Line #5 Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E15KampKrustier


1	!!This episode contains examples of:
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3	* AccidentalTruth: Bart appears to have let the Kamp Krusty fiasco roll right off his back but fakes PTSD to get out of going to school. It's only when he has a nightmare about an incident he blocked out of his mind that he realizes he truly ''was'' traumatized.
4	* AnachronismStew: Despite this episode explicitly claiming this episode takes place back in Season 4 (1992-1993), Itchy and Scratchy has a ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' parody (which didn't air until 2005), and characters based on the Minions from ''Franchise/DespicableMe'' (which did not exist until 2010) appear in a theme park. While the Simpsons do exist in a FloatingTimeline, having this episode take place contemporaneously with season 4 just makes things rather confusing, especially since the original episode made explicit references to a still living Princess Diana and early 90s tennis players.
5	* ComicBookTime: The title card places the action "a short while ago, in Season 4"—that is, directly after an episode that aired almost 25 years ago.
6	* CerebusRetcon: Somewhat downplayed. While the camp in the original episode is shown to give horrific treatment to campers and have terrible living conditions, the episode never took it TOO seriously, at least not to the point you would expect major psychological scarring. Also, the rebellion is portrayed as justified catharsis and a relieving change of pace from the nightmare that was the camp. And once Krusty comes and saves the day, this just seems more like an experience that the kids would remember, but succeed in the end. The idea the events would come back to haunt them was almost definitely never intended.
7	* EpiphanyTherapy: Bart suffers trauma due to his belief that a kid drowned in the river at Kamp Krusty, and, upon finding out that he was mistaken, declared himself cured. [[CaptionHumor A caption then hints at]] a HappyEndingOverride in ''another'' 24 seasons.
8	* FauxHorrific: As part of the overall {{Retcon}}, some of the "cruel" things the Kamp Krusty children were forced to endure include a production of ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' by the drama club.
9	* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Due to the traumatized kids interrupting his sex life, Homer decides to go to work early and finds that without the distraction of sex, he's become a more efficient worker. Eventually, however, Marge begins to [[WeWantOurJerkBack miss the old Homer]], who may have not been as smart and ambitious, but was certainly better in bed.
10	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Marge hears Bart muttering in his sleep about Kamp Krusty, she tries to wake Homer up, but he's similarly having a nightmare about [[FauxHorrific not having ketchup for his hamburger]]. By the time Bart has [[CatapultNightmare catapulted]] we see that [[BrickJoke Homer has somehow gotten hold of a ketchup bottle]] and is happily drinking it in his sleep.
11	* GhostInTheMachine: Homer's brain is depicted as a steam engine run by Homer clones.
12	* HeinousnessRetcon: Kamp Krusty as a whole undergoes one of these during this episode. In the original "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E1KampKrusty Kamp Krusty]]", the campers were treated genuinely cruelly, being forced to eat gruel, sleep in freezing barren shacks and manufacture wallets in what Lisa described as "a Dickensian sweatshop", with Mr. Black, the camp's owner, being a CardCarryingVillain who revels in his awful treatment of the kids. In "Kamp Krustier", despite the premise being them being traumatised by the experience, the camp's actual cruelty and slave labour are forgotten about and the kids' bad memories of it are reduced to FauxHorrific PokeThePoodle offences like having to watch a bad production of ''Film/TheParentTrap'' with the one seemingly genuine trauma a kid drowning trying to escape, turning out to be a mistake, while Mr. Black is nowhere to be seen and never mentioned. Also, Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney are depicted as having taken part in the rebellion against the camp when in the original episode, they were the counsellors that the other kids were rebelling against following suffering their vicious abuse.
13	* OhNoNotAgain: Marge realizes Bart is having a nightmare and tries to wake up Homer.
14	-->'''Homer:''' No ketchup! No ketchup!
15	-->'''Marge:''' Oh no, not the hamburger dream.
16	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Marge treats sexless/productive Homer as such. Grandpa even asks who Homer is when Homer uncharacteristically kisses him as Homer is leaving for work.
17	* ARareSentence: Unable to have morning sex, Homer does the unthinkable: he goes to work early. This gets a DramaticGasp from Marge.
18	* {{Retcon}}: And ''how''. This episode contains so many inexplicable changes from the source material that it is heavily debatable how much of a sequel this episode even is. Despite having the same writer as the original episode, it does not show. We cannot expect a writer to remember every detail about a previous work, especially almost a quarter-century later, but we would have expected him to have at least ''watched'' the original episode before doing a sequel.
19	** To start, there is a HappyEndingOverride...in the original, Krusty saves the campers (despite their suffering coming from his own negligence) and takes them to Tijuana, and all is forgiven and forgotten...until this episode. In this episode, the kids are finally returned, but they are scarred and shaken, as if the trip to Tijuana never happened.
20	** The kids are seen canoeing in a flashback, and it becomes important later, but a scene in the original shows the rivers too dangerous to canoe.
21	** Marge and Homer act as though the rebellion never happened...even though they already saw the news report about the camp being taken over by Bart.
22	** Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney are seen rebelling against the camp, even though they were the counselors against whom the campers were rebelling and were reported as missing during the chaos.
23	** Mr. Black is nowhere to be seen or even mentioned, despite being the cause of all of it.
24	** Nelson is seen coming off the bus in this episode, despite not being a camper in the original episode.
25	** Sideshow Mel was seen in a camp flashback, even though he was clearly not present at the camp in the original episode, nor would there have been any reason for him to be there.
26	** Most importantly, the slave labor, cruelty, and starvation the campers went through is never mentioned. Any memories of the camp are to things that never happened in the original episode, and were not really cruel except in a hyperbolic satirical way. For example, instead of Lisa saying they were fed gruel and made wallets, she brings up how they were shown the Parent Trap or were forced to watch the camp production of Phantom of the Opera.
27	* SequelEpisode: To "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E1KampKrusty Kamp Krusty]]".
28	* SequelHook: Played with. A caption at the end of the episode says the story will be continued in "Kamp Krustiest" in the 52nd season. Unless the show DOES last that long and it is made...
29	* ShellShockedVeteran: Apparently, many kids who returned from Kamp Krusty, Lisa and Bart included.
30	* ShoutOut:
31	** The marriage counselors Homer and Marge go see are based on the main characters of ''Series/MastersOfSex'', [[ActorAllusion and are even played by the same actors]].
32	** Homer spoofs the chocolate conveyor belt scene from ''Series/ILoveLucy''.
33	** Lisa tells counselors that one of the many tortures they had to endure at Kamp Krusty was watching ''Film/{{The Parent Trap\|1961}}'' every night.
34	** One of the images of Homer's "brain" workers during the closing credits parodies the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_atop_a_Skyscraper Lunch atop a Skyscraper]] photograph.
35	* SpiritualAntithesis: Whereas Homer and Marge's subplot in the original episode has them rekindling their love life while the kids are away at camp, this episode sees them dealing with a SexlessMarriage after Bart takes advantage of his supposed trauma after the fact to sleep in their bed every night.
36	* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Marge mentally laments that she got the version of Homer she always wanted, not realizing that it is not all it is cracked up to be.

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