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Dark Simpsons is a parody series that takes clips from various episodes of The Simpsons and strings them together to tell stories that are (usually) much darker than the source material, with material such as death, homicide/murder, revenge, tragedy, sex, incest, etc., all with Finagle's Law exaggerated and things happening more realistically. It heavily relies on Black Comedy. The channel's goal is to make the most ridiculous, dark, and outrageous contents possible with those clips. The two YouTube channels can be found here and here. There is also a companion channel named Sour Simpsons.

The channel also knows about the existence of this page on This Very Wiki, as acknowledged in the video description for the minisode "Murder at the Simpson House"note . The channel said that he very much enjoyed reading the page for the channel here, and he thanked anyone who contributed to the page. As the channel description says, it was meant for the hardcore fans who grew up on the original Simpsons show. If you're just a casual viewer (or a newcomer/beginner Simpsons fan), you may not notice certain differences between Dark Simpsons and canon Simpsons.

On February 5, 2023, it was announced that the channel had been demonetized, but there were still several more upcoming videos in the video pool. Because of this, once the "pool" of new videos ran out (which it did on March 10, 2023 with the "finale" of sorts being "The Simpsons as a Bad Sitcom"), each subsequent video would take several weeks to be released (instead of being released weekly), and most of the new creative content would be done on the new "Sour Simpsons" channel.


Dark Simpsons contains examples of...

  • Abusive Parents:
    • Homer, big time. He's not winning any "father of the year" awards in the actual show, but he's far worse here. For example, in "Homer Can't Let Her Go", he does the classic strangling bit on Bart after being pranked, but later on, he actually beats up Bart for getting a Bigger Brother. Certain videos even extend to him sexually abusing his kids.
    • Marge can slide into this territory at times too. A good example would be in "Homer Stops Doing Stupid Things," where she stops Homer from rescuing Bart and Lisa from their burning house, then laughs as they are reduced to skeletons. Also, in "Marge Gets Her Sax Blown", when Lisa threatens to tell psychiatrists about how she got drunk and raped her, Marge punches her in the face and rapes her in bed again.
  • Act Break: "Homer Can't Let Her Go" had ad breaks roughly every four minutes when it was originally uploaded — the first after Marge's funeral, the second after Bart calls for a Bigger Brother, the third after Chief Wiggum saves Homer from jumping off the Springfield State Building and takes him home, and the fourth after Homer gets kicked out of Alcoholics Anonymous.
  • Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Homer Simpson in "Homer Badman" was merely Convicted by Public Opinion. In "Homer Grabs Some Sweet Can", he actually gets convicted by a court, and then suffers a Prison Rape.
  • Adaptational Badass: Given the nature of the shorts, it's not always consistent, but Chief Wiggum and the Springfield Police Force are frequently depicted as being much more competent here than they ever are in the series, if only because the rest of the cast have all been exaggerated into being dangerous criminals.
  • Adaptational Context Change: The general idea of the series, taking moments and clips from The Simpsons and giving them a darker context. The series does this often enough that it has its own page.
  • Adaptational Heroism: In "The Boys of Bummer", Bart is nearly Driven to Suicide because he failed to win the game for Springfield by almost everyone. In the Minisode "Bart At The Bat", the closest thing they do is merely boo Bart, and it's implied they're horrified at Homer killing his son in retribution for it, as Kent Brockman quickly demands what did Homer and Marge do to Bart when Santa's Little Helper digs up his corpse.
  • Adaptational Intelligence: A surprising moment happens in "Homer Is the Last Man on Earth". In Homer's Enemy, he short circuits his console when Frank Grimes warns him about a 5-13. In the episode proper, Homer actually tries to warn everyone when he hears about it, but is ignored.
  • Adaptational Villainy: While this tends to zig-zag with the majority of the cast, this is played straight with Leon Kompowsky, who was a good soul in "Stark Raving Dad", but shows up here exclusively to molest Bart.
  • Adaptation Expansion:
    • Bart, who wasn't in the "Homer Away from Home" comic, was added into the video adaptation, "The Story of Homer and Lisa".
    • Bart and Lisa don't appear in the comic "Single Dad Behavior". "Do It For Maggie" and "Homer Can't Let Her Go" both add them back in... only to ultimately have Lisa run away to Capital City after seeing Homer unable to cope with Marge's absence, and Bart drown himself when he couldn't take Homer's abuse any longer.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Since we don't see Moe leave the bar at the end, "Moe's Pet Shop" either ends with him burning down the bar for the insurance money so he can go to Hawaii... or burning down the bar so he can kill himself.
  • Ambulance Cut: Is a frequent gag featured in various episodes due to the high tendency of the cast to getting hurt/killed. "The Story of Homer and Lisa" is notable for using this TWICE.
  • Amusing Injuries: In almost every episode.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Homer chops Grampa's hand off with an axe in "The Love-Matic Grampa Simpson".
  • And I Must Scream: In "The Homer They Fall" after Homer wakes up from the coma, he finds out he can't move at all or communicate with his family but is aware of his surroundings.
  • And Show It to You: After Moe and Marge have an affair in "Happy Bacon Day," Homer uses a corkscrew to rip Moe's heart out.
  • Another Story for Another Time: In the Dark Simpsons Mysteries episode "Do Bart and Lisa Have Hair?", after showing Lisa getting a lock of her hair cut off, the host has this to say:
    The resulting haircut revealed a disturbing skin tone underneath, suggesting that like a cat, Lisa may be covered in fur. But we'll leave that mystery for a future video.
  • Anyone Can Die: Nobody is safe from death in the episodes.
  • Arranged Marriage: "Apu's Arranged Marriage" has him inform Homer that he is about to undergo one of these. Fortunately for him, Homer happens to be a "gun-toting lowlife".
  • Art Evolution:
  • Art Shift: It's very common in the videos for it to go from one scene animated in one of the modern high-definition seasons to another scene from a much earlier episode produced at Klasky-Csupo, or vice-versa. It does seem to add to the humor, though.
  • A-Team Firing: Implied in "Lisa Simpson Gets Bullied", where Lisa Simpson attempts to instigate a school shooting, but no characters are shown to be shot. Justified, given that she's a little girl trying to handle a powerful, heavy weapon with no experience in handling firearms.
  • Bad Boss: If Mr. Burns was awful in the original series, he's at his worst here. Expect him to screw over your children or kill you.
  • The Bad Guys Are Cops: Chief Wiggum and the police force can be pretty nasty at their worst:
    • In "Wiggum of Madness" comic and its video remake "Homer at the Bat", they frame Homer for shooting down the Flanderses, all over losing to a softball game. Its minisode remake, "Chief Wiggum's Police Misconduct", expands on this video by having them taze Homer, cut his brakes, and constantly wait outside of his house for him to come out.
    • In "Homer Wins A Motorboat", Chief Wiggum lures Homer to the police station with the promise of a free boat, then proceeds to rape him while other cops hold him down.
  • Bad Guy Bar:
    • The titular club in "Homer Goes To A Hardcore Gay Club" is occupied by a Depraved Homosexual mafia, whom rape Homer in the bathroom.
    • Homer stops by a more traditional example appears in "Looks Like There's Beer Coming out of the Chimney", in his search for a replacement to Moe's. The viewers don't even see what's inside the room: Homer merely takes a few steps in, then walks right back out after two beer bottles and a drunk guy are thrown in his direction.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: A hallmark for the series.
    • Whereas in canon he could never get one over the Simpsons, Sideshow Bob manages to score a few moments of victory within the Dark Simpsons continuity, such as "Homer Simpson vs. Sideshow Bob" and "Sideshow Bob Is Released From Prison". This trope will also happen wherever Sideshow Cecil manages to do what Bob never could: kill Bart Simpson.
    • Some other videos will also end well for the character whom name appears in a video title, in which he/she takes an antagonist role. Notable examples are "Moe and Homer Face Off", "Mr. Burns Violates Bart", "Chief Wiggum's Police Misconduct" and "Krusty to the Rescue."
  • Bait-and-Switch: Every single episode is designed to look like a normal Simpsons clip, often referencing a single moment from an episode and featuring a screenshot from said episode. The actual content is very different.
    • "Barty's Gonna Party": The thumbnail used only appears in the very beginning of the video, when Homer is entranced by provocative dancing on TV; it's completely unrelated to the actual content of the video, where Bart is molested by Leon Kompowsky.
    • "Homer Goes Nuts": No, Homer doesn't go crazy. In this case, "go nuts" is a euphemism used by Bart to describe being raped by Homer.
    • The thumbnail for "Lisa Simpson's Date With Destiny" shows an older-looking Ralph, implying that the episode will revolve around a relationship between him and Lisa. Ralph only appears in a nightmare Lisa has, and the episode is actually about Bart having an incestuous attraction to her.
    • "Homer Catches Bart with Cigarettes": Bart doesn't actually smoke these cigarettes, nor does Homer punish him by forcing him to smoke through all his cigarettes. Instead, it's Bart that's forcing Santa's Little Helper to smoke, and Homer just laughs it off.
      • And towards the end, when Flanders catches the Simpsons cooking Santa's Little Helper and throwing a barbecue, he reports it to the police, who proceed to speed over and break down the door... in order to take part.
