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** He probably could of got her if hadn't revealed himself as Satan ''before'' she actually signed it.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: In real life the flu doesn't kick in as quickly as it did to SSCCATAG.
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** Marge expresses ParentalFavouritism towards Maggie and ignores her other kids and Homer when it comes to how tired they are of listening to it over and over again. She then treats Bart and Lisa and other kids as pawns in her scheme to get rid of SSCCATAG.
** Maggie's forcing the rest of the family to listen to Rooffi on repeat for days on end. It gets to the point that she snarls and death glares at Bart and torments the family.
* JerkassHasAPoint: SSCCATAG (Particularly Lindsay Naegle) has a point that kids caused a ton of damage at the Roofi concert and all of the problems and additional expenses they cause for childfree people. Then they waste little time in JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
** Marge expresses ParentalFavouritism towards Maggie and ignores her other kids and Homer when it comes to how tired they are of listening to it over and over again. She then treats Bart and Lisa and other kids as pawns in her scheme to get rid of SSCCATAG.
** Maggie's forcing the rest of the family to listen to Rooffi on repeat for days on end. It gets to the point that she snarls and death glares at Bart and torments the family.
* JerkassHasAPoint: SSCCATAG (Particularly Lindsay Naegle) has a point that kids caused a ton of damage at the Roofi concert and all of the problems and additional expenses they cause for childfree people. Then they waste little time in JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: The ad for Mothers Against "Families Come First" runs on this:
-->'''TV Mom:''' As a mother, I love my family. That's why I'm against the "Families Come First" initiative. "Families Come First" will hurt families, and I love my family too much for that.
-->'''TV Mom:''' As a mother, I love my family. That's why I'm against the "Families Come First" initiative. "Families Come First" will hurt families, and I love my family too much for that.
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* EarWorm: InUniverse. Maggie really enjoys Roofi's song and keeps listening to it over and over. Marge likes it because Maggie likes it, but the repetition drives the rest of the family crazy.
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* ItWontTurnOff: The radio Marge placed in Maggie's room and plays Roofi's song incessantly happens to have battery ''and'' solar backup power, which she reveals after [[CutTheJuice Homer unplugs it and Lisa rips out the batteries]], respectively.
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* ItWontTurnOff: The radio Marge placed in Maggie's room and plays Roofi's song incessantly happens to have battery ''and'' solar backup power, which she reveals after [[CutTheJuice Homer Lisa unplugs it and Lisa rips out the batteries]], respectively.
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* ItWontTurnOff: The radio Marge placed in Maggie's room and plays Roofi's song incessantly happens to have battery ''and'' solar backup power, which she reveals after Homer unplugs it and Lisa rips out the batteries, respectively.
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* ItWontTurnOff: The radio Marge placed in Maggie's room and plays Roofi's song incessantly happens to have battery ''and'' solar backup power, which she reveals after [[CutTheJuice Homer unplugs it and Lisa rips out the batteries, batteries]], respectively.
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* ChildHater: The SSCCATAG is a whole group of them. Their motto is "The children are our future; today belongs to ''me''."
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* ChildHater: The SSCCATAG is a whole group of them. Their motto is "The children are our future; today belongs to ''me''."" The climax even exaggerates it -- somehow the whole group is so anti-kid that they never got infected with the flu when they were kids, and when kids give it to them they instantly drop half-dead.
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* IncessantMusicMadness: Maggie's love of Roofi's song is demonstrated in a montage where Marge plays it constantly, at all hours, [[ItWontTurnOff in a radio with multiple back-up power sources so it can only be smashed]] (which will upset Maggie), which drives the rest of the family crazy (at one point Bart even begs Krabappel to give him detention just so he won't have to listen to the song for a few more hours, but she refuses).
* ItWontTurnOff: The radio Marge placed in Maggie's room and plays Roofi's song incessantly happens to have battery ''and'' solar backup power, which she reveals after Homer unplugs it and Lisa rips out the batteries, respectively.
