YMMV / The Simpsons S 5 E 8 Boy Scoutz N The Hood

• Crosses the Line Twice: A bunch of young boy scouts getting lost and attacked by a bear? Tragic. A bunch of young boy scouts stalked by the mountain men from Deliverance and then ambushed by Jason Voorhees? Hilarious!
• Epileptic Trees: Though it was obviously just a throwaway gag, some theorized that the second Homer that appears when Lisa says "Cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic" is Guy Incognito.
• Harsher in Hindsight: When Bart nitpicks at the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, Lisa reminds him that cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic. Three seasons later, the show would deal with toxic and entitled fans who wanted the writers fired for a small scene that wasn't 100% realistic (despite knowing that it was a cartoon), and these rabid Itchy and Scratchy fans were seen as a Take That, Audience! to The Simpsons' own fans, fracturing the fanbase.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Martin Prince plays the My Dinner with Andre arcade game, the gameplay of which is limited to watching lengthy conversations and using the joystick to select dialogue choices. Nowadays, such a game doesn't seem so far-fetched.
  • When Bart begins to enjoy his time with the Junior Campers, he develops a bond with Ned Flanders (the scout master) and begins to talk like him and laugh at his jokes much to Homer's disappointment. The Movie had a similar subplot where Bart grew frustrated with Homer's poor parenting and turns to Ned for a replacement father figure.
  • Ernest Borgnine assumes the kids will know him as Sgt. Fatso Judson from From Here to Eternity, and for some reason they do, even though real kids would be unlikely to know the 40-year-old war film. Only six years later, though, Borgnine would become familiar to kids everywhere as the voice of Mermaid Man on SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Memetic Mutation: The animation from Homer's fantasy about dancing on a desert island to the Archies' "Sugar Sugar" with anthropomorphic ice cream cones and lollipops has been superimposed into other clips from the show, a practice known as Sugarposting.

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