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575 - "Every Man's Dream"

• Homer wins saddest man in the bar, prompting this funny bit.
  Depressed Stranger: I was so close.
• Candace deciding to go out with Homer has this funny line.
  Candace: I'm an interesting person too. I'm a writer.
  Homer: I thought you worked as a pharmacist.
  Candace: Tennessee Williams worked in a shoe store.
  Homer: You're very quick with that fact.
• Lisa promises to always love Homer, until...
  Step-Dad: Lisa, I thought we could play a game of chess before we go pony shopping.
  Lisa: I'll Skype you at Christmas.
• Bart strangling himself with a blood pressure meter.

576 - "Cue Detective"

• Bart and Lisa are both revealed to stink at school, leading to merciless taunting.
  Kids: Stink-sons! Stink-sons!
  Skinner: Kids can be so cruel.
  (smash cut to Homer at the nuclear plant)
  Powerplant Workers: Stink-son! Stink-son!
• Bart and Lisa try to recover their stolen smoker, but because they are touching it barehanded while it is active, they let go and gets loaded onto the thief's truck.
• In a reference to "Simpsorama", Bender's deactivated body appears.

577 - "Puffless"

• The show My Doctor Didn't Know I Was Pregnant, starring Dr. Nick, malpractice defendant.
  Dr. Nick: *gasps* A baby! An astronaut baby!
• Homer spills beer on Grandma Bouvier's couch to show it keeps the couch safe, only to drop a knife and pierce the plastic.
• The Running Gag of Homer using bleach to forget about his encounters with Patty in the shower.
  • Bart thanking Homer repeatedly for using bleach on his eyes before Patty came out of the shower.
• "She can't stay on our couch! That's where we do all our couch gags!"
• After Maggie saves a possum she befriended, the animals return to where they were, including Hoppy, who learned some new words:
  Hoppy: (sounding like Cletus) Hey Brandine, put out the fancy possum china.
  Duffman: I've heard of wanting a cracker, but becoming one— oh no!
• Homer's Imagine Spot where he mocks Patty and Selma for being fat. Patty and Selma point out that he's even fatter, to which he replies that no one out-fats him. Then they all eat junk food. Eventually, they get so big that Homer's thought cloud bursts and Santa's Little Helper eats the bits of it on the floor.

578 - "Halloween of Horror"

• The Shout-Out to The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the grown-ups singing about Halloween.
• Kang and Kodos make an appearance as Lenny and Carl's costumes.
• Homer and Lisa innocently whistling the theme to Halloween, while Homer first doing it to make Lisa feel safe and Lisa just following Homer.
• Yet another hilarious Brick Joke. When Marge tells Bart about a neighborhood they can trick-or-treat at, she informs him that E.T will be there and can say his name. When Bart asks Marge what will happen if he tells him his name is a swear word, Marge answers that he'll have to say it, which makes Bart very happy. Later, when Marge and Bart have to drive away, E.T. can be heard saying "Hello, Scrotum!"

579 - "Treehouse of Horror XXVI"

A - Wanted: Dead, Then Alive

• While Bart's death is admittedly a Tear Jerker, his last words being to tell his father that he is fat can be darkly amusing.
• Some of the ways Bob kills Bart when he is reviving him are pretty over the top, including giving him a heart attack by showing him how expensive reviving him is.
• Bob accidentally revives a fruit bowl during his killing Bart spree.
• Homer's second suspect for Bart's disappearance after Sideshow Bob: Homer Simpson.
• Bart's revenge is amusing as it is cathartic. The fact that Bart revives Bob not as himself but into a hybrid of various animal parts, and even sticks a booger on him for good measure.

B - Homerzilla

• When Homerzilla appears and incinerates Moe for having ridiculed Grampa Simp-san's beliefs about the sea creature:
  Moe: [raises his fist in anger] Ha! I still refuse to admit the old man was right! [the monster's fire breath incinerates him to a skeleton] Legitimate difference of opinion. [one more fire breath reduces him to ashes]
• Frink getting squished while explaining how Homerzilla should not be able to stand outside of water.
• When Lisa tries reasoning with the monster not to destroy her town:
  Lisa: Why do you have to stomp on our buildings?! This land is 98% rural! So much farmland you can walk on without hurting your feet! [Homerzilla's fire breath incinerates the wheelbarrow] Right, right. The city's the only place you can get tuna rolls at five in the morning... because you do have fishy breath! I'm just telling you!
• The only ticket sold for the Homerzilla remake is for Comic Book Guy, who wanted a good seat for the next Star Wars.

