YMMV / The Simpsons S17 E13 "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"

• Fridge Brilliance: Homer offhandedly mentions that he wanted to get the gold to pay for an operation Bart needed. With the reveal that the whole episode was a story told by Bart to Skinner, this might have been a ploy for sympathy so that his excuse would be better accepted.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: The audio of Edna describing Bart as Not Evil, Just Misunderstood was reused many seasons later in the episode "Diary Queen", with the context that it's now part of a video Ned Flanders, her husband by that time, took during a "family meeting" in which she was the only one who voted against leaving Springfield. While the speech originally punctuated a cynical joke in which Edna has just met Bart and believes this of him because he has misrepresented himself to her, in "Diary Queen", it's her true opinion of Bart after getting to know him over many, many seasons of the show, and represents a fully-developed understanding of his character.
  Edna: I have to stay here in Springfield because boys like Bart Simpson need me—sweet, misunderstood boys, who just need someone to recognize the basic goodness that's trapped inside them and is desperately trying to get out.
• Memetic Mutation: The scene where Moe throws Barney out of his bar only to discover that he somehow snuck back in.