YMMV / The Simpsons S 17 E 21 The Monkey Suit

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: There's a student at Springfield Elementary named Little Moe, who looks and acts just like the real Moe. He appears once and never again in the series.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • At the end of the episode, Lisa assures Ned that while she does respect his beliefs, she feels that things like science and religion should (for the most part) be separated by way of telling him that Ned wouldn't want a scientist teaching religion just like Lisa wouldn't want a religious official teaching science.
  • Ned apologizing to Lisa for what he did and offering to take her out for ice cream along with his sons.
• Strawman Has a Point: While Ned does go too far, the museum's "Creationist" exhibit is needlessly and confrontationally insulting to people like him, and utterly pointless and unnecessary from any scientific standpoint. Had his complaint only focused on that, the writers would have had a much harder time pitting the audience against him.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The Creationism vs. Evolution debate was a massive one in the United States during the mid to late 2000's, driven largely by a Bush-era Evangelical push to teach what was dubbed "intelligent design" in schools. This episode is obviously inspired by that cultural flashpoint, which largely fizzled out during the Obama years as Evangelical influence waned.

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