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* ForegoneConclusion: The episode is called "Deep Space Homer", so the question of whether Homer or Barney gets to go to space is kind of a given.


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** The astronauts hold on tight to the ship as they open the hatch and create a vacuum to suck out all the crumbs and ants into space. Homer picks ''that exact moment'' to dust off his hands in a "job well done" gesture, ensuring that he nearly gets sucked out too.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After his jetpack fails, Barney falls towards a pillow factory. Instead of crashing onto soft pillows to break his fall, he bounces off the roof without making so much as a dent in it before falling off that and landing in the street.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After his jetpack fails, Barney falls towards a pillow factory. Instead of crashing onto soft pillows to break his fall, he bounces off the roof without making so much as a dent in it before falling off that and landing in the street.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: After finding out Homer saved the shuttle with the use of a carbon rod, Springfield promptly throws a commemorative parade... for the rod, with Homer and even his more deserving comrades completely ignored.

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* DudeWheresMyRespect: After finding out Homer accidentally saved the shuttle (which he had put in danger in the first place) with the use of a carbon rod, Springfield promptly throws a commemorative parade... for the rod, with Homer and even his more deserving comrades completely ignored.
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* FridgeHorror: Homer's hit by this InUniverse when he tells the press that he and Barney won't be in danger unless they're sent to "that terrible {{Planet of the Apes|1968}}" before suddenly figuring out what the movie's ending was supposed to imply and doing a perfect George Taylor impression out of sheer emotion.

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* FridgeHorror: Homer's hit by this InUniverse when he tells the press that he and Barney won't be in danger unless they're sent to "that terrible {{Planet Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}" before suddenly figuring out what the movie's ending was supposed to imply and doing a perfect George Taylor impression out of sheer emotion.
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* FridgeHorror: Homer's hit by this InUniverse when he tells the press that he and Barney won't be in danger unless they're sent to "that terrible [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 Planet of the Apes]]" before suddenly figuring out what the movie's ending was supposed to imply and doing a perfect George Taylor impression out of sheer emotion.

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* FridgeHorror: Homer's hit by this InUniverse when he tells the press that he and Barney won't be in danger unless they're sent to "that terrible [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 Planet {{Planet of the Apes]]" Apes|1968}}" before suddenly figuring out what the movie's ending was supposed to imply and doing a perfect George Taylor impression out of sheer emotion.
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* FridgeHorror: Homer's hit by this InUniverse when he tells the press that he and Barney won't be in danger unless they're sent to "that terrible Film/PlanetOfTheApes" before suddenly figuring out what the movie's ending was supposed to imply and doing a perfect George Taylor impression out of sheer emotion.

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* FridgeHorror: Homer's hit by this InUniverse when he tells the press that he and Barney won't be in danger unless they're sent to "that terrible Film/PlanetOfTheApes" [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 Planet of the Apes]]" before suddenly figuring out what the movie's ending was supposed to imply and doing a perfect George Taylor impression out of sheer emotion.
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** During one of the tests, the speed of the apparatus morphs Homer's face into ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s. Later in the episode, the same experience makes it morph into UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.

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** During one of the tests, the speed of the apparatus morphs Homer's face into ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s.ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s ("I can't stands no more!"). Later in the episode, the same experience makes it morph into UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.

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--> "Inanimate, huh? I'll show ''him'' inanimate! ''(stands perfectly still until nightfall)''

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--> "Inanimate, huh? I'll show ''him'' inanimate! inanimate!" ''(stands perfectly still until nightfall)''


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** One of the astronauts is named Race Banyon after the Quest family's bodyguard on ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''.
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* TheBore: The newscasters reporting the space launch. They completely lack charisma and fail to make the latest mission sound interesting despite or perhaps because of their best efforts. They're so boring that Homer and Bart treat changing the channel as a life or death struggle. It's an early sign of how pitiful NASA's ratings have gotten.
-->'''Tom''': Now let's look at the crew a little. \\
'''Newcaster''': They're a colorful bunch. They've been dubbed the Three Musketeers. Ha ha ha ha. \\
'''Tom''': And we laugh legitimately.
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* RiddleForTheAges: How DID Homer get the number for NASA? Or, for that matter, that of President Clinton?

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* DrunkOnMilk: When Homer and Barney join NASA, Barney excels while sober but becomes instantly drunk with a single glass of ''non''-alcoholic champagne.


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* FakeHigh: When Homer and Barney join NASA, Barney excels while sober but becomes instantly drunk with a single glass of ''non''-alcoholic champagne.
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* TwoWordsICantCount: Homer's reaction on being told that he has just won the astronaut position "by default":
-->''Default? Woohoo! The two sweetest words in the English language!''
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After his jetpack fails, Barney falls towards a pillow factory. Instead of crashing onto soft pillows to break his fall, he bounces off the roof without making so much as a dent in it before falling off that and landing in the street.
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* ShownTheirWork: The ''Married...with Children'' parody is eerily on the mark. In addition to Al and Peg's appearances and voices, the living room is virtually shot-for-shot with the real series, he has his right hand down his pants (as he, and his actor Creator/EdONeill, are left-handed) and Al also flushes a toilet, which is actually a CallBack to the fifth episode of the third season, "A Dump of my Own", where Al buys a Ferguson toilet for his new bathroom that he gives preferential treatment to over Peg.
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** Homer fails to win the Nuclear Power Plant's Worker of the Week award, despite the company handbook stating every employee ''must'' win it at some point ''and'' being the only employee who wasn't gotten it yet, and loses to an inanimate carbon rod.
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Episode - 1F13\\
First Aired - 2/24/1994

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Episode - 1F13\\
First Aired - 2/24/1994
'''Original air date:''' 2/24/1994 ''(produced in 1993)''

'''Production code:''' 1F13
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** PlayedStraight at the end when Marge asks Bart if he has anything nice to say to Homer, to which Bart says "He knows how I feel" and repeats his earlier gag of writing something on the back of Homer's head, but instead of an insult it's HERO.
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-->'''Abe:''' [[ForegoneConclusion Oh, of course he'll make it, it's TV!]]

