History ComicBook / TheSimpsons

* TheLongList: Marge recounts every single job Homer's ever taken. It takes several hours.

* LongRunner

* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Happens to Ned Flanders after he's lost in the woods for weeks during a camping trip and is presumed dead.

* OpeningShoutOut: A one-page comic in Treehouse of Horror 15, "Cloud 13," depicts the show's intro sequence as a recurring nightmare experienced by the whole family.

* HypocriteHasAPoint: In Issue 6, Lisa and Otto become a joint musical sensation after a studio accidentally records both their music on the same tape, and Lisa joins Otto's band. Just when they're about to play a big show in Capital City, Bleeding Gums Murphy chides Lisa for being a SellOut, causing her to realize she's compromised her artistic vision for acceptance and leave the band on the spot. Bleeding Gums ''instantly'' offers to sit in for the gig, stating that unlike her he can't afford to be principled. Frustrated though she is by this, she still feels she made the right call.

* FencePainting: Tasked with cleaning out the house's storm gutters, Bart attempts this on Rod and Todd. It backfires because Rod is so nice that he doesn't want to take away any of Bart's fun, so Bart just threatens to frame them both for graffiti-writing instead.

* HypocriteHasAPoint: In Issue 6, Lisa and Otto become a joint musical sensation after a studio accidentally records both their music on the same tape, and Lisa joins Otto's band. Just when they're about to play a big show in Capital City, Bleeding Gums Murphy chides Lisa for being a SellOut, causing her to realize she's compromised her artistic vision for acceptance and leave the band on the spot. Bleeding Gums ''instantly'' offers to sit in for the gig, stating that he can't afford to be principled. Frustrated though she is by this, she still feels she made the right call.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The story "It's In the Cards" has Homer pull some CameraSpoofing so that he can skip work to attend a baseball game. Burns thinks the picture is frozen, and in his scramble to outrun Burns' Stormtrooper-esque maintenance crew so as not to get caught coming back, Homer knocks the picture down from the camera, hitting a button which causes a power outage affecting the freezer at Springfield Elementary where the teachers' food is stored. The teachers all get sick and are replaced by substitutes while they recover, [[HalfwayPlotSwitch kicking off]] a SwappedRoles plot for Bart and Lisa (Bart's substitute likes him and trusts him with responsibilities while Lisa's dislikes her and treats her like a troublemaker) that ends badly for both of them. In a moment of DramaticIrony, Homer then scorns Marge's [[AnAesop aesop]] about how the important thing is that they should do their best despite the fact that, inevitably, "sometimes our actions have unforeseeable consequences."

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: One story has Homer pull some CameraSpoofing so that he can skip work to attend a baseball game. Burns thinks the picture is frozen, and in his scramble to outrun Burns' Stormtrooper-esque maintenance crew so as not to get caught coming back, Homer knocks the picture down from the camera, hitting a button which causes a power outage affecting the freezer at Springfield Elementary where the teachers' food is stored. The teachers all get sick and are replaced by substitutes while they recover, kicking off a SwappedRoles plot for Bart and Lisa (Bart's substitute likes him and trusts him with responsibilities while Lisa's dislikes her and treats her like a troublemaker) that ends badly for both of them. In a moment of DramaticIrony, Homer then scorns Marge's [[AnAesop aesop]] about how the important thing is that they should do their best despite the fact that, inevitably, "sometimes our actions have unforeseeable consequences."

* GuiltByAssociationGag: In Issue 2, Skinner summons Milhouse for punishment along with Bart even though he wasn't involved in Bart's latest, responding to his protest with "Let this be a lesson to you, young man--we're judged by the company we keep. [[DrunkWithPower Besides, arbitrary punishment is a prerogative of power]]." {{Justified}} in that, as it turns out, Skinner has a shot at being named "Disciplinarian of the Year" at an upcoming convention for school principals, and sees cracking down on repeat offenders (of which Milhouse is one) as the key to his success.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: One story has Homer leave a picture of himself in front of the camera monitoring him so he can skip work to attend a baseball game. Burns thinks the picture is frozen, and in his scramble to outrun Burns' Stormtrooper-esque maintenance crew so as not to get caught coming back, Homer knocks the picture down from the camera, hitting a button which causes a power outage affecting the freezer at Springfield Elementary where the teachers' food is stored. The teachers all get sick and are replaced by substitutes while they recover, kicking off a SwappedRoles plot for Bart and Lisa (Bart's substitute likes him and trusts him with responsibilities while Lisa's dislikes her and treats her like a troublemaker) that ends badly for both of them. In a moment of DramaticIrony, Homer then scorns Marge's [[AnAesop aesop]] about how the important thing is that they should do their best despite the fact that, inevitably, "sometimes our actions have unforeseeable consequences."

