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| − | *Near the end of Rosebud, Homer asks Marge if giving Mr. Burns Bobo is a happy ending or a sad ending which Marge replies that it's an ending.
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| − | *In Brawl in The Family, Lisa asks if if of the Simpsons series...of events.
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| − | *In the Telltale Head, Bart says that his story will last 23 minutes and 5 seconds, the episode's length.
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| − | *The ending of Bart Gets Famous has Lisa saying "Now you can go back to just being you instead of a one-dimensional character with a silly catchphrase," setting off a montage of catchphrases.
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| − | *In Blame It On Lisa, The Simpsons comment on the background music.
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| − | *In Barting Over, Lisa says that it's Homer's 300th time doing something stupid which Marge thinks that it's the 302th time, a reference to this being the so-called 300th episode, was actually the 302nd to air.
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| − | *In "Bart vs. Thanksgiving, a Bart ballon appears after Homer says "If they start building a balloon for every flash-in-the-pan cartoon character, you'll turn the parade into a farce".
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| − | *In Treehouse of Horror VI, Homer says "I feel like I'm wasting a fortune just standing here" is a reference to the cost of computer animation. Earlier, Homer, interrupting Kent Brockman's warning about advertising, says "We'll be right back" then commericals start.
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| − | *In Fat Man and Little Boy, Homer dismisses the quality of Korean animation then the "five o'clock shadow" part of his face is drawn a foot away from the rest of his head.
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| − | *In Stark Raving Dad, Homer says "I'm Homer Simpson, from The Simpsons".
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| − | *In Day of the Jackanapes, Marge says ""It's good for a show to go off the air before it gets stale and repetitive". Smithers bursts in saying that [[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)|"Maggie shot Mr. Burns again!"]]
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| − | *In Homer Loves Flanders, Bart and Lisa are worried that Homer will stay being Ned Flanders' friend, ending their wacky adventures.
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| − | *During Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood, Bart stops an error in an Itchy and Scratchy episode which Lisa replies by saying that television does not have to be 100% accurate. After that, Homer (who was in the house with Bart and Lisa) walks past the window.
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| − | *At the end of Grift of the Magi, Gary Coleman asks the viewers "Whatcha talkin' about, everyone?"
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| − | *Lenny Leonard tells the viewers that he can make a necklace out of his loose teeth at the end of Sweets and Sour Marge.
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| − | *In Bart vs Lisa vs the Third Grade, Skinner says "If this episode has taught us anything...".
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| − | *In Today, I Am a Clown, Lisa reads the 'Two Dozen and One Greyhounds' page of The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family.
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| − | *In The Way We Weren't, Young Moe tells the viewers "And that's the origin of that!" after Marge prank calls Moe.
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| − | *At the end of You Kent Always Say What You Want, Homer tells Lisa something bad Kent Brockman said aboiut the Fox Network and after he gets cut off by the 20th Century Fox Television ending when he tries to tell the viewers about the truth, Homer tries to talk to the audience about it one more time by whispering, "Ok. What I was going to say was-", then being interrupted by the Gracie Films logo.
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| − | *In All About Lisa, Sideshow Mel's narration breaks the fourth wall just before the advertisement break.
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| − | *In Ned 'N Edna's Blend, Homer at one point says "Let's put it to a vote America". This is in reference to the end of "The Ned-liest Catch" where the country voted whether Ned and Edna should stay together.
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| − | *In The Book Job, This episode technically breaks the fourth wall, as one of the titles says "The Commercials".
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| − | *In Treehouse of Horror XXVI, Sideshow Bob saying that he's spent 24 years trying to kill a [[Bart Simpson|ten year old child.]] Later, when the family sees the reanimation machine, Homer says the animation looks good.
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| − | *During Puffless, Homer mentions the couch gags when Marge says that Patty will sleep on the couch.
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| − | **The translation for what Maggie says breaks that fourth (After securing the perimeter, the ground troops will advance and reinforce flanks, as the aerial units will soften their defenses. Then we shall advance in a pincer moment to infiltrate the compound and liberate our friend. If you've read all of this, congratulations, you're a genius!)
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| − | *The end of Barthood has Homer saying "Oh, is that what this was?"
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| − | *The epilouge of Lisa Gets the Blues has Homer tells the kids that with the next coming episode, the series will have exceeded Gunsmoke in terms of episode length.
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| | === Season 1 === | | === Season 1 === |
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Leaning on the fourth wall is where something almost breaks the fourth wall, only for it to be an in-media effect, such as the camera panning to reveal that the character was talking to another character rather than the audience.
