long as you respect the faiths of others.
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** In the ''Series/TwentyFour'' parody episode "24 Minutes", after TheMole sells Bart out to the villains, we see a close-up of him kicking a stool out from under himself and his feet suspended in mid-air. It then zooms out to reveal he merely hooked his underpants onto a coat hook and is now giving himself a wedgie as penance.
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* BaitAndSwitchSuicide: Happens in three episodes.
** In the ending of "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" we are cut to the basement where we see Homer's shadow hanging with Marge walking by, and she starts to panic. Pan over to Homer to show he is just batting a lightbulb.
** In "Dial N for Nerder", after Bart and Lisa believe they have killed Martin, Bart leaves Lisa a note saying he can't take the guilt anymore and that he's going to Martin's house to "end it all". She goes there and sees a shadow of him getting ready to hang himself in the greenhouse, but it turns out he is actually just hanging a lightbulb so he can complete Martin's butterfly project.
** In the ending of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E9GriftOfTheMagi Grift of the Magi]]", Moe is seen with his head in the oven, invoking the RunningGag around him being suicidal. Then it turns out he's in the oven to pull out a turkey he had cooked for the Simpson's Christmas dinner.
** In the ending of "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" we are cut to the basement where we see Homer's shadow hanging with Marge walking by, and she starts to panic. Pan over to Homer to show he is just batting a lightbulb.
** In "Dial N for Nerder", after Bart and Lisa believe they have killed Martin, Bart leaves Lisa a note saying he can't take the guilt anymore and that he's going to Martin's house to "end it all". She goes there and sees a shadow of him getting ready to hang himself in the greenhouse, but it turns out he is actually just hanging a lightbulb so he can complete Martin's butterfly project.
** In the ending of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E9GriftOfTheMagi Grift of the Magi]]", Moe is seen with his head in the oven, invoking the RunningGag around him being suicidal. Then it turns out he's in the oven to pull out a turkey he had cooked for the Simpson's Christmas dinner.
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* BabysittersNightmare: Numerous examples, mostly having to do with Bart.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E13SomeEnchantedEvening Some Enchanted Evening]]", Homer and Marge call a babysitting service. When we see the receptionist's office, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie's heads are pasted onto a board with a note reading "NO! NO! NO!" The Simpsons are denied a babysitter until Homer calls under the name of the "Sampson family".
-->'''Receptionist''': Those Simpsons. What a bunch of savages. Especially that big ape father.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E20TheWarOfTheSimpsons The War of the Simpsons]]", Homer and Marge try to hire a babysitter while they go to a couples retreat. She runs off screaming at the sight of Bart ("Back for more?"), so they decide to have Grampa babysit instead.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E8NewKidOnTheBlock New Kid on the Block]]", Homer tries to call up Abby, the kids' usual babysitter, but her sister answers instead, telling him that her last encounter with the Simpsons destroyed her.
--->'''Abby:''' ''(rocking in her chair)'' [[MadnessMantra No, Bart, put it down... Put it down, Bart... Bart, put it down...]]
** Invoked in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E17MySisterMySitter My Sister, My Sitter]]", in which Bart, outraged that his ''younger'' sister is babysitting him, tries to make Lisa's job difficult by being be the worst kid ever, which includes feeding Maggie coffee ice cream and making several prank phone calls.
** Exaggerated in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E11TheChangingOfTheGuardian The Changing of the Guardian]]", in which Homer and Marge decide to search for someone to be their kids' legal guardian in case they die. Once word gets out, the whole town start avoiding them everywhere they go.
** As mentioned in the initial trope description, this trope also applies to Bart's schooling--teachers dread having him in class, and only the sour Edna Krabappel has ever shown any ability to get a handle on him (although Marcia Wallace, Mrs. Krabappel's late voice actor, went on the record as saying that the two were more like FriendlyEnemies who enjoyed their interactions with one another). In one particularly heartwarming instance, Edna is up for a Teacher of the Year Award, and Bart decides to help by presenting himself to the judges and explaining that anyone who could survive having him in their classroom must be worthy of the title. The committee members [[TheDreaded can't believe that the infamous Bart is real]] and ''immediately'' hand Edna the prize.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E13SomeEnchantedEvening Some Enchanted Evening]]", Homer and Marge call a babysitting service. When we see the receptionist's office, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie's heads are pasted onto a board with a note reading "NO! NO! NO!" The Simpsons are denied a babysitter until Homer calls under the name of the "Sampson family".
