History Recap / TheSimpsonsS6E21ThePTADisbands

* 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 "relax", and Marge mentions she found Lisa dissecting her raincoat.

* ExcitedShowTitle: The Season 6 DVD lists this episode as "The PTA Disbands!"

** At Fort Springfield, the tour guide explains how they had restored a cannon to firing condition, and how it was very sensitive and could go off from slight jolts and was also aimed at the base of a watch tower. The Springfield Elementary crashes into it, knocking off a wheel, and... nothing happens. The guide then explains it's unloaded.

* TheAllegedCar: The Springfield Elementary school bus is in extremely poor repair, with a rusted out hole in the floor that keeps getting bigger and brakes so worn that students need to use their jackets as drag chutes to help slow the vehicle down. This is nothing next to the other bus the school owns, which is in such a bad shape that a CutawayGag shows, just as Skinner says this, the bus sitting on the school's parking lot on top of some bricks and '''[[MadeOfExplodium exploding]]''' when [[TheLastStraw a little leaf falls on its roof]].

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: During the re-enactment, the narrator talks about how ''brave'' the Springfield army was for slaughtering unarmed and surrendering soldiers suffering from grievous injuries and sickness.

---> '''Skinner''': Well children, I don't know what you did to all those other substitutes, but it's going to stop ''now''. Leopold?\\

** Lisa has an Emergency Strike Kit ready to go, complete with audio recording of a teacher scolding students.

--->'''Homer''': In this house ''we obey the laws of thermodynamics''!

* JerkassHasAPoint: Skinner has taken his CuttingCorners tendencies to their breaking point in this episode, but as several episodes have shown, the budget for Springfield Elementary ''really is that bad!'' The state government is constantly slashing their funding, and the townspeople absolutely refuses even the smallest tax increases, meaning that Skinner really has no choice, since there isn't any money for him to access. He even points this out after he and Edna are locked in a room together by the end, saying that there's nothing to discuss, because the money genuinely isn't there.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Subverted. Bart is seen in the park playing several games of chess at once; [[EpicFail he loses all of them]].

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Bart spreads a rumor among a crowd of teachers about Skinner saying that "[they] will crack any minute". When the rumor reaches Mrs. Krabappel, it has an additional "purple monkey dishwasher" insult directed to her at the end. Edna's response to this is that they'll show Skinner that they can endure it because of the "purple monkey dishwasher" insult.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Marge. Her being a teacher makes Bart a bully magnet.

-->'''Homer:''' In this house, we respect the laws of thermodynamics!

* LaserGuidedKarma: Bart deliberately provokes the strike simply because he thought it would be a fun alternative to school, and indeed he proceeds to wreck havoc on the town, and scares off substitutes when he is forced to go back to school. That said, it comes back to bite him in the ass ''hard'' when he has to suffer the embarrassment of having his particularly-embarassing mother teach his class and ends up the victim of Nelson and his gang, who freely beat him up since they knew he was the one responsible for the parents coming in, all the while distracting Marge so she wouldn't intervene. Ultimately, he ends up being forced to settle the very strike ''he provoked to begin with.''

-->'''Marge:''' Kids have been doing that one since my day.

* IdiotBall: Bart, during the strike. There's a whole runner of him being unable to even say "what".

** Skinner has always done (and will always do) idiotic decisions that hurt children for the sake of CuttingCorners and do changes that (only he) believes are beneficial to his school, but he's at his worst in this episode. He considers the fact a kid (Üter) has been left behind and implied to be ''clubbed'' on a school trip inconsequential because he's got the parental agreement forms to cover his ass[[note]][[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E23MuchApuAboutNothing a later episode]] implies Skinner ''hates'' Üter for being German, giving the impression that xenophobia is another reason why Skinner dismisses this as collateral damage.[[/note]]. He also opnely tells Edna that he thinks none of the students have any future whatsoever.

'''Edna''': Come onnnnn.\\

* MegaphoneGag: Bart gets hold of a megaphone at a construction site and tells the operators of the machines to do ridiculous things. The construction foreman angrily snatches the megaphone and berates his workers for not being able to tell the difference between his voice and Bart's, in a voice that sounds exactly like Bart's.

--->'''Skinner''': Well the kids have to learn about TekWar sooner or later.

--> "There's not a lot of meat in these gym mats."

--->Of course, for safety reasons, we don't keep the cannon loaded. It's just common sense.

Episode - 2F19\\
First Aired - 4/16/1995

* LaserGuidedKarma: Bart deliberately provokes the strike simply because he thought it would be a fun alternative to school, and indeed he proceeds to wreck havoc on the town, and scares off substitutes when he is forced to go back to school. That said, it comes back to bite him in the ass ''hard'' when he has to suffer the embarrassment of having his particularly-embarassing mother teach his class, is unable to hang out with his friend Milhouse since his parents ''immediately'' start homeschooling him, and ends up the victim of Nelson and his gang, who freely beat him up since they knew he was the one responsible for the parents coming in, all the while distracting Marge so she wouldn't intervene. Ultimately, he ends up being forced to settle the very strike ''he provoked to begin with.''

* LaserGuidedKarma: Bart deliberately provokes the strike simply because he thought it would be a fun alternative to school, and indeed he proceeds to wreck havoc on the town, and scares off substitutes when he is forced to go back to school. That said, it comes back to bite him in the ass ''hard'' when he has to suffer the embarrassment of having his particularly-embarassing mother teach his class, is unable to hang out with his friend Milhouse since his parents ''immediately'' start homeschooling him, and ends up the victim of Nelson and his gang , who freely beat him up while distracting Marge so she wouldn't intervene. Ultimately, he ends up being forced to settle the very strike ''he provoked to begin with.''

* LaserGuidedKarma: Bart deliberately provokes the strike simply because he thought it would be a fun alternative to school, and indeed he proceeds to wreck havoc on the town, and scares off substitutes whenhe is forced to go back to school. That said, it comes back to bite him in the ass ''hard'' when he has to suffer the embarrassment of having his particularly-embarassing mother teach his class, is unable to hang out with his friend Milhouse since his parents ''immediately'' start homeschooling him, and ends up the victim of Nelson and his gang , who freely beat him up while distracting Marge so she wouldn't intervene. Ultimately, he ends up being forced to settle the very strike ''he provoked to begin with.''

* LaserGuidedKarma: Bart deliberately provokes the strike simply because he thought it would be a fun alternative to school, and indeed he proceeds to wreck havoc on the town, and scares off substitutes whenhe is forced to go back to school. That said, it comes back to bite him in the ass ''hard'' when he has to suffer the embarrassment of having his particularly-embarassing mother teach his class, along with Nelson and his gang taking advantage of this to freely beat him up while distracting Marge.