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* SoOkayItsAverage: Despite having the well-recieved ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' reunion and a lot of great jokes (including some of the show's most famous, like the aforementioned lesbian bar scene and the Guy Incognito BaitAndSwitch) the episode is generally seen as this. Reasons are generally due to the particularly drastic and jarring HalfwayPlotSwitch, weak therapy plotline (with a fairly underwhelming resolution), and the fact that the writers clearly hadn't quite cracked how to make a Marge-focused episode.
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* SoOkayItsAverage: Despite having the well-recieved well-received ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' reunion and a lot of great jokes (including some of the show's most famous, like the aforementioned lesbian bar scene and the Guy Incognito BaitAndSwitch) the episode is generally seen as this. Reasons are generally due to the particularly drastic and jarring HalfwayPlotSwitch, weak therapy plotline (with a fairly underwhelming resolution), and the fact that the writers clearly hadn't quite cracked how to make a Marge-focused episode.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Simpsons watch ''Film/{{Alive}}'' to help Marge with her fear of flying, but the version they watch ([[TakeOurWordForIt at least from what can be heard of it]]) is sensationalistic shlock that focuses mainly on the cannibalism involved ("Pass me another hunk of co-pilot.") While ''Alive'' is obviously not like that actually, there really is a '70s film about the Andes disaster that was an ExploitationFilm focused on the cannibalism aspect, only it was titled ''Film/{{Survive}}''.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Simpsons watch ''Film/{{Alive}}'' to help Marge with her fear of flying, but the version they watch ([[TakeOurWordForIt at least from what can be heard of it]]) is sensationalistic shlock that focuses mainly on the cannibalism involved ("Pass me another hunk chunk of co-pilot.") While ''Alive'' is obviously not like that actually, there really is a '70s film about the Andes disaster that was an ExploitationFilm focused on the cannibalism aspect, only it was titled ''Film/{{Survive}}''.
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** Jacqueline telling Young Marge, "This is what a cornfield looks like, honey" before a biplane attacks the two of them as becomes a meme for how incredibly strange it is out of context (in context, this is just one of many incidents that made Marge afraid of flying).
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** Jacqueline telling Young Marge, "This is what a cornfield looks like, honey" before a biplane attacks the two of them as becomes a meme for how incredibly strange it is out of context (in context, this is just one of many incidents that made Marge afraid of flying).flying, plus it's also a reference to ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'').
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Simpsons watch ''Film/{{Alive}}'' to help Marge with her fear of flying, but the version they watch ([[TakeOurWordFromIt at least from what can be heard of it]]) is sensationalistic shlock that focuses mainly on the cannibalism involved ("Pass me another hunk of co-pilot.") While ''Alive'' is obviously not like that actually, there really is a '70s film about the Andes disaster that was an ExploitationFilm focused on the cannibalism aspect, only it was titled ''Film/{{Survive}}''.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Simpsons watch ''Film/{{Alive}}'' to help Marge with her fear of flying, but the version they watch ([[TakeOurWordFromIt ([[TakeOurWordForIt at least from what can be heard of it]]) is sensationalistic shlock that focuses mainly on the cannibalism involved ("Pass me another hunk of co-pilot.") While ''Alive'' is obviously not like that actually, there really is a '70s film about the Andes disaster that was an ExploitationFilm focused on the cannibalism aspect, only it was titled ''Film/{{Survive}}''.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Simpsons watch ''Film/{{Alive}}'' to help Marge with her fear of flying, but the version they watch ([TakeOurWordFromIt at least from what can be heard of it]]) is sensationalistic shlock that focuses mainly on the cannibalism involved ("Pass me another hunk of co-pilot.") While ''Alive'' is obviously not like that actually, there really is a '70s film about the Andes disaster that was an ExploitationFilm focused on the cannibalism aspect, only it was titled ''Film/{{Survive}}''.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Simpsons watch ''Film/{{Alive}}'' to help Marge with her fear of flying, but the version they watch ([TakeOurWordFromIt ([[TakeOurWordFromIt at least from what can be heard of it]]) is sensationalistic shlock that focuses mainly on the cannibalism involved ("Pass me another hunk of co-pilot.") While ''Alive'' is obviously not like that actually, there really is a '70s film about the Andes disaster that was an ExploitationFilm focused on the cannibalism aspect, only it was titled ''Film/{{Survive}}''.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Simpsons watch ''Film/{{Alive}}'' to help Marge with her fear of flying, but the version they watch ([TakeOurWordFromIt at least from what can be heard of it]]) is sensationalistic shlock that focuses mainly on the cannibalism involved ("Pass me another hunk of co-pilot.") While ''Alive'' is obviously not like that actually, there really is a '70s film about the Andes disaster that was an ExploitationFilm focused on the cannibalism aspect, only it was titled ''Film/{{Survive}}''.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin: A common complaint about modern Simpsons episodes is that many of them start with one plot before [[HalfwayPlotSwitch switching to the "actual" plot halfway through]]. This episode is also guilty of that, but it doesn't come under as much fire since the trope wasn't nearly as prominent at this point in the show's run.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin: A common complaint about modern Simpsons episodes is that many of them start with one plot before [[HalfwayPlotSwitch switching to the "actual" plot halfway through]].through]] and [[AbortedArc completely drop the first plot in the process]]. This episode is also guilty of that, but it doesn't come under as much fire since the trope wasn't nearly as prominent at this point in the show's run.
