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421 - "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"

• The montage of Homer and Ned bounty-hunting set to the Eddy Grant song "Electric Avenue". Highlights include the two sheepishly walking out of a Bad Guy Bar when the patrons intimidate them and Ned having to hold back Drederick Tatum a bit longer because Homer forgot to recharge his taser.

422 - "Lost Verizon"

• Principal Skinner having to repeatedly cross the freeway.
• Bart makes phone calls to bartenders in various countries where they all respond just like Moe, except in Sweden.
  • Even funnier are the names Bart used like Maya Normus Butt ^note  My Enormous Butt to a bar in Hawaii, Drew. P. Weiner ^note  Droopy Weiner to a bar in Australia, and Olaf Myfrensargay ^note  All of my friends are gay to the bar in Sweden.
  Swedish Bartender: If I ever find out who this is, I will thank you for showing me the futility of human endeavor.
• When Bart found the phone and realized you can watch commercials, it cut to commercial.
  Bart: Aw cool you can even watch commercials on it! *Bart zooms in the phone into the screen with dramatic music playing.*
• The dramatic film version of Everybody Poops.
• Bart putting Viagra in Skinner's coffee.

423 - "Double, Double, Boy In Trouble"

• Burns tells Bart (disguised as Simon) about how all of his siblings died, leaving him the sole inheritor:
  Burns: My older bother was trampled by a horse. My sister died of a poisoned potato. My twin was shot. That girl was stabbed. He ate another poisoned potato. Spontaneous combustion. Fell down a well, potato, potato, and impaled on the Chrysler Building.
• Grandpa is shocked and dismayed that Simon is actually listening to his Rambling Old Man Monologue. "That means I gotta come up with an ending for this nonsense!"
• Lisa exposes Simon by slapping him the face and noting his underreaction to it.
  Lisa: The real Bart would've thrown me out the window!
  Simon: He would have defenestrated you?
  Lisa: You're just digging yourself even deeper.
• After Simon's half-brother and sister try to kill him (actually Bart) by pushing him down a ski slope.
  Quenley: Soon he'll be dead.
  Devon: And we'll split the inheritance.
  Quenley: Yes. Split. (pulls a plate out of nowhere) Potato?

424 - "Treehouse of Horror XIX"

A - Untitled Robot Parody

Apu: Stop it, stop it! Look, you have made the nacho machine cry.

• The ending, where the robots put aside their differences and use the citizens for a giant foosball table. Made funnier by the fact it was Homer who suggested that to them in the first place.
• Lisa mentions that last Christmas, the present Bart gave her was a box of his burps.
  Bart: That reminds me. Here's your stocking stuffer (burps into Lisa's stocking).
  Bart: Finally a Boxing Day that lives up to its name.

B - How To Get Ahead in Dead-Vertising

• John Wayne wondering if Prince is gay ("Little sister, is that mustache coming or going?"), then becoming his friend when Prince snaps, "Well, your wife likes it."
• Krusty telling Homer that the one true religion is a mix between voodoo and Methodist.
• The John Wayne commercial, especially since the clip of him saying "fees" depicts his tombstone.

C - It's The Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse:

• Befitting a Peanuts parody, Marge is introduced as The Unintelligible.
  Lisa: What'd you say, Mom?
  Marge: Nothing. I'm practicing my trombone.
• Nelson calling The Grand Pumpkin a racist when he dismisses Nelson's threat to carve a yellow pumpkin. The Grand Pumpkin retorts that all pumpkins are racist, but at least he admits it.
• When Milhouse wants everyone to sing pumpkin carols, Nelson has a pumpkin carol of his own (to the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"):
  You are such a stupid moron;
  It makes people wanna punch you!
  The Grand Pumpkin's super-gaaayyyy!
  Punch, punch, punch, punch, wedgie!

425 - "Dangerous Curves"

• "Why do married women always have husbands?"
• Alberto offers to take Marge for a ride. Cut to them in a plane.
  Alberto: Or should I say, glide!
  Marge: I'm just happy you're talking again. You didn't say a word for 45 minutes.

426 - "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"

• Bart comes across Lisa late at night filling out loads of Crossword puzzles:
  Bart: It finally happened, you've gone completely Froot Loops
  Lisa: Froot Loops! That's the answer to 38 down, Toucan's delight!
  Bart: No I mean you're loco in the Cocoa
  Lisa: Cocoa! "Ice rink drink"
  Bart: You're losing it!
  Lisa: "Losin It!" Risque 80s teen flick
  Bart: Fine go nuts, see if I care.
  Lisa: Eye-care, "Optician's concern" Aw thanks for your help Bart! Bart! "San Francisco People Mover!"
  Bart: Speaking of San Francisco People Mover (immediately cuts to gay club with Homer)
  • Also the set-up for the gay club scene where Homer tells Marge he's going to be at a hardcore gay club until 3 in the morning(so he can tell Julio that Grady is breaking up with him) and Marge's nonchalant reaction "have fun!"

