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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bart skipped school and when he confessed to it so Freddie Murphy wouldn't be sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit, Skinner gives him four months detention.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bart skipped school and when he confessed to it so Freddie Murphy Quimby wouldn't be sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit, Skinner gives him four months detention.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Bart skipped school and when he confessed to it so Freddie Murphy wouldn't be sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit, Skinner gives him four months detention.
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* NeverMyFault: Skinner looks for Bart in all the places he things a boy would go for fun, but when he can't find him at the museum or the 4-H club (which is long abandoned), he considers "Am I that out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/PhilHartman as Lionel Hutz
* TakeThat: Bart and Chief Wiggum criticize Ranier Wolfcastle for his latest movie, which is obviously meant to be ''LastActionHero''. "Magic ticket, my ass."
* TakeThat: Bart and Chief Wiggum criticize Ranier Wolfcastle for his latest movie, which is obviously meant to be ''LastActionHero''. "Magic ticket, my ass."
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* StealingFromTheHotel: Homer takes "souvenirs" from the hotel room where he's being sequestered, including the table at one point. At the end he has put ''all'' of the room's funishings into his bedroom.
* TakeThat: Bart and Chief Wiggum criticize Ranier Wolfcastle for his latest movie, which is obviously meant to be''LastActionHero''.''Film/LastActionHero''. "Magic ticket, my ass."
* StealingFromTheHotel: Homer takes "souvenirs" from the hotel room where he's being sequestered, including the table at one point. At the end he has put ''all'' of the room's funishings into his bedroom.
* TakeThat: Bart and Chief Wiggum criticize Ranier Wolfcastle for his latest movie, which is obviously meant to be
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: [[spoiler:When Bart argues that having Freddy acquited cancels out his skipping school, Skinner gives him three months detention. Then he says "Wait", as if he's going to take it back, only to give him ''four'' months.]]
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* SavedByTheAwesome: Bart tries to invoke this, explaining that if he hadn't skipped school an innocent man would have gone to prison, and thus should not be punished for it. [[spoiler:Skinner gives him three months detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man." Then he adds an extra month.]]
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* SavedByTheAwesome: Bart tries to invoke this, explaining that if he hadn't skipped school an innocent man would have gone to prison, and thus should not be punished for it. [[spoiler:Skinner gives him three months detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, "small, petty man." Then he adds an extra month.]]
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* TemptingFate: When Bart compares going to school to being in prison, Lisa scoffs at the comparison. Then Otto drives up on a prison bus because the regular school bus is being repaired.
** Lisa talks about Freddy Quimby being judged by a fair, impartial jury, just as Homer gets his jury summons and plans to convict Freddy just for having to serve.
** Lisa talks about Freddy Quimby being judged by a fair, impartial jury, just as Homer gets his jury summons and plans to convict Freddy just for having to serve.
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* TakeThat: Bart and Chief Wiggum criticize Ranier Wolfcastle for his latest movie, which is obviously meant to be ''TheLastActionHero''. "Magic ticket, my ass."
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* TakeThat: Bart and Chief Wiggum criticize Ranier Wolfcastle for his latest movie, which is obviously meant to be ''TheLastActionHero''.''LastActionHero''. "Magic ticket, my ass."
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* TakeThat: Bart and Chief Wiggum criticize Ranier Wolfcastle for his latest movie, which is obviously meant to be ''TheLastActionHero''. "Magic ticket, my ass."
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* GoodCopBadCop: Skinner and Groundskeeper Willie try this on Lisa after Bart skips school, but it fails because they both keep forgetting whether they're supposed to be Good Cop or Bad Cop.
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** Bart's daydream is of course a reference to ''TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn''.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] for once. The judge acknowledges that re-opening the case when she does is grossly unconstitutional, but she 'just can't say no to kids'.
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* CrazyPrepared: Homer's fake glasses, which he brings to jury duty, only for them to be taken from him. They show up again at the end of the episode when Marge tries to tell him about what she's been doing. Marge instantly notices, and takes them from him, along with the two spares.
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** Even worse is that he was almost home free at that point.
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** Homer's fake glasses, which don't hide the fact he's snoring and drooling in court.
