History YMMV / TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud

** Marge getting Bart the putting game instead of ''Bonestorm'' in the end wasn't her just being an oblivious mom: while she's not angry at Bart anymore, she isn't just going to [[ForgivenButNotForgotten let everything go and reward him for his theft]]. Or she just does not approve of Bart playing such a violent game thinking it might negatively influence him(which would make sense given her concern about the level of violent in Itchy and Scratchy in the past and with Bonestorm being an interactive medium Marge would naturally be paranoid it would warp Bart's mind even more).

** The graphics on ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge'', the $70 price tag on ''Bonestorm'', [[note]]New AAA video games costing $70 at launch would be seen again in the 2020s, when inflation had driven the value of a dollar to about half of what it was in 1995.[[/note]] and the video game characters referenced date this episode to the fourth generation of video games. The UsefulNotes/PlayStation had been released in North America only a few months before this episode aired and the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 would follow soon after.

** Marge getting Bart the putting game instead of ''Bonestorm'' in the end wasn't her just being an oblivious mom: while she's not angry at Bart anymore, she isn't just going to [[ForgivenButNotForgotten let everything go and reward him for his theft]].

* HilariousInHindsight: The joke behind Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge was that at the time kids weren't interested in golf games because they were seen as dull experiences. Just a few years later, Mario Golf 64 was released and became a massive success in terms of both sales and reviews.

** "[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Juuuust TAKE IT!]] ''Take it take it take it take take it! '''TAKEIT!'''''" It even went on to be an AscendedMeme in ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions''.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Does Marge actually believe that she's been too much of a MyBelovedSmother towards Bart, that his attempt to steal the game was a way of acting out against her, and that she needs to give him his own space? Or is she so angry and ashamed at Bart that she genuinely wants nothing to do with him, and is using the claim of being less of a hands-on mother to persuade the rest of the family (and possibly even herself) that she isn't actively trying to {{unperson}} Bart, even if she was.

* FridgeBrilliance: Marge getting Bart the putting game instead of ''Bonestorm'' in the end wasn't her just being an oblivious mom: while she's not angry at Bart anymore, she isn't just going to [[ForgivenButNotForgotten let everything go and reward him for his theft]].

** Funnily enough, Franchise/MortalKombat has outlived nearly all of its clones meaning viewers can still use that series as a frame of reference for Bonestorm.

** Funnily enough, Mortal Kombat has outlived nearly all of its clones meaning viewers can still use that series as a frame of reference for BoneStorm.

** ''Bonestorm'' in general is a pitch-perfect parody of the many [[FollowTheLeader clones]] of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' that were all the rage at the time. The trend died not long after, to the point that quite a few fans watching the episode nowadays seem to think the show's depiction of them was a DeadUnicornTrope and there's no way they were actually that mindlessly violent and gory. If anything, ''Bonestorm'' is downright tamer than a lot of them.

** ''Bonestorm'' in general is a pitch-perfect parody of the many [[FollowTheLeader clones]] of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' that were all the rage at the time. The trend died not long after, to the point that quite a few fans watching the episode nowadays seem to think the show's depiction of them was a DeadUnicornTrope and there's no way they were actually that mindlessly violent and gory. If anything, ''Bonestorm'' is downright tamer than a lot of them.

* JerkassWoobie: Bart commits a serious act of theft, but the suffering he goes through, fearing his mom no longer loves him, is painful to watch.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Krusty's Christmas special features appearances by former Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry, who died in February 2000, and a video Christmas card from Music/TupacShakur, who died in September 1996 (only ''nine months'' after this episode first aired).