Line #15 Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:You really screwed up this time, Bart Simpson.]]
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4	'''Original air date:''' 12/17/1995
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6	'''Production code:''' 3F07
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8	'''CouchGag:''' The family sits on the couch. Homer notices a plug in the middle of the floor and pulls it, causing everyone and everything to get sucked down the drain.
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10	In the second ChristmasEpisode, Bart gets busted for shoplifting the season's must-have video game and Marge decides to cut him out of everything the family is doing for Christmas, out of depression and the realization that he's not the little boy she loves anymore.
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12	!! This episode provides examples of...
13	* AllForNothing: Bart tries to shoplift a video game, seriously damaging his relationship with Marge, seemingly forever, and then discovers that after the initial rush, Milhouse has already gotten bored with his copy of the game and will loan it to him for nothing. Bart is dejected to realize that: 1) if he'd just waited a little longer, he wouldn't have needed to steal the game at all; and 2) even if he had succeeded in stealing it, he likely would have gotten bored with it just as quickly.
14	* AnalogyBackfire: When Bart demands ''Bonestorm'' for Christmas, Homer crosses from SidetrackedByTheAnalogy right into this. He recalls how, when he was ten, he "wanted an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Football electric football]] game"--and his parents bought it for him.
15	* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Bart comes home with something hidden in his jacket, Marge thinks he's been shoplifting again and demands he fess up. Since he can't get away, he shows her he got a framed photo of himself to make up for the family picture that got ruined.
16	-->'''Bart:''' I wanted to surprise you for Christmas.
17	* ArtisticLicenseLaw: It goes without saying, private security guards do not have the authority to send someone to jail.
18	* ArtisticLicenseMusic: Creator/AllanSherman never released an album called ''Camp Granada''. "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" was on the album ''My Son, the Nut''.
19	* AsinineAlternateActivity: Bart wants to rent ''Bonestorm'' from The Android's Dungeon, but the only available game is ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge''. At the end of the episode, after their relationship falls apart and is subsequently repaired, Marge reveals that she bought him a certain video game as a surprise gift, that the store clerk assured her was everyone's favorite. [[BrickJoke Take a good guess what it was.]]
20	* TheAtoner: Bart becomes guilt-ridden when Marge becomes heartbroken by his shoplifting and tries to make it up to her.
21	* AwesomeButImpractical: "[[AwesomeMcCoolname Thrillhouse]]"[[note]]Milhouse's player name for ''Bonestorm''.[[/note]] sounds cool, but it's too long for the game screen (it's cut at Thrillho). This wouldn't have been an issue with the actual name.
22	* BadassSanta: In the video game commercial, two children are bored playing a bloodless knock-off of ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', when Santa's sleigh (pulled by two snarling reindeer) bursts through their living room wall. Santa is bulging with muscles and is heavily armed. ''"YOU WANT EXCITEMENT?!?! STICK '''THIS''' UP YOUR STOCKING!!!"'' He fires a video game cartridge via RPG into their port. It is an incredibly bloody BeatEmUp and the children (and Bart) are instantly enthralled. He closes the commercial saying ''"TELL YOUR PARENTS TO BUY YOU '''BONESTORM''', OR GO TO HELL!!!"''
23	* BaitAndSwitch:
24	** The morning after he was caught shoplifting with his family unaware of what happened, Bart learns that they are going to have their picture taken at the same store. Suddenly steam appears to shoot out his ears accompanied by a loud whistle. Marge then announces her teapots are ready and reveals two hot kettles previously hidden behind Bart's head.
25	** Marge believes that Bart stole from the store again when he walks into the house hiding something from her. It's actually her (legitimately-purchased) Christmas present, and he wanted to surprise her.
26	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Bart feels smothered by Marge's babying of him and wishes she would back off. Not too long after he's caught shoplifting, Marge begins to distance herself from him, much to his dismay.
27	* BittersweetEnding: Bart successfully makes amends with Marge and earns her love back, but doesn't get to play ''Bonestorm'' and has to make do with ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge'' instead.
28	* BlackSheep: Bart after he's caught shoplifting, saying that everyone thinks he's one.
