YMMV / The Simpsons S6E21 "The PTA Disbands"

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Perhaps the school board knew Bart was the one responsible for driving off the other subs, and hiring Marge was their surefire way of keeping him in line.
• Fridge Horror: Bart's swinging log boobytrap could very well have killed, if not seriously injured whoever wound up on the receiving end of it. Imagine what could've happened if the substitute teacher that day wasn't Bart’s own mother. Or imagine if Bart failed to push her out of the way in time…
• Genius Bonus: "Vitamin R," which "malk" proudly claims it is full of, is a slang name for Ritalin.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Some of the teachers complaining about banned books like pornography would be harder to watch when reports of pornographic books in schools becomes real.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Bart discovers that for years, he's actually been drinking "Malk" instead of milk. Malk now actually exists. It's almond milk. Although there's no "Vitamin R" or Ritalin in it.
  • A gag about Springfield Elementary carrying books banned by other schools includes, among other books, Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop. While nothing more than a throwaway Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking joke when written, there was actually an (unsuccessful) attempt to ban it from the Toronto Public Library in real life years later.
  • Edna and Skinner hate each other's guts in this episode, which is amusing considering the two hooked up only two seasons later (and, sadly, would break up again after that).
  • The Civil War reenactment park raises its prices after being bought out by a cooperation called "Diz-Nee". In 2019, Fox, the company which owns The Simpsons, was bought out by Disney.
  • After Largo ditches his class to join the strike, they take advantage of the opportunity to play the "forbidden music", which turns out to be Pop Goes the Weasel. By "Lisa's Date with Density", it seems the ban has been lifted.
  • The episode ends with Snake asking Bart to help him break out and tells the spiky haired boy he'll make it worth his while which Bart agrees to. Season 25 would take that idea and make half an episode with it.
  • In this episode, Skinner grumbles that Principal Valiant won the Princi Awards and that they must be rigged. In "Skinner's Sense of Snow", it is revealed that at some point between this episode and the latter, Skinner won a Princi award himself.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Spawning a meme? That's a paddlin'...
  • Purple monkey dishwasher.
  • "Is that gum? Is that gum? Is that gum?"
  • "The finger thing means the taxes." which isn't even in the script. It was just an ad-lib by Dan Castellaneta.
  • The school band playing "the forbidden music" after Mr. Largo leaves, replacing "Pop Goes the Weasel" with something else.
  • Marge: There's something about flying a kite at night that's so unwholesome.
    Bart: Hello mother dear...
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The "Marge becomes Bart's class teacher" plotline had quite a lot of potential to carry an episode on its own, but by the time it's introduced, there's only about five minutes left in the episode. As a result, it only gets a brief few scenes and is mostly an excuse to have Bart try and end the teacher's strike.
• Woolseyism: In the Italian dub, the unnamed Soap Within a Show Jimbo watches with his mother is turned into The Bold and the Beautiful.

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