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  • One prime example is in "Missionary: Impossible" when Burns chews out Bart, who's filling in for his father Homer, after reviewing Homer's performance record for the last ten years, citing "causing seventeen meltdowns, selling plutonium to the Iraqis without any markup, and taking the Hamburglar's birthday off last Monday and Wednesday! Which is it?"
  • In "Bart Gets Hit By a Car", Bart has a near-death experience in which he goes to Hell. On his way out, the Devil advises Bart to "Lie, cheat, steal, and listen to heavy metal music!"
  • Burns complains in "Last Exit to Springfield" about having to deal with the plant workers' union. "Benefits, perks, a green cookie on St. Patrick's Day?"
  • "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment": Homer imagines himself being sentenced to prison for assault, manslaughter, and stealing cable TV.
  • "Treehouse of Horror III", "Clown Without Pity": Homer buys Bart a talking Krusty the Clown doll for his birthday. The proprietor of the House of Evil where he gets it warns him that the doll is cursed, the free frogurt that comes with it is also cursed, and the frogurt's toppings, which Homer can choose from, all contain preservatives.
  • "Treehouse of Horror IX", "Hell ToupĂ©e": Snake gets three strikes, The first two were for torching an orphanage and blowing up a bus full of nuns. His third strike? Smoking in a No Smoking Zone.
  • "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" had a sight gag version of this. As Ned Flanders is granted the power to make a mystical Hell House which shows the children of Springfield the wages of sin in Hell, he shows them the Seven Deadly Sins. While Homer is certainly a glutton and is consumed by spaghetti, and Willy shows Wrath and is beheaded by the machine he was futilely kicking, poor Dr. Hibbert is shown proudly sticking a "My Child Made the Honor Roll" bumper sticker on his car. He is immediately crushed by a truck driven by Mole Man and dies in agony for the sin of Pride.
  • In "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", when Marge mentions that she's taking Homer to somewhere where the family won't bother him again, Homer watches terrified as they drive past a mental institution, a slaughterhouse, and a Santa's Village.
  • In "Funeral for a Fiend", Sideshow Bob defends his case of attempting to kill Bart by asking the jury about the bad things Bart has done to them.
    Luigi: He ordered pranks pizzas to 888 Poopypants Lane. Everybody knows Poopypants Lane ends in the 700 block!
    Cletus: He mocked my folksy ways!
    Homer: He cheats at Uno!
  • In "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot", Bart has a fantasy of being approached by expies of Pinhead and Jason Voorhees, then by a giant math book before Santa's Little Helper (as RoboCop) comes to save him.
  • In "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday", Homer goes with some of Springfield's men to see Super Bowl XXXIII in person, but when they arrive, they're told their tickets are actually counterfeit. The Simpsons Archive lampshades this with the remark "In order from least to most obvious".
    Ticket-Taker: Uh, sorry, fellas, but these tickets are counterfeit.
    Wally: What?
    Homer: Counterfeit?!
    Ticket-Taker: Yeah, see, the hologram's missing, and there's no such team as the "Spungoes", and finally, they seem to be printed on some sort of cracker. (takes a bite out of one of the "tickets")
    Homer: Stop eating our tickets!
  • A non-verbal example happened in "Last Exit to Springfield", Mr. Burns tries to intimidate Homer by giving him a tour of the lavish rooms in his mansion; his aviary, his living room with the largest television in the world, a room with a thousand monkeys writing the greatest novel ever written and the basement which is a tiny room with a ping-pong table. Even Burns understands that he should not end his tours here.
  • In "Bart Sells His Soul'', Rev. Lovejoy gets the kids to confess who replaced his sheet music with the music for "Inna-Godda-De-Vidda" by getting the kids to recite a creed where they will go to Hell if they lie.
    If I withhold the truth, may I go straight to Hell where I will eat naught but burning hot coals and drink naught but burning hot cola. Where fiery hot demons will push me in the back. Where my soul will be chopped into confetti, strewn upon a parade of murderers and single mothers.
  • In "'Homer vs. Patty and Selma", Bart gets roped into taking ballet and he does not want to wear tights. The instructor tells him that tights are worn by famous characters like Batman and Magellan.

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