29	* {{Bowdlerization}}: The original FOX broadcast cut out the store detective's line, "If I wanted smoke blown up my ass, I'd stay at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose." This line is also cut on the UK's Sky One channel.[[note]]Unusually, the original US broadcast was the ''only'' time this line wasn't heard apart from that. The line is intact in syndication and on DVD.[[/note]]
30	* BrickJoke:
31	** When Bart tries to rent a copy of ''Bonestorm'' from the Android's Dungeon, Comic Book Guy doesn't have any but tries to convince Bart to rent ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge'' since no one was buying it, which is what Bart ends up getting for Christmas.
32	** Detective Brodka tells Bart "If you ever set foot in this store again, you'll be spending Christmas in juvenile hall, capisce? Well, do you understand?" Bart replies "Everything except capisce." Later when the family drives to the same store, Bart sees an image of Detective Brodka in his mind giving a similar warning, but ending with "catfish?"
33	* CallingOutForNotCalling: At the end of the episode, Marge automatically concludes Bart was out to steal another game.
34	* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Played straight. Jimbo and Nelson goad Bart into shoplifting. He is immediately grabbed by the store detective, banned from the Try N' Save, and later publicly outed and shamed, with Nelson being one of the shamers!
35	* CharacterNameLimits: ''Bonestorm'' only supports eight letters, meaning Milhouse's player name of "Thrillhouse" is instead displayed as "Thrillho". Ironically, his actual name only has eight letters and would have fit perfectly.
36	* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
37	** Bart replaces the voicemail left by Don Brodka with a tape of Allan Sherman's "Camp Granada". When Homer hears it, he thinks it's a message from Lisa and asks Marge if she's at Camp Granada.
38	** Marge buys ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge'' because she thought it was the game Bart wanted.
39	** Homer's attempted punishment over Bart's actions includes being grounded to the point where he can't leave the house for school and a three month ban on stealing.
40	* CreatorCameo: The voice of the juvenile hall Santa in Bart's fantasy is provided by showrunner Josh Weinstein, because none of the voice actors could replicate the sound of someone being partially cut off by a low-quality speaker.
41	* CruelToBeKind: After catching Bart shoplifting, Marge sadly laments to Homer that maybe it's the result of her smothering him and she needs to give him some space. Unfortunately Bart notices the change in behavior.
42	* DarkerAndEdgier: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM6NcxTC-rI There was in fact a Tracey Ullman short in which Bart was caught shoplifting]], in which the crime and punishment are PlayedForLaughs. Here, Bart's act of shoplifting is a much bigger deal (a video game priced around $70, vs. a bunch of candy bars in the Ullman short) with more realistic consequences. The security guard is actually intimidating (compared to the SmallNameBigEgo Bart mocks in the short) and the act ran the risk of heavily damaging Bart's relationship with Marge, who is numbed by the experience compared to her usual comical nagging (and leaving Bart to walk home by himself) in the short.
43	* TheDiaperChange: As Bart races home to change the answering machine's tape, Homer's car passes ahead of him, forcing Bart to take a shortcut. Homer and Marge are noticeably sticking their heads out of the car, and Maggie's the only other occupant.
44	-->'''Homer:''' Got to change Maggie. Dear God, we got to change Maggie!
45	* DiscouragingConcealment: After Bart is caught shoplifting at Try-N-Save, store detective Don Brodka leaves a message on the Simpsons' answering machine telling them what happened, and Bart hurries home before the others get home, switching the answering machine tape with a tape of Allan Sherman's "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", hiding the actual answering machine tape in its case.
46	* DisappointedInYou: Both Homer and Marge when they find out about Bart's shoplifting. Homer is outraged, while Marge goes into a HeroicBSOD. Even Lisa says she wouldn't have expected Bart to do such a thing.
47	* TheDreaded: Bart spends the entire episode scared of returning to the Try-N-Save store because of Detective Brodka.
48	* EasilyForgiven: While Marge is initially upset with Bart's activities, she does actually start acting like her usual self toward him before the reveal of the picture. She even got him a video game she thought he'd love.
49	* EmbarrassingVoicemail: Bart races home to make sure his parents don't hear the store manager's message detailing his delinquency.
