Your Homemade Liquor Is Exploding Again

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Episode: 4F15
First Aired: three/16/1997

"Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" is the eighteenth episode of the eight season of The Simpsons. After Bart becomes intoxicated at the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, Springfield enforces a Prohibition-era law. As a result, Homer and his friends open a speakeasy while a no-nonsense Elliot Ness-way lawman sets out to stop them.

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Plot Summary

Information technology's St. Patrick's Day and everybody in Springfield is hyped upwardly to the signal Bart is harassed for having forgotten to wearable green to school and Moe confined designated drivers from patronizing his tavern. The day'south main consequence is of grade the downtown parade, with floats celebrating "200 years of Irish policemen" (who do not hesitate to club onlookers), the "drunken poets of Ireland" (who fight whoever they find) and a "small Irish gaelic family" (a woman scolds her drunken husband while their ten or so children run around). Meanwhile, drunken revelers harass Kent Brockman in his broadcasting berth and the oversupply cheers when a British "scrap shop" of a sudden blows up.

Trying to get a better view, Bart decides to make his way through the crowd unaware that a Duff truck near is to spray beer on the expectant revelers and the whole thing ends up on Bart's long horn, inebriating him instantly. He is soon caught tipsily strolling along the parade, with the debauched celebration turning to outrage, with Brockman suggesting Prohibition as a measure out. Homer scoffs at the idea, just the town's Moral Guardians, led by Helen Lovejoy and Maude Flanders, press Mayor Quimby to declare Springfield dry out. The man at the registry then uncovers two 200-year-former laws: ane most ducks having to clothing long breeches, and another declaring booze prohibition in Springfield, which was manifestly still in force. The news lead the boondocks'southward boozehounds to pass out.

H.Thou. Duff Vii, of Duff breweries, tries to comfort the public by announcing a non-alcoholic version of the popular beer, simply goes out of business only a half-hour subsequently. Meanwhile, Moe's is still operating as if nothing, also earning new clientele and the Mafia smuggles beer into boondocks unpunished as the SPD is easily bribed, actually wondering why mobsters have a bad reputation. At night, Mrs. Lovejoy's entourage finds Chief Wiggum drunkenly dancing at the tavern and so forces Quimby to look for federal aid (partly considering the mayoral elections are incoming), with Treasury amanuensis King Banner being selected to enforce prohibition, cleaning up the SPD and firing Wiggum on the spot.

As all accesses to Springfield are blocked out, Homer sees an opportunity to become a bootlegger by retrieving the town's buried beer supply, which he hides on bowling balls which are sent to Moe's via the Basin-A-Rama. Marge before long finds out what Homer and Bart accept been upward to and... is actually supporting of their deeds, much to Lisa's chagrin, being sent to bed when complaining about breaching a law that might exist unpopular, merely it'south notwithstanding the police. Rumors arise nigh a "Beer Baron" baffling Banner, who vows to get him to justice and deems the very idea of a bootlegger operating nether his jurisdiction to be laughable, fifty-fifty though he struggles to even make a slight chuckle.

As the beer supply runs out, Homer resorts to homebrewing liquor for Moe's Tav... er, Pet Shop. But this endeavor proves brusque-lived as the stills proceed exploding and Marge asks him to stop. While Banner keeps on searching for the Baron, Homer finds a hungry Wiggum trying to hold him up... but his gun has no cannon every bit he had to sell it to feed his family. Noticing his desperate situation, Homer offers to turn himself in so Wiggum could go his old chore back... unaware that the punishment for violating the law of prohibition is being catapulted. When Marge protests such a form of punishment, Banner goes into a rant about why laws must be upheld, including the fact he'd kill everybody if it were non for the police force. He so ends up flung past the catapult by "accident"... on Wiggum'southward orders. And just before Homer's execution takes place, the registry clerk finds out the 200-twelvemonth-old prohibition police force had actually been repealed for 199 years. Homer is then exonerated and vows to bring back booze at in one case, proclaiming it to exist both the cause of and solution to all of life'southward bug.

