Homer and Ned become bounty hunters and Ned discovers he must go after his own partner. Meanwhile, Marge gets a job as an erotic baker.
Tropes:
- Acrofatic: Homer and Ned's chase at the end has them both performing incredible feats of parkour. While Ned has been known to be in great shape beneath that sweater, Homer is Homer.
- Artistic License: In real life, Northern Ireland's Protestant Unionists population does not actually celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Their patron Saint is St. Stephen, whose day of celebration is nowhere near St. Patrick’s.
- Bail Equals Freedom: After being arrested for his role in a riot, Homer was released on bail. Subverted because he's told a Bounty Hunter will be sent after him if he doesn't appear in court. Later on, the bail bondsman does send a bounty hunter after Homer for this.
- Bait-and-Switch: Marge, who's been working as an erotic baker the whole episode, sends Homer a cake that she says will help him get through his jail sentence until he can come home to her. His lustful reaction on peeking inside the box is just Homer being Homer; it simply says "To the Love of My Life."
- Bounty Hunter: After meeting a stereotypical bounty hunter at the bail bondsman, Homer decides to become one himself, roping Ned into it as well. Ned eventually is hired to track Homer down when he doesn't show up in court.
- The Cameo:
- Sideshow Bob.
- Boba Fett appears in the couch gag of this episode. When the family runs in, Boba freezes them in carbonite. He then takes the frozen family out of the room.
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Lookalikes of The Hulk and The Thing fight each other in the mob. They show up again on Homer's wanted picture grabbing his legs.
- Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: The final cake Marge makes is for Homer to give him something to remember her by while in jail. After working at an erotic bakery the whole story, it's a sheet cake saying how much she loves Homer. Granted, Homer probably appreciates something that filled up the whole box...
- Cliffhanger Copout: At the end of the first act, Snake fires a bullet at Homer, implying that he'll get shot by it. The second act, however, opens with the bullet ricocheting back to Snake, because of Ned Flanders appearing from the building nearby holding a sheet of bulletproof glass.
- Fighting Irish: Since this St. Patrick's Day is booze free, Springfield's Protestant and Catholic Irish populations remember how much they hate each other. Cue orgy of violence.
- He Knows Too Much: Burns says this after Bart notices that the water is green, warning about a great danger to befall him. Before just walking off humming merrily.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Homer blames Flanders for not succumbing to this trope and becoming as dirty as the bounty they hunt.
- Irony:
- The bounty hunter sent after Homer for bail-jumping became a bounty hunter because Homer suggested it.
- Alcohol was banned at St. Patrick's Day to stop the townsfolk from going on a drunken riot. Without the alcohol Springfield's Nothern and Southern Irish groups are sober enough to remember they hate each other and cause a sober riot.
- New Job Episode: For both Marge and Homer (with Flanders tagging along with the latter). Homer becomes a bounty hunter, while Marge becomes an erotic baker.
- Shout-Out:
- When Homer and Ned reconcile, there's a montage of the two of them beating up criminals the same way Batman and Robin do during the intro of Batman.
- One of the bounty hunters assigned to hunt down Homer has a gun for a leg.
- Spaghetti Kiss: It's implied this happens between Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers. When a penis-shaped cake flies through Skinner's window while he's serving Chalmers dinner, Agnes comes down the stairs, and Chalmers says he and Skinner will have to "eat from each end" and will know they're safe when their lips meet in the middle.
- St. Patrick's Day Episode: The episode begins on an alcohol-free St. Patrick's Day celebration to avoid public fighting; ironically, being sober reminds the Irish of the South-Nroth conflict and start a fight anyway.
- Turn in Your Badge: Ned Flanders tried this when he quits being a bounty hunter, but figured out he was never given anything.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Quimby banning alcohol at the parade, and later Lisa attempting to quell the two sides peacefully, lead to the riot between the Irish.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Despite their long history of conflict, Homer admits that he likes Ned more the more he spends time with him, and Ned confesses that he likes Homer too.
