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* HilariousInHindsight: [[MyGodYouAreSerious When Moe realizes Barney actually wants to go sober]], he says "To stay afloat, this bar's going to have to go queer", with a customer saying "You mean it's not? (''groans'') Wrong again, 'Gay Guide to Springfield'." In season 22's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E11FlamingMoe Flaming Moe]]", Moe actually turns the tavern into a gay bar.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Homer goes to the Kwik-E-Mart and asks Apu for "those potato chips that give you diarrhea". Apu then returns with bags of what appear to be ordinary Ruffles. This was based on a real-life product known as Lay's WOW Chips introduced a couple years before the episode aired, which famously contained the chemical olestra, a known stool loosener.
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This feels more like Alternative Character Interpretation than Fridge Brilliance, and Fridge tropes aren't allowed on YMMV pages anyway.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Bart's cruelty towards Milhouse at the beginning of the episode is probably due to him having not forgotten the latter's mistreatment to him and his soul in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul Bart Sells His Soul]]"
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* FridgeBrilliance: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Bart's cruelty towards Milhouse at the beginning of the episode is probably due to him having not forgotten the latter's mistreatment to him and his soul in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul Bart Sells His Soul]]"
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* FridgeBrilliance: Bart's cruelty towards Milhouse at the beginning of the episode is payback after probably due to him having not forgotten the latter cruelly mistreats latter's mistreatment to him and his soul in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul Bart Sells His Soul]]"
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* FridgeBrilliance: Bart's cruelty towards Milhouse at the beginning of the episode is payback after the latter cruelly mistrats mistreats him and his soul in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul Bart Sells His Soul]]"
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* FridgeBrilliance: Bart's cruelty towards Milhouse is payback after the latter cruelly mistrats him in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul]]""[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul Bart Sells His Soul]]"
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* FridgeBrilliance: Bart's cruelty towards Milhouse is payback after the latter cruelly mistrats him in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E4BartSellsHisSoul]]"
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As Dead Homer Society [[https://deadhomersociety.com/2012/09/25/compare-contrast-barney-drunk-and-sober/ surmised,]] prior episodes (most notably, "A Star is Burns"[[note]]a.k.a., "The crossover episode with ''The Critic'' that Matt Groening wanted no part of, which is why his name is not in the credits"[[/note]], "Mr. Plow"[[note]]in the flashback showing that Barney was actually a Harvard-bound high school genius who got into drinking because Homer pressured him to have a beer while Barney was studying for his [=SAT=]s[[/note]], and "Deep Space Homer"[[note]]the one where Homer becomes the first average American man to go into space[[/note]]) had already shown Barney's personality when off the bottle--namely, he's actually extremely confident, artistic, skillful, and intelligent, almost to the level of being TheAce, but he'd just rather be drunk. Bringing in that take on Barney on a more permanent basis could have been interesting, but he's instead mostly written as a powerless, weak-willed StrawLoser who can't survive without alcohol (and ends up getting hooked on coffee that may or may not have been spiked with alcohol).
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As Dead Homer Society [[https://deadhomersociety.com/2012/09/25/compare-contrast-barney-drunk-and-sober/ surmised,]] prior episodes (most notably, "A Star is Burns"[[note]]a.k.a., "The crossover episode with ''The Critic'' that Matt Groening wanted no part of, which is why his name is not in the credits"[[/note]], "Mr. Plow"[[note]]in the flashback showing that Barney was actually a Harvard-bound high school genius who got into drinking because Homer pressured him to have a beer while Barney was studying for his [=SAT=]s[[/note]], and "Deep "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E9MrPlow Mr. Plow]]", "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer Deep Space Homer"[[note]]the one where Homer becomes the first average American man to go into space[[/note]]) Homer]]", and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star Is Burns]]") had already shown Barney's personality when off the bottle--namely, he's actually extremely confident, artistic, skillful, and intelligent, almost to the level of being TheAce, but he'd just rather be drunk. Bringing in that take on Barney on a more permanent basis could have been interesting, but he's instead mostly written as a powerless, weak-willed StrawLoser who can't survive without alcohol (and ends up getting hooked on coffee that may or may not have been spiked with alcohol).
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As Dead Homer Society [[https://deadhomersociety.com/2012/09/25/compare-contrast-barney-drunk-and-sober/ surmised,]] prior episodes had already shown Barney's personality when off the bottle--namely, he's actually extremely confident, artistic, skillful, and intelligent, almost to the level of being TheAce, but he'd just rather be drunk. Bringing in that take on Barney on a more permanent basis could be really interesting, but he's instead mostly written as a powerless, weak-willed StrawLoser.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As Dead Homer Society [[https://deadhomersociety.com/2012/09/25/compare-contrast-barney-drunk-and-sober/ surmised,]] prior episodes (most notably, "A Star is Burns"[[note]]a.k.a., "The crossover episode with ''The Critic'' that Matt Groening wanted no part of, which is why his name is not in the credits"[[/note]], "Mr. Plow"[[note]]in the flashback showing that Barney was actually a Harvard-bound high school genius who got into drinking because Homer pressured him to have a beer while Barney was studying for his [=SAT=]s[[/note]], and "Deep Space Homer"[[note]]the one where Homer becomes the first average American man to go into space[[/note]]) had already shown Barney's personality when off the bottle--namely, he's actually extremely confident, artistic, skillful, and intelligent, almost to the level of being TheAce, but he'd just rather be drunk. Bringing in that take on Barney on a more permanent basis could be really have been interesting, but he's instead mostly written as a powerless, weak-willed StrawLoser.StrawLoser who can't survive without alcohol (and ends up getting hooked on coffee that may or may not have been spiked with alcohol).
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As Dead Homer Society [[https://deadhomersociety.com/2012/09/25/compare-contrast-barney-drunk-and-sober/ surmised,]] prior episodes had already shown Barney's personality when off the bottle--namely, he's actually extremely confident, artistic, skillful, and intelligent, almost to the level of being TheAce, but he'd just rather be drunk. Bringing in that take on Barney on a more permanent basis could be really interesting, but he's instead mostly written as a powerless, weak-willed loser.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As Dead Homer Society [[https://deadhomersociety.com/2012/09/25/compare-contrast-barney-drunk-and-sober/ surmised,]] prior episodes had already shown Barney's personality when off the bottle--namely, he's actually extremely confident, artistic, skillful, and intelligent, almost to the level of being TheAce, but he'd just rather be drunk. Bringing in that take on Barney on a more permanent basis could be really interesting, but he's instead mostly written as a powerless, weak-willed loser.StrawLoser.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: As Dead Homer Society [[https://deadhomersociety.com/2012/09/25/compare-contrast-barney-drunk-and-sober/ surmised,]] prior episodes had already shown Barney's personality when off the bottle--namely, he's actually extremely confident, artistic, skillful, and intelligent, almost to the level of being TheAce, but he'd just rather be drunk. Bringing in that take on Barney on a more permanent basis could be really interesting, but he's instead mostly written as a powerless, weak-willed loser.