* ItWontTurnOff: The radio Marge placed in Maggie's room and plays Roofi's song incessantly happens to have battery ''and'' solar backup power, which she reveals after Homer unplugs it and Lisa rips out the batteries, respectively.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Averted. One of the supporters for the pro-family initiative is a nicotine seller, attempting to bribe Marge with a check. When she tears it, it turns out said seller is in fact Satan and he is DraggedOffToHell
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* DealWithTheDevil: Averted. One of the supporters for the pro-family initiative is a nicotine seller, tobacco lobbyist, attempting to bribe Marge with a check. When she tears it, it turns out said seller lobbyist is in fact Satan and he is DraggedOffToHell DraggedOffToHell.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Averted. One of the supporters for the pro-family initiative is a nicotine seller, attempting to bribe Marge with a check. When she tears it, it turns out said seller is in fact Satan and he is DraggedOffToHell
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The whole Roofi concert was lifted from a little incident called the Altamont Free Concert... And that's not getting to the fact Roofi himself [[UnfortunateNames shares names with a powerful drug]].
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The whole Roofi concert was lifted from a little incident called the Altamont Free Concert... And that's not getting to the fact Roofi himself [[UnfortunateNames shares names with a powerful drug]].
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* EvilOldFolks: One of the notable "senior" members of SSCCATAG is Agnes Skinner.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Almost everybody who is a member of SSCCATAG other than Lindsay Naegle. Moe and Smithers had been showcased on various prior episodes that they have no problem being around children (and in one Moe becomes fully stalker-levels of obsessed with being nice to Maggie). On this episode, they are every bit as militantly hateful of them as the rest.
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* DeathGlare: Maggie gives off quite a glare when Bart shuts Roofi off on her.
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** When Roofi talks about the upcoming concert, he says that if the kids don't buy tickets, one of the shows' mascots will die. die (even showing the mascot with multiple bandages and in crutches). This is similar to televangelist Oral Roberts' saying that "God will call him home" unless his viewers gave money to help find fund his hospital.
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** When Roofi talks about the upcoming concert, he says that if the kids don't buy tickets, one of the shows' mascots will die. This is similar to televangelist Oral Roberts' saying that "God will call him home" unless his viewers gave money to help find his hospital.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The Springfield Police's attempt to pacify the riot at the Roofi concert has them beating up ''babies'' with their batons (just barely off-screen).
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* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Roofi acts like a perky kid-friendly musician, but is actually a greedy manipulative con man.
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* ParentalFavouritism: Marge towards Maggie. It doesn't matter how much the rest of her family clearly hates the song, as long as Magge likes it she refuses to ever let it stop playing.
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* ParentalFavouritism: Marge towards Maggie. It doesn't matter how much the rest of her family clearly hates the song, as long as Magge Maggie likes it she refuses to ever let it stop playing.
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** The riot is referred to as [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar The Tot Offensive.
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** The riot is referred to as [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar The Tot Offensive.Offensive]].
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* ChildrenAreAWaste: The SSCCATAG believes this to a pretty big extreme. The conflict of the episode after they are introduced is that, if their proposal passes, things will be a hell of a lot harder for children (and their parents) within Springfield.
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* {{Sexophone}}: Plays in one scene where, thanks to the SSCCATAG's Proposal 242 being functional in a preliminary manner, Springfield Public Library's "Young Adult" section is changed to a ''fully'' "Adult" section.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: The SSCCATAG is prevented from voting in favor of their Proposition by means of having a bunch of kids infecting them with the flu, that they all seem to have never contracted in their entire life because of being anti-kid.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Burns supports the pro-family initiative because he loves children, particularly their supple young organs.
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*NotHelpingYourCase: Prop 242 is using the same website as Al-Jazeera.
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** The riot is referred to as [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar The Tot Offensive.
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* StealthHiBye: The families when Marge reveals her proposition, Marge when she’s left to pay, and Luigi when the man from the US immigration department shows up.