50	* EpicFail: After Marge doesn't put marshmallows in Bart's hot cocoa because she thought it would make him feel like more of an adult, she then suggests that he do it himself. His attempt results in the marshmallow absorbing every drop of the liquid to form a sort of gelatin, which Bart gloomily eats with a knife and fork. Of course, Grandpa views it differently and even asks if he can have a slice of the marshmallow.
51	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: What leads Bart to feel guilty and try to atone for the shoplifting is seeing how badly it hurt Marge.
52	* ExposedToTheElements: Bart has a coat on when he's outside, but his shorts make his legs clearly exposed to the bitter cold.
53	* FictionalVideoGame: Console games at the Try-N-Save include ''Angus Podgorny's Caber Toss'' (spelled ''Caper Toss''), ''A Streetcar Named Death'', ''Bonestorm'' (shoplifted by Bart), ''Canasta Master'', ''Celebrity Autopsy'' (spelled Tutopsy), ''Electronic Biathlon'', ''Operation: Rescue'', ''Robot Stampede'', ''Save Hitler's Brain'', ''Sim Reich'', and ''Swim Meet''. The Android's Dungeon and Baseball Card Shop has ''Bonestorm'' and ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge'' available for rent. For Christmas, Bart receives ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge''.
54	* {{Foil}}: Gavin, the spoiled brat at Try-N-Save, is Bart sans any and all redeeming qualities, with a few he doesn't even display revved up. Arguably, he's Bart if Marge had completely given up on raising Bart at an early age.
55	* FlashInThePanFad: ''Bonestorm''. At first the game is so popular that Bart can't rent a copy anywhere and even Milhouse won't share his copy with him. Barely a week later, after Bart has severely let down his mother by trying to shoplift the game, he visits Milhouse who says Bart can borrow his indefinitely, he's discovered a real thrill in playing with a cup-and-ball set.
56	* GottaHaveItGonnaStealIt: Bart is caught trying to steal a copy of ''Bonestorm'' from the Try-N-Save.
57	* HeroicBSOD: The news of her son's shoplifting leaves Marge quite numbed.
58	* HighPressureEmotion: {{Parodied\|Trope}}. When Bart hears the family will be going to the Try-N-Save for their Christmas photo (the family don't know about his shoplifting yet, and Bart was told he would go to juvenile hall if he was caught in the store again), steam appears to shoot out of his ears. It turns out to come from kettles on the stove behind Bart's head.
59	* HitlerCam: Used on Homer when he's drawing up the barrier to trap Bart when he's trying to flee from Marge, who thinks he's shoplifted again.
60	-->'''Homer:''' Heh heh heh, git 'im, ma!
61	* HopeSpot: Homer chews Bart out for shoplifting, but him screaming at the boy is par for the course. When Marge just tells him to go to bed rather than join in, Bart initially thinks he's off the hook and has nothing to worry about going forward. As Lisa correctly warns, Marge takes this situation so badly that she stops smothering him, and he worries his actions will have permanently damaged their relationship.
62	* HypocriticalHumor:
63	** When Milhouse has Bart kicked out of the Van Houten house for "swearing", Bart can be heard saying "dammit, I wasn't swearing" as Luann shoves him out. Doubles as NotHelpingYourCase.
64	** As Bart is led away after being caught shoplifting:
65	--->'''Gavin's mother:''' That boy's parents must've made some big mistakes.\
66	'''Gavin:''' [[LampshadeHanging Shut up, Mom!]]
67	** Nelson and Jimbo were the ones who encouraged Bart to shoplift in the first place, yet Nelson mocks Bart for doing it later.
68	** Homer explodes at Bart about stealing, even though he constantly steals from his neighbor Ned Flanders.
69	* INeedToGoIronMyDog:
70	-->'''Brodka:''' Sir, would you open your coat, please?\
71	'''Bart:''' Uhhhhhh...I don't think this is the kinda coat that opens.
72	* InsaneTrollLogic: Donkey Kong's rationale for why Bart should steal a copy of ''Bonestorm.''
73	--> '''DK:''' Duh, it's the company's fault for making you want it so much.
74	* InspectorJavert: Detective Brodka catches Bart immediately, but doesn't see Jimbo and Nelson shoplifting. And it's probably not the first time.
