Tsk Tsk Tsk You Missed the Baby You Missed the the Blind Man

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Episode - 2F21
First Aired - 5/7/1995

Subsequently nearly getting attacked by Snake in an alley after exposing his three-card monte scam, Marge gets a much-needed surge of adrenaline in her hum-drum life and decides to bring together the Springfield Law Force, which unsettles Homer (until he takes unfair advantage of existence the hubby of a female cop).

This episode contains examples of:

Activity Mom: Marge becomes a strong, competent police officer while however keeping up with her housework.
All Crimes Are Equal: Homer being arrested for harassing a police officer apparently is enough to be sat in the aforementioned jail cell as Hans Moleman, who's been sentenced to decease.
Apathetic Citizens: The people watching Snake's card games are outraged when he'southward discovered to be adulterous, but take no effort to stop or chase after him one time he flees, only staring blankly at Marge when she suggests they do something. Then again, they're residents of the bad part of town.
Artistic License – Physics: Homer has the radar gun pointed at Lenny, and remarks, "Hey, what could exist going a hundred miles an hour-" (Lenny punches Homer) If Lenny were actually punching Homer that fast, he wouldn't even be able to get ane word out before contact.
Bait-and-Switch:
- When Marge goes to the police station early in the episode, Wiggum and the other cops are hauling what yous think is a criminal into the station. Turns out they were just bringing in a pizza.
  Wiggum: You lot think y'all're pretty hot, huh? Well we got everything we need on you.
- And so when Marge asks if she can join upwards, the cops express joy for several seconds... earlier Wiggum welcomes her.
- Immediately afterward Wiggum tells Marge, "Welcome aboard", we encounter an establishing shot of the Simpson house and Homer shouting, "Yous WHAT?!" Cut to within the house, where he's talking to Bart instead of Marge:
  Bart: I just borrowed your nail clipper. What'south the big deal?
  Homer: Nothing. I'chiliad just edgy since your mother told me she wants to be a cop.
- During basic grooming on an obstruction course, Marge struggles to get over a wall.
  Wiggum: Women ever have trouble with the wall. They never seem to find the door. (a bunch of men are casually walking through a nearby door)
- With a fleck of Take That!: Homer laments that when he thought Marge going to the police academy, it would be fun and exciting like that movie: Spaceballs. Instead, it had been painful and disturbing like Police force Academy.
Beware the Nice Ones: Marge takes her job every bit a police force officer seriously, and immediately arrests Homer when he tries mocking her.
Blackness Comedy: Homer uses Marge'south constabulary tape on Ned's firm. Predictably, Ned comes dwelling and thinks something horrible has happened.
Homer: (laughing) Fooled you, Flemish region! Made y'all recollect your family was expressionless! Did you get it? (Ned uneasily chuckles) They're not, though. Just you thought they were.
Ned: Yeah.
Homer: That's why information technology was so funny. Merely they're not.
Ned: That's a expert 1.
Bowdlerization: The Australian airing cutting the entire scene with the twitchy Gun Nut enervating Wiggum give him a gun, Wiggum refusing considering he won't requite him his name, and the man yelling, "I've had it up to here with your 'rules'!"
Buffy Speak: Moe thinks "garage" sounds too fancy; he just calls them "car holes". Homer later on uses the term himself.
Bullying a Dragon: Beingness married to a policewoman, Homer believes he's automatically above the constabulary. When Marge, beingness on duty, discovers him breaking the police force in a couple of ways (namely parking his machine on spaces for disabled people and buying beer for teenagers), she tries to make him reconsider, but Homer has none of it and even rubs it in her face as he briefly takes her chapeau and plays with information technology. Naturally, it all gets him arrested.
Phone call-Back: Early on in the episode, Marge goes to the police station to employ for a job as an officer, causing all the male officers to laugh hysterically. At the end of the episode, when Marge quits being an officer, the same male officers express joy hysterically again.
Cardboard Prison:
Wiggum: Cuff him, boys. We're putting this dirtbag away.
Snake: Ha! I'll be back on the street in 24 hours.
Wiggum: We'll try to arrive twelve.
Corrupt Cop: The constabulary at the end ignore the pant counterfeiting performance considering they get to keep the pants for themselves. This causes Marge to quit.