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"Homer vs. the Eighteenth Subpoena" contains examples of:

• Accidental Debauchee: When the anti-booze ladies' group catch a drunk Chief Wiggum dancing with Princess Kashmir in Moe'south tavern, Wiggum attempts to save face and "give them the erstwhile Wiggum charm." Just as he struts up to the grouping, grinning, Helen Lovejoy screams, "PERVERT!" thinking that he was going to sexually molest her.

  Wiggum: Oh male child. That sounded bad.

• Added Alliterative Appeal: The newspaper headlines "Beer Baron Beats Banner" and "Banner Bars Booze (Alcohol Barred By Banner)".
• Anachronism Stew: Banner is start seen stepping out of a Treasury Department edifice. The Treasury doesn't handle illegal alcohol production anymore; that bureau got absorbed into the Justice Department in 1930 and became the Bureau of Booze, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). It's probably just another joke referencing Eliot Ness, and in whatever case a modern-day American town practicing Prohibition and having jazzy speakeasies is pretty anachronistic anyway.
• Fine art Imitates Fine art: The shot of the diner quotes Edward Hopper's Nighthawks painting.
• Asshole Victim: Rex Banner gets launched by the catapult after testing it past launching a cat and saying that the merely thing stopping him from condign a spree killer is the fact that the law forbids him. The only reaction everybody has to him beingness flung by the catapult (nether Wiggum'southward orders) is Quimby maxim a puzzled "Well, that was unexpected."
• Bad People Abuse Animals: Already a Rabid Cop who casually admits he'd impale anyone who looked at him funny, Rex Banner has no qualms almost testing the catapult with an actual cat. The poor creature ends up launched into the horizon.
• Barrier-Busting Accident: On the aforementioned scene where Banner says that he'south starting to suspect that a booze baron exists, Imprint notices that Barney is standing by the window blackout drunk and mocking him. Banner'southward response is to dial right through the window to take hold of a agree of Barney'due south shirt and interrogate him.
• Behind the Blackness: After returning from a Beer Baron run, Homer briefly considers checking to see if the declension is clear before taking his wheelbarrow inside... and running into Marge, who's standing right in front of him.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: There's nix noble about Homer's bootlegging—even taking the prohibition police force equally unjust, he's not and then much fighting it as using information technology for his own profit (his justification to Marge is "it made us money"), not to mention the beer he's selling was basically stolen from the trash. Homer only really remains sympathetic considering the man sent after him is a consummate psychopath and the town wants to execute him for a very small-scale offense.
• Blackness Comedy Burst: During the St. Patrick's Day celebration, an English pub suddenly explodes, which is heavily unsaid to be an attack by Irish nationalists. Cue everyone cheering.
• Blatant Lies:
  • Afterwards escaping Imprint, Homer insists to Marge that nothing happened to the car, despite the obvious damage to it.

    Marge: What happened to you, Homer? And what have you done to the car?
    Homer: Nothin'.
    Marge: I don't think information technology had broken axles before.
    Homer: Earlier! Before! You're livin' in the by, Marge. Quit livin' in the past.

  • Subverted in the next scene when Marge asks why he has so many bowling balls. He simply does not answer.

    Homer: I'm non gonna prevarication to you, Marge. So long. [Leaves]