C - Telepaths Of Glory:

• Milhouse gets a wedgie from Dolph, then dumps him in a volcano.
  Dolph: THIS IS NOT A PROPORTIONAL PUNISHMEEEEEEENT!!
• Bart writes 'Skinner is a wiener' on the school walls. Lisa changes the spelling to 'winner' and tosses Bart into detention. Cue Skinner showing up where the graffiti is:
  Skinner: Hmm... somebody misspelled "wiener". [rubs off the first N and writes an E in red marker]
• At the end, when it's revealed that Maggie is the one who stops Milhouse, and then uses her powers to perform acts of kindness - giving a shirtless Vladimir Putin travelling on horseback a shirt, turning Homerzilla into an expy of Barney the Dinosaur, and turning a rude Frenchman into a polite Frenchman, the last one being more hilarious as it's just his head that gets zapped resulting in a change of expression.
• Kang and Kodos appearing at the very end, complaining that they're consigned to a cameo once again. This results in the aspect ratio being changed to 4:3.
  Kang: Just 'cause it looks like Season 4 doesn't MAKE it Season 4!

580 - "Friend With Benefit"

• Homer's book on crowdfunding describes it as the New Panhandling.
• When everyone learns what Homer's crowdfunding was for, they decide to burn the chair, but somehow wind up burning Grandpa.
• At the concert, the electric sign behind the band unsuccessfully uses the subliminal message: Join The Navy. It even says "Oops".
• How much money does it take to buy off Skinner? $10.
• The Rich Texan refuses to give Homer any money for his crowdfunding, but when he fires his guns, one of the bullets hits the "fund" button anyway.
• Lisa refuses to give up her old bike since Homer built it for her himself. “Which explains why I have to pedal backwards to go forwards.

581 - "Lisa with an "S""

• The Inside Out parody.
• While it's undeniably a jerk move, this pun from Bart is funny:
  Bart: Hey, I don't know for sure, but it doesn't sound like band camp is in the cards.
• Homer tries to trick Laney Fontaine into thinking Bart's crippled to get out of a debt by giving him a crutch.
  Bart: I'm not crippled.
  Homer: You will be.
  Bart smashes the crutch on Homer's knee.

582 - "Paths of Glory"

• Bart and Lisa decide to sneak into an abandoned asylum.
  Lisa: How do we get in?
  Bart: Our best option is probably the sewer pipe... (Lisa groans and climbs in) or we could just use the door.
• After Bart pretends to be a sociopath, we get a montage of him acting out. One scene involves him getting baseballs for a bottle toss game, only to start pelting Homer with them.
• Lisa tries to show off the invention she discovered.
  Lisa: Sir, do you want to see this invention?
  Tourist: Je ne parle pas l'anglais. (I don't speak English).
  Lisa: C'est pas une probleme. Je parle francais.(No problem. I speak French)
  Tourist: Uh, just leave me alone little girl.
• The fact that a feminist landmark has turned into a Hooters-esque restaurant. With children's menus^note For those who didn't know, those are real..

583 - "Barthood"

• Bart demonstrates Homer the tools he brought for a camping trip: a flashlight, a compass and an airhorn.
• Wiggum tries to fly after smoking pot. It doesn't work.

584 - "The Girl Code"

• Homer gets confused by Lisa's Techno Babble.
  Homer: I hate the modern world and all its crazy words. Siri, tell Amazon to drone me a beer.
• The Computer teacher, Quinn, kicking Milhouse and his desk out of the room and flying down the hallway.
  Milhouse: Someone send me their notes!

585 - "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles"

• La-Z Rider. Essentially one of the biggest parodies of 80s TV shows ever, with Homer as the super-ripped Cowboy Cop Joe "Kaz" Kazinsky and Flanders as scummy billionaire drug lord Fernando Whitmore. Also include a quick Shout-Out to Back to the Future with Burns and Nelson dressed as Doc Brown and Marty.
• On the list of the court dates for the Simpson family, one of them is for Maggie.
• Homer tries to teach Bart to shave, again, and we learn why he always has a 5 o'clock shadow.
  Bart: Homer, aren't you supposed to take off the plastic strip?
  • Homer tries to show his shaved face to Marge but it already grew back.
• Bart thinking that Moon River is a river full of butts

586 - "Much Apu About Something"

• Apu tries to cling to a picture of the old Kwik-E-Mart after it was rebuilt. Unfortunately, it was on wheels, and rolled off a cliff.
• Moe supplies his customers with break-away glasses to increase sales.
• Lisa's failed attempt to talk Bart out of pranking the Kwik-E-Mart mixes Heartwarming Moment and this.
  Lisa: Look into my eyes. What do you see?
  Bart: I see... love. Unconditional love.
  (Lisa smiles)
  Bart: Which means I can do whatever I want.
• Bart and Lisa pretending to talk in front of Grandpa Simpson but then start shouting after he turns up his hearing aid.