427 - "Mypods and Boomsticks"

• Bart speaking over Steve Mobs. For Bonus Points, Mobs' lip movements actually match what Bart is saying exactly.
  Bart: You're all losers! You think you're so cool just because you buy a 500 dollar phone with a picture of a fruit on it? Well, guess what? They cost 8 dollars to make and I pee on every one! I have made a fortune off you chumps and I've invested it all in Microsoft! Now my boyfriend Bill Gates and I kiss each other on a pile of your money!"
  • For that matter, the entire Mapple store scene.

428 - "The Burns and the Bees"

• Homer's apocalyptic vision of a world without honey — and getting crushed into a cube by WALL•E.
• Mark Cuban's flamboyancy, including being a one-man band.
• Homer telling Lisa that the abandoned greenhouse was once very prosperous until he was put in charge.
• Mr. Burns' outdated national anthem.
  Burns: My country 'tis of thee, Austria-Hungary. Obey your king.
  • Also, Burns shooting the gorilla mascot when he tries to slam dunk.
  Smithers: Sir, were those real bullets?
  Burns: Yes. Was that a real gorilla?
  Smithers: No.
  Burns: I see.

429 - "Lisa the Drama Queen"

• Comic Book Guy getting piled on.

430 - "Take My Life, Please"

• "I WANNA LIVE IN THE SAUCE!"
  Chef: If you could live in the sauce, don't you think I would live in the sauce? Stupid.
• And there's this gem:
  Homer: Oh, I get it, you're all going to try to convince me that my life is great just like it is, right?
  Lisa: Are you kidding? We couldn't even convince you that Bruce Wayne is Batman!
  Homer: Oh, come on, that billionaire playboy? He's too busy socializing at cocktail parties and managing the affairs of the Wayne Foundation!
  Marge: (whispering) Don't open this one again.
  Lisa: Why does he think Alfred is friends with Batman?
  Marge: Just stop.

431 - "How the Test was Won"

• When Homer mentions that every time he gets hurt, he gets paid. Cue the clips of Homer hilariously getting hurt from throughout the show's history, including all the Homer "clones" falling off a cliff from Treehouse Of Horror XIII!
• During the bus ride:
  Bart: This isn't a helicopter!
  Otto: What? Not a helicopter?
  Skinner: Let me explain this to you in terms even the simplest will understand. We're hiding you in Capital City so that your numbskullery won't bring down the grades of the children who are our future.
  Kearney: Will there be other numbskulls there? Sort of a numbskull Olympics, as it were?
  Jimbo: Let's all act stupid!
• Another scene from the bus ride:
  Bart: Hey, I just realized something. You're stuck babysitting us losers, which makes you the real loser.
  Skinner: For your information, I am not a loser. I am a successful principal who paints houses in the summertime.
  Dolph: You painted our garage, and it was peeling by October!
  Skinner: Your dad insisted I use an inferior primer.
  Bart, Nelson, Jimbo, Dolph, & Kearney: Loser! Loser!
  Ralph: Excuse me, mommy. I have to go potty.
  Skinner: Otto, could you pull over?
  Otto: Sorry. I was mesmerized by that little boy's dance.
• At the gas station:
  Ralph: Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want! So tell me what you want, what you really, really want! I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want! So tell me what you want, what you really, really want!
  Skinner: Ralph, are you finished yet?
  Ralph: I finished before we came in.
• Otto and the kids' impression of Principal Skinner.

432 - "No Loan Again, Naturally"

Ned: It's Ash Wednesday, everybody! Set down your gins and confess your sins!

• Another scene:
  Homer: Hey, look on the bright side. At least it's not raining. (Beat) See, I told you. It's not raining. So we're just homeless.
• Homer pulling all the copper wires out of the house when he thinks he'll have to move out, and getting electrocuted because he didn't finish disconnecting them.

433 - "Gone Maggie Gone"

