History YMMV / TheSimpsonsS5E8BoyScoutzNTheHood

* HarsherInHindsight:
** When Bart nitpicks at the ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon, Lisa reminds him that cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic. [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E14TheItchyAndScratchyAndPoochieShow Three seasons later]], the show would deal with toxic and entitled fans who wanted the writers fired for a small scene that wasn't 100% realistic (despite ''knowing'' that it was a cartoon), and these rabid ''Itchy and Scratchy'' fans were seen as a TakeThatAudience to ''The Simpsons''' own fans, fracturing the fanbase.
** Watching Creator/ErnestBorgnine implied to be killed by Jason Voorhees (although Jason is never seen, the abandoned summer camp is a clear Main/ShoutOut to Franchise/FridayThe13th) at the end of the episode can be quite difficult after Borgnine's passing in 2012.

* HarsherInHindsight: When Bart nitpicks at the ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon, Lisa reminds him that cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic. [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E14TheItchyAndScratchyAndPoochieShow Three seasons later]], the show would deal with toxic and entitled fans who wanted the writers fired for a small scene that wasn't 100% realistic (despite ''knowing'' that it was a cartoon), and these rabid ''Itchy and Scratchy'' fans were seen as a TakeThatAudience to ''The Simpsons''' own fans, fracturing the fanbase.

** Watching Creator/ErnestBorgnine implied to be killed by Jason Voorhees (although Jason is never seen, the abandoned summer camp is a clear Main/ShoutOut to the Franchise/FridayThe13th) at the end of the episode can be quite difficult considering that this was Borgnine's first and only appearance on the series. This becomes even more poignant after the actor's passing in 2012.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The "Springfield, Springfield" musical number-slash-MushroomSamba. While never mentioned again, it ''does'' have a place in the story as a lead to the inciting incident (Bart wakes up and finds that he joined The Junior Campers).

** Creator/ErnestBorgnine assumes the kids will know him as Sgt. Fatso Judson from ''Literature/FromHereToEternity'', and for some reason they do, even though [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure real kids would be unlikely to know the 40-year-old war film.]] Only six years later, though, Borgnine would become familiar to kids everywhere as the voice of Mermaid Man on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''.

** Martin Prince plays the ''Film/MyDinnerWithAndre'' arcade game, the gameplay of which is limited to watching lengthy conversations and using the joystick to select dialogue choices. [[VisualNovel Nowadays,]] [[Creator/TelltaleGames such a]] [[Creator/BioWare game]] doesn't seem so far-fetched.

* HilariousInHindsight: Martin Prince plays the ''Film/MyDinnerWithAndre'' arcade game, the gameplay of which is limited to watching lengthy conversations and using the joystick to select dialogue choices. [[VisualNovel Nowadays,]] [[Creator/TelltaleGames such a]] [[Creator/BioWare game]] doesn't seem so far-fetched.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: A bunch of young boy scouts getting lost and mauled by a bear? Tragic. A bunch of young boy scouts stalked by the mountain men from ''Literature/{{Deliverance}}'' and then ambushed by [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees?]] Hilarious!

* MemeticMutation: In 2017, the animation from Homer's fantasy about dancing on a desert island to the Archies' "Sugar Sugar" with anthropomorphic ice cream cones and lollipops had been superimposed into other clips from the show, a practice known as Sugarposting.

** Bart using his scout skills to prank Homer as revenge for Homer teasing him about being a scout.
** The "Donny Don't" pictures in the knife safety book (while using it in a slingshot and trying to stab a house cat with it are shocking and horrifying, brushing your teeth with a knife is considered hilarious because even an idiot would know that that's dangerous).

* CrossesTheLineTwice: A bunch of young boy scouts getting lost and mauled by a bear? Tragic. A bunch of young boy scouts stalked by the mountain men from ''Literature/{{Deliverance}}'' and then ambushed by [[Film/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees?]] Hilarious!

* CrossesTheLineTwice: A bunch of young boy scouts getting lost and mauled by a bear? Tragic. A bunch of young boy scouts stalked by the mountain men from ''Literature/{{Deliverance}}'' and then ambushed by Jason Voohrees? Hilarious!

* MemeticMutation: In 2017, the animation from Homer's fantasy about dancing on a desert island to the Archies' Sugar Sugar with anthropomorphic ice cream cones and lollipops had been superimposed into other clips from the show, a practice known as Sugarposting.