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* SickeninglySweet: When Homer and Lisa bond over sharing allergies and hug, the attending physician coughs and apologizes that she's allergic to treacle.
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* KarmicTrickster: Unlike Bart, who plays pranks [[ItAmusedMe with or without provocation]], Marge only pranks in retaliation. Even when she enjoys the other results of her trickery (becoming more popular as a kid and earning her son's admiration as an adult), she'll never mess with anyone who didn't do something to deserve it.
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* NoodleIncident: When Wiggum almost shoots Ms. York after she reveals that she was Faking the Dead, Lou has to remind him that she's not a zombie, "just like the Wilsons weren't zombies." Wiggum [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain prefers not to talk about the Wilsons]].
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* NoodleIncident: When Wiggum almost shoots Ms. York after she reveals that she was Faking the Dead, FakingTheDead, Lou has to remind him that she's not a zombie, "just like the Wilsons weren't zombies." Wiggum [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain prefers not to talk about the Wilsons]].
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* NoodleIncident: When Wiggum almost shoots Ms. York after she reveals that she was Faking the Dead, Lou has to remind him that she's not a zombie, "just like the Wilsons weren't zombies." Wiggum [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfItAgain prefers not to talk about the Wilsons]].
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* NoodleIncident: When Wiggum almost shoots Ms. York after she reveals that she was Faking the Dead, Lou has to remind him that she's not a zombie, "just like the Wilsons weren't zombies." Wiggum [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfItAgain [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain prefers not to talk about the Wilsons]].
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At a sports day for seniors, Bart discovers that Marge was once a prankster on par with him as a child, leading to their bonding. Meanwhile, Homer desperately tries to find something passed down from him by bonding with Lisa.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Ms. York did nothing to help Marge when the other students picked on her, [[CreateYourOwnVillain which resulted in her becoming a prankster]] in the first place.
* CallForward: In a flashback, Superintendent Chalmers says he'll replace Ms. York with "a winner." Of course we know instead he got Skinner.
* CouchGag: The Simpsons are carved into a mountain, and Homer causes himself to collapse by trying to pick a tree out.
* DeadlyPrank: Marge pranks Ms. York one last time, but she dies from the shock. Subverted when it turns out they were both pranking Bart and York is very much alive, but no one informed Chief Wiggum and he almost double subverts it when he mistakes York for a zombie and almost shoots her.
* KickMePrank: A lighthearted variation of this happens when Marge and Bart both hug at bedtime and vow to give up pranking forever. While the note Bart pins to Marge during the hug simply says "The End", the note Marge pins to Bart says "It never ends".
* {{Jerkass}}: While Marge might have gone overboard with her pranking, she only got into it because her old principal [[BystanderSyndrome refused to help her when the other students were picking on her]].
* LikeParentLikeChild:
** It's revealed that Marge used to be a rebellious prankster, just like her son is in the present.
** Homer tries to find something in common with Lisa through food, but it doesn't go anywhere because she's a vegetarian until they learn they share the same crazy allergies.
* NoodleIncident: When Wiggum almost shoots Ms. York after she reveals that she was Faking the Dead, Lou has to remind him that she's not a zombie, "just like the Wilsons weren't zombies." Wiggum [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfItAgain prefers not to talk about the Wilsons]].
* NotMeThisTime: Bart enjoys the pranks that Marge does and helps out with some of them. However, [[KidHasAPoint he does point out that he had no real involvement in Marge's prank on Mr. Burns]], the one that went a bit too far...
* PersonAsVerb: Lampshaded when Lisa is worried that Homer helping her cook a vegetarian stew will "Homer it up."
--> '''Homer''': My name is a verb meaning to ruin? That is pretty Homered up.
* PoliceAreUseless: Wiggum jumping to conclusions and wanting to shoot Ms. York thinking she was a zombie and later Marge for being a "zombie lover." Then there's the fact the Wilson family was shot.
* ThePrankster: It's revealed that Marge was one in elementary school. The first one was an accident, as the principal slipped on a can Marge accidentally dropped on the floor and fell on a garbage bin, but the response she got made her do more pranks. Now, with Bart's encouragement, she becomes a prankster again.
