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* ObviousStuntDouble: During the educational film, the camera repeatedly cuts from Troy [=McClure=] pretending to ride a fake bull to a gray-haired man riding a real one.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When the students are watching the video about the founding of Springfield, Bart hopes that they "show the time where they traded guns to the Indians for corn, and then the Indians shot them and took the corn".
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* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Printing out fliers to spread the word about Jebediah Springfield's true nature, Lisa asks for 25 each in goldenrod, canary, saffron, and paella; the store clerk accurately interprets her request as "100 yellow".

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* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Printing out fliers to spread the word about Jebediah Springfield's true nature, Lisa asks for 25 each in goldenrod, canary, saffron, and paella; the store clerk accurately interprets her request as "100 yellow".[[note]]The first three are distinct colors of yellow, and paella is a rice dish that gets its color from saffron, but is not typically a recognized color name.[[/note]]

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* CardCarryingVillain: Jebediah Springfield/Hans Sprungfeld's secret confession has him explicitly describe himself as a "murderous pirate", and even includes him transcribing his EvilLaugh.

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* CardCarryingVillain: Jebediah Springfield/Hans Sprungfeld's secret confession (which he wrote so that the infamy of his true self would live on after his death) has him explicitly describe himself as a "murderous pirate", and even includes him transcribing his EvilLaugh.



* CerebusRetcon: To other episodes that showcased Springfield as a cool historical figurehead, such as "The Telltale Head". Turns out that Jebediah Springfield was such a hard-core vile son of a bitch that [[KickTheSonOfABitch Bart's little crime ends up being a little karmic]].

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* CerebusRetcon: To other episodes that showcased Springfield as a cool historical figurehead, such as "The Telltale Head". Turns out that Jebediah Springfield was such a hard-core vile son of a bitch that [[KickTheSonOfABitch [[PayEvilUntoEvil Bart's little crime ends up being a little karmic]].



* DesecratingTheDead: At Homer and Lisa's insistence, the town jubilation committee digs up Jebediah Springfield's remains to check for Hans Sprungfeld's silver tongue. Hollis Hurlbut steals the tongue to prevent his career from being for nothing, and Chief Wiggum uses his skull as a ventriloquist dummy (immediately after telling Jebediah's bones that they meant no disrespect).
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Printing out fliers to spread the word about Jebediah Springfield's true nature, Lisa asks for 25 each in goldenrod, canary, saffron, and paella; the store clerk accurately interprets her request as "100 yellow".



* FailedASpotCheck: Lisa is the first person since pioneer days to notice that Hans Sprungfeld and Jebediah Springfield looked exactly alike. Even when she puts up pictures of the two men side by side, no one believes that they're the same man.
* FameThroughInfamy: Sprungfeld wrote his confession so that his infamy would live on long after he succumbs to diphtheria.



* HypocriticalHumor: Just as Wiggum checks Jebediah's skull for the silver tongue, he begs the founder to forgive them and that they mean "no disrespect." Five seconds later, he uses the skull as a ventriloquist dummy, to the delight of everyone present.
* IdiotBall: Despite having at least one piece of empirical evidence that Jebediah Springfield and Hans Sprungfeld are one and the same (the near-identical pictures she showed to her family), Lisa never bothers to present it to any of the people she tries to convince of the truth.

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* HypocriticalHumor: HypocriticalHumor:
** Comic Book Guy gets paranoid when he thinks Homer is spying on his screenplay and trying to steal his idea of computers threatening humanity's liberties, immediately after making it clear that ''he'' stole the same idea from [[Film/BladeRunner Ridley Scott]] and [[Film/TheTerminator James Cameron]].
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Just as Wiggum checks Jebediah's skull for the silver tongue, he begs the founder to forgive them and that they mean "no disrespect." Five seconds later, he uses the skull as a ventriloquist dummy, to the delight of everyone present.
* IdiotBall: Despite having at least one piece of empirical evidence IResembleThatRemark: Homer laments that Jebediah he's been called a greasy thug. His response to [[MondegreenGag thinking]] someone had called Lisa the same thing is for himself and Lisa to grease themselves up and trash Springfield and Hans Sprungfeld are one and the same (the near-identical pictures she showed to her family), Lisa never bothers to present it to any of the people she tries to convince of the truth.Elementary with a baseball bat.



