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* OvershadowedByControversy: Though the episode was already derided for being an underwhelming MIlestoneCelebration. Its inclusion of [=WikiLeaks=] founder Julian Assange, much less in a throwaway cameo, did not do the episode favors among certain critics and fans.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: Though the episode was already derided for being an underwhelming MIlestoneCelebration.MilestoneCelebration. Its inclusion of [=WikiLeaks=] founder Julian Assange, much less in a throwaway cameo, did not do the episode favors among certain critics and fans.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: Though the episode was already derided for being an underwhelming MIlestoneCelebration. Its inclusion of [=WikiLeaks=] founder Julian Assange, much less in a throwaway cameo, did not do the episode favors among certain critics and fans.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What was Marge angry about? That the people of Springfield are unable to accept her family for who they are or is it actually at Springfield for being the problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this?
* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her. Though it depends on whether it's for the same reason that Mayor Quimby stated (that she makes them see her family in a more forgiving light), or another reason entirely.
* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her. Though it depends on whether it's for the same reason that Mayor Quimby stated (that she makes them see her family in a more forgiving light), or another reason entirely.
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** What was Marge angry about? That the people of Springfield are unable to accept her family for who they are or is it actually at Springfield for being the problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this?
** Why didn't the town call out Abe for any of his actions? Was it because they didn't care about his actions compare to his son's family, or because they couldn't think of any? Likewise, did he stay in the town because he was the only family member they tolerated, or did they just forget about him?
* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her. Though it depends on whether it's for the same reason that Mayor Quimby stated (that she makes them see her family in a more forgiving light), or another reasonentirely.entirely.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Ned is quickly butted out of the town's meeting without any rebuttal and is last seen in pain on a car's hood. It'd have been interesting to see Ned try and convince, even if futile, some of the town to reconsider their decision.
** Grampa never shows up at any point in the Outlands scenes. Him making light of the situation or blaming his son for it while exiled would have made a lot of sense given how he was dragged into the whole debacle without notice or explanation. Instead, he quickly becomes a WhatHappenedToTheMouse plot thread never brought up again after the meeting.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: None of Springfield's neighboring cities, who are all shown to have grudges against the town (and vice-versa) at some point or another, are even considered by Quimby as potential exile locations. As he exiles them to a place we've never head of before this moment.
** What was Marge angry about? That the people of Springfield are unable to accept her family for who they are or is it actually at Springfield for being the problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this?
** Why didn't the town call out Abe for any of his actions? Was it because they didn't care about his actions compare to his son's family, or because they couldn't think of any? Likewise, did he stay in the town because he was the only family member they tolerated, or did they just forget about him?
* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her. Though it depends on whether it's for the same reason that Mayor Quimby stated (that she makes them see her family in a more forgiving light), or another reason
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Ned is quickly butted out of the town's meeting without any rebuttal and is last seen in pain on a car's hood. It'd have been interesting to see Ned try and convince, even if futile, some of the town to reconsider their decision.
** Grampa never shows up at any point in the Outlands scenes. Him making light of the situation or blaming his son for it while exiled would have made a lot of sense given how he was dragged into the whole debacle without notice or explanation. Instead, he quickly becomes a WhatHappenedToTheMouse plot thread never brought up again after the meeting.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: None of Springfield's neighboring cities, who are all shown to have grudges against the town (and vice-versa) at some point or another, are even considered by Quimby as potential exile locations. As he exiles them to a place we've never head of before this moment.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What was Marge angry about? That the people of Springfield are unable to accept her family for who they are or is it actually at Springfield for being the problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this.this?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What Marge was Marge angry about? That the people of Springfield are unable to accept her family for who they are or is it actually at Springfield for being the problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her. Though it depends on whether it's for the same reason that Mayor Quimby stated, or another reason entirely.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her. Though it depends on whether it's for the same reason that Mayor Quimby stated, stated (that she makes them see her family in a more forgiving light), or another reason entirely.
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Harsher In Hindsight only applies to the preceding work, rather than the latter (in this case, the episode Hurricane Neddy). Moral Event Horizon can't be crossed in shows with Negative Continuity.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Ned's statement that Lenny is a jerk in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E8HurricaneNeddy ''Hurricane Neddy'']] is more true than ever when he willingly allows the Simpsons to get exiled. The most disheartening is that the Simpsons cared for Lenny in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E6HelloGutterHelloFadder one episode]] but now the family is willing to gun him down and rightfully so.