    • "Homer Goes on Disability": While the thumbnail shows the wheelbarrow missing Homer, it hits him the first time around in the actual video. This was lampshaded in the video description:
      I hope you're reading this after watching the video lol, i purposely chose the thumbnail to crush your expectations, I hope it worked.
    • "Homer Hits the Dean With His Car": He hit the college roommates instead.
    • "Along Came Maggie Simpson": Despite what the title and thumbnail lead you to believe, Marge actually gives birth to a Chocolate Baby.
    • "The Simpsons Get a Trampoline": The actual plot is about Milhouse getting killed by the government after he accidentally uncovers their conspiracy to abolish dinner. Later subverted when Bart, depressed after Milhouse's death, commits suicide by throwing himself down the window... only to be saved by the trampoline, which instantly revives his reason to live.
    • The Minisode version of "Bart the Lover": At the end, it looks like Bart Simpson is going to kill himself out of mourn and regret for Mrs. Krabapple. But it turns out he's only breaking into the school to write "We'll really miss you Mrs. K" on all the chalkboards.
    • "Peter Pantless": Turns out Homer only wanted to dance around in his underwear and simply wanted his kids to join him.
    • "Ned Is Lonely, Natura-Diddily" opens with the "Everybody Loves Ned Flanders!" theme which is usually a sign that Ned is going to suffer horribly in the video. Instead, nothing bad really happens; Ned just has kinky gay sex with Homer and is pretty happy at the end.
  • Bestiality Is Depraved:
    • In "Moe's Illegal Activities," Moe is forced to shut down his panda trafficking. This comes right around the time Homer decides he wants to have sex with a panda, so he makes his own panda costume and sneaks into the zoo.
    • In "Troy McClure Goes to Sea World" Troy has an abnormal attraction to marine creatures, and immediately goes to Sea world to have sex with a Dolphin after Lisa stops Moe's illegal trafficking, much to the horror of the visitors of the marine park.
  • Big "NO!": Sideshow Bob lets out one when his building is being destroyed by an adult Bart Simpson.
  • Bigger Is Better in Bed: In "Homer Whacks Marge," Homer and Marge initially have an... exuberant... sexual relationship, right up until Marge finds out that Flanders is a lot bigger than Homer, and loses interest in Homer. Homer saves the relationship by getting penis enlargment surgery.
  • Bittersweet Ending:
    • "Do It For Maggie"/"Homer Can't Let Her Go": Marge is murdered, Bart commits suicide and Lisa runs away from home, but Maggie's still alive and Homer resolves to work hard for her as she's all he has left. Even then, however, Homer has hit the Despair Event Horizon hard and is implied to be contemplating suicide himself—while it's left intentionally unclear if he goes through with it, it's made very clear that he's considering it.
    • "The Story of Homer and Lisa": Homer dies from radiation poisoning, but leaves behind a note for Lisa letting her know how important she has been to him in his last years.
    • "Moe's Secret Admirer": He backs down from committing suicide after seeing the Valentine's letter left for him by the late Barney... but nonetheless leaves the noose up for another holiday.
    • "P.S. I Am Gay": Homer is happy after leaving Marge for his new openly gay life, while Marge spirals into depression to the point of taking her own life, leaving Maggie (who is implied to be an only child in this video) utterly alone in her crib.
    • "Who Plowed Bart Simpson?": The culprit behind sexually assaulting and binding Bart to a pole nude in public-Krusty the Clown- is ultimately caught and arrested. However, Krusty is now a Broken Pedestral to all of Springfield- especially Bart, who sadly watches on as all the clown's merchandise is publicly burned.
  • Black Comedy: The series thrives on this, much more so than regular Simpsons.
  • Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: Not even the animals are safe, especially from Bart.
  • Black Comedy Rape: Expect it to happen a lot.
  • Book Burning: Reverend Lovejoy holds a public burning of Krusty merchandise after Krusty was revealed to have plowed Bart Simpson.
  • Bootstrapped Leitmotif: Sideshow Bob's sinister Leitmotif is sometimes used for some of the videos' tense moments, even when they have nothing to do with him.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: The terrorists in "Homer's Boring Day" brainwash Homer with the intention of exploding an important building.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: In "Homer's Snuggle Socks", right as Homer approaches a woman (quickly revealed to be Chief Wiggum in disguise), we abruptly cut to Homer speaking from backstage:
    Homer: (approaches Wiggum) Excuse me, ma'am-
    (the footage goes picture-in-picture as we cut to Homer addressing a camera crew)
    Homer: I wanna set the record straight. (to the audience) I thought. The cop. Was a prostitute. (smugly leans back, arms crossed)
  • Breather Episode: For all the dark, dirty jokes Dark Simpsons has to offer, sometimes something much lighter might occur instead:
    • "Homer's Afraid of Sock Puppets" is arguably the lightest episode of "Dark Simpsons": After learning about Homer's phobia, Bart decides to scare him in the middle of the night with a sock puppet, and laughs as Homer screams in fear. The end.
    • There's also the Simpsons Football Short. Hans Moleman calls the cops on Homer, how does he retaliate? Hitting him in the groin with a football. Oh, and it apparently was all a theater short Homer was watching.
    • "Homer Whacks Marge": While the title sounds like things go wrong in it, it (technically) has a happy ending. No murders, no cheating, and definitely no raping.
    • "The Simpsons Bear Patrol": Though definitely gory, is nothing more than a first-few-minutes-of-a Simpsons episode, where there's a little appetizing plot that triggers the episodes' actual main plot. In this case, the first few minutes is about Homer taking on a bear that wandered into Evergreen Terrance, the bear mauls Homer and he gets sent to the hospital, landing him a $500,000 bill, making this hypothetical episode about the Simpsons trying to raise 500,000 dollars.
  • Broken Pedestal: Bart often becomes disillusioned with his idol Krusty, sometimes to the point he antagonizes the clown.
    • In "Krusty Gets Busted Again", he quits Krusty's fan club upon hearing that the clown isn't going to come for dinner again like he promised and even sides with Homer when the latter frames him for murder.
    • In "Who Plowed Bart Simpson?" Krusty is found guilty of plowing Bart Simpson. Disgusted with the clown, Bart throws away his toys to be burned in a public burning.
    • In "Krusty Gets Biz-Zay" Krusty rapes Bart on a whim when he attended his show. Disgusted, he destroys the clown's crotch with a baseball bat after the clown gets away with his rape in court and knocks down Homer when he decides to avenge Bart.
    • In "Krusty to the Rescue", he becomes disillusioned when Krusty fails to save Milhouse's life and runs away like a coward. The Simpson kid attempts to bring the clown to justice alongside his sister, but gets kidnapped and killed by the clown.
  • Brother–Sister Incest:
    • In "Lisa Eats Bart's Hotdog", Lisa obsesses over eating Bart's wiener and after being rejected, she rapes him at night.
    • In "Lisa Simpson's Date With Destiny," Bart becomes attracted to Lisa and rapes her once their parents step out.
    • In “Bart and Lisa Work Out” the pair engage in consented activity when their parents are away, ironically using a couple of clips from “Lisa Simpson’s Date With Destiny” above.
  • Brutal Honesty: Homer in "Do You Think Lisa Simpson Is Ugly?"
    Lisa: Dad, do you think I'm ugly?
    Homer: (with no shame whatsoever) I sure do!
  • Buried Alive: Bart does this to Homer in "Alright Pie, If You Get Eaten, It's Your Own Fault!"
  • Butt-Monkey:
    • Bart and Homer especially. Both of them have suffered frequently and even died in a few episodes.
    • If a video starts with the "Everyone Loves Ned Flanders" theme song, expect him to suffer in the worst way possible, usually by something Homer caused.
    • And just like in the original show, Milhouse.
  • Caught on the Jumbotron: Happens to Homer in "Homer Is Dumb as a Mule and Twice as Ugly" for... being "ugly". Deconstructed, as this adds to his escalating (and eventually fatal) Humiliation Conga across Springfield.
  • Censored Child Death: It happens occasionally, particularly to Maggie in "Where's Maggie Simpson?"
  • Chekhov's Gun: The trampoline Homer rushes off to get in "The Simpsons Get a Trampoline" prevents Bart's suicide attempt from jumping out of his window.
  • Comedic Sociopathy: This is what made Dark Simpsons famous.
  • Coming-Out Story:
  • Composite Character: In "Homer Takes the Babysitter Home", Ashley Grant is given the name of another character, Myrna Bellamy, and "brutally murdered" as the latter had been in the series proper.
  • Compressed Adaptation: In original webcomic "Deep Space Homergeddon", there was an entire fight scene between Homer and the astronauts, which caused the spaceship to miss the asteroid. In the video adaptation, we just have Homer easily killing them offscreen before deliberately crashing the spaceship.
  • Comfort Food: In "Homer Simpson's Body Transformation", Homer turns to this after finding out that Marge cheated on him with Ned, eating a lobster while sobbing. What makes it much worse is that Homer had been doing really well with getting into shape up until this point, and by the end of the episode, he's fatter than ever.
  • Creepy Crossdresser: At the end of “Bart Fails his Test,” Martin tortures and possibly kills Bart while dressed as a girl.