Couch Gag: The living room is seen through the barrel of a gun similar the intro to James Bond. Homer walks in and fires at the screen, which "bleeds" carmine and falls.
Donut Mess with a Cop: Invoked. At one bespeak, when the family is having breakfast, the newly-made police Marge can be seen eating a donut and drinking coffee. However, she soon proves to exist very capable and far from incompetent. Also, ii cops are assigned to go on an eye on the donut shop, and call in when they melt upwards a fresh batch.
Downer Ending: While Marge is able to betrayal Herman's scheme, the rest of the Springfield police force merits they can't arrest him due to lack of evidence. The evidence is lacking, of class, because the cops decided to accept all the counterfeit jeans for themselves. Unable to breadbasket its abuse, Marge quits the strength.
Failed a Spot Check: "Women always have problem with the wall. Can't ever seem to detect the door." Pan out to show the male person police recruits casually strolling through said door.
Beginning Day from Hell: Despite being Marge's starting time 24-hour interval as a cop, she's assigned to Junkyville and Bumtown. Subverted, even so, in that nothing bad happens to her.
Pes Popping: When Homer kisses Marge, his foot lifts, an ironic activeness for someone who was concerned that with Marge becoming a cop, he wouldn't exist the man of the house anymore.
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Homer would have lost even without Snake adulterous, as when Marge flips over the cards, the missing red carte is replaced with a Ii of Spades.
Heel Realization: Homer after Marge saves his life from Herman.
I Did What I Had to Exercise: Marge feels regretful afterward having to arrest Homer and apologizes to him, only makes it clear that she did it because information technology was the correct choice and states he volition somewhen acquire to feel grateful there are competent cops in the streets.
Marge: I'm pitiful I had to abort yous, Homer, but what I did was right. Some day when you lot really need information technology you lot'll be happy there are dedicated cops similar me out there.
I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That: Marge offers to plow a blind middle to Homer buying beer for teenagers as long as he moves his machine away from where he's parked it across three handicapped spaces. He doesn't, instead opting to take her hat and practice a mocking impersonation of her, and then she arrests him anyhow.
Improvised Zipline: Herman tries to make a getaway using his counterfeit jeans as a zipline, but Marge correctly isn't worried and the jeans rip easily, sending him to the ground for piece of cake capture.
Incredibly Lame Fun: Marge is disappointed to realize that afterward catching a criminal, ownership ham no longer thrills her. So she crosses over to buying devilled ham.
Indy Hat Roll: Marge gets an impulse to do this under her garage door.
Irony:
- Herman is foiled by his own shoddy merchandise when he tries to zipline away from Marge using his counterfeit jeans, only for them to rip and send him falling to the ground.
- Ophidian didn't need to cheat to vanquish Homer.
Jerkass: Homer, who parks beyond three handicapped spaces and refuses to move, uses police equipment to do whatever he likes, and steals a man's terminal meal.
Large Ham: The Gun Nut at the law training.
Gun Nut: Forget about the badge! When practise we get the freaking GUNS?!
Chief Wiggum: Hey, I told yous, you don't go a gun until you tell me your name!
Gun Nut: I've had it up to here with your "rules"!
Literal-Minded: Homer, during the climax:
Homer: A counterfeit-jeans ring operating out of my automobile pigsty! I'm gonna tell everyone! Wait here.
Herman: (pulls his gun at Homer) Not so fast.
(Homer slows downward)
Homer: All right...
Herman: Maybe yous should but stop entirely.
Literally Laughable Question: Subverted when Marge tries joining the Springfield Law Department. Her request to sign up is met with the cops laughing for several seconds... only for them to stop and say "welcome aboard". In the end, when she declares her resignation over their stealing the evidence for their own use, they laugh once more, but then politely wish her luck.
The Magazine Rule: Marge's favourite read is "Sponge and Vacuum". Due to her newly discovered love of adventure, she considers such other things equally "Bear Baiter".
Miranda Rights:
Marge: You have the right to remain silent!
Homer: I choose to waive that right. (starts screaming)
Mundane Utility: Homer keeps using Marge's pepper spray as a additive.
Homer: Mmm, incapacitating...
My God, Yous Are Serious!: Homer's reaction to Marge actually arresting him.
Negative Continuity: When Marge was performing the police car test she was in the preparation gear, merely when she finishes the course, the shot shows Marge in her police uniform.
