The Simpsons (animation)/Trope Namers

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      • E11 Homer's Triple Bypass
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Considering how long this series has run, it isn't a surprise that The Simpsons has named quite a few tropes.

The Simpsons is the Trope Namer for:

• Anyone Remember Pogs?
• Brevity Is Wit (from Shakespeare)
• Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Substitute French teacher Groundskeeper Willie calls his class this on the season six episode, "Round Springfield."
• "Close Enough" Timeline: "Treehouse of Horror V."
• Commie Nazis: From a one-off joke from a McBain movie trailer.
• Couch Gag: Started the trend.
• Dean Bitterman: The Dean in one-off movie-within-the-show School of Hard Knockers.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: One of Homer's ideas for some changes for the Mr. Smith Goes to Washington remake in Beyond Blunderdome was, as Mel Gibson put it, to replace the main villain with a dog.
• Earth All Along
• Flanderization: Ned Flanders used to be only mildly religious, in that he was a typical "good American" who enjoyed going to to church on Sundays in earlier seasons; now he's a Bible-thumping Overprotective Dad. Other characters have been hit with it over the years.
  • Forgot Flanders Could Do That: In The Movie he returns to his Nice Guy roots.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That
• Glove Slap
• Goggles Do Nothing: Those goggles won't protect your eyes from real acid, Radioactive Man.
• Jerkass
• Kent Brockman News
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All
• Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club: Fat Tony et al.
• Mayor of a Ghost Town
• My Beloved Smother: Agnes Skinner to Principal Skinner.
• Named Like My Name: Homer Simpson.
• Non-Giving-Up-School Guy: Skinner.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: Embiggens is one.
• The Poochie: The character that named it was actually a parody of this type of character. Now renamed to Shoo Out the New Guy.
• Poor Predictable Rock
• Retirony: On the season 12 episode, "Homer vs. Dignity" (a.k.a, the one where Homer gets raped by a panda), Chief Wiggum tells his financial advisor that he's not going to save his money for the future because, like all cops on TV shows and movies, he'll be killed in the line of duty days before he retires.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: It feels like Ned Flanders is wearing nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!
• Suspect Is Hatless: Chief Wiggum described Snake as this on an in-show episode of COPS.
• Think Unsexy Thoughts: Homer used this mantra whenever he was alone with Mindy (a new coworker he was infatuated with because she's basically his Distaff Counterpart, only with red hair, a slim figure, and the voice of Michelle Pfeiffer).
  • She used this as a mantra when in an elevator with Homer.
• Think of the Children: Helen Lovejoy's primary concern should be everyone else's as well.
• Trash of the Titans: Title of the 200th episode and a frequent trope in the early days.
• Whale Egg: Ralph Wiggum isn't very good with biology...
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Does anybody know? The characters just won't tell us. Until it was defined to be bordering Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky. At the same time.
• Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: Marge asks this of Lindsay Naegle, who is one of four such recurring characters in the series. Naegle's answer: She's a sexual predator
• A Wizard Did It: Used by Lucy Lawless to explain the glaring continuity errors in Xena: Warrior Princess.
• You Might Remember Me From: Such trope pages as this one. Troy McClure (a washed-up B-list celebrity with an alleged sexual fetish for fish) would always introduce films, documentaries, and even two behind-the-scenes Simpsons episodes (the 138th episode spectacular and the episode featuring three pilots for spin-off shows) with this trope phrase and two fictional titles of movies/TV shows/specials, etc he's been in (such as "The Erotic Adventures of Hercules," "Zombie in the Endzone," "Mommy, What's Wrong With That Man's Face?" "2 Minus 3 Equals Negative Fun," "Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly," "Here Comes the Metric System," "Five Fabulous Weeks of The Chevy Chase Show," "Alien Autopsy," "Smoke Yourself Thin," and "Get Confident, Stupid!")
• You Wanna Get Sued?: Bart had the "shinning" in the Halloween segment of the same name, not the "shining." Get it right, people!

The Simpsons used to be the Trope Namer for:

• Actor-Role Confusion (previously called Your Secrets Safe With Me Superman): Barney talking to Adam West (who actually played Batman).
• Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight (previously called The Krusty)
• Scrabble Babble (previously called Kwyjibo): Bart made up the word to cheat at Scrabble.