* ShoutOut:
** The long-awaited sequel to Film/{{Avatar}} is the real unobtainium, according to Marge.
**One of the prank items Marge and Bart left on Helen's shopping cart is The Marvelous Mrs. Miser's Day Old Bread.
** To the Blue Man Group: Thinking the blue-faced Ms. York is dead, Chief Wiggum says the unfortunate woman will be buried with the famous blue percussionists.
* SlipperySkid: Marge's prank on Mr. Burns is to break her necklace and let the beads trip him up.
* TemptingFate: Marge assures Bart that Mr. Burns will just fall harmlessly on the grass. Instead, [[AmusingInjuries he stumbles into traffic and is hit and tossed in the air multiple times until he falls on electrical wires and gets shocked]].
* TitleDrop, almost: Early on in the episode, Ms. York calls Marge "Margie the Meanie."
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* AdultsAreUseless: Ms. York did nothing to help Marge when the other students picked on her, [[CreateYourOwnVillain which resulted in her becoming a prankster]] in the first place.
* CallForward: In a flashback, Superintendent Chalmers says he'll replace Ms. York with "a winner." Of course we know instead he got Skinner.
* CouchGag: The Simpsons are carved into a mountain, and Homer causes himself to collapse by trying to pick a tree out.
* DeadlyPrank: Marge pranks Ms. York one last time, but she dies from the shock. Subverted when it turns out they were both pranking Bart and York is very much alive, but no one informed Chief Wiggum and he almost double subverts it when he mistakes York for a zombie and almost shoots her.
* KickMePrank: A lighthearted variation of this happens when Marge and Bart both hug at bedtime and vow to give up pranking forever. While the note Bart pins to Marge during the hug simply says "The End", the note Marge pins to Bart says "It never ends".
* {{Jerkass}}: While Marge might have gone overboard with her pranking, she only got into it because her old principal [[BystanderSyndrome refused to help her when the other students were picking on her]].
* LikeParentLikeChild:
** It's revealed that Marge used to be a rebellious prankster, just like her son is in the present.
** Homer tries to find something in common with Lisa through food, but it doesn't go anywhere because she's a vegetarian until they learn they share the same crazy allergies.
* NoodleIncident: When Wiggum almost shoots Ms. York after she reveals that she was Faking the Dead, Lou has to remind him that she's not a zombie, "just like the Wilsons weren't zombies." Wiggum [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfItAgain prefers not to talk about the Wilsons]].
* NotMeThisTime: Bart enjoys the pranks that Marge does and helps out with some of them. However, [[KidHasAPoint he does point out that he had no real involvement in Marge's prank on Mr. Burns]], the one that went a bit too far...
* PersonAsVerb: Lampshaded when Lisa is worried that Homer helping her cook a vegetarian stew will "Homer it up."
--> '''Homer''': My name is a verb meaning to ruin? That is pretty Homered up.
* PoliceAreUseless: Wiggum jumping to conclusions and wanting to shoot Ms. York thinking she was a zombie and later Marge for being a "zombie lover." Then there's the fact the Wilson family was shot.
* ThePrankster: It's revealed that Marge was one in elementary school. The first one was an accident, as the principal slipped on a can Marge accidentally dropped on the floor and fell on a garbage bin, but the response she got made her do more pranks. Now, with Bart's encouragement, she becomes a prankster again.
* ShoutOut:
** The long-awaited sequel to Film/{{Avatar}} is the real unobtainium, according to Marge.
**One of the prank items Marge and Bart left on Helen's shopping cart is The Marvelous Mrs. Miser's Day Old Bread.
** To the Blue Man Group: Thinking the blue-faced Ms. York is dead, Chief Wiggum says the unfortunate woman will be buried with the famous blue percussionists.
* SlipperySkid: Marge's prank on Mr. Burns is to break her necklace and let the beads trip him up.
* TemptingFate: Marge assures Bart that Mr. Burns will just fall harmlessly on the grass. Instead, [[AmusingInjuries he stumbles into traffic and is hit and tossed in the air multiple times until he falls on electrical wires and gets shocked]].
* TitleDrop, almost: Early on in the episode, Ms. York calls Marge "Margie the Meanie."
