For Toy Gory, did Bart nuke his Radioactive Man action figure in the microwave on purpose, or was it an accident? Sure, he's presented as being destructive with his toys, but only ever with old ones. Radioactive Man is not only his hero, but a toy he had also received just recently. The show goes out of its way to have Homer come in and draw Bart away from the microwave to watch something out the window, which could mean Bart was trying to simulate a dangerous environment for Radioactive Man to overcome, and would have otherwise switched the microwave off after a few seconds.
Were the family's horrified reactions to Bart's mutilation into a toy Played for Laughs and a result of Bart offering to let Lisa watch what she wants/telling his parents that he loves them, which he supposedly wouldn't do normally? Or is it Played for Drama, and is instead a result of Bart's lines obviously being monotonous non-sequiturs that do not properly respond to what is being said to him, and the fact that he does not say or do anything unless a pullstring in his neck is toggled?
Lisa: What happened to you?
Bart: I'm Bart Simpson. Let's watch what you want to watch.
(Later, at Hibbert's office)
Homer: Bart... Son, speak to me!
Bart: I'm Bart Simpson. I love my mother and father.
Was Milhouse actually in on the toys' revenge against Bart, or was he trying to butter them up by spinelessly agreeing with everything they were doing in order to get Puppy Goo Goo to return to him? After all, him just condemning Bart to death with zero hesitations seems very out-of-character for him. Could he have just been coming over to convince Puppy Goo Goo to come back, and felt the need to correct Bart after he told the toys he wouldn't have treated them badly if he'd known they were alive?
In Toy Gory, one of Bart's destructive playing methods involves tying Stretch Armstrong to something in his room and Homer's car in order to break the toy. However, Stretch Armstrong ends up pulling the car through the window and into his room when Grandpa tries to use it. At the very least, Bart's other play sessions would have been easy to clear up afterwards, so its understandable why no remnants of them are seen in any resulting scenes, but this one ended up destroying half of Bart's room and (presumably) the car, yet no signs of this are present afterwards, nor does anyone bring it up.
In "Into the Homer-verse", there's one scene where Noir Homer decapitates Ned Flanders via a bullet to the head, with Ned's head saying "I forgive you..." as it goes sailing off. This is his only appearance in the entire episode, and it's never mentioned again.
Harsher in Hindsight: The episode, having been planned to air around Halloween 2020 just before the scheduled and heavily anticipated Presidential election following the controversial presidency of Donald Trump satirizes the then-upcoming election as resulting in a sci-fi-inspired dystopia by the next Inauguration Day (January 20, 2021) parallels the 2021 Capitol attack wherein Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building to disrupt the electoral college vote count, an incident unprecedented in American history.
Special Effect Failure: When the epilogue of Toy Gory begins and the animation style reverts from 3D to 2D, Dr. Hibbert is seen blankly staring into nothingness with an unexpressive face before the switch. Judging from the 2D shot that follows, he's supposed to be looking on awkwardly as Homer and Marge mourn Bart. The reverse is also true for Lisa, who goes from looking sad over losing her brother to looking quite indifferent.
Win Back the Crowd: This isn't the first, or even the second, or arguably even the third, time a Halloween story revolved around multiple versions of Homer, but this one makes use of it to explore what Homer would be like in other animation genres.
Radioactive Man. He was excited to have, as he puts it, "a sweet and kind boy of [his] own", only for Krusty to quickly burst his bubble and warn him Bart is not that boy, with his remorseless destruction of his toys (and presumably Lisa's as well, judging from the Malibu Stacy we've seen). He also apparently fell in love with a Cymbal-Banging Monkey and they got married, but whatever relationship they could have had was short-lived as none of the toys could save Radioactive Man from Bart's destructive antics.
The entire Simpson family at the end of Toy Gory. Bart may have been destructive with his toys, but he definitely didn't deserve to be killed and fashioned into a twisted emulation of a toy, since he's never been murderous, and was probably telling the truth about how he wouldn't have mistreated his toys if he'd known they were alive. And his family definitely didn't deserve to lose their only son/brother out of nowhere and be left to cry over him at Dr. Hibbert's.
