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| | *''Mountain of Madness'': The episode has a somewhat positive depiction of work ethics, as Mr. Burns had organized a team building exercise after a disastrous fire drill demonstration, and it portrays the Nazis in a negative light via Mr. Burns's cabin-fever induced hallucination. On the other hand, Homer's cabin-fever induced hallucination of "political powers" to oppose Mr. Burns' Nazi army lumps conservatives Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt alongside leftists such as Communist dictator Mao Zedong. | | *''Mountain of Madness'': The episode has a somewhat positive depiction of work ethics, as Mr. Burns had organized a team building exercise after a disastrous fire drill demonstration, and it portrays the Nazis in a negative light via Mr. Burns's cabin-fever induced hallucination. On the other hand, Homer's cabin-fever induced hallucination of "political powers" to oppose Mr. Burns' Nazi army lumps conservatives Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt alongside leftists such as Communist dictator Mao Zedong. |
| | *''The Cartridge Family'': Homer becomes a gun owner. It is controversial, whether this episode is pro-[[Gun Control]] or anti-gun control. The writer of this episode is John Swartzwelder, who is a Second Amendment supporter. | | *''The Cartridge Family'': Homer becomes a gun owner. It is controversial, whether this episode is pro-[[Gun Control]] or anti-gun control. The writer of this episode is John Swartzwelder, who is a Second Amendment supporter. |
| − | *''New Kids on the Blecch'': Mocks and villainizes the United States Navy by implicating them in a conspiracy of using boy bands to brainwash children into joining the Navy. On the other hand, it also mocks John Lennon's anti-war song "Give Peace a Chance" at one point. | + | *''New Kids on the Blecch'': Mocks and villainizes the United States Navy by implicating them in a conspiracy of using boy bands to brainwash children into joining the Navy. On the other hand, it also mocks John Lennon's anti-war song "Give Peace a Chance" at one point, and it does accurately depict the Hippie movement as anti-American. |
| | *''Coming to Homerica'': Another Pro-[[Illegal immigration]]-episode (as well as having a very poor metaphor for illegal immigration, not to mention immigration as a whole, largely because the town that moved to Springfield, Ogdenville, was also within American borders like Springfield was). On the other hand, the episode also mocks environmentalist elements, as the main reason why Ogdenville moved to Springfield was because they made a Mother Nature burger which had been touted as being environmentally friendly, only for the populace to suffer from a massive food poisoning outbreak due to the barley being contaminated by rats. | | *''Coming to Homerica'': Another Pro-[[Illegal immigration]]-episode (as well as having a very poor metaphor for illegal immigration, not to mention immigration as a whole, largely because the town that moved to Springfield, Ogdenville, was also within American borders like Springfield was). On the other hand, the episode also mocks environmentalist elements, as the main reason why Ogdenville moved to Springfield was because they made a Mother Nature burger which had been touted as being environmentally friendly, only for the populace to suffer from a massive food poisoning outbreak due to the barley being contaminated by rats. |
| | *''Bart-Mangled Banner'': The Simpsons get arrested for criticizing government. They leave America, but go back, because of homesickness. | | *''Bart-Mangled Banner'': The Simpsons get arrested for criticizing government. They leave America, but go back, because of homesickness. |