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* AccentDepundent: The title being a reference to ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' only makes sense to people who pronounce "crepes" to rhyme with "grapes". The word is actually pronounced "creps" to many, as in French where the word came from.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The family takes in a foreign exchange student that turns out to be a Communist spy, and this was only a year before the Soviet Union ended up dissolving, to boot!
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the DVDCommentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_diethylene_glycol_wine_scandal a 1985 incident]] where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.[[note]]This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though, and many brands of Austrian wine had accidentally made the wine ''more'' poisonous-- to the point of seriously endangering public health-- by further diluting the wine with sugar (which cancels out the effects of ethanol) to make the glycol harder to detect, ultimately resulting in one of the biggest public health scandals in Austria and West Germany.[[/note]]

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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the DVDCommentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_diethylene_glycol_wine_scandal a 1985 incident]] where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.[[note]]This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though, and many brands of Austrian wine at the time had accidentally made the wine ''more'' poisonous-- to the point of seriously endangering public health-- by further diluting the wine with sugar (which cancels out the effects of ethanol) to sweeten the wine even more and make the glycol harder to detect, ultimately resulting in one of the biggest public health scandals in Austria and West Germany.[[/note]]
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the DVDCommentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of an incident where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.[[note]]This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though..[[/note]]

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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the DVDCommentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of an incident [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_diethylene_glycol_wine_scandal a 1985 incident]] where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.[[note]]This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though..though, and many brands of Austrian wine had accidentally made the wine ''more'' poisonous-- to the point of seriously endangering public health-- by further diluting the wine with sugar (which cancels out the effects of ethanol) to make the glycol harder to detect, ultimately resulting in one of the biggest public health scandals in Austria and West Germany.[[/note]]

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The family takes in a foreign exchange student that turns out to be a Communist spy, and this was only a year before the Soviet Union ended up dissolving, to boot!
** In one scene, Lisa wishes to meet the first female stealth bomber pilot (also named Lisa). While all of these details would still endure with Lisa's current characterization as a hard-core (well, [[{{Flanderization}} more so than before]]) feminist, the casual and gleeful way she mentions the pilot Lisa bombed 70 mosques just wouldn't fly at all today.

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UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The family takes in a foreign exchange student that turns out to be a Communist spy, and this was only a year before the Soviet Union ended up dissolving, to boot!
** In one scene, Lisa wishes to meet the first female stealth bomber pilot (also named Lisa). While all of these details would still endure with Lisa's current characterization as a hard-core (well, [[{{Flanderization}} more so than before]]) feminist, the casual and gleeful way she mentions the pilot Lisa bombed 70 mosques just wouldn't fly at all today.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The family takes in a foreign exchange student that turns out to be a Communist spy, and this was only a year before the Soviet Union ended up dissolving, to boot!

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The family takes in a foreign exchange student that turns out to be a Communist spy, and this was only a year before the Soviet Union ended up dissolving, to boot!boot!
** In one scene, Lisa wishes to meet the first female stealth bomber pilot (also named Lisa). While all of these details would still endure with Lisa's current characterization as a hard-core (well, [[{{Flanderization}} more so than before]]) feminist, the casual and gleeful way she mentions the pilot Lisa bombed 70 mosques just wouldn't fly at all today.
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* MissingTrailerScene: The promo features scenes of Bart wooing at some French dancers and eating French chocloates. Both scenes were cut.

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* MissingTrailerScene: The promo features scenes of Bart wooing at some French dancers and eating French chocloates.chocolates. Both scenes were cut.

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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the commentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of an incident where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.[[note]]This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though..[[/note]]
* TheCastShowoff: Creator/NancyCartwright (Bart) is fluent in French.

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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the commentary, DVDCommentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of an incident where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.[[note]]This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though..[[/note]]
* TheCastShowoff: Creator/NancyCartwright (Bart) is fluent in French.


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* TheCastShowOff: Creator/NancyCartwright (Bart) is fluent in French.

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* TheCastShowOff: TheCastShowoff: Creator/NancyCartwright (Bart) is fluent in French.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The family takes in a foreign exchange student that turns out to be a Communist spy, and this was only a year before the Soviet Union ended up dissolving, to boot!

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The family takes in a foreign exchange student that turns out to be a Communist spy, and this was only a year before the Soviet Union ended up dissolving, to boot!boot!
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The family takes in a foreign exchange student that turns out to be a communist spy.Communist spy, and this was only a year before the Soviet Union ended up dissolving, to boot!
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* FirstAppearance: Of Agnes Skinner.
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the commentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of an incident where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.[[note]]This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though..[[/note]]

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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the commentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of an incident where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.[[note]]This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though..[[/note]][[/note]]
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* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: In the commentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of an incident where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.[[note]]This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though..[[/note]]

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