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** Sideshow Bob is offered his pick of roles in ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha''. In 2019, Creator/KelseyGrammer played the title role.

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** Sideshow Bob is offered his pick of roles in ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha''. In 2019, Creator/KelseyGrammer played the title role.role.
** At the climax, Bob sings about how he's gotten attached to his attempts to kill Bart to the tune of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from ''Theatre/MyFairLady''. [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E12MyFairLaddy When the show did a full-on parody of the musical later on during Season 17]], that would not be one of the numbers adapted.
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** Sideshow Bob is offered his pick of roles in Theatre/ManOfLaMancha. In 2019, Creator/KelseyGrammer played the title role.

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** Sideshow Bob is offered his pick of roles in Theatre/ManOfLaMancha.''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha''. In 2019, Creator/KelseyGrammer played the title role.


* AssPull: The revelation that Frank Grimes had a son. Not only was his son never even mentioned beforehand, but the explanation as to why said son exists (hookers) seems OutOfCharacter for Grimes, who was established as being both extremely serious and down-to-earth and poor to the point of living between two bowling alleys.
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** Sideshow Bob is offered his pick of roles in Theatre/ManOfLaMancha. In 2019, Creator/KelseyGrammer played the title role.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Among the LongList of people that are enemies of Homer is one of the Dixie Chicks. This sets the episode as made before 2020, when the group renamed itself as just "The Chicks".

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** Sideshow Bob is offered his pick of roles in Theatre/ManOfLaMancha. In 2019, Creator/KelseyGrammer played the title role.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Among the LongList of people that are enemies of Homer is one of the Dixie Chicks. This sets the episode as made before 2020, when the group renamed itself as just "The Chicks".
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Among the LongList of people that are enemies of Homer is one of the Dixie Chicks. This sets the episode as made before 2020, when the group renamed itself as just "The Chicks".
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Anyone who didn't feel this way about Frank Grimes before will likely feel this way after finding out he had a child with a sex worker. There's the obvious implication that he didn't bother with contraceptives on at least one occasion, resulting in an incident where he left a sex worker holding his illegitimate baby. Now since Frank's major defining trait was that he had to live paycheck to paycheck despite working unreasonable hours, it's possible he's either paying off child support or putting away money for more call-girls. Either way, his crappy life is revealed in this instance to be entirely his own fault.

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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Among the LongList of people that are enemies of Homer is one of the Dixie Chicks. This sets the episode as made before 2020, when the group renamed itself as just "The Chicks".
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Anyone who didn't feel this way about Frank Grimes before will likely feel this way after finding out he had a child with a sex worker. There's the obvious implication that he didn't bother with contraceptives on at least one occasion, resulting in an incident where he left a sex worker holding his illegitimate baby. Now since Frank's major defining trait was that he had to live paycheck to paycheck despite working unreasonable hours, it's possible he's either paying off child support or putting away money for more call-girls. Either way, his crappy life is revealed in this instance to be entirely his own fault.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: This episode raises the possibility that Sideshow Bob's chronic case of WhyDontYouJustShootHim with regard to Bart is due to not actually wanting to kill him at all. The other option (and the one Bob indicates in his song) is that he really did try on the previous occasions but has failed enough times to have grown attached to Bart in the process.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Anyone who didn't feel this way about Frank Grimes before will likely feel this way after finding out he had a child with a sex worker. There's the obvious implication that he didn't bother with contraceptives on at least one occasion, resulting in an incident where he left a sex worker holding his illegitimate baby. Now since Frank's major defining trait was that he had to live paycheck to paycheck despite working unreasonable hours, it's possible he's either paying off child support or putting away money for more call-girls. Either way, his crappy life is revealed in this instance to be entirely his own fault.
** Homer doesn't make himself look good either. We're supposed to sympathetic to someone trying to kill him but he's acted self-absorbed and jerk-ish. He's willing to work with Sideshow Bob, the man who wants to kill his son, to save himself and he's insists on mistreating the mechanic who's repairing his car.

