[LIST] Movie References in The Simpsons Version 2.0

[Andrew Gill]

Movie References in The Simpsons
Version 2.0
Originally by Raymond Chen
Maintained by Andrew A. Gill ISSUE ONE: What are references?

Scenes, dialog, or other situations that bear a striking
similarity to movies, paintings, songs, etc.

Now, finding movie references was a fun exercise in the
past, but it seems that everyone thinks everything came
from a movie.

Character talks from an upper-story window?
Our Town! Romeo and Juliet!
The Fires of Spring!

The telltale sign of an allusion is the inclusion of
something unusual. Things like a camera angle, or a
background object that looks suspiciously artifical or
gratuitous. (`Gratuitous' is important.) And the movie
should be a `classic' movie, like `Gone with the Wind'
or `Casablanca'. References to movies like `Adventures
in Babysitting' probably aren't.

-- Raymond Chen

ISSUE TWO: How do we mark references?

This is a much trickier question, but here's how Raymond
Chen did it (you'll have to ask the other capsule compilers
for their views. It's basically the same, anyways):

Markings for allusions:

+ definitely clearly obviously no doubt about it.

~ stretches the imagination a bit too far.

{initials of the contributor}
(If none, then the contributor is most likely the
capsule compiler--or the reference is too obvious.)

The editors' personal comments are in [square brackets].

Complaints/corrections can go to dev/null, but be sure to CC
either the capsule compiler (for comments on the references,
themselves) or me (for comments on layout).

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`Life in Hell' is a common referent, for reasons that should
be obvious.

- Similarities in appearances between characters.
For example, change Marge's tall hairdo into two long
ears and look who you get...

Simpsons Rainy-Day Funtime Book
- A rabbit doll is on the family couch in the `Make your
own TV show' section.

Simpson Xmas [MG40]
- Lisa gets Binky and Bongo dolls for Christmas.

[7F04] Treehouse of Horror
- Maggie has a Binky doll. {dwt}

[7G11] Jacques to be Wild
- Lisa goes through the `Twelve Stages of Divorce for
Kids' from `Childhood is Hell'. {pjc}

[7G06] Moaning Lisa
- The video game referee looked like a (fez-less)
Akbar/Jeff. {jd}

[7F15] Principal Charming
- "Discount Meat Hut" is seen.

[7F16] Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Marge wears bunny slippers. {dh}

[7F17] Old Money
- Grampa buys and wears a fez. {gh}

[7F18] Brush with Greatness
- Prof. Lombardo's instructions on drawing a bunny-
rabbit are startlingly similar to `How to Draw Binky'.
Of course, Lombardo's rabbit had Binky's ears and
overbite.

[7F24] Stark Raving Dad
- Maggie has a rabbit doll in her crib.

[8F02] Treehouse of Horror II
- Homer wears a fez.

[9F09] Homer's Triple Bypass
- Homer's puppets look like Akbar and Jeff.

[1F13] Deep Space Homer
? - Marge's states of coping are similar to various stages
of coping from Life in Hell.

[3F31] The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular
- Groening has a Life in Hell poster in his office.

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Spoofs:

+ America's Most Armed and Dangerous
- Name your favorite `Criminals At Large'-type
program, in particular, `America's Most Wanted',
a FOX program.
+ McBain
- McBain speaks with Arnold Schwarzenegger's accent.
- a generic `vigilante justice' type movie.
- Theme music and credits very James Bond-like.
- Die Hard: Name similar to John MacLean. McBain
once throws a guy off a skyscraper. Both are
renegade cops. {elm}
- There is a movie called McBain.
+ Yakkin About The Movies
- `the bald guy' and `the fat tub of lard' argue
about movies.
+ I Can't Believe They Invented It!
- Name your favorite infomercial.
+ An unnamed home video show Homer watches
- America's Funniest Home Videos et al.
+ The Cosby Show
- Dr. Hibbert's home and family bear a more-than-
coincidental similarity to a program that competes
[competED -aag] with The Simpsons for the Thursday
8pm time slot [Uh, the 1991 Tuesday slot -aag].

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Allusions:

[general]
Tube Bar (a cult album)
- Bart's phone pranks, followed by Moe's threats to
do serious bodily harm. {sm}
Tom and Jerry/Herman and Katnip
- `Itchy and Scratchy' derives from violent kiddie
cartoon fare, perhaps best typified by Tom and
Jerry.
- As with T&J, I&S went through a `kinder, gentler'
phase, which was entirely devoid of content.
- Herman and Katnip, a more gruesome version of the
cat and mouse struggle, is probably a more correct
analogy. (It's on FOX Family along with the rest
of the Harveytoons at the time of this writing.)
The Arsenio Hall Show
- The `pumping the air' gesture has entered the
mainstream, so it really isn't a reference any
more.
- when Homer makes his weight goal [7F18]
- the kids in class. [7F19]
~ Citizen Kane
- Herbert Powell and Mr. Burns both have a front gate
with their initial in a circle. [Not really a
reference, but everybody keeps sending it. --rjc]
John F. Kennedy
- Mayor Quimby has a Bahston accent and has an eye
for the ladies.
- ``I have always thought that DJ Quimby's voice was
a takeoff on the JFK impersonations that Vaughn
Meader did back in 1961--1962.'' {abw}
Satyajit Ray's movies {ab}
- a Bengali film director well known in the right
circles. (The same folks who admire Kurosawa and
Bergman.)
- `Pather Panchali' (Song of the Road), about a young
boy named Apu.
- The movie was so popular, it spawned two sequels,
`Aparajito' and `Apur Shangsar' (Apu's World)

[7G04] There's No Disgrace Like Home
Freaks
- ``One of us! One of us!''

[7G05] Bart the General
+ Patton
- pretty much the entire episode
(lines, scenes, situations, and music)
- The key to Springfield has always been Elm Street.
The Greeks knew it; the Carthaginians knew it; now
*you* know it.
+ Full Metal Jacket
- `trainees' doing pull-ups and other exercises on a
jungle-gym-type structure as the sun sets in the
background. (Confirmed by Sam Simon.)
+ The Longest Day
- The GI helmet resting on its top while we see Bart
and friends doing their thing (taken from the
final scene of the movie).
A Clockwork Orange
- ``There's been a horrible ghastly mistake.''
[or similar]
Stripes
- Herman (Bill Murray, or was it Harold Ramis) jabs
the training dolls with his bayonet as Bart
(Warren Oates) watches disapprovingly. {ors}

[7G07] The Tell-Tale Head
+ The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe)
- Bart, overcome with guilt, hears the head talking.
+ The Whole Earth Catalog
- The Bowl Earth Catalog
. Your favorite ninja movie
- Bart's nighttime undertaking

[7G09] Call of the Simpsons
The Sound of Music
- The music as the RV travels through the woods,
lake, etc.
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn (Debussy)
- The music as a nature-lover videotapes a deer
drinking from a stream

[7G11] Jacques to be Wild
+ The Gay Divorcee
- A divine dance number underscored by the music of
Cole Porter. @{cjb}
+ An Officer and a Gentleman
- the final scene

[7G13] The Crepes of Wrath
+ Assorted French paintings (can anybody name them?)
- Bart's trip to France.
> Dejeuner sur l'herbe
+ "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring"
- Bart's hosts Cesar and Ugolin look like and have
the same names as the evil peasants. {tas}

[7G12] Krusty Gets Busted
+ Black Sox Scandal (baseball)
- `Say it ain't so, Krusty!'
Perry Mason
- The district attorney
"Mission: Impossible"
- The music as Bart and Lisa arrive at the scene of
the crime
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
- The theme to Sideshow Bob's Cavalcade of Whimsy
+ Scooby Doo
- `And I would have gotten away with it, too,
if it weren't for those meddlesome kids.'

[7G01] Some Enchanted Evening
Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Bart moans, ``The elves! The elves!''
. Jaws
- the music as Ms. Botz approaches
[7F03] Bart Gets an F
+ How The Grinch Stole Christmas
- everybody holding hands and singing
The Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant) {?}
Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah, Georg Friedrich Handel
+ Gone With the Wind
- `As God as my witness, I will pass fourth grade!'
{hk}
+ Samuel Johnson
- `Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.'
Lisa changes the first word to `prayer'. {abw}
(see capsule)

[7F02] Simpson and Delilah
It's a Wonderful Life
- Homer running through town when he gets his hair.
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
- Homer receives the key to the executive washroom.
{gh}

[7F01] Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish
+ Citizen Kane
- Mr. Burns giving a speech with a huge poster of
himself in the background. {mg, sv}
- `Is your boss governor yet?' `No, not yet, son.'
{sv}
- YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! I'M CHARLES MONTGOMERY
BURNS! {mg,sv}
- Mr. Burns overturning furniture.
+ Michael Dukakis' 1988 presidential campaign
- Burns riding in a tank. {hk}
It's a Wonderful Life
- Mary Bailey is the name of Donna Reed's character.

[7F04] Treehouse of Terror
The Shining
- everyone trying to kill each other with knives,
hatchets, etc.
+ The Exorcist
- Maggie's head turning all the way around.
Poltergeist
- The behavior of the haunted house.
- Indian graves in the cellar.
+ The Amityville Horror
- Blood oozing down the walls. {my}
- The wall with a chimney running up the center and
quarter-circle windows on each side. {dl}
+ Psycho
- The shape of the haunted house.
The Fall of the House of Usher
- The death of the haunted house.
+ The Fly
- The `Ow' you hear when the bug zapper does its
thing.
~ Star Trek
- Kang is the name of the Klingon commander (``The
Day of the Dove'')
- Kodos is the name of another bad guy (``The
Conscience of the King'')
- Serak is a pun/anagram on Sarek, Spock's father,
with perhaps some influence from Surak, a Vulcan
philosopher.
+ Twilight Zone (To Serve Man)
- The cookbook, `How to cook for forty humans'

[7F05] Dancin' Homer
+ The Tidewater Tides; see capsule
+ The Natural
- slo-mo as Bill McCloskey hits a tater. {jdb}
(The music is also similar.)
Nearly any other movie about baseball
(Major League, Mr. Destiny)
- and in true movie form, ever ball game ends either
in a home run or a strikeout.
+ Bobby Thompson's home run
- `The Isotopes win a game! The Isotopes win a
game!'
(cf. `The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win
the pennant!')
+ Friedrich Nietzsche
- ``Was nicht micht umbringt, macht micht starker.''
@{jdb}
Twilight of the Idols, number 8 of the `Maxims and
Arrows' @{las}
- ``That which does not destroy me makes me
stronger.''
~ Saturday Night Live / Wayne's World
- `I'm gonna miss you too.... not.'
(SNL didn't invent it.)
+ Pride of the Yankees
- Homer's farewell speech to the fans. ``I consider
myself the luckiest mascot on the face of the
earth.'' (Lou Gehrig's farewell address.)
- according to `Simpsons Illustrated'
+ `New York, New York'
- the vamp for the song `Capital City' sounds like
that of `New York, New York'.

[7F08] Dead Putting Society
+ Full Metal Jacket
- Homer names Bart's putter `Charlene'.
+ The Karate Kid
- Bart poses in the `crane' position.
- ``Mercy is for the Weak'' {cjb}

[7F06] Bart the Daredevil
Jaws
- the way the lion leaps out to attack Captain Lance
Murdoch.

[7F09] Itchy and Scratchy and Marge
+ Psycho
- the scene where Maggie whacks Homer on the head
comes from the infamous `shower scene'.
- musical sound effect (which reappears later in
the show)
- Homer grabs the tablecloth (cf shower curtain)
as he falls
- close-up of Homer's eye
- red paint running down the drain (cf blood)
- image of Homer (cf Janet Leigh) lying on the
floor (cf tub)
~ Miracle on 34th Street; Field Of Dreams
- Piles of protest mail.
+ Fantasia
- Children playing outdoors to the music of
Beethoven's 6th Symphony
(`Awakening of happy feelings upon arrival in the
countryside.')
+ Tom Sawyer
- Children whitewashing a fence during the Fantasia
reference.
? Richard Nixon saying "The voters have spoken. The
bastards."
- Roger Myers: "The screwballs have spoken." {hk}

[7F10] Bart Gets Hit by a Car
~ A Tale of Two Cities
- After hitting Bart, Burns says, ``Just give him a
nickel and let's get going.'' In the book, the
Marquis St. Evremonde runs over a boy in the
street and just tosses the father a coin. Gaspard
(the father) refused the coin and instead murdered
the Marquis. Wonder if Burns knew... {jdlb}
+ Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516), `Garden of Earthly
Delights'
- the rendition of Hell
+ Rolling Stones, `Sympathy for the Devil'
- Satan says, `Please allow me to introduce myself.'
+ Wizard of Oz
- Bart waking up from his `dream' saying `And you
were there, and you and you...'
+ Miracle on 34th Street
- Judge asking Bart if he knows the difference
between telling the truth and telling a lie.
? Some as-yet unidentified movie ?
- Burns cradling Bart's head in his lap (in the
Burns version) and the camera pulling upward with
a crowd of people surrounding him.
Guesses include
- The Last Picture Show, when the poolroom
owner's adopted son gets tagged by a semi
while sweeping the street. {rc}
- The Pulitzer-Prize-winning photo of the Kent
State Massacre of May 1970.
- Colors, when Robert Duvall is shot. {sy}
- The Human Comedy, ``check it out if you don't
believe me'' {sf}
- Potemkin, when the mother holds her dead child
{jev}
- Rebel Without a Cause, ``I'm pretty sure''
{ja}
- Romeo and Juliet, the final scene {din}
- West Side Story, the final scene {din}
- Superman, when Superman finds Lois Lane dead
{sp}
- Twilight Zone, `In Praise of Pip', when Jack
Klugman prays for his son, he says something
like ``Take me, I'm old.'' {wb}
and probably the best guess
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Sean
Connery) Towards the end of the movie, old man
Darby's daughter disobeys her father's
commands and goes up a mountain after a horse
(storm coming). She trips over a ledge and is
knocked unconsious. Fearing the Banshee curse
placed on Darby will claim another victim, he
races after her and finds her lying on the
ground. Cradling her head in his lap, and
with the camera pulling back, yells out at the
approching banshee ``Go away! Take me I'm
old!'' Darby throws a lantern at the hag, who
disappears, then he and her boyfriend
(Connery) carry her back home. {cjb's brother}

[7F11] One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
~ DOA -- the movie is about a man who learns he has been
poisoned
- the kids sing in the restaurant. {re}
- the doctor says `Sorry to keep you waiting'. {jdb}
[Dennis Quaid version]
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's book, ``On Death and Dying''
- Dr. Hibbert tells Homer about the five stages.
~ All That Jazz
- The pamphlet `So You're Going to Die'. {bm}
+ The Graduate {tl}
- The song `Mrs. Robinson' makes brief appearances.
(Not the version you hear on the radio.)
- Homer leaves Barney fixing the car and runs home,
pounding on the window yelling ``Marge! Marge!''.
Ben (Dustin Hoffman) does the same and runs to the
church, pounding on the glass yelling ``Elaine!
Elaine!'' The guitar strumming is the same.

[7F12] The Way We Was
Norman Rockwell painting
- Marge looking glumly at her reflection in the
mirror while prettying herself up for a date. {abw}
Happy Days
- The necking spot is called `Inspiration Point'.

[7F13] Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment
North by Northwest
- Homer jumps in front of a truck to try to flag it
down. {abw}
Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas, Don King
- Dreaderick Tatum (Mike Tyson) fights somebody
(Buster Douglas) who dedicated the bout to his late
mother. Tatum's manager has a Don King hairdo.
~ Gandhi
- Marge serves Lisa lemonade during her nonviolent
protest. {jd}
(Gandhi drinks only lemonade [lemon in water]
during his fast.)

[7F15] Principal Charming
Beatles' White Album
- Stanley says, ``Martha my dear'' and later,
``Martha my love''. {he}
Some Escher print
- the school's bell tower {mn}
+ Vertigo
- the school bell tower is identical to the mission.
- the entire scene with Skinner climbing the stairs
and looking down.
- also when he stands at the top of the tower in the
wind.
- `Vertigo' has a running theme of `twins'. Patty
and Selma?
~ The Thirty-Nine Steps
- the staircase `right from the movie'. {gb}
[I just watched the movie, and there wasn't any
staircase of note in it. --rjc]
The Terminator, Robocop, etc.
- `Homer analysis sightings' (cf Arnold's character
in Terminator)
- sound effects borrowed from Robocop.
- basic idea from any number of similar-minded
movies.
~ A Good Man is Hard to Find (short story by Flannery
O'Connor)
- Homer says `A good man really <is> hard to find.'
~ Heaven Help Us
- The `board' of education might be related to the
paddle the priest used to discipline kids. It had
`Patience' written on it.
[I think they're just recycling an old joke. --rjc]
Cool Hand Luke
- Bart planting grass.
Caddyshack
- the groundskeeper could be a reference to the
movie's head groundskeeper.
~ Cabaret
- Look what I brought... Schnapps! (maybe)
Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Skinner carries Patty up the steps of the bell
tower, as did Quasimodo with Esmerelda.
Jabberwocky (the poem, not the movie)
- Principal Skinner yells, ``Calloo, Callay!'' {cb}
+ Hamlet (Shakespeare) Act 5 Scene 2 line 311.
- Good night, sweet Prince-ipal.
+ Gone With the Wind
- The `Tomorrow is another school day!' scene is a
hybrid of two scenes from GWTW. The line itself is
from the final scene of the movie, but the scenery
is from a scene in the middle when Scarlett pulls a
carrot (or a radish, if you read the book) out of
the ground and swears she'll never go hungry again.
(It was not a turnip. You're thinking of Bloom
County.)

[7F16] Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Tucker
- unveiling a new car model.
Damn Yankees
- `Whatever Homer wants, Homer gets' cf `Whatever
Lola Wants, Lola Gets'
+ The Godfather
- `As far as I'm concerned, I have no brother.'
Twins
- Danny DeVito playing a long-lost brother.
The Arnold Schwarzenegger spoof in `McBain' helped,
too.

[7F14] Bart's Dog Gets an F
Predator
- When we switch to the dog's point of view, we hear
a little explosion sound. The same sound is used
in the movie when we switch to the alien's point
of view.
The Far Side
- How human speech sounds to dogs.
~ 2001
- The way Marge's needle spins in the air, cf. the
bone and pen. {fs}
Buffalo Bill Cody's `Wild West Show'
- the second frame in the Bouvier Family Quilt, cf. a
picture of Annie Oakley on a poster for the show.
{jr}
+ Death in the Making (photograph by Frank Capra)
- The third frame in the Bouvier Family Quilt.
Lethal Weapon, G Gordon Liddy (Watergate scandal)
- Marge holding a lighter under her finger to show it
didn't hurt. (Though in Lethal Weapon, it hurt.)
+ E.T.
- Lisa shows Marge her sewing callous and their
fingers touch. Music similar to that from the
movie plays in the background. (Some may associate
this scene to `Creation' in the Sistine Chapel.)
Jaws
- Dramatic music just before Santa's Little Helper
attacks something.
Friday the 13th
- `Echo' sound effect when Santa's Little Helper
attacked the quilt.
~ America's Funniest Home Videos, Little Caesar's Pizza
commercial
- Dog that says `I love you'. (AFHV's dog said
`Mama'.)
+ Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way (British dog training
television programme starring Barbara Woodhouse)
- The dog training school and its teacher.
``Walkies!'' {wm}
~ American Graffiti, Animal House, Back to School, Fish
Called Wanda, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Cooley High,
etc.
- Captioning the eventual fate of the various dogs in
the class.
~ any movie about high school or college
- Freeze-frame on the leashes thrown in the air upon
graduation.

[7F17] Old Money
+ Tom Jones (the movie)
- Bea and Grampa eat their pills seductively.
+ The Jazz Singer (Neil Diamond version)
- Grampa tears his coat and announces, ``I have no
son!''
A Christmas Carol
- Grampa asks, ``Is there room at your table for a
foolish old man?''
+ Nighthawks (painting by Edward Hopper)
- Grampa in a coffeeshop after seeing how the poor
live.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (with Gary Cooper, by Frank
Capra)
- Searching for worthy projects for Grampa Simpson's
money
~ If I Had A Million
- A woman uses her sudden wealth to improve her rest
home.

[7F18] Brush with Greatness
Howdy Doody Show
- Shamelessly pitching products on a kids show
and getting the kids all riled up to buy the
stuff.
+ Ascending and Descending, an etching by M. C. Escher
- the line for H2WHOA!
~ Batman
- Krusty wipes make-up from his face, cf. The Joker.
{evl}
+ Gone With the Wind
- ``As God as my witness, I'll always be hungry
again!!''
~ Back to the Future
- ``Hello! Hello, taste? Where are you?'' Now
change `taste' to `McFly'.
+ Rocky
- Music as Homer works out.
+ The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
- Music as Homer approaches the scale. {gh2}
~ The Empire Strikes Back
- When Marge walks in on Burns in the bathroom, cf.
Darth Vader.
Yellow Submarine
- The cartoon of Ringo is largely the same.

[7F19] Lisa's Substitute
~ Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Dead Poets Society
- A teacher inspires his students.
~ Teachers
- A substitute teacher dresses as historical
figures. {rc}
+ The Graduate
- Dustin Hoffman's voice.
- `Mrs. Krabappel, you're trying to seduce me.'
- Camera angle through Mrs. K's legs just like
in the movie.
+ The Thing (Howard Hawks, 1951 SF, James Arness)
- `Keep watching the skies!' cf the conclusion of
the movie. {gh, abw}
~ Little Big Man
- Dustin Hoffman as a cowboy. {gh}
+ Chicago Tribune
- Martin's photo in the paper holding another
newspaper whose headline reads, ``Simpson Defeats
Prince''.
(cf. 1948 pres. election, `Dewey Defeats Truman'.)
~ A Streetcar Named Desire
- Lisa yells `Mr. Bergstrom!' [cf `Stella!'] under
his window. {pk}
The Fugitive
- Mr Bergstrom's parting speech. ``the life of a
substitute teacher is a lonely one.'' {jdl}
~ The Graduate; Since You Went Away; lots of old movies
- Chasing the train as it leaves.
- The Graduate: cf. chasing the bus Mrs. R's
daughter is on. {dg}
- Since You Went Away: `Shot-for-shot mimic' claims
{jf}
Ronald Reagan
- The Gipper once said, "They say there are no easy
answers to the complex problems we face today.
But I say there *are* easy answers." {jd}
Prince, yes, Martin Prince
- {mc} claims this is a reference to something,
though he can't quite place his finger on what it
is.

[7F20] War of the Simpsons
Hirschfield drawings in New York Times (and New Yorker
covers)
- Homer's recollection of the party. {sf}
The Algonquin Round Table
- Homer's recollection of the party. {dk2} ({dk2}
claims the reference is blatant. I'm taking his
word for it, though the Algonquin Round Table
wasn't a movie...)
~ The Omen
- Damien and his mother are drive through some
version of Lion Country Safari. The creatures
outside the car shriek in terror as the devil's
child approaches. Creepy choral music in the
background adds to the effect. {ct}
~ Pet Semetary (and any other movie with a bad Maine
accent)
- the bait shop owner {re}
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Richard Burton and Liz
Taylor)
- "She's a harpie... Here's your crown..."
Adam's Rib
- "I was faking. I can turn it on and off like a
faucet." {rc}
Old Man and the Sea? {rc}

[7F21] Three Men and a Comic Book
The title is probably a pun on `Three Men and a Baby',
though Tom Owen suggests it might come from the more
obscure series of books titled `Three Men and a ...'
by Jerome K. Jerome.
+ Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Paranoia over a jointly-held valuable.
- `Nobody makes a sap out of...' {to}
- `Simpsons Illustrated' said so.
~ Batman
- Bart [Michael Keaton] grabs the comic book guy
[criminal] and says, ``I'm Bartman [Batman].''
Same shot, same inflection. {sf}
Gone with the Wind (the amputation scene)
- Bart's silhouetted agony when the iodine is
applied. {kl}
The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1, lines 156f.
- Martin says ``This is the stuff dreams are made
of.'' {rjc}
This quote was popularized by...
The Maltese Falcon
- Martin says ``This is the stuff dreams are made
of.'' {sp, kjg}
~ Simpsons pinball machine
- `Uh oh, looks like rain.' {jjh}
Lord of the Flies
- Martin makes a squealing noise when he falls, then
Bart calls him `Piggy' and threatens to stuff an
apple in his mouth. {jt}
~ Some Hitchcock movie (Saboteur?)
- Millhouse's sleeve starts tearing. {gh}
[Gimme a break. --rjc]
~ True Grit
- John Wayne says, ``By god, she reminds me of
<me>.'' {abw}

[7F22] Blood Feud
Metamorphosis (Kafka)
- Burns on his back, flailing his arms and legs like
a dying insect. {bkt}
Citizen Kane
- The windows an curtain behind his death bed match those in
the death scene at the beginning of the movie. {jg2}
Creation, by Michelangelo (Sistine Chapel)
- the painting at the Springfield Post Office
~ Kids in the Hall
- `I could crush him like an ant'. {jcj}
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- `Revenge is a dish best served cold'. Khan calls
this a Klingon proverb. Star Trek fans have done
considerable research into the origin of this
aphorism. I won't attempt to repeat it.
Sweet Home Alabama
- is the title of a Lynyrd Skynyrd song. {jes}
Deliverance
- Smithers' banjo playing. ``If you've seen the
movie you know what I'm talking about'' claims
{bk}.

