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Recap / The Simpsons S 26 E 14 "My Fare Lady"

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Marge becomes a professional chauffeur. Meanwhile, Moe goes from bartending to janitorial work at the nuclear plant.

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  • Big Damn Heroes: When Marge drives Moe back to his bar as part of her Uber job, she's threatened by a gang of cab drivers angry at her for stealing their jobs. Moe uses his shotgun to "persuade" the drivers to leave her alone.
  • Call-Back: Homer gets demoted to a lower-wage position at the plant because of cuts caused to make up for losses caused by Elon Musk. Probably one of the only Simpsons episodes that makes a callback, albeit briefly, to an episode which took place in the same season, only two episodes prior.
  • Deconstructed Trope: This episode acknowledges that an employee as incompetent as Homer does not have Ultimate Job Security. Burns only keeps him on because his personnel file is being used to hold up a damaged table.
  • Epic Fail: While in charge of Moe's Tavern, Homer, Lenny and Carl establish a "ladies drink free" night to attract guys who'll hope to buy beer in order to meet ladies. Not only do No guys show up, but the ladies end up trashing the bar, with no way for Moe to pay for the damages with his lack of money.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: Marge's driving schedule includes a number of funny items such as speech therapy for Maggie, trips to the veterinarian for the dog and cat followed by a trip to the "veteran-arian" for Abe, and couples' counseling for Bart and Milhouse.
  • "Just Joking" Justification: One of the cab drivers protests when Moe tells them to clean their seats at least once per year and Moe reacts by shooting his 'taxi' sign. The cab driver says he's just kidding.
  • Mandatory Line: Lisa only has one line in this episode: "Oh, mom! Someone wants you to give them a ride!" Bart, on the other hand, remains silent throughout the entire episode.
  • Noodle Incident: To become an employee at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, one needs to have a clear record for the last six months. Upon being told this, Moe tells Homer, Lenny and Carl to wait for one week before he applies for a job there. What he did a week short of six months ago (and why it would disqualify him) isn't elaborated on.
  • Obstructive Bureaucrat: When a NRC agent's identity is challenged on the grounds that he no longer has the mustache that he has in his identity badge, he says it'll take more years to get a new badge than it'll take to grow a new moustache.
  • Self-Deprecation: The blackboard gag has Bart write that pixel art is not real art, when the entire intro is done in a pixelized style.
  • Shout-Out: Homer has a dream that parodies The Jetsons' intro. It ends with Homer being seen by some robots as a reason "why humans failed". One of the robots is Bender Bending Rodriguez.

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