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** To a lesser extent, some fans ignore any Sideshow Bob episodes where he has a wife and son. It helps that in his latest appearance, they are neither seen nor mentioned.

* [[Fetish Retardant]]: Marge's hairdo and voice. If it weren't for them, she'd be as pretty as the show implies her to be.

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]:

** Go back and watch the season seven episode "Two Bad Neighbors" (especially the part where Homer tricks George Bush, Sr. into thinking that his sons, George Bush, Jr. and Jeb Bush are outside) and the season nine episode "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" and try to laugh at them now that America has gone through eight years of George Bush, Jr. and doesn't have the World Trade Center towers anymore. Even the writers on the DVD commentaries for both episodes have pointed this out (on the "Two Bad Neighbors" commentary, they admitted that they didn't know George Bush, Sr. had a son who shared his name—much like the audience who first saw the episode in 1996—and chalked it up to Homer being a moron and on the "City of New York..." commentary, the writers felt really bad for putting in the line about how all the jerks are in the first tower of the World Trade Center). Also, the season twelve episode "New Kids on the Blecch" near the end of the third act has one scene in which LT Smash goes to New York, with a brief shot of the WTC towers, to destroy the M.A.D. magazine building [[Continuity Nod|which Bart has visited before already]] in the season nine episode already mentioned.

** In one episode, Krusty re-invents himself as a caustic observational comedian, who eventually sells out to pitch for a enormous SUV, "The Canyonero." [[Denis Leary]] is a real-life caustic observational comedian who has recently become the pitchman for the enormous Ford F-150.

** ''[[The Flintstones]]'' was the first ever primetime cartoon. 25 years after it ended, ''The Simpsons'' came. Now it looks like the 23rd season will be its last, soon to be replaced by Seth MacFarlane's ''Flintstones'' reboot, thus completing the cycle.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZwgu8_b0Vw This] tribute to ''[[The Cosby Show]]''.

** This quote from the episode "Trash of the Titans":

*** Though, unlike Bob, Fat Tony can point to actual accomplishments.

** And [[Gentleman Thief|the Springfield Cat Burglar]], from "Homer The Vigilante," though a one-shot character, arguably qualifies too. He manages to steal from several homes very sneakily, (the in-story newspaper states that he struck at least 15 homes) and is implied to have done so without waking up any of their occupants; he also distracts the pets with food. He leaves a [[Calling Card]], too, and yet this doesn't lead back to him. {{spoiler|His identity is revealed when Abe Simpson finds a suspiciously large gem on Malloy's coffee table, but [[Alternate Character Interpretation|that he would even think to look could probably be attributable to "mistaking" Malloy coming into his room for the cat burglar coming into his room earlier on]]. Also, once caught, he [[Affably Evil|returns the items he stole and speaks very kindly about the rest of Springfield]]. He gets put in jail anyway, and tells the police that he buried millions of dollars' worth of money under a big T. [[What an Idiot!|Idiotically enough]], the police as well as the whole town rush to the site, not bothering to leave anyone behind to supervise his cell. As such, when they get to the big T, instead of finding the money, they find a letter [[Batman Gambit|stating that the money isn't really there and that he's used this time to escape from jail]]}}.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Oh so many, it now has its [[The Simpsons (animation)/Memes|own section]].

** Many fans may not remember how when The Simpsons first came out, Bart was the central character and almost everything he said and/or did became a meme.

*** And the majority of the more recent episodes are insanely anti-religious, particularly Christian (one of the big criticisms of [[Flanderization]]).

** The episode "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays" portays anybody who doesn't have kids of their own as a borderline [[Complete Monster]] who hates kids and is wasting their life.

* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: Kang and Kodos are brother and ''sister''.

* [[Watch It for the Meme]]: People only watch "22 Short Films About Springfield" to see where "Steamed Hams" came from.