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| | *''Brother from the Same Planet'': Although ambiguous as to whether it's pro-family, the episode does have a condemnation of the Communist Party, as a scene where Bart and his "Bigger Brother" Tom from the Bigger Brother program attend a Baseball Game has a Communist Party recruiter trying to gather recruits at the stadium, only for the audience to unanimously jeer him and pelt him with tomatoes (hence why that day was called "tomato day"), with the recruiter also implying that there was a "dart day" that has something similar occur, only with darts in place of tomatoes. | | *''Brother from the Same Planet'': Although ambiguous as to whether it's pro-family, the episode does have a condemnation of the Communist Party, as a scene where Bart and his "Bigger Brother" Tom from the Bigger Brother program attend a Baseball Game has a Communist Party recruiter trying to gather recruits at the stadium, only for the audience to unanimously jeer him and pelt him with tomatoes (hence why that day was called "tomato day"), with the recruiter also implying that there was a "dart day" that has something similar occur, only with darts in place of tomatoes. |
| | *''Two Bad Neighbors'': Homer becomes an enemy of his new neighbor [[George H.W. Bush]] (RINO). In the end [[Gerald Ford]] (Conservative) is the new neighbor of the Simpsons, who becomes a friend of Homer. The episode had been created largely as a response to some negative criticism towards the show from both George and Barbara Bush (in particular, the former's stump speech stating regarding family values that America needs to be "more like ''the Watsons'' and less like ''the Simpsons''."). Also has a condemnation towards Ayatollah Khomeini as well as his theocratic Iranian regime, as during a rummage sale at the beginning, Homer and Marge are planning to sell a novelty T-shirt that says "Ayatollah [censored]aholla" with it prominently displaying Khomeini's face on it, with Marge insisting they sell it due to his already being long dead, while Homer insists on keeping it because the shirt technically applies to all the Ayatollahs, citing Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi, and Ayatollah Razmada as examples. | | *''Two Bad Neighbors'': Homer becomes an enemy of his new neighbor [[George H.W. Bush]] (RINO). In the end [[Gerald Ford]] (Conservative) is the new neighbor of the Simpsons, who becomes a friend of Homer. The episode had been created largely as a response to some negative criticism towards the show from both George and Barbara Bush (in particular, the former's stump speech stating regarding family values that America needs to be "more like ''the Watsons'' and less like ''the Simpsons''."). Also has a condemnation towards Ayatollah Khomeini as well as his theocratic Iranian regime, as during a rummage sale at the beginning, Homer and Marge are planning to sell a novelty T-shirt that says "Ayatollah [censored]aholla" with it prominently displaying Khomeini's face on it, with Marge insisting they sell it due to his already being long dead, while Homer insists on keeping it because the shirt technically applies to all the Ayatollahs, citing Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi, and Ayatollah Razmada as examples. |
| − | *''Bart Gets an Elephant'': There are two political conventions that are used as site gags when the titular elephant, Stampy, proceeds to go on a rampage. On the one hand, the Repubican Party is demonized with the slogans "We Want what's worst for people" and "We're Just Plain Evil". But on the other, the Democrat Party Convention didn't fare well, either, with its slogans highlighting their incompetence and contempt for life with the slogans "We hate life and ourselves" and "We Can't Govern". | + | *''Bart Gets an Elephant'': There are two political conventions that are used as site gags when the titular elephant, Stampy, proceeds to go on a rampage. On the one hand, the Republican Party is demonized with the slogans "We Want what's worst for people" and "We're Just Plain Evil". But on the other, the Democrat Party Convention didn't fare well, either, with its slogans highlighting their incompetence and contempt for life with the slogans "We hate life and ourselves" and "We Can't Govern". |
| | *''Treehouse of Horror II'': Lisa's nightmare, an adaptation of the Monkey's Paw, has a subtle condemnation towards anti-Second Amendment beliefs, as after Lisa wishes for [[World Peace]], everyone destroys all of their weapons and guns, and proceed to sing "Kumbaya", only for Kang and Kodos (two drooling, tentacled, one-eyed aliens who laugh exceedingly) to proceed to invade the planet easily because of it. Bart's nightmare, based on ''The Twilight Zone'''s "It's a Good Life", however, has a slight anti-family message, due to the nightmare being Bart releasing Homer from his psychic-induced curse by bonding with him. | | *''Treehouse of Horror II'': Lisa's nightmare, an adaptation of the Monkey's Paw, has a subtle condemnation towards anti-Second Amendment beliefs, as after Lisa wishes for [[World Peace]], everyone destroys all of their weapons and guns, and proceed to sing "Kumbaya", only for Kang and Kodos (two drooling, tentacled, one-eyed aliens who laugh exceedingly) to proceed to invade the planet easily because of it. Bart's nightmare, based on ''The Twilight Zone'''s "It's a Good Life", however, has a slight anti-family message, due to the nightmare being Bart releasing Homer from his psychic-induced curse by bonding with him. |
| | *''Sweet Seymour Skinner's Badassssss Song'': On the one hand, it gives a brief condemnation of the Public School System, as Superintendent Chalmers briefly mentions that the school system will collapse at a quick rate and suggests they let it ride out. On the other hand, it promotes the [[separation of church and state]] as the reason Chalmers has Skinner get his job as principal back was solely because his replacement, Ned Flanders, introduced prayer into school, and it also briefly implies that Flanders' Christian ideals are what led to the school becoming dysfunctional. | | *''Sweet Seymour Skinner's Badassssss Song'': On the one hand, it gives a brief condemnation of the Public School System, as Superintendent Chalmers briefly mentions that the school system will collapse at a quick rate and suggests they let it ride out. On the other hand, it promotes the [[separation of church and state]] as the reason Chalmers has Skinner get his job as principal back was solely because his replacement, Ned Flanders, introduced prayer into school, and it also briefly implies that Flanders' Christian ideals are what led to the school becoming dysfunctional. |
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| | *''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. |
| | *''Little Big Girl'': Bart willingly tries to marry Darcy to provide the child with a father figure after discovering she had been impregnated by a Norwegian exchange student. | | *''Little Big Girl'': Bart willingly tries to marry Darcy to provide the child with a father figure after discovering she had been impregnated by a Norwegian exchange student. |
| | + | *''E. Pluribus Wiggum'': When Springfield becomes the site of the first presidential primary, the townspeople plan to support their own write-in candidate: Ralph Wiggum. |
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| | ==Themes== | | ==Themes== |