  • When the tub alcohol starts exploding like crazy, Homer keeps maxim that the explosions that are rocking the house to its foundations are his farts. It takes an explosion setting him on burn down and Marge calling him out for him to admit it.
• Pause Out the Museum Piece: The Springfield Police pulls out a catapult from the museum at the climax to enforce the "exile by catapult" office of the 200-twelvemonth-sometime law. A cat and Imprint both stop up being tossed by it.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: The plot gets kicked off past Bart accidentally ingesting a truckload of alcohol fired from a Duff parade float and getting drunk. In five seconds. You lot could justify it by the fact that he's a child, and then he doesn't have whatever feel with the stuff, and his dad's a noted alcoholic, just even then, he probably merely would've been drunk in a few minutes, non seconds.
• Catapult to Celebrity: The catapult is the method of punishment for breaking Springfield's (manifestly outdated) prohibition police force.
• Chase Scene: Homer and Bart are chased past the constabulary (with Imprint himself trying to shoot them) later they unbury the Duff beer barrels, forcing Homer to drive through a graveyard to lose them.
• Chekhov'south Gag: The punishment via existence flung out of a catapult is mentioned when the law is read aloud earlier in the moving picture. By the time information technology's reiterated past the clerk (during the Gilligan Cut to Homer existence readied to exist flung out of it after existence arrested), the episode spends approximately xx minutes dealing with all of the craziness of the prohibition and Homer'southward alcohol baron antics and it'south probably been forgotten by the audience.
• The Comically Serious: Rex Banner. For instance, look at him on his birthday ◊ and his disability to express joy naturally.
• Couch Gag: The burrow sits in the middle of a desert; and the family, in western attire, sit on the couch, which gallops into the sunset.
• Designated Driver: Moe tells all the arriving patrons that, since it's St. Patrick's Twenty-four hour period, it's going to exist the biggest drinking day of the year. Moe then asks for the designated drivers to identify themselves, and so tells them, "Beat information technology. I got no time for cheapskates."
• Deus ex Machina: At the verbal moment before Homer is to be exiled (or probably executed) by catapult, the clerk that discovered the ancient prohibition constabulary finally notices it was repealed one year later, pregnant Homer never broke whatever law.
• Exercise Wrong, Correct: Marge is impressed with Homer for running such a successful performance with less of his characteristic stupidity than usual.
• Dry Crusader: A prohibition movement is started later on Bart is defenseless drunk on camera during the St. Patrick's Solar day parade. Soon after, it's discovered that alcohol has really banned in Springfield for over two centures, simply has never been enforced, and the government agrees to the ban. At the end of the episode, it's discovered that the prohibition law was repealed just a yr after, and everything returns to normal.
• Dumbass Has a Bespeak: When Lisa objects to Homer making booze after running out of it from Duff'southward dumped barrels, Homer makes the point that the law he'southward fighting against is unjust. Because the only citizens who called for it were Helen Lovejoy, Maude Flanders, and their Moral Guardian posse, the law just happened to be written on the boondocks charter merely never enforced, and those opposed to the idea never got a gamble to have their say or vote on it, he'southward non wrong.
• Ballsy Neglect: Duff Brewery's try to sell non-alcoholic beer in Springfield but can't be classified with any other term: the company shuts down half an hour afterwards the press conference.
• Establishing Character Moment: Rex Banner'southward first scenes later obtaining his telegraph show how cruel he is. He literally kicks Chief Wiggum out of his seat to have his job, and causes a major (and plain fatal) accident on a highway for the sake of keeping alcohol out of the urban center.
• Everyone Has Standards: Springfield wholly embraces getting drunk off their donkey on St. Patrick's Mean solar day, with Apu even telling everyone to get naked. Simply as soon as attention is fatigued to Bart existence drunk, every single developed acts horrified.
• Exact Words:
  • When Marge confronts Homer about the bowling balls (which are hollowed to smuggle beer), Homer's response is "I'm not gonna lie to you lot, Marge." He then proceeds to drive off without proverb anything.
