YMMV / The Simpsons S4 E4 "Lisa the Beauty Queen"

• Catharsis Factor: A non video game example when Principal Skinner single-handedly beats up the Blue-Haired Lawyer and his goons.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The rocket ride Otto was operating, which went faster at Bart's request and caused one of the rockets to break off, is now seen in bad taste after two children were killed in freak accidents due to poor safety. In 2014, an eight-year-old Malaysian girl was thrown off a ride and killed at the Royal Adelaide Show. Two years later, a ten-year-old Kansas boy was decapitated on the Verrückt water slide.
  • According to the DVD Commentary, the episode predicted just how tacky and controversial child beauty pageants would be in the 2000s and 2010s.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The "happiest place on Earth" opening scene where Skinner takes out the Blue-Haired lawyer and the two hired goons after they threaten to sue him for using the copyrighted phrase has become this in light of Disney's purchase of Fox. Now viewers can watch Skinner beat the crap out of Disney's lawyers on Disney+.
  • Skinner's 'copyright expired' one-liner would become funny in hindsight when in 2024, Disney actually would allow its copyright on its most famous creation to expire.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • Laramie Cigarettes sponsoring an event to waive the 1971 broadcast advertising ban would become this by the late 1990s, when all tobacco advertising was prohibited in the US, partly as a result of the furor surrounding Joe Camel, parodied here as Menthol Moose.
  • While the child beauty pageant isn't depicted in a positive light, it's hard to imagine a satire of them being made today without acknowledging their attempts to sexualize kids or rampant pedophilia (the one in the episode explicitly doesn't have a swimsuit section, though Bart does mention "taping a swimsuit to your butt" as a trick of the trade), and there isn't a deranged Stage Mom in sight. The writers even admitted on the DVD Commentary that they couldn't make an episode like this these days as people now have a much darker view on child pageants after the mysterious death of child contestant JonBenét Ramsey.
• Woolseyism: The Latin American translation changes Homer’s song when he is celebrating winning the Duff blimp tickets from "Hey There, Blimpy Boy" to "Volare (Nel Blu di Pinto di Blu)".