[7F24] Stark Raving Dad
+ America's Funniest Home Videos
- Homer watches a startlingly similar show on TV
Rain Man
- Floyd, the idiot savant
+ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- much of the floor plan of the hospital {pmm}
- the poker game, one-to-one correspondence with
characters in the original game. {jdb}
- the dude hitting the punching bag with his cane {jf}
- the discussion group
- the agoraphobe with the sweater. {jdb}
- R. P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) talking about dating
a nurse. {jg}
- Nurse Ratched, Mr. Harding, the Chief, the old man
in the blue robe who danced constantly, and, of
course, R.P. McMurphy himself. {jwc}
Bye-Bye Birdie
- the collage of people calling each other {wm}
+ Silence of the Lambs
- Hannibal Lector perched on a two wheeler replete
with face mask, tied to a dolly with a straight
jacket. {sf2}
- In the cafeteria scene, he appears again, being
given something to drink through a straw by an
orderly. {cpc}

[8F01] Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
+ Readers' Digest
- `Reading Digest', with its `How to increase your
word power' column.
Alice in Wonderland
- the painting in the congressman's office. {bsk}
The Sting
- touching your finger to your nose as a signal
Susan B. Anthony
- Winifred Beecher Howe
+ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- the plot involves discovering corruption in
Washington
- asking the Lincoln Memorial for advice. {cra}
- the representative who asks for the pay raise
sounds like Jimmy Stewart
Mark Russell
- the piano-playing political satirist

[7F23] When Flanders Failed
+ In Flanders Field (the poem, circa WWI)
- the title is an obvious pun
+ It's a Wonderful Life
- ``Oh, golly, it's a miracle!'' {nag}
- the townspeople rally to save a friend
- ``To Ned Flanders, the richest left-handed man in
town.'' cf. ``To my brother George, the richest man
in town.'' {nag}
- the policeman with an accordion {tws}
- Maude is wearing a Donna Reed dress {tws}
- Ned ringing up sales on his register like mad.
cf. George's brother tallying donations on an adding
machine. {tws}
[Some discussion, yet unresolved as to whether it was
George's brother Harry, his Uncle Billy, or a clerk
at the bank. --rjc]
- everybody singing
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- ripping a man's heart out and showing it to him
before he dies. {dc}
James Bond movies
- Burns' white cat, cf. the evil villain Bloefield
{bk} of SPECTRE {dc}
+ Akira, the Japanese anime series
- in the karate studio was a poster which says
something like ``Akira hangs out in Neo-Tokyo'' in
Japanese. The Akira anime takes place in
Neo-Tokyo. {bsk}
[8F03] Bart the Murderer
+ The Godfather
- Joe Montegna as a gangster
Robert Crumb's `Snoid from Sheboygan'
- The smiling Aztec. Same vertically-compressed,
oval head, 3/4 view, and twisted smirkysmile.
{abw}
[Uh, are you *SURE*? -aag]
Willie Wonka (and the Chocolate Factory) {rc}
~ Risky Business
- clock ticks backwards {jpc}
~ Trading Places, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blues Brothers,
etc.
- being surrounded by guns.
+ Goodfellas
- In the movie, the young Henry Hill became a gofer
for some mobsters at a Brownsville pizza parlor.
When his school sent his parents truancy notices,
the mobsters threatened and beat up the postman,
and ordered him not to deliver any mail from the
school. The family found out only when none of
their mail came in. Other scenes from Goodfellas
appear too; the reaction to Bart's suit, etc. {ej}
- In the movie, they hang around in someone's
basement all the time, and they have this kid who
mixes drinks for them. One difference is that the
kid in the movie is incompetent. {cpc}
- The entire cigarette hijacking is taken from it.
The gangsters also threaten the kid's principal at
school. {cm}
The Pope of Greenwich Village
- One of the main characters in the movie gets a job
in a `Social Club', making Espresso for the
`Mobbed up' boys who hang out there. {cpc}
Frank Sinatra (one of his movies, perhaps?)
- Bart singing `Witchcraft'. Also his expression at
the end of the scene. {wl}
House of Games {scm}
[No explanation was given. Maybe I should give one:
- Joe Mantegna plays a mobster (c.f. con artist)
- The dingy clubhouse looks very similar.
- Cheating at cards (and letting Homer win)
- Other aspects, I'm sure -aag]
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- The Itchy and Scratchy cartoon. {las}
Raging Bull (another Scorsese movie)
- Bart pouring a champagne fountain. {me}
+ Night of the Living Dead
- Skinner's body rising from the dirt {my}
The Octopus by George Luks (in The Verdict)
- It's a political cartoon from the 19th century
about large corporations. The drawing depicts an
octopus (preying off society) and on its tenticles
are written names of large corporations, like
Standard Oil.
- After Homer admits his belief in Bart's guilt, the
camera pans to the jury and then to the
Springfield Shopper. The paper has a picture of
Bart and an octopus. {las}
MacGyver
- Skinner's method of escape {jrp} {cm}
Billions of mystery novels
- Skinner's method of narration {jrp}

[8F04] Homer Defined
Metropolis
- The monitor in position (2,2) of Burns' array
shows a scene from the beginning of the movie,
workers marching in step up a staircase {tws}
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Alien, The Andromeda
Strain
- (STTNG) the sickeningly soothing female computer
voice.
- (Alien) female voice counting down to destruction.
{sa} {slp}
- (Andromeda Strain) female voice counting down to
destruction. {pa}
+ Goldfinger
- Homer saves the plant with 007 seconds remaining.
{slp}

[8F05] Like Father, Like Clown
+ The Jazz Singer
- the basic plot of the movie: rabbi disowns his
son, who chooses to become an entertainer rather
than follow in his father's footsteps. {eaw}
- Rabbi Krustofsky announces, ``I have no son!''
{df}
- ``If you were a musician or a jazz singer, this I
could forgive.''
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
- ``I hold in my hand the final axe.'' cf.
envelope, during Johnny's Karnak sketch. {sa}
- the famous incident when Ed Ames was a guest. He
was throwing axes at a plywood board with an
outline of a man on it. When he threw the very
last axe, it landed right on the crotch of the
outline. Johnny almost died laughing. He shows
this all the time on his anniversary specials.
You'll notice that Krusty's last axe hit just
below Mel's crotch as well. {kg}
+ The Carol Burnett Show
- Krusty tugs his ear at the end of the show at the
start of the episode. {jk}
- Carol tugged her ear as a signal to her mother.
James Bond movies
- Miss Pennycandy (Miss Moneypenny). Beautiful, but
alays holding out futilely for Krusty (Bond). {mr}
Brighton Beach Memoirs
- Young Krusty caught with the seltzer bottle. Cf.
when Eugene gets caught by his sister doing
something to make hair grow on his palms. The
timing of the seltzer spray was *so* good. {kdj}
Annie Hall (not a reference, but could've been)
- At Izzy's Diner, they had a chance to spoof Diane
Keaton's deli order of pastrami on white with
mayo. (cf. the Krusty sandwich)

[8F02] Treehouse of Horror II
+ It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
- The kids in front of the Simpsons' house at the
beginning. {rc}
+ The Monkey's Paw
- the play is about a monkey's paw which grants
wishes, though the wishes always carry with them
undesireable side-effects.
The New Twilight Zone (TV)
- the episode where some boys have several wishes
which backfire. One is a wish for X-ray specs
which ends up working too well, enabling them to
see all the way to the bones. {msb}
A Small Talent For War (Twilight Zone)
- aliens threaten earth with destruction. In haste,
the humans arrange universal peace. This humors
the aliens, who created earth in order to breed
warriors. Earth, with its `small talent for war',
is thus doomed to destruction as a failure. This
has <some> similarities to Lisa's nightmare. {las}
+ Midnight Express
- the Moroccan airport {rc}
[I haven't seen the movie, but I suspect the music
from that scene is taken from the movie as well.
--rjc]
- The kid (Brad Davis) tries to smuggle heroin out
of Turkey by taping it under his shirt, like Homer
did. Everything was the same, the appearance of
the plane, the way the guard searches him and
finds the stuff, and the way the ring of armed
guards point their guns at him. The ONLY
difference was that the kid got a stiffer penalty
than `two American dollars'. {jt2} {bdm}
~ Star Trek, ``The Conscience of the King''
- Kodos was the name of the bad guy in the episode.
{rb2}
+ It's a GOOD Life (Twilight Zone, from a short story by
Jerome Bixby)
- young boy (Billy Mumy from Lost in Space) alters
things with his mind. The plot was quite true to
the original, including turning an offending man
into a jack-in-the-box. {wb}
- people constantly saying, ``It's very good that
you did that.'' {rb2}
- the music during Bart's dream was very TZish.
- the story was remade in ``The Twilight Zone: The
Movie'' with Kathleen Quinlan and ... Nancy
Cartwright! {rb} No doubt this influenced the
writers' decision to re-remake the story.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the remake)
- Jasper the dog. {dh}
+ One Froggy Evening (Chuck Jones cartoon)
- in the cartoon, a frog dances and sings ``Hello,
My Baby''.
- {ej} claims the song was original for the
cartoon.
- {wb} disagrees. It came from a '20s musical.
- {nw} refers to the book `That's All, Folks!' by
Steve Schneider, which says that it was the
other song, the Michigan Rag, which was written
by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. `Hello, My
Baby' had an independent life. The name of the
frog (not given in the cartoon) was Michigan J.
Frog, another cartoon character with `J' as a
middle initial.
- Principal Skinner sings the same song over the
P.A. You can also hear his feet thumping.
+ Duck Amuck
- Snowball II looks a lot like Daffy Duck in the
cartoon. That's the one where the illustrator has
fun with Daffy. If I remember right, Daffy even
breathes flames just like the cat. {elm}
+ Frankenstein
- Homer's dream is an obvious take-off of any of the
various Frankenstein movies, esp. the search for a
brain.
~ Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- bashing somebody who's supposed to be dead {jk}
RoboCop 2
- the brain surgery scene {bk} {evl}
+ The Wizard of Oz
- Burns hums, ``If I Only Had a Brain'' when
removing Homer's brain.
- ``You clinking, clattering, cacaphony of
colligenous cogs and camshifts!'' {wb}, cf the
original script:
You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You
clinking, clanking, clattering collection of
calig- . . . [Hickory trembles with fear] . . .
inous junk!
The script calls the Tin Woodsman `Hickory'. {nw}
Robocop
- Robo-Homer's line-graphics view of the world {bk}
the movie in which a mad scientist's body is grafted
onto Rosie Grier
- The Thing with Two Heads {ml}
- The Incredible Two Headed Transplant {rb2} {tjf}
But in the movie, the scientist's head was on the
left shoulder.
- The Man with Two Heads {ji}
``Best viewed late at night after a few too
many.''

[8F06] Lisa's Pony
+ 2001: A Space Odyssey
- the opening scene
- it was even letterboxed {dk}
- music from the movie
- Atmospheres by Ligeti (the choral stuff)
[As an avid 2001 fan, I can assure you that
_Atmospheres_ does not contain any voices;
the choral work _Lux Aeterna_, also by
Ligeti, is probably the work in question.
-aag]
- Also Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss (the
fanfare)
- The Blue Danube by another Strauss (when the
scene switches to SNPP)
~ Gallagher (stand-up comic)'s act
- You <will> get wet. {rc2} [I think Gallagher
stole it from SeaWorld's Shamu show. --rjc]
+ Fantasy Island
- Homer is watching it when Lisa takes her first
steps.
+ The Godfather
- Lisa screams in terror when she finds a horse in
her bed.
- In the movie, when the owner of an expensive horse
refuses to pay protection money, he finds the head
of his dead horse in his bed.
+ The Magnificent Seven
- The music when Lisa rides the pony into the
bedroom.
+ Katharine Hepburn (but why?)
- Fahther, you've made me the happiest gahl who ever
lived!
? National Velvet
- Lisa's elocution. {rc}
? High Chaparral
- Lisa's riding instructor (and the music) {rc}
+ Little Nemo in Slumberland
- Homer's dream {rlc}
- Originally LN appeared as a comic in newspapers in
the early years of this century. The scruffy-
looking Man in the Moon had Windsor McCay's style
perfecto, and the Homer Asleep at the Wheel
sequence captured the essence of LN wonderfully.
{abw}
- Man in the Moon was in the style of Little Nemo,
but Homer Asleep at the Wheel was much closer to
Windsor McCay's ``Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend''
series. {ts}
+ You Can Take This Job and Shove It (a song and a movie)
- You can take this job and restaff it! {dk}
I Just Called To Say I Love You (pop song)
- Lisa does exactly that

[8F07] Saturdays of Thunder
+ Days of Thunder
- the title is an obvious pun
- when a hospitalized Martin asks Bart to drive his
car for him, cf Rowdy Gaines asking Cole Trickle
to do same. {dw}
+ The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Ed Asner and MTM herself were mentioned.
The Ed Asner haircut is further funny because
Asner is bald.
- Julie Kavner (the voice of Marge) starred in
Rhoda, a MTM spinoff.
- Selma says, ``You can turn the world on with your
smile,'' which is the first line of the MTM theme
song. {rc, tws}
Lethal Weapon
- older, black cop on verge of retirement teamed
with insane, young white cop. {bls}
- His daughter was graduating from college, even.
{mah}
+ Colors (a movie reference within a movie reference)
- McBain kneels over his fallen comrade and screams
while the camera pulls back, cf. Sean Penn
kneeling over Robert Duvall. {bh2}
~ Star Trek: The Next Generation, ``Heart of Glory''
- Worf kneels and give the death-yell when a fellow
Klingon dies. {bls}
Grease
- Bart's car is named Lil' Lightnin', cf. Greased
Lighting. {dab}
Deathrace 2000
- Nelson's racer is named `Roadkill 2000'. {jct}
Back to the Future
- Martin's car leaves a trail of fire behind.
? The Right Stuff
- Deploy, damn you! {rc}
+ The Natural {rc}
- Homer stands up in the crowd to cheer on Bart,
his body silhouetted against the sun, cf. Glenn
Close
+ Ben Hur {rc}
- using a whip
- rotating blades on Nelson's car
~ Grease, Goldfinger, etc.
- rotating blades on Nelson's car

[8F08] Flaming Moe's
Truth or Dare
- the girls play the game
North by Northwest
- the music as the girls chase Bart {hrl}
~ Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- removing the screws to get at Bart
Gilbert Godfreid
- Moe's ``I'm Moe and I invented it''
[JYAN...@hamp.hampshire.edu] {lt}
Cocktail
- Tipsy McStagger's and buying a drink for a chain
of bars {rc}
+ Cheers
- The Song and The Pictures.
- a lascivious head bartender (Moe/Sam).
- the waitress
- pseudo-intellectual (``shan't'', ``Morris'')
{ez}
- moralistic {slp} Note her body language when
she scolds Moe for stealing Homer's recipe.
{ez}
- ``She left to pursue a movie career. Frankly,
I think she was better off here.'' {slp}
Shelley Long left Cheers to pursue a movie
career, but never recaptured the fame she had
while on Cheers.
- insult-based sexual banter between the bartender
and waitress.
- they also end up sleeping together. {slp}
- a Woody-like bartender constantly polishing shot
glasses. {ez}
- a fat slob dressed in a suit jacket (Barney/Norm).
- ``Barney!'' followed by a leading question
from the bartender.
+ Sean Penn
- Krusty punches out a photographer.
+ The Nutty Professor
- ``And the secret ingredient is... LOVE!'' {rc}
+ Phantom of the Opera
- Homer's haughty speech from the rafters.
- Notice the robe deftly draped over his face like
the Phantom's mask.
Hunchback of Notre Dame {rc}

[8F09] Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
Something's Coming, from West Side Story {trb}
Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve
- People who don't live in the American Northwest
would've missed the reference to this brand of
beer, brewed in Groening's home state of Oregon.
{y...@sequent.com}
- But it hardly costs $20 a bottle. {elm}
JFK's ``Ich bin ein Berliner'' speech.
~ Top Secret
- Listening to an awful `learn German' tape.
Alexander Graham Bell
- Smithers, come here, I want you.
Photo of Nixon with Elvis
- Burns has a photo of himself with Elvis {dr}
Barefoot Boy (with cheek of tan), a poem by John
Greenleaf Whittier
- briefly quoted by Monty Burns {trb}
Moe's calling Bart a `pip' is not a movie reference. Check
your dictionary.

[8F10] I Married Marge
I Married Joan (1950's sitcom)
- the title {jc, jdb}
~ Busting Loose
- the trapezoid scheme {ks}
+ Charlie's Angels
- Homer and Barney are watching it when Marge calls
~ Raising Arizona and no doubt others
- `By the time you read this, I will be gone.' {ajr}

[8F11] Radio Bart
Soul Train and its host Don Cornelius {mc}
Milli Vanilli
- Funky-See Funky Do's lip-sync'ing
- Note also Funky Do's hairstyle.
+ Chuck E. Cheez
- The `Wall E. Weasel' pizzeria/entertainment
center.
Real Genius
- in the movie, `our heroes' trick a guy (named Tod)
into believing that God is talking to him by
wiring his braces. {rc}
+ Jessica McClure, the girl who fell down the well
- the plot
Jaws
- the man with the fishhook and chocolate bar
is the character Quint (Robert Shaw) {spf, wab}
+ We Are the World (and its imitators)
- a big production to raise money for a needy cause
- everybody swaying back and forth while singing
Cat Scratch Fever (song)
- The I&S cartoon is titled `Cat Splat Fever'. {dab}
+ the song `Axel F' from Beverly Hills Cop
- the music as Bart descends the well {hot, sg}
I Think We're Alone Now (pop song)
- the new #1 hit, `I Do Believe We're Naked'. {dab}
+ Popeye
- I've had all I can stands and I can't stands no
more! {dab}
+ Canary in a Coal Mine (song by The Police, incl. Sting)
- the, well, you know {spf}

[8F12] Lisa the Greek
+ Jimmy `The Greek' Snyder
- the title
- Smooth Jimmy Apollo looks just like him
Barbie et al
- the absurdly merchandised plastic doll
~ Apocalypse Now
- ``Smells like... victory'' {jdb}
~ Livvy, a British comic strip
- a recurring gag in the strip is the infant son Sam
being bathed in the sink. {adh}
~ Two-Minute Warning
- ``Come on, snipers, where are you?'' {abw}

[8F14] Homer Alone
+ Home Alone
- The title is an obvious (and brilliant) pun
- Homer does a Macauley Culkin when he notices that
Maggie is missing
MacGyver
- Patty and Selma watch it
- Homer uses a roll of ever-useful duct tape to
strap Maggie in

[8F16] Bart the Lover
+ Pamela Smart, the teacher who had an affair with her
15-year-old student and convinced him to kill her
husband
- the sexy photo of Ms. Krabappel
{jtk, no...@umbc1.umbc.edu}
+ Ren and Stimpy
- the only two words visible on one of the essays
were `Happy' and `Joy'.

[8F13] Homer at the Bat
+ The Natural
- The music
- Roy Hobbs' bat comes from a tree struck by
lightning. {thf}
Pride of the Yankees
- traveling from city to city via train, with the
pennants of the cities being visited. {to2}
+ Babe Ruth's home run
- Ruth allegedly pointed into the stands as he
stepped into the plate, and proceeded to hit a
home run where he had pointed. Ask a baseball
scholar for various debunkings of this myth.
Cleveland Indians logo
- Strawberry's smile after showing up Homer in the
outfield. {jk}

[8F15] Separate Vocations
+ The Streets of San Francisco
- The television program's theme music plays during
the car chase.
- The cars careen down the hills of San Francisco.
- A Quinn Martin Production with ostensibly dramatic
voice-overs.
Bullitt
- The car chase scene from one the most famous car
chases in cinematic history.
- The green VW Beetle that crashes into the milk
truck is an reference to a ``blooper'' in the
chase scene: The same green Beetle appears
several times in the chase scene. It was used by
the production crew to control traffic during the
filming. {cpc}
+ The William Kennedy Smith rape trial
- the infamous Blue Dot
Dirty Harry
- Bart's sunglasses as hall monitor
[ray...@unvax.union.edu]
Kojak
- ``Who loves ya, baby!'' [ray...@unvax.union.edu]
+ The Wild One
- ``What are you rebelling against?''
``Whaddya got?'' (Marlon Brando) {rc}
+ Batman (the TV show)
- Scene change when Bart and Skinner start searching
lockers
+ the song `Axel F' from Beverly Hills Cop
- the music as Bart and Skinner search lockers
50's cartoon superheroes (like Captain America)
- Bart's pose in the 50's sequence, the sun shining
behind him, the wind fluttering his shirt

[8F17] Dog of Death
+ Ben Casey
- the vet
- the eyebrows {cla}
- the Ben Casey theme played as they drove up to the
vet hospital {str}
~ Old Yeller
- SLH attacks a grizzly {jcl}
Lassie
- SLH rescues a baby from a burning building
+ Michael Jackson
- The Michael Jackson Expressway
- Kent Brockman's pet llama
- Monty Burns' longevity treatment
+ A Clockwork Orange
- The brainwashing scene
- eyes propped open as something is dropped onto
them
- showing disturbing movies
- Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

[8F19] Colonel Homer
+ Hee Haw
- Ya-Hoo!

