History Recap / TheSimpsonsS10E18SimpsonsBibleStories

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: A ThreeShorts Easter episode featuring Biblical story parodies and featuring a non-canon ending (the Simpsons going to Hell while the Flanderses ascend into Heaven; though Lisa had a chance to go to Heaven, only [[{{Jerkass}} for Homer to pull her down]]).

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Avoided with Ralph's gravestone, as it says he lived from 975-970 BC, because BC years run backwards.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Avoided with Ralph's gravestone, as it says he lived from 975-970 BC, as BC years run backwards.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Ralph's gravestone says he lived from 955-970 BC, but BC years run backwards.

* WomenAreWiser: Homer and Lisa's dream sequence are rewritten to invoke this. In Homer's retelling of Adam and Eve, it is Adam rather than Eve that first eats the fruit and tempts their partner ([[DirtyCoward with Adam pushing all blame onto Eve on top of it]]), while in Lisa's dream she basically poses as herself instigating all of Moses' plans, with Moses only there are TheScapegoat, and, being Milhouse, an incompetent coward.

* SelectiveEnforcement: Despite Homer having bit in the apple first, God misses the obvious evidence, gets mad when Marge does the same and only throws her out of Paradise as a result.

* IronicHell: At the very end, after the Flanders' ascend to {{Heaven}}, and Homer stops Lisa's ascension, an opening to {{Hell}} opens up on the ground, and Homer, ever the BigEater runs down the stairs when he smells hotdogs. Upon reaching the bottom, he screams in despair when he finds out there's no more hotdogs, and the only food available is coleslaw with pineapple slices and German egg salad.

* BaitAndSwitch: In Homer's DreamSequence as King Solomon, he splits the pie into two... then orders Lenny and Carl to be killed, before eating the pie.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: This episode takes '''many''' liberties. Two stand out examples include Adam eating the forbidden fruit first when the Scriptures states Eve did so, and the ''very'' inaccurate depiction of the Plagues of Egypt.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Ralph Wiggam's gravestone says he lived from 955-970 BC, but BC years run backwards.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Ralph Wiggam's gravestone says he lived from 955-970 BC, but BC years run backwards.

* SeventiesHair: Marge (as Eve) has her hair down, straight, and parted in the middle, just like in flashbacks to when she was a teenager in TheSeventies.

** When Nelson arises from the rubble of his castle, he strikes the same pose as Chernobog from Disney/{{Fantasia}}, while a snippet from "Night On Bald Mountain" is heard (his hair is even spiked up to resemble Chernobog's horns).

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: A ThreeShorts Easter episode featuring Biblical story parodies and featuring a non-canon ending (the Simpsons going to Hell while the Flanderses ascend into Heaven. Though Lisa had a chance to go to Heaven, only [[{{Jerkass}} for Homer to pull her down]]).

* PrayerIsALastResort: When the Pharaoh comes for the slaves at the Red Sea, Milhouse/Moses is ready to prayer to ''the Egyptians''' gods.

-->'''Bart:''' Hope I don't give you...heartburn!

-->'''Homer''': Both men shall receive...death. I'll eat the pie.

** When Bart is arrested by Chief Wiggum, he says: "Where's your Messiah now?". This is a reference to ''Film/TheTenCommandments'' where actor Edward G. Robinson (on whom Wiggum's voice is based) is [[BeamMeUpScotty popularly believed]] to say the same to Moses (he doesn't).

* DoubleStandard:
** God throws Eve (Marge) out of Paradise for biting in the apple, even though Adam (Homer) bit the apple first. Justified because God didn't see Adam doing it.
** Several Simpsons contributors who were very religious weren't offended by the episode, though only because it mostly poked fun at the Old Testament and not the New Testament.

* HypocriticalHumor: Despite Homer having bit in the apple first, God only gets mad when Marge does the same and only throws her out of Paradise as a result.

* Literature/TheBible: The main inspiration, though most of the stories are taken from the Old Testament.

-->'''Marge''': It's the Apocalypse! Bart, are you wearing clean underwear?
-->'''Bart''': Not anymore.
* CallBack: Homer lamenting not using his pizza coupons may be a reference to the pizza coupons he got on "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday". The pig in Eden is similar to the pig from Homer's dream in "King-Size Homer" who encouraged him to gain 61 pounds to become obese and acquire disability.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Lisa tells Moses (Milhouse) that the Jews will wander in the desert for 40 years. Milhouse then asks: "But after that everything will turn out well for the Jews, right?"

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Milhouse says these exact words when the Pharaoh confronts him and the slaves at the Red Sea.
** Santa's Little Helper also does this after seeing Goliath.

** Bart (as King David) is addressed by Santa's Little Helper with the words: "I don't know, Daaaaavey." This is a reference to WesternAnimation/DaveyAndGoliath.
** When Bart is arrested by Chief Wiggum, he says: "Where's your Messiah now?". This is a reference to Film/TheTenCommandments where actor Edward G. Robinson (on whom Wiggum's voice is based) is [[BeamMeUpScotty popularly believed]] to say the same to Moses (he doesn't).

* TakeThat: After Homer and Marge are thrown out of paradise, Homer remarks that they will be let back in pretty soon, after all: "God can't stay mad forever, right?"

* TemptingFate: When Moses dumps frogs on the Pharaoh:
-->'''Moses:''' Well, we spent all of our money, but it was WorthIt. Now he's ''gotta'' let us go!\\

During an Easter Vigil, Reverend Lovejoy finds a chocolate bunny in the collection plate. Since no one in the congregation confesses to doing it (though it's shown that Homer did so), he punishes them with a thorough reading of the entire Bible, prompting four Simpsonized takes on popular Biblical tales: Homer and Marge are Adam and Eve (with Flanders as God and Snake as [what else?] the snake that tempts Eve into partaking of the forbidden fruit), Milhouse as Moses leading Egyptian slave children to the Promised Land, Homer as King Solomon presiding over a dispute about a pie, and Bart as David out to defeat Goliath Nelson.

During an Easter Vigil, Reverend Lovejoy finds a chocolate bunny in the collection plate. Since no one in the congregation confesses to doing so (though it's implied that Homer did it), he punishes them with a thorough reading of the entire Bible, prompting four Simpsonized takes on popular Biblical tales: Homer and Marge are Adam and Eve (with Flanders as God and Snake as [what else?] the snake that tempts Eve into partaking of the forbidden fruit), Milhouse as Moses leading Egyptian slave children to the Promised Land, Homer as King Solomon presiding over a dispute about a pie, and Bart as David out to defeat Goliath Nelson.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: This episode takes '''many''' liberties. Two stand out examples include Adam eating the forbidden fruit first when the Scriptures states Eve did so first and the ''very'' inaccurate depiction of the Plagues of Egypt.

* Literature/TheBible: Main inspiration, though most of the stories are taken from the Old Testament.

* CallBack: Homer lamenting not using his pizza coupons may be a reference to the pizza coupons he got on "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday".
** The pig in Eden is similar to the pig from Homer's dream in "King-Size Homer" who encouraged him to gain 61 pounds to become obese and acquire disability.

* TheDinosaursHadItComing: According to the pig in the Garden of Eden, one of the dinosaurs ate fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and well... that was the end of them.