75	* InstantlyProvenWrong: ''It's a Krusty Kinda Kristmas!'' seemingly takes place within Krusty's own house, but as he's greeting the audience by saying "Welcome to my home," he walks up to a window showing Kent Brockman's newsroom outside, exposing the actual setting of the special as the Channel 6 studio. Krusty quickly covers up the scene by pulling down the window shade.
76	* ItsAllAboutMe: At the end of the episode, Lisa claims she should get her Christmas present early, because Bart is getting his early (and that was only because he got one for Marge to surprise her and to make up for his earlier shoplifting). She's not happy when Marge tells her she'll have to wait for her presents, grumpily muttering, "This is the worst Christmas ever."
77	* {{Jerkass}}:
78	** Detective Don Brodka. He has [[JerkassHasAPoint every right to be pissed about Bart's shoplifting]], (attempt to) notify his parents, and ban him from the store...but when Bart and his family come back to get their picture taken, Brodka could have at least waited until their picture was done before he chastises the boy again. But he doesn't, and the picture shows a husky arm grabbing Bart.
79	** Nelson, for goading Bart to shoplift, and then having the nerve to mock him for it.
80	** Gavin, for being a horrible SpoiledBrat.
81	* JerkassBall: Milhouse towards Bart when he finds out that Milhouse got ''Bonestorm'' as a Christmas present: he starts making excuses about why they can't play it together and when Bart isn't falling for them, he yells to his mom that Bart's swearing, getting him kicked out for something he didn't do.
82	* KarmaHoudini: Nelson and Jimbo don't get busted for stealing, [[SelectiveEnforcement but Bart does and suffers the consequences for it.]] Nelson even acts like he has room to mock Bart about it.
83	* LastSecondPhotoFailure: The family go to a store to get their Christmas picture taken. Unfortunately, Bart had been banned from the store earlier for attempted shoplifting, and the security guard shows up and grabs Bart just as the picture is taken.
84	* LimitedWardrobe: A ZigZaggingTrope, Nelson is shown wearing a turtleneck instead of his usual shirt.
85	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: A play on a famous sonnet by Creator/JohnDonne, "Death Be Not Proud".
86	* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: Marge and Homer's initial reaction when Bart is confronted for shoplifting during the family photo. But when the security guard shows her the undeniable proof...
87	-->'''Homer:''' He's a thief...\
88	'''Marge:''' [[DisappointedInYou Oh, Bart...]]
89	* MundaneMadeAwesome: When playing ''Bonestorm'', Milhouse is happy about how the simple act of entering his name in the file select of the video game character is exhilarating. He puts in "Thrillhouse", but due to space limitations, it only allows in "Thrillho".
90	* MustMakeAmends: Bart, [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas after seeing how upset Marge is when she finds out about his shoplifting]]. He makes it up to her by getting her a framed photo of himself (making sure he has the receipt as well to show he paid for it this time).
91	* MyBelovedSmother: Marge, to Bart. At first, at least.
92	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Bart's reaction when he sees how much his shoplifting has hurt Marge.
93	* MyNewGiftIsLame: After Bart is forced to reveal Marge's Christmas gift early, a paid portrait from the store, Marge gives him his gift early, what the store clerk told her was the "hottest game of the season." Bart happily thinks she got him ''Bonestorm'', and is immediately disappointed to see ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge'' (since Marge knows nothing of video games, the clerk lied just to get rid of the abundant inventory and cover the fact that ''Bonestorm'' was sold out), but when he sees Marge's smiling face, he lies that he loves his gift and gives her a thank you hug.
94	* NewhartPhonecall: Subverted, Don Brodka calls the Simpsons home and pauses as though he were listening to their response, but in fact he was just leaving a message.
95	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
96	** ''Lee Carvello's Putting Challenge'' is a parody of ''Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf''.
97	** The South American sensation Xoxchitla on Krusty's special is based on the real-life Brazilian presenter Xuxa.
98	* NotAsYouKnowThem: Humorously invoked when Bart was struggling with the temptation to shoplift. He imagined a bunch of video game ''heroes'' (Mario & Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Sonic) convincing him to go through with it, which is more like something their archenemies (Wario and Bowser/King Koopa for Mario, King K. Rool for Donkey Kong, and Dr. Robotnik for Sonic) would do. The only voice of reason among them is Lee Carvello, whose game had already been shown to be [[AsinineAlternateActivity undesirable to Bart]].