  • The dry law's penalty is "exile by catapult". Much to Homer's distress, that means that Springfield will pull out a 200-year-old catapult from the museum to enforce information technology.
• Expy: Rex Imprint is a articulate spoof of Elliot Ness of The Untouchables (specifically the Robert Stack version, who was The Stoic).
• Fartillery: Homer'south Blatant Lies near what is causing the business firm-rocking explosions are that it'southward his farting, rather than admitting that he mixed upwards the bathtub brews incorrectly. Marge finally calls bullshit when the explosions go on well into the night and they're lying side by side in bed.
• Failed a Spot Check:
  • Banner, and the police he's got with him, don't notice at all that the customers of Moe'due south are holding beer glasses filled with beer, fifty-fifty when they take them in total view (behave in mind, this example mentioned as an instance is the second time that Moe's speakeasy is raided during the episode — the showtime fourth dimension, washed by the Anti-Liquor League ladies, was actually successful and established Wiggum every bit incompetent and dirty). Later, Banner is getting a concur of random people on the street and asking them if they're the booze baron but fails to notice that Bart and Homer are on the same sidewalk wheeling a wagon full of ingredients for liquor product.
  • The clerk who unveiled the erstwhile Prohibition police didn't noticed that there was a note on the manuscript that explicitly said it had been repealed i year afterward it was passed because the paper was rolled.
• Felony Misdemeanor: Springfield's dry out law says that people caught smuggling booze are to exist exiled from town ... by being tossed with a catapult and having zip to catch them.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Inside Moe's Tavern on St. Patrick'southward Day, right next to the large, standard "Kiss Me, I'm Irish gaelic" banner is a smaller "Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply" sign.
• Gasshole: When the stills for his bootleg liquor start exploding, Homer tries to pass it off as him being gassy from eating beans for dinner. Marge doesn't purchase it.
• Genre Refugee: Male monarch Imprint. He is an animated copycat of Elliot Ness as portrayed by Robert Stack in The Untouchables' Television receiver series and an exaggeration of Ness' Hays Lawmaking-era stoicism and righteous mentality, and that solitary makes him stand out in a cartoonishly corrupt nuthouse similar Springfield.
• Gilligan Cut:
  • The head of Duff Brewery, under the belief his customers similar beer for its season and not for its alcohol, announced Duff Zippo. Cut to thirty minutes later, the brewery was out of business.
  • When asked what'd happen to him, Homer said he'd probably be merely fined. Cutting to the town gear up to requite him expiry by catapult.
• Gone Horribly Right: Because he'southward the just one who can supply information technology, eventually Homer is overtaxed with liquor requests and subsequently he runs out of the barrels of liquor left past Duff Brewery'southward closing and getting too proud of the homemade liquor he'd made, he starts experimenting with the recipes, and suddenly the house is rocked with explosions around the clock.
• Get to Your Room!: When Marge and Lisa finds out Homer'southward beer smuggling, the former is very impressed that Homer is using his own intellect for once and raising money for the family. When Marge says the prohibition was a dumb law, Lisa says it'south still a police force and was nearly to provide some additional speechifying when Homer, Marge, and Bart interrupt her to send her to her room.
• Hair-Trigger Atmosphere: Implied with Banner. During his speech about the necessity to maintain law regardless of public opinion, he says that if in that location were no laws, he would kill anybody who "looked at [him] erect-eyed."
• Hidden Depths: Homer manages to brew more than 40 different beverages in the basement.
• Homage: Multiple details from the episode from the moment the law is enabled and Banner arrives (such equally the Walter Winchell "newsreel"-fashion narrator) is an obvious aping of the TV serial of The Untouchables.
• Honor Before Reason: Lisa is the just character likewise Banner to support the still-on-the-books (if outdated) anti-booze laws, as she calls her family out on the smuggling (and supporting). She's grounded as a result.
• I Shall Taunt You: A funny case here, when Rex vows to get the Beer Businesswoman. Homer taunts him from a very far distance.

