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** Mr. Burns asks Homer how old he thinks he is, and Homer guesses 102 years old before Burns tells him he's 81. Later episodes would establish Burns's age as 104, so Homer wasn't too far off.
** Smithers's scheme to try and discredit Homer has some similarities to Frank Grimes's attempts at that in season 8's "Homer's Enemy", the difference being that Smithers takes a subtle approach while Frank went with a more grandiose, over-the-top scheme that was more susceptible to failure than he
** Mr. Burns asks Homer how old he thinks he is, and Homer guesses 102 years old before Burns tells him he's 81. Later episodes would establish Burns's age as 104, so Homer wasn't too far off.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Being one of the few characters to consistently treat Homer with genuine, utmost respect and admiration, Karl is a very memorable one-off character. The moment that has endeared him to many is when he commits career suicide so Homer can keep his job, leading to his surprisingly moving departure.
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* AcceptableTargets: Bald people. Homer gets promoted through the roof immediately after his hair starts growing back after he discovers a wondrous hair growth product. Once it fell out again, he ends up back in his old position.
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* ValuesResonance: Of all of the episodes of ''The Simpsons'' to feature any display of homosexuality, this first one is the only one where it's depicted as a complete non-issue, which is still rare today but was controversial at worst and unheard of at best in 1990. Each subsequent episode about the subject ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia Homer's Phobia]]" "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo Three Gays of the Condo]]") would have [[QueerPeopleAreFunny broader and broader gay stereotypes]], inversely proportionate to homosexuality becoming less taboo in the United States. It wouldn't be until Patty came out, some [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E10TheresSomethingAboutMarrying 14 seasons later]], that the show started to reverse course on this approach.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Karl, whose dedication, savviness, Being one of the few characters to consistently treat Homer with genuine, utmost respect and StraightGay qualities made him admiration, Karl is a very memorable one-off character. The way moment that endeared him to many is when he treats Homer as a dignified human being worthy of respect up to the very end where he commits committed career suicide for him is also such a positive thing to see considering the sheer amount of disrespect so Homer gets throughout the series from can keep his co-workers and friends job, leading to even his family.surprisingly moving departure.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Burns snaps at Smithers when the latter explains what dimoxinil is, saying that he already knows about it. While he had done the same thing earlier when Homer tried to explain what fish sticks are (and it's probably a safe bet that fish sticks aren't a part of Burns's diet), it's not too big a leap in logic to think that Burns tried dimoxinil himself at some point, and wasn't quite so lucky as Homer.
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** Burns snaps at Smithers when the latter explains what dimoxinil is, saying that he already knows about it. While he had done the same thing earlier when Homer tried to explain what fish sticks are (and it's probably a safe bet that fish sticks aren't a part of Burns's diet), it's not too big a leap in logic to think that Burns tried dimoxinil himself at some point, and wasn't quite so lucky as Homer.
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* ValuesResonance: Of all of the episodes of ''The Simpsons'' to feature any display of homosexuality, this first one is the only one where it's depicted as a complete non-issue, which is still rare today but was controversial at worst and unheard of at best in 1990. Each subsequent episode about the subject ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia Homer's Phobia]]" "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo Three Gays of the Condo]]") would have [[QueerPeopleAreFunny broader and broader gay stereotypes]], inversely proportionate to homosexuality becoming less taboo in the United States. It wouldn't be until Patty came out, some [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E10TheresSomethingAboutMarrying 14 seasons later]], that the show started to reverse course on this approach.approach.
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* FairForItsDay: Karl is depicted as a [[AmbiguouslyGay possibly-gay]] man who kisses Homer and pats him on the butt. Nowadays, Karl would be derided as an example of queerbaiting, since Matt Groening has been very evasive about the nature of Karl's sexuality. However, Karl is shown to be an incredibly loyal, helpful, and self-sacrificing assistant to Homer, and his kiss isn't done for a cheap joke, but is taken as a sign of how much Karl cares for Homer. Which is pretty remarkable, considering the episode aired in 1990, when AmbiguouslyGay characters had yet to gain recognition in ''any'' American media, animation or otherwise.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Karl, whose dedication, savviness, and StraightGay qualities made him a very memorable one-off character. The way that he treats Homer as a dignified human being worthy of respect up to the very end where he commits career suicide for him is also such a positive thing to see considering the sheer amount of disrespect Homer gets throughout the series from his co-workers, peers, and even his family.