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* CheatedAngle: A very odd case of it. Usually, the characters' mouths are drawn appropriately when a character is facing the camera, which is most noticeable during the first season. However, during the final scene, when Moe starts getting sick from contact with children, pausing the cartoon shows that whenever he faces the camera as he turns his head, his mouth is drawn as if he's still on a side view, and in [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S15E08/1209500.jpg both]] [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S15E08/1210126.jpg angles]] at that.
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* PeripheryHatedom: In-universe. The Roofi song that Marge plays non-stop for Maggie drives Bart, Lisa, and Homer crazy, to the point where Bart actually begs for Mrs. Krabappel to make him stay after school and write something on the chalkboard a thousand times. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to turn off the CD player by unplugging it (only to find out it's backed up by batteries and a solar panel), and Homer tries to smash the CD player in the middle of the night with a hammer.
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* PeripheryHatedom: In-universe. The Roofi song that Marge plays non-stop for Maggie drives Bart, Lisa, and Homer crazy, to the point where Bart actually begs for Mrs. Krabappel to make him stay after school and write something on the chalkboard a thousand times. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to turn off the CD player by unplugging it (only to find out it's backed up by batteries and -- when she takes those batteries out -- a solar panel), and Homer tries to smash the CD player in the middle of the night with a hammer.
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* ParentalFavouritism: Marge towards Maggie. It doesn't matter how much the rest of her family clearly hates the song, as long as Magge likes it she refuses to ever let it stop playing.
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* SatusQuoIsGod: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d:
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* SatusQuoIsGod: StatusQuoIsGod: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d:
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''(Marge [[EyeRoll rolls her eyes]] eyes while the third Dramatic {{Sting}} plays.)''
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Marge's thoughts on the Teletubbies:
-->'''Marge:''' They make the Music/BlueManGroup look like Mummenschanz, which is still pretty good.
-->'''Marge:''' They make the Music/BlueManGroup look like Mummenschanz, which is still pretty good.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Homer's support ad for Families Come First ends with the message "Yes on 232" instead of "Yes on 242". In addition, the bumper stickers that are supposed to support Marge's cause were misspelled to say "Yes no 242". It's impossible to fix all these mistakes because it's the night of the election.
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** To ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}''. One of them appears at the concert.
--> '''Announcer:''' And now, our opening act, in their first live show since Tinky Winky was acquitted of manslaughter.
--> '''Teletubby:''' Not guilty!
--> '''Announcer:''' And now, our opening act, in their first live show since Tinky Winky was acquitted of manslaughter.
--> '''Teletubby:''' Not guilty!
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** To ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}''. One The title characters of them appears at ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' open the Roofi concert.
--> '''Announcer:''' And now, our opening act, in their first live show since Tinky Winky was acquitted ofmanslaughter.
--> '''Teletubby:'''manslaughter...\\
'''Tinky Winky:''' Not guilty!
--> '''Announcer:''' And now, our opening act, in their first live show since Tinky Winky was acquitted of
--> '''Teletubby:'''
'''Tinky Winky:''' Not guilty!
* SatusQuoIsGod: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d:
-->'''Marge:''' Looks like everything's back the way it was, which is the only way it should ever be.
-->'''Marge:''' Looks like everything's back the way it was, which is the only way it should ever be.
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* CreditsGag: Roofi's repetitive counting song plays over the ending credits.
* EarWorm: InUniverse. Maggie really enjoys Roofi's song and keeps listening to it over and over. Marge likes it because Maggie likes it, but the repetition drivesBart and Lisa the rest of the family crazy.
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* {{Sting}}: Played [[RuleOfThree three times in one scene]] -- when Marge reveals she had drawn up a petition for her Families Come First initiative, when she claims it's getting on the ballot in the March primary election, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking this bit at the end]]:
-->'''Bart:''' Mom, can we get a pretzel?\\
'''Marge:''' We've got pretzels at home.\\
'''Bart:''' Not cinnamon.\\
''(Marge [[EyeRoll rolls her eyes]] while the third {{Sting}} plays.)''