[8F20] Black Widower
+ Dinosaurs
- The family watch the show
The Elephant Man
- Lisa's imagination
Cool Hand Luke
- picking up garbage
- the shot of the chief guard's reflective
sunglasses
- the guard's cane tapping his leg {abw}
+ Les Miserables (the musical, not the novel)
- Jean Valjean was prisoner number 24601, the same
as Bob's. {jdb}
Normal Rockwell painting
- Thanksgiving dinner
The Wizard of Oz
- ``Snake, I'm going to miss you most of all.''
Jerry Lewis' Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy (and
Jerry's Kids)
- Krusty's telethon for motion sickness
Gone With the Wind
- ``Fiddle-dee-dee. Tomorrow's another day.''
Psycho
- Sideshow Bob turns a chair, expecting to find a
corpse, but instead finds Bart. (In the movie,
Vera Miles turns a chair, expecting to find Mrs.
Bates, but instead finds a corpse.)
- Sideshow Bob is so startled, he hits a swinging
light bulb.
- A brief violin sweep shortly thereafter.
Assorted literature (by Sideshow Bob, of course)
- ``My best-laid plans have gang agley.''
(The best-laid plans of mice and men gang oft
agley. -- Robert Burns)
- ``How did you untangle my web?''
(Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we
practice to deceive.)
+ Batman (television)
- The Simpson-mobile's burst of flame
- The sign showing the distance to Shelbyville
(Gotham City) {jdb}
Mission: Impossible
- Music hinted at as Bart saves Selma
The Maltese Falcon
- Mary Astor takes the fall
(the sliding metal bars of the elevator doors)
Scooby Doo
- Retrospective explanation of the crime
- The incredibly feeble joke that everyone laughs at
Black Widow {jr2}
- Nobody believes the hero's knowledge of the
villain
- Marrying for money, then murdering
- The final murder done for revenge
- Villain gets overconfident and spills the beans

[8F21] The Otto Show
+ The Price is Right
- Otto watches the show
+ Happy Days
- Otto calls Homer ``Mr. S.'' after Homer compares
the situation to the program

[8F22] Bart's Friend Falls in Love
+ Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The music
- Light streaming dramatically
- Bart tiptoes past assorted obstacles
- He rubs his chin, wiggles his fingers,
then tips the jar into his hand
- Homer's tumbling form (the rock that Indy runs
away from)
- Maggie's suction darts (assorted protective traps)
- Bart escapes by the skin of his teeth
- Homer yells ``Unga-bunga!'' as Bart speeds off
Goldfinger
- Itchy's hat-weapon
Casablanca
- the final scene and the final scene
- The Marsellaise plays
- Clouds hover (cf. fog)

[8F23] Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes
+ Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- the episode title is a very poor pun.
"Dallas"
- "That's right... I shot J.R."
"Hands Across America"
- "With the exception of a few gaps in Western
states..."
"Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.D."
+ "The Gold Rush" {ajr}
- the Charlie Chaplin hobo eating a boot.
+ Jimi Hendrix' "Purple Haze" {cjb}
- "S'cuse Me while I kiss the sky"
+ "2001: A Space Odyssey" {jdb}
- the big, coloured, circular Homer-eye made it
gratuitous.
+ "Star Trek"
- "Dammit! I said full power!" -- an exclusive James
T. Kirk utterance. {cjb}
- the Asian `navigator'. {tk}
The Emmy television entertainment awards. {cjb}
- the Montgomery Burns... uhh.
"Davey and Goliath" {me}
- Flanders' doorbell rings "A Mighty Fortress is Our
God"
"The Wizard of Oz" {me}
- "There's no vibrating chair in that bag for me?"

[8F24] Kamp Krusty
+ Ben-Hur
- the `Gucci Wallet Sweat Shop' scene; the pattern
the kids were sitting in, and production being
paced by the beating of a drum. {bc,ajr}
+ Wuthering Heights? Dr. Zhivago? Far From The Madding
Crowd?
- Lisa, dressed in a shawl, handing the letter to
the man on horseback. She uses alcohol to pay for
the postage.
+ Lord of the Flies
- kids reverting to using spears and wearing war
paint.
- the burning effigy? (cf: the doomed parachutist)
- a pig's head (covered in flies) skewered on a stake
behind Kent Brockman. {bw}
~ James Bond
- the classical villains' escape by hydrofoil.
? The 1991 Soviet coup; the fall of Lenin's monument.
- the Krusty totem pole is victim to the same fate;
the way that it was pulled down, and flag waving.

[8F18] A Streetcar Named Marge
Oh! Calcutta!
- The inspiration for the name, which infamy recalls
as the first nude musical. The reference is
reinforced by the mentioning of full frontal
nudity.
+ The Great Escape
- Maggie being confined to `the box' and playing
hand-ball.
- The music during the various escapades.
+ The Birds
- Homer tiptoeing through the room full of Babies.
- ...and the several Babies perched on the shelves.
- Hitchcock's walk-on cameo with two dogs on a
leash, exactly the same cameo he used in ``The
Birds''. @{bk2}
+ Citizen Kane
- Homer blows on a theatre program torn into
ribbons. Joseph Cotton does the same when forced
to endure the horrible opera debut of Kane's wife.
[9F01] Homer the Heretic
+ Risky Business
- Homer dances in his underwear when nobody else is
home.
~ Mission: Impossible
- The violin trill as the fire traces the lamp cord
like a fuse.

[9F02] Lisa the Beauty Queen
All That Jazz
- The Bob Fosse-esque director of the beauty
pageant. @{mbb}
The Hindenburg disaster
- Kent Brockman's ``Oh, the humanity...'' @{rc}
+ LBJ's Presidential inauguration.
- Lisa being sworn in as the new Little Miss
Springfield.
- Marge wears a `Jackie' pillbox hat. @{rc}
Apocalypse Now (Playboy Bunny scene)
- the escape from Fort Springfield -- the helicopter
airlift, replete with Hope hanging off the runner.
@{pd}

