Fridge / The Simpsons S8 E2 "You Only Move Twice"

• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Homer casually asking an armed guard where any sugar would be for his coffee and not only does Homer get pointed to the room where the Doomsday Device is, which he's protecting, the guard casually gives Homer the suggestion to check in that room by name! "Why not try in there, Homer?", since, unlike many films and TV shows where a secret agent is portrayed having to find ways to bluff his way in or sneak into such a villain's room before its reveal, Homer works there, so can literally just ask!
  • As silly as it might be that Homer is able to motivate his team of technicians without any apparent effort, many episodes show this is actually something he's very good at doing. In "Homer at the Bat," his charismatic performance with the Wonderbat causes the rest of the plant's previously poor softball team to play better than ever before, and in "Team Homer," he leads encouraging cheers for his bowling teammates that improves their game enough to reach the top of the league. It just goes to show how everything at Cypress Creek fit him like a glove.
    • Not to mention the fact that his antics at the baseball field led the Springfield Isotopes to a huge winning streak and to him being made their official mascot in “Dancin’ Homer”. Motivating people actually seems to be one of the few things Homer is consistently good at.
  • Why does Scorpio, unlike other supervillains, succeeds in his conquests?
    • Unlike the typical bad guy, Scorpio isn't a dick to his employees: he gives them great benefits and a wonderful town to live in. The people who work for him probably are genuinely loyal to him; considering how nice of a place Cypress Creek is, his minions would think he would do a far better job of running things then any other government.
    • Homer's obliviousness stems from the fact that while Scorpio is a supervillain, he doesn't go out of his way to torment the common man. Hell, when Homer talks about leaving his job, Scorpio is perfectly understanding and still rewards Homer for his work anyways.
    • Scorpio is a brilliant bad guy, so he knows that the best way to get people to do what you want is to make them want to work for you. Of course, this cuts both ways: he makes up for his kindness toward subordinates with ruthlessness toward his opponents: he's willing to shoot his archnemesis, blow up a major bridge, and take on soldiers with a flamethrower.
    • By contrast, Burns is a man who has earned the hatred of everyone around him, so much so that the entire town wanted him dead at one point. While Burns can evade the law with his wealth, he can't conquer anything because nobody would want him in charge of anything.
• Fridge Horror: For all of Scorpio's good sides, he's still a ruthless man who blew up a bridge and killed a lot of innocent people. What will the people of the East Coast suffer under his rule?
  • For that matter, this episode raises an unsettling question about the James Bond movies by extension. Hank Scorpio is a typical Bond villain, but to Homer, he's a nice guy and the perfect boss, and this is his dream job. For all Homer knows, he's just working for an ordinary corporation...he's got no idea what he's a part of. Which leads to an uncomfortable idea for Bond fans...those people working in the villains' bases who got killed when Bond blew the bases up, the ones who we told ourselves had it coming anyway because they HAD to be evil if they were working for the villain? What if they were just ordinary working folk themselves with no clue about what they were part of?
  • Which ties into another horrifying idea: Homer now owns an important football team as a reward for his hard work. This effectively ties him to Scorpio in the eyes of those who oppose him. Who's to say they won't go after Homer and his family to get to Hank?
• Fridge Logic:
  • The issues with Marge and Bart can be resolved with ease if one recalls the episode "Whacking Day", where Marge homeschooled Bart to the point where he actually learned quite a lot because she's paying attention to him. This resolves her boredom and gives Bart a genuine chance to catch up to his peers by the time he's in middle school.
  • Likewise, Lisa's allergy problems could easily be solved by anti-allergy medication, while if she's so bored, nothing's stopping Marge from finding new hobbies, getting a new job or even looking for friends.

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