587 - "Love Is in the N₂-O₂-Ar-CO₂-Ne-He-CH₄"

• Mr. Burns falling through the trap door after he almost walks in on Homer and Marge having sex in his office.
• Abe is scared of a cat who seems to know when someone will die, thinking he kills people. Later on, he meows in front of a man, who keels over dead.

588 - "Gal of Constant Sorrow"

• Lisa telling Bart to get out, only to ask him to help her with Hattie's performances, then yelling at him to get out again.
• Homer finally succeeds in getting the cat out of the wall, only for the dog to get stuck.
• Rehab has a tunnel going straight to Moe's.

589 - "Lisa the Veterinarian"

• Poor planning at the water park results in the high divers hitting the ceiling.
• Nelson brings a giant present to Martin's birthday, then reveals it's empty to steal the other presents.
• When Krusty brings Mr. Teeny to the vet saying that his lungs are full of seltzer, Lisa squeezes it out of him and into Krusty's mouth, causing him to pass out. Mr. Teeny escapes through the window, then comes back to hit Krusty in the head with the empty seltzer bottle.

590 - "The Marge-ian Chronicles"

• Homer doesn't know a lot about chickens. In addition to thinking he needs to cut them open to access the eggs, he also decribes them as such:
  Homer: Chickens are known for their bravery and intelligence.
• Homer comforts Marge when she's fighting with Lisa. We then cut to Bart repeating the same lines to Lisa. The end cuts to a Distant Finale where a robot repeats the lines again.

591 - "The Burns Cage"

• Mr Burns flips his hair when he tooks his helmet off, and Smithers is watching in awe.
• Smithers decides to quit, so Burns decides to send him down the trap door. Unfortunately, Smithers knows where all the doors are and avoids them all. When Burns gets to the last button, the door opens underneath his desk.
  Smithers: You forgot who installed the system.
• While Mr Burns and Smithers hug each other, a sappy music starts playing. Mr Burns then tells not play music and returns to hug Smithers.

592 - "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back"

• The chalkboard gag. Skinner writes "Never lose a bet to Bart Simpson." while Bart watches.
• Ralph doesn't get fooled by Bart's pranks, and asks how dumb people think he is. He then crashes into the wall and thinks the wires are "wall licorice."
• Bart using Maggie as an angel to prank the Flanders.
• Lisa wonders how much longer will people keep redoing something special until they ruin it. Cue a message stating the 17th season of The Simpsons is still on sale.

593 - "Fland Canycon"

• When the Flanders are trying to sleep next to Homer's snoring, Flanders holds out two tabs for them to take. They quickly eat them.
  Ned: Those were earplugs!
• Homer insists that the canyon is safe, only for a climber to fall off a ledge. This is followed by the ledge falling off, and then the entire mountainside slides down.
• When Bart says that other kids see him in their nightmares, it cuts to Milhouse having one about him:
  Milhouse: I'm not your puppet, Bart! I'm not! [sits up like a puppet, head spins 360 degrees]

594 - "To Courier With Love"

• Homer needs two tickets from an automatic ticket dispenser. It takes him 45 minutes due to the fact it speaks French. When he hits it and insists it stops speaking French, it starts speaking German and fiercely orders him not to hit the machine, an order that Homer fearfully obliges.
• Ugolin and Cesar aren't great villains.
  Ugolin: We really need to keep a better eye on people. It really isn't that hard.
• "Prepare to have your ankles nipped!"

595 - "Simprovised"

• Bart walks up to Marge with a nail sticking out of his head, only to reveal that it's his hair.
• When Homer bombs at his speech, Mr. Burns has Smithers release therapy hounds. After they've comforted him, Burns then releases the real hounds.
• Marge dumps the cookies she made for Bart when he's dismissive of her hard work. Homer finds them by the tree.
  Homer: The Keebler Elves are real!

596 - "Orange Is The New Yellow"

• Marge tries to defend herself in court.
  Marge: Judge, when I was a child, we played in the streets all day and didn't come home until night.
  Judge Snyder: Balliff, arrest Marge Simpson's mother.
  Jacqueline Bouvier: Thanks for ratting me out, Marge!
• Lenny and Carl discuss the irony that Marge is in jail, despite Homer taking his kids to Moe's.
  Homer: I guess someone up there likes me. (cut to heaven)
  God: Do you like him?
  Jesus: Not really, no.

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