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** When the family searches Homer's dreams for clues as to what's causing the problem, Homer finds a coffin that says "MARRIAGE" and tries to hide it from Marge, fearing that it indicates something negative about their relationship. In fact, it symbolizes his guilt surrounding the breakup of his ''parents''' marriage, which be believes he caused.
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** When the family searches Homer's dreams for clues as to what's causing the problem, Homer finds a coffin that says "MARRIAGE" and tries to hide it from Marge, fearing that it indicates something negative about their relationship. In fact, it symbolizes his guilt surrounding the breakup of his ''parents''' marriage, which be he believes he caused. caused.
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* RedHerring:
** Homer's bedwetting problem develops [[InstantlyProvenWrong in the immediate wake]] of some serious TemptingFate after he's rewarded for getting all his coworkers in trouble and then dares the universe to do something about it. He, naturally, thinks he's been stricken by LaserGuidedKarma and tries to set things right by apologizing to everyone. The problem actually originated not with his undeserved afternoon off, but with what he ''did'' with it—an innocuous father-son activity that triggered a traumatic memory from his own childhood.
** When the family searches Homer's dreams for clues as to what's causing the problem, Homer finds a coffin that says "MARRIAGE" and tries to hide it from Marge, fearing that it indicates something negative about their relationship. In fact, it symbolizes his guilt surrounding the breakup of his ''parents''' marriage, which be believes he caused.
** Homer's bedwetting problem develops [[InstantlyProvenWrong in the immediate wake]] of some serious TemptingFate after he's rewarded for getting all his coworkers in trouble and then dares the universe to do something about it. He, naturally, thinks he's been stricken by LaserGuidedKarma and tries to set things right by apologizing to everyone. The problem actually originated not with his undeserved afternoon off, but with what he ''did'' with it—an innocuous father-son activity that triggered a traumatic memory from his own childhood.
** When the family searches Homer's dreams for clues as to what's causing the problem, Homer finds a coffin that says "MARRIAGE" and tries to hide it from Marge, fearing that it indicates something negative about their relationship. In fact, it symbolizes his guilt surrounding the breakup of his ''parents''' marriage, which be believes he caused.
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* IFellForHours: The Simpsons falling off a cliff in the first dream. It is a dream, after all.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Homer has taken Bart fishing in past episodes ("I Am Furious (Yellow)" and a flashback in TheMovie) without any repercussions. It may be that his memory of fishing with Abe wasn't jogged in those cases for whatever reason--he [[ChekhovsGun specifically brings it up]] during their fishing trip in this episode.
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* ChekhovsGun: While taking Bart on a fishing trip, Homer mentions in passing that his father used to do the same thing with him when he was a boy. This turns out to be the key to the entire problem.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Subverted. Homer develops a bedwetting problem immediately after [[TemptingFate all but daring karma to come for him]] for letting his coworkers take the punishment for something he started, while he was rewarded with an afternoon off. He attempts to rebalance things by throwing an apology party for all his coworkers, but even after winning back their goodwill he's still wetting them bed. It turns out the problem was actually triggered by what he ''did'' on that afternoon off: he went fishing with Bart, which resurfaced a past trauma related to a fishing trip he took with his dad.
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* EpiphanyTherapy: Discovering (and resolving) the trauma that causes Homer to develop a bed-wetting problem solves it forever.
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* EasyRoadToHell: When The Simpsons are falling to their deaths, Frink tells him that he managed to prove that Hell exists and that everybody goes there.
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* TheAtoner: Subverted with Homer. Once he wets the bed after getting his coworkers in trouble, he throws them all a barbeque to apologise. However, once he wets the bed ''again'', he's annoyed he wasted a good deed and decides to get to the route of his bed-wetting problem instead.
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* EmbarrassingDampSheets: The plot is kicked off when Homer keeps wetting the bed and sets out to find the cause of the problem.
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I missed the beginning of the episode so I don't recall if the actually went fishing with Bart or if it's just his nonsensical rambling, fix if necessary
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* FreudianExcuse: For Homer's bed wetting.
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* FreudianExcuse: For Homer's bed wetting.wetting: turns out that when he went fishing with Bart, it reminded him of the time he went fishing with Abe as a child and tipped the boat over, forcing Abe to rescue him, which he thought was the final straw in having Abe and Mona get divorced a week later.
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* AnimalTesting: Inverted: Frink claims he let the Simpsons borrow his dream exploration machine so that he can find out if it's safe to use on monkeys.
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* ShoutOut: When Homer tries to ditch his family in the dream based around his gluttony, he yells he's never going to leave and boards a rollercoaster called [[VideoGame/RollercoasterTycoon "Mr. Homer's Wild Ride".]]
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* MagicAIsMagicA: When in a freefall, Lisa suggests going deeper into another dream for time dilation reasons.