• Kent Brockman pulling a Bill O'Reilly when he can't assemble the solar eclipse viewing box on the air.
  Kent: This was supposed to be pre-made! Fine, I'll do it myself. Where is the end of the friggin' tape?! Forget it! We'll do it next week!
  Stagehand: The eclipse is today.
  Kent: THERE'S AN ECLIPSE WHEN I SAY THERE'S AN ECLIPSE!
• Homer's variation on the Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle, with Santa's Little Helper, Maggie, and a jar of candy-coloured rat poison.
  Homer: Why did I bring the baby and the dog to the poison store??
• When Homer goes to the convent to get Maggie back, he asks Mother Superior if her husband is home.
  Mother Superior: I'm married to Jesus!
  Homer: (sarcastically) Yeah, right! And I'm married to Wonder Woman!
• The sign to the bell tower that says "Keep Out" is accompanied by another one that says, "Or enter- I'm a sign, not a cop."
• Skinner being Late to the Realization about "the biggest ring in Springfield", namely the word "ring" in the middle of the giant Springfield sign. Lisa and Comic Book Guy share a laugh about it when he gets it.
• Lisa thinks she solved the mystery by arranging the words on the Springfield sign into a sentence, "Regally, the rock gem is Lisa". She shows it to Mother Superior, who mocks it because "What sentence starts with the word 'regally'?" and changes the anagram to "It's really Maggie, Sherlock." Lisa lampshades that this only works if someone got the wrong answer first.

434 - "In the Name of the Grandfather"

• Kathy Ireland's completely random appearance.
• Bart pranking Skinner with a hose.
• The Q*bert reference.
• Wiggum hitting himself with a baton, spraying his eye with mace and accidentally tasering himself.

435 - "Wedding for Disaster"

• Maggie's Imagine Spot of Marge as Godzilla and Homer as King Kong. Particularly when after Marge/Godzilla stalks off, Homer/Kong puts on reading glasses and sits down with the paper.

436 - "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe"

• When Moe goes to Dr. Nick to make him shorter so he can win Maya back, Dr. Nick almost gives him a sex change and accidentally gives the height reduction surgery to Mr. Largo:
  Dr. Nick: Now close your eyes and when you wake up, you will be a woman.
  Moe: No, no, no! I want to be shorter, for a woman.
  Dr. Nick: Uh oh. I mixed you up with the last guy.
  Largo: [screams] I look nothing like Julie Newmar!

437 - "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"

• Lisa seeing the world as a paradise of happy faces (including Chief Wiggum bleeding happy faces after being shot by Snake), thanks to being drugged up with medication.
• How does Homer kill a fly that got on his plate of food? He uses his head. Literally.

438 - "Father Knows Worst"

• Homer imagining Marge water-skiing on a stegosaurus after noticing how distant Marge has become. It gets funnier when Homer believes that it is the most likely reason why Marge became distant.
• Homer's perception of a "helicopter parent" entails spinning around. He keeps up the act even after knocking into a locker and falling over.
  Homer: Helicopter Homer, away! [spins into a locker and falls over] Black hawk down! Black hawk down!
• Homer accidentally spraying himself with Ant Poison.

439 - "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"

• Chief Wiggum trying to get the Springfield Mafia to attend Ralph's birthday party:
  Chief Wiggum: It's gonna be fun. Batman's gonna be there.
  (the Mafia gets scared)
  Louie: Ba-Ba-Ba-Batman?!
  Legs: I ain't messin' with no Caped Crusader!
  (They all run away)
• Bart remembering that he was playing hide-and-seek with Milhouse:
  Milhouse: (inside a dumpster) Three weeks! This must be a new record!
• Homer's sarcastic reply when Bart says he doesn't want to lose his elementary school friends.
  Homer: Ooooh elementary school friends are forever. You'll always be with Milhouse. Oh stand by me, just stand by me
  Milhouse joining Homer: Oh stand by me.

440 - "Four Great Women and a Manicure"

A - Queen Elizabeth I

• In the first segment, Moe mistaking Selma for Grendel and calling for Beowulf.

B - Snow White

• When Lisa starts telling her version of Snow White, the blue-haired lawyer interrupts because Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is owned by Disney. Lisa points out that no one owns the original fairy tale and claims the dwarves in her story are her own original creation.
  Lisa: There's Crabby [Moe], Drunky [Barney], Hungry [Homer], Greedy [Burns], Lenny, Kearney and Doc...tor Hibbert.
• The nice Simpsons variation to the 7 Dwarves song
  All: Ho-high, ho-high! It's time to now get high! We'll take some shrooms and go to our rooms...
• Then this verse in the ending credits:
  All: Ho-high, ho-high! It's time to say goodbye! If Disney sues, we'll claim fair use, Ho high, ho high ho high ho high!
• The Wicked Witch Tempting Fate:
  Witch: [finding herself surrounded by woodland creatures] Oh, herbivores! I'm so scared! [said herbivores promptly lynch her]

C - Lady Macbeth

• Homer lampshading the fact that someone writes a new review of Macbeth every day. (Of course, the obvious explanation for that is that the lead actors keep dying and being replaced.)
• Homer reading the wrong scripts for Macbeth.

D - Maggie Rourke

• The Fountainhead parody is pretty good as well.
  "Ellsworth Toohey": MEDIOCRITY RULES!

441 - "Coming to Homerica"

• Homer throwing up in Lisa's saxophone, only to get it stuck on his face.

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