[9F04] Treehouse of Horror III
+ Alfred Hitchcock Presents...
+ A Clockwork Orange
Gremlins
+ The Twilight Zone: Living Doll
- ``My name is Krusty, and I love you very much.''
and ``I'm Krusty the Klown and I don't like you.''
{jjw}
Trilogy of Terror: Prey
- Krusty clambering over the edge of the couch with
a knife, his maniacal grin revealing triangular
teeth. {ct}
- the bathtub scene with Homer. {ct}
- Homer's ill-fated attempt to get rid of the doll
by locking it inside a suitcase. {ct}
Psycho
- the Shrill-Violin-Knife-Attack-Music(tm) when the
Krusty doll raised the knife. {jw}
+ Love American Style
- Krusty with the Malibu Stacey doll -- the framing
heart shape, the cheesy music. {tc}
~ Cape Fear
- Krusty belted to the bottom of the car. (Robert
DeNiro used this tactic to follow Nick Nolte's
family in the remake.) {pw,hot}
~~~ IT (most overly stretched reference award)
- ``Kiss me, fat boy!'' {dp}
? Ghostbusters
- ``Marge! The doll is trying to kill me, and the
toaster's been laughin' at me!'' Rick Moranis?
{ns}
+ Escape (late 70s pop hit by Rupert Holmes)
- In the personals section of the newspaper
("...pina coladas? Getting caught in the rain?
Come with me and escape. Box 203"). {ap}
++ King Kong
- Homer reaching into the building to grab Marge --
shot for shot. {kw,jrd}
The Night of the Living Dead
- Zombies emerging from the ground, roaming the
streets, etc.
- Barney eating human flesh? {anon}
Plan 9 From Outer Space
- ``The Earthlings are totally incapable of handling
the zombie attack...'' {rc}
Where's Waldo?
Sisyphus (ancient Greek mythology)
- ``You still pushin' that rock?!''

[9F03] Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie
+ James Bond movies, evil villain Blofeld.
- Bart strokes a cat while disposing of 007.
~~ Maximum Overdrive
- Definitely not, but I've watched that movie once
too many times, and I was expecting Yeardley to
yell, ``Curtis!'' when the newlyweds were spurted
with blood.
+ Steamboat Willie (Mickey Mouse's first cartoon)
- Steamboat Itchy the cartoon.

[9F05] Marge Gets a Job
+ Citizen Kane
- Smithers' song-and-dance number.
Complete with Wellesian camera angles.
. The Empire Strikes Back
- Music from the movie plays as Burns surveys his
monitors.
+ Stolen Kisses
- The pneumatic tube. (See capsule.)

[9F06] New Kid on the Block
* Miracle on 34th Street
* Northern Exposure
- Music hauntingly similar to the show's theme is
played during the shot of the moose eating out of
the garbage.

[9F07] Mr. Plow
* Citizen Kane
- The second advertisement includes a shattered
snow-dome.
. Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The melting snowmen look like the melting Nazis.
(This reference citation included by popular
demand.)

[9F08] Lisa's First Word
+ "The Wizard of Oz" {jt}
- Bart saying "Go, my pretties!"
+ "Tennessee Tuxedo" {ah}
- always says "Phineas J. Whoopie, you're a genius!"
after Mr. Whoopie helps him with a new scheme (cf.
"Homer J. Simpson, you're a genius!")
+ "Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill!" {rl}
- probably the more coherent reference in Bart's line
"Fly, my pretties! Kill, kill!"
+ "Chariots of Fire" (Vangelis)
- music in I&S Cartoon
- slow motion shots of Scratchy running the marathon
+ Keith Jackson {dcd}
- Olympic announcer is supposed to be him
+ Sylvester the Cat {jt}
- "Sufferin' Succotash" is said

[9F09] Homer's Triple Bypass
+ "Cops"
- "Cops in Springfield" similar
+ "Starsky and Hutch" {rl}
- Wiggum calls himself Papa Bear
- in the show, the special informant was called Huggy
Bear
+ "Life in Hell" {jt}
- Homer's puppets are fezless Akbar and Jeff
+ Dry Bones {rl}
- Dr. Nick hums a similar tune

[9F10] Marge vs. the Monorail
The Untouchables
- Agent Malone from the EPA has the voice of Robert
Stack as Elliot Ness @{rnk}
+ The Music Man
- Lyle Lanley's song and dance.
- Everyone chanting ``monorail'' (cf. ``trouble'')
@{mbb}
- But where was Shirley Jones?
+ Silence of the Lambs
- Monty Burns' attire at the court hearing.
+ Batman
- Smithers and Burns' escape. (Where does he get
those toys?)
+ Them!
- Bart's giant ants. Leonard Nimoy appeared in the
movie, too.

[9F11] Selma's Choice
+ "Sophie's Choice"
- Episode title
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
- Mertyl Young showed off potato chips that look like
things
+ "Wizard of Oz"
- Homer and Bart sing "Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead"
in the car
+ "Prince of Tides"
- Marge's "flashback"
- in the movie, Nolte's mother watched while he (as a
child), and his siblings dived into the water and made
a skydiving formation in the water {jl}
+ "The Prince of Denmark's March", aka Trumpet Voluntary
(Jeremiah Clarke)
- the song is played at the funeral, but on a
harpsichord
~ "Trading Places" {jl}
- putting out a cigarrette in your mouth
Busch Gardens
- A theme park funded by a brewery
Sea World
- The Beer-Quarium
- Theme park owned by the same brewery (Anheuser-Busch)
+ "Walk on the Wild Side" {bjr}
- Hooray for Everything perform a family-friendly
version of the 1972 Lou Reed song.
- The original lyrics went, "...and the colored girls
sing... do dee do dee do do do do (etc.)"
- in "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" Hooray for Everything also
sanitized an otherwise offensive song
+ "Lawrence of Arabia"
- theme music playing when Bart eyes the Duff Beer-amid
+ Disneyland
- "I'm going to Duff Gardens!" = "Disneyland!"
- Seven Duffs = Seven Dwarfs (also a Snow White ref)
- "It's A Small World" ride is spoofed
- The Main Street Electrical Parade with perfectly
spoofed music (see capsule)
- The Hall of Presidents
- EPCOT Center spoofed with the "Beer-amid" thingy
+ "The Terminator" {jt}
- the robot of George Washington
(glowing red eyes and "living tissue over a metal
endoskeleton")
+ "Looney Tunes"
- Lisa sputters and snarls like Bugs Bunny, when he got
hit with the steel bar in the cartoon where
construction guys try to build a skyscraper over his
home, and walks the same way
"Tommy", "Phantom of the Opera" {dh}
- Lisa: "I am the Lizard Queen!"

[9F12] Brother From the Same Planet
- Rocky III
- ``Eye of the tiger, Bart.'' @{rfd}
Psycho
- Skinner's mother lives in the Psycho-house.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Richard ``Get Drunk'' Burton accuses his wife (Liz
Taylor) of adultery. Note Homer's affected
accent, and the predominance of shadows in th
scene. The original movie is black-and-white, for
which shadows are important. @{jmv}
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Saturday Night Live (including G. E. Smith)
- The producer's name is Lorne
When Harry Met Sally
- but see capsule
The Shining
- Trab Pu Kcip @{jb}

[9F13] I Love Lisa
Star Trek
- Groundskeeper Willie's Scotty impersonation.
- The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
- The layout of the studio in Krusty's clips
- A Joan Embry wannabe introducing Krusty to some
exotic animals

[9F14] Duffless
+ "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" {bjr}
- Homer must negotiate a dangerous tunnel with the
help of cryptic instructions (cf. Jones in the
Holy Grail)
+ The Three Stooges
- Bart imitates Curly , and Moe once
+ Historical references in the various Duff posters:
{jt}
- Prohibition in the 20's (Dr. Duff's Health Tonic)
- Amos and Andy in the early 50's (the Q-Zone
commercial)
- McCarthyism in the 50's ("I knew he was a
COMMIE")
- JFK vs. Nixon TV debate in 1960 (you know the one)
+ "Bewitched" {bjr}
- McMahon and Tate advertising company lifted from
this show
+ "The Fly"
- Bart-hamster hybrid similar to man-fly hybrid
{bjr}
- "Help me! Help me!"
+ "Herman's Head" {bjr}
- Yeardley Smith had a role on this show [playing
Louise -ed]
`All Creatures Great and Small' {dh}
- `All Creatures Great and Cheap' name of the pet
store
Al-Anon
- Alc-Anon is a parody on this name
+ "The Can-Can" (Offenbach)
- Homer "escaping reality" hums this song
+ Coca-Cola adveritsement
- calendar features a painting of a boy and a girl
sipping a glass of Duff (Coke) together
+ "A Clockwork Orange" (Kubrick film)
- the cupcake scene (cf. Alex in the press
conference after the treatment):
- the cupcakes = the woman's breasts
- shot from the floor and above the cupcakes
- Bart dropping and shuddering (in the movie,
Alex choked)
- similar music
+ Frank Sinatra's "It Was a Very Good Year"
- Homer sings a parody of this song (When I Was
Seventeen)
+ "Around the World in 80 Days" {bjr}
- Martin's exhibit is based on this story
+ James Bond movies {jt}
- Bart imitating Ernst Blofeld (petting the
hamster)
+ Vin Scully {vm}
- the announcer at the baseball stadium sounds like him
+ Tupperware
- "Supperware" an obvious parody
+ "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (Frank Sinatra)
- the song Homer and Marge sing, carried over into
the end

[9F15] Last Exit to Springfield
+ Last Exit to Brooklyn
- The episode title is a pun on the movie title.
(The movie was in turn based on the eponymous book
by Hubert Selby, Jr.)
- One of the main movie characters is a union
functionary who finds out he has homosexual
tendencies. @{br}
+ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- The workers stand in a circle, holding hands and
singing.
- Monty Burns' nonsense rhyme, complete with
distorted animation, and with Smithers playing the
role of the dog.
- In the original cartoon, the Grinch's speech is
devoid of nonsense words. The Simpsons writers
seemed to be trying to out-Seuss Seuss. @{lc}
~ Marathon Man
- Lots of people claim the dentist character was
taken from the movie. I see no evidence to
support this claim.
+ Batman (Michael Keaton movie)
- Lisa asking for the mirror. Cf. Jack Nicholson
(the Joker) doing the same. And laughing. @{thf}
~ Get Smart
- The interminable chain of security doors.
(I think they were just poking fun at spy movies
in general.)
+ Batman (old Adam West tv show)
- The batpoles (Batman and Robin),
plus the revolving door (Batgirl).
+ Yellow Submarine
- Lisa's phantasmagoric trip. Plus an appearance of
the Fab Four themselves. One notable difference
is that the word ``love'' in the original changed
to ``hatred'' in Lisa's dream.
Lost in Space
- ``Crush! Kill! Destroy!''
+ Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[9F17] So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show
+ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Barney's bizarre reaction (muffling Homer with a
pillow, heaving a water fountain through the
window, and running off into the distance).

[9F16] The Front
? Galen's drawings of a human body, sans skin
- Scratchy's fur-less appearance.
(At least, I *think* it was Galen. I'm probably
mistaken.)

[9F18] Whacking Day
+ JFK
- Oliver Stone's reinterpretation of a tragic day in
Dallas.

[9F20] Marge in Chains
+ Married with Children
. Psycho
+ JFK

[9F19] Krusty Gets Kancelled
+ Oh no, not that urban legend! (That'd be the butt,
Bob.)
+ Super Dave Osborne

[9F21] Homer's Barbershop Quartet
+ Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" line {mb}
- Quimby's "Ich bin ein Springfield swap meet patron"
similar
+ The Beatles (see capsule)
+ Alvin and the Chipmunks
- "Melvin and the Squirrels" a parody of them
Elvis Presley {nt}, {rc}
- Homer buying his father a pink Cadillac (Elvis buying
one for his mother)
- Chief Wiggum shooting at the TV
- Nigel not having to pay the girls to scream is from an
Elvis movie
+ "Les Miserables"
- Skinner's Vietnam mask is number 24601, the same as
Jean Valjean's prisoner number
~ Jim Nabours, "Gomer Pyle" {rc}
- Barney's lousy talking voice and great singing voice
+ Paul Harvey, "The Rest of the Story" {rc}

[9F22] Cape Feare
Late night talk show wars (see capsule)
+ "Say Anything" with John Cusack {rc}
- the title of the I&S cartoon
+ "Goldfinger"/James Bond
- the spaying method in the I&S cartoon
- the music in the background
+ "Nightmare on Elm Street"/"Edward Scissorhands"
- Flanders' hedge clippers
"Night of the Hunter" {ar}
- LUV and HAT on Bob's hands
- several people said this was from Rocky Horror Picture
Show, but Night of the Hunter predates Rocky Horror
+ "Cape Fear"
- episode title
- Hawaiian shirt worn by Sideshow Bob
- laughing loud in the movie theater, smoking a cigar
- bodily tattoos
- string tied through house (attached to a doll)
- the Robert Mitchum-lookalike vigilante
- concealing oneself by being strapped under a moving
car
- the Bernard Herrmann-esque music score {slp}
+ "The Naked Gun" {bd}
- Bob gets trampled by a parade, just like the bad guy
at the end of "Naked Gun"
+ "Psycho"
- lots of bird's-eye camera shots
- Sideshow Bob at the Bates Motel in Terror Lake
- the stuffed animals in Sideshow Bob's room
+ "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"/"Friday the 13th"
- Homer's new chainsaw and hockey mask
[1F02] Homer goes to College
+ Monty Python
- animated foot in title sequence
- "Holy Grail": the Knights who say "Ni!"
+ "Let's Make A Deal"
- Burns trying to get the inspector to take "what's in
this box"
+ "Star Wars"/"Spaceballs"
- Burns' escape pod
"The Maltese Falcon"
- "jade monkey" stuff
+ "The Untouchables" (the movie)
- Burns' meeting with the admissions committee
Punch and Judy {bl}
- Burns holds the bat just like Punch: vertical,
parallel to his body, with both arms gripped around
the handle end
"Jaws"
- Bart scraping his fingers on the blackboard
+ Talking Heads
- Lisa refers to David Byrne
- The I&S cartoon: title similar to "Burning Down the
House"
+ "Room 222" {rc}
- the nerds' room number
- music in the background
+ "The Blob"
- fleeing the radioactive school
Usenet (rec.arts.startrek hierarchy)
- "Picard vs. Kirk" (mailed from MIT)
+ "A Clockwork Orange" {er}
- Homer's eyes are being held open to study with a
similar device used in the movie
"Paper Chase" {ekf}
- music during final exam
+ Miscellaneous college party movies
- many similarities to "Revenge of the Nerds",
"Meatballs", "Animal House", "Porky's", etc.

[1F01] Rosebud
+ "Citizen Kane"
- Opening music and camera shot
- the crate of unbreakable snow globes {dmw}
- title is reference to the name of the sled Kane lost
for ill-gotten power {rl}
+ "Wizard of Oz"
- Burns' guards and their chant
+ George Burns
- Monty's brother
+ Marilyn Monroe
- Smithers' birthday fantasy (similar to Marilyn, "Happy
Birthday, Mr. President" to JFK)
- slide of Burns in skirt over grate (same shot from
Marilyn's "Seven Year Itch")
~ John Glenn's space mission {ddg}
- the people of Perth left their lights on as a signal
to Glenn
"Robocop", "Frankenstein" {rc}
- Robot present for Burns
- "No! Bear want to live..."
"Conan the Barbarian"
- Homer turning the Wheel of Pain
+ "The Mind's Eye" {rl}
- scene with the aquarium, with Jan Hammer-esque music
+ "Soul Train" {rl}
- "Soul Mass Transit System"
+ "Planet of the Apes"
- the scene from 1,000,000 A.D.

[1F04] Treehouse of Horror IV
Monty Python {rjc}
- the associate producer was billed as Colin "Two Sheds"
Lewis
+ Rod Serling's "Night Gallery"
- the hall of paintings
+ Steven Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
{tc}
- title of first story
+ "Fantasia", "Night on Bald Mountain" segment
- the first time Flanders appears, he looks the same as
the devil at the end of Fantasia
- when Flanders changes quickly to Chernobog, we hear
part of the Mussorgsky composition that was played for
the demon in Fantasia
Warner Brothers' 1937 cartoon "Pigs is Pigs"
- Porky is force-fed apples in a nightmare until he
grows very large
"The Little Mermaid"
- she combs her hair with a fork, just like Lionel Hutz
+ Twilight Zone, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
- title and plot of second story
+ "Psycho"
- Skinner's mother
Dr. Seuss, "Sam, I Am"
- the gremlin looks like Sam
+ Bram Stoker's "Dracula"
- title and much of plot of third story
+ "Nosferatu" {dss}
- the winding road up to the castle
- the front door opening by itself
- Burns materializing on the stairs
- Burns' clothing
- Burns' shadow having a life of its own. Plus it had
those horrifying pointy fingers (one of Nosferatu's
most unsettling features). The spookiness of the
vampire's shadow was one of the best elements of the
film.
- the basement, and even the way the coffins were
arranged there
+ "The Three Stooges"
- Bart's impressions of Shemp and Curly
+ "Salem's Lot"/"The Lost Boys"
- Bart floating outside the window
- "It's cool to be a vampire"
+ "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown"
- Milhouse playing the piano, like Schroeder
- SLH dancing on the piano, like Snoopy
- singing "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing"
- dust cloud gathering around Homer, like Pig Pen
+ "The Addams Family"
- closing music has the theme song mixed in

[1F03] Marge on the Lam
+ Garrison Keillor, "A Prairie Home Companion"
- man reading at telethon
+ Edward the Confessor
- "Edward the Penitent", the award-winning show
+ Crystal Pepsi
- "Crystal Buzz Cola"
"The Muppet Show" {ar}
- Burns and Smithers in the opera box
+ "Thelma and Louise"
- blue convertible
- much of plot
+ Ted Kennedy/William Kennedy Smith
- Quimby partying with his nephews
+ "Cheers"
- Homer: "...you gotta go where everybody knows your
name."
+ Hollywood
- "SPRINGFIELD" letters on hill
+ "Dragnet"
- sentences of characters read at end
- music at beginning of credits
- badge behind credits

[1F05] Bart's Inner Child
+ "Gone with the Wind" {rc}
- shot of trampoline-stricken kids looked like shot of
injured soldiers after the burning of Atlanta
+ Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner
- Homer pushing the trampoline off the cliff
"Saturday Night Live"
- Goodman using fingers as quotation marks (cf. Chris
Farley in a couple of Weekend Updates)
+ "I'm OK, You're OK"
+ "Semi-Tough"
- after-brownie exchange between Marge and Homer
"1941"
- run-away ferris wheel
+ "The Ten Commandments"
- women reveling on gold idol of Brad Goodman
"Dirty Harry"
- McGonigle is a cop, and his voice (and his lines!)
sounds like Clint Eastwood

[1F06] Boy-Scoutz N the Hood
+ "Boys 'N the Hood" {rl}
- episode title
+ "My Dinner With Andre" {ddg}
- video game Martin was playing
+ "King Kong" {tab}
- "Panamanian Strongman" has a similar theme
+ "Six Million Dollar Man"
- Apu at the Squishy machine
+ "On the Town"
- Bart & Milhouse broadway song (see capsule)
+ "Crocodile Dundee"
- Hans Moleman: "You call that a knife?"
+ "Ah, Wilderness" {ddg}
- Itchy & Scratchy episode title
+ "Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown"
- the shots of the rafts
+ "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
- Homer: "Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a
drink"
+ "Deliverance"
- shot of rafts moving slowly through the darkened
trees
+ "Friday the 13th"
- closing scene around campfire

[1F07] The Last Temptation of Homer
+ "The Last Temptation of Christ"
- episode title
+ New Testament
- Homer: "Colonel Klink, why have you forsaken me?"
similar to Jesus' reputed words on the cross
+ "The Shining"
- Bart's blackboard punishment similar to Jack
Nicholson's "book"
"My Fair Lady" {tab}
- Bart saying "loverly"
+ Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"
- Department of Labor coming in through the roof
- woman mentions the Brazilian soccer team shortly
afterwards
+ Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus"
- Mindy, naked, in clam shell just like the painting
- Carl and Lenny as the "putti", or little angels
+ "Hogan's Heroes"
- Colonel Klink from HH is Homer's guardian angel
+ "A Christmas Carol"/"It's a Wonderful Life"
- Klink showing Homer how it could have been
+ P. G. Wodehouse {tc}
- Homer's butler is named "Jeeves"
"Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" {rc}
- Homer's head: "Bravo!" followed by one person clapping
is how "Laugh-In" always ended.
"Real Genius"/"Parker Lewis"
- Bart being led by Martin through the tunnels
+ "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
- Indian boy saying, "the refuge of the damned"
+ "Wizard of Oz"
- Burns to monkeys: "Fly, my pretties!"
+ Katz v. United States (1967) {rl}
- see capsule
Krazy Kat {rl}
- Homer hurls the brick similar to how Ignatz Mouse does
it
+ "Lady and the Tramp"
- Homer and Mindy share a chili dog just like Lady and
Tramp share a strand of spaghetti

[1F08] $pringfield
"Vega$" {rk}
- episode title
"Dr. Strangelove (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb)" {ab}
- episode title is actually "$pringfield (Or, How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized
Gambling)"
+ "The Great Train Robbery"
- the train on TV coming towards the family and them
being scared is like the first showings of this old
movie
+ "Wizard of Oz"
- Homer: "The sum of the square roots..." just like the
Scarecrow
"2001" {sam}
- Burns lying on bed with Victorian furniture and lit-
from-underneath bright white floor is the same as Dave
Bowman the astronaut
+ TV's "The Gong Show"
- Homer and Barney playing the harmonica in the large
overalls
+ Howard Hughes
- Burns looks the same
- the germs phobia (Germ Away)
- the Spruce Moose (Spruce Goose)
- long fingernails and toenails, tissues, and bottles of
urine
+ TV's "Dick Van Dyke Show"
- Homer tripping over the ottoman
+ "Rain Man"
- Tom Cruise/Dustin Hoffman lookalikes at the blackjack
table where Homer works
+ Siegfried and Roy, illusionists
- Sign in casino: "The Flamboyant Magic of Gunter and
Ernst"
+ Bill Cosby's album "For Adults Only" {tab}
- Krusty's show at midnight is similar to Bill Cosby's,
which was recorded at a casino at midnight
+ "Gumby"
- Lisa's costume makes her look like Gumby
+ Jerry Lewis, "The Delicate Delinquent"
- Burns says of his Spruce Moose, "Model?" to Smithers,
just like the nutcase inventor says of his rocket ship
to Jerry Lewis, "Model?"

[1F09] Homer the Vigilante
+ the "Pink Panther" movies {rc}
- music during Cat Burglar scenes
+ "Jack and the Beanstalk"
- the magic beans Homer had purchased instead of
insurance
+ TV's "Batman"
- newspapers spinning towards us, plus background music
"Raffles Molloy" {rc}
- voice of Malloy sounds the same as David Niven
+ "Dr. Strangelove"
- Homer as Slim Pickens, wearing the hat and riding the
bomb
+ TV's "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"
- Maynard G. Krebs, the beatnik (played by Bob Denver)
+ "Dead Poets' Society" {rl}
- Jimbo painting "Carpe Diem", which is used in the
movie
+ TV's "Dragnet"
- music in front of museum
LA Riots
- Apu on top of store with gun
+ "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
- see capsule

[1F11] Bart Gets Famous
+ "The Fugitive"
- writing on blackboard
+ "Hogan's Heroes" {ddg}
- Bart saying "Jahwol, mein Mommerant" is like what
Sergeant Schultz says to Colonel Klink: "Jahwol, mein
Kommandant"
"The Beast with Five Fingers" {tkc}
- a movie about a pianist's severed hand strangling
people
Oliver Stone's "The Hand" {ah}
- stars Michael Caine; a hand gets chopped off and goes
about strangling people
+ "Clue" board game
- Krusty with the candlestick in the conservatory
+ Coke commercial
- Mean Joe Green: "Hey kid!"
+ "The Jetsons"
- set of "Match Game 2034"
+ TV's "Batman"
- musical cue
+ Rick James' "Superfreak"/Hammer's "You Can't Touch This"
- Bart raps to it
Kriss Kross rap duo
- Bart's album cover looks similar

[1F10] Homer and Apu
+ "Fight Back"
- Kent Brockman's show similar to David Horowitz's
+ "JFK" {mw}
- "No way, man! Get yourself another patsy, man!" like
Danny DeVito
+ "Dune"
- Lisa saying "I can see through time" (see capsule)
+ "The Hard Way"
- James Woods becoming a convenience store clerk for a
movie, like Michael J. Fox becoming a cop in the movie
+ "The Shining"
- tide of cranberry juice same as blood pouring from
elevator
+ Cranberry commercials
- stupid dialog by drowning guy
+ Kern & Hammerstein's "Show Boat" {cf}
- Apu sings "because, to tell the truth, I do" the same
way as Ravenal
"Flame Over India" {aw}
- shot of train with many passengers clinging to outside
of cars
+ "Lawrence of Arabia" {rc}
- shots of Homer and Apu traveling together
+ "In the Line of Fire"
- Apu jumping in front of James Woods similar to Clint
Eastwood jumping in front of the president

[1F12] Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
+ "Bye Bye Birdie" {twk}
- "We Love You, Matlock" song
+ "Valley of the Dolls" {rc}
- part of the Kidstown toystore
+ "Achy Breaky Heart"
- Malibu Stacy doll to go along with the Billy Ray Cyrus
song
+ "Live from the Improv"
- Malibu Stacy doll to go along with the TV show
+ "Big"
- Homer playing on the giant keyboard
"Raising Arizona" {rm}
- aerial view of family leaving with car doors open
similar to shot of H.I. and his wife running away from
their car after a hand grenade is thrown in
Pepsi commercials
- Pepsi has the old people who suddenly become young
after drinking it
- slogan: "Be Young. Have Fun. Drink Pepsi."
"Animaniacs" character Minerva Mink {mwk}
- Minerva has only appeared in 4 of 150 "Animaniacs"
segments, hence Stacy's comment that the name has "not
enough commercial appeal"
+ Frank Baum's "Dot and Tot of Merryland" {tj}
- "Valley of the Dolls" at the toy store has the same
name as one of the five valleys in the book
- Baum also wrote the original "Wizard of Oz" story,
which has been referenced many times before
+ "Tucker" {rc}
- someone from Washington takes care of Lisa Lionheart

[1F13] Deep Space Homer
+ "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
- episode title
+ "Total Recall"
- everyone walking through the X-ray machine
+ "2001: A Space Odyssey"
- Itchy attacking Scratchy with the space-pod is
identical with HAL attacking Frank Poole
- Homer eating chips to "Blue Danube" same as spaceship
docking sequence
- Bart throwing the marker which becomes a satellite
same as Ape throwing bone
- Homer the star-child like Bowman the star-child
+ Tom Brokaw {tfb}
- "Tom", the boring commentator, sounds just like him,
lisp and all
+ "Married...With Children"
- even stupider version watched by the NASA people
+ "Home Improvement"
- another show watched by the NASA people
+ "Beverly Hillbillies"
- the family arriving at Cape Canaveral
+ "Planet of the Apes"
- Homer imitates Charlton Heston: "Damn them all to
hell!"
+ "Johnny Quest"
- astronaut Race Banyon similar to Race Bannon
+ "Popeye"
- Homer on the centrifugal force machine
+ "Star Trek" (the original series)
- Homer and Barney in the ring is from "Gamesters of
Triskelion"
- music is classic Star Trek "fight music"
- "I'll wager 400 quatloos on the newcomer"
+ "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
- title of I&S cartoon: "Scar Trek: The Next Laceration"
+ "Alien"
- Itchy coming out of Scratchy's stomach just like in
the movie
+ "The Right Stuff"
- scene at Moe's similar to scene at Edwards Air Force
Base
- Barney and Homer in the centrifuge {mfj}
- Barney and Homer blowing into the tube with the ball
- shot of Homer and others walking towards the camera
down the hall
- using the rod to lock the hatch, like Yeager needed
with his broken ribs that he concealed {mfj}
- singing on reentry after equipment malfunction
- Homer: "...the right...what's that stuff?"
+ "The Reluctant Astronaut" {rc}
- Homer at the payphone like Don Knotts
