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* CreatorsApathy: InUniverse with the latest "Where's Waldo?" book, titled "Find Waldo, Yet Again". The titular character is standing in ''plain sight'', with almost nobody else around and no attempt made to hide himself. Bart remarks "Man, he's just not trying anymore".
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* SeriesContinuityError: Snowball I is a black cat like Snowball II for some reason.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Lisa says to Bart that the zombies have risen, but Bart corrects her: "Please Lis, they preferred to be called the 'Living Impaired'."

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Lisa says to Bart that the zombies have risen, but Bart corrects her: "Please Lis, they preferred to be called the 'Living Impaired'.""
** When King Homer is chained on a giant stage and presented before the people of New York as the "eighth wonder of the world":
--->'''Barney:''' Wow! Look at the size of that [[BaitAndSwitch platform]]!


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* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: The bottomless pit is used to dispose of a cursed doll, a dead body, and [[RuleOfThree a box of explicit photos of Whoopi Goldberg]]. The pit returns the third one back.

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* MoodWhiplash: Homer is in a store selling forbidden objects and frozen yogurt (referred to as "frogurt"), leading to a back-and-forth containing this trope between Homer and the shopkeeper.

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* MistakenForUndead: Homer sees Barney chomping down on a severed arm and mistakes him for one of the zombies, to which Barney replies, "I'm not a zombie, but hey, when in Rome..."
* MoodWhiplash: Homer is in a store selling forbidden objects and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking frozen yogurt yogurt]] (referred to as "frogurt"), leading to a back-and-forth containing this trope between Homer and the shopkeeper.



** The spell to bring zombies to life has the last names of game show hosts ([[Series/ThePriceIsRight Cullen]], [[Series/MatchGame Rayburn]], [[Series/BeatTheClock Narz]], [[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Trebek]]) and the names of department stores (Zabar, Kresge[[note]]Kresge is now K-Mart[[/note]], Caldor, UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} [[note]]as of 2015, [=WalMart=] and Zabar are still around under their original names[[/note]]).

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** The spell to bring zombies to life has the last names of game show hosts ([[Series/ThePriceIsRight Cullen]], [[Series/MatchGame Rayburn]], [[Series/BeatTheClock Narz]], [[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Trebek]]) and the names of department stores (Zabar, Kresge[[note]]Kresge is now K-Mart[[/note]], Caldor, UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} [[note]]as of 2015, [=WalMart=] Walmart and Zabar are still around under their original names[[/note]]).
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In "King Homer", Homer, playing the role of the ape, grabs Marge and tries to scale a building with her. But due to his bad diet, he barely even makes it a foot up the building before dropping to the ground, winded.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In "King Homer", Homer, playing the role of the ape, grabs Marge and tries to scale a building with her. But due to his bad diet, diet (eating meat despite gorillas being herbivores), he barely even makes it a foot up the building before dropping to the ground, winded.

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* ArtisticLicense: One of the zombies whom Homer encounters is UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein. In actuality, Einstein was cremated after his passing and his ashes were scattered, so he wouldn't have a body that would be reanimated as a zombie.

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One of the zombies whom Homer encounters is UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein. In actuality, Einstein was cremated after his passing and his ashes were scattered, so he wouldn't have a body that would be reanimated as a zombie.


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* AscendedToCarnivorism: King Homer eats people, despite gorillas being herbivores. So it's no wonder [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome he gets winded when he barely climbs a foot up the Empire State Building]], with Marge rightfully telling him that he should eat more vegetables.

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