Noodle Incident: What did Hans Moleman do to earn the death penalty, and how did his terminal meal end upwards being eaten by Homer? Plus, since he was apparently on decease row, why would Homer be housed with him in the verbal same jail cell?
Off-Model: In 2 different scenes, Chief Wiggum's hair is black, non unlike his earliest appearances on the show.
Pet the Dog: Fifty-fifty if they laugh to Marge'due south face both times she makes a comment they find funny (that she wants to go a cop and that she wants to quit the force), Wiggum and the other cops actually have no other problem with her. Wiggum even says that he's going to miss her when she quits, very sincerely.
Pixellation: When Marge goes to investigate a domestic dispute involving Principal Skinner and his mom, Skinner tells the camera human to digitally blur out his face up to conceal his identity.
Revolvers Are Just Meliorate: Once she joins the strength, Marge's weapon of choice is the revolver. It definitely gives her fashion, especially since she's the only graphic symbol wielding one in the episode.
Schmuck Bait: Serpent's three-card monte. Homer still falls for information technology.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Defied. Homer, thinking that he'southward in a higher place the law now that Marge is a cop, tries to park in three handicapped places, buy beer for the three bullies (even though Kearney is said to exist of the legal age to drink in America), and steal Marge'southward chapeau. He gets thrown in jail. He becomes angry with Marge afterwards, but later apologizes.
Serial Numbers Filed Off: Invoked; Marge shows Lisa a manus puppet called "McGriff the Criminal offense Dog":
Marge: "Hello, Lisa, help me seize with teeth offense. Woof woof."
Serious Business: Herman's apocryphal jean business is treated with all the seriousness of a drug-smuggling operation.
Shooting Gallery: Part of Marge'southward police force grooming. She successfully shoots all the criminal targets, only to be reprimanded by Chief Wiggum:
Wiggum: Tsk tsk tsk. Y'all missed the baby, yous missed the blind man...
- In the climax, Marge is in the backyard trying to relieve Homer from Hermann, and various targets pop up, much to her annoyance:
Milhouse: Is Bart habitation?
(Marge pulls her gun up; Abe appears)
Abe: Just takin' Maggie for a stroll!
(Marge pulls her gun upward; a witch appears from backside a debate, and Marge shoots it. Ned pops up from backside the fence)
Ned: Well, I estimate I am putting up the Halloween decorations a piffling early. Criticism accustomed.
Shout-Out:
- A musical cue is very similar to the theme to Hill Street Blues.
- In a deleted scene, Marge enters the Skinner residence which is recorded in the style of COPS.
- Homer draws a line down the bedroom, a la I Dearest Lucy ^Note specifically, the episode "Men Are Messy". He says "D'oh" when he realizes he simply left himself a tiny expanse on his side.
Stealing the Handicapped Spot: Homer parks his car across three of them at the aforementioned time, in an attempt to have advantage of his married woman's new status. When Marge tells him to move his automobile, he refuses and takes her hat, forcing her to arrest him.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- Homer thinks that being married to a cop means he's above the police. Marge shows him that'due south not the case.
- Fifty-fifty if Herman's jeans weren't apocryphal they would nevertheless make for a lousy zipline and apace rip.
- Boilerplate people aren't going to endeavor and run down a criminal, potentially getting stabbed or shot in the procedure, over a few dollars that aren't theirs.
Tempting Fate: Homer mocks Marge's warnings to motility his car he triple-parked over 3 handicap spaces or she'll ticket him and that if he continues to ignore her warnings, she'll arrest him regardless of their relation. He doesn't accept her seriously and swipes her chapeau, mock imitating her. This was the Last Straw for Marge, who then cuffs Homer.
They Killed Kenny Over again: Moleman meets his end in this episode by beingness executed in a local jail afterward Homer eats his final meal. How he got on expiry row in the get-go identify is left up in the air.
Unfortunate Names: The Chalkboard Gag has Bart in problem for insulting one "Mrs. Dumbface".
Wise Beyond Their Years: Lisa:
Lisa: Mom, I know your intentions are well and practiced, but aren't police a force that maintains the status quo for the wealthy aristocracy? Don't you lot think we should attack the roots of social problems instead of jamming people into overcrowded prisons?