* PaperThinDisguise: Hans Sprungfeld changed next to nothing about himself to start his life as Jebediah Springfield, only switching from a pirate outfit to a coonskin hat. Not only did this work in the 1800s, it ''continues'' to work in the present; even with Lisa holding up near-identical pictures of Springfield and Sprungfeld, Marge refuses to believe that they're the same man.

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* PaperThinDisguise: Hans Sprungfeld changed next to nothing about himself his appearance to start his life as Jebediah Springfield, only switching from a pirate outfit to a coonskin hat. Not only did this work in the 1800s, it ''continues'' to work in the present; even with Lisa holding up near-identical pictures of Springfield and Sprungfeld, Marge refuses to believe that they're the same man.


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* ProperlyParanoid: Thinking Homer was spying on his screenplay in the copy store, Comic Book Guy warns him not to steal his idea. Homer immediately makes a mental note to steal said idea.
* ReversePsychology: [[ItMakesSenseInContext The ghost of George Washington]] convinces Lisa to keep trying to uncover the truth by suggesting that he instead go find her friend Janey, so that ''she'' can be President.
-->'''Lisa:''' No, not Janey! She'll fill the Supreme Court with ''boys''!
* SarcasmBlind: While printing off his screenplay, Comic Book Guy rhetorically asks Homer if his name is Creator/RidleyScott or Creator/JamesCameron. Homer, naturally, responds that his name is Homer.


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* SunkCostFallacy: When he saw the silver tongue in Jebediah's bones, Hurlbut couldn't stand that he'd devoted his career to a fraud, so he stole the tongue and hid it in his museum to prevent the truth from coming out.


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* VisualPun: Hans Sprungfeld/Jebediah Springfield was savvy and manipulative enough to convince an entire town (admittedly, the town in question is Springfield, but still) that he was a true American hero. Naturally, he had a literal silver tongue.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The famous story of Jebediah Springfield taming a wild buffalo is revealed to be a fraud in his secret confession; the buffalo was already quite tame, and he simply shot it and mounted it's head as a trophy.

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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The famous story of Jebediah Springfield taming a wild buffalo is revealed to be a fraud in his secret confession; the buffalo was already quite tame, and he simply shot it and mounted it's its head as a trophy.

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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The famous story of Jebediah Springfield taming a wild buffalo is revealed to be a fraud in his secret confession; the buffalo was already quite tame, and he simply shot it and mounted it's head as a trophy.



* CardCarryingVillain: Jebediah Springfield/Hans Sprungfeld's secret confession has him explicitly describe himself as a "murderous pirate", and even includes him transcribing his EvilLaugh.



* ContagiousCassandraTruth: Homer comes to believe Lisa's claim that that the wanted pirate Hans Sprungfeld assumed the identity to escape the authorities, because she's smart enough to know what she's talking about, and is also the only one who supports her when she asks the town council to dig up "Springfiled's" grave to prove whether she's right or wrong.

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* ContagiousCassandraTruth: Homer comes to believe Lisa's claim that that the wanted pirate Hans Sprungfeld assumed the identity to escape the authorities, because she's smart enough to know what she's talking about, and is also the only one who supports her when she asks the town council to dig up "Springfiled's" "Springfield's" grave to prove whether she's right or wrong. wrong.



* EvilLaugh: Jebediah Springfield/Hans Sprungfeld when he finished writing his confession (he even ''wrote'' down his sinister laughter in as well).

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* EvilLaugh: Jebediah Springfield/Hans Sprungfeld Sprungfeld, both when he attacked George Washington and when he finished writing his confession (he even ''wrote'' down his sinister laughter in it as well).



* HiddenDisdainReveal: Springfield/Sprungfeld's confession reveals that he considered the people who venerated him to be a bunch of easily duped halfwits.