-->'''Receptionist''': Those Simpsons. What a bunch of savages. Especially that big ape father.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E20TheWarOfTheSimpsons The War of the Simpsons]]", Homer and Marge try to hire a babysitter while they go to a couples retreat. She runs off screaming at the sight of Bart ("Back for more?"), so they decide to have Grampa babysit instead.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E8NewKidOnTheBlock New Kid on the Block]]", Homer tries to call up Abby, the kids' usual babysitter, but her sister answers instead, telling him that her last encounter with the Simpsons destroyed her.
--->'''Abby:''' ''(rocking in her chair)'' [[MadnessMantra No, Bart, put it down... Put it down, Bart... Bart, put it down...]]
** Invoked in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E17MySisterMySitter My Sister, My Sitter]]", in which Bart, outraged that his ''younger'' sister is babysitting him, tries to make Lisa's job difficult by being be the worst kid ever, which includes feeding Maggie coffee ice cream and making several prank phone calls.
** Exaggerated in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E11TheChangingOfTheGuardian The Changing of the Guardian]]", in which Homer and Marge decide to search for someone to be their kids' legal guardian in case they die. Once word gets out, the whole town start avoiding them everywhere they go.
** As mentioned in the initial trope description, this trope also applies to Bart's schooling--teachers dread having him in class, and only the sour Edna Krabappel has ever shown any ability to get a handle on him (although Marcia Wallace, Mrs. Krabappel's late voice actor, went on the record as saying that the two were more like FriendlyEnemies who enjoyed their interactions with one another). In one particularly heartwarming instance, Edna is up for a Teacher of the Year Award, and Bart decides to help by presenting himself to the judges and explaining that anyone who could survive having him in their classroom must be worthy of the title. The committee members [[TheDreaded can't believe that the infamous Bart is real]] and ''immediately'' hand Edna the prize.
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* BusinessTripAdultery: In "The Last Temptation of Homer", Homer and Mindy are asked to represent Springfield at an energy convention in Capital City. They receive a fully funded night in a hotel and a romantic dinner. When they return to the room, Homer harbours guilt about their relationship, expressing his devout love for Marge. Mindy understands, and they share a kiss. We see Homer and Marge together in the same hotel room sometime later, happy together and confident in their marriage.
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* AccidentalSuicide: "Homer's Enemy" is all about how Frank Grimes is driven insane trying to figure out how TooDumbToLive Homer managed to succeed while he's had to struggle through life. Eventually, Frank cracks and starts acting like Homer, doing reckless things and shrugging off the consequences because "I'm Homer Simpson!" It all leads to him electrocuting himself by disobeying the "Do not handle without gloves" sign at a panel with electrical cables.
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* AnimatedWorldHypotheses: The characters see themselves with the art style they are drawn in-- in one episode, the Simpsons kids freak out over not having visible hairlines.
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* AnimatedWorldHypotheses: The "actually a cartoon" variant. The characters see themselves with the art style they are drawn in-- in one episode, the Simpsons kids freak out over not having visible hairlines.
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* BackingIntoDanger: Lampshaded in the episode "The Lastest Gun In The West." Bart, running from a attacking pit bull, climbs over a fence and backs away from it; when a safe distance away, he relaxes, saying, "Ah, safe at last. Now, I'll just turn around, and confirm that safety," only to find a menagerie of menacing creatures ready to attack.
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* BizarreBeverageUse:
** In the episode "Skinner's Sense of Snow", Chief Wiggum writes his name in the snow with coffee for no good reason.
** In "Looking for Mr. Goodbart", Homer [[SmellySkunk gets sprayed by a skunk]], so Marge gives him a bath [[TomatoSkunkStinkCure in tomato juice]]. Homer also puts some [[UnconventionalFoodUsage celery]] and vodka into the tub.