  • The Cuckoolander Was Right: In "Dr. Nick's Unusual Diagnosis of the Simpsons," the eponymous doctor claims that the whole family is inflicted with a disease that will end with their skeletons escaping out of their bodies. Marge dismisses him as a quack. A month later, their skeletons do indeed leap out of their bodies!
  • Dark Parody: Pretty much.
  • Darker and Edgier: Obviously much darker than the source material due to having the Simpsons characters put in situations involving death, homicide/murder and rape, etc.
  • Darkest Hour: "Do It For Maggie"/"Homer Can't Let Her Go" ends with Marge being killed, Lisa running away, Bart committing suicide and Homer all alone taking care of Maggie and getting mistreated by his boss, making him to seriously consider suicide.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Occasionally, a side character gets a video where they are tormented or be the tormentor, such as Ned Flanders (whose videos always open with the "Adventures of Ned Flanders" intro from "The Front"), Moe, Apu and Chief Wiggum.
  • Deadly Euphemism: Mr. Burns has Lenny and Carl "laid off".
  • Death of a Child: Children dying happens a lot in the videos. Not even Maggie is spared.
  • Decomposite Character: In "Girls Just Want To Have Sums", Jake Boyman was Lisa disguised as a boy. In "Lisa Gets Bullied at School", he briefly appears as a separate character.
  • Deconstruction: Dark Simpsons deconstructs the original show as a whole. The Finagle's Law examples are exaggerated and things happen more realistically, and if something bad can happen to the Simpsons cast (sometimes after they perform their antics at the other peoples' expense), it will, and its consequences be taken to their Logical Extreme.
  • Deep South: Marge rapes Bart and Lisa in different videos. She follows by singing "Sweet Home Alabama" both times.
  • Demoted to Extra: Lisa, unlike in the original show, gets far fewer videos centered on her than her family. Even outside of them she doesn't get much screentime.
  • Department of Child Disservices: The child welfare system is portrayed even worse compared to vanilla Simpsons, as the homes Bart and Lisa are transferred to are Flanders' house in "Flanders' Satan Sense is Tingling" (where he kills both Bart and Lisa) and an abandoned house in "Marge Is the Worst Mother In The World" (where both Marge and Homer's sanity take a further hit from their children taken by them after Maggie dies in an accident).
  • Depraved Bisexual: Marge in "Marge Gets Her Sax Blown". Marge gets drunk and rapes Lisa. When Lisa threatens to tell on her, Marge punches her out and rapes her again. Lisa, not being able to take it anymore, runs away, after which Marge seduces Bart (much to Homer's dismay).
  • Depraved Homosexual: "Homer Sings in the Bathroom", "Homer Quits His Job",note  and "Homer Goes To A Hardcore Gay Club" all have Homer being gang-raped, the former two by Smither's henchmen, and the latter by The Mafia.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Many episodes end with the characters traumatized to the point of being unable to function or even live.
    • "Do It For Maggie"/"Homer Can't Let Her Go" has Homer hitting it hard when he loses Marge by the hands of a criminal, and later loses both his older kids who succumb to despair as well, with Lisa running away to live with Mr. Bergstrom after being traumatized by Homer making a replacement of Marge out of a plant and Bart drowning himself after having enough of both his dad's abuse, dealing with his depression for losing his mom and being forced to give up his big brother once Homer finds that out. The video ends with Homer struggling to raise Maggie all alone and giving up beer for her sake, while he seriously contemplates ending his suffering by hanging in his room, unable to cope with his grief and Burns abuse without the help of alcohol to drown his sorrors.
    • "Bart Runs Away From Home" ends with him becoming an Empty Shell from living a life of squalor and abandonment.
    • "Lisa It's Your Birthday" has her mourning the loss of her family with no one to turn to except Maggie.
    • "Homer Simpson's Body Transformation" has him regaining the weight he worked so hard to lose, as he eats to help himself cope with Marge cheating on him.
    • In "Where's Maggie Simpson", when Marge learns that Maggie is dead, she ends up putting her head in the oven.
    • "Homer Is Dumb as a Mule and Twice as Ugly" has Homer drown himself at the end of the video after being humiliated by Bart and the public.
    • "Bart Avenges Homer" has the latter committing suicide after he gets full and can't eat any more of the all-you-can-eat buffet at The Frying Dutchman.
  • Diet Episode:
    • For Homer in "Homer's Workout Montage".
    • "Bart Butters His Bacon" is this for Bart but ends pretty bad for him as Homer forces his unhealthy lifestyle upon him.
  • Disposable Sex Worker: In the minisode "Chief Wiggum Hunts a Serial Killer", Homer Simpson does it with a hooker. Not long afterwards, he introduces her to his new chainsaw and hockey mask.
  • Disproportionate Retribution:
    • A notable example is "Wiggum of Madness" comic and its video remake "Homer At The Bat", and its minisode expansion, "Chief Wiggum's Police Misconduct", where Chief Wiggum frames Homer for the murder of the Flanders family and has him sentenced to death, all because Homer mocked Wiggum's lack of skill in softball.
    • In "Bart Falls Down The Stairs", Bart is pushed down the stairs and either knocked unconscious or killed because he hammered mustard packets and made a mess (like he did in "The Itchy And Scratchy Movie").
    • In "Homer Has a Surprise for Marge", Marge drunkenly made a joke at Homer's expense when called onstage by a performer, and he responds by killing her and the kids, and pinning the murder on Hans Moleman.
    • Marge outright murders Homer for not having interest in having sex in "World's Greatest Sex Machine".
    • In “Homer Falls Down the Stairs,” Homer forgets to pick Lisa up from school, so she trips him with a skateboard and causes him to fall down the stairs, leaving him paralyzed.
    • In "Two Bad Neighbors: Homer Fight George Bush", Bart is punched by George H. W. Bush in the face (unlike in the original, where he was get spanked by George), just because Bart accidentally shredded George's newly typed memoirs. Bart and Homer were killed by George with his trick he "learned in the CIA" after he caught them trying to retaliate against him, with Homer's head on the soup being Bush's dinner at the end.
    • In "Homer Steals Comic Book Guy's Idea", after Comic Book Guy punches him in the face for stealing his movie idea, Homer responds by breaking into a U.S. Airforce Base and dropping a nuclear bomb on him.
    • After Frank Grimes declares Homer as his enemy in "Frank Grimes Gets Revenge on Homer", he spies on Bart and later hijacks Homer's delivery offscreen to replace the Juice Loosener with the remains of a decapitated Bart to scare Homer off.
    • "Bart Drinks Some Good Squishee": Marge is fed up with how lazy and disrespectful Bart and Lisa have been acting. Her response? Getting Krusty's show cancelled... in order to provoke the children of Springfield into enacting a suicide pledge.
      Krusty: (on TV) What would you do if I went off the air?
      Bart and Lisa: (along with Krusty's audience) We'd kill ourselves!
      Marge: (thinking) Hmmmmm... This gives me an idea.
    • In "Homer Finds Out About Ned and Marge", Homer responds to Ned cheating with Marge by butchering both of Ned's sons with an axe. When Homer gets away from the court by tricking everyone, Ned decides to retaliate against him by killing the Simpsons family offscreen, hanging their bodies in the living room of the Simpsons house, and then showing these bodies to Homer to scare him off.
      Ned: Homer, you are the worst human being I have ever met.
      Homer: What have you done to my family?
      Ned: I hope you understand.
    • Lisa gives her whole family food poisoning for making fun of her veganism (including Maggie, who wasn't even involved) in "You Don't Win Friends With Salad."
    • After finding out that the entire town doesn't like him in "Hans Moleman Was Saying Boourns", Mr. Burns decides to intentionally cause the Nuclear Power Plant to meltdown.
      • Though ironically the town isn't much better, as they call Burns "History's Greatest Monster" only because he made a short film they didn't like.
    • In "Bart Is The Man of the House", Bart takes control, becomes the man of the house and beats Homer because he has had enough of Homer being a lousy dad. When Homer purposely leaves Bart in an street surrounded by forest, Bart manages to find his way back home at night and cut off the head of a sleepy Homer with a knife and turn it into a wall trophy.
    • In "Kirk Sleeps in a Racing Car, Do You?", the Van Houtens kick Bart out of their house and forbid Milhouse from being his friend any longer, all because Kirk no longer feels special for having a race car bed. Bart's response is just as petty: He plants a bra in the Van Houtens' master bedroom, causing marital strife that ends with Kirk shooting Luann and getting arrested by Chief Wiggum.
    • In the video "Helen Lovejoy Gets Claimed", the police had Helen arrested (and had her husband shot) and thrown in jail, when she complained about Wiggum's incompetence at enforcing the prohibition. And for stripping. Mayor Quimby okayed it due to Helen getting him boo'd by a crowd when he told her off.
    • In "Marge Tells Everyone How Lenny Lives", when discovering that Lenny lives in squalor, Marge gets Patty and Selma to get the entirety of Springfield to learn about this. In response, Moe, Carl, and Homer decide to help Lenny out... by breaking the dam in order to flood Springfield.
    • In "The Simpsons Autodialer" Homer uses an automatic dialer he found in the trash to call everyone in town and tell them "you're a stupidhead". In response to this light prank the entire town arrives, beats up Homer, and trashes the Simpsons house, with Chief Wiggum flat out refusing to help Homer when he calls.
