YMMV / The Simpsons S1 E11 "The Crepes of Wrath"

• Catharsis Factor: Bart getting revenge on his abusers by sending them to prison.
• Jerkass Woobie: It's impossible not to feel bad for Bart in this episode. What happens to him goes from getting comeuppance for his pranks to being flat out abused.
• Magnificent Bastard: Adil Hoxha is an Albanian spy working undercover as a foreign exchange student. After integrating himself into the Simpson family with his politeness and helpful attitude, he requests Homer to let him visit the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, collecting information and successfully sending it his home government. After being caught and outed as a spy by the FBI, he thanks the Simpsons for their hospitality and tells them not to let the experience sour their thoughts on the student exchange program.
• Moral Event Horizon: Bart is treated like a slave by two mean winemakers in France. At first, this is amusing, as we see Bart get what's coming to him for his brattiness. However, it fades when you see Bart sleeping with nothing so much as a blanket after reading a letter from his mother as the abuse he is suffering begins to sink in. When the winemakers finally force Bart to drink wine doctored with antifreeze, putting him in real danger of being killed or blinded, the louts sail over the moral line and all your sympathy goes to the boy, which makes his eventual escape and revenge all so sweet.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The family takes in a foreign exchange student that turns out to be a Communist spy, and this was only a year before the Soviet Union ended up dissolving, to boot! Although Albania was allied to China, not Moscow.
• Woolseyism: The Quebec dub turns the plot into Quebecois French-accented Bart learning to understand Parisian-accented French.

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