- food floating around in the shuttle clogging up
controls
+ "Airplane II: The Sequel" {gp}
- Homer turning into Nixon like all the passengers in
Airplane II
+ "Hellstrom Chronicles" {rc}
- the ants talking and taking over
+ "Empire of the Ants" {rc}
- ants ruling from sugar caves

[1F14] Homer Loves Flanders
+ Eddie Money's "Two Tickets to Paradise"
- song sung by Homer
+ The Village People's "Macho Man"
- Homer singing "Nacho man"
+ "Cheers & Jeers" in TV guide {rc}
- Dr. Hibbert does one for Homer's charity work and his
tailgate
+ "The Ten Commandments"
- Edward G. Robinson: "Where's your Messiah now?" just
like Wiggum
"Ghost"/"Field of Dreams"/"Terminator 2"
- Homer through the hedge
+ "Terminator 2"
- Homer chasing Ned's Geo
+ Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo"
- shot of staircase and tower itself are similar
+ Texas school-tower sniper/disgruntled postal workers
- Ned in his dream
+ "Live and Let Die" {dp}
- Homer flying the boat over the parking lot
"2001"
- the loud sound of Homer breathing
+ "Psycho" {rc}
- the haunted house

[1F15] Bart Gets an Elephant
+ "Gomer Pule, USMC"
- Homer's vision of Gomer and Sergeant Carter
+ "Mr. Clean"/"Scrubbing Bubbles"/"Turtle Wax" {rc}
- "Mr. Cleanser"/"Bubble Off"/"Terrapin Wax" used by
Homer
+ "Rocky IV"
- Mr. Cleanser's line, and his accent
"Young Sherlock Holmes" {akr}
- Homer's hallucination (with a knight, even) similar to
Watson's involving food
+ "Jurassic Park"
- Stampy's eye in the window just like T. Rex's
+ "Sound of Music"
- "Doe, a deer, a female deer..." joke
Kim Deitch's "Hollywoodland" {abw}
- Barney flicking his lighter and catching on fire

[1F16] Burns' Heir
+ "Fatal Attraction"
- Burns appears dead in the bathtub, then attacks
Smithers
+ "Wavy Gravy"
- Burns in the boat
+ George Lucas' "THX" sound
- beginning of "Siskel and Ebert" movie
+ "Toys" promotional shot with Robin Williams
- Burns standing in grassy field
+ "Easter Parade" {rc}
+ "Meet Me in St. Louis"
- Martin's song at the audition -- with the wrong lyrics
("Ring ring ring went the bell" instead of the correct
"Ding ding ding"). (Original song written by Hugh
Martin & Ralph Blane {th})
+ "The Little Drummer Boy"
- Milhouse's audition
+ "A Christmas Carol"
- young cockney boy says, "Why, today is Christmas Day,
sir!"
+ "Sliver"
- giant wall of TVs
+ "Taxi Driver"
- Moe talking to himself in the mirror (cf. Robert
DeNiro)
"E. T." {th}
- Bart's pulling up to Burns' mansion on his bicycle,
set against the black driveway
+ "1984"
- Hans is being deprogrammed in Room 101, just like in
the book
+ "Big"/"Silver Spoons"
- Bart showing Milhouse the house full of toys

[1F18] Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadassss Song
+ 1971 film "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" {et}
- episode title
+ "The Wonder Years"
- watching the home movie, and the music
+ "Alien" {aw}
- When Skinner sees the display with the two glowing
dots, one stationary and the other approaching the
first. Also, when Greased Willy turned around and was
confronted by SLH (like Dallas in the film).
+ "Aliens" {aw}
- When Skinner stood on the furniture and lifted up the
grate plate in order to stick his head inside the
tunnel. One of the Marines in Aliens did that very
thing.
+ "Alien^3" {aw}
- The occasional glimpse of SLH as it zipped by the end
of a tunnel looked very much like the "golden alien"
from the film.
+ "Lady and the Tramp" {mk}
- scene in restaurant
+ Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket"
- Skinner's attire, and shots of him running with his
troops

[1F19] The Boy Who Knew Too Much
+ "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
- episode title
+ the Kennedy family
- see capsule
+ Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn"
- scene on raft in Bart's fantasy, plus episode plot
+ "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
- Bart cutting rope bridge with similar knife to Indy's
+ "Westworld" {gb}
- Skinner looked like Yul Bryner as he entered the river
+ "Back to the Future II" {mk}
- Bart hiding under a green blanket in the backseat of a
convertible to escape detection by an adversary.
+ TV Commercial for "Meow Mix"
- Homer meowing
+ "Bob Newhart Show" {th}
- "This is your fantasy" segment (see capsule)
+ "Bob and Ray" {aw}
- camera going to Kent just finishing saying his name
same as camera going to Wally Baloo
+ "Free Willy"/"Tiny Toons Spring Break Special" {mk}
- "Will U B Hare" musical parody of "Free Willy": the
whale appears to be able to clear the rocks, but then
crushes Elmyra when he falls.
+ "The Odd Couple" {zg}
- Skinner picks up cigar butt with his umbrella just
like Tony Randall does to Jack Klugman in the opening
credits of the TV show
+ "Pink Panther" {jp}
- LaCoste is indeed quite similar to Inspector Clouseau,
despite his claims to the contrary
+ "The Little Mermaid" {rl}
- LaCoste trips over stuff and burns himself on a stove
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" {mk}
- waiter's accident similar to "Somethin's Cookin'"
cartoon

[1F21] Lady Bouvier's Lover
+ "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
- episode title
+ Hal Roach, the "Little Rascals" producer {ddg}
- apartments are named after him
+ Chaplin's "The Gold Rush"
- the potatoes on the forks scene
+ "Les Brown and His Band of Renown" {th}
- Red Breem & His Band of Some Esteem at the old folks'
ball
"Reservoir Dogs" {rg}
- Bart and Burns standing off with guns similar to scene
in movie
+ "Cocoon" {wp}
- Burns dancing in disco, wearing white tuxedo
+ "The Graduate"
- glassed-in organ, Abe and Jackie on the bus

[1F20] Secrets of a Successful Marriage
+ "Family Ties" {rl}
- Homer hums the last line of its theme song, "Sha na na
na"
+ "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
- Smithers' marriage
+ "A Streetcar Named Desire"
- Burns calling "Smithers!" (instead of "Stella!")
+ "...And Justice For All" {ddg}
- Homer: "You're out of order!"
+ "A Few Good Men"
- Homer: "You can't handle the truth!"
+ "Patton" {ddg}
- Homer: "When you reach over and put your hand into a
pile of goo that was your best friend's face, you'll
know what to do"
+ "Chinatown" {aw}
- Homer: "Forget it, Marge, it's Chinatown."
"Robocop" {cm}
- Homer talking to Marge in car sounds exactly the same
as Murphy remembering his wife

[1F22] Bart of Darkness
+ "Apocalypse Now (Heart of Darkness)"
- episode title/Bart going a bit crazy
[The movie is based on Joseph Conrad's book, which I
suppose is the likelier reference --aag]
+ "Animal House" {se}
- man singing "Sunshine on my shoulder" and getting
punched (by John Belushi)
"Witness"
- the barn raising, complete with Amish guy
+ Busby Berkeley movies {mk}
- musical number in pool (with kaleidoscopic effects)
+ "Planet of the Apes"
- Itchy & Scratchy cartoon title
Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" {ne}
- Itchy bricking Scratchy in, and placing the last brick
in with relish
+ "Star Trek" episodes "The Cage" and "The Menagerie" {mk}
- Itchy clones as aliens from Talos V
- large bulbous heads with pronounced veins that
pulsate, bodies with pronounced chests, down to the
medallions and facial expressions
"Blue Sky" {rl}
- nude people swimming being watched from a helicopter
+ Edward R. Murrow's "Face to Face" {th}
- Krusty's interview, including smoking and close-ups
- (Murrow died from smoking)
+ Luis Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalou" (1928) {sh}
- man drags objects on his leg, similar camera angle
+ Hitchcock's "Rear Window"
- much of murder plot
- Jimmy Stewart appears
- music similar to Hermann's score for the film {ne}

[1F17] Lisa's Rival
Poe's "William Wilson" {ert}
- said man meets someone much like himself, becomes his
rival, similar to Lisa and Alison
+ Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera"
- Marge's book's title a pun on this book
singer/superhunk Fabio
- some resemblance between pirate in Marge's fantasy and
him
+ "Boy's Life" {rl}
- "Bad Boy's Life" looks similar, has similar name
+ "Beverly Hillbillies" {mk}
- the line "White Gold, Texas Tea"
Beavis & Butt-head {av}
- Jimbo yelling 'Yes!' after Mr. Largo liked his
tambourine playing (like Butt-head)
+ "Sibling Rivalry" song from the Simpsons album {mk}
- Bart using a fake spider to antagonize Lisa
+ Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run"
- title of Lisa's band's song: "Born to Runner-up"
+ "The Fugitive"
- Milhouse jumping off dam to escape Tommy Lee Jones
lookalike
- Jones saying, "I don't care!"
+ "Scarface"
- Homer with Spanish accent: "First you get the sugar,
then you get the power, then you get the women" just
like Al Pacino
+ "Batman" TV series
- "To the Beemobile!"
- mannerisms of first beekeeper similar to Adam West's
{mk}
+ "The Wizard of Oz" [again! - ed]
- the sugar melting scene, plus Homer's dialog
+ "Gallagher" {tf}
- Gallagher squishes food with a mallet and gives the
audience plastic sheets, just like Nelson did
+ Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"
- Lisa hearing the metronome and being racked with
guilt, just like the man in the story
- her line "It's the beating of that hideous heart!"
similar {rl}
[2F01] Itchy & Scratchyland
+ "Last Action Hero"
- I&S cartoon title
- Bart's dry, cool wit making him an action hero
+ Disneyland/Disney World
- "The happiest place on earth" slogan ripoff
- "Pleasure Island" name ripoff
- parade with cheerful "Electric Light Parade" ripoff
music {jp}
- different "lands" with different themes {rl}
- banjo at start of Log Ride/"Pirates of the Caribbean"
- the castle behind the family as they are surrounded by
robots
looks like the Sleeping Beauty Castle {rl}
- there is a Penny Arcade {rl}
- quite a few other theme park similarities
+ "Jaws" {ab}
- lighthouse in flashback very similar
+ "Witness"
- Homer putting ice creams on Amish people just like
what happened to Alex Godunov in the movie
+ National Lampoon's "Vacation" {je}
- obsession with having "best vacation ever"
- a trip was required to get there
"Married...With Children" {ab}
- traffic jam scene similar to labor day show from a
while back
+ "Stuckey's" southeast US restaurant chain {mkn}
- "Flickey's" name similarity
+ Stephen King's short story "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut"
- Homer's shortcut and comment: "Let us never speak of
it again"
+ Four corners landmark
- meeting point of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado
(see capsule)
+ "Jurassic Park" movie
- logo on side of helicopter
- flying into park on helicopter
- Frink talking about chaos theory just like Jeff
Goldblum in movie
+ "Tavern on the Green" restaurant {ddg}
- "Tavern on the Scream"
+ Rocky and Bullwinkle episode {jcp}
- robots look like Metal Munching Moonmice
- Homer to Lisa: "Who are you, the narrator?"
+ Pink Floyd's "The Wall" {rj}
- marching axes very similar to marching hammers
+ "Deliverance"
- log ride beginning: scenery, banjo playing
+ "Saturday Night Fever" {ab}
- dance floor in disco very similar to that in movie
- John Travolta behind bar, dressed the same
+ the Ku Klux Klan
- I&S's fried Ku Klux Klam
+ "T. G. I. Friday's" {ddg}
- "T. G. I. McScratchy's Goodtime Foodrinkery"
+ Walt Disney
- Roger Meyers Sr.'s antisemitism
+ Disney's "Fantasia"
- the little axe trying to catch up with the others, cf.
the mushrooms in the "Nutcracker Suite" segment {rl}
- "Scratchtasia" ripoff
+ Disney's "Pinnochio"
- "Pin-Itchy-o" ripoff
- "Parent's Island" pun on "Pleasure Island" {rl}
"Battlestar Galactica" {ab}
- sub-levels in the control center where Homer and Bart
are taken resemble where prisoners were kept in the
movie/show
+ Michael Crichton's "Westworld"
- theme park in which robots go berserk
- "Sensors make it impossible for robots to harm humans"
{ddg}
John Jay Smith's video for Michael Jackson's "Beat It"
{ab}
- I&S robots march just like gang members in the video
"Night of the Living Dead"
- robots attack rather like the zombies
+ Hitchcock's "The Birds"
- sanctuary shot, complete with phone booth camera angle
"Gremlins" {ab}
- bright lights to destroy bad creatures
+ Euro Disney
- Euro Itchy and Scratchy Land

[2F02] Sideshow Bob Roberts
+ "Bob Roberts"
- episode title
- Bob campaigning at an elementary school and appealing
to kids with stunts, like Bob Roberts playing guitar
there {mk}
- Sideshow Bob walks in wrapped in a US flag, just like
movie poster
+ Rush Limbaugh
- Birch Barlow an obvious takeoff: similar name,
appearance, speaking manner, political views
+ Alcatraz {av}
- Springfield prison looks like it
+ Disney's "The Little Mermaid" {mk}
- Bob's hair and the design on his shirt right after the
fish falls out is reminiscent of the ending of Ariel
at the end of the "Part of Your World" number
- note Mickey Mouse ears in cloud over his head
+ Arnold Schwarzenegger's Republican-ness
- McBain (an Arnie takeoff) being at the Republican
Headquarters
+ Bush's "Willie Horton" commercial {bwd}
- Sideshow Bob commercial similar
+ First Nixon/Kennedy debate (1960)
- logo on camera is early 1960's CBS logo {mk}
- see capsule
+ Dukakis/Bush debate (1984)
- see capsule
+ "Citizen Kane" {bwd}
- "Bob" backdrop, just like "Kane" backdrop
- Smithers appearing as "Deep Throat" {rl}
+ "All the President's Men"
- overhead pullback of Lisa in Hall of Records
- Smithers posing as man in shadows, Hal Holbrook
+ "A Few Good Men"
- Bob: "You can't handle the truth!" just like Nicholson
+ Allenwood Minimum Security Prison {av}
- it's called "Springwood Minimum Security Prison"

[2F03] Treehouse of Horror V
+ "The Outer Limits" {ddg}
- voiceover before title sequence
+ Kubrick's movie adaptation of Steven King's "The
Shining" (see capsule)
- one of the closing credits {rl}
+ "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies
- Freddy Krueger appears in Moe's band of ghouls
+ "Hellraiser" movies
- Pinhead appears in Moe's band of ghouls
+ "Friday the 13th" movies
- Jason appears in Moe's band of ghouls
+ "Late Show with David Letterman"
- Homer announces himself like the announcer announces
Dave on show
+ "60 Minutes"
- Homer pretends to be all of Mike Wallace, Morley
Safer, and Ed Bradley, complete with ticking watch
+ "Crime and Punishment"
- second segment title
+ Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder"
- plot of second segment: time travel to dinosaur age,
"Butterfly effect"
+ "Evil Dead 2" {mz}
- Homer tries to get toaster off hand just like Ash
tries to get his girlfriend's decapitated head off his
hand
+ "The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show"/"Peabody's Improbably
History" {mk}/{ddg}
- Peabody and Sherman appear
+ "Jurassic Park"
- mixing of dinosaurs from different eras {pl}
- scenery quite similar
- Homer talks about dinosaurs "being confined to zoos"
+ "Terminator 2"
- TV screen morphs from tiled floor (same floor as in
mental hospital)
- noise while morphing takes place is the same
+ "Back to the Future II" {dgp}
- Homer goes back to find Ned rules the world (like
McFly goes back to find Biff rules the world)
Orwell's "1984"
- people who dissent are "reeducated"
+ Dr. Seuss stories
- Homer's line, "I wish, I wish I did not kill that
fish" reminiscent
+ "Sweeney Todd" [_not_ "Soylent Green" - ed]
- people are made into food
+ Pink Floyd's "The Wall" {dd}
- teachers putting kids in a giant blender similar to
"The Wall", with teachers putting kids in a giant
mincer
"Total Recall" {av}
- scene where Bart, Lisa, and Milhouse are backed up
against the food processor looks like the scene with
the fan
+ "A Chorus Line"
- song at the end of the episode (different lyrics and
music)
+ "Casper the Friendly Ghost" {rl}
- one of the closing credits

[2F04] Bart's Girlfriend
+ "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
- Nelson's outfit makes him look like a Borg
+ "Planet of the Apes"
- cornfield sequence at the beginning: children rounded
up like humans in the movie
+ "Mission: Impossible"
- music as Bart is getting caught is from the show
+ "Saturday Night Fever"/"Stayin' Alive"
- music while Bart struts (John Travolta also strutted)
+ "Pulp Fiction"
- music when Bart and Jessica loiter is from the movie
- their actions are also evil, like many actions in the
movie
+ "Rebel Without a Cause" {dgp}
- kid in library similar to James Dean
+ "Silence of the Lambs"
- Bart restrained in church just like Hannibal Lecter

[2F05] Lisa on Ice
+ "Darkwing Duck" {ab}
- Bart says "I love being a S-s-s-simpson" in the style
of Camille the Chameleon, who is also voiced by Nancy
Cartwright
+ "The Mighty Ducks"
- team name, "The Mighty Pigs", and their logo
- three players bowling Lisa over in the net {av}
+ "Gamera" [as seen on "Mystery Science Theater 3000"
- ed]
- Homer returns Bart's small turtle, and Kenny owns a
small turtle, Tibby, in the film
- one of the monsters chasing Lisa in her future is a
fire-breathing turtle, very similar to Gamera
+ "A League of their Own" {av}
- Geena Davis catches a baseball in her bare hand (just
like Lisa catching the puck)
+ "Slapshot"
- similar ending: principal character, on ice, ignores
riot

[2F06] Homer: Bad Man
+ "Time Bandits" {nh}
- couch scene looks very much like scene at beginning of
movie where the time portal is discovered
+ "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" {ddg}
- PA announcer at candy convention
+ "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" {ddg}
- winning tickets are hidden in chocolate bars (Vecura
Salt opens many of them in the book {mk})
+ "Demolition Man"
- Homer throwing grenade, running away in slow motion
has same camera angle
+ "Scooby Doo" cartoon {rc}
- woman who says "That's the oldest excuse in the book!"
looks exactly like Velma: short, orange sweater, brown
skirt, glasses
+ TV show "Hard Copy"
- "Rock Bottom" a parody of it, including music and
titles
+ Sally Jesse Raphael (talk show) {mk}
- woman in glasses is supposed to be her
+ 60s TV show "Gentle Ben"
- host of "Ben" talk show had the same name, was also a
bear
+ OJ Simpson coverage
- helicopter used to view the house
- Brockman calls it "The Simpson Estate" (same name as
OJ Simpson's place)
+ Disney's "The Little Mermaid" {mk}
- lobster = Sebastian
- Marge playing a jellyfish
- Bart playing clams
- Lisa playing a pipefish
- Maggie riding a bull-nosed ray
- dancing slugs
- seahorses popping up & swimming around Homer

[2F07] Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy
+ Masters and Johnson's sexology research {rl}
- their reports coined the term "sexual inadequacy"
Cheech & Chong {av}
- the Troy McClure movie is reminiscent
+ "Bull Durham" {ab}
- scene with Homer and Marge together in bath, complete
with candle
+ Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" {bb}
- this was the first movie to use the train-in-tunnel
phallic image
+ "The Naked Gun" {wp}
- stock footage pictures are the same as when camera
cuts away from Leslie Nielsen and Prscilla Presley
+ Star Trek episode "Miri" {mk}
- the children are the only remaining inhabitants: the
empty downtown street
+ "Flesh and Bone" movie
- shot of old homestead looks extremely similar to Meg
Ryan's family's house in movie
- scene of walking into abandoned house similar to same
scene with James Caan and Dennis Quaid
+ "The X-Files" {av}
- conspiracy subplot with Milhouse/Bart as Mulder and
Lisa as Scully
+ Oliver Stone's "JFK"
- "We're through the looking glass, people" muttered by
Garrison
+ beginning of Mystery Science Theater 3000 "Human
Duplicators" show
- Homer refers to a hilarious fridge alarm; the Mads
invent just such an alarm and laugh uproariously
throughout the invention exchange

[2F08] Fear of Flying
+ Erica Jong's book "Fear of Flying"
- episode title
+ "Cheers"
- well, duh
+ "It's a Wonderful Life" {br}
- Homer's line about shaking off the dust of this
one-horse town is a direct quote
+ "Home Alone" {mk}
- a family member is forgotten on a trip
- Grampa slaps hands on face and yells just like
Macaulay Culkin
+ "Lost in Space"
- Marge's dream
+ Hitchcock's "North by Northwest"
- Marge and her mother standing near the cornfield with
a biplane swooping down
+ "Prince of Tides" {kp}
- Barbara Streisand plays a psychiatrist called
Lowenstein
+ "Say Anything" {sc}
- male lead sits next to female lead in final scene,
promises to talk her through her fear of flying

[2F09] Homer the Great
+ M. C. Escher's "Relativity" picture
- the couch scene
+ "Dukes of Hazzard" {av}
- the General Lee is stuck in the traffic jam
+ California Egg Council commercial {ert}
- some humorous TV ads put out by the Council depict
eggs in prison running off with glee when they're set
free
+ "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
- Captain Picard refers to his second-in-command as
Number One, and Patrick Steward (who guest-voiced)
plays Picard
+ Prince's song "1999"
- "Let us party like 'twas 1799!" sounds like "Tonight
I'm gonna party like it's 1999"
"Raiders of the Lost Ark"
- looks like Homer's underwear get dropped into an ark
- ghosts fly out
+ Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" {rl}
- Lisa says "Beware the Ides of March", the same line as
the Soothsayer
+ "The Last Emperor" {mk}
- Homer in Chosen One garb, walking out to greet his
followers (music as well)

[2F10] And Maggie Makes Three
+ "And Baby Makes Three" {rl}
- episode title
+ the James Bond movies
- couch scene lifted directly from the start of the old
movies
+ the TV show "Knight Rider"
- similar to "Knightboat" -- David Hasselhoff lookalike,
named Michael, solves crimes with the help of a
computerized, talking vehicle sounding like William
Daniels
+ "From Here to Eternity" {av}
- Homer and Marge on the beach
+ Felix the Cat {mk}
- Homer dancing a jig upon receiving good fortune, just
like Felix
+ "Look Who's Talking" {mk}
- the adventures of Homer's sperm
+ "Die Hard" {mh}
- the terrorist in Homer's fantasy sounds a good deal
like the terrorist from the movie
+ Warner Brothers/Loony Tunes cartoons
- same Carl Stalling music ("Powerhouse" by Raymond
Scott {ah}) during "where the pins go" scene
+ "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" {th}
- Homer sings the last line of "Love is All Around", the
theme from the show
- tosses a bowling ball like she tosses her hat in the
Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis
- the show was also a James L. Brooks creation
Animaniacs "De-Zanitized" {mk}
- Homer tears out his hair in a similar manner in a
similar manner to Dr. Scratchansniff
+ Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" {mk}
- shoeshine Joey

[2F11] Bart's Comet
+ "Airwolf" {wp}
- jets' radar system very similar to that in futuristic
helicopters in "Airwolf"
+ "Back to the Future" {mk}
- alarm clock at 4 a.m.
- Bart biking out of the garage similar to Marty McFly
- Dr. Frink's model which catches fire, similar to the
Hill Valley model
+ "The Three Stooges"
- the three wise men in the sky look like them
+ Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Coming to Maple
Street" {el}
- shelter with neighbors trying to get in
+ "Gilligan's Island" {ddg}
- one person leaves a shelter, and the others follow,
just before the shelter is destroyed
+ "The Doris Day Show" {jl}
- the theme song is sung by Ned
- Day runs over the hills in her show, just like the
Springfieldianites

[2F12] Homie the Clown
+ "In Living Color" {ddg}, {rl}
- episode title refers to "Homie the Clown" character
whose trademark line is "Homie don't play that"
+ "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" {th}
- Homer builds a circus tent out of mashed potatoes,
just like Richard Dreyfuss does
+ Jack Benny's "Train leaving on track nine" sketch {klb}
- Krusty saying "Cucamonga" similar to the sketch
+ McDonald's restaurants {ddg}
- Krusty burglar a take-off of the Hamburglar
+ the Menendez brothers' trial {bt}
- the defendants in the trial claimed to have purchased
ammo at a Big 5, even though they no longer sell
ammunition
the Teddy Roosevelt assassination attempt {mk}
- Roosevelt foiled an attempt with some speech notes in
his breast pocket
"Batman" {dh}
Twilight Zone, "Eye of the Beholder" {el}
- the plastic surgery scene: slowly removing the
bandages, camera panning from behind the bandage
+ "Prizzi's Honor" {kt}
- Don Vittorio based on William Hickey's character, Don
Corrado Prizzi

[2F13] Bart vs. Australia
+ "National Geographic"
- Bart's dialing sounds like the theme from it
+ "The Rescuers Down Under" {mk}
- identical to house Tobias lives in
+ Monty Python "Bruces" skit
- collection agency address is "Sheepdip Court"
- Bruces refer to sheep dip
+ "A Cry in the Dark"
- Bart's line about a dingo eating your baby, just like
what happened to Meryl Streep's character in the movie
+ "Crocodile Dundee"
- "That's not a knife" line
+ The Michael Fay caning in Singapore incident
- see capsule
+ "Mad Max 2"/"The Road Warrior" {cc}
- Wez is in the mob chasing Bart and Homer
+ The fall of Saigon {aw}
- scene with Simpsons entering the helicopter, just like
American embassy staff in 1975
+ The cane toad infestation of Australia
- see capsule
+ "Frogs" (bad 1972 sci fi movie starring Ray Milland)
{jl}
- similar pan past lots of frogs

[2F14] Homer vs. Patty and Selma
+ "Psycho" {wp}
- Homer screaming and the music that sounds when he sees
a picture of Patty and Selma
+ "Flashdance" {tb}
- Bart drinks Tab, just like Jennifer Beals does in the
movie
+ "Star Wars" trilogy
- "Use the ballet!" instead of the Force
+ "Your Show of Shows"/"The 2000- Year-Old Man" {ddg}
- Homer and Mel's routine
- usually Carl Reiner (Alan Brady on "Dick Van Dyke") is the
interviewer
+ Marlboro cigarettes
- Homer's "I'm in flavor country" line

[2F31] A Star Is Burns
+ "A Star is Born" {rl}
- episode title
+ "Seinfeld" {av}
- bass synthesizer riff after Patty and Selma mention it
"The Fly" {av}
- Todd Flanders' "Help me!"
+ "The Flintstones Meet the Jetsons" {mk}
- like "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones" in this episode
+ "Cabaret" {rm}
- Moe as Joel Grey dancing on his bar {av}
+ Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, Hollywood screenwriters
- "Saturday Night Live" {dp}
- see capsule
- credits of Mr. Burns' film parodies it
+ the Sistene Chapel painting
- Burns' movie opens with it
+ "E.T."
- Burns' movie parodies it
+ "Ben Hur"
- Burns' movie parodies it
+ "Pukahontas" {mk}
- pun on Disney's upcoming animated film, "Pocahontas"

[2F15] Lisa's Wedding
+ "Alice in Wonderland"
- Lisa chasing the rabbit
+ "Ultima IV" computer game {tn}
- the fair, the out-of-the-way tent, the fortune teller,
the tarot cards all similar {poh}
+ "Love Story" {jsg}
- Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw meet in a library and argue
over a book, just like Lisa and Hugh
+ Dr. Dre, the rapper
- building at the university named after him
+ National Airport, Washington {av}
- curved pick-up lane and design of the buildings the
same
- National Airport is close to Springfield, Virginia, as
well
+ "Phantom of the Opera"
- Martin Prince has become him
+ "Star Trek"
- Hugh's wrist phone makes same noise as original-series
tricorder
- Troy McClure's outfit straight from the original
series