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** Bart hears Homers thoughts, which at that moment happens to be the Meow Mix jingle.
** Skinner imitates part of the opening sequence from Series/TheOddCouple, and even notes it, until Homer yells at him to shut up.
** Skinner imitates part of the opening sequence from Series/TheOddCouple, and even notes it, until Homer yells at him to shut up.
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* SavedByTheAwesome: Bart tries to invoke this, explaining that if he hadn't skipped school an innocent man would have gone to prison, and thus should not be punished for it.
[[spoiler:Skinner gives him three months detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man." Then he adds an extra month.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Mayor Quimby bribed witnesses to help his nephew's case.
[[spoiler:Skinner gives him three months detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man." Then he adds an extra month.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Mayor Quimby bribed witnesses to help his nephew's case.
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* SavedByTheAwesome: Bart tries to invoke this, explaining that if he hadn't skipped school an innocent man would have gone to prison, and thus should not be punished for it. \n [[spoiler:Skinner gives him three months detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man." Then he adds an extra month.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Mayor Quimby bribed witnesses to help his nephew's case. They were given money while on the stand.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Mayor Quimby bribed witnesses to help his nephew's case. They were given money while on the stand.
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* TheDeterminator: Skinner will stop at nothing to get Bart back into the classroom. When Bart destroys a bridge, Skinner just ''walks through the river''.
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* TheDeterminator: {{Determinator}}: Skinner will stop at nothing to get Bart back into the classroom. When Bart destroys a bridge, Skinner just ''walks through the river''.
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** NonGivingUpSchoolGuy: TropeNamer[[TropeNamers TropeNamer]]
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* ShamefulSourceOfKnowledge: Bart can't testify without revealing that he skipped school.
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* InfantImmortality: [[RefugeInAudacity Hilariously]] averted in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5TwOkuQCeE McGarnagle clip.]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: The McGarnagle clip. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5TwOkuQCeE See for yourself.]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: The McGarnagle clip. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5TwOkuQCeE See for yourself.]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: The McGarnagle clip. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5TwOkuQCeE See for yourself.]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: The McGarnagle clip. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5TwOkuQCeE See for yourself.]]
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* SavedByTheAwesome: Bart tries to invoke this, explaining that if he hadn't skipped school an innocent man would have gone to prison, and thus should not be punished for it. [[spoiler:Skinner gives him three months detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man." Then he adds an extra month.]]
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* SavedByTheAwesome: Bart tries to invoke this, explaining that if he hadn't skipped school an innocent man would have gone to prison, and thus should not be punished for it.
[[spoiler:Skinner gives him three months detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man." Then he adds an extra month.]]
[[spoiler:Skinner gives him three months detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man." Then he adds an extra month.]]
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* ShoutOut: Skinner's NonGivingUpSchoolGuy moment is a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Westworld}}'' where a robot does the same walking through a river trick.
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* SkewedPriorities:
-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' Oh my god...somebody's taken a bite out of the giant Rice Krispies square! ...Oh, and the waiter's been brutally beaten. Heh...
-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' Oh my god...somebody's taken a bite out of the giant Rice Krispies square! ...Oh, and the waiter's been brutally beaten. Heh...
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* HollywoodNewEngland: Freddy, like all the Quimbys, has a Kennedyesque Boston accent. In fact, his insistance that the French waiter pronounce chowder "correctly" as ''chowdah'' is the whole reason the trial is taking place.
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* HollywoodNewEngland: Freddy, like all the Quimbys, has a Kennedyesque Boston accent. In fact, his insistance insistence that the French waiter pronounce chowder "correctly" as ''chowdah'' is the whole reason the trial is taking place.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: When Freddy's attorney says it's ludricous that his client would attack someone for the way he says chowder, Freddy snaps back "That's 'chowdah'! ''Chowdah!'' '''''IllKillYou I'll kill all of you! Especially those of you in the jury!'''''"
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* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Marge mentions an uncle who used to say "Shoot 'em all and let God sort it out." And he preceded to do just that.
-->'''Marge''': It took 75 state marshals to take him down and let's never speak of him again.
