YMMV / The Simpsons S 16 E 5 Fat Man And Little Boy

• Alternative Joke Interpretation: Marge is offended by a cynical phrase on Bart's shirt, saying that she likes shirts "with a nice joke. Like 'Support Our Troops'!" This comes off as a weird thing for Marge to say, and has multiple interpretations. 1, she doesn't realize that the slogan is meant to be serious. 2, she doesn't think the troops are worth supporting. 3, she does support the troops, but thinks that wearing a shirt is a meaningless and useless way to help.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The opening of the episode revolves around Bart realizing that he "isn't a little kid anymore." "Sunday School", a Simpsonwave video by Lucien Hughes, is focused on Bart. It uses the song "Teen Pregnancy" by Blank Banshee, which includes the lyrics "I'm just a kid" repeating. "Sunday School" syncs this line to clips of Bart.
  • Gladwell winds up selling the rights to Bart's shirts to Disney. Come 2019, Fox would end up being owned by Disney.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Due to the mistaken belief that losing his last baby tooth meant he was now an adult, Bart goes through a "midlife crisis". However, instead of focusing on the Growing Up Sucks narrative, the episode goes through a Halfway Plot Switch that spends more time on Homer and Lisa than Bart.