- noises at Homer's work station sound like Enterprise
bridge noises {jhw}
- noises and style of automatic doors {bw}
+ Chris Whittle's "Edison Project" {av}
- see capsule
+ "The Jetsons"
- Homer's outfit at work is the same as George Jetson's
- cars in the future sound like Jetsons' cars {jhw}
"The Wonder Years" {tn}
- Lisa and Milhouse in car similar to Kevin and Winnie
+ Julius Caesar {tn}
- Burns had 17 stab wounds in the back, just like the
former emperor
+ Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis' daughter
- Lisa's first two names the same

[2F18] Two Dozen and One Greyhounds
+ Disney's "101 Dalmations"
- episode title
- puppies watching TV {mk}
- Branford II poking his head up too high while watching
TV, like dalmation pup Lucky {mk}
- villain wants to make clothes out of the dogs {mk}
- many puppies about to be made into clothing {ddg}
+ "The Today Show" {th}
- has a glass-walled studio at the Rockefeller Center in
NYC; allows onlookers to watch Bryant et al. from 49th
St.
+ Mrs. Paul's Fish Sticks {mk}
- Kent's statement "if the box rattles, throw it away"
like the Mrs. Paul's jingle "if it's not Mrs. Paul's,
throw it back"
+ Star Trek (original series)
- "canine-human" mind meld
+ "Terminator 2"
- SLH morphs out the car window with the same look at
sound effect
+ "Bonanza" {wp}
- Ned calls his home the Flanderosa, which refers to the
Ponderosa
+ Disney's "Lady and the Tramp"
- afternoon stroll similar {mk}
- Luigi's is similar to Tony's in both concept and
design {mk}
- the famous "Bella Note" dinner sequence, complete with
shared spaghetti, including breadsticks and wine
bottle candle {mk}
+ talk show hosts
- some puppies' names: Dave (David Letterman), Jay (Jay
Leno), Paul (Paul Shaffer), Branford (Branford
Marsalis)
+ Disney's "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs"
- the names of some of the puppies are the same
+ "Get Smart" {sg}
- Bart's line about "I hope I wasn't out of line" to a
bully, just like Max on "Get Smart"
"Jurassic Park" {bwd}
- camera angle showing doorknob turning and doorknob
itself very similar to one shot from the movie
+ Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"
- "Be Our Guest" song parody
- 360-degree pan at end similar to pan in "Belle" number
{mk}
- Mrs. Potts appears {mk}
+ Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs"
- camera angle when Burns threatens them with the gun

[2F19] The PTA Disbands
+ Escher's "Relativity" picture
- couch scene
+ Aloha Airlines jet {tdr}
- picture in Newsweek showed jet with chunk of roof
missing, very similar to chunk of school bus roof
missing
+ Disney's planned amusement part in Virginia {mk}
- is on the site of a Civil War battle
+ "F Troop" {ds}
- cannon/lookout tower sequence a direct reference
+ "Prince Valiant" comic strip {bdp}
- Principal Valiant
"Von Ryan's Express" {jm}
- Frank Sinatra is shot by the Nazis while leading a
group of POW's to a train; similar to Uter
+ "Knight Moves" {wp}
- the scene where Bart is playing chess
+ "Late Night with David Letterman" {mk}
- Larry "Bud" Melman gets sand dumped on him while he's
in a Porta potty
+ "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" {tdr}
- Jimbo takes an hors d'oeuvre from his mother just like
Warren Beatty takes watercress sandwiches from his
mother when in a tiff
+ Jimmy Stewart
- bank manager is a clear take-off
+ "Welcome Back, Kotter"
- Gabe Kaplan, the star of it, is on Bart's substitute
list

[2F32] 'Round Springfield
+ Thelonius Monk's "'Round Midnight"
- episode title
+ "E.R." {tk}
- music during first shot of Springfield hospital sounds
similar to music from E.R.
+ "Madeline" {ddg}
- after Madeline shows the other girls her appendix
scar, they want theirs removed as well
+ "The Cosby Show"
- parodied
"EEK! the Cat"/"The Terrible Thunderlizards" {rl}
- Lisa says "How come it won't stop hurting?" similar to
how Bill says "When does the hurting stop?"
+ the OJ Simpson trial {mk}
- attorneys Robert Shaporo and Albert Dershman are
parodies of Robert Shapiro and Alan Dershowitz
+ Disney's "The Lion King" {mk}
- the suddenly-appearing storm clouds
- the somber mood music
- the cloud-shaped face of BG, like Mufasa
- the appearance of Mufasa himself in the clouds
+ Tezuka's "The Jungle Emperor" {mk}
- see capsule

[2F21] The Springfield Connection
+ "The French Connection"
- episode title
+ "Police Academy" {jag}
- gun-crazy guy at training weekend is the same
+ Cary Grant {hl}
- Grant liked wearing women's underwear for comfort
(according to an interview with him)
+ "An Officer and a Gentleman" {hl}
- Marge climbing over wall very similar
+ "Magnum Force" {hl}
- scene with Marge shooting targets
+ "Bullitt" {aw}
- car chase scene
+ "Speed"
- Marge jumps over an incomplete freeway
+ "Hill Street Blues"
- music while Marge on the beat sounds similar to theme
music
- music over credits is very similar
+ "Cops"
- footage at Skinner's looks the same
+ McGruff, the crime dog {th}
- McGriff is very similar, with same slogan

[2F22] Lemon of Troy
+ the Trojan horse legend
- episode title
- lemon tree glows and children dance around it like the
garden of the Hesperides (tale of Heracles) {bk}
- Homer's joke about no one having done anything like
what they do
+ Cuyahoga River in Cleveland {th}
- it caught fire (in 1969), like the lake near
Springfield
+ "Alice in Wonderland" {tk}
- Milhouse disappearing into the bushes makes him look
like the Cheshire Cat in the Disney movie
+ Shakespeare death speeches {av}
- Milhouse: "Is this the end of Milhouse?" sounds as
though it's from Shakespeare (contrast to 9F04: "Is
this the end of Zombie Shakespeare?")
+ Prince's "When Doves Cry"
- Milhouse's line: "This is what it feels like when
doves cry" is a paraphrase from the song
+ "The Road Warrior"
- kids on hill watching other kids on bikes circling
tree

[2F16] Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)
+ "Dallas"
- episode title a reference to 1979 "Dallas" cliffhanger
"Who Shot J.R.?"
"The Flintstones" {ds}
- couch scene similar in style to Flintstones when they
run
+ a Purolater Courier ad {mk}
- similar to old commercial with John Moschitta as the
fast-talking exec
"The Beverly Hillbillies" {mk}
- oil is discovered while performing a mundane task
+ Maynard G. Krebs {av}
- "Maynard G. Muskievote" refers to this beatnik played
by Bob Denver in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"
+ Edwin Muskie {av}
- "Maynard G. Muskievote" also refers to this Democratic
Presidential candidate from 1972 who cried during a
public appearance and doomed himself
+ "Monty Python's Flying Circus" {wp}
- the 1000g weight falling on Homer's head

[Note: the prior two references seemed to be screwed up, so
I changed the order to what seems to be right. -aag]

+ the board game "Monopoly" {mk}
- Burns mentions the Electric Company, the Water Works,
and the hotel on Baltic Avenue -- these all refer to
the game
+ "Mystery Science Theater 3000"
- playing on the TV in Moe's
+ "The X-Files" {mk}
- woman chemist who walks into bar looks and sounds like
Scully
+ "Goldfinger" {rl}/{jp}
- the device Burns uses to make the miniature appear is
straight from "Goldfinger" {jp}
- Smithers' look, and his jumping out of the way, are
similar to the scene in "Goldfinger" {rl}
+ "Singin' in the Rain" {mk}
- Burns twirling around the lamppost
+ Paul Simon's "Feelin' Groovy"
- "Hello lamppost! Whatcha knowin'?" lifted straight
from the song
+ "Psycho" {ph}
- scene of Homer imagining Burns taunting him in the car
similar {jp}
- music when Homer rushes Burns sounds the same {bw}
- Burns' shadow (just before he gets killed) looks as
though it grows a bun -- just like Norman Bates'
mother had
- dialog before he gets killed is similar
+ "The Cosby Mysteries" {bw}
- Hibbert (a Cosby parody) talks about not being able to
solve the mystery

[2F20] Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)
+ "Dallas"
- episode title
- Smithers' dream at the start similar to Sue Ellen
waking up and realizing the "Who shot Bobby Ewing"
thing was all a dream
- Smithers thinking he shot Burns because he was drunk
and he had a fired weapon on him similar to Sue Ellen
+ "Mod Squad" {bdp}
- title card used to say "Mod Squad In Color" just like
"Speedway Squad In Color"
+ "Speed Racer" {bdp}
- view of cars on speedway in Smithers' dream similar
"A Quinn Martin Production" {bdp}
- over-dramatic voice announcing "Speedway Squad"
similar to voice at start of Quinn Martin show
Nick Parks animation {sb}
- Homer does the Nick Parks finger wiggle at the dinner
table (elbows bent, hands in front of shoulders, palms
turned towards a point about a foot in front of the
chest, wiggle the fingers as if drumming them on a
table)
+ The O. J. Simpson trial
- Lisa's crack about celebrities never committing crimes
{av}
- Bart's saying that no court would accept DNA evidence
{av}
- Lisa's comment about someone planting the gun in the
Simpsons' car, like the bloody glove allegedly planted
by Mark Fuhrman on O.J.'s property {av}
- Willy's arthritis similar to O.J.'s supposed arthritis
in his knees
+ "Patton", the movie {hl}
- guy in movie shot down a German plane with a handgun,
like Grampa says he did
+ Sherlock Holmes
- Mel speaks and behaves like Holmes
+ "Twin Peaks"
- Wiggum's dream about who murdered Burns, just like
Agent Cooper's about who killed Laura Palmer:
- takes place in a red curtained room
- subtle murder clues are given out
- character giving the clues speaks in a distorted
voice (perhaps Lisa is imitating the "Dancing
Dwarf"? {bl})
- an unexplained shadow flies across the curtain
{jk}
- the dreamer wakes up with a hair tuft sticking up
{dgp}
- Maggie's three pacifier sucks at the end sound like
two gunshots and a thud -- the same as when Cooper
opens the door, gets shot twice, and falls to the
floor as the screen goes black {jb}
+ the song "Bingo" {th}
- Eddie says, "The gunman has a name-o!" just like line
in song, "And Bingo was his name-o"
+ "The Fugitive"
- Homer escaping from prison van very similar to Dr.
Kimball escaping from prison bus
- van being pushed along on its side with Homer running
in front same as train derailing and sliding along the
ground
- Homer wearing a doctor's uniform in the hospital, just
like Kimball {rl}
+ "Basic Instinct"
- Willy being interrogated very similar to movie:
sitting in chair against a wall in front of police
officers
- uncrosses then recrosses his legs (revealing his
shame) just like Sharon Stone

[2F17] Radioactive Man
+ Hanna Barbera's "Atom Ant" cartoon {by}
- "Up and atom!"
+ "Singin' in the Rain"
- McBain has trouble saying "Up and atom"
+ "Aeon Flux" {rl}
- the limited-edition comic where characters die on
every page
- in the MTV animated show's pre-talking days, the
heroine would die in every short (usually a ghastly
death)
+ "Batman" (the 60s TV version)
- the campy 70s Radioactive Man very similar:
- trumpet riff when cutting from meeting room to
Radioactive Man
- "Holy billowing backpacks!" from Fallout Boy
similar to Robin
- Radioactive Man sounds, acts like Adam West
- music during fight scene is straight from Batman
- trumpet blast, large onomatopoetic words when
someone gets punched
+ "Bewitched"
- the Scoutmaster is very similar to Paul Lynde
+ Shakespeare's "Richard III" {nc}
- Bart quotes the novel
+ "The Brady Bunch" episode 64, "Big Little Man" {th}
- Bobby tries to become taller by stretching himself
+ "Indecent Proposal"
- Homer asks the director about "Unnatural Discretion",
a horrendous movie, just like "Indecent Proposal"
(similar-sounding name)
+ "Waterworld"
- "Aquaworld", the place where Radioactive Man and
Fallout Boy are trapped, looks the same
+ "Star Trek" {bw}
- sound of van attached to treehouse phone is the
communications sound effect from "Star Trek"
[3F01] Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily
+ "The Brady Bunch"
- couch scene is from opening credits
+ "The Three Stooges" {ddg}
- Marge says "Don't _do_ that!" with similar intonation
to Joe Besser
+ "Outbreak" {av}
- Milhouse gets sick from a monkey
+ "Hamlet"
- Skinner says "Something is rotten at the Simpson
house", similar to "Something is rotten in the state
of Denmark"
+ "1984" {rl}
- "All is well" is said repeatedly in the background
+ "Batman"
- scene change (with state badge flying toward us and
way, accompanied by trumpets) after Skinner calls the
child welfare folks similar
- music when child welfare agents are driving to the
house
+ "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" {av}
- I&S title parodies this 1966 movie, which is about
three women who go around the desert Southwest killing
men
+ Sonny and Cher's "I Got You, Babe"
- song sung by Ned and Maude very similar
+ Hebrew National Franks {ddg}
- there's a Hebrew National Bible in Flanders' bookshelf
+ "The Exorcist"
- Maggie's head turnin 180 degrees, just like Linda
Blair's

[3F02] Bart Sells His Soul
+ L. Ron Hubbard {jcw}
- the reverend reads the name as "I. Ron Butterfly"
(see capsule)
Stephen King's "The Stand" {jp}
- Milhouse, startled by a raven, is reminiscent of Flagg
traveling in the shape of a crow
+ the Spaghetti Factory restaurants
- Hibbert's son refers to "The Spaghetti Laboratory"
+ the Texas Schoolbook Depository (from which Oswald
allegedly shot JFK)
- Hibbert refers to the "Texas Cheesecake Depository"
the US government's cheese surplus warehouses {hl}
- in the early 80s, the government used to keep surplus
cheese in warehouses, hence "cheese depository"
+ Bennigan's and Fuddrucker's, two US restaurant chains
{jcw}
- the authors of Moe's book
+ "Wild Palms" {jp}
- Bart's line "Everything about me must go"
+ "Sleepless in Seattle" {bw}
- Itchy & Scratchy title "Skinless in Seattle"
+ T. G. I. Friday restaurants {av}
- red-and-white-striped awnings are a trademark of
theirs
- around Christmas 1992, they offered the "Ho Ho Homer
platter", a plate of fried foods
+ "Alice" {ddg}
- the episode where Mel offers a free meal if he doesn't
smile, just like Moe does
Ren and Stimpy {ddg}
- "Billy the Beef Tallow Boy" deep-fries a number of
inedible objects which people then eat
+ "Citizen Kane" {dh2}
- the sled on Moe's wall with "Rosebud" on it
+ "The Wizard of Oz" {by}
- the shining castle in Bart's dream looks like Emerald
city
"St. Elsewhere" {ddg}
- Bart rows with one oar: in an episode where Dr. Fiscus
(Howie Mandel's character) had been shot, he thought
he was in hell where the late Dr. White was condemned
to rowing in circles with one oar
+ the Jack Benny show {jgb}
- Milhouse says "Yeees?" exactly like Frank Nelson used
to
+ "Star Wars" {bw}
- the potato bug fumigator guy sounds a lot like Darth
Vader
"Annie" {th}
- Bart running to Milhouse's grandma's similar to scene
where orphans make their way from 1 5th Ave. to 995
5th Ave.
- both chases seem to be in New York City (subway,
brownstone buildings, streeing numbered into the 200s)
+ Jerry Seinfeld's SO Shoshanna
- Snake's date has the same name and looks the same
+ "Cheers" {np}
- the wooden Indian by the door of Uncle Moe's
+ Judy Blume's "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret"
{ddg}
- Bart says this with "Bart Simpson" at the end

[3F03] Lisa the Vegetarian
+ Old folk song "The Wreck of the Old 97" {jcw}
- Bart rides in a train with engine 97
+ "Apocalypse Now"
- I&S cartoon title "Esophagus Now"
+ "I Spit on Your Grave" {rl}
- 1977 movie about a woman who is raped and then comes
back for revenge on her rapist
+ "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" {ddg}
- the film is part of the "Resistance Is Useless"
series, a phrase which comes from HHG
+ "She's Leaving Home"
- Paul says this line as dialog, but it's also a Beatles
song
+ "Octopus' Garden" {kb}
- Lisa's line "...Apu's garden in the shade" paraphrases
the song

[3F04] Treehouse of Horror VI
[the most ever? - ed]

+ "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
- Krusty as the Headless Horseman in the opening
sequence
+ "Attack of the 50-foot Woman"
- first segment title
- similar plot: large creatures rampage
+ "Godzilla"
- Lard Lad's roar is identical
+ "Big Boy" {av}
- "Lard Lad" is very similar to the restaurant chain's
huge statue
+ "Pep Boys" (Manny, Joe, and Mack) {ddg}
- the three "Zip Boys" on the sign
- the Pep Boys represent a chain of auto parts stores
{av}
+ Miller Genuine Draft ads {av}
- Duff cowboy similar to the cowboy on the neon marquee
of the Frontier casino in Las Vegas, which comes to
life and goes off with a cowgirl sign
+ Western Exterminator Co. {ert}
- the guy in the black suit and top hat (see capsule)
+ "Mr. Peanut" {av}
- the Planters character eats humans the same way people
eat peanuts
+ "Ghostbusters"
- Lard Lad rampaging through the city similar to Sta-Puf
Marshmallow Man's behavior
+ "Mork and Mindy"
- one of the aliens says "Shazbot", a trademark Mork
(Robin Williams) curse
+ "Nightmare on Elm Street"
- second segment title
- much of plot:
- kids being in real danger in their dreams
- Willy dresses like Freddy Kruger: brown hat,
striped sweater
- he uses a rake to scratch Bart's stomach, similar
to Kruger's glove with knives on the hand
- Martin dies in class, just like the girl who dies
of an asthma attack {hl}
+ Tex Avery/Hanna Barbera/Warner Brothers animation
- animation in Bart's dream is HB-esque
- the eyes popping out of his head is in the style of
Avery
- Bart holding up "Help me" sign just like Wile E.
Coyote, the Warner Bros. character
+ "The Pagemaster" {av}
- Martin's dream
+ "Maximum Overdrive" {np}
- killer Willy tractor tries running over Bart like in
the movie; the playground looks the same
+ "Terminator II" {al}
- Willy morphs into various things while sinking into
sand (cf. T1000 morphing while sinking into molten
steel)
+ "It" {av}
- Willy turns into a giant spider that eats kids
+ "Alien^3" {mkn}
- segment title written similarly
+ "Twilight Zone" episode "Little Girl Lost"
- much of plot of third segment:
- a little girl goes through her bedroom wall into
another dimension (the fourth, in her case)
- a physics expert comes in to explain what has
happened {bw}
- the picture Frink draws on the wall is the same
{sf}
- the muted guitar during Frink's explanation {rl}
- the girl's father (in this case, Bart) goes in to
save her but remains partially grounded in this
dimension {bw}
- Homer even says it's like the twilighty show about
that zone
+ "Tron" {bdp}
- the green grid looks as though it's from the movie
+ The video game "Myst"
- the building in the third dimension is the library
from the game
- the music is similar
+ "Beyond The Mind's Eye" {rl}
- the aquarium in 3D land is very similar; Homer's drool
is like the rain in the opening of "Afternoon
Adventure"
- a prolonged echoing note is played in this part
- the closing credits music is in the style of Jan
Hammer, who did the music for "The Mind's Eye"
+ "The Black Hole" {ddg}
- a graph bending into a hole
+ "Poltergeist"
- reverse-gating effect on Homer's voice similar to
Carol-Ann's voice
- "Move into the light" the same
- Bart with rope around waist similar too {wv}
+ "Flatland"
- Frink illustrating how to make a cube from a square
very similar
+ "Howard the Duck"
- Homer landing in a dumpster when he appears in our
world
- similar animation of Homer walking down the street
+ "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" {rl}
- Dan Castellaneta's name in the credits
+ Mighty Morphin Power Rangers {rl}
- supervising producer is "Mikey Mighty Morphin Scully"
+ "The Shining" {rl}
- producer is "Redrum Richard Raynis"
+ "The Terminator" {rl}
- Travis "The Terminator" Powers
- the lightning crackles just before Homer appears in
our world {jp}

[3F05] King Size Homer
+ "The Odd Couple" {ddg}
- in one episode, Oscar counts pushups how Homer does
+ "Much Ado About Nothing" {rl}
- Homer buys "Much Ado About Stuffing"
+ "Chips Ahoy" {rl}
- Homer buys "Ham Ahoy"
+ "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" {mc}
- Bart and others looking through window at obese Homer
lifted straight from the movie

[3F06] Mother Simpson
"A Christmas Carol" {dh}
- Homer reads his name on his tombstone, like Ebenezer
Scrooge in the story
+ "Ghostbusters"
- Homer mentions Dan Aykroyd, one of the stars of the
movie
- Homer's Pillsbury Doughboy doll is similar to the
giant Marshmallow Man in the movie
- Aykroyd's character in the movie says the Marshmallow
Man was one of his favorite childhood toys
+ 1988's "Running on Empty" {dga}
- plot of parents on the run after illegal acts in the
60s
+ "Get Smart" running gag {rl}
- Bart is unable to hear Lisa over the dryer
+ "Hee Haw" {hl}
- in her Tennessee driving license photo, Homer' mother
looks like Minnie Pearl with her trademark hat and
price tag
+ the 60s TV show "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"
- Maggie's dance very similar to how Goldie Hawn danced:
- music taken from the show
- camera zooming in and out
- slogans painted on the body ("Ban the bottle" a
pun on "Ban the bomb")
+ "Apocalypse Now"
- "Ride of the Valkyries" is played while attacking
+ "Dragnet"
- Joe Friday and Bill Gannon appear
- music when the two look at each other outside Burns'
office

[3F08] Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
+ "Twilight's Last Gleaming" {rl}
- episode title
+ "The Smothers Brothers"/an anti-nuclear war slogan
{ddg}/{av}
- CBS ordered the blackboard punishment (with "war"
instead of "wedgies") cut from "The Smothers Brothers"
when they tried to feature it on a large Mother's Day
card
- Bart's blackboard punishment same as 60s slogan,
except with "wedgies" instead of "nuclear war"
+ "Double Dare" TV game show on Nickelodeon
- Krusty's waste-of-food obstacle course (see capsule)
syndicated columnist Dear Abby {dh}
- Sideshow Bob says "my dear abbey"
+ Rupert Murdoch
- Sideshow Bob is arguing with someone who looks and
sounds a lot like him (see capsule)
+ "Full Metal Jacket" {br}
- Col. Hapablap asks, "What's your major malfunction?",
as does the drill sergeant from the Kubrick film
- R. Lee Ermey plays the Col. _and_ the sergeant in the
film
+ "Top Gun" {hl}
- the colonel says "need for speed" at the airshow
+ the Jumbotron TV screen
- "Tyranno-vision" a parody
+ "Hangar 18", the movie {av}
- this is where alien bodies from a crashed spacecraft
were supposedly stored after the Roswell, NM incident
+ "Dr. Strangelove"
- the colonel resembles Buck Turgidson, the man played
by George C. Scott {aw}
- Bob whistling "We'll Meet Again" while he hooks up the
TV connection
- war room under Springfield similar
- several characters from the movie are there (e.g., Dr.
Frink as Dr. Strangelove)
- the Col. says, "What in the world according to
Garp...", just like Slim Pickens (who was in "Dr. S")
in "Blazing Saddles": "What in the wide world of
sports..." {dga}
+ "Dr. Who"
- Tom Baker, one of the actors who portrayed Dr. Who,
appears in the war room as a representative of
television
+ "Family Matters" {rl}
- one of the TV representatives is an adult Steve Urkel
+ "Failsafe"
- sudden still photos of Springfieldianites just as the
bomb goes off similar to movie
+ a 1964 Lyndon Johnson campaign ad {jm}
- Maggie peering through the flowers (see capsule3F31] The Simpsons
138th Episode Spectacular
+ "Alien Autopsy"
- "Alien Nose Job" refers to the actual alien special
aired on Fox recently
+ "The Chevy Chase Show"
- there never was a Fox special devoted to this show,
that literally lasted five weeks
+ "Patton" {rl}
- "Matt Groening's picture" is on a backdrop of the US
flag, like the movie
+ "The Flintstones"
- Troy refers to the Simpsons as "America's favorite
non-prehistoric cartoon family"
+ Howard Hughes
- Sam Simon looks just like him
+ Madonna's "Sex" book
- Krusty's "Sex" book a clear parody
+ "Casino Royale" and other Bond movies
- James Bond gambling looks similar (it was Chemin de
Fer in the original film {ddg})
+ Domino's Pizza
- "30 minutes or it's free" from Lionel Hutz (see
capsule)
+ Richard Simmons
- well, duh
+ "Terminator 2"
- Richard Simmons robot's eye reforming very similar to
T1000
+ the OJ Simpson trial
- Troy's comment about the nuttiness of ignoring Simpson
DNA evidence, just as was done in the trial

[3F07] Marge Be Not Proud
+ John Donne's "Holy Sonnet #7" {ddg}
- episode title (the sonnet begins "Death be not proud")
- "Death Be Not Proud" is also a book by John Gunther
{bwd}
+ "Monty Python's Flying Circus" {jp}
- couch gag features Terry Gilliam-esque animation and
sound
- "Angus Podgorny" was the Scotsman played by Michael
Palin on an episode of "Flying Circus" {th2}
+ Little Debbie cupcakes {th}
- "Li'l Sweetheart Cupcakes"
+ Brazilian singer Xuxa ("SHOO-sha")
- Xoxchitla looks like her and has a similar name
+ "Slim Jim" commercial {br}
- Bonestorm commercial very similar:
- two bored kids looking for something interesting
to do
- a macho guy (in the actual commercial, he's a pro
wrestler) bursts in on them, causing havoc in the
process
- the big guy's tag line, "You want excitement?!" is
exactly the same as used on the commercial
+ "Forrest Gump" {br}
- Marge appropriates "Life is like a box of chocolates"
from the movie
+ "Bart Simpson's Guide to Life", page 36 {hl}
- to cure hiccups, "Place a wastebasket over your head
and have someone play the drum solo from In-a-gadda-
da-vida"
Lee Trevino, the golfer {th}
- Lee Carvallo is probably a reference to him (same
looks, voice)
- a video "Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf" exists, similar
to name of video game {rl}
+ "Mortal Kombat" etc. video games
- in the commercial for Bonestorm, the two characters
fighting on the screen bear a large resemblance to
Goro from MK
- and, the character fighting the tank looks like Liu
Kang from MK2 {np}
+ "Pic N Save" stores {ert}
- "Try-N-Save" has a similar name
+ "Alien Autopsy" show on Fox {jm}
- "Celebrity Autopsy" video game likely a reference to
it
+ "The Critic" {br2}
- Shatner hosts a ficticious "Celebrity Autopsy" show on
a previous "Critic" episode
+ "A Streetcar Named Desire" {dh}
- "A Streetcar Named Death" video game
+ "SimCity" etc. video games {dh}
- "SimReich" video game
+ "Operation: Wolf" video game {rl}
- "Operation: Resume" video game
+ "They Saved Hitler's Brain" {hp}
- "Save Hitler's Brain" video game
+ "Vegas Kid" {rl}
- "Canasta Master" is a parody
+ "Bloodstorm" video game {np}
- Gavin refers to this game, and it really exists (see
capsule)
+ "Donkey Kong", "Mario Brothers", etc. video games
- Mario, Luigi, and Donkey Kong (characters from these
games) try to talk Bart into stealing
+ "Sonic the Hedgehog" etc. video games
- Sonic tries to talk Bart into stealing
+ "SimCity" video game
- "SimReich" is visible in the display case
+ the Maxell tape commercial from the 70s
- Milhouse sitting in front of the TV with windswept
hair is straight from the commercial

[3F10] Team Homer
~ Cinnaburst commercials {jl}
- "Those magazines cause a disturbing amount of
laughter."
+ "The Jazz Singer" {rl}
- "I have no son!" line
+ Styx's song "Mr. Roboto"
- Homer says "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto", some lyrics
from the song
+ "The Killing Fields" {ddg}
- Homer has somehow acquired Dr. Haing S. Ngor's Oscar