  • Domestic Abuse:
    • In "Homer vs. Marge", Homer beats up Marge and trashes the house upon finding her cheating on him with Ned, causing a worried Maggie to call the cops, who suspect that this may be the case but can't do anything as Marge doesn't press charges against Homer. Upon fixing her blackened eye, Marge attempts to leave the house with the kids, but they end up getting decapitated by Homer, with their heads mounted in the living room.
    • In "Homer's Snuggle Socks", when Homer is arrested for trying to have sex with a hooker, he puts the blame on Marge for not wanting to have sex with him. Later on, he tries to kill her by feeding her fish which she's allergic to, but ends up killed as Marge immediately sees her husband's true intentions.
    • "Bart at the Bat" has him cost the Springfield Isotopes an important game, much like its related canon episode. Homer responds to that by tricking his son into falling down a deep pit he dug himself with a false promise of father-son catch, then burying him alive, which kicks off the second half of the episode where he goes on the lam when the crime is discovered.
  • Downer Ending: Where to begin with this?
    • In "Homer Falls Down the Stairs", Lisa sends Homer falling down the stairs as revenge for forgetting to pick her up, crippling him for life.
  • Driven to Suicide: Another hallmark of the series. One notable example was when Bart jumped to his death after his family mercilessly mocked him for wetting his pants at a baseball game.
  • Drugs Are Bad: It never ends well when a character starts taking drugs, as seen in "Lisa on Ice" and "Homer Simpson Works All Day for Some Old Man".
  • Dying Dream: In the "Underwater Wonderland" scene at the end of "Homer Is Dumb as a Mule and Twice as Ugly", Homer drowns himself in reality after being humiliated by public.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness:
    • The first few videos ended up with the screen going black and only the text "Dark Simpsons" on it. Starting with "Mr. Plow", they began to add outros encouraging the viewer to subscribe to them. At first, it was just the scene from "Mountain of Madness" where Homer tells Bart, "Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter." In "Homer Builds a Nuclear Reactor" and "Apu is Hot Blooded", this was replaced with an original animation of an Author Avatar asking the viewer to subscribe and donate to his Patreon account. This was a short-lived change due to negative fan reception. The next change came in the "Homer at the Bat" video, with a new card format that not only brought back the "Mountain of Madness" clip, but also adds a few clips from "Friend With Benefit" where Carl explains what crowdfunding is, followed by Homer telling Lisa to encourage viewers to donate. This outro is still being used to this day, except for the "Please give" bit being removed from "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" onwards. Starting with "Kirk Sleeps in a Racing Car, Do You?", other characters do the subscription spiel instead of Homer, though Carl still keeps his finishing line.
    • Before it was a video series, Dark Simpsons was a Remix Comic series using recontextualized screenshots from the show. The comics can be found here.
    • Earlier videos were more prone to Stock Footage Failure. For example, in "Homer At the Bat", the scene where Homer accuses Chief Wiggum of evidence-planting abruptly switches from the Simpsons' house to Moe's Tavern. This was fixed when the video was expanded as "Chief Wiggum's Police Misconduct" by editing the Moe's Tavern scene so that it appears to take place in the Simpsons' house.
    • Earlier videos would inconsistently switch between 4:3 and 16:9 formats, regarding the use of clips from the FXX cropped prints or the post-"List the Drama Queen" episodes. This stopped after "Apu Is Hot Blooded" (which used FXX's 16:9 crop of "Homer and Apu"), when the editor made an effort to use windowboxed edits of the 16:9 aspect ratio episodes.
    • In the Seamless Cut videos, only the first of them, "Homer Attacked By Hounds", lacks the "Thanks to modern editing techniques we can use existing footage to complete the film" opening.
  • Empty Shell: Bart becomes one by the end of "Bart Runs Away From Home", in which a life of living in squalor and abandonment has made him catatonic and unresponsive. He struggles to even perform his job as a go-go dancer, and can only respond to his angry audience with a moan and a blank stare.
  • "Eureka!" Moment: In "Along Came Maggie Simpson", Homer is trying to solve his financial crisis where he can't afford a third mouth to feed. It isn't until he watches an episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show involving a well when he gets the idea to abandon Bart inside one.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: In "Return of the King", Homer is murdered by the inmates of Springfield Correctional Facility during a prison riot for raping Bart.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: During "Everyone Pile on Homers Wife!", a few women can be seen "piling" on Marge.
  • "Everybody Dies" Ending:
    • In "Black Sheep", Bart decides to shoot everyone in his school after failing an exam and having an awful day. In the comic strip "Grade School Massacre", which the video is based on, Bart is stopped and killed by the cops.
    • In "The Fire Alarm", Homer starting a fire in the Nuclear Power Plant somehow causes everyone except him to die of possible nuclear fallout.
    • Happens when Homer goes to college, as his incompetency results in a nuclear disaster.
    • "Lenny's Not Supposed to Get Pudding in His Eye" ends with Homer attempting to drive his family home while wearing an eyepatch. The car spins out and smashes into a telephone pole as a result, burning them all alive.
    • In "Skinner's Sleazy Shenanigans", after Chalmers catches Skinner wanking off on stage in front of everyone and is about to reprimand him, Skinner kills him, making students ran out of class in panic and causing the school to be surrounded by people (including cops). Then Skinner decides to blow up the school and kill everyone there.
    • Everyone in Springfield dies when the meteor hits the Earth in "Deep Space Homergeddon". Earlier on, Homer killed two astronauts while on a spaceship in an attempt to stop a meteor, but the spaceship instead hits the building back on Earth and destroys Springfield's only bridge and the only way to escape their doom.
  • Every Episode Ending: Videos tend to end with the following exchange:
    Homer: Hmmm... Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
    Carl: Crowdfunding is when lots of people give you small amounts of money to help your passion project come to life.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: "Homer Dancing in Odd and Inappropriate Places". In a red thong.
    • The name of the web animation parody counts as this too.
  • Failed a Spot Check:
    • Grampa berates the rest of Town Hall for interrupting him in "Coronavirus Hits the Simpsons"... even though they're cheering because he killed Mr. Burns.
      Grampa Simpson: Shut up! I wasn't done yet!
    • Towards the end of "Bart Goes to the Wigsphere", Marge gets a phone call from the Tennessee State Police. And despite being concerned that Bart was missing, and with Homer poorly denying any knowledge on the matter, upon being told Bart was crushed to death in Knoxville, Marge doesn't believe it:
      Marge: Hello? Tennessee State Police? No, my son's not crushed in Knoxville. I don't know where to begin telling you what's wrong with that.
  • Fair-Play Whodunnit: Attempted with "Who Plowed Bart Simpson." There are a number of clues sprinkled throughout the minisode that can help an observant viewer identify who the perpetrator is before the reveal at the end. However, a few Red Herrings are also put in to throw you off.
  • Faux Action Girl: Played for Drama in "Chief Wiggum's Police Misconduct ", where Marge goes through a Training Montage in the hopes of killing Chief Wiggum and avenging her late husband's wrongful execution. She still dies in the final shootout against Wiggum and the rest of the Springfield Police Force, failing to take down even one of them.
  • Felony Misdemeanor: In Marge Simpson In Chains, Marge is sent to thirty days in prison for stealing a single pen from the post office. Even the agents Mulder and Scully, who were sent to arrest Marge, find this ridiculous.
  • Finagle's Law: The very trope that gives Dark Simpsons its identity. If something bad can happen to the Simpsons cast, it will, and the consequences of it will absolutely be taken to their Logical Extreme.
  • Finish Him!: Variation: After viciously beating up Mr. Burns with a crowbar in "Moe Attacks Mr. Burns with a Crowbar", Moe sees a news report that said he was taken to a hospital, and is still alive. He then decides to go to the hospital, put on some scrubs, and give Burns "The Sampler".
    Moe: Mmm... Ah, (discards a bar rag) no point in mopin' around. (leaves the bar while twirling his keys) Might as well join him, and have a jolly old time. Heh.
  • Five-Second Foreshadowing: During "Skinner and His Crazy Explanations", Chalmers is first seen hearing Michael Jackson on the radio. Not too long after, he discover Skinner attempting to rape Bart Simpson.
  • For Want Of A Nail:
    • The "Wiggum of Madness" comic and its video remake "Homer at the Bat", and its minisode remake "Chief Wiggum's Police Misconduct", is what happens if Chief Wiggum retaliates against Homer for mocking him at a softball game but he takes things too far.
    • In a rather dark sense, if it wasn't for Marge yelling at Homer in "Leave Homer Simpson Alone", which made him so upset that he stayed home when the rest of the family went to the racetrack, he would've died along with everyone else when Sideshow Bob set off his nuke.
    • "Homer Catches Bart with Cigarettes" is essentially an alternate take on "Bart Investigates the Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Dogs": Rather than getting murdered by his family, Bart is allowed to have Santa's Little Helper smoke... which causes him to get sick enough that the family decide to cut the dog up and throw a barbecue.
    • As mentioned in the description, "The Homer They Fall" is the alternate ending to the original episode of the same name. Homer gets punched by Tatum in the head, gets paralyzed, and gets killed by Todd by being suffocated with a pillow.
