History YMMV / TheSimpsonsS6E23TheSpringfieldConnection

* MemeticMutation: The scene where Homer chooses to waive his MirandaRights and starts yelling. Cue variations that replace his yelling with other loud noises such as The Emergency Broadcast System tone, a snippet of the Platform/PlayStation2 startup, and so on.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One of the mobsters mistakes Marge for Gloria Vanderbilt, who died in 2019. [[ZigZaggingTrope Of course]], this can remain funny if one were to intercept the mobster freaking out over being confronted by Vanderbilt's vengeful ghost.

* HarsherInHindsight: Homer using Marge's police tape on Ned's house to fool him into thinking that his family's dead is not as funny as it was when [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily his first wife, Maude, eventually died for real]] (as did his second, Edna Krabappel). To make matters worse, Homer [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom was the one who (unintentionally) killed Maude]].

* HarsherInHindsight: Homer using Marge's police tape on Ned's house to fool him into thinking that his family's dead is not as funny as it was when [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily his first wife, Maude, eventually died for real]]. To make matters worse, Homer [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom was the one who (unintentionally) killed Maude]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Homer using Marge's police tape on Ned's house to fool him into thinking that his family's dead is not as funny as it was when [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily his first wife, Maude, eventually died for real]]. To make matters worse, Homer [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom was the one who (unintentionally) killed Maude]].

* ValuesResonance: One brief scene has Lisa questioning if the police are nothing more than a force maintaining the status quo for the wealthy elite and whether society would be better off tackling the roots of social problems that lead to crime rather than just simply jamming criminals in prison, [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject which Marge attempts to brush off]]. In the decades since the episode aired, police brutality (particularly against minorities) and abuse of power became more widespread and talked-about issues, making Lisa's concerns very prevalent today.

* ValuesResonance: One brief scene has Lisa questioning about how the police should focus their time on tackling the roots of social problems that lead to crime rather than just simply maintaining the status quo and jamming criminals in prison, [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject which Marge attempts to brush off]]. In the decades since the episode aired, police brutality (particularly against minorities) and abuse of power became more widespread and talked-about issues, making Lisa's concerns very prevalent today.

* ValuesResonance: One brief scene has Lisa questioning about how the police should focus their time on tackling the roots of social problems that lead to crime rather than just simply maintaining the status quo and jamming criminals in prison, which Marge attempts to brush off. In the decades since the episode aired, police brutality (particularly among minorities) and abuse of power became more widespread and talked-about issues, making Lisa's concerns very prevalent today.

* ValuesResonance: One brief scene has Lisa questioning about how the police should focus their time on tackling the roots of social problems that lead to crime rather than just simply maintaining the status quo and jamming criminals in prison, which Marge attempts to brush off. In the decades since the episode aired, police brutality (particularly among minorities) and abuse of power has become a more widespread and talked-about issue, making Lisa's concerns very prevalent today.

* ValuesResonance: One brief scene has Lisa questioning about how the police should focus their time on tackling the roots of social problems rather than just simply maintaining the status quo, which Marge attempts to brush off. In the decades since the episode aired, police brutality and abuse of power became a much more widespread and talked about issue, making Lisa's concerns very prevalent today.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Moleman's execution, particularly since it happens after Homer eats his last meal and an indifferent Lovejoy is the only person to console him.
-->'''Reverend Lovejoy''': Alright Hans. Time to go. \\
'''Hans Moleman''': But he ate my last meal. \\
'''Reverend Lovejoy''': Well, if that's the worst thing that happens to you today, consider yourself lucky.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** Homer using Marge's police tape on Ned's house to fool him into thinking that his family's dead is not as funny as it was when [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily his first wife, Maude, eventually died for real]]. To make matters worse, Homer [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom was the one who (unintentionally) killed Maude]].
** Also, while Marge is training at the shooting range, she shoots all of the threatening targets, only for Chief Wiggum to chide her for missing the other, innocuous targets (a woman with a baby and a blind man with a seeing-eye dog.) Given the increasingly uncomfortable/controversial incidents of PoliceBrutality throughout the years, especially against unarmed citizens, makes Wiggum's comment look worse.

-->'''Gun Nut''': ''I had it up to HERE with your '''"RULES"!''''' ''[walks away]''

* FunnyAneurysmMoment[=/=]HarsherInHindsight:

** Also in training, Marge has trouble scaling the wall, to which the Chief quips how women always have trouble with it [[ThereWasADoor as all the men pass through the door at the base of it.]] Even as a RuleOfFunny, women in law enforcement and the military still have trouble with the physical training for the positions, particularly for advanced placement, over men.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment[=/=]HarsherInHindsight: Homer using Marge's police tape on Ned's house to fool him into thinking that his family's dead is not as funny as it was when [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily his first wife, Maude, eventually died for real]]. To make matters worse, Homer [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom was the one who (unintentionally) killed Maude]].

-->'''Wiggum''': All right, you scrawny beanpoles: becoming a cop is not something that happens overnight. It takes a solid weekend of training to get that badge.

* OneSceneWonder: When Marge joins the police, one of her fellow cadets is a twitchy GunNut who screams "Forget about the badge! When do we get the FREAKIN' GUNS?!"

* OneSceneWonder: When Marge joins the police, one of her fellow cadets is a twitchy Gun Nut who screams "Forget about the badge! When do we get the FREAKIN' GUNS?!"