  Rex Banner: You're out at that place somewhere, Beer Baron, and I'll notice y'all!

  Homer: *shouts offscreen* No yous won't!

  Rex Imprint: Aye, I will.

  Homer: Won't!

• If I Practice Not Return: Homer starts telling Marge, "If we're non back, avenge our deaths" when he and Bart go out to deliver their mash. Marge agrees to exercise so.
• Jerkass Has a Bespeak:
  • Obnoxious every bit they were, the anti-alcohol ladies' group were right that the St. Patrick'southward Day parade was celebrating grotesque levels of alcoholism, which got a 10-twelvemonth-erstwhile male child drunk when someone fired alcohol into the crowd. They're also correct that Wiggum was brazenly not enforcing the prohibition law (a constabulary everyone thought at the time was in outcome) past getting drunkard at a speakeasy.
  • Banner is a completely absurd Rabid Cop, but he rose a quite valid betoken with his speech against ignoring a law only because information technology'south not liked—then makes himself look fifty-fifty worse by saying that he would be killing everyone who was looking at him funny if there weren't laws in place to prevent that.
• Karma Houdini: The police are able to catapult a true cat and Rex Banner in front of a big group of people and nothing happens except the mayor saying that was unexpected.
• Karmic Death: Male monarch Banner gets flung by the same catapult he'd just tested by flinging a true cat.
• Kent Brockman News: Averted. Kent Brockman is disgusted by everyone'due south beliefs during the St. Patrick'due south Solar day parade.
• Kicking the Dog:
  • In Banner's Establishing Character Moment, he bricks up a road and causes multiple cars to crash. He smiles at the carnage.
  • Afterwards, Banner has a kick the dog moment of sorts; he decides that before using a catapult to fire Homer out of town for breaking the law, he's going to test it on a harmless true cat. This is probably to set it up so that you don't feel very sorry for him when he gets launched from the catapult a minute afterwards.
• Knight Templar: As the route blockage shows, Imprint is willing to kill innocent people if information technology means stopping alcohol from getting into Springfield.
• Lawful Stupid:
  • Male monarch Banner is likewise inept to realize Homer is the Beer Baron he'southward been hunting down. He also creates fatal countermeasures against alcohol smugglers, but is totally uninterested in Fat Tony'due south heroin smuggling ring, presumably since he'southward not in Springfield to enforce the ban on that.
  • Lisa makes articulate that she supports the law even when her whole family have also made it clear but seconds earlier that they are against information technology, which obviously gets her sent to her room.
• Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club: Moe fronts his speakeasy as Moe's Pet Store. However, the fact that it plays jazz music at ane:00AM and attracts a certain partygoing clientele brand its truthful purpose blatantly obvious. Even more stupid of Banner, he had already raided the same place earlier in the episode when he took over Wiggum and he should accept at to the lowest degree harbored a stronger suspicion than he showed.

  Imprint: What kind of pet store is filled with rambunctious yahoos and hot jazz music at 1:00AM?

  Moe: Um, the best damn pet store in town.

  [Crowd cheers]

• Loony Laws: A prohibition law in and of itself isn't "loony". That the sentence for beingness caught breaking information technology is to be exiled from the boondocks by style of being launched out of a catapult is.
• The Lopsided Arm of the Law: Banner pursues the Beer Baron with excessively violent measures toward suspects and civilians, just doesn't care at all about other crimes—when Fat Tony says he'll cease bootlegging merely keep selling heroin, Banner insists that he does.
• Made of Explodium: Eventually Homer gets as well greedy with the Baron concern and starts experimenting with the tub-made boozes, making them all explode constantly. Role of the reason he agrees to the plan to let Wiggum arrest him is considering Marge gets tired of all the ruckus.
• Meaningful Name: Rex Banner, who does a slightly better chore at keeping Springfield dry than Wiggum.
• Moral Guardians: The anti-booze ladies' grouping, again.
• Move Along, Naught to Run across Here: A parade float honoring Irish gaelic police is escorted by several of them, all saying things along the lines of this trope.
• Nice Lid: While at the acme of his Beer Baron scheme, Homer gets a fancy hat. And it is lampshaped.

  Narrator: The elusive beer baron continues to thumb his nose at the government. Swaggering nigh in a garish new hat, he seemed to say, "Await at me, Male monarch Imprint! I have a new chapeau!"

• "Nighthawks" Shot: The opening of the scene where Imprint and his assistants are at the diner (on Banner'due south altogether) is framed similar this.
• No Proficient Human action Goes Unpunished: Homer'south attempts to make booze nearly blow up his house, and when he sees Wiggum is struggling to feed his family unit, he decides to quit selling beer and turn himself in so Wiggum can get his job back. Too bad the deed leads to Homer being sentenced to getting sent out of town on a catapult.
• No Sense of Sense of humour: Rex Banner never laughs. When he tries to do so (due to him finding the thought of a beer baron operating nether his nose without getting caught "laughable"), he fails miserably.
• Non-Answer: When Marge confronts Homer of bringing and so many bowling assurance (which are hollowed to smuggle beer) to bowling.