* {{Jerkass}}: Hans Sprungfeld decided to write down a letter to confess all of his crimes only when he was dying of Diphtheria and did so with much glee (he even wrote down his EvilLaugh!). Among multiple other ruthlessly violent things he did during his lifetime, he tried to assassinate George Washington. He also has no problem calling all of the citizens of Springfield past, present and future (because they followed him into founding the town) a bunch of idiots.
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* {{Jerkass}}: IdiotBall: Despite having at least one piece of empirical evidence that Jebediah Springfield and Hans Sprungfeld are one and the same (the near-identical pictures she showed to her family), Lisa never bothers to present it to any of the people she tries to convince of the truth.
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Hans Sprungfeld decided to write down a letter to confess all of his crimes only when he was dying of Diphtheria and did so with much glee (he even wrote down his EvilLaugh!). Among multiple other ruthlessly violent things he did during his lifetime, he tried to assassinate George Washington. He also has no problem calling all of the citizens of Springfield past, present and future (because they followed him into founding the town) a bunch of idiots.
%% ** Ms. Hoover, especially toward Lisa.Lisa; she denounces Lisa's essay about Jebediah's true nature in front of the entire class and dubs her a "P.C. thug" who [[FemaleMisogynist keeps women like Hoover from landing a husband]].



* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After losing his fight with George Washington in a [[GroinAttack spectacularly painful fashion]], Hans Sprungfeld crawls away while Washington is distracted.



* PaperThinDisguise: Hans Sprungfeld changed next to nothing about himself to start his life as Jebediah Springfield, only switching from a pirate outfit to a coonskin hat. Not only did this work in the 1800s, it ''continues'' to work in the present; even with Lisa holding up near-identical pictures of Springfield and Sprungfeld, Marge refuses to believe that they're the same man.



%% * SinsOfOurFathers: "You are ''banned'' from this historical society! And your children! And your children's children! ... For three months".

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%% * SinsOfOurFathers: Parodied when Hurlbut bans Lisa from the Springfield Historical Society: "You are ''banned'' from this historical society! And You, and your children! And children, and your children's children! ... children! ...For three months".



* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Hans Sprungfeld was a pirate that tried to kill George Washington. But he changed his name to Jebediah Springfield and founded the city where he is considered the greatest man of their history.

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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Hans Sprungfeld was a pirate that tried to kill George Washington. But he changed his name to Jebediah Springfield and founded the city where he is considered the greatest man of their history. As his secret confession shows, the man himself considered his people "halfwits" and [[EvilLaugh laughed himself silly]] at the idea that they would never learn the truth.

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* HeKnowsTooMuch: At the climax, when Lisa is about to expose the truth about Jebediah Springfield to the crowd attending the parade, we find out that Quimby ordered a sniper to shoot Lisa if she revealed the truth. Quimby tells the sniper to wait so they can hear what she will say, Lisa decides to not tell the truth... [[KickTheDog and the sniper fires anyway]] (whether on his own volition or on Quimby's orders, we don't know), hitting where Lisa was standing one second before.



* HeKnowsTooMuch: At the climax, when Lisa is about to expose the truth about Jebediah Springfield to the crowd attending the parade, we find out that Quimby ordered a sniper to shoot Lisa if she revealed the truth. Quimby tells the sniper to wait so they can hear what she will say, Lisa decides to not tell the truth... [[KickTheDog and the sniper fires anyway]] (whether on his own volition or on Quimby's orders, we don't know), hitting where Lisa was standing one second before.

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* HeKnowsTooMuch: At the climax, when *LiteralMetaphor: When Lisa is talks about to expose the truth about Hans Sprungfeld’s silver tongue (his real tongue was lost after it was bitten out in a fight), Reverend Lovejoy argues that people only say that Jebediah Springfield to the crowd attending the parade, we find out had a silver tongue because he was such a fine speaker. Homer ultimately proclaims that Quimby ordered a sniper to shoot Lisa if she revealed the truth. Quimby tells the sniper only solution is to wait so they can hear what she will say, Lisa decides dig up Jebediah’s grave to prove whether or not tell the truth... [[KickTheDog and the sniper fires anyway]] (whether on his own volition or on Quimby's orders, we don't know), hitting where Lisa was standing one second before.he had a real silver tongue.

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** George Washington (in the flashback scene) when he half-heartedly says he'll use Betsy Ross's flag and then angrily refuses to pay for it.



* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Hans Sprungfeld was a pirate that tried to kill George Washington. But he changed his name to Jebediah Springfield and founded the city where he is considered the greates man of their history.

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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Hans Sprungfeld was a pirate that tried to kill George Washington. But he changed his name to Jebediah Springfield and founded the city where he is considered the greates greatest man of their history.

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* DaddysGirl: If the image above isn't enough proof, Lisa seriously bonds with her dad in this episode.

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* DaddysGirl: If the image above isn't enough proof, Homer is very supportive of Lisa seriously bonds with her dad in this episode.episode since he knows she tends to only talks like that when she knows something is true, and helps her as much as he can.



* EvilAllAlong: Jebediah Springfield turns out to be this.

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* EvilAllAlong: Jebediah Springfield turns out to be this.have always been a criminal and jerk instead of the beloved founder everyone takes him as.



** UnEvilLaugh: What it becomes when read out by Lisa.
* FakeUltimateHero[=/=]VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jebediah Springfield.



* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, he was Jebediah Springfield's (in his Hans Sprungfeld identity) enemy and even managed to put off an intense fist fight during Jebediah's assassination attempt.
** He later appears to Lisa as a vision to scold her when she considers giving up her effort to expose Jebediah Springfield as a fraud.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, he was Jebediah Springfield's (in his Hans Sprungfeld identity) enemy and even managed to put off an intense fist fight during Jebediah's assassination attempt.
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attempt. He later appears to Lisa as a vision to scold her when she considers giving up her effort to expose Jebediah Springfield as a fraud.



* {{Jerkass}}:
** Ms. Hoover, especially toward Lisa.
** Hans Sprungfeld decided to write down a letter to confess all of his crimes only when he was dying of Diphtheria and did so with much glee (he even wrote down his EvilLaugh!). Among multiple other ruthlessly violent things he did during his lifetime, he tried to assassinate George Washington. He also has no problem calling all of the citizens of Springfield past, present and future (because they followed him into founding the town) a bunch of idiots.

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* {{Jerkass}}:
** Ms. Hoover, especially toward Lisa.
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{{Jerkass}}: Hans Sprungfeld decided to write down a letter to confess all of his crimes only when he was dying of Diphtheria and did so with much glee (he even wrote down his EvilLaugh!). Among multiple other ruthlessly violent things he did during his lifetime, he tried to assassinate George Washington. He also has no problem calling all of the citizens of Springfield past, present and future (because they followed him into founding the town) a bunch of idiots.idiots.
%% ** Ms. Hoover, especially toward Lisa.



* NoodleIncident: Apparently, no town meeting in Springfield has ended without someone digging up a corpse. What were those other times?

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* NoodleIncident: Apparently, no town meeting in Springfield has ended without someone digging up a corpse. What were those other times?



* PetTheDog: Homer believes Lisa's theory and goes out of his way to support her when all others in Springfield, including Marge, doubt or deride her for expressing such views.

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* PetTheDog: PetTheDog:
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Homer believes Lisa's theory and goes out of his way to support her when all others in Springfield, including Marge, doubt or deride her for expressing such views.



* SinsOfOurFathers: "You are ''banned'' from this historical society! And your children! And your children's children! ... For three months".

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%% * SinsOfOurFathers: "You are ''banned'' from this historical society! And your children! And your children's children! ... For three months".


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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Hans Sprungfeld was a pirate that tried to kill George Washington. But he changed his name to Jebediah Springfield and founded the city where he is considered the greates man of their history.
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** During the parade, Homer takes back the town cryer hat and bell from Flanders. Helen Lovejoy demands that the police do something, but Chief Wiggum is so impressed he decides to let Homer march.

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** During the parade, Homer takes back the town cryer hat and bell from Flanders. Helen Lovejoy demands that the police do something, but Chief Wiggum is so impressed by Homer's energy he decides to let Homer him march.
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** During the parade, Homer takes back the town cryer hat and bell from Flanders. Helen Lovejoy demands that the police do something, but Chief Wiggum is so impressed he decides to let Homer march.
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* GenreSavvy: Homer's starting to wise up, which is why he believes Lisa and decides to back her.
-->'''Homer:''' You're always right about this type of thing, and for once I want in on the ground floor.