-->'''Bart:''' ''"Dreams have rules?"''\\
'''Lisa:''' ''"Everything has rules!"''\\
'''Bart:''' ''"You haven't seen me when I dance!"''
-->'''Bart:''' ''"Dreams have rules?"''\\
'''Lisa:''' ''"Everything has rules!"''\\
'''Bart:''' ''"You haven't seen me when I dance!"''
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* FreudianExcuse: for Homer's bed wetting.
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* FreudianExcuse: for For Homer's bed wetting.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: As the Grim Reaper falls off a cliff, he realizes that, as the personification of death, he can't die, only to be proven wrong when a bigger, scarier Reaper comes in to claim him.
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* CastAsAMask: Death/the Grim Reaper appearing in Homer's dream has a gruff masculine voice by Chris Edgerly, but later on "he" unmasks to reveal Mona Simpson, voiced by Creator/GlennClose. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that [[AllJustADream it's really a dream]].
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* LatexPerfection: After Death/the Grim Reaper saves the family in one of Homer's dreams, "he" peels off his rubber skull mask, revealing to be Mona Simpson, whom lives on in Homer's dreams.
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* LatexPerfection: After Death/the Grim Reaper saves the family in one of Homer's dreams, "he" peels off his rubber skull mask, revealing itself to be Mona Simpson, whom who lives on in Homer's dreams.
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* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In one of the dreams, the Simpsons act and look as they did in the early ''The Tracy Ullman Show'' shorts.
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* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In one of the dreams, the Simpsons act and look as they did in the early ''The Tracy Ullman Show'' ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' shorts.
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* GrimReaper: Appears in Homer's first dream. When the family goes over the side of the mountain, the Reaper joins them and is screaming alongside them before remembering ''he'' can't die... and then turns around and sees a gigantic, beastial reaper with wings flying beside him and roaring like a dinosaur. The first reaper is understandably scared shitless.
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* LatexPerfection: After Death/the Grim Reaper saves the family in one of Homer's dreams, "he" peels off his rubber skull mask, revealing to be [[spoiler: Mona Simpson, whom lives on in Homer's dreams]].
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* LatexPerfection: After Death/the Grim Reaper saves the family in one of Homer's dreams, "he" peels off his rubber skull mask, revealing to be [[spoiler: Mona Simpson, whom lives on in Homer's dreams]].dreams.
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* LatexPerfection: After Death/the Grim Reaper saves the family in one of Homer's dreams, "he" peels off his rubber skull mask, revealing to be [[spoiler: Mona Simpson, whom lives on in Homer's dreams]].
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* PunBasedTitle: The title is based on the sitcom ''HowIMetYourMother''.
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* PunBasedTitle: The title is based on the sitcom ''HowIMetYourMother''.''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Homer's dream is falling, Marge's dream is drowning of fish and Lisa's dream is having tomatoes thrown at them.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Homer's dream is falling, Marge's dream is drowning of fish fish, and Lisa's dream is having tomatoes thrown at them.
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* LostInTranslation: When translated into Brazilian Portuguese, "met" and "wet" become respectively "conheci" and "molhei". The translators used the first.
* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In one of the dreams, the Simpsons act and look as they did in the early ''TheTracyUllmanShow'' shorts.
* PunBasedTitle: The title is based on ''HowIMetYourMother''.
* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In one of the dreams, the Simpsons act and look as they did in the early ''TheTracyUllmanShow'' shorts.
* PunBasedTitle: The title is based on ''HowIMetYourMother''.
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* LostInTranslation: When translated into Brazilian Portuguese, "met" and "wet" (as in "urinated on," not the adjective meaning "covered or saturated in liquid") become respectively "conheci" and "molhei". The translators used the first.
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* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In one of the dreams, the Simpsons act and look as they did in the early''TheTracyUllmanShow'' ''The Tracy Ullman Show'' shorts.
* PunBasedTitle: The title is based on the sitcom ''HowIMetYourMother''.
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* WholePlotReference: Despite the title being based on ''How I Met Your Mother'', the episode plot is similar to ''Film/{{Inception}}''.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Once atonement for how Homer screwed his coworkers didn't stop him from wetting his bed, he drew a knife and said it was time for drastic measures. He cut open the plastic wrapping of the yellow pages. (Or, as it's known in-universe, the internet for old people)
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After getting his coworkers in trouble for stealing office supplies, Homer begins wetting the bed. Thinking this is LaserGuidedKarma for what he did, he tries to atone -- only to continue peeing in his sleep. With the help of Professor Frink, the Simpsons go on an ''Inception''-style journey to Homer's dreams to find out why he's been wetting the bed.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Homer's dream is falling, Marge's dream is drowning of fish and Lisa's dream is having tomatoes thrown at them.
* Freudian Excuse: for Homer's bed wetting.
* Freudian Excuse: for Homer's bed wetting.
