YMMV / The Simpsons S12 E18 "Trilogy of Error"

• Angst? What Angst?: Cletus doesn't seem to be too bothered about his truck getting stolen.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Linguo, Lisa's Grammar Nazi robot.
• Fridge Brilliance: The order in which the segments are shown!
  • Lisa's day and Bart's day converge when Marge almost hits Bart. Homer's day comes in later when Linguo explodes. At the end of Chapter 1, the audience wonders, "Why did Linguo explode?" This question isn't answered until the very end of the episode.
  • As for Lisa's day being shown before Bart's day, if the tape recorder scene was shown from Bart's side before being shown from Lisa's side, the surprise would be gone.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Homer accidentally having his thumb cut off might have gone very differently if he were home alone.
  • At the end of the episode, Mr. Teeny breaks the fourth wall to tell the audience that "the plot makes no sense!" While the plot is a bit disjointed, it still comes together in the end, whereas plenty of later episodes of The Simpsons would have plots that genuinely didn't make any sense. In particular, one episode was about a talking dishrag, and it was a Bizarro Episode that had many fans walking away feeling confused.
• Memetic Mutation:
  Dr. Nick Rivera: "Inflammable means flammable!? What a country!"

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