History Recap / TheSimpsonsS15E3ThePresidentWorePearls

* AdvertisedExtra: At least one TV guide describes the episode's plot as, "Creator/MichaelMoore supports Lisa's cause when she stages a revolt at school," but he only appears as a cameo for fifteen seconds. (Additionally, the revolt only happens in [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil the third act of the episode]].)

** It might have worked in Japan though, assuming the plan was to get rid of student clubs (but the problem then becomes, it was ''classes'' he wanted to remove).

* BlatantLies: [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope On advice from their lawyers]], the people responsible for the episode swear they have never heard of a musical based on the life of Eva Perón.

%%* MusicalEpisode

* ManipulativeBastard: Skinner, who gets Martian to retire as student body president, has Lisa elected in his place and uses her as a scapegoat to get away with his EvilPlan.

* TookALevelInDumbass: After the Casino night, Homer is basically sidelined into doing non sequitur until end, when he pulls Lisa out of the magnet school.

* FantasyForbiddingFather: Exaggerated. Homer shoots down all of Lisa's dreams, staring with going to a better school by arrangement with Skinner and Chalmers, because he is too lazy to want to perform any supporting actions.

* ManipulativeBastard:

** Martin is blamed for the disastrous casino night, even though it was the attendants' fault for not realizing that a friggin ''school'' wouldn't be running a real casino.
* MusicalEpisode.

** Martin's scheme with the fake casino is mentioned by him to have been based on an episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' (probably a fictional one). Of course, the fact that ''the exact same thing'' (people rioting when it's discovered that they didn't really win anything) happened on the ''Saved by the Bell'' episode [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't clue Martin about how the adults would react...]]

* WouldHurtAChild: When Homer was trying to cash in his winnings at the casino, he threatened Martin, saying "You think I won't manhandle a little boy?!".

** Martin is blamed for the disastrous casino night, even though it was the attendants' fault for not realizing that a friggin ''school'' wouldnt be running a real casino.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Skinner wants to lower Springfield Elementary's budget. A worthy endeavor, that. How does he plan to carry this out? By removing gym, music and art from the school's curriculum. [[SarcasmMode Right, that won't hurt the kids at all.]]

* MisBlamed: Everyone blames Skinner for the budget cutbacks because he's the one who has to make them, ignoring the school's ridiculously low budget, the government's constant budget cuts and the adults of Springfield refusing even minor tax increases to actually keep the school running properly.

* ShoutOut: One of the songs has Lisa saying "Let's [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen Olsen-twin]] me."

* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: When Homer was trying to cash his winnings at the school casino, he declared he wanted half of it in cash and other half in cases to carry it.

!!''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode “The President Wore Pearls” provides examples of the following tropes:

* AdamWesting: Controversial documentary maker and Simpsons fan Creator/MichaelMoore, who has something of an appetite for accusations of factual flippancy, has a ten-second cameo appearance as himself, introduced as a “professional butt-in-ski” to offer rhetorical support to Lisa’s student strike. He rather readily admits to Kent Brockman that he found his claim that “kids who don’t have music and art are ten times more likely to fail in life and appear in one of [his] movies” from this source: “{{Your mo|m}}ther!” He also provides extensive commentary about the episode on the Season 15 DVD.

* {{Dissimile}}: Marge compares Lisa, once installed as president, to “Geraldine Ferraro … except she lost.”

* TookALevelInDumbass: After the Casino night, Homer is basically sidelined into doing non sequitur.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Skinner wants to lower Springfield Elementary’s budget. A worthy endeavor, that. How does he plan to carry this out? By removing gym, music and art from the school’s curriculum. [[SarcasmMode Right, that won’t hurt the kids at all.]]

* ShoutOut: One of the songs has Lisa saying "Let's [[MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen Olsen-twin]] me."

* BriefcseFullfMoney: When Homer was trying to cash his winnings at the school casino, he declared he wanted half of it in cash and other half in cases to carry it.

** Martin's scheme with the fake casino is mentioned by him to have been based on an episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' (probably a fictional one). Of course, the fact that ''the exact same thing'' (people rioting when it's discovered that they didn't really win anything) happened on the ''Saved by the Bell'' episode didn't clue Martin about how the adults would react...
* TookALevelInDumbass: After the Casino night Homer is basically sidelined into doing non sequitur.

* CharityBall: The "casino" version (GoneHorriblyWrong because none of the adults cared to read the ads Martin had sent out well in advance and didn't know the casino didn't hand out money prizes--and [[{{Jerkass}} their reaction to finding this out (thanks to Homer getting angry when he found out)]] [[PowderKegCrowd was to erupt into a riot and smash everything]] is what starts the whole plot.

* AdamWesting: Controversial documentary maker and Simpsons fan Creator/MichaelMoore, who has something of an appetite for accusations of factual flippancy, has a ten-second cameo appearance as himself, introduced as a “professional butt-in-ski” to offer rhetorical support to Lisa’s student strike. He rather readily admits to Kent Brockman that he found his claim that “kids who don’t have music and art are ten times more likely to fail in life and appear in one of [his] movies” from this source: “{{Your mo|m}}ther!” He also provides extensive commentary about the episode on the Season 15 DVD.

* TookALevelInDumbass: After the Casino night Homer is basically sidelined into doing non sequitur.

** Martin's scheme with the fake casino is mentioned by him to have been based on an episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' (probably a fictional one). Of course, the fact that ''the exact same thing'' (people rioting when it's discovered that they didn't really win anything) happened on the ''Saved by the Bell'' episode didn't clued Martin about how the adults would react...

** Martin is blamed for the disastrous casino night, even though it was the attendants fault for not realizing that a friggin ''school'' wouldnt be running a real casino.

* MisBlamed: Everyone blames Skinner for the budget cutbacks because he's the one who has to make them, ignoring the schools ridiculously low budget, the goverments constant budget cuts and the adults of Springfield refusing even minor tax increases to actually keep the school running properly.

* ShoutOut: One of the songs has Lisa saying "Let's [[MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen Olsen-twin]] me".