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* OneSceneWonder: Guy Incognito, Homer's IdenticalStranger, is fondly remembered despite being only present for a gag. Fans have completely seriously questioned if he's another of Homer's half-siblings.
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* OneSceneWonder: Guy Incognito, Homer's IdenticalStranger, is fondly remembered despite being only present for a gag. Fans have completely seriously questioned if he's another of Homer's half-siblings. He also gets invoked for the PlayAlongMeme about [[PaperThinDisguise Mr. Snrub]] not being Mr. Burns -- fans use him as evidence that seemingly identical characters with painfully obvious aliases could be genuinely different people.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: The Spanish dub has a different version of the joke where Homer asks Bart for his wallet. In the Spanish, he asks Marge instead, making it funnier when Bart produces the wallet.
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* {{Woolseyism}}: {{Woolseyism}}:
** The Spanish dub has a different version of the joke where Homer asks Bart for his wallet. In the Spanish, he asks Marge instead, making it funnier when Bart produces thewallet.wallet.
** The Latin American dub renames Guy Incognito as "Cosme Fulanito". "Cosme" is not punny on its own, but "Fulanito" is a dismissive way of saying "Fulano de Tal", a Spanish term that has the same connotations as "John Doe" and sounds equally like [[RealJokeName Homer blatantly improvising an alias]].
** The Spanish dub has a different version of the joke where Homer asks Bart for his wallet. In the Spanish, he asks Marge instead, making it funnier when Bart produces the
** The Latin American dub renames Guy Incognito as "Cosme Fulanito". "Cosme" is not punny on its own, but "Fulanito" is a dismissive way of saying "Fulano de Tal", a Spanish term that has the same connotations as "John Doe" and sounds equally like [[RealJokeName Homer blatantly improvising an alias]].
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* FridgeBrilliance: Homer quickly leaves the lesbian bar upon finding out it has no fire exit. While that may seem like an overreaction and/or ComicallyMissingThePoint, keep in mind that, [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer last season]], he and his coworkers almost died because the emergency exit in the power plant was painted on. Homer probably didn't want a repeat of what happened in that episode.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Homer quickly leaves the lesbian bar upon finding out it has no fire exit. While that may seem like an overreaction and/or ComicallyMissingThePoint, keep in mind that, [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer last season]], he and his coworkers almost died because the emergency exit in the power plant was painted on. Homer probably didn't want a repeat of what happened in that episode.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Homer quickly leaves the lesbian bar upon finding out it has no fire exit. While that may seem like an overreaction and/or ComicallyMissingThePoint, keep in mind that, [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer last season]], he and his coworkers almost died because the emergency exit in the power plant was painted on. Homer probably didn't want a repeat of what happened in that episode.
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* OneSceneWonder: Guy Incognito, Homer's IdenticalStranger, is fondly remembered despite being only present for a gag.
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* OneSceneWonder: Guy Incognito, Homer's IdenticalStranger, is fondly remembered despite being only present for a gag. Fans have completely seriously questioned if he's another of Homer's half-siblings.
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* HilariousInHindsight: When Homer is banned from Moe's the first time, Marge suggested he pretend the house was a bar, so he could spend every night at home. He responded he wasn't even going to dignify it with an answer. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E16DumbbellIndemnity Dumbbell Indemnity]]", after Moe's Tavern gets burned down, Homer lets Moe use his garage as a bar. And also, in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E3HomerTheMoe Homer the Moe]]", when Moe remakes his bar as a post-modern nightclub, [[StartMyOwn Homer and his friends start their own bar]] ([[LoopholeAbuse actually, a "hunting club"]]), located in the garage.
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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
** When Homer is banned from Moe's the first time, Marge suggested he pretend the house was a bar, so he could spend every night at home. He responded he wasn't even going to dignify it with an answer. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E16DumbbellIndemnity Dumbbell Indemnity]]", after Moe's Tavern gets burned down, Homer lets Moe use his garage as a bar. And also, in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E3HomerTheMoe Homer the Moe]]", when Moe remakes his bar as a post-modern nightclub, [[StartMyOwn Homer and his friends start their own bar]] ([[LoopholeAbuse actually, a "hunting club"]]), located in the garage.
** When Homer is banned from Moe's the first time, Marge suggested he pretend the house was a bar, so he could spend every night at home. He responded he wasn't even going to dignify it with an answer. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E16DumbbellIndemnity Dumbbell Indemnity]]", after Moe's Tavern gets burned down, Homer lets Moe use his garage as a bar. And also, in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E3HomerTheMoe Homer the Moe]]", when Moe remakes his bar as a post-modern nightclub, [[StartMyOwn Homer and his friends start their own bar]] ([[LoopholeAbuse actually, a "hunting club"]]), located in the garage.