for his role in the movie
+ the Nancy Kerrigan incident {th}
- masked person tries to disable a sports figure by
bashing their leg
+ "A Wrinkle in Time" {rt}
- children bouncing balls in unison similar to scene in
the movie
+ "Caddyshack" {ddg}
- the end of the bowling match is similar to the end of
the movie's golf match

[3F09] Two Bad Neighbors
+ the songs "Big Spender" and "Stayin' Alive"
- Homer sings them, but with different words
+ the late-50s TV show "Dennis the Menace"
- boy Dennis torments cranky adult neighbor Mr. Wilson
in the same way Bart torments Bush
- Mrs. Bush likes Bart, as Mrs. Wilson likes Dennis
- "Hello Mr. Bush!" similar to "Hello Mr. Wilson!"
- "Great Scot!" is both Bush's and Mr. Wilson's
exclamation {th}
- both men raise orchids, too {th}
- Hank Ketcham named George and Martha Wilson after
George and Martha Washington, a presidential joke
+ CNN coverage of "Desert Storm" {hl}
- fireworks around Bush's house look like the bombs
exploding in the night sky in Baghdad

[3F11] Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
Marx's "Communist Manifesto"
- he coined the term "class struggle", used in the title
+ "Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills" {mar}
- episode title
- a mediocre movie from 1989 about the sexual
relationships among a group of rich people and their
servents. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Ed Begley.
Jr.
+ "Chespirito"
- the Bumblebee Man show (yes, it's a recurring
situation) bears many similarities
+ Panasonic, Magnavox, Sony
- the knock-off TV brands' names
+ "Steppin' Out", movie with Liza Minelli
- name of clothes store
+ Jacqueline Kennedy nee Bouvier {hl}
- she wore a similar pink Chanel dress in Dallas
+ La traviata, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi {dga}
- Aria "Sempre libera" played while Marge vacuumed.
+ "NYPD Blue"
- Detective Sipowicz is the character played by Dennis
Franz
- coincidentally (or not?) Franz guest-starred in 2F06
as himself playing Homer!
+ "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" {bjr}
- the music that plays when OFF first drives up to the
clubhouse comes from this movie
+ "The Great Gatsby" {rp}
- Lisa's line "the rich are different from you and me"
is a direct quote
+ "Caddyshack"
- Homer acts like the boorish Rodney Dangerfield
character {hl}
- Tom Kite's scurrying away after Krusty's hit by
Homer's thrown club is similar to Bill Murray's
sneaking away after the bishop is hit by lightning
during his "miracle round" in the thunderstorm. {av}
+ "The New Our Bodies, Ourselves"
- Homer reads "The New Our Caddies Ourselves"
+ Groucho Marx {hl}
- Marge paraphrases a quote from him: "I would not want
to join a club that would have me as a member"
+ "After the Prom", a painting by Norman Rockwell {dga}
- Painting shows a young formally-clad couple at a cheap
diner, much like OFF at Krusty Burger.
- The puberty boy asks them, "Did you all just come from
the prom?" {gf}

[3F12] Bart the Fink
~ "Barton Fink" (Film by Joel & Ethan Coen) {dga}
- title of the episode sounds like the movie title
+ "Psycho"
- haunted house looks almost exactly like the one used
in film
+ "Fotomat" drive-through film developers {jh}
- "Tacomat" restaurant similar (location in parking lot)
+ Hindenburg Disaster
- the series set is called "Oh, the Humanity", which is
what a reporter on the scene uttered when the crash
occurred
+ Willie Nelson {hl}
- had similar tax problems
+ Enola Gay, the plane that bombed Hiroshima
- "I'm-on-a-rolla Gay" a parodied name
- Haynes Lee {hl} says it looks more like the Spirit of
St. Louis
+ Pickfair, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford's estate
{jh}
- Krusty lived at "Schtickfair"
+ "That's Amore"
- the Dean Martin song Krusty is talking about
Elvis Presley
- rumors of faking his own death
- the voting of the Krusty stamp
+ Buddy Holly {hl}
- he died in a plane crash
+ Dan McLean's "American Pie"
- "The Day the Local Laughter Died" pun on "The day the
music died", a line in the song
- the song was a tribute to Buddy Holly (see above)
"The Muppet Show"
- Troy introducing Bob Newhart and running back
applauding him like Kermit used to do
+ "Vertigo" (Film by Alfred Hitchcock) {dga}
- Bart looking for the dead Krusty like James Stewart
looking for Kim Novak.
- music used in the episode sounds like Bernard
Herrman's score
+ Moby Dick
- "Call me back, Ishmael" is rephrasing of first lines
"Call me Ishmael."
~ "Friends" {mar}
- earlier this season, it was revealed that Chandler had
a third nipple just like Krusty's
[Of course, the third nipple goes back to [8F24] -aag]
"Batman" (1989 film by Tim Burton) {dga}
- Krusty wears flesh-colored (well, yellow) makeup, like
the Joker, to cover his grotesque appearance.
+ "Sailor's Hornpipe"
- Handsome Pete plays this

[3F13] Lisa the Iconoclast
+ "The Brady Bunch"
- couch scene
+ The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson {bjr}
- "Here's jonnycakes" is like the introduction, "Here's
Johnny!"
+ Lucky Charms
- the red hearts, yellow moons, and green clovers on the
flag
~ Communications Decency Act {jm}
- The plot of the comic store guy's movie.
+ The assination of JFK {db}
- the "Wanted for Treason" on Lisa's papers were the
same as that written on the wanted posters for Lee
Harvey Oswald passed out in New Orleans with JFK's
face on it
~ "Psycho II" {dga}
- A body is exhumed
+ Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States {dga}
- Body exhumed by historians a few years ago (see
capsule)
"Day of the Jackal" {hl}
- Sniper's bullet narrowly misses victim when his head
suddenly turns
+ "National Lampoon's Animal House" {dm}
- Homer rams Flanders aside and catches his bell when it
falls back down just like when one of the frat
brothers does the same to the drum major and catches
his baton.

[3F14] Homer the Smithers
+ King Cobra Malt Liquor {ddg}
- "King Pin Malt Liquor" on the race cars
"The Flintstones"
- "Mr. Johnson or Johnstone"
+ "Relax (Don't Do It)", by Frankie Goes to Hollywood {hl}
- an '80s dance tune playing when Smithers calls Burns
the second time
+ "Swimming with Sharks" {bc}
- Burns throws pencils in Homer's face and yells at
Homer like Frank Whaley to Kevin Spacey
Billy Budd {dga}
- Homer punching Burns like Billy strikes Claggart
+ Michael Buffer, boxing ring announcer {ddg}
- Trademark "Let's get ready to rumble" said by Homer
(see capsule)
"X-Men" {vm}, {vr}
- the scene of Smithers punching Homer and getting his
hand stuck is from comic X-Men where Cyclops punches
the Blob and gets his hand stuck, and Blob starts
jabbing him.
"Terminator II: Judgement Day"
- others say the scene is from this movie, but I
dissent.
+ "A Clockwork Orange"
- Burns falling out the window like Alex attempting to
"snuff it" in the film {jl}
- Burns in casts on a bed, awating peanuts from Smithers
with the mouth opening exactly like Alex in the film

[3F16] The Day the Violence Died
+ "American Pie" (The Day the Music Died) {kab}
- Episode title
+ Shakespeare's Sonnet #30 {dp}, {vm}
- sonnet contains famous line "remembrance of things
past" which is referenced in the title of the I&S
cartoon
- Marcel Proust wrote a novel called "A La Recherche Du
Temps Perdu", or in English, "Remembrance of Things
Past" {dh2}
+ "Ghostbusters" {hl}
- Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd used fire extinguishers to
freeze ghosts and a liquid nitrogen freezer to detain
them
"Casper" {mk}
- sucking up ghosts with vacuum cleaners
+ "Superman" {dp}
- creators later poverty-stricken and forgotten (see
capsule)
+ "Looney Tunes" (the Road Runner cartoons) {hl}
- Wile E. Coyote attempts to defend himself from falling
anvils by holding up an umbrella
- chase scene in final I&S shown is straight out of the
Road Runner
- Acme(tm) products are used {jh}
+ "Felix the Cat" {mk}
- 1919 (the year "Manhattan Madness" was released) is
the same year that Felix's first cartoon, "Feline
Follies", was released
- the Irish villian looks like the hackneyed villian of
Felix cartoons
- much of the plot (see capsule))
+ "Steamboat Willie" {mk}
- "Steamboat Itchy" was released in 1928 like "Steamboat
Willie"
+ Warner Bros. character Foxy {mk}
- "Flatulent Fox" similar
+ Disney short "The Skeleton Dance" {mk}
- "Rich Uncle Skeleton" similar
+ Disney character Dippy Dawg, later renamed Goofy {mk}
- "Dinner Dog" similar
+ "We're In the Money"
- Lampwick whistles this song after leaving the Simpsons
home
+ "Schoolhouse Rock"
- "Amendment-to-be" a parody of "Just a Bill"
- similarities: {bjr}
- same music
- same opening shot
- same characters (the amendment [a bill in the
original cartoon], the little boy, the signed laws
that walk down the Capitol building stairs, and
the congressmen at the end)
- the amendment is voiced by Jack Sheldon like in SR
- same ending: man announces "Good news, you've been
approved" and hoists the bill and the kid on his
shoulder
+ "The Three Stooges"
- the bill with the bomb whoops like Curly
+ "The Tracey Ullman Show"
- Lester and Eliza bear an uncanny resemblance to
proto-Bart and Lisa, in the TU Simpsons shorts

[3F15] A Fish Called Selma
+ "A Fish Called Wanda" (the film that made Jamie Lee Curtis
famous)
- episode title
Richard Gere
- see capsule
~ "Pulp Fiction"
- "go medieval" is a phrase popularized by this film
"Back to the Future" {dp}
- driver's eye view from the DeLorean
+ "Body Double" {hl}
- the set of Troy's bedroom is out of this voyeuristic
movie
+ "MacArthur Park" (Jimmy Webb) {bs} {kab}
- name of Troy's agent, MacArthur Parker, similar
+ Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's agent {kab}
- MacArthur Parker's name is also similar to him
+ Visa {bjr}
- the card's ad slogan, "It's everywhere you want to
be," is echoed by McClure when he refers to Jub Jub
Mystery Science Theater 3000 {bjr}
- the phrase, "in the not-too-distant future," is from
the opening theme music to this show
+ "Planet of the Apes"
- well, duh
+ "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco
- "The Dr. Zaius Song" is a shameless parody of this hit
dance song
+ "Saturday Night Fever"
- the Travolta monkey pulling the trademark SNF pose
(hand pointed in air)
+ "Spartacus" {vm}
- Heston-esque guy saying "I love you Dr. Zaius!"
(Spartacus)
- spoofed twice in Gracie-produced show "The Critic", I
believe
+ "Rock 'N Roll Part Two" by Gary Glitter {my}
- the "Na na Hey!" song playing in Homer's head
+ Marilyn Monroe {hl}
- Selma dresses up like her, i.e. the black tights,
headscarf, cigarette holder, sunglasses, bathing suit,
beauty mark, and her sleeves rolled up like your
average starlet
+ Disney Land commercials {bjr}
- these feature people triumphantly shouting, "I'm going
to Disney Land!" (cf. Troy shouting, "I'm going to Sea
World!")
+ The Iliad of Homer (Helen of Troy) {bjr}
- Troy's proposed fragrance name, "Smellin' of Troy,"
similar
"Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (?)
(also speculated to be a Terry Gilliam reference)
- Troy's new movie title poster similar

[3F17] Bart on the Road
+ America West Airlines {jh}
- name "AmeriWestica" similar
+ Take your daughter to work day {bjr}
- Mr. Skinner bases his "Go to work with your parents
day" on this annual event
+ "Batman" (TV show)
- the "sliding down poles" thing
Kay Bee Toy Stores {vm}
- "Wee World" is similar
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" {hl}
- movie about a teenager who skips school and steals a
car with his friends
+ Apollo 13 disaster
- Lisa uses the trademark "Houston, we have a problem"
and calls it Homer 13
+ "Radar Love" by Golden Earring (circa 1975)
- the music playing on the radio
+ "The Bridges of Madison County"
- Martin's suggestion of destination takes from this
book/film
+ "White Lightning" {hl}
- Burt Reynolds drives car through cornfields like Bart
does
"National Lampoon's Family Vacation" {vr}
- the station wagon that pulled up beside the 4 guys,
where the dad threatened to turn the car aruond if the
kids didn't stop screwing around
+ "Phantom of the Opera" {vm}
- "Phantom of the Opry" based on this famous play (the
author eludes me)
+ The Grand Ole Opry {vm}
- "Phantom of the Opry" also a reference to the Carnegie
Hall of country/western performers
+ "Beatlemania" {ddg}
- "Alabamania" a parody
+ "Up With People," a black musical group {jh}
- "Up With White People" a parody
+ "Moon River"
- Andy Williams song
~ "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" {dga}
- Kirk pawns his reading glasses
+ "The China Syndrome" {br}
- Homer spilling Buzz Cola on the T-437

[3F18] Twenty-Two Short Films About Springfield
+ "Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" {mar}
- episode title
- a 1993 Canadian film about the famed pianist
~ "Catch-22" {hl}
- 22 in episode title
"Slacker" {mar}
- a 1991 comedy that follows a whole busload of people
around, one at a time. The form of this episode
reminded me of that
+ O-+->'s "1999"
- Apu's line "I'm going to party like it was on sale for
$19.99!"
Ball Park Franks {bjr}
- Apu's claim that the wieners will "plump in my
stomach" refers to Ball Park's claim that their hot
dogs "plump when you cook 'em."
+ The song Apu loves is some song by the "Funkytown" people
{vm}
- "I am the (?) Freakazoid/ Come on and wind me up"
"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" {hl}
- making whoopee at a pool party in the changehouse
+ Busby Berkeley films
- the way everyone falls into the pool is similar to the
diving thing done all the time
+ "Sing, Sing, Sing"
- song on radio is the theme song with this song's beat
+ "E.R."
- the very popular medical show. Dr. Nick's segment
parodied it
+ "Flatliners" {je}
- the fire light in Skinner's kitchen like the strange
light from the half-open bathroom door
+ "Pulp Fiction"
- the Wiggum/Snake/Herman plot:
- the Quarter Pounder/Royale with Cheese conversation
- Snake runs down Wiggum like Butch does to that mob
boss
- the convertible crashes much like Butch's car,
running down a fire hydrant/mailbox
- Snake and Wiggum/Butch and the mob boss fight
- the military antiques guy ties them up and is about
to subject them to atrocities
- military guy knocked out by a medieval weapon {jl}
+ "La Cucaracha"
- song on Pedro's radio
+ The Mexican Hat Dance
- song on Pedro's radio
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" {hl}
- Giant squid
"Green Acres" {hl}
- Eddie Albert uses a phone on top of a telephone pole
Animaniacs' "Potty Emergency" {vm}
- Milhouse/Wakko at a store trying to go to the bathroom
only to be repeatedly deterred
- "Bathroom's for paying customers only. You gotta buy
something." Even though Wakko didn't have any money.
{jl}
+ "McDonalds"
- the Hamburglar comic
- the Hamburglar on the book is the older one from the
1970s. The newer one has more of a round face and
does not look as sinister {hl}
+ "Pippi Longstockings", Swedish children's story turned
horrible film
- the name "Snippy Longstockings" is similar
"Friends" {bjr}
- Lisa's new hairstyle reminiscent of Monica Geller's
(Courtney Cox's character)
- Between this season of "Friends," and the one before,
several of the characters got new hairstyles. For
some reason modern science has yet to fathom, the
entertainment press devoted a lot of ink to this
subject
- Monica's new hairstyle, like Lisa's, was the subject
of mixed reviews
+ Robert Wadlow {vm}
- the tall guy bears a remarkable resemblance to the
tallest man who ever lived according to the Guiness
Book of World Records
"Be Our Guest" from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" {vm}
- Frink's theme song sounds very suspiciously similar to
this song

[3F19] "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
+ "Day of the Jackal" {hl}
- Sniper's bullet narrowly misses President Charles De
Gaulle when he turns his head (cf. Abe)
+ "The Wizard of Oz" {jh}
- scene with Grampa in bed similar to scene where
Dorothy wakes up from her dream
"Flying Leathernecks" {hl}
- John Wayne Marine movie
"The Eagle Has Landed" {hl}
- Fighting Germans at castle
"Kelly's Heroes" {hl}
- GI's steal Nazi gold.
"Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission" (made for TV) {hl}
- Allied soldiers foil plot to assassinate Hitler!
+ "They Saved Hitler's Brain" {bjr}
- Abe must have had foreknowledge of this 50's B-grade
science fiction flick when he drew a bead on the
German dictator
+ "Raiders of the Lost Ark" {jl}
- the light in the hellfish's eye pointing to exactly
where to dig
+ "The Deep" {hl}
- Scuba diving for treasure while evil men try to steal
it.
~ "The Abyss" {jl}
- Shots of the deep similar
+ "Black Widow" {jl} {vm}
- Abe saves a drowning Bart by offering him his oxygen
mouthpiece, which Bart refuses a few times
(Abe=Theresa Russell, Bart=Debra Winger)
+ "Mind Control" by D.J. Keoki {mp}
- music in the baron's car
- "a really cool New York D.J. who spins `trance'
techno"

[3F20] Much Apu About Nothing
+ Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"
- episode title
"Psycho" {mar}
- Ned's screaming is straight out of this film
"Tarzan" {jh}
- Homer swinging from the wire is similar
+ Country Bear Jamboree {bjr}
- the phrase, "Country Bear Jambaroo," is similar to
this Animatronic Disney attraction
"We're here, we're queer" at St. Patrick's Day parade
{bjr} {ddg}
- Homer lifted this chant from one of the more
aggressive gay-rights factions
+ Yogi Bear
- Moe's remark about "smarter than the average bear" and
the bear stealing "pic-a-nic" baskets
California's Proposition 187
- fervor over Prop. 24 similar
+ B-2 Stealth Bomber {bjr}
- the Bear Patrol plane is one of these hi-tech, hi-cost
bombers, with a coat of white paint
+ The "Milk Miracle" in India six months back {bg}
- Apu offering Ganesha Yoo-Hoo is a reference to this
(see capsule)
+ Satyajit Ray's film series "The Apu Trilogy" {et}
- Apu's father seems to be the image of the actor who
played Apu's father in the S. Ray films
+ Army Recruitment Poster {bjr}
- "I Want You ... Out!" spoofs the famous "Uncle Sam"
join-the-army advertisement
+ "Casablanca" {mar}
- the "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow" line is out
of this film
~ "Herman's Head" {ddg}
- Louise's father was working on "Turkey Jerky" (OK,
it's a stretch...)
+ "Cat Fancy" magazine {jh}
- "Cat Fancier" is a parody
+ National Geographic {jh}
- map used by Homer is from there (see capsule)
+ "The New Colossus", poem by Emma Lazarus {vm}, {mar}
- Wiggum's line is a paraphrase of this poem, about the
Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

[3F21] Homerpalooza
+ Annual rock concert Lollapalooza
- episode title (see capsule)
- "Hullabalooza"
"Jive Talking" by the Bee Gees {hl}
- Homer showing the kids how to say "jive"
+ CBS's "Read More About It" {ddg}
- Homer's line when the kids leave the carpool
+ "Mississipi Queen" by Mountain {gg}
- second song on Homer's radio
~ "Necessary Roughness" {vm}
- "Par-tay"
+ Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" {hl}
- name of the record store
+ "Hullaballoo" {hl}
- an NBC music and dance show of long past.
+ "Rock and Roll All Night" by KISS {hl}
- Homer saying he is going "Rock and roll all night and
party every day"
- KISS's first concert in 17 years was widely publicized
when this episode aired too
"Scooby-Doo" {jl}
- the 2nd-base mobile guy bears a striking resemblance
to Fred
- the mobile looks like the Scooby-Doo gang's van
+ Edgar Winter Band's "Frankenstein"
- music during the strobe light scene
+ "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer {hl}
- Homer and Barney butcher it
+ Robert Crumb's "Keep On Trucking"
- animation while Homer walks cool before he is claimed
to be a NARC
+ Pink Floyd's "Animals" album {hl}
- cover had a lot of pigs
- Pink Floyd reportedly hauled around the giant pig
balloon while touring on this album. They recently
brought it out of retirement for one of their more
recent tours {bjr}
+ "Zero"
- the Smashing Pumpkins' song
+ "Planet of the Apes"
- someone in the crowd wears a T-shirt featuring Dr.
Zaius, that wacky orangutan
+ "Insane in the Brain"
- Cypress Hill's second song
+ "Do You Feel Like I Do?"
- Peter Frampton's song
+ "The Flintstones"
- someone in the crowd wears a Great Gazoo shirt
+ "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult {hag}
- Homer's line
+ Guns and Roses' "Appetite For Destruction" album {jh}
- Homer's line "... but all I really wanted was a club
sandwich."
+ Huey Lewis and the News' "Hip to be Square"
- Homer's line "like the song says"
- many people thought it wasn't square enough to be hip,
like me. {vm} [Hey, I like that song! --ed]

[3F22] Summer of 4 Ft. 2
+ "Summer of '42"
- episode title
- movie about a teenage boy coming of age during the
summer at a beach house {hl}
+ "All Things Considered" {bjr}
- the owner of the Gull Things Considered shop must be a
fan of this program
+ "TJ Maxx" and "K-Mart", two bargain stores {am2}
- "Tee Jay Zaymart" is a parody
+ Pippi Longstocking
- hallucination at the library
- Pippi is a creation of Astrid Lindgren, about a
mysterious girl who goes on all sorts of adventures.
{mar}
+ The New Yorker's "Eustace B. Tilley" {dga}
- tells Lisa about periodicals on microfiche (although I
think "The New Yorker" is on micro_film_)
[It's available on film, fiche, and bound periodicals.
-aag]
+ "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
- the animated characters were slightly Simpsonofied
versions of the John Tenniel illustrations
- where they came up with that hostage situation, I have
no idea
"In Living Color" {bjr}
- a recurring sketch on this program featured an ugly
girl (really a guy in drag) [Wanda --ed] who said,
"I'm gonna rock your world" (cf. "I'm gonna Bart their
world")
"Hawaii Five-O" {vm}
- music from Bart's skateboarding scene
+ "American Graffiti" {hl}
- Toad orders a bottle of Old Harper for his date like
Homer {rjr}
- Beach Boys song "All Summer Long" played at the end
Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" {vm}
- shots of the beach similar to "Walrus and the Carpenter"
[4F02]Treehouse of Horror VII
+ "Day of the Locust" {jh}
- "Day of the Cohen" in the opening credits

+ "The King and I", musical by Rogers & Hammerstein.
- "The Thing and I"
+ "Fish Heads", song by Barnes & Barnes
- Homer humming this song
"Chinatown" {dga}
- "Do you know what happens to nosey detectives/kids?"
"The Exorcist" {jm}
- strange sounds come from the attic (which also has a
pulldown stepladder)
+ "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", classic novel by Victor
Hugo
- Hugo's name
- Hugo is similar to Quasimodo
- a difformed creature living recluse in an attic
Pap Smear {bjr}
- Dr. Hibbert's "soul smear" might be related to this
test for cervical cancer
"Basket Case" {dp}
- siamese twin wants to be re-connected to the other
"Frankenstein", classic horror tale by Mary Shelley
- creating life out of discarded body parts (ie
pigeon-rat)

+ "SimCity 2000", computer games {dga}
- That's what Lisa's city looks like
+ "Battleground", short story by Stephen King {av}
- someone is attacked by tiny spaceships / army men
who seek revenge
- note that the next story in the book ("Trucks") was
made into the movie "Maximum Overdrive",
co-starring Yeardley Smith
+ "Star Wars" {dp}
- spaceships attacking Bart similar to attack on the
Death Star
"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" {hl}
- Miniature alien race retaliate by sending miniature
space fleet to earth (Bart)
+ "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" {bjr}
- The man who asked, "Why do bad things happen to
good people," must have read this book

+ "Citizen Kane", classic film by Orson Welles
- "Citizen Kang" spoofs the title of this classic movie
~ "Saturday Night Live"
- Phil Hartman doing Clinton
+ "Independance Day (ID4)"
- shadow of Bart's head moving over the crowd {dp}
- alien ship over the White House, firing a laser
beam / grappling hook directly through the middle
- "Inauguration Day" on-screen
+ "2001: A Space Odyssey"
- The corpses of the real Dole and Clinton drift into
space like the body of Frank Poole.
+ "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers", 50's movie by Ray
Harryhausen
- flying saucer crashing into the Capitol dome
+ "V" Television Series {rs}
- unmasking the alien leader(s)
"Scooby-Doo"
- Ripping off the masks of the villains

+ "Bad to the Bone" song by George Thorogood {jh}
- "Brad to the Bone Bird" in the closing credits

[3F23] You Only Move Twice
+ "Everything I Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten", best-seller by Robert Fulghum
- blackboard gag
+ Any James Bond Movie
- Mr. "Bont" look similar to Bond
- shootout in villain's cavernous hideaway, with
henchmen running along catwalks along the walls {dp}
- Hank Scorpio: the villians in James Bond films
usually have odd names (Dr. No, Goldfinger,
Blofeld...) {mar}
"Dr. No" (1962)
- a flamethrower was also used in this movie {mk}
+ "You Only Live Twice" (1967)
- title
- Scorpio's doomsday gun room looks just like the
rocket room at the end of this movie
- final fight scene with troops dropping in through
the roof
+ "Goldfinger"
- Bond/Bont chained to a table with a laser nearing
his groin
- "Do you expect me to talk?" // "No, I expect you
to die!"
- in the movie, Bond gets Goldfinger to stop; here,
Bont uses a quarter {rl}
- closing song is a takeoff from this movie's theme
song
+ "Goldeneye"
- the principal female villain kills an opponent by
squeezing his neck between her legs, just like
Xenia Onnatop
+ "Hooray For Hollywood", 1937 song from the movie
"Hollywood Showcase"
- Smithers' song at the beginning of the episode.
+ "My Fair Lady" {dga}
- Smithers steps out of his house much like Henry
Higgins does
+ "The Money Pit" {ljs}
- house falling apart
- someone falls through the top floor
+ "A Tale of Two Cities" from Charles Dickens
- "A Tale of One City" video
"The Firm"
- a new job that's just too good {dga}
- the scene in which they first drive up to the
house is a reference to this movie {tb}
"The Stepford Wives"
- similar plot about moving to a too-perfect town {dp}
- Marge drinking the wine {ddg}
~ McDonald's commercial
- Maggie in her Swing-A-Majig reminds one of this
commercial {bs}
- follow-up of this commercial had the swing stop,
and the baby reaching a switch to resume it {dtm}
"The Jetsons" {dp}
- the moving sidewalks in the exercise room
"Rhoda" {msr}
- the "fall in my arms and I'll catch you" gag, and
the phone rings right when the person falls
"Dr. Strangelove" {dga}
- a "Doomsday Device"
+ "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (Inspector Clouseau
movie) {hl}
- Clouseau's boss goes mad and threatens to destroy
the world with a ray gun he has commandeered
+ "59th Street Bridge" song by Simon and Garfunkel {rs}
- Scorpio blows up this bridge
"In Living Color" {eh}
- A sketch called "Snack and Shack Cafe" had a
waitress that got condiments from her shirt.
+ "Barney and Friends"
- "I Like Me, I Like Me" is similar to Barney the
Dinosaur's infamous "I Love You, You Love Me" song
~ "Police Academy" {hl}
- Leslie Easterbrook's character subdues men by
squeezing their heads between her thighs