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Anyone who didn't feel this way about Frank Grimes before will likely feel this way after finding out he had a child with a sex worker. There's the obvious implication that he didn't bother with contraceptives on at least one occasion, resulting in an incident where he left a sex worker holding his illegitimate baby. Now since Frank's major defining trait was that he had to live paycheck to paycheck despite working unreasonable hours, it's possible he's either paying off child support or putting away money for more call-girls. Either way, his crappy life is revealed in this instance to be entirely his own fault.
** Homer doesn't make himself look good either. We're supposed to sympathetic to someone trying to kill him but he's acted self-absorbed and jerk-ish. He's willing to work with Sideshow Bob, the man who wants to kill his son, to save himself and he's insists on mistreating the mechanic who's repairing his car.
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** Homer doesn't make himself look good either. We're supposed to sympathetic to someone trying to kill him but he's acted self-absorbed and jerkish. He's willing to work with Sideshow Bob, the man who wants to kill his son, to save himself and he's insists on mistreating the mechanic who's repairing his car.

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** Homer doesn't make himself look good either. We're supposed to sympathetic to someone trying to kill him but he's acted self-absorbed and jerkish.jerk-ish. He's willing to work with Sideshow Bob, the man who wants to kill his son, to save himself and he's insists on mistreating the mechanic who's repairing his car.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Anyone who didn't feel this way about Frank Grimes before will likely feel this way after finding out he had a child with a sex worker. There's the obvious implication that he didn't bother with contraceptives on at least one occasion, resulting in an incident where he left a sex worker holding his illegitimate baby. Now since Frank's major defining trait was that he had to live paycheck to paycheck despite working unreasonable hours, it's possible he's either paying off child support or putting away money for more call-girls. Either way, his crappy life is revealed in this instance to be entirely his own fault.

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Anyone who didn't feel this way about Frank Grimes before will likely feel this way after finding out he had a child with a sex worker. There's the obvious implication that he didn't bother with contraceptives on at least one occasion, resulting in an incident where he left a sex worker holding his illegitimate baby. Now since Frank's major defining trait was that he had to live paycheck to paycheck despite working unreasonable hours, it's possible he's either paying off child support or putting away money for more call-girls. Either way, his crappy life is revealed in this instance to be entirely his own fault.fault.
** Homer doesn't make himself look good either. We're supposed to sympathetic to someone trying to kill him but he's acted self-absorbed and jerkish. He's willing to work with Sideshow Bob, the man who wants to kill his son, to save himself and he's insists on mistreating the mechanic who's repairing his car.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Among the LongList of people that are enemies of Homer is one of the Dixie Chicks. This sets the episode as made before 2020, when the group renamed itself as just "The Chicks".
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* AssPull: The revelation that Frank Grimes had a son. Not only was his son never even mentioned beforehand, but the explanation as to why said son exists (hookers) seems OutOfCharacter for Grimes, who was established as being both extremely serious and down-to-earth and poor to the point of living between two bowling alleys.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The episode [[TakeThat makes fun of]] ''Series/That80sShow'' with a ShowWithinAShow ''That '30s Show''. This is before ''The Simpsons'' came out with the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E11That90sShow "That 90s Show"]].

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The episode [[TakeThat makes fun of]] ''Series/That80sShow'' with a ShowWithinAShow ''That '30s Show''. This is before ''The Simpsons'' came out with the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E11That90sShow "That 90s Show"]].
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** Sideshow Bob is offered his pick of roles in Theatre/ManOfLaMancha. In 2019, Creator/KelseyGrammer played the title role.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The episode [[TakeThat makes fun of]] ''Series/That80sShow'' with a ShowWithinAShow ''That '30s Show''. This is before ''The Simpsons'' came out with the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E11That90sShow "That 90s Show"]].
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Anyone who didn't feel this way about Frank Grimes before will likely feel this way after finding out he had a child with a sex worker. There's the obvious implication that he didn't bother with contraceptives on at least one occasion, resulting in an incident where he left a sex worker holding his illegitimate baby. Now since Frank's major defining trait was that he had to live paycheck to paycheck despite working unreasonable hours, it's possible he's either paying off child support or putting away money for more call-girls. Either way, his crappy life is revealed in this instance to be entirely his own fault.

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