* SwappedRoles: [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling Bart and Lisa]] experience this when [[TheFoodPoisoningIncident the teachers get food poisoning]] and are replaced by substitutes. Bart's substitute [[MistakenForProfound reads profundity]] into all his improvised school assignments, causing him to favor Bart with a special project for the school's upcoming craft fair, while Lisa's is fascistic to the point of seeing her as a troublemaker for asking questions and wanting to learn, giving her Bart-typical punishments such as WritingLines. Oddly enough, they both manage to get their typical grades anyway: Bart fails the craft fair assignment, not so much because all he has to show for his effort is a stick as because the teacher [[TakeThat assumes he's ripping off Marcel Duchamp]], while Lisa's teacher misinterprets her artwork in praise of multiculturalism as a satirical comment ''against'' multiculturalism and gives her an A, [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame which she takes about as happily as Bart takes the F]].

* SwappedRoles: Bart and Lisa experience this when [[TheFoodPoisoningIncident all the teachers get food poisoning]] and are replaced by substitutes. Bart's substitute [[MistakenForProfound reads profundity]] into all his improvised school assignments, causing him to favor Bart with a special project for the school's upcoming craft fair, while Lisa's is fascistic to the point of seeing her as a troublemaker for asking questions and wanting to learn, giving her Bart-typical punishments such as WritingLines. Oddly enough, they both manage to get their typical grades anyway: Bart fails the craft fair assignment, not so much because all he has to show for his effort is a stick as because the teacher [[TakeThat assumes he's ripping off Marcel Duchamp]], while Lisa's teacher misinterprets her artwork in praise of multiculturalism as a satirical comment ''against'' multiculturalism and gives her an A, [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame which she takes about as happily as Bart takes the F]].

* SwappedRoles: Bart and Lisa experience this when [[TheFoodPoisoningIncident all the teachers get food poisoning]] and are replaced by substitutes. Bart's substitute loves symbolism and [[MistakenForProfound reads profundity]] into all his improvised school assignments, causing him to favor Bart with a special project for the school's upcoming craft fair, while Lisa's is fascistic to the point of seeing her as a troublemaker for asking questions and wanting to learn, giving her Bart-typical punishments such as WritingLines. Oddly enough, they both manage to get their typical grades anyway: Bart fails the craft fair assignment, not so much because all he has to show for his effort is a stick as because the teacher [[TakeThat thinks he's ripping off Marcel Duchamp]], while Lisa's teacher misinterprets her artwork in praise of multiculturalism as a satirical comment ''against'' multiculturalism and gives her an A, [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame which she takes about as happily as Bart takes the F]].

* SwappedRoles: Bart and Lisa experience this when [[TheFoodPoisoningIncident all the teachers get food poisoning]] and are replaced by substitutes. Bart's substitute loves symbolism and [[MistakenForProfound reads profundity]] into all his hastily-improvised school assignments, causing him to favor Bart with a special project for the school's upcoming craft fair, while Lisa's is fascistic to the point of seeing her as a troublemaker for asking questions and wanting to learn, giving her punishments Bart would typically get such as WritingLines. Oddly enough, they both manage to get their typical grades anyway: Bart fails the craft fair assignment, not so much because all he has to show for his effort is a stick as because the teacher [[TakeThat thinks he's ripping off Marcel Duchamp]], while Lisa's teacher misinterprets her artwork in praise of multiculturalism as a satirical comment ''against'' multiculturalism and gives her an A, [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame which she takes about as well as Bart took the F]].

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: One story has Homer leave a picture of himself in front of the camera monitoring him so he can skip work to attend a baseball game. Burns thinks the picture is frozen, so when Homer returns, he has to outrun Burns' Stormtrooper-esque maintenance crew so as not to get caught coming back. He succeeds, but knocks the picture down from the camera, hitting a button which causes a power outage affecting the freezer at Springfield Elementary where the teachers' food is stored. The teachers all get sick and are replaced by substitutes while they recover, kicking off a SwappedRoles plot for Bart and Lisa (Bart's substitute likes him and trusts him with responsibilities while Lisa's dislikes her and treats her like a troublemaker) that ends badly for both of them. In a moment of DramaticIrony, Homer then scorns Marge's [[AnAesop aesop]] about how the important thing is that they should do their best despite the fact that, inevitably, "sometimes our actions have unforeseeable consequences."
-->'''Homer:''' ''([[FunnyBackgroundEvent as the health department detonates the contaminated freezer behind him]])'' Kids, don't worry about that "unforeseeable consequences" baloney. Just remember that we love you, even if you ''are'' failures!

* {{Superdickery}}: In a spoof of old-school romance genre comics, the cover page for the story "Patty & Selma's Ill-Fated Romance: My Sister, My Homewrecker!", Homer is caught canoodling with ''Selma'' of all people. (It was actually a realistic dummy of Homer that she was romancing as part of a complicated therapy exercise, if you were wondering.)