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* ComicallySmallDemand: Bart offers to sell nuclear secrets to America's enemies in exchange for a ''dirtbike''.
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* BrilliantButLazy: Motivated by the misapprehension that he'll be rewarded with the bike he badly wants, Bart studies for hours and manages to get an A on a math test.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Bart loves his ill-gotten minibike so much that he takes it to bed with him. Upon buying him the same bike, Homer asks, "Want me to take it up to your bed so you can snuggle with it?"
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: StrangeMindsThinkAlike:
** Deciding to use Homer to gain nuclear secrets, Bart tells him that he appreciates the lesson Homer taught him earlier and wants to start spending more time with him.
--->'''Bart:''' ''(thinking)'' He's buying it!
--->'''Homer:''' ''(thinking)'' I'm buying it!
** Bart loves his ill-gotten minibike so much that he takes it to bed with him. Upon buying him the same bike, Homer asks, "Want me to take it up to your bed so you can snuggle with it?"
** Deciding to use Homer to gain nuclear secrets, Bart tells him that he appreciates the lesson Homer taught him earlier and wants to start spending more time with him.
--->'''Bart:''' ''(thinking)'' He's buying it!
--->'''Homer:''' ''(thinking)'' I'm buying it!
** Bart loves his ill-gotten minibike so much that he takes it to bed with him. Upon buying him the same bike, Homer asks, "Want me to take it up to your bed so you can snuggle with it?"
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* ToughLove: Applying a lesson he's learned from his new favorite 80s sitcom, Homer doesn't reward Bart for getting a good grade, attempting to teach him that success derived from hard work is a reward in itself. Bart couldn't care less about this and feels he's been ripped off.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Both Homer and Bart: Homer tries to apply tactics he learned from a wholesome 80s DomCom to the rearing of Bart, unaware that the sitcom ''he's'' in is a shade DarkerAndEdgier, meaning that when his budding EnfantTerrible gets a dose of ToughLove his reaction is not to shape up but to sell nuclear secrets to China in exchange for the reward he feels he deserves. The whole problem arises because Bart himself doesn't understand the sitcom and—when Homer describes an episode in which a kid got a "surprising reward" for his good grades and tells Bart that studying will give him the same reward—[[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency assumes that means he's getting a bike]]. (The reward was a sense of accomplishment.)
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Both Homer and Bart: Homer tries to apply tactics he learned from a wholesome 80s DomCom to the rearing of Bart, unaware that the sitcom ''he's'' in is a shade DarkerAndEdgier, meaning that when his budding EnfantTerrible gets a dose of ToughLove his reaction is not to shape up but to sell nuclear secrets to China in exchange for the reward he feels he deserves. The whole problem arises because Bart himself doesn't understand the sitcom and—when Homer describes an episode in which a kid got a "surprising reward" for his good grades and tells Bart that studying will give him the same reward—[[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency assumes that means he's getting being promised a bike]].minibike]]. (The reward was a sense of accomplishment.)
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: {{Downplayed}} [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]]: the Chinese make good on their promise to Bart and leave him the minibike he asked for, but it has a VanityLicensePlate that says [=TR8OR=]. [[InsultBackfire Bart thinks it's cool.]].
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* PoorCommunicationKills:
-->'''Bart:''' Dad, if I get an "A" on my math test, would that be worth some money?
-->'''Homer:''' Well, in season two, when Sam got good grades, he got a very surprising reward. And if you do it, son, you'll get the same.
-->'''Bart:''' [[TemptingFate There's no way that means anything other than I get a minibike]].
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: {{Downplayed}} [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]]: the Chinese make good on their promise to Bart and leave him the minibike he asked for, but it has a VanityLicensePlate that says [=TR8OR=]. [[InsultBackfire Bart thinks it'scool.]]. cool]].
-->'''Bart:''' Dad, if I get an "A" on my math test, would that be worth some money?
-->'''Homer:''' Well, in season two, when Sam got good grades, he got a very surprising reward. And if you do it, son, you'll get the same.
-->'''Bart:''' [[TemptingFate There's no way that means anything other than I get a minibike]].
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: {{Downplayed}} [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]]: the Chinese make good on their promise to Bart and leave him the minibike he asked for, but it has a VanityLicensePlate that says [=TR8OR=]. [[InsultBackfire Bart thinks it's
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Homer tries to apply tactics he learned from a wholesome 80s DomCom to the rearing of Bart, unaware that the sitcom ''he's'' in is a shade DarkerAndEdgier, meaning that when his budding EnfantTerrible gets a dose of ToughLove his reaction is not to shape up but to sell nuclear secrets to China in exchange for the reward he feels he deserves.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Both Homer and Bart: Homer tries to apply tactics he learned from a wholesome 80s DomCom to the rearing of Bart, unaware that the sitcom ''he's'' in is a shade DarkerAndEdgier, meaning that when his budding EnfantTerrible gets a dose of ToughLove his reaction is not to shape up but to sell nuclear secrets to China in exchange for the reward he feels he deserves. The whole problem arises because Bart himself doesn't understand the sitcom and—when Homer describes an episode in which a kid got a "surprising reward" for his good grades and tells Bart that studying will give him the same reward—[[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency assumes that means he's getting a bike]]. (The reward was a sense of accomplishment.)
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: {{Downplayed}} [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]]: the Chinese make good on their promise to Bart and leave him the minibike he asked for, but it has a VanityLicensePlate that says TR8OR. [[InsultBackfire Bart thinks it's cool.]].
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: {{Downplayed}} [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]]: the Chinese make good on their promise to Bart and leave him the minibike he asked for, but it has a VanityLicensePlate that says TR8OR.[=TR8OR=]. [[InsultBackfire Bart thinks it's cool.]].