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Episode - 3F13\\
First Aired - 2/18/1996

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Episode - 3F13\\
First Aired - 2/18/1996

'''Original air date:''' 2/18/1996 ''(produced in 1995)''

'''Production code:''' 3F13
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-->'''George Washington''': We had quitters during the Revolution, too. We called them 'Kentuckians'.

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-->'''George --->'''George Washington''': We had quitters during the Revolution, too. We called them 'Kentuckians'.
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* MondegreenGag: Homer mishears Lisa recounting Ms. Hoover calling her a "P.C. thug" as "greasy thug".

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* MondegreenGag: Homer mishears Lisa recounting Ms. Hoover calling her a "P.C. thug" as "greasy thug". He's still just as sympathetic to her plight.
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* {{Mondegreen}}: In-universe. Homer mishears Lisa recounting Ms. Hoover calling her a "P.C. thug" as "greasy thug".

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* {{Mondegreen}}: In-universe. MondegreenGag: Homer mishears Lisa recounting Ms. Hoover calling her a "P.C. thug" as "greasy thug".

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* JerkassBall: Marge outright dismisses and insults Lisa's findings without even considering it a possibility.

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* JerkassBall: JerkassBall:
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Marge outright dismisses and insults Lisa's findings without even considering it a possibility.possibility.
** Downplayed, but the whole plot is set forward only because Lisa carelessly played around with historical belongings, something the character, at least at this point in the show, would usually consider an incredibly disrespectful and [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E24LostOurLisa stupid risk]].
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* CouchGag: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Grampa (who’s sleeping), Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II are in a ''[[Series/TheBradyBunch Brady Bunch]]''-style nine-square grid, with the couch in the center square. Everyone except Grampa runs to the center square.
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** Hans Springfield decided to write down a letter to confess all of his crimes only when he was dying of Diphtheria and did so with much glee (he even wrote down his EvilLaugh!). Among multiple other ruthlessly violent things he did during his lifetime, he tried to assassinate George Washington. He also has no problem calling all of the citizens of Springfield past, present and future (because they followed him into founding the town) a bunch of idiots.

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** Hans Springfield Sprungfeld decided to write down a letter to confess all of his crimes only when he was dying of Diphtheria and did so with much glee (he even wrote down his EvilLaugh!). Among multiple other ruthlessly violent things he did during his lifetime, he tried to assassinate George Washington. He also has no problem calling all of the citizens of Springfield past, present and future (because they followed him into founding the town) a bunch of idiots.
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* UnfortunateNames: Marge tells Lisa that, when the Bouviers moved to Springfield, they could have instead moved to a town named ''Stenchburg''.
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* SpecialGuest: Creator/DonaldSutherland as Hollis Hurlbut.
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* EvilAllAlong: Jebediah Springfield turns out to be this.
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** He later appears to Lisa as a vision to scold her when she considers giving up her effort to expose Jebidiah Springfield as a fraud.

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** He later appears to Lisa as a vision to scold her when she considers giving up her effort to expose Jebidiah Jebediah Springfield as a fraud.



* PetTheDog: Homer believe Lisa's theory and goes out of his way to support her when all others in Springfield, including Marge, doubt or deride her for expressing such views.

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* PetTheDog: Homer believe believes Lisa's theory and goes out of his way to support her when all others in Springfield, including Marge, doubt or deride her for expressing such views.
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* ContagiousCassandraTruth: Homer comes to believe Lisa's claim that that the wanted pirate Hans Sprungfeld assumed the identity to escape the authorities, because she's smart enough to know what she's talking about, and is also the only one who supports her when she asks the town council to dig up "Springfiled's" grave to prove whether she's right or wrong.

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** Marge outright dismisses and insults Lisa's findings without even considering it a possibility.


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* JerkassBall: Marge outright dismisses and insults Lisa's findings without even considering it a possibility.
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* AesopAmnesia: In "Whacking Day", Lisa didn't have second thoughts about busting the myths of that eponymous Springfield holiday. Though the fact that Springfield was honoring its bicentennial did make things more complicated.

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