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* HilariousInHindsight: The book "The answer" was a stand-in in the episode for "The secret". In 2016, "The answer" become [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41-inL3Hl8L.jpg an actual self-help book]] written by Allan and Barbara Pease.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The book "The answer" Answer" was a stand-in in the episode for "The secret". Secret". In 2016, "The answer" Answer" become [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41-inL3Hl8L.jpg an actual self-help book]] written by Allan and Barbara Pease.
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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was"). Although Bart decides against righting his obvious wrong (spiking Edna's drink) by committing the same wrong against Zack, if you consider his ''actual'' mistake to be confessing to Edna, he ''does'' fix ''that'' with the same wrong: confessing a second time, to Skinner, which clears the path for Edna to get her job back.

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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was"). Although Bart decides against righting his obvious wrong (spiking Edna's drink) by committing the same wrong against Zack, if you consider his ''actual'' mistake to be confessing to Edna, he ''does'' fix ''that'' with the same wrong: confessing a second time, to Skinner, which clears the path for Edna to get her job back. Edna's rehiring.
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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was"). Although Bart decides against righting his obvious wrong (spiking Edna's drink) with the same wrong committed against Zack, if you consider his ''actual'' mistake to be confessing to Edna, he ''does'' fix ''that'' with the same wrong: confessing a second time, to Skinner, which clears the path for Edna to get her job back.

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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was"). Although Bart decides against righting his obvious wrong (spiking Edna's drink) with by committing the same wrong committed against Zack, if you consider his ''actual'' mistake to be confessing to Edna, he ''does'' fix ''that'' with the same wrong: confessing a second time, to Skinner, which clears the path for Edna to get her job back.

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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was"). Although Bart decides against righting his obvious wrong (spiking Edna's drink) with the same wrong committed against Zack, if you consider his ''actual'' wrong to be confessing to Edna, he ''does'' right ''that'' with the same wrong: confessing a second time, to Skinner, which clears the path for Edna to get her job back.

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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was"). Although Bart decides against righting his obvious wrong (spiking Edna's drink) with the same wrong committed against Zack, if you consider his ''actual'' wrong mistake to be confessing to Edna, he ''does'' right fix ''that'' with the same wrong: confessing a second time, to Skinner, which clears the path for Edna to get her job back. back.
-->'''Bart:''' If someone did a really bad thing to one teacher, and then did the same bad thing to another teacher to get the first teacher her job back, would it be okay?
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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was"). Although Bart decides against righting his obvious wrong (spiking Edna's drink) with the same wrong committed against Zack, if you consider his ''actual'' wrong to be confessing to Edna, he ''does'' right ''that'' with the same wrong: confessing to Skinner, which clears the path for Edna to get her job back.

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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was"). Although Bart decides against righting his obvious wrong (spiking Edna's drink) with the same wrong committed against Zack, if you consider his ''actual'' wrong to be confessing to Edna, he ''does'' right ''that'' with the same wrong: confessing a second time, to Skinner, which clears the path for Edna to get her job back.
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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was").

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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was"). Although Bart decides against righting his obvious wrong (spiking Edna's drink) with the same wrong committed against Zack, if you consider his ''actual'' wrong to be confessing to Edna, he ''does'' right ''that'' with the same wrong: confessing to Skinner, which clears the path for Edna to get her job back.
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* AlternativeAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was").

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* AlternativeAesopInterpretation: AlternateAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was").
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* AlternativeAesopInterpretation: Writer Matt Selman joked on Twitter that the lesson of the episode was "NEVER EVER CONFESS TO ANYTHING. EVEN IF YOU'RE POSITIVE NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN – NEVER CONFESS" (which is also a pretty fair Aesop for Season 2's "The Way We Was").
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* HilariousInHindsight: The book "The answer" was a stand-in in the episode for "The secret". In 2016, "The answer" become [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41-inL3Hl8L.jpg an actual self-help book]] written by Allan and Barbara Pease.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Mrs. Krabbappel takes advice from ''The Answer'', an obvious parody of ''The Secret'' and other self-help media that thrived in the late 2000s. Her replacement meanwhile is clearly a proto-hipster eager on technology to the point of having an [=iPhone=]. Also, everybody in Bart's class owns either phones with touchscreens or QWERTY keypads (including Nelson of all people).
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