- Harsher in Hindsight:
- When Homer is running late, Marge pictures him being chased up a tree by a bear as a possible reasonnote . Come "The Fat And The Furriest", he is chased by a live bear and develops a crippling fear of them.
- In the baby tape, Lisa can be heard saying "Da-da", only for Homer to ignore her while strangling Bart. It is revealed in "Lisa's First Word" that Homer craved his children calling him by Daddy, only for them to always refer to him as "Homer" as infants. Even worse since it's this clip that finally breaks Homer and leaves him in tears from guilt.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The Harsher in Hindsight example above aside, pretty much all the "unlikely" circumstances Marge imagines holding Homer up do happen throughout the show.
- Iron Woobie: Homer really goes the extra mile to win back Lisa's affection. He splurges money he doesn't have on a pony, then when he finds out it's an ongoing investment he takes a second job at the Kwik-E-Mart, leaving him severely sleep-deprived. Homer fully intended to keep this up for as long as Princess lived without letting Lisa know he was working himself to death. Bart picking on Homer at work when he was too mentally drained to stick up for himself emphasizes his status further.
- Padding: The second scene where Lisa calls Homer at work can be completely exorcised with nothing of value lost. It consists of nothing but a standard establishing shot of the power plant, recycled animation of Homer sleeping and answering the phone from the beginning of the episode, and recycled footage from "Bart's Dog Get an F" (especially damning in that, in the latter, Lisa has the mumps and Homer is wearing his crappy "Homer Simpson All-Star" sneakers).
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