99	* NotHelpingYourCase: Milhouse yells that Bart is swearing so his mom will throw him out of the house. He wasn't at the time but proceeds to do it all the way out.
100	-->'''Bart:''' Hey, what the hell--dammit, I wasn't swearing!
101	* NotListeningToMeAreYou: Marge lists reasons why she won't buy Bart ''Bonestorm''; Bart listens politely, and replies, ''"those are all good points, but the problem is they don't result in me getting the game."''
102	* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Marge defends Bart when he's accused of shoplifting, stating that he "may not be perfect" but she knows him well enough to know he's not a shoplifter. When Brodka whips out the security tape, she tells him to go ahead and play it so that everyone will see he's got the wrong kid.
103	* OhCrap: Bart, when he's told the family will be having their Christmas photo done at Try-N-Save. This is after he was told he would go to juvenile hall if he was caught there again. Uh-oh...
104	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bart is caught shoplifting a video game and Marge is contacted to come pick him up from the store. Instead of Marge punishing Bart or downplaying his behavior, she simply cuts him out of all family activities and ignores him, realizing that her constant smothering of him might have caused him to steal as a way of acting out and wanting to be an adult. Bart takes Marge's silence as a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and does his best to make amends. Additionally, Homer is genuinely outraged and [[WhatTheHellHero yells at Bart for doing this]].
105	* PapaWolf: When Detective Brodka catches Bart at the store via yanking him out of his family photo, Homer immediately comes to Bart's defense with "What are you doing to my son!?"
106	* PetTheDog: Luann, who's constantly kicking Bart out of her house (and who's forbidden Milhouse from playing with him in the past), is touched when in the middle of one of said evictions he timidly asks her if he can hang out with her while she does "mom stuff," and lets him stamp her Christmas cards as she's sealing the envelopes.
107	* PoorCommunicationKills: Marge, who never believed that Bart would shoplift, realizes that (as he pointed out earlier) she's failed to account for the fact that he's not a little kid anymore, and thinks it will help if she gives him a little space and lets him do things for himself, like add his own marshmallows to his hot chocolate. She also stops the cutesy nightly tuck-in routine he's been complaining about. Bart has no idea why she's changed her behavior and fears that she doesn't love him anymore.
108	* {{Pun}}: According to Troy [=McClure=]'s documentary, the word "shoplifting" came from ancient times when shops were small stands thieves literally lifted to steal from.
109	* RightBehindMe: All Bart had to do after getting out of the store was run for it, but he stood there exulting in his successful theft and got caught almost immediately.
110	* RunningGag: This episode continues the gag of Homer misunderstanding movie plots.
111	* SarcasmBlind: Comic Book Guy [[DeadpanSnarker snarks]] that when Bart tries to buy ''Bonestorm'' from him for 99 cents, it is tantamount to him giving a customer 59 dollars back ("Oh, ''please'' take my fifty-nine dollars. I don't want it, it's yours."). Bart plays to this trope by reaching for CBG's open cash register and CBG {{lampshade\|Hanging}}s it.
112	* SchlubbyScummySecurityGuard: Store Detective Don Brodka, whilst completely justified at being furious at Bart for shoplifting, is still presented as a surly humourless jerk.
113	* SelectiveEnforcement: Nelson, Jimbo, and Bart all steal from Try 'N Save, but only Bart gets caught by Detective Brodka and [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin faces severe punishment for his actions]]. For some reason, he either massively FailedASpotCheck and didn't notice their attempts at shoplifting (despite them being, if anything, ''more'' obvious than Bart's) didn't feel the need to also punish Nelson and Jimbo and so he [[KarmaHoudini lets them get away with their crimes]].
114	* ShooOutTheClowns: Homer doesn't appear in the scene where Marge chases Bart around the house in the living room towards the end of the episode.
115	* ShoutOut:
116	** The ''Bonestorm'' video game is a reference to ''VideoGame/{{Bloodstorm}}'', which competed with ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. The characters in the commercial even resemble Liu Kang and Goro. The former is even referenced by name.