    • As mentioned in the description, "Moe Shoots Mr. Burns" is an alternate ending to "Who Shot Mr. Burns?": Moe shoots him in the parking lot, flees, gets caught by the police, and then gets off scot-free by bribing Chief Wiggum. Not only that, it's implied Mr. Burns died in this narrative.
  • Foregone Conclusion:
    • In "Homer Gets into a Street Fight", Homer gives Marge a Last Request that she blows up the hospital if Homer dies in the operation. Sure enough, he dies in the operation, and the video skips over the funeral scene to show the hospital being blown up.
    • The thumbnail of "Homer Lives Out the American Dream" shows that Mr. Burns will die at the end of the video.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • "Homer Attacked by Hounds" has a very apparent instance at the start due to the fact that it's part of the "Seamless Cut" subseries at all.
    • In "Stupid Flanders Wearing Nothing at All,” the "Everyone Loves Ned Flanders," intro omits Homer’s usual interjection of 'Not me!' Hinting at Homer’s attraction to Flanders.
    • In "Homer's Twin Brother", Abe has a heart attack and gets sent to hospital, and when Homer visits him, Abe says that he realized that he's going to die someday. He later does get killed by Homer's twin brother Herb.
    • The thumbnail of "Homer Lives Out the American Dream" shows that Mr. Burns will die in this video. He does gets killed by Homer by throwing him out of an building at the end of the video.
  • Formula-Breaking Episode:
    • "Homer Dancing in Odd and Inappropriate Places" has him just doing that in the video, with no plotline attached.
    • "Homer Attacked By Hounds" seems to play out like a normal episode, but the clips are horribly inconsistent. Only for the end to reveal that it was edited by the editor from Season 7's "Radioactive Man" who attempted a similar cut after Milhouse ran from production. Like the original, he is fired on the spot.
  • Frame-Up:
    • Wiggum often uses this tactic to get rid of his enemies. A notable example is found in "Homer at the Bat"/"Chief Wiggum's Police Misconduct", where he kills the entire Flanders Family and put the blame on Homer due to being bitter over losing a softball game.
    • Homer frames Krusty for murder in retaliation for leaving his son Bart in tears after not showing up for dinner.
  • Framing the Guilty Party: In "Homer Simpson Was Framed", Homer is not arrested for abusing Bart, but for shooting Mr. Burns, who was actually shot by Leon Kompowsky to have the boy all for himself.
  • Fridge Horror: invoked In-universe: "Homer Can't Satisfy Marge Anymore" ends with Homer screaming and fleeing the living room after Marge announces she's pregnant. After all, Homer knows there's no way it's his.
  • Fully Automatic Clip Show: Dark Simpsons Mysteries occasionally resorts to using one as evidence to a particular mystery or to prove a point. For example, the episode "Lisa the NOT So Vegetarian" has a montage of five back-to-back clips of Lisa vocalizing her being a vegetarian.
  • Fun with Subtitles: Sometimes, certain sensitive words and terms in the subtitles are rewritten to soundalikes. For example, in "Ned Is Lonely, Natura-Diddily", Ned says, "I'm insisting on a fisting," which is rendered in the subtitles as, "I'm insisting on going fishing." Also, Troy McClure saying "Hardcore nudity!" is written as "Parkour booty!" in the Dark Simpsons Mysteries episode "Is Homer a Gigantic Butt Model?"
  • Get It Over With: The ending of "Homer Goes Nuts" has Bart, after failing to hide from Homer, anxiously presenting his buttocks to Homer and telling him to "go nuts".
  • Gone Horribly Right:
    • To cheer Homer up after Marge gets arrested in "Marge Simpson in Chains", Bart pretends to be her by wrapping a towel over his head in the shape of her Beehive Hairdo and imitating her voice. This leads to Homer having sex with "her".
    • Marge's heart-to-heart with Lisa in "Lisa's New Girlfriend" makes her feel comfortable about being a lesbian, but it also gives her the idea to not only perv out on Marge's sexy pictures, but also drug her so she can have sex with her.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: In "Looks Like There's Beer Coming out of the Chimney", Moe decides to contribute to Homer's vigilante group by giving everyone one grenade each. While he is quickly convinced to reverse this decision, Moe notices the pin was pulled from one of the grenad-
    (Moe's Tavern explodes)
  • Grief-Induced Split: "Murder at the Simpson House" had Homer and Marge's marriage falling apart due to Groundskeeper Willie killing their children and not finding passion in their matrimony anymore, ending with Marge saying goodbye to Homer in their wedding videotape.
  • Groin Attack:
    • Lisa does a horrifying variant in "Lisa Eats Bart's Hot Dog".
    • In "Groundskeeper Willie Makes an Enemy for Life", Willie shoots Skinner in the crotch.
      "Okay, Skinner, that's the last time you'll slap your willie around."
    • Another horrifying variant is done by Skinner in "Skinner and Krabappel Making Babies in the Closet".
    • In "Krusty Gets Biz-zay", after Krusty rapes Bart and then beats up Homer for trying to come to Bart's defense, Bart smashes Krusty in the crotch with a baseball bat.
  • The Grunting Orgasm: Homer's groan of hysterical relief from the episode The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson after finally making it to a bathroom after many tribulations is repurposed as groan of hysterical pleasure in several Dark Simpsons episodes.
  • Halfway Plot Switch: Just like the actual show, these videos are often fond of doing it, with a darker twist of course.
    • Justified in "Not Lenny!", as a drunken Homer kills a Pride Award winning Lenny moments after the first minute, with the rest of the episode focusing on the fallout of the incident, and the death of Homer, as the audience members clap with approval.
    • "Murder at the Simpson House", meanwhile, starts off by Groundskeeper Willie almost immediately taking the Simpson children away, before ultimately being found guilty in the first two and a half minutes. The rest of the minisode focuses on Homer and Marge's marriage gradually falling apart because of the incident.
  • Happy Ending: Well, in a Dark Simpsons way. In "Bart Gets a Job", yes, he becomes a prostitute and has to service Mr. Burns, but he gets ten million dollars for one night. The episode ends with Bart in a fancy suit singing happily.
  • Hate Sink: A lot of characters will undergo Adaptational Villainy (or getting Karma Houdini status) in a video for the sake of getting the audience to hate them, such as Mr. Burns in "Mr. Burns Violates Bart", and Chief Wiggum in the webcomic "Wiggum of Madness" and its related videosnote .
  • Henpecked Husband: Homer in "Homer Quits His Job" refuses to go to work after being abused by Smithers, but Marge forces him to go. Homer soon quits his job, then goes home and credits Marge for the idea. Marge responds by forcing him to get back his job, where he suffers further abuse.
  • Here We Go Again!:
    • In "Looks Like There's Beer Coming out of the Chimney", Moe's Tavern explodes and Chief Wiggum ends up pursing the scene on foot. The cycle repeats when the Simpsons house - as Homer attempts to build his own Tavern - explodes as well.
    • In "Yvan Eht Nioj", Homer is brainwashed by TV into joining the navy. After sinking a civilian ship and getting away with it, he goes back to watching TV, where he's brainwashed into joining the army...
  • Hillbilly Horrors: In "Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel", Ned Flanders and his family cross the Spucklers' territory during a hike, leading Cletus to shoot and kill them.
  • I'll Kill You!: In "Homer vs. Marge", after Marge decides to leave Homer and take the kids with her after Homer gets away with domestic abuse, Homer snaps and exclaims, "That's it! I'll kill you! I'll kill all of you!" By the time the police return to the house, Homer is watching The Honeymooners with his family's heads mounted on the wall.
  • I Love the Dead: In “What Happened To Ms. Hoover?” Bart has sex with the deceased titular character.
  • I'm a Humanitarian:
    • In "Milhouse Comes Over for Dinner", Milhouse gets eaten by the Simpsons.
    • Played for drama in "Marge Simpson's Fear of Flying", as both Homer and Marge ate their dead children to survive after their plane crashes
    • In "The Simpsons Practice Social Distancing", Marge eats Maggie's brain after a few days of isolation.
    • In "Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel", Cletus kills the Flanderses and feeds the corpses to the rest of the Spuckler family.
    • In "Marge's Highway to Hell", while high off of cocaine, Marge murders Maggie, and then cooks her in the oven before serving her for dinner.
    • In "Hungry Hungry Homer", Homer kills and eats his family after his house runs out of food to eat.
    • In the Dark Simpsons Mysteries episode "Lisa the NOT So Vegetarian", this was the only alternative Lisa had to eating meat when she couldn't give it up.
  • The Immune: In "The Simpsons Come out of Quarantine", the Simpsons all catch the virus after Springfield reopens, with the exception of Lisa. When Bart realizes this, he calls it unfair and she giggles in response.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: In "Maude Flanders Cheats on Ned", Homer kills Ned Flanders with a quick draw of a handgun, despite Ned being on higher ground and far enough away to need a sniper rifle.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Homer sometimes, with standouts being "Do It For Maggie"/"Homer Can't Let Her Go", "Homer Gives Grampa A Kidney", "Bart's Not Dead", and "Mr. Burns Violates Bart", among others.
  • Jumping Off the Slippery Slope:
    • "Skinner's Sleazy Shenanigans" starts with Skinner calling for an assembly so he can wank off on stage in front of everyone, and things quickly deteriorate from there. In short order: Skinner proceeds to assault, and then kill Chalmers when he arrives to reprimand him, and when the cops arrive to deal with him, Skinner decides to blow up the school.