-->'''Bart:''' Mom, can we get a pretzel?\\
'''Marge:''' We've got pretzels at home.\\
'''Bart:''' Not cinnamon.\\
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* PeripheryHatedom: In-universe. The Roofi song that Marge plays non-stop for Maggie drives Bart, Lisa, and Homer crazy, to the point where Bart actually begs for Mrs. Krabappel to make him stay after school and write something on the chalkboard a thousand times. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to turn off the CD player by unplugging it (only to find out it's backed up by batteries and a solar panel), and Homer tries to smash the CD player in the middle of the night with a hammer.
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* WritingLines: At one point, Bart begs for Mrs. Krabappel to make him stay after school and write something on the chalkboard 1000 times so he doesn't have to go home and listen to the Roofi song that Maggie is addicted to. He even tells her that he should be punished for giving the gerbil coffee. Mrs. Krabappel tells him, "We all got tired of that chalkboard years ago. Now go home!" Around this time, the amount of chalkboard gags was reduced.
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* ChildHater: The SSCCATAG is a whole group of them. Their motto is "The children are our future; today belongs to ''me''."
* EarWorm: InUniverse. Maggie really enjoys Roofi's song and keeps listening to it over and over. Marge likes it because Maggie likes it, but the repetition drives Bart and Lisa crazy.
* EarWorm: InUniverse. Maggie really enjoys Roofi's song and keeps listening to it over and over. Marge likes it because Maggie likes it, but the repetition drives Bart and Lisa crazy.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}''. One of them appears at the concert.
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** To ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}''. One of them appears at the concert.
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** The concert scenes spoof footage from ''Film/{{Woodstock}}'' and ''Film/GimmeShelter''.
** The SSCCATAG is defeated when the children hug them and they succumb to the ordinary germs they carry in a spoof of ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. Lisa even quotes a line from the 1953 movie version.
** The SSCCATAG is defeated when the children hug them and they succumb to the ordinary germs they carry in a spoof of ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. Lisa even quotes a line from the 1953 movie version.
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Read more: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-simpsons&episode=s15e08
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When a group of singles, seniors, childless couples, teenagers, and homosexuals band together to protest having to accommodate families (including paying property taxes used to teach children they do not have) after a riot at a children's concert, Marge takes up the cause for the families, with some help from Bart and Lisa.
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* EarWorm: Maggie really enjoys Roofi's song and keeps listening to it over and over. Marge likes it because Maggie likes it, but the repetition drives Bart and Lisa crazy.
* PoliceBrutality: Eddie, Lou and Chief Wiggum's intervention at Rooffi's concert. The little kids and their moms get beaten off with batons.
--> '''Lou:''' I don't feel right clubbing women and children, chief.\\
'''Wiggum:''' I hear ya. Some days are tougher than others. Just close your eyes and club.
* ShoutOut: To ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}''. One of them appears at the concert.
--> '''Announcer:''' And now, our opening act, in their first live show since Tinky Winky was acquitted of manslaughter.
--> '''Teletubby:''' Not guilty!
Read more: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-simpsons&episode=s15e08
* WaveOfBabies: There is a riot in the form of a wave of angry babies at Roofi's concert, who converge on police officers and are beaten off with batons.
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* EarWorm: Maggie really enjoys Roofi's song and keeps listening to it over and over. Marge likes it because Maggie likes it, but the repetition drives Bart and Lisa crazy.
* PoliceBrutality: Eddie, Lou and Chief Wiggum's intervention at Rooffi's concert. The little kids and their moms get beaten off with batons.
--> '''Lou:''' I don't feel right clubbing women and children, chief.\\
'''Wiggum:''' I hear ya. Some days are tougher than others. Just close your eyes and club.
* ShoutOut: To ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}''. One of them appears at the concert.
--> '''Announcer:''' And now, our opening act, in their first live show since Tinky Winky was acquitted of manslaughter.
--> '''Teletubby:''' Not guilty!
Read more: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-simpsons&episode=s15e08
* WaveOfBabies: There is a riot in the form of a wave of angry babies at Roofi's concert, who converge on police officers and are beaten off with batons.
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