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1	* 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 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}}''.
2	* CriticalDissonance: Whereas many fans complained that the initial plot with Homer looking for a new bar was more interesting than the eventual main plot of Marge's aviophobia, a lot of professional critics actually had the opposite opinion, feeling that the initial plot with Homer was mostly {{padding}} that got in the way of the episode's exploration of Marge's backstory, something that the show hadn't really done before without going into her shared backstory with Homer. That being said, Homer's visit to ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' still got a lot of praise among the critics.
3	* 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]] 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.
4	* 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.
5	* HarsherInHindsight: Homer doesn’t want Marge to go to therapy because [[InsaneTrollLogic he's afraid the therapist is going to brainwash her and turn her against him.]] In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E11SpecsInTheCity Specs In The City]]", he finds out that she has been going to therapy in secret and he is her biggest complaint.
6	* HilariousInHindsight:
7	** 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.
8	** There's a joke in this episode about Marge being worried that Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II never got married and that they've been "living in sin": come "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E03WhistlersFather Whistler's Father]]", and the two are apparently engaged in an actual InterspeciesRomance.
9	* MemeticMutation:
10	** The image of Homer in a lesbian bar gets posted a fair bit, and is often used in reference to somebody having an unpopular opinion or being LockedOutOfTheLoop on the internet.
11	** Young Marge's school bus interaction with the other girl is common as well.
12	** 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, plus it's also a reference to ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'').
13	* 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.
14	* SignatureScene: The scene in the lesbian bar is one of the most remembered gags of the entire franchise.
15	* SoOkayItsAverage: Despite having the 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.
16	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A lot of viewers stated that the "Homer tries to find a new bar" plotline would have made a better episode than Marge going to therapy for her fear of flying.
17	* {{Woolseyism}}:
18	** 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.
19	** 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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