    • In the Seamless Cut video "Marge's Highway to Hell", after Marge cleans up the entire house by 9:30am, she does some coke, which causes her to become so enraged she cooks Maggie for dinner.
  • Karma Houdini:
    • Mr. Burns in "Mr. Burns Violates Bart" as he bribes the judge to screw over Homer and get away scot-free.
    • Bart in "Bart Didn't Do It". He shoots and kills Ralph Wiggum and lies that he didn't do it. He's found not guilty and makes a song out of the "I didn't do it" statement that launches his music career, making him and his family rich while poor Ralph is dead and buried.
    • The police force in "Wiggum of Madness" comic and its video remake "Homer at the Bat", and its minisode remake "Chief Wiggum's Police Misconduct".
    • Homer in "Homer has a Surprise for Marge." He kills her and the kids after she embarrasses him during a family outing, and gets away with it by framing Hans Moleman.
    • Homer always gets away with raping Bart, though he gets his comeuppance in "Return of the King".
    • The most successful example of this is Leon Kompowsky, as until now, he has got away with all his schemes of molesting Bart Simpson.
    • George Bush in "Two Bad Neighbors: Homer Fights George Bush".
    • Surprisingly enough, Milhouse in "Milhouse Needs a Psychiatrist" gets away with killing his parents and framing Bart for it.
    • "Bart Investigates the Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Dogs" ends with the rest of the Simpsons managing to get away with murdering Bart... because of Mayor Quimby firing Chief Wiggum, the only cop investigating his "disappearance".
    • In "Homer Catches Bart with Cigarettes", Bart is allowed to do his experiment this time... resulting in Santa's Little Helper dying. The family's response? Cooking the dog, and serving him at a barbecue. And when Flanders reports this to the cops, they rush over, literally running Flanders over in the process... in order to take part in said barbecue.
      Chief Wiggum: (winded; stuffed) Hey, Homer? Wing me another one of them, uh... burgers, would ya?
    • In "Homer Is the Greatest Hero in American History", Homer not only gets away with raping Maude Flanders, but also does an taunts Ned and Maude to their faces with an Evil Laugh.
    • Artie Ziff didn't get any comeuppance in the minisode "Marge's New Lover" for installing an CCTV in a shower in the Simpsons' bathroom to spy on Marge and Homer, killing Homer in a hot tub (which cause the Simpsons family to move to a motel to live with Patty and Selma due to financial issues) in order to get an advantage to have sex with Marge and later marry her.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty:
    • In "Homer Protects His House", Sideshow Bob ends up killing Homer as he was attempting to defend his home and gets off scot-free in court. Bart avenges his dad's death by destroying the building Senator Bob is in 20 years later.
    • No sooner does Mr. Burns show up to antagonize the rest of the town at Town Hall towards the end of "Coronavirus Hits the Simpsons" does he get fatally shot by Grampa Simpson.
    • In "Homer Finds Out About Marge and Ned", Homer manages to get acquitted of killing Ned's children in court and goes unpunished. Then Ned decides to return the favor...
  • Kick the Dog:
    • The plot of "The Simpsons Go to Mount Splashmore" is kicked off when Bart and Lisa manage to talk Homer into taking the family to Mount Splashmore... only for Homer to immediately force Bart to stay home and tape the hockey game, much to his confusion. And when he later decides to go to Mount Splashmore on his own, only to wind up drowning after an accident on a waterslide, we hard cut to the rest of the family playing musical instruments in (seeming) celebration.
    • Not only does Marge shove Bart down the stairs in "Bart Falls Down the Stairs", but after he lands, he doesn't move, implying he's either unconcious or dead. In response, the rest of the family laugh at him.
  • Kill and Replace:
    • In "Moe and Homer Face Off", Moe undergoes plastic surgery to impersonate Homer, kill him, and take his place out of jealousy for his family.
    • In "Homer's Twin Brother", Herb kills his twin brother Homer out of jealousy because he knows Homer and Abe won the lottery.
  • Lampshade Hanging:
  • Last Disrespects: Happens in Bart's funeral after he killed himself over being bullied by his potty accident, with Lenny joking about him one last time and everyone laughing over his joke.
  • Manipulative Editing: The series' bread and butter. So many video and audio clips are placed together to make the cartoon's already unsuitable material so much darker.
  • Medium-Shift Gag:
  • Meta Twist:
  • Minor Injury Overreaction: Homer reacts to Ned Flanders sending him a letter saying "I mock your value system. You also appear foolish in the eyes of others." after pranking Ned with an Atomic F-Bomb and resorting to burgling Ned's belongings.
  • Mistaken for Thief: Played for Drama in "Boogeyman", where Homer accidentally kills Marge after believing there was a boogeyman in the house.
  • Mood Whiplash: In "Ralph Calls Ms. Hoover Mommy", Chief Wiggum hugs his son Ralph, right after clubbing the children leaving school.
  • Monster Clown: While Krusty is mostly an aversion, he plays this absolutely straight in "Who Plowed Bart Simpson?", in which he is revealed to have plowed Bart Simpson.
  • My God, What Have I Done?:
    • In "Bart Becomes a Bully", Bart drops his gun after realizing that he killed Martin.
    • In "Homer Makes Flanders Believe His Family Is Dead", Ned kills Homer, then realizes to his horror that he just became a murderer.
    • In "Homer Goes in for Those Backdoor Shenanigans", Smithers kills Burns and instantly regrets it.
    • Implied: After kicking Homer out of the house in "Homer Gives up Beer for a Month" (due to failing to do just that), Marge gets a phone call from Chief Wiggum saying he died in a car accident. After we see her cry for a bit, we cut to Marge drunk at Moe's.
      Marge: (sad) Now I know why you come here so much... No matter how sad you are inside, what you see looks worse.
  • Negative Continuity: Moreso than the original show, especially since characters die frequently.
  • Never My Fault: Take to some massive extremes in "Homer's Snuggle Socks": After Homer gets arrested for attempting to solicit sex from Chief Wiggum (who was disguised as a prostitute), when Marge shows up to bail him out, she calls him out for doing something so terrible. Homer's response is to call her out for not providing him with "Tang", openly stating it's her fault he got arrested. And then shortly after getting bailed out, Homer is inspired by a seafood commercial to try and kill Marge by provoking her seafood allergy.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Homer finds himself on the receiving end of one in "Homer's Boring Day".
  • Non-Indicative Name:
    • "Homer Hits the Dean With His Car" features anything but.
    • "Bart Drinks Some Good Squishee". After reading that title, would you expect Marge indirectly causing the children of Springfield to engage in a Jonestown-style mass suicide?
    • "Bart Investigates the Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Dogs" is a variation: while the video does involve this right at the start, the actual plot of the video concerns the aftermath of the Simpsons murdering Bart in a rage the second he reveals his experiment.
    • "Lenny Gives a Thumbs Up" is a video all about Mr. Burns diverting all beer trucks away from Springfield, resulting in Barney shooting him when he can't take sobriety anymore.
    • "A Noble Spirit Embiggens Groundskeeper Willie" concerns Groundskeeper Willie being caught eating out of a toilet by Principal Skinnernote , getting fired, and then murdering Skinner in response.
    • "Bart Watches Brazilian TV" focuses more on the bullies harassing and beating up Homer.
  • No-Nonsense Nemesis: Whenever Snake appears, he is quick to kill and incapacitate anyone who gets in his way of a crime.
  • No Party Like a Donner Party: In "Marge Simpson's Fear of Flying", Homer eats Bart and Lisa after a plane crash strands them on a remote mountain.
  • No-Sell: After Chief Wiggum admits he won't be able to find Milhouse in "Willie's Spook House", Rex Banner shows up to indefinitely suspend him and take over the police station in order to reform it. Wiggum's immediate response is to have Lou and Eddie taze him.
  • No Sympathy: If someone is tormented, abused or even killed, expect this behavior from the abusers and the bystanders.
  • Not Helping Your Case: When Skinner fires Groundskeeper Willie because of his secret shame in "A Noble Spirit Embiggens Groundskeeper Willie", Willie responds by saying "every single Scottish person does it".
  • Not His Sled:
    • "Chief Wiggum's Police Misconduct" has one major change compared to "Homer at the Bat". In the original video, when Homer foretells of an uprising against the corrupt police, Wiggum responds, "Sit down and wait for Detective Like-I-Give-a-Damn!" In the extended update, he instead says, "He's crazy, boys. Get the tazer."
    • The Minisode "Chief Wiggum Hunts a Serial Killer" shares its title with a previous non-minisode video. In the original, Ned Flanders was said serial killer, as was instantly revealed to the audience. In the Minisode, the serial killer's identity (Homer) is not revealed until halfway into the video, but it being Flanders is jossed around the 1 minute mark by an early clip of him and his kids going into their panic room upon hearing of the killer on the loose.
  • Odd Ball In The Series: The week of July 16, 2021 featured not a Dark Simpsons video, but a Dark Futurama video. In December 2, 2022, another Dark Futurama video was featured.
  • Oh, Crap!:
    • Bart has this reaction each time he meets Michael Jackson.
    • in Homer Throws a Party, Homer realizes he's in deep trouble when Chris Hansen arrives at his house.
