YMMV / The Simpsons S4 E13 "Selma's Choice"

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Surly of the Seven Duffs really a jerkass or is that just him playing a character and is so dedicated to the role that he refuses to break character even when Bart was in trouble on the roller coaster?
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: There are several bigger-than-a-foot-long party subs available to cater for big occasions, and for a direct answer in this case, are generally available at fast food delis like Subway. They don't exactly go up to 10 feet, however.
• Ass Pull: The sandwich that makes Homer sick and unable to take the kids to Duff Gardens appears out of nowhere even though there was plenty of time to build it up.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Although the episode ends with Selma deciding that having kids isn't for her, she later changes her mind in Season 16's "Goo Goo Gai Pan" after she enters menopause (which means that she can't have children through biological means anymore) and travels to China with the family, where she later adopts a baby girl named Ling.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • When Homer and the kids get ready to go to Duff Gardens (before Marge comes in with news about the funeral), he plans to get a discount on admission by telling the ticket taker that he's a college student (while the kids plan to tell the ticket taker that they're under six years old). A season later, Homer would actually be a college student in "Homer Goes to College".
  • One of the men in the 101 Frozen Pops magazine is Troy McClure. Season Seven's "A Fish Called Selma" has Selma marrying and trying to have a baby with Troy McClure.
  • The Duff Hall of Presidents features a rapping Abraham Lincoln. While this already worked as a general parody of Totally Radical advertisements, it might be viewed differently 25 years later when the biggest hit on Broadway and beyond is Hamilton, a hip-hop opera about founding father Alexander Hamilton.
  • Like many other episodes lampooning the Disney corporation or its theme parks, the numerous parodies of the parks became this after Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • Homer eating the sandwich. Homer continues to eat it despite the fact that it had blatantly gone bad (no, really, it spent at least one week behind a radiator and had turned purple and grown fungi as a result). Even after getting some serious food poisoning from the sandwich, and thus not being able to go to Duff Gardens, Homer still tried to eat what was left of it. It doesn't help that it's based on a true story that happened to one of the writers, although the sandwich never changed colors in the writer's case.
  • Selma tying a cigarette into a knot with her tongue.
    Willie: Ugh! Back to the loch with you, Nessie!
• Suspiciously Similar Song: When Lisa stumbles into the Main Street Electrical Parade parody, the music playing is a soundalike of Jean-Jacques Perrey's "Baroque Hoedown", the real-world parade's theme song.
• Woolseyism:
  • The opening gag with Lance Murdock falling off The Whiplash roller coaster after the announcer says, "To be completed in 1994" changes the "1994" line into something less dated in just about every non-English version of the episode, especially if the episode was dubbed after 1994.
  • In the Italian dub, the Jay Leno potato chip became a Tina Turner one.

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