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1	* AccidentalInnuendo: "I'll plug ''your'' hole!"
2	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
3	** The "In The Navy" musical with the Music/VillagePeople (and Smithers) dancing, before the sub submerges, [[TakeThat drowning them]].
4	** The ''[[Film/TheDeerHunter Deer Hunter]]'' parody comes out of nowhere. After Homer compares the situation to the film, it turns out Moe is actually hosting a game of Russian Roulette that Skinner and Krusty of all people are being forced by the Yakuza (and one Italian gangster) to play. Skinner is later shown fine and dandy and this is never referenced again. Some fans like to think Skinner is at least there due to his Vietnam days while Krusty is there because he's such a horrible gambler[[note]]owing either the Italian Mafia or the Yakuza a lot of money[[/note]] that he'd literally bet his life in a Russian roulette game.
5	** The entire Soviet Union being revived montage (though that actually had at least a flimsy bearing on the story), but none more ridiculous than Lenin breaking from his glass coffin and attacking tourists while moaning, "Must... crush... capitalism..." Even the writers on the DVD commentary said that this was the most insane sequence they ever did.
6	* HilariousInHindsight: At one point, Homer says he wants peas when the captain asks what he wants out of life, and the captain mistakes his answer as "[[MondegreenGag peace]]". There would later be a webcomic titled ''Webcomic/WarAndPeas'', whose title was a pun on ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', much like the play on words in this episode.
7	* OlderThanTheyThink: Although the episode was partly based on ''Film/CrimsonTide'', the original episode pitch was made before the film was released. After the film came out, the writers decided to start incorporating things from the movie in the script.
8	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
9	** The episode is a WholePlotReference to ''Film/CrimsonTide'' (1995), although it was actually in production before the movie came out and was retooled to reference it.
10	** There is a parodic reference to the relatively recent "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which forbade the open discussion of sexual orientation in the military. The policy ended in 2011.
11	** One of the officers called to court-martial Homer for his actions can't because he impersonated the First Lady. He puts on a wig that makes him look like Hillary Clinton and walks away.
12	** The episode's mocking of the Navy Reserve as a place that doesn't see a lot of combat action went out of the window with UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, when reservists were mobilized to serve in the Afghan and Iraq wars.

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