History Recap / TheSimpsonsS6E21ThePTADisbands

* NonIndicativeName: The episode is called "The PTA Disbands," yet it focuses on a teacher's strike. Lampshaded when a person horrifyingly yells [[TitleDrop "The PTA has disbanded!"]], and jumps out the nearby window, before Flanders explains that the PTA has ''not'' disbanded, prompting that man to jump back through the window, dusting himself off.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: This happens twice!

* CaptainObvious: The tour guide explains that cannon could go off if hit with the slightest touch. Considering that the cannon were pointing at a lookout tower, it wasn't loaded for safety reasons ("It's just common sense").

* WeNeedADistraction: A variant. While Bart is being pummelled, Kearney distracts Marge with a jig.

-->'''Bart''' (''looking up at Marge from outside''): ''Hello, mother...''
* DisproportionateRetribution: Kids trying to learn for free? The actors try to kill them.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When a PTA meeting is held regarding the teachers strike, Mrs. Krabappel argues that the school's lack of resources is harming the education the parents' children are receiving, and that the teachers need them to do their job. Skinner then points out that the school is on a very tight budget as it is, and for the school administration to get what the teachers are asking for they'd have to raise the parents' taxes, which are already very high.

* HairTriggerExplosive: Subverted, a tour guide in Fort Springfield is giving a lecture on a "fully restored and in ready to fire condition" Civil War cannon aimed directly at the base of a manned lookout tower. She mentions that these cannons are "''very'' sensitive and that the "''slightest'' jolt" can set them off as the Springfield Elementary bus starts swerving towards the cannon. The bus hits it and... one of the cannon's wheels falls off.

* HiddenDepths: Homer, of all people, complains about Lisa's so-called perpetual motion machine... because it "just keeps getting faster and faster".

* WouldHurtAChild: The staff at the Diz-Nee historical park are willingly to club children. As the commentary track points out, Uter is most likely ''killed'' (or at the very least seriously injured) by the actors.

* SanitySlippage: Lisa steadily becomes unstable since she's unable to go to school. She begs Marge to grade her, runs out of the house screaming her head off when she can only list two synonyms for "Rest," and Marge mentions she found Lisa dissecting her raincoat.

* CreepyChild: Bart takes to flying a kite at night, and has very noticeable bags under his eyes as he does.

* HairTriggerExplosive: Zigzagged, a tour guide in Fort Springfield is giving a lecture on a "fully restored and in ready to fire condition" Civil War cannon aimed directly at the base of a manned lookout tower. She mentions that these cannons are "''very'' sensitive and that the "''slightest'' jolt" can set them off as the Springfield Elementary bus starts swerving towards the cannon. The bus hits it and... one of the cannon's wheels falls off.

* SuckySchool: Springfield Elementary has gotten so bad that even the most disinterested teachers can't ignore it.

** What about Jasper after Abe was forced to abandon him?

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Doing anything and everything you paddled by Jasper.

* NonIndicativeName: The episode is called "The PTA Disbands," yet it focuses on a teacher's strike.

* [[NeverTrustATrailer Never Trust A Title]]: The episode is called "The PTA Disbands," yet it focuses on a teacher's strike.

After a disastrous field trip, Edna and the teachers agree to a strike as they have had it with Skinner cutting the school's budget to the point that he's selling the kids' futures short (never mind that the kids don't grow up or age in any way on the show). While Bart revels in the strike by making mischief, Lisa is suffering from not being in a classroom setting, Milhouse gets tutored, and the PTA decides to hire neighborhood people as scab teachers.

* CaptainObvious: The tour guide explains that cannon could go off if hit with the slightest touch. Considering that the cannon were pointing at a lookout tower, it wasn't loaded for safety reasons… duh.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer on Canada after Marge tells the family that the kids had trouble finding Canada on the map.

* EducationMama: Marge, of course

** When Üter is attacked, the bus just leaves him and isn’t talked about (which sets up several jokes in later episodes about how Uter is missing).

After a disastrous field trip, Edna and the teachers agree to a strike as they had it with Skinner’s excuses for his actions thanks to budget cuts. Bart tries to take advantages of the situation while Lisa almost has a nervous breakdown over it until Marge intervenes.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Bart didn’t seem to notice what his mother would do when the strike he wants comes.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer on Canada after Marge explain her day.
* DrivenToMadness: Lisa

* MysteryMeat: Whatever the kids and teachers were eating… newspapers and/or gym mats.

** When Üter is attacked, the bus just leaves him and isn’t talked about.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Bart didn’t seem to notice what his mother would when the strike he wants comes.

* WhatHappenedtotheMouse: This happens twice!

* Be Careful What You Wish For: Bart didn’t seem to notice what his mother would when the strike he wants comes.
* Captain Obvious: The tour guide explains that cannon could go off if hit with the slightest touch. Considering that the cannon were pointing at a lookout tower, it wasn't loaded for safety reasons… duh.
* Education Mama: Marge, of course
* Mystery Meat: Whatever the kids and teachers were eating… newspapers and/or gym mats.
* What Happened to the Mouse? This happens twice!
When Üter is attacked, the bus just leaves him and isn’t talked about.
What about Jasper after Abe was forced to abandon him?