  Marge: Why do y'all accept so many bowling balls?

  Homer: I'm not gonna lie to you, Marge. And so long! [Gets in his motorcar and drives off]

• Not Hyperbole: The law is mentioned at the very beginning when it's revealed to have an "exile by catapult" punishment. As in, the people of Springfield volition pull out a catapult from the museum, load people into it, and launch them with zero business about whether they will land safely.
• Officer O'Hara: Springfield's St. Patrick's Day parade features a float honoring "2000 Years of Irish Cops."
• Off-Model: When the anti-alcohol ladies' group catch Moe's bar, we cut to a very bizarrely animated shot of Wiggum and Princess Kashmir dancing. Even the artistic team themselves were baffled past this scene when they rewatched it in the DVD commentary.
• Oh, Crap!: At the beginning, Bart ridicules Lisa for wearing green, saying she looks stupid. When they enter, everyone (even the teachers) are wearing dark-green and looking at Bart who's the only one in his usual clothes on St. Patrick's 24-hour interval.

  Bart: Uh oh.

• Only Sane Man: Kent Brockman, of all people, is appalled by the backlog drinking and violence that occurs during the St. Patrick's Day parade and distances himself from it.
• Outside-Genre Foe: Rex Imprint, who is sent to Springfield to enforce the dry out constabulary. Played for Laughs as he'south an blithe copycat of Elliot Ness and someone who definitely would have done a better task at keeping law and order during the time of the Hays Code (where he would have been handed victory only because he's a constable) than on the modernistic (and incompetent) Wretched Hive that is Springfield.
• Pet the Domestic dog: Homer allowing himself to be arrested so that Wiggum will get his job back.
• Police Are Useless: Rex Imprint takes over the law section from the hopelessly ineffective Wiggum and orders the other officers to: "Go a haircut!" "Get those shoes shined!" and "Accept that badge out of your oral fissure!" Even the Federal Agent wasn't allowed to the trope. He was so focused on enforcing the dry law he didn't mind Fat Tony dealing drugs. And he ignored Homer walking next to him with beer ingredients while interrogating an innocent Comic Book Guy (shortly later arresting Ned Flanders because "he sounds drunk"). And at the finish of the episode he claims that the law is the but affair stopping him from killing anybody who looked at him "erect-eyed".
• Police Brutality:
  • The Irish gaelic cop float was surrounded past Irish policemen who clubbed parade viewers while saying Motility Along, Nothing to Come across Here.
  • King Imprint makes it clear he's running on old-schoolhouse police force rules by violently shaking or slapping pretty much everybody he gets his easily on and his only complaint most the use of a catapult is that it has not been used in two hundred years and thus needs to exist tested to ensure it'south even so functional.
• Rabid Cop: Banner. The man makes it pretty articulate on his big rant at the end that he would go on a killing spree if the law allowed him to do so (and the closest we see to him being actually happy is when he causes a multiple-automobile pile-up for the sake of maintaining prohibition). Fifty-fifty and then, he goes around kicking people off chairs, slapping them, shaking them hard, grabbing them by the shirt (hell, he gets the knowledge that a alcohol baron exists past noticing that Barney is drunk and punching right through a window to get a concord on him to interrogate him) and generally acting equally violently as a cop could get abroad with in a movie made during The Hays Code era.
• Recycled Blitheness: The riot at the outset of the episode was taken from footage from the terminate of "Lisa on Ice" and updated.
• Revive the Aboriginal Custom: Springfield brings back a 200-twelvemonth-sometime law banning alcohol in Springfield in response to Bart accidentally getting drunk at the St. Patrick's Day parade.
• Correct for the Wrong Reasons: Homer at one indicate proclaims that prohibition is doomed to fail considering "they tried that in the movies, and it didn't work."
• Dominion of Three: When the prohibition police force is announced, we run into Homer passed out on the floor. Then Moe, Barney, and the other regulars at Moe's Tavern passed out. And then Dr. Hibbert laughing equally he sees information technology in the newspaper... just to realize his married woman has passed out.
• Screw the Coin, I Take Rules!: Rex Banner doesn't accept bribes, to his credit.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: The 200-year-former police banning alcohol in Springfield had been repealed the following year.
• Shout-Out: Comic Book Guy references Superman.

