History Recap / TheSimpsonsS13E21TheFryingGame

* DumbassHasAPoint: Upon hearing that the Screamapillar is sexually attracted to fire, Homer asks, "Are you sure God doesn't want it to be dead?"

* TooDumbToLive: Applies to the entire Screamapillar species, which honestly appears to be on the verge of extinction for a good reason. Not only do they scream incessantly, which of course attracts predators, but they need constant reassurance to stay alive, and they're sexually attracted to fire. Homer himself even believes this when he says "Are you sure God doesn't want it to be dead?"

** When Homer is being walked to his execution in a parody of ''Film/TheGreenMile'', a John Coffy {{expy}} asks for his hand, then starts strangling him while shouting "I'll kill you! I killed them other people!" Then asks his pet mouse if he wants cornbread and threatens to kill him, too.

* MyEyesAreUpHere: When Homer is talking to Carmen Electra.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A parody of Film/TheGreenMile, complete with Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan caricature occurs as Homer is being led to the chair.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Upon hearing that the Screamapillar is sexually attracted to fire, Homer asks "Are you sure God doesn't want it to be dead?"

** The [=EPA=] man is a disrespectful jerk to Homer & Marge when it comes to the Screamapillar and has zero sympathies for them having to deal with a very difficult insect.

** Chief Wiggum refuses to even believe for a second that Homer and Marge are innocent and tries to force a confession out of them.
** Patty & Selma, UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush, and the Screamapillar show up so they can watch Homer be executed.

* KarmaHoudini: The people who set up the reality show and pulled a cruel prank on Homer and Marge face no consequences, and Chief Wiggum doesn't even arrest them, [[PoliceAreUseless instead asking if he's going to be on the show]].

** He "confesses" that Marge was innocent and that he acted alone, thinking that there's no way out of the execution (and not wanting their kids to grow up without parents). People still come to his execution to ''watch him die'' (including the Screamapillar from earlier, whom Homer genuinely tried to care for).

* PetTheDog: Despite Wiggum's refusal to believe that Homer and Marge were framed (As noted in {{Jerkass}} above), he sheds a tear at having to execute Homer. He's even relieved when it turns out that Homer wasn't really going to be executed.

--> '''Marge''': How can you have such an appetite at a time like this?
--> '''Homer''': Let's just say I'm planning a little surprise for the execution. [Patting his belly] This cannon is gonna be full when I go off--[=KaBOOM!=]

** When Homer is being walked to his execution in a parody of ''Film/TheGreenMile'', a John Coffy {{expy}} asks for his hand, then starts strangling him while shouting "I'll kill you! Just like I killed those other people!" Then asks his pet mouse if he wants cornbread and threatens to kill him, too.

* TooDumbToLive: Applies to the entire Screamapillar species, which honestly appears to be on the verge of extinction for a good reason. Not only do they scream incessantly, which would attract predators, but they need constant reassurance to stay alive, and they're sexually attracted to fire. Homer himself even believes this when he says "Are you sure God doesn't want it to be dead?"

* DumbassHasAPoint: Upon hearing that the Screamapillar is sexually attracted to fire, Homer asks "Are you sure God didn't want it to die?"

* MadeOfIron: The screamapillar manages to survive Homer accidentally crushing it with a hardcover book and then being BuriedAlive.

** Cletus decides to give Bart and Lisa new names, "Dingus Squatford Jr and Pamela E. Lee". When Lisa speaks out that she likes her old name, Brandine reveals that Lisa is the one now named Dingus.

* ImmoralRealityShow: Homer and Marge are falsely tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to the electric chair in a scenario cooked up by one of these. The police and the court apparently aren't in on it, meaning that the crew of the show faked evidence, tied up Springfield's justice system, got Bart, Lisa and Maggie placed in a foster home, and ran the risk of actually killing Homer if they didn't stop the execution in time.
* IrishPriest: One visits Marge and Homer to comfort them before their execution, until Marge points out they're not Catholic. He then leaves, but crosses paths with Reverend Lovejoy, who is on his way to visit Homer and Marge. They get into a fight, forcing the guards to restrain them.

** The [=EPA=] man is a disrespectful jerk to Homer & Marge when it comes to the Screamapillar and has zero sympathy for them having to deal with a very difficult insect.

** Patty & Selma, UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush and the Screamapillar show up so they can watch Homer be executed.

-->'''Carmen:''' ...Homer, my face is up here.\\

** He buys an exotic garden for Marge, which turns out to be home to an endangered species that he's then forced to care for. When he accidentally squashes it with a book he was trying to read it, he's sentenced to community service.

--->'''That Guy Who Says "Yeeeees":''' ''Hellooooo?'' ''Yeeees'', Governor! ''Noooo'', Governor, it's not too late. ''Yeeees'', Governor, I'll tell him right away! ''[to Homer]]'' The governor says he hopes you're a twitcher! Oh, yeees!

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Homer is incredibly relieved to find out that the whole thing was a tv stunt. Relieved and incredibly angry.

--->'''That Guy Who Says "Yeeeees":''' ''Hellooooo?'' Yeeees, Governor! Noooo, Governor, it's not too late. Yeeees, Governor, I'll tell him right away! ''[to Homer]]'' The governor says he hopes you're a twitcher! Oh, yeees!

--->'''That Guy Who Says "Yeeeees":''' ''Hellooooo?'' Yeeees, Governor! Noooo, Governor, it's not too late. Yeeees, Governor, I'll tell him right away! ''[to Homer]]'' The governor says he hopes you're a twitcher!

** Just before the execution, the governor calls, seemingly granting a LastMinuteRepreive. However:

* BaitAndSwitch: Cletus decides to give Bart and Lisa new names, "Dingus Squatford Jr and Pamela E. Lee". When Lisa speaks out that she likes her old name, Brandine reveals that Lisa is the one now named Dingus.
* BavarianFireDrill: As it turns out, [[CallBack "cover for me" is indeed one of the most important lines in life]], as even Mr. Burns will comply when it is said.

** Patty & Selma, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and the Screamapillar show up so they can watch Homer be executed.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Homer tells Marge he's planning a "surprise" for the execution while ravenously eating his last meal, saying his stomach will be full when it "goes off." This is actually TruthInTelevision, as many inmates will void their bowels at the moment of execution (and indeed many people will at the moment of death regardless of how they die due to the sphincter relaxing.) For this reason, in RealLife, inmates generally wear a diaper as they are put to death. (an adult, not infant diaper, of course)
** The scene involving Gil Gunderson's obviously incompetent defending of Homer and Marge is also, unfortunately, TruthInTelevision in many capital murder trials. Studies around the time this episode was shown noted that in many southern states in the USA that still carry out executions, as many as one in five defense lawyers assigned to capital cases were subsequently suspended or disbarred by their state's respective bar association.

** Patty & Selma, George Bush Sr and the Screamapillar show up so they can watch Homer be executed.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Homer tells Marge he's planning a "surprise" for the execution while ravenously eating his last meal, saying his stomach will be full when it "goes off." This is actually TruthInTelevision, as many inmates will void their bowels at the moment of execution (and indeed many people will at the moment of death regardless of how they die due to the sphincter relaxing.) For this reason, in RealLife, inmates generally wear a diaper as they are put to death.

'''Carl:''' What about Johnny Mathis versus Diet Pepsi?\\