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* ValuesResonance: Of all of the episodes of ''The Simpsons'' to feature any display of homosexuality, this first one is the only one where it's depicted as a complete non-issue, which is still rare today but was controversial at worst and unheard of at best in 1990. Each subsequent episode about the subject ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia Homer's Phobia]]" "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo Three Gays of the Condo]]") would have [[QueerPeopleAreFunny broader and broader gay stereotypes]], inversely proportionate to homosexuality becoming less taboo in the United States. It wouldn't be until Patty came out, some [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E10TheresSomethingAboutMarrying 14 seasons later]], that the show started to reversed course on this approach.
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* ValuesResonance: Of all of the episodes of ''The Simpsons'' to feature any display of homosexuality, this first one is the only one where it's depicted as a complete non-issue, which is still rare today but was controversial at worst and unheard of at best in 1990. Each subsequent episode about the subject ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia Homer's Phobia]]" "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo Three Gays of the Condo]]") would have [[QueerPeopleAreFunny broader and broader gay stereotypes]], inversely proportionate to homosexuality becoming less taboo in the United States. It wouldn't be until Patty came out, some [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E10TheresSomethingAboutMarrying 14 seasons later]], that the show started to reversed reverse course on this approach.
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* ValuesResonance: Of all of the episodes of ''The Simpsons'' to feature any display of homosexuality, this first one is the only one where it's depicted as a complete non-issue, which is still rare today but was controversial at worst and unheard of at best in 1990. Each subsequent episode about the subject ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia Homer's Phobia]]" "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo Three Gays of the Condo]]") would have [[QueerPeopleAreFunny broader and broader gay stereotypes]], inversely proportionate to homosexuality becoming less taboo in the United StatesStates. It wouldn't be until Patty came out, some [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E10TheresSomethingAboutMarrying 14 seasons later]], that the show started to reversed course on this approach.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: When Homer tells Bart "baldness is hereditary", is he really oblivious to the fact baldness is something people inherit from their mothers (which makes sense, considering how Marge started losing her hair from stress on the Sherri Bobbins episode from season 8) or is he counting on Bart not knowing that detail?
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** Burns snaps at Smithers when the latter explains what dimoxinil is, saying that he already knows about it. While he had done the same thing earlier when Homer tried to explain what fish sticks are (and it's probably a safe bet that fish sticks aren't a part of Burns' diet), it's not too big a leap in logic to think that Burns tried dimoxinil himself at some point, and wasn't quite so lucky as Homer.
** When Homer tells Bart "baldness is hereditary", is he really oblivious to the fact baldness is something people inherit from their mothers (which makes sense, considering how Marge started losing her hair from stress on the Sherri Bobbins episode from season 8) or is he counting on Bart not knowing that
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* ValuesResonance: Of all of the episodes of ''The Simpsons'' to feature any display of homosexuality, this first one is the only one where it's depicted as a complete non-issue, which is still rare today but was unheard of in 1990. Each subsequent episode about the subject ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia Homer's Phobia]]" "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo Three Gays of the Condo]]") would have [[QueerPeopleAreFunny broader and broader gay stereotypes]], inversely proportionate to homosexuality becoming less taboo the United
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* CueIrony: Of all of the episodes of ''The Simpsons'' to feature homosexuality as a key story element, any display of homosexuality, this first one is the only one where it's depicted completely tactfully, as a complete non-issue, which is still rare today but was unheard of in 1990. Each subsequent episode about the subject ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia Homer's Phobia]]" "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo Three Gays of the Condo]]") would have [[QueerPeopleAreFunny broader and broader gay stereotypes, stereotypes]], inversely proportionate to homosexuality becoming less taboo in the real world.United States.
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