117	** [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario, Luigi]], Franchise/DonkeyKong, and Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog all appear in Bart's ImagineSpot and convince him to steal a copy of ''Bonestorm''.
118	*** This gets {{homage}}d in ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' when Sonic and Bart interact. "Remember, Bart: If you see a Gold Brick, just take it! Takeittakeittakeittakeit! TAKE IT!"
119	** ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge'' is a reference to ''Lee Travino's Fighting Golf'' (which was just called ''Fighting Golf'' in its original Japanese release).
120	** ''Angus Podgorny's Caper [sic] Toss'' is a reference to the Scottish character of that name in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus's'' "Science Fiction Sketch".
121	* SkewedPriorities: When Marge scolds Bart for saying "Buy me ''Bonestorm'' or go to hell", Homer seems more concerned with the fact that his son didn't say "please" than that his son told his mother to go to hell if she wouldn't buy him a video game.
122	* SpecialGuest: Creator/LawrenceTierney as Don Brodka.
123	* SpoiledBrat: Bart sees one (named Gavin) when he goes to Try 'n Save to stare at the game, who openly calls his mom stupid and demands she get two because he doesn't want to share his copy with his sister. Bart thinks he's "the happiest kid in the world."
124	* TheStinger: The credits show us the gameplay for Lee Carvello's Putting Challenge.
125	* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Detective Don Brodka. He calls the Simpson household to report that Bart was arrested for shoplifting. There are "uh-huh"s and "that's right"s in his phone call, suggesting that he's talking to someone on the other end, but after he hangs up:
126	-->'''Don''': They weren't home, ''uh-huh''. But I left a message on their answering machine, ''that's right''.
127	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Bart's ill-fated shoplifting attempt fails for two simple reasons: Security cameras (which naturally would keep an eye on something as expensive as video games) and for the fact that he stops to brag about his victory shortly after he exits the store. He might've gotten away with it had be simply kept going when he left the Try-N-Save.
128	* TakeThat:
129	** As Homer reprimands Bart for stealing:
130	--->"We live in a society of laws! Why do you think I took you to all those ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movies?! For fun?! Well, I didn't hear anyone laughing! Did you?! [[SidetrackedByTheAnalogy Well, except for the guy who did sound effects...]]"
131	** Bart hides the tape with Brodka's message in the place no one would look for it: a tape cassette cover for Allan Sherman's "Camp Granada".
132	* TemptingFate: Bart immediately before being nabbed by security.
133	-->'''Bart:''' I'm outside. I got away with it. I'm free!
134	* ThenLetMeBeEvil: "Everybody thinks I'm the [[BlackSheep black sheep]]. Well, I'll show 'em what a black sheep can do!"--[[SubvertedTrope make up for his bad deed, on his own dime]].
135	* TranquilFury: Marge goes through this after Bart tries to steal a video game and gets caught shoplifting. Marge doesn't scream, yell, or even scowl. She just has this ThousandYardStare as she sits quietly in the living room, and the only thing she tells Bart is that he should go to bed.
136	* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: ''Bonestorm'', an obvious parody of ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. The spoiled kid at the store also mentions owning ''Bloodstorm'', ''Bone Squad'' and ''Bloodstorm 2''
137	* {{Unishment}}: Marge figures out that Homer's proposed punishment for Bart's shoplifting (putting him under not just mere [[YouAreGrounded grounding]] but house arrest, no eggnog, and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint no stealing for three months]]) would be this to Bart. This isn't helped when in the next shot it's revealed Homer was just doodling a robot barbequing hot dogs all along.
138	* TheUnpronounceable: When introducing her, Krusty completely botches Xoxchitla's name. Judging by her expression, he might be in for it during the commercial break.
139	* VerbalTic: Don Brodka has one, uh-huh. It sounds like he's responding to someone even when he's not, that's right.
140	* WhereDidWeGoWrong: Marge asking this question cues the drama of the second half of the episode when she concludes that she's babied Bart to the point of becoming out of touch with the person he's become and resolves to treat him more like an older kid. Unfortunately, Bart interprets her withdrawal of her usual maternal fussiness in the worst way, fearing that his crime has caused her to stop loving him.

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