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%% * MoralEventHorizon: Trying to [[DrivenToSuicide murder Bart by proxy]] in "The Boys of Bummer" is one thing, but in this case, the town solidify their "Meanest City in America" status by showing they're willing to judge, smite, and exile ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor a baby]]'' in the same brutal matter as her family, even threatening to kill said baby if she ever returns.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her. Though it depends on whether it's for the same reason that Mayor Quimby stated, or another reason entirely.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. Then there's how much they ridicule the Simpsons and when the people of Springfield actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who, looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (which is the same thing they did when the town was ruined due to the excess trash from TropeNamer episode TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really help.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. Then there's how much they ridicule the Simpsons and when the people of Springfield actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who, looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (which is the same thing they did when the town was ruined due to the excess trash from TropeNamer episode TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really help.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpson among her family, which can be satisfying for fans who have never liked her.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. Then there's how much they ridicule the Simpsons and when the people of Springfield actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who, looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (which is the same thing they did when the town was ruined due to the excess trash from TropeNamer episode TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really help.her.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. Then there's how much they ridicule the Simpsons and when the people of Springfield actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who, looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (which is the same thing they did when the town was ruined due to the excess trash from TropeNamer episode TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really help.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Like "The Boys of Bummer", this episode is notorious for how 99% of Springfield can swoop to lows. In this case, finding problems with, exiling, and then threatening to kill an infant for being related to a family of problems is difficult to swallow.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Trying to [[DrivenToSuicide murder Bart by proxy]] in "The Boys of Bummer" is one thing, but in this case, the town solidify their "Meanest City in America" status by showing they're willing to judge, smite, and exile ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor a baby]]'' in the same brutal matter as her family, even threatening to kill said baby if she ever returns.
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%% * MoralEventHorizon: Trying to [[DrivenToSuicide murder Bart by proxy]] in "The Boys of Bummer" is one thing, but in this case, the town solidify their "Meanest City in America" status by showing they're willing to judge, smite, and exile ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor a baby]]'' in the same brutal matter as her family, even threatening to kill said baby if she ever returns.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Like "The Boys of Bummer", this episode is notorious for how 99% of Springfield can swoop to lows. In this case, finding problems with, exiling, and then threatening to kill an infant for being related to a family of problems is difficult to swallow.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Trying to [[DrivenToSuicide murder Bart by proxy]] in "The Boys of Bummer" is one thing, but in this case, the town solidify their "Meanest City in America" status by showing they're willing to judge, smite, and exile ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor a baby]]'' in the same brutal matter as her family, even threatening to kill said baby if she ever returns.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. Then there's how much they ridicule the Simpsons and when they actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who? looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (which is the same thing they did when the town was ruined due to the excess trash from TropeNamer episode for TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really help.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. Then there's how much they ridicule the Simpsons and when they the people of Springfield actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who? who, looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (which is the same thing they did when the town was ruined due to the excess trash from TropeNamer episode for TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really help.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What Marge was angry about? That Springfield are unable to accept them for who she and her family are or at actually at Springfield as the sole problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What Marge was angry about? That the people of Springfield are unable to accept them her family for who she and her family they are or at is it actually at Springfield as for being the sole problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpsons among her family can be satisfying to fans who has never liked her.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. And then there's how much they ridicule them and when they actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who? Looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (same thing they did when they couldn't bear with all of the trash anymore in the TropeNamer episode for TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really helps.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. And then there's how much they ridicule them and when they actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who? Looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (same thing they did when they couldn't bear with all of the trash anymore in the TropeNamer episode for TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really helps.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpsons Simpson among her family family, which can be satisfying to for fans who has have never liked her.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of.And then Then there's how much they ridicule them the Simpsons and when they actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who? Looters?) looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (same (which is the same thing they did when they couldn't bear with all of the town was ruined due to the excess trash anymore in the from TropeNamer episode for TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really helps.help.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Ned's statement that Lenny is a jerk in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E8HurricaneNeddy ''Hurricane Neddy'']] is more true than ever when he willingly allows the Simpsons to get exiled. The most disheartening is that the Simpsons cared for Lenny in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E6HelloGutterHelloFadder one episode]] but now the family is willing to gun him down and rightfully so.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpsons among her family can be satisfying to fans who has never liked her.
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* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpsons among her family can be satisfying to fans who has never liked her.her.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. And then there's how much they ridicule them and when they actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who? Looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (same thing they did when they couldn't bear with all of the trash anymore in the TropeNamer episode for TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really helps.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The town of Springfield is fed up with the Simpsons being destructive? OK, JerkassHasAPoint... kind of. And then there's how much they ridicule them and when they actually start missing them, they leave a perfectly good town behind (for who? Looters?) and remake the whole thing a few miles down the road ''exactly the same'' (same thing they did when they couldn't bear with all of the trash anymore in the TropeNamer episode for TrashOfTheTitans), with no guarantees whatsoever that they won't kick the Simpsons out at a later date. The fact that there's a plethora of episodes where the whole town is showcased to be full of hypocrites (let's just say that ridicule and exile is the ''nicest'' thing they could have done to Bart in "Boys Of Bummer") doesn't really helps.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What Marge was angry about? That Springfield are unable to accept them for who she and her family are or at actually at Springfield as the sole problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What Marge was angry about? That Springfield are unable to accept them for who she and her family are or at actually at Springfield as the sole problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this.this.
* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpsons among her family can be satisfying to fans who has never liked her.
* TakeThatScrappy: Mayor Quimby calls out Marge as being the worst Simpsons among her family can be satisfying to fans who has never liked her.
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Not a YMMV trope
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What Marge was angry about? That Springfield are unable to accept them for who she and her family are or at actually at Springfield as the sole problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What Marge was angry about? That Springfield are unable to accept them for who she and her family are or at actually at Springfield as the sole problem and that everyone had responsibility for why she and her family are like this.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).this.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
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The trope isn't "the episode wasn't good".
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A 500th episode milestone could've had a nicer episode, but what we have here is the entire town of Springfield giving the Simpsons a hard time once again.[[note]]In fact, the only good milestone episode was the 100th, where Skinner gets fired and Bart befriends him. The 200th, while funny, was the harbinger of JerkAss Homer. The 300th where Marge becomes a bodybuilder was criticized for Marge's change in body and personality. The 400th, where Kent Brockman gets in trouble for swearing on live TV, was too middle-of-the-road to be truly memorable -- outside of the special opening which featured the Tracy Ullman ''Simpsons'' short, "Family Portrait" and most people hated it because of the FOX News/conservative/Republican bashing[[/note]] However...
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ...the plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ...the plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A 500th episode milestone could've had a nicer episode, but what we have here is the entire town of Springfield giving the Simpsons a hard time once again.[[note]]In fact, the only good milestone episode was the 100th, where Skinner gets fired and Bart befriends him. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The 200th, while funny, was the harbinger of JerkAss Homer. The 300th where Marge becomes a bodybuilder was criticized for Marge's change in body and personality. The 400th, where Kent Brockman gets in trouble for swearing on live TV, was too middle-of-the-road to be truly memorable -- outside of the special opening which featured the Tracy Ullman ''Simpsons'' short, "Family Portrait" and most people hated it because of the FOX News/conservative/Republican bashing[[/note]] However...
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ...theplot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ...the
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A 500th episode milestone could've had a nicer episode, but what we have here is the entire town of Springfield giving the Simpsons a hard time once again.[[note]]In fact, the only good milestone episode was the 100th, where Skinner gets fired and Bart befriends him. The 200th, while funny, was the harbinger of JerkAss Homer. The 300th where Marge becomes a bodybuilder was criticized for Marge's change in body and personality. The 400th, where Kent Brockman gets in trouble for swearing on live TV, was too middle-of-the-road to be truly memorable -- outside of the special opening which featured the Tracy Ullman ''Simpsons'' short, "Family Portrait" and most people hated it because of the FOX News/conservative/Republican bashing[[/note]]
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ...though the plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ...though the plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A 500th episode milestone could've had a nicer episode, but what we have here is the entire town of Springfield giving the Simpsons a hard time once again.[[note]]In fact, the only good milestone episode was the 100th, where Skinner gets fired and Bart befriends him. The 200th, while funny, was the harbinger of JerkAss Homer. The 300th where Marge becomes a bodybuilder was criticized for Marge's change in body and personality. The 400th, where Kent Brockman gets in trouble for swearing on live TV, was too middle-of-the-road to be truly memorable -- outside of the special opening which featured the Tracy Ullman ''Simpsons'' short, "Family Portrait" and most people hated it because of the FOX News/conservative/Republican bashing[[/note]]
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** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ...though the plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A 500th episode milestone could've had a nicer episode, but what we have here is the entire town of Springfield giving the Simpsons a hard time once again.[[note]]In fact, the only good milestone episode was the 100th, where Skinner gets fired and Bart befriends him. The 200th, while funny, was the harbinger of JerkAss Homer. The 300th where Marge becomes a bodybuilder was criticized for Marge's change in body and personality. The 400th, where Kent Brockman gets in trouble for swearing on live TV, was too middle-of-the-road to be truly memorable -- outside of the special opening which featured the Tracy Ullman ''Simpsons'' short, "Family Portrait" and most people hated it because of the FOX News/conservative/Republican bashing[[/note]]
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ...though the plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
** DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: ...though the plot of everyone in town becoming sick of ''The Simpsons'' and banishing them, only to realize they do need them in their lives does make a good premise for a 500th episode, as it shows that as much as viewers (the people of Springfield) hate The Simpsons because of their current, mediocre-to-unwatchably bad episodes (current, destructive antics that have nearly bankrupt the town), they can't fathom what Sunday nights or the FOX network would be without it, so they choose to welcome them back. In short, the entire episode is an allegory of how viewers feel about the show (they hate that it has gone to pot, but most watch it anyway because there is some good in it and can't really fathom what life would be like if it was never there).