  • Off with His Head!: Happens to Homer in "Homer Buys Snake's Car".
  • Offing the Offspring: Homer does this to Bart often, though it's usually played for laughs. A darker example occurs when Ned Flanders kills Rod just for being gay.
  • Only One Finds It Fun: In "Skinner's Sleazy Shenanigans", Skinner wanks off in front of the entire student body. Everyone is horrified, except Martin, who has this to say:
    "How innovative. I like it!"
  • Open-Minded Parent: Marge in "Lisa's New Girlfriend". She was surprised to see that Lisa is attracted to women, but then gives her a heart-to-heart and tells her there's nothing wrong with being a lesbian as long as two people are in love. Her openmindedness is... not rewarded, to say the least.
  • Overly Long Gag: Mr. Burns laughing at Homer asking for his boss to give a raise. It took a day for Burns to respond by buzzing security.
  • Pædo Hunt:
    • In "Mr. Burns Violates Bart", Homer punches his boss and goes to court after he learns that him raping Bart was the reason why he was driven to suicide. Sadly for him, Burns ends up winning after bribing the judge.
    • Mr. Bergstrom murders Skinner in cold blood after he learns he raped Lisa.
    • The prisoners where Homer is incarcerated for abusing Bart in "Return of the King" decide to murder Homer during a riot.
    • The plot of "Who Plowed Bart Simpson?" It turned out to be Krusty.
    • In Homer Throws a Party,Chris Hansen arrives at Homer's house when he hears about Bart being molested by Homer.
    • In Skinner and His Crazy Explanations, Skinner is executed by hanging immediately after Chalmers reports him to the police upon catching him raping Bart
  • Papa Wolf: It rarely happens in the series, but sometimes Homer will defend his children:
    • In "Mr.Burns Violates Bart", he punches him and demands him (unsuccessfully).
    • In "Homer Punches Mr. Burns", he kills his boss as he stole candy from Maggie.
    • In "The Untimely End of Bart Simpson", he avenges Bart's death by murdering Sideshow Bob in prison.
    • In "Sideshow Bob Tries to Kill Bart", he quickly goes out to the bath to defend Bart from Bob as soon as he heard his son screaming.
    • In "Krusty Gets Busted Again", he impersonates Krusty and frames him for murder in retaliation for Krusty no-showing his scheduled dinner with Bart and leaving him in tears.
    • In "Ralph Calls Ms. Hoover Mommy", Chief Wiggum learns of Ralph's bad day, and responds by allowing Ralph to shoot Ms. Hoover, while Chief Wiggum and his officers club the children attempting to leave the school.
  • Parental Incest: Another hallmark of the series. It's either played both for laughs or for drama
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: "I'm Mr. Burns, Blah, Blah, Blah" has a rare happy ending: after his stint as Mr. Burns' assistant ends with him getting tossed out of the Plant for attempting to attack him, Homer makes his way to the Kwik-E-Mart, grabs a bag of diarrhea-causing chips, and then returns to the Plant in order to confront Mr. Burns... and shit on the floor in his office. The video ends on that note, with no implication if Homer is going to get punished for this.
    Homer: (thinking) Homer, you genius!
  • The Plague: "Coronavirus Hits the Simpsons" revolves around Mr. Burns unleashing a lethal virus unto Springfield.
  • Police Are Useless: The competence of Springfield's police department is directly proportional to the Rule of Funny. If it would be funnier for a crime to be stopped or avenged, they will be hyper-competent at their jobs. If it would be funnier for the crime to happen unabated, they'll either be hopelessly incompetent or actively perpetrating the crime.
  • Potty Failure: In "Bart Wets His Pants". Deconstructed in that Bart is bullied mercilessly for it and commits suicide as a result.
  • Precision F-Strike: At the beginning of "Homer and Moe Face Off", when Homer visits the bar, Moe jealously thinks to himself, "Ya fucking moron."note 
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Right before shooting her in "Kirk Sleeps in a Racing Car, Do You?", Kirk's response to Luann deciding to leave him is to shout:
    Kirk: I don't think Maude Flanders would approve of that!
  • Prison Rape: Implied at the end of "Helen Lovejoy Gets Claimed".
    Female inmate: Have you been claimed yet?
    Helen: PERVERT!
  • Properly Paranoid: Bart is frequently characterized as this.
    • In every episode featuring Michael Jackson, especially on "The Man in the Treehouse of Horror", Bart's constant fear of being raped by him is completely justified.
    • In "Bart is Paranoid", he is right in feeling that he's being observed, as he is constantly watched by Ned Flanders in his hidden camera room.
  • Rage Breaking Point: The plot of "Homer vs. Marge" concerns Homer accidentally discovering that Marge is having an affair with Ned. As a result, not only does Homer trash their China cabinet, but he then beats the crap out of her. And after Chief Wiggum arrives, only to be convinced to leave, Marge tries to leave with the kids... causing Homer to kill them all then and there.
  • Red Herring:
    • In "Chief Wiggum Hunts a Serial Killer", Homer asks Lenny and Carl if they'd like to go bowling later, but they can't, since they're busy with secret activities. In the end, it turns out that it's the other way around, with Homer murdering people in secret, while Lenny and Carl go bowling.
    • In "Who Plowed Bart Simpson?", it's heavily implied that Homer Simpson, Michael Jackson, and Marge Simpson are prime suspects in plowing Bart Simpson, especially for Homer since he had a very notable role as a rapist in "Mr. Plow". Ultimately, the one responsible for plowing Bart Simpson is Krusty the Clown.
  • Rejected Apology: "Whacking Day Cobras", Lisa apologizes to Homer for his cobra attack after sending cobras in the house. He responds by killing her.
  • Running Gag:
    • Bart getting raped by either Homer as "Mr. Plow" or Leon Kompowsky.
    • The "Everyone Loves Ned Flanders!" theme song, which usually precedes episodes where Flanders suffers nightmarishly.
  • Sanity Slippage: In "The Simpsons Practice Social Distancing", Marge gradually loses her mind from being stuck at home and having nothing to do, culminating with her cracking Maggie's head open and feasting on the goo inside.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Mr. Burns often bribes the judge to get away with his crimes, with the judge accepting it.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!: Krusty sexually assaults Bart in "Krusty Gets Biz-Zay", but he gets let off the hook after being arrested because America doesn't send its celebrities to jail. This forces Bart to take justice into his own hands.
  • Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: In "Do It For Maggie"/"Homer Can't Let Her Go" Lisa runs away from home after witnessing his dad creating a substitute for Marge with a plant. In the former version of the video, it's implied she kills herself, while in the extended version, she's shown running away to Capital City to live with Mr. Bergstrom.
  • See You in Hell: In "Homer Has a Surprise for Marge", after Marge drunkenly humiliates Homer during a family night out, he drives off instead of returning home with her, saying she took his dignity away. He returns the next morning to surprise Marge with a gun aimed right at her head. He quietly tells her, "See you in Hell," and shoots her.
  • Self-Deprecation: The creator's reply to one of the comments on "Homer Goes Nuts":
    "Yeah it's pretty bad, what kind of sick bastard would make this content."
  • Self-Made Orphan: "Milhouse Needs a Psychiatrist" begins with Milhouse killing his parents.
  • Sex Slave: "Angry Dad in… Knightboat!" ends up with Angry Dad becoming this against his will by the Chinese pirates who kidnap him.
  • Shout-Out: In "Bart the Lover" Minisode, Chief Wiggum's only response to Lisa calling him about how Bart getting Edna pregnant, is just a non-chalant "Nice". Earlier in the same episode has Edna admitting her pregnancy to her whole class with the same sounds as the adults from the Peanuts.
  • Skewed Priorities: In "Homer Stops Doing Stupid Things", Marge insists that he stops doing stupid things, even if this includes risking his life to rescue their children from a raging house fire.
    • In "Homer Wins A Motorboat", after being raped by Chief Wiggum, Homer is furious and vows revenge - because he never received the free boat that he was promised.
  • Slipping a Mickey: In "Lisa's New Girlfriend", Lisa spikes her mother's drink with a sedative so she can rape her.
  • Sole Survivor:
    • Homer is the only person who manages to escape the fire in the nuclear central in "The Fire Alarm", but only due to him blocking the only exit of the building with a near bench.
    • Homer becomes the only survivor of Sideshow's Bob nuke in "Leave Homer Simpson Alone"
  • Soundtrack Dissonance: The uplifting scene change jingle will play even after something horrendous has happened moments before.
    • In “Hans Moleman Was Saying Boourns”, Mr. Burns and Smithers causing a core destruction at the nuclear plant is accompanied by a pleasant and bubbly tune, even as we see everyone in town is spending their final moments running around in panic.
  • Start My Own: Justified in "Looks Like There's Beer Coming Out Of The Chimney", where Homer builds his own brewery after Moe's burns down and he fails to find a replacement.
  • The Stinger:
    • "Chief Wiggum Hunts a Serial Killer" features one that acts as the second half of a Brick Joke. Here, Lenny and Carl are seen at the Bowlarama, following up on a small bit earlier in the video meant as a Red Herring that they're the titular serial killers. They laugh at the wacky names on the scoreboard.
    • "Homer Can't Live Without Her" has Homer complaining about a director's cut, riffing on the premise of the episode being an extended version of "Do It For Maggie".
