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* ItWasHisSled: "It's a cookbook!" has become the most famous phrase from an individual episode of this show, so its twist has naturally become this. Even ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' referenced its ubiquity.

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* ItWasHisSled: "It's a cookbook!" has become the most famous phrase from an individual episode of this show, so its twist has naturally become this. Even ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1'' referenced its ubiquity.
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* RecycledInSpace: This episode can be seen as a sci-fi retake of ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', where humans can be seen as Hansel and Gretel and the aliens are the evil witch who've come to fatten humans up before eating them.

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* WhatAnIdiot: Patty ''just has to pause dramatically'' instead of yelling her warning to Chambers straight away.

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* WhatAnIdiot: Patty ''just has to pause dramatically'' instead of yelling her warning to Chambers straight away.
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* ItWasHisSled: All together now: "It's a cookbook!"

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* ItWasHisSled: All together now: "It's a cookbook!"cookbook!" has become the most famous phrase from an individual episode of this show, so its twist has naturally become this. Even ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' referenced its ubiquity.
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* FridgeLogic: Wait, they only translated the title, not a single word of the contents?
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* RecycledInSpace: This episode can be seen as a sci-fi retake of ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', where humans can be seen as Hansel and Gretel and the aliens are the evil witch who've come to fatten humans up before eating them.

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* RecycledInSpace: This episode can be seen as a sci-fi retake of ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', where humans can be seen as Hansel and Gretel and the aliens are the evil witch who've come to fatten humans up before eating them.them.
* WhatAnIdiot: Patty ''just has to pause dramatically'' instead of yelling her warning to Chambers straight away.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The episode is better known than the short story it was based off of.

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* AdaptationDisplacement: The episode is better known than the short story it was based off of.on.
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* ItWasHisSled: The WhamLine is known to practically everyone by now.

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* ItWasHisSled: The WhamLine is known to practically everyone by now.All together now: "It's a cookbook!"
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* MemeticMutation: The episode's title and punchline have entered the lexicon of pop culture.
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* ItWasHisSled: the WhamLine is known to practically everyone by now.

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* ItWasHisSled: the The WhamLine is known to practically everyone by now.
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* ItWasHisSled: the WhamLine is known to practically everyone by now.

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* ItWasHisSled: the WhamLine is known to practically everyone by now.now.
* RecycledInSpace: This episode can be seen as a sci-fi retake of ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', where humans can be seen as Hansel and Gretel and the aliens are the evil witch who've come to fatten humans up before eating them.
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* HollywoodHomely: The Kanamit are much less ugly than in the short story.
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** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E3TreehouseOfHorror The Simpsons had a variation on it where it was another translation mistake on their part and it was a cookbook for serving humans food.]]
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** The Simpsons had a variation on it where it was another translation mistake on their part and it was a cookbook for serving humans food.

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** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E3TreehouseOfHorror The Simpsons had a variation on it where it was another translation mistake on their part and it was a cookbook for serving humans food.]]
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** The Simpsons had a variation on it where it was another translation mistake on their part and it was a cookbook for serving humans food.
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* HollywoodHomely: The Kanamit are much less ugly than in the short story.

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* HollywoodHomely: The Kanamit are much less ugly than in the short story.story.
* ItWasHisSled: the WhamLine is known to practically everyone by now.
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* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Depending on how cynical you are, the ending could be taken as LaserGuidedKarma for humanity. Or at least, for the main characters' hubris/narcissism, what with the whole "StoppedReadingTooSoon" thing.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: All of the Kanamit are played by Richard Kiel, [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]] [[Film/{{Moonraker}} from]] Film/JamesBond
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The episode is better known than the short story it was based off of.

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* AdaptationDisplacement: The episode is better known than the short story it was based off of.of.
* HeyItsThatGuy: All of the Kanamit are played by Richard Kiel, [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws]] [[Film/{{Moonraker}} from]] Film/JamesBond
* HollywoodHomely: The Kanamit are much less ugly than in the short story.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: The episode is better known than the short story it was based off of.

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