"Command & Conquer" computer game {ak}
- closing scenes with the marines fighting Scorpio's
troopers
- Scorpio flame-throwing people and throwing grenades

[4F03] The Homer They Fall
+ Mike Tyson, Don King, Fan Man [see comments]
+ Various Boxing References {hl}
- Mohammed Ali's post boxing career physical illness
caused by too many blows to the head.
- Organized crime allegations, Fat Tony in audience.
- Ringside doctors are under-qualified quacks, Dr.
Nick Riviera.
+ "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" -- common
phrase {rl}
- title
+ The Sharper Image {bjr}
- Miscellaneous, Etc. based on this personal gadget
store
- similar expensive, unusual merchandise (I think
The Sharper Image might actually have sold an
electric nose hair trimmer at one time)
- store decor, with horizontal wood slats, the same
+ "Doctor Who" {mk}
- displays in the technology store are shaped similar
to the TARDIS's main console
"Speed" {dp}
- close-up on Bart's turn signal similar to a shot
in the movie
+ "The Great White Hype" {bah}
- satire about the whole boxing scene pretty
identical in style in both the movie and this
episode.
+ "Flower Duet", from opera Lakme by Leo Delibes {dga}
- music during the B&W scene where Homer becomes
Springfield champ
Boxcar Willie {dp}
- a boxer in the Springfield Semi-Pro Association is
named "Boxcar Ira"
+ "Raging Bull", movie
- black and white boxing scenes in the middle of the
episode {psk}
- during the black and whtie montage, Homer is seen
wearing sunglasses and a hawaiian shirt, very
similar to that of Deniro's LaMotta {st}
- various slow-motion shots during the final bout {bt}
+ "Rocky" / "Prize Fighter" {dn}
- Homer running along side Moe on a bicycle
+ "Rocky"
- a lot of the training sequences
- the ending part where Marge asks Moe not to let
Homer fight (I think) {rl}
- Burgess Meredith says to Sylvester Stallone:
"You will always be a loser" {hl}
"Mike Tyson's Punchout", Nintento video game {bah}
- Homer's opponents look like boxers from the video
game popular in the late 80s. At the end of the
episode like at the end of the game, the opponent
is Mike Tyson (aka Drederick Tatum in "The Homer
They Fall".) and he's unbeatable.
~ "The Godfather" {rl}
- probably not, but the scene after Lucius Sweet
talks to Moe reminds me of the end of the movie
+ Heidi Fliess Scandal [see comments]
- Rainier Wolfecastle caught in "Hollywood
Prostitution Scandal"
- Charlie Sheen in boxing audience
+ "Why Can't We Be Friends?", '70s song by War {jh}
- Homer chose this song as his theme
+ "Time 4 Sum Aksion", by Redman {mf}
- Tatum chose this song, just like Tyson did for his
first fight after jail
+ "People Who Need People", Barbra Streisand song from
'60s "Funny Girl" {mar}
- song over the closing credits

[4F05] Burns, Baby Burns
+ "Burn, baby, burn", slogan of the Watts riots. {dga}
- title
+ "Caddyshack", movie starring Rodney Dangerfield {msr}
- Rodney Dangerfield's character insults everyone in
the country club dining room, and badmouths the food
- Rodney's character tells everyone to party at the
very end
- everyone including Rodney's character dances to
"Anyway You Want It" by Journey
+ "Stover at Yale", book by Owen Johnson {jn}
- Dink Stover is the main character of this story
+ "Ransom", 1996 movie
- The previews for this episode were a parody of
previews for that movie
- Coincidentally, this story is loosely similar to
Ransom, about a father whose son is kidnapped. {ol}
"Friends" {ddg}
- Burns had sex in a museum like Ross & Rachel did
+ "Death of a Salesman", play by Arthur Miller {pa}
- "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away!
A man is not a piece of fruit!" is a line from this
play.
+ Rodney Dangerfield's catchphrase, "I don't get no
respect" {ddg}
- "I don't get no regard."
+ 1993 Simpsons Calendar {ddg}
- one page had Marge standing next to guards at
Buckingham Palace; her hair looked like a blue
version of their hats
Donkey Kong Country video game {ljs}
- Homer looks and sounds like Donkey Kong when he
calls Mr. Burns with the kazoo in his mouth.
+ JFK Assassination {hl}
- Homer and Larry hide in a movie theatre like Lee
Harvey Oswald.
+ "Johnny Hollywood" {rl}
- final showdown is in a theater
- Joe Pesci imagines giving himself up to the cops
and getting shot
+ "Anyway you want it" by Journey {hl}
- plays over the credits

[4F06] Bart After Dark
+ "Playboy After Dark", 60s-era (?) show hosted by Hugh
Heffner {sr}
- title
+ "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
- the couch gag copies this album cover
- the final chord of "A Day in the Life" is played
+ "Jenny Jones" talk show {hl}
- a man murders another man after show when he
reveals that he is a secret admirer
+ Exxon Valdez Spill
- Captain James Hazelwood runs the Exon Valdez
aground off the coast of Alaska. A breathalyser
test taken six hours later reveals that even then
he is still drunk as a skunk
+ Baby Seals {hl}
- Brigitte Bardot's crusade against the slaughter of
baby seals off the east coast of Canada
+ "North by Northwest" (or possibly, "Vertigo") {dga}
- Bart hanging from the eaves was much like Cary
Grant hanging from Mt. Rushmore
"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", musical and
movie {ljs}
+ Jaqueline Kennedy {bjr}
- Quimby's wife and the late First Lady seem to have
the same fashion consultant
+ "Our House", song by Crosby, Stills and Nash {ol}
- "Our house, is a very very very fine house" is the
same as Lovejoy's assessment of Belle's burlesque
after the showtune
+ Twiggy, a very anorexic looking model from the 60s {hl}
- Marge's dummy's name

[4F04] A Milhouse Divided
+ Matthew 12:25 "...every house divided against itself
shall not stand." {dga}
- title
+ "Scooby-Doo"
- the characters in the various Scooby-Doo series
lived Homer's idea of marriage -- driving around in
a van solving mysteries
+ "I Love the Nightlife" (Disco Round) by Alicia
Bridges {dp2}
- Luanne sings a bit of the chorus before burning
Kirk's belongings.
"Friends" TV series {ak}
- Luanne burning Kirk's things
"Waiting to Exhale" {dga}
- the torching of the car (cf. Kirk's shirts)
"The War of the Roses" {dp}
- divorcing couple destroy each other's things
+ "Pandora's Box," classic 1928 film by G.W. Pabst {dga}
- Luanne has a haircut like Louise Brooks in the
movie, and is called "Lulu" by Chase, like Brooks'
character.
~ Leslie Van Houten
- was also nicknamed Lulu
[can anyone give me details on this one? --ed]
+ "American Gladiators"
- Bart mentions this show
- Mrs. Van Houten and her date left in an "Atlasphere"
- the music
~ "Starla" by The Smashing Pumpkins {dn}
- Kirk's new girlfriend
Carvel Ice Cream {jk}
- whale cake
Nature CDs {ak}
- Homer's "sounds of the sea"
+ Crest toothpaste commercial from the '70s {hl}
- "Only three cavities? Your best check-up ever."
+ "True", 1984-5 song by Spandau Ballet
- as performed by the "One Doobie Brother" band

[4F01] Lisa's Date With Density
+ "Back to the Future" {dga}
- mixing up "Density" and "Destiny," as in the title
+ M*A*S*H
- Colonel Potter said "balderdash" alot like
Superintendent Chalmers {hl}
+ The old-as-the-Net "Make Money Fast!" scam
- although pyramidal schemes existed eons ago, this
scheme was probably the inspiration for Homer's
"Happy Dude" scam
+ Winston Churchill's radio address, on October 1st, 1939
- Churchill referred to Russia as "a riddle wrapped
in a mystery inside an enigma", just like Lisa
described Nelson {ddg}
"Thunderball", James Bond movie {xn}
- raising his eyebrow, saying "Oh, REALLY?"
"She Don't Use Jelly", song by Flaming Lips {ns}
- "She'll make you toast, but she don't use butter,
[...] she uses vaseline"
"Waterworld"
- a "Nuke the Whales" bumper sticker shown, like
Nelson's poster {dp}
+ The Catcher in the Rye, book from J.D. Salinger {tma}
- someone is called a "crumb-bum"
+ Psycho
- the interior of Skinner's house {dh}
+ "Rebel Without a Cause"
- Nelson's "tool" outfit
- the cops chasing Nelson, who Lisa thought was just
"misunderstood"
- the observatory in the background
- the picnic
- Lisa's red windbreaker {wj}

[4F07] Hurricane Neddy
+ "How and Why", series of science books {jh}
- Lisa's "The How, Why, and Huh? Book of Weather"
+ Wizard of Oz, classic movie {hl}
- Hurricane carrying away bowling alley similar to
tornado carrying away Dorothy's house
+ Twister, 1996 blockbuster movie
- Homer is pulled back in the cellar by his family
+ "The Butthole Surfers"
- Todd wears a shirt of this band
+ The Bible / "God's Favorite", a play by Neil Simon {as}
- Ned is a very religious man who lost his home and
place of work and questions whether God is testing
him. This mirrors Job and Joe Benjamin
respectively.
~ Home Improvement, TV series {hl}
- Buiding of a house, many goofs made
"Alice in Wonderland", Disney's adaptation of this
Lewis Carrol novel {jps} / "Willy Wanka and the
Choclate Factory" {ac}
- a tiny door leading to a room
~ The Dream Team {ljs}
- patient drives other patients to the nuthouse.
- same patient has an attitude proplem.
- same patient has discipline problem
- same patient has to rely on spouse to help him.
+ One Who Flew over the Cuckoos Nest {hl}
- Nurse looks like Nurse Rachett
~ Return of the Pink Panther (or Pink Panther Strikes
Back) {ddg}
- someone with a straitjacket using his feet as hands
+ "Swanson's Hungry Man Dinners"
- Swanson's Angry Man Dinners
+ "Dick Tracy", comic strip
- Ned is pretending to be both Dick Tracy, and
Pruneface
"A Clockwork Orange", novel/movie by Stanley
Kubrick {jk}
- Flanders undergoes a experimental treatment plan
that is better than it should have been
"Silence of the Lambs", movie {dga}
- a cannibalistic mental patient
+ "The Critic", TV cartoon
- Jay "It stinks!" Sherman appears
+ Martin Lawrence's "You So Crazy" {np}
- Homer drops this line to Ned at the end of the
episode

[3F24] El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer
+ "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover", song by Paul Simon
- "Fifty Ways to Waste Your Weekend" headline
~ Chip 'n' Dales "Rescue Rangers" {ljs}
- A large man falls into a pink cotton candy machine
and then runs around still wearing it
Pope of Greenwich Village {hl}
- Pope of Chili Town
+ "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
- music when Homer and Wiggum meet
"Tapeheads" {np}
- Homer drinks from a candle holder, like a character
in the film
+ "Pinhead", by the Ramones {np}
- Flanders' gibberish ends on "Gabba Gabba Hey" from
this song
+ "I Am the Walrus", by the Beatles
- Homer hears Jasper say, "Goo goo ga joob," which is
a line from this Beatles song
+ Any "Charlie Brown" cartoon
- the hallucinated Ms. Krabappel sounds like adults
in these cartoons
"Altered States" {rav}
- a South American plant (mushroom) causes
hallucinations
- the hero's wife appears in his vision, then blows
away like sand
~ "Beavis and Butthead Do America" {ns}
- Homer's hallucination is reminiscent of Beavis's
thirst-induced hallucinations in this movie
"Beetlejuice" {dp2}
- the unknown dimension that Homer wanders around in
is similar to the one encountered outside of the
Beetlejuice house (the stripped snake-like creature
is seen in both)
+ "Aladdin" (Disney) {rj}
- the snake twisting around homer
+ "Fiddler on the Roof" {bjr}
- Homer speaks the lyrics "Sunrise, Sunset" while
playing with the sun
"Alice in Wonderland" (Disney Animated Version) {dga}
- Homer's "D'oh!" is visible as clouds, much like the
various utterances of the Caterpillar in this movie
Terminator 2 {rj}
- Homer morphin around and "flipping" the direction
of his face
+ Alice in Wonder Land
- the chesire cat appears in similar ways, forming
out of thin air
"The Teachings of Don Juan", "Journey to Ixtlan",
books by Carlos Castaneda
- a coyote speaking of inner wisdom [see comments]
+ "At Seventeen", 1975 song by Janis Ian
- song when Homer searches his soulmate
[{jmb} notes that Ian also sang "Coyote" -- how
appropriate]
~ United Way {jh}
- "Community Outreach" might be a reference to this
"The Ten Commandments" {dga}
- Homer running to the lighthouse resembles the
parting of the Red Sea
"The Carol Burnett Show" {tl}
- In one sketch, an oversized light bulb is produced
and simply screwed into a lighthouse socket
+ "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
- Cap'n McAllister uses this book title as an epithet
Speed {sb}
- The scene where Homer and Marge kiss as the ship
crashes is similar
+ "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus", book from
John Gray
- Homer and Marge echo this book title (in reverse
order).
+ "Short Shorts", 1958 song by the Royal Teens
- Lenny (almost) echoes one of the lines of the song
when he asks, "Who wants short shorts," and the
crowd acknowledges with, "We like short shorts!"

[3G01] The Springfield Files
+ "The X Files", tv series
- "The Springfield Files" episode title
- Bart's chalkboard parodies the series' slogan "The
Truth is Out There"
- The X Files' theme is played when the alien appears
- Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the series' main
characters
- Locations and descriptions are "typed" at the
bottom of the screen
- During the lie detector scene, Cigarette Smoking
Man (aka Cancer Man) appears in the background
- Alien encounter is a common X Files plot
- The alien appears every Friday night, which was the
time slot for The X Files a year ago
- Scully's mug and clipboard bear a giant "X"
"The Rockford Files" {jh}
- "The Springfield Files" episode title
+ "In Search of...", 70's documentary of the paranormal
- Leonard Nimoy hosts a similar show to his own
+ "Speed", 1995 blockbuster movie
- Homer picked up his camera trick from this movie
+ "Saturday Night Fever", 70's movie
- Lenny's clothing and dance moves are copied from
John Travolta's character
+ "Happy Days", tv series
- The "Sit on It" expression comes from this series
~ "Road Rovers" {jk}
- Jasper after taking his Wednesday pills on Friday,
looks like Shag, one of the heroes on the show
+ "Waterworld", movie starring Kevin Costner
- Milhouse putting in 40 quarters for a crappy
videogame is a reference to this movie's
over-the-top budget, which only equalled the
disappointment it caused.
+ "Better Homes & Gardens" magazine
- "Better Homes Than Yours"
+ American Broadcasting Companies, Columbia Broadcasting
System, National Broadcasting Corporation (three major
TV networks)
- Bart and Lisa mention ABC's T.G.I.F. 2-hour comedy
lineup, NBC's Must See Thursday, and CBS'... well...
+ "Red Dog" beer
- Red Tick beer
St. Pauli beer {bjr}
- The Red Tick Beer label is similar to this beer's
label
+ "Psycho", Alfred Hitchcock movie
- The Springfield Philharmonic is playing the famous
Bernard Herrmann score from the shower scene
+ "High Anxiety", Mel Brooks movie
- A dramatic music is actually played by an orchestra
The crop circles in England {gb}
- Homer spells out "Yahhh!" by running through the
field
+ "Family Matters", tv comedy
- Urkel is a character from this series
+ "Rocky", movies starring Sylvester Stallone
- Apollo Creed is one of Rocky's opponents
+ "Alien Autopsy", Fox special
- Homer's comment about selling the alien to the Fox
network
+ "Star Wars", "Alf", "The Day the Earth Stood Still",
"Looney Tunes"
- Chewbacca, Alf [{bjr} mentions his name is Gordon],
Gort and Marvin the Martian appear in the FBI lineup
+ "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial", Steven Spielberg movie
- Brockman parodies the movie's line "E.T. phone home"
"A Christmas Story" {ch}
- The file photo of Homer shows him with his tongue
stuck to a lamp post, just like the character Flick
in this movie
+ "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", Steven Spielberg
movie
- Devil's Tower is pictured on Lisa's Junior Skeptic
magazine and on Mulder's office wall
- Brockman muses on a "Close Encounter of the Blurred
Kind"
- The school band plays the notorious five-note music
- Clouds swarm around Marge's hair before the alien
appears just like around Devil's Tower before the
mother ship appears
+ "The Shining"
- "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is
repeatedly typed
+ "Budweiser" beer TV commercial
- Three frogs croak "Bud" "Weis" "Er"
+ "Hair"
- All the characters sing "Good Morning Starshine"

[4F08] The Twisted World of Marge Simpson
~ James Bond {hl}
- Bart's Blackboard line is "I am not licensed to do
anything"
+ Whack-A-Mole
- the couch scene imitates America's favorite
mole-whacking game
+ "International House of Pancakes"
- Municipal House of Pancakes
- The outside and inside styling is very similar,
too {bjr}
~ Microsoft {jh}
- Oklasoft sounds similar
+ "Lost in Space"
- Investo the Robot says "Danger! Danger!" like the
Robot from the series
"Star Wars" {dp2}
- Bart's R2-D2 whistle sound
+ "Can't Stop the Music", by the Village People {hl}
- Disco Stu's Can't Stop the Learnin' Disco Academies
+ "Do the Hustle" by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony
- Plays in the background at Disco Stu's booth
+ "Saturday Night Fever"
- Picture of Travolta as Tony Manero on the wall
behind Disco Stu
+ "Happy Days" {dp}
- Disco Stu goes "a-y-y-y-y" like the Fonz
+ "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka" {np}
- Disco Stu's goldfish platforms are similar to a
pair worn by a pimp in the film
+ "New Attitude", 1985 song by Patti LaBelle {dp2}
- Fleet-A-Pita new franchise welcome song
+ "The Grapes of Wrath", 1940 movie based on John
Steinbeck's novel {dp2}
- The Frank Ormand Pretzel Wagon territory speech to
Marge is a play on Tom Joad's famous lines
+ "Don't Stop", 1977 hit by Fleetwood Mac {dp2}
- Played by the Fleet-A-Pita crew as they pulled into
the SNPP parking lot
+ Q-bert, 80's video game
- One of Cletus' kids bears this name
+ Vin Scully, Los Angeles Dodgers' announcer
- The stadium PA announcer sounds like him
+ Pontiac Trans Sport/Chevy Lumina APV {dp}
- "Pontiac Astro Wagon" is a copy
"Godfather" {hl}
- Splattering pizza in restaurant similar to Al
Pacino's hit job.
"Casino" {np}
- The confrontation between Marge and Fat Tony in the
desert is similar to the one between DeNiro's and
Pesci's characters

[4F10] Mountain of Madness
+ "At the Mountains of Madness," novella by H.P.
Lovecraft {dga}
- Title
+ Green Acres
- Two of the employees paired in the race are "Haney
and Drucker"; Mr Haney was the junk dealer from
"Green Acres" and Sam Drucker owned the general
store.
The Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11 {dga}
- Burns's remark about the race going to the swift
Life In Hell #300, "Lies My Older Brother and Sister
Told Me" (1986) {vc}
- Two identical snowflakes
Beetlejuice {jk}
- "It's Showtime"

[3G03] Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious
+ "Mary Poppins" {dk}
[I had to strip down a bit, as almost every detail
was lifted from Mary Poppins --ed]
- Jane and Michael Bank suggest a nanny through a
song; father interrupts, mother scolds him
- after interviewing candidates, none is fit for the
job
- Mary Poppins makes her entrance, coughing over a
chimney
- Mary uses the handle of her umbrella to pull the
doorbell rope
- Mr. Banks interviews Mary, who claims to be
"practically perfect in every way"
- Mary slides up the banister, to the kids' amazement
- Mary puts up a song when cleaning the kids' room
- Mary sings with her counterpart as a mirror
reflection
- Mary and the kids take a walk in the park
- they stumble across Bert, a one-man musical band,
who concludes his act by smacking his face with a
cymbal, under the watchful eye of a constable
- Bert immediately recognizes Mary by her shadow
- Mary and the kids fly kites at the park
- Mary Poppins is said to be "ever so much fun"
- Mary changes a greedy bank owner
- "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is used
- Mary puts the kids to bed and sings about a beggar
asking for money
- Mary has a tea party on the ceiling
- Mr. Banks sings about his great life
+ Mary Poppins songs {jk}
- "A Spoonful of Sugar" "Cut Every Corner"
"Feed the Birds Tuppence a Bag" "A Boozehound
Named Barney"
+ The Ku Klux Klan
- The unfortunate initials of the Krusty Komedy
Klassics
+ David Letterman's "Stupid Pet Tricks"
- Krusty's show features "Dumb Pet Tricks"
+ "Mad About You", "NYPD Blue"
- "Mad About Shoe", "NYPD Shoe"
+ The musical "Hair"
- the title song is played (although it's the
Cowsills version, and not the original cast)
~ Burnside (Street from Groening's old neighborhood) {dk}
- Homer's part at Moe's Tavern
+ "Steamboat Willie"
- Homer's black-and-white-cartoon-playing-
"Turkey-In-The-Straw"
brain resembled Mickey's cow's rendition
+ Mickey Mouse/Donald Duck, two Disney cartoon characters
- Shary mentions Rickey Rouse & Monald Muck as
original creations
+ "Speed", 1994 Blockbuster
- "Pop quiz, hot shot [...] What do you do? What DO
you do?"
+ "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" {gb}
- Shary kisses Nelson just like Snow White kisses
Grumpy (and they have a similar reaction)
+ "Flashdance"
- Willie sings "Maniac" and dumps water onto his head
like the main character in the movie (or rather, her
dance double)
+ "Oliver Twist" / "Oliver!"
- selling a kid in a 19th-century London setting
+ "A Christmas Carol" {gb}
- Burns' "Bah, humbug"
"Love, American Style" {gb}
- the heart-shaped frame closing in after the
Barney/Moe song
+ "Before They Were Stars"
- OFF watches "Before They Were Famous" on television
"The Critic" {bjr}
- the set of "Before They Were Famous" resembles Jay
Sherman's movie reviewing set
+ The Oscar Meyer commercial
- my bologna has a first name, it's ...
+ "The Sound of Music"
- Shary mutters, "Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So..." while getting
Homer a beer
+ "The Andy Griffith Show"
- A rather warped version of it appears
+ "Death Wish" {gb}
- In the Griffith parody, Charles Bronson plays a
part similar to his famous vigilante character in
this movie
+ "Reservoir Dogs", movie by Quentin Tarantino
- The I&S title was "Reservoir Cats" and the special
guest director was Quentin Tarantino
- The warehouse setting was a perfect replica of that
in the movie
- Mr.Blonde (Itchy) tortures Marvin Nash (Scratchy)
while dancing to "Stuck in the Middle With You."
- Scratchy is tied up in a chair with duct tape over
his mouth
- Itchy pours gasoline on Scratchy, then cuts his ear
off (as the camera pans off to the left)
+ "Pulp Fiction"
- Itchy and Scratchy are dressed like Vince and Jules
- They dance like Vince and Mia do at Jackrabbit
Slim's in the end of the cartoon
- The song playing is "Miserlou", Pulp Fiction's
opening theme
+ "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealer's Wheel {hl}
"Miserlou" by Dick Dale {dp2}
- both are played in "Reservoir Cats"
+ "Margaritaville", by Jimmy Buffet
- Shary and Barney sing it
- Barney is dressed like Buffet, in a tacky Hawaiian
shirt {gb}

[4F12] The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
+ Desilu Studios (started by Desi Arnaz and Lucille
Ball) {jp}
- Krustylu Studios
[Was Krusty ever married to a woman named Lucy?
-- {dp}]
+ Happy Days
- Roy is a take-off of the Fonz
~ "Rocky and Bullwinkle" {jh}
- Homer's statement about Poochie having access to a
time machine may refer to Mr. Peabody
+ "Teen Beat" magazine {bjr}
- "Toon Beat"
+ Apollo 11 {bjr}
- When the astronauts landed on the moon, they said,
"The Eagle has landed."
+ "Three's Company" {bjr}
- The premise of Roy's new show recycles the one from
this popular ABC comedy
+ "The Late Shift"
- At the beginning of the Letterman/Leno post-Carson
late night war, Jay Leno hid in a closet to hear
what the executives were saying about him
"Saturday Night Live", infamous Shatner sketch
- In December 1986, William Shatner guest-hosted
Saturday Night Live, and told Star Trek fans to
"Get A Life" {hl}

[4F11] Homer's Phobia
+ America On-line (AOL)
- "America On-Link" name and logo similar
+ Bob Dole's Presidential campaign {bjr}
- "I fell for Dole" button refers to the fall Dole took
from a platform while campaigning
+ Eisenhower's presidential campaign {hl}
- "I Like Ike" was the slogan of his campaign
+ The infamous "potatoe" Quayle incident {hl}
- "Quayle Can't Fayle" [see 7F01 for details]
+ "Forbidden Planet", 1956 sci-fi classic starring Leslie
Nielsen {ma}
- The poster of "Clank, Clank, You're Dead!" looks like
that of this film
+ "Laverne and Shirley" and "Mork and Mindy", two spinoff
series from "Happy Days" {hl}
- "Laverne and Shirley" is mentionned on the TV Guide
- John says that Jackie "thought Mindy lived with `Mark'"
+ "Pink Flamingos" (1972 cult classic film) {ma}
- The pink flamingo in Cockamamie's
"Bull Run", the first major American Civil War battle
- "That'll make your bull run"
+ "Over the Rainbow" from "The Wizard of Oz"
- John's car horn plays this song
- Tokusatsu/anime {ol}
- In Japan, most creatures and characters have names
that are often descriptions of them like "Annual Gift
Man."
Boston Marathon {hl} {sp}
- Rosie Ruiz won the marathon, but was later
disqualified for allegedly cheating
+ "Sha-boom, Sha-boom" - ? {hl}
- Sha-Boom, Ka-Boom Cafe
+ "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" - Betty Everett
(1964) {dp}
- Played while Bart dances with a wig
+ "Hairspray", movie directed by John Waters {dga}
- Bart's wig resembles Ricki Lake's bouffant
+ "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" - C&C Music
Factory {dp}
- Played at the steel mill / over the credits
+ "It's Raining Men" - The Weather Girls (1983)
- "when it starts raining naked ladies" [See 2F08 for
details]
"Billy Jack", 1971 movie {hl}
- A father tells his son to shoot fenced-in wild horses

[4F14] The Brother from Another Series
+ "Brother from Another Planet" {dga}
- title (see also "Brother from the Same Planet"
[9F12])
+ "Frasier" [Now who said, "Well, Duh"?]
- Cecil and Bob are voiced by David Hyde Pierce and
Kelsey Grammar respectively, who play brothers
Niles and Frasier Crane on the show
- in "Frasier," the Crane brothers both have
upper-crust mannerisms; the same is true of the
Terwilliger brothers in this episode
- a brief "title card" is used to introduce the
second act, much like on "Frasier" (the music is
the same, as well)
- Cecil's upbeat apartment with the cityscape in the
window is similar to Frasier's {dk}
- the David Hyde Pierce character refers to Maris,
the unseen wife of Niles Crane
- the promotional advertisement for this series
features Bob and Cecil, with Bob saying, "Mother
had hopes of us becoming prominent psychologists,
you know."; on "Frasier," Grammer and Pierce play
psychologists {mar}
- "Jailhouse Rock" {bjr}
- Krusty plays rockabilly tunes while in the slammer,
like Elvis in this movie
- Johnny Cash {dc}
- Krusty is wearing all black a la Johnny Cash;
- He's doing a prison benefit, and Johnny Cash does a
lot of prison benefits (or used to, anyway)
- He's singing in a range that's closer to Johnny
Cash's than Elvis' (or what I assume would be
Krusty's natural range, for that matter).
- He's sitting in a chair, not doing "moves" like the
comeback special-era Elvis would have.
+ "Amazing Grace"
- Sideshow Bob sings this in the prison chapel
+ "Ban the Bomb" {ddg}
- "Ban the Bob"
+ "Batman"