    • In "Bart Licks a Pickle", Leon Kompowsky is raping Bart in New Bedlam Hospital at night with the audio from the video game "Micheal Jackson's Moonwalker".
    • In "Homer's Twin Brother", Bart and Herb are watching television while the latter is shaving his hair, and Bart is notices something different about his "dad", who tells him that he's wearing a new tie.
    • In "Not Lenny!"note , everyone at Moe's Tavern offers a silent prayer to Lenny who died in an accident while fooling around with the nuclear waste barrels.
  • Stock Footage: "Homer Can't Let Her Go" reuses the same edited "Lisa goes to Sprooklyn" footage from "Lisa Gets Bullied at School" (both videos involve Lisa running away to Capital City, and the Sprooklyn sign was edited to reflect that).
  • Stunned Silence:
    • At the end of "Homer Hits the Dean With His Car", after Homer casually talks about all the various cases of vechicular manslaughter he commited that day, the last shot of the video is of Marge and Bart frozen in shock.
    • In the remastered version of "Hot Fudge", it is revealed that Homer unleashing his dump on the people below the VIP area was caught on the Jumbotron, causing the rest of the stadium to stare blankly at the screen.
  • Stupid Evil: Homer throwing Bart down a well and leaving him to die in "Along Came Maggie Simpson", which he did so that his family could afford their new baby. Even without The Reveal where the baby turns out to belong to a different father, did Homer really expect Marge and Lisa to not notice Bart's disappearance?
  • Stylistic Suck: The "Seamless Cuts" make use of the most outrageously mismatching cuts to make sense of the plot for instance having the characters appear in entirely different locations, wear completely different clothing in those shots and use completely different animation styles for one scene. Those instances are a hackjob by a Radioactive Man editor that gets fired for similarly shoddy job.
  • Sudden Downer Ending:
    • "Homer The Lover" is about Homer cheating on Marge and showering their children with gifts to win their approval, and the effect this all has on her; fitting for the series, but not unexpected. But then it ends with Homer coming home one day to see that Marge has committed Pater Familicide.
    • "The Simpsons Practice Social Distancing" is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: inherently dark given the subject matter, but no worse than what most people in the world had been experiencing at the time of this video's release. At least until Marge gets the idea to cannibalize one of her own children.
  • Surprisingly Happy Ending:
    • A rarity of the series, but "Lisa's Substitute Teacher" leads one of believe that Mr. Bergstrom is going to molest or otherwise harm Lisa. He does not, but Skinner does and this devastates her. She then contacts Mr. Bergstrom who takes revenge by returning to Springfield and shooting him dead. Always there for her, indeed.
    • "Homer Needs Money" ends on an oddly wholesome (at least as far as this series considers "wholesome") note with Homer managing to solve his money woes by having sex with Moe on the regular.
  • Take That!: In "Marge Simpson's Doorbell", Homer is Exiled to the Couch by Marge. While Homer is watching TV late at night, the Family Guy theme tune can be heard. He bitterly remarks "They must think people will watch anything!" and changes the channel.
  • Taking You with Me: Homer kills everyone in his family including himself with a nuclear reactor in "Homer Builds a Nuclear Reactor"
  • A Taste of Their Own Medicine:
    • In "Marge And Homer Get Dirty", when Homer catches Bart showing a video of his parents having sex to a viewing party of kids, he gets back at him by filming Leon Kompowsky raping Bart and showing it to a viewing party of adults.
    • Any episode such as "Homer Goes to a Gay Steel Mill" where Homer ends up raped could be considered this because Homer has raped Bart in several episodes.
  • Teacher/Student Romance: Between Mrs. Krabappel and Bart in "Bart The Lover". The end result is that Krabappel gets pregnant.
  • Tempting Fate: Towards the end of "Coronavirus Hits the Simpsons", Mr. Burns shows up at Town Hall, thinking he's won, but...
    Mr. Burns: Oh, you all talk big, but who here... has the guts to stop me?
    Grampa Simpson: (stands up) Now, hold on just one minute! (shoots Mr. Burns in the chest)
  • They Killed Kenny Again: Various characters die, sometimes in almost every episode they appear in, but always reappear in later episodes.
  • This Is Gonna Suck: "Return of the King" ends with Bart fainting after seeing that his "Bigger Brother" is none other than Leon Kompowsky, who had molested him in previous episodes.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: In "Bart's Not Dead", it seemed like the title was going to be a Bait-and-Switch when Bart attempts to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. However, he survives, and Homer fixes Bart's depression by dressing up as the late Krusty the Klown.
  • To Be Continued... Right Now: Happens in "Bart Goes on a Ride Along", where these words "To Be Continued" appear as Bart is about to get run over by Snake's car, only for the scene to proceed and show him being run over.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Towards the end of "Homer's Snuggle Socks", Homer attempts to kill Marge by provoking her seafood allergy... by trying to trick her into eating a still alive fish that's flopping around on her plate as he blatantly laughs across from her at the table. As such, Marge, fed up, pulls out two guns from a nearby pie and shoots Homer to death.
  • Too Kinky to Torture: Whatever Herman is doing to Homer at the end of "Homer Skips Work", it is clear at the very least that Homer is enjoying it.
  • Took a Level in Badass:
    • While Sideshow Bob can't even kill Bart in the original series, here, he has proven to be quite successful in killing him, as seen in "The Untimely End of Bart Simpson", "Leave Homer Simpson Alone" and "Sideshow Bob Is Released from Prison".
    • Sideshow Bob's brother, Cecil, likewise manages to kill Bart in "Cecil Did What Bob Never Could, Kill Bart Simpson" and "Sideshow Bob Tries to Kill Bart".
  • Trivial Title:
    • In "Bart Licks a Pickle", Bart does just that, but only for a very brief moment (and even then, it's more of a Visual Innuendo). The rest of the plot is about Bart's descent into depression after being named the "world's greatest sex machine" and everyone in Springfield piling on him.
    • "Homer's Snuggle Socks" only appear in the opening scene to demonstrate the point that Homer and Marge have a stale sex life, with the main plot being about Homer getting arrested for attempted prostitution, blaming Marge for not putting out, and the effect it has on their marriage.
    • "Lenny Gives a Thumbs Up" is less about the eponymous thumbs up and more about Barney trying to cope with Mr. Burns cutting off Springfield's alcohol supply.
    • "Bart Investigates the Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Dogs" is incidental to the Simpsons covering up their accidental murder of Bart.
  • Troll: Deconstructed in "Seymour Butts", where Bart is sent to Moe's - which he prank called earlier - to pick up Homer. Moe immediately recognizes his voice and shoots him on the spot. While this may be the Logical Extreme of what may happen, this isn't too unexpected an outcome of when trolls are forced to confront the people they've antagonized, without the protection of anonymity.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Bart is frequently portrayed as a sociopath. Aside from the examples listed elsewhere on this page, one would be the episode where, after Lisa gets a pony as a gift from Homer, Bart is angry that no one is paying attention to him. So he cuts the horse's head off and places it in Lisa's bed next to her while she's sleeping.
  • Ungrateful Bitch: Lisa in "Lisa's New Girlfriend". When it becomes clear that Lisa is attracted to the female gender, Marge reassures her daughter that there's nothing wrong with that and gives her words of encouragement. Lisa responds by drugging Marge and raping her.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Marge in "Homer and Lisa Go on a Date", where she encourages Homer to go on a dinner date with Lisa, so that "she'll expect the same from the men in her future". Homer takes this as initiation to have sex with Lisa after the date, which then leads to her trauma, pregnancy, and murder of Homer.
  • Villain Ball: In "Skinner and Krabappel Making Babies in the Closet", Skinner captures Bart and attempts to cut off the boy's "Butterfinger". However, as he does this, he makes an Evil Laugh that ends up being picked up by the school's intercom, causing everyone in the building to hear it. Even worse, Superintendent Chalmers happened to be visiting the school at that moment and hears the laughter over the intercom as well, leading to him catching Skinner in the act.
  • Would Hurt a Child:
    • Moe has no qualms about shooting Bart (over a prank call, no less).
    • Homer has killed Bart and/or Lisa on multiple occasions and is also sometimes portrayed as a child molester.
    • Mr. Burns not only has no qualms in raping the children of his employees, but he also doesn't care to cause mass intoxication to every children in the town when he hides his nuclear waste in the park.
    • Sideshow Bob hasn't quit in killing Bart.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain:
    • After Bart escapes from Homer's abuse in the minisode "Return of the King", he calls for a big brother to be his Parental Substitute, only to learn that his new big brother is no one but Leon Kompowsky himself.
    • In the minisode "Bart Licks a Pickle", Bart creates a "sad" drawing after he licks Homer's pickle and gets raped by everybody in Springfield except his family. After Marge and Homer discover it, Bart is sent to New Bedlam Hospital to get some rest, only to get raped by Leon Kompowsky, who's living in the same room as Bart.
  • You Are Grounded!: Part of Bart's punishment in "Marge And Homer Get Dirty" is to stay at home, even during school.
  • Your Head Asplode: Homer's head explodes at the end of "Homer's Plant Physical", due to Mr. Burns putting tracking chips in every employee's brain that he can detonate with the push of a button.

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