** In the episode "Skinner's Sense of Snow", Chief Wiggum writes his name in the snow with coffee for no good reason.
** In "Looking for Mr. Goodbart", Homer [[SmellySkunk gets sprayed by a skunk]], so Marge gives him a bath [[TomatoSkunkStinkCure in tomato juice]]. Homer also puts some [[UnconventionalFoodUsage celery]] and vodka into the tub.
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** In "Homer Mobile", Bart and Lisa end up on a ship going to Turkey. The Captain says he plans on keeping the children. Homer asks if he'll raise them Christian. He replies, Coptic Christian which causes a huge no from Homer.
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** In one episode Homer gives Marge a bowling ball for her birthday - despite the fact that she doesn't bowl. He even got it inscribed with ''his'' name, on the assumption that she'd give it to him to use. She takes up bowling just to spite him, claiming that Homer is the name of her ball.
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** In one the episode "Life On The Fast Lane", Homer gives Marge a bowling ball for her birthday - despite the fact that she doesn't bowl. He even got it inscribed with ''his'' name, on the assumption that she'd give it to him to use. She takes up bowling just to spite him, claiming that Homer is the name of her ball.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: On "Krusty Gets Kancelled", a drunken Barney chants "We want Chilli Willi!" as the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers dispute with Moe, who booked them to play in his bar. This is a reference, by way of StealthPun, to seventies rock band [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilli_Willi_and_the_Red_Hot_Peppers Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers]].
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* AbsenteeActor: Only Homer, Marge and Lisa appear in every episode (but the latter two had non speaking cameos at least once).
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** In "Much Apu About Nothing", Lisa shows Apu where Springfield is on a map of the United States. Before we can see it, Bart walks in and the back of his head blocks the camera.
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* AccidentallyRealFakeAddress:
** In the episode "Trilogy of Error" Marge accidentally cuts off Homer's thumb. When calling 911, she is instantly accused of attempted murder by Chief Wiggum, so, when asked her address, Marge claims it to be "123 Fake Street". Remarkably, this turns out to correspond to a decrepit building in Springfield where Bart and Milhouse are hiding fireworks in an unrelated plot, and the spontaneous appearance of the police there leads to Bart and Milhouse getting caught.
** After angrily leaving Artie Ziff's party in "Half-Decent Proposal", Marge tells the cab driver to send the bill to "Baron Von Kiss-a-lot", referencing Artie's inappropriate advances towards her. However, the bill, instead of being sent to Artie, is shown in a CutawayGag to be sent to a literal baron of the same name with, naturally, GagLips.
** Zigzagged in "Funeral for a Fiend", when Luigi mentions that Bart made a prank order for pizzas to be delivered at "888 Poopypants Lane". As it turns out, Poopypants Lane ''was'' real... but it ended at 700.
** Additionally, one of Bart's many prank calls to Moe was for a "Hugh Jass" (pronounced "huge ass")... and a man with that name happened to be at the bar when Bart called. Fortunately, the man wasn't upset with Bart and seemed to be fine with it.
** In the episode "Trilogy of Error" Marge accidentally cuts off Homer's thumb. When calling 911, she is instantly accused of attempted murder by Chief Wiggum, so, when asked her address, Marge claims it to be "123 Fake Street". Remarkably, this turns out to correspond to a decrepit building in Springfield where Bart and Milhouse are hiding fireworks in an unrelated plot, and the spontaneous appearance of the police there leads to Bart and Milhouse getting caught.
** After angrily leaving Artie Ziff's party in "Half-Decent Proposal", Marge tells the cab driver to send the bill to "Baron Von Kiss-a-lot", referencing Artie's inappropriate advances towards her. However, the bill, instead of being sent to Artie, is shown in a CutawayGag to be sent to a literal baron of the same name with, naturally, GagLips.
** Zigzagged in "Funeral for a Fiend", when Luigi mentions that Bart made a prank order for pizzas to be delivered at "888 Poopypants Lane". As it turns out, Poopypants Lane ''was'' real... but it ended at 700.
** Additionally, one of Bart's many prank calls to Moe was for a "Hugh Jass" (pronounced "huge ass")... and a man with that name happened to be at the bar when Bart called. Fortunately, the man wasn't upset with Bart and seemed to be fine with it.
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* AnimatedWorldHypotheses: The characters see themselves with the art style they are drawn in-- in one episode, the Simpsons kids freak out over not having visible hairlines.