  Banner: Are you the Beer Baron?

• Skewed Priorities: Banner shuts down Fatty Tony'due south operation immediately.

  Fatty Tony: Okay, you win. From at present on, we'll stick to smuggling heroin.

  Banner: See that you do.

• Smart Ball: Homer manages to run circles around Rex Banner via a genuinely clever bowling brawl scheme and never actually gets caught. Lampshaded by Marge.
• Smarter Than You Wait: Trying to evade Rex Imprint had to have some serious planning for Homer and Bart. Marge actually shows pride at Homer's skill when he explains his scheme to her.
• Soapbox Sadie: Lisa, one time again, gets a large moment when she points out that fifty-fifty if the prohibition law is dumb (so impaired that Marge praises Homer for becoming a alcohol baron) it still is the law nevertheless and information technology needs to be obeyed ... and she is given a Big "SHUT UP!" mid-speech by her brother and parents yelling at her to go to her room.
• St. Patrick'southward Twenty-four hour period Episode: The episode opens on St. Patrick's Day, with Bart accidentally getting drunk during the parade kick off the primary plot.
• Stopped Reading Too Soon: A 200-year-old constabulary banning alcohol is discovered in the Springfield Charter. It took until the very finish of the episode to discover that information technology was repealed 199 years ago.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • Duff Zero goes over similar a physical zeppelin because the drinkers of Springfield practise like its alcohol content.
  • Prohibiting alcohol didn't make people cease wanting to drink it. Homer himself scoffs at the proposal ("They tried that in the movies, and information technology didn't work"), so he's also Right for the Wrong Reasons nigh it.
  • Chief Wiggum getting fired from his task is more than than earned given his deportment in this and previous episodes. But equally the episode reminds us he does still have a family to support and is struggling to do so without a job.
• Have That!: The caput of Duff Brewery, under the belief his customers like beer for its flavor and not for its alcohol, announced a non-alcoholic Duff Zero. Cut to thirty minutes later, the brewery was out of business organisation.
• A Tankard of Moose Urine: Alcohol is banned in Springfield, and the non-alcoholic Duff Naught is an firsthand failure.
• Remember of the Children!: Since Helen Lovejoy is part of the anti-alcohol ladies' grouping, information technology's only natural that she say her Catchphrase at i point.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Lisa thinks people should still follow the prohibition police force, even if it's unpopular.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
  • Most of the episode's plot happens because a clerk unveils an sometime Prohibition law and never bothered to read the whole parchment and learn the law was no longer in issue. It would be a phenomenon if he managed to retain his chore after making such a horrible blunder. Of course, this is Springfield nosotros're talking well-nigh.
  • The prohibition itself would almost certainly non accept occurred, had the Duff bladder not been firing out beer into a crowd, not considering the fact that underage people were effectually, or the illegality of the act itself.
• Versus Title: A local dry law, which Homer becomes a Beer Businesswoman to fight, stands in for the titular amendment.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The Springfield anti-alcohol ladies' group that forced the awarding of the outdated prohibition law in the first place disappears subsequently King Banner is hired to head the police force. Every bit a matter of fact, Moe'south speakeasy is raided by them earlier in the episode before Banner arrives and it seems they never mentioned that it was a speakeasy to Imprint — otherwise, he would have probably been more driven to check the place out).
• Whole Plot Reference: The Prohibition Era of The Roaring '20s and The Untouchables.
• Earth Limited to the Plot: At that place's never any reason given why the alcoholics of Springfield tin't merely drive to another town when they want to get drunkard.
• Incorrect Genre Savvy: Male monarch Imprint acts like he'due south in 1920s Chicago rather than Springfield.

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