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-->'''Abe:''' [[ForegoneConclusion [[StatusQuoIsGod Oh, of course he'll make it, it's TV!]]
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: As the spaceship attempts a risky re-entry:
-->'''Lisa:''' Come on, Dad, you can make it!
-->'''Abe:''' [[ForegoneConclusion Oh, of course he'll make it, it's TV!]]
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* FridgeHorror: Homer's hit by this InUniverse when he tells the press that he and Barney won't be in danger unless they're sent to "that terrible Film/PlanetOfTheApes" before suddenly figuring out what the movie's ending was supposed to imply and doing a perfect George Taylor impression out of sheer emotion.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Homer points the NASA recruiters towards Barney, they approach him and ask, "Sir, how would you like to get [[TheAlcoholic higher]] than you've ever been in your life?" Barney immediately replies, "Be an astronaut? Sure!"
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* YourHeadAsplode: In the ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon, Scratchy's head explodes after Itchy removes his space helmet.

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* YourHeadAsplode: In the ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon, [[ExplosiveDecompression Scratchy's head explodes after Itchy removes his space helmet.helmet]].
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-->'''Homer:''' Pride?

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-->'''Homer:''' -->'''Marge:''' Pride?
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* CallBack: Barney crash landing on the metal roof of a pillow factory (and then rolling off and falling to the street, then run over by a marshmallow truck) is similar to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled Krusty Gets Kancelled]], where Creator/LukePerry was shot out of a cannon, crashed through cacti, sandpaper, and jars of acid, before landing safely in a pilow factory -- which was then demolished with him still inside.
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: After Lisa asks what Marge is basing her empty assurance of Homer's safety on, Marge takes a second before asking if anyone wants ginger snaps.

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* CallBack: Barney crash landing on the metal roof of a pillow factory (and then rolling off and falling to the street, then run over by a marshmallow truck) is similar to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled Krusty Gets Kancelled]], Kancelled]]", where Creator/LukePerry was shot out of a cannon, crashed through cacti, sandpaper, and jars of acid, before landing safely in a pilow factory -- which was then demolished with him still inside.
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: After Lisa asks what Marge is basing her empty assurance of Homer's safety on, Marge takes a second before asking if anyone wants ginger snaps.gingersnaps.



* DudeWheresMyRespect: After finding out Homer saved the shuttle with the use of a carbon rod, Springfield promptly throws a commemorative parade....for the rod, with Homer and even his more deserving comrades completely ignored.

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* DudeWheresMyRespect: After finding out Homer saved the shuttle with the use of a carbon rod, Springfield promptly throws a commemorative parade....parade... for the rod, with Homer and even his more deserving comrades completely ignored.
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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: NASA is in trouble because the average American isn't interested in exceptional men performing dangerous missions and would rather watch stupid idiots like [[Series/HomeImprovement Tim Taylor]], [[Series/MarriedWithChildren Al Bundy]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]].
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* GracefulLoser: Despite Homer's extreme competitiveness to get approved for the voyage, when Barney is chosen over him, he sadly congratulates him and toasts with the officials. Then Barney starts to drink...
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*** Meanwhile, Barney and Homer's NASA training includes a "Gamesters Of Triskelion" recreation, right down to the thrall outfits, and even the actual fight music from the show.

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*** Meanwhile, Barney and Homer's NASA training includes a "Gamesters Of Triskelion" recreation, right down to the thrall outfits, the onlookers betting quatloos, and even the actual fight music from the show.
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* RecognitionFailure: Homer apparently believes that James Taylor used to be a United States President.

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* RecognitionFailure: Homer apparently believes that James Taylor used to be a United States President.President (apparently having conflated Zachary Taylor with James Monroe, Madison, Polk, Garfield or Buchanan).
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* CallBack: Barney crash landing on the metal roof of a pillow factory (and then rolling off and falling to the street, then run over by a marshmallow truck) is similar to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E23KrustyGetsCancelled Kristy Gets Cancelled]], where Creator/LukePerry was shot out of a cannon, crashed through cacti, sandpaper, and jars of acid, before landing safely in a pilow factory -- which was then demolished with him still inside.

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* CallBack: Barney crash landing on the metal roof of a pillow factory (and then rolling off and falling to the street, then run over by a marshmallow truck) is similar to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E23KrustyGetsCancelled Kristy [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled Krusty Gets Cancelled]], Kancelled]], where Creator/LukePerry was shot out of a cannon, crashed through cacti, sandpaper, and jars of acid, before landing safely in a pilow factory -- which was then demolished with him still inside.
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* CallBack: Barney crash landing on the metal roof of a pillow factory (and then rolling off and falling to the street, then run over by a marshmallow truck) is similar to [[KrustyGetsCancelled The Krusty Comeback Special]], where LukePerry was shot out of a cannon, crashed through cacti, sandpaper, and jars of acid, before landing safely in a pilow factory -- which was then demolished with him still inside.

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* CallBack: Barney crash landing on the metal roof of a pillow factory (and then rolling off and falling to the street, then run over by a marshmallow truck) is similar to [[KrustyGetsCancelled The Krusty Comeback Special]], [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E23KrustyGetsCancelled Kristy Gets Cancelled]], where LukePerry Creator/LukePerry was shot out of a cannon, crashed through cacti, sandpaper, and jars of acid, before landing safely in a pilow factory -- which was then demolished with him still inside.

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