** And then Marge actually does speak of him again when he tells Bart to listen to his heart, and not the voices in his head like a certain uncle did.
* NotHelpingYourCase: When Freddy's attorney says it'sludricous ludicrous that his client would attack someone for the way he says chowder, Freddy snaps back "That's 'chowdah'! ''Chowdah!'' '''''IllKillYou I'll kill all of you! Especially those of you in the jury!'''''"
-->'''Marge''': It took 75 state marshals to take him down and let's never speak of him again.
** And then Marge actually does speak of him again when he tells Bart to listen to his heart, and not the voices in his head like a certain uncle did.
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* PaperThinDisguise: While skipping class, Bart found Homer and then hid before Homer saw him. To avoid getting caught for skipping class, Bart pushed his hair forward in hopes Homer wouldn't recognize him. Homer, on the other hand, actually saw and recognized Bart but was too afraid of getting caught for skipping work to care about the boy skipping classes so he put a hair comb on his face to pass it as a moustache. They pretended not to recognize each other.
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* PaperThinDisguise: While skipping class, Bart found Homer and then hid before Homer saw him. To avoid getting caught for skipping class, Bart pushed his hair forward in hopes Homer wouldn't recognize him. Homer, on the other hand, actually saw and recognized Bart but was too afraid of getting caught for skipping work to care about the boy skipping classes so he put a hair comb on his face to pass it as a moustache.mustache. They pretended not to recognize each other.
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* WhereTheHeckIsSpringfield: Based on a comment by Kent Brockman in this episode, it's in a state where it's illegal to broadcast trials.
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* WhereTheHeckIsSpringfield: WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Based on a comment by Kent Brockman in this episode, it's in a state where it's illegal to broadcast trials.
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* BookDumb: Homer didn't know the meaning of words like "deadlocked", "sequestered" or "if" until Principal Skinner explained them to him.
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/PhilHartman as Lionel HutzHutz
* WhereTheHeckIsSpringfield: Based on a comment by Kent Brockman in this episode, it's in a state where it's illegal to broadcast trials.
* WhereTheHeckIsSpringfield: Based on a comment by Kent Brockman in this episode, it's in a state where it's illegal to broadcast trials.
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* ReCut: Homer is watching ''FreeWilly'', but instead of making the famous jump, the whale doesn't and crushes the boy.
-->'''Homer:''' Oh, I don't like this new director's cut.
-->'''Homer:''' Oh, I don't like this new director's cut.
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* SavedByTheAwesome: Bart tries to envoke this, explaining that if he hadn't skipped school an innocent man would have gone to prison, and thus should not be punished for it. [[spoiler:Skinner gives him detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man."]]
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* SavedByTheAwesome: Bart tries to envoke invoke this, explaining that if he hadn't skipped school an innocent man would have gone to prison, and thus should not be punished for it. [[spoiler:Skinner gives him three months detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man."]]" Then he adds an extra month.]]
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* PaperThinDisguise: While skipping class, Bart found Homer and then hid before Homer saw him. To avoid getting caught for skipping class, Bart pushed his hair forward in hopes Homer wouldn't recognize him. Homer, on the other hand, actually saw and recognized Bart but was too afraid of getting caught for skipping work to care about the boy skipping classes so he put a hair comb on his face to pass it as a moustache. They pretended not to recognize each other.
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* TheKlutz: [[spoiler: TheReveal as to where the French waiter's injuries ''really'' came from. Freddy teased him a little, then got distracted by a bottle of champagne and walked off with it. The waiter promptly slipped and stumbled around the kitchen, brutally beating himself against various appliances. The case is made when the waiter, standing up to protest this as defamation, undergoes a similar experience in the courtroom before falling into the back of an open truck carrying a load of mousetraps.]]
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* NotHelpingYourCase: When Freddy's attorney says it's ludricous that his client would attack someone for the way he says chowder, Freddy snaps back "That's 'chowdah'! ''Chowdah!'' '''''IllKillYou I'll kill all of you!'''''"
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* NotHelpingYourCase: When Freddy's attorney says it's ludricous that his client would attack someone for the way he says chowder, Freddy snaps back "That's 'chowdah'! ''Chowdah!'' '''''IllKillYou I'll kill all of you!'''''"you! Especially those of you in the jury!'''''"
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!!This episode contains examples of:
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Mayor Quimby bribed witnesses to help his nephew's case.case.
* SpecialGuest: Creator/PhilHartman as Lionel Hutz
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** [[spoiler:In a deleted scene, Freddy walks out of the courthouse, only to grab the waiter demanding to say 'chowdah' correctly. And the cops pull him back inside.]]
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Episode - 1F19\\
First Aired - 5/5/1994
First Aired - 5/5/1994
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-->Bart: Oh my god. He's like some sort of... [[BuffySpeak none... giving-up... school guy!]]
* HollywoodNewEngland: Freddy, like all the Quimbys, have a Kennedyesque Boston accent. In fact, his insistance that the French waiter pronounce chowder "correctly" as ''chowdah'' is the whole reason the trial is taking place.
* HollywoodNewEngland: Freddy, like all the Quimbys, have a Kennedyesque Boston accent. In fact, his insistance that the French waiter pronounce chowder "correctly" as ''chowdah'' is the whole reason the trial is taking place.
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-->Bart: Oh my god. He's like some sort of... [[BuffySpeak none...non... giving-up... school guy!]]
** NonGivingUpSchoolGuy: TropeNamer
* HollywoodNewEngland: Freddy, like all the Quimbys,have has a Kennedyesque Boston accent. In fact, his insistance that the French waiter pronounce chowder "correctly" as ''chowdah'' is the whole reason the trial is taking place.
** NonGivingUpSchoolGuy: TropeNamer
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* NotHelpingYourCase: When Freddy's attorney says it's ludricous that his client would attack someone for the way he says chowder, Freddy snaps back "That's 'chowdah'! ''Chowdah!'' '''''IllKillYou!'''''"
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* NotHelpingYourCase: When Freddy's attorney says it's ludricous that his client would attack someone for the way he says chowder, Freddy snaps back "That's 'chowdah'! ''Chowdah!'' '''''IllKillYou!'''''"'''''IllKillYou I'll kill all of you!'''''"
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* SavedByTheAwesome: Bart tries to envoke this, explaining that if he hadn't skipped school an innocent man would have gone to prison, and thus should not be punished for it. [[spoiler:Skinner gives him detention anyway, stating that he's a "petty, petty man."]]
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* TheDeterminator: Skinner will stop at nothing to get Bart back into the classroom. When Bart destroys a bridge, Skinner just ''walks through the river''.
-->Bart: Oh my god. He's like some sort of... [[BuffySpeak none... giving-up... school guy!]]
* HollywoodNewEngland: Freddy, like all the Quimbys, have a Kennedyesque Boston accent. In fact, his insistance that the French waiter pronounce chowder "correctly" as ''chowdah'' is the whole reason the trial is taking place.
-->Bart: Oh my god. He's like some sort of... [[BuffySpeak none... giving-up... school guy!]]
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* NotHelpingYourCase: When Freddy's attorney says it's ludricous that his client would attack someone for the way he says chowder, Freddy snaps back "That's 'chowdah'! ''Chowdah!'' '''''IllKillYou!'''''"
* RogueJuror: Homer deadlocks the jury for the sole purpose of staying sequestered and enjoying the free hotel room and amenities it entails.
* RogueJuror: Homer deadlocks the jury for the sole purpose of staying sequestered and enjoying the free hotel room and amenities it entails.
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Bart sneaks out of school and finds himself at a party for Mayor Quimby's nephew, Freddy — but when Freddy gets in trouble for allegedly assaulting a French waiter, Bart must choose to keep his mouth shut about the ordeal or expose the truth and admit that he cut school to see it happen.
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* CourtroomEpisode
* JuryDuty: Homer's reaction to being summoned for it was wanting to make Freddy pay for it.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Mayor Quimby bribed witnesses to help his nephew's case.
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* CourtroomEpisode
* JuryDuty: Homer's reaction to being summoned for it was wanting to make Freddy pay for it.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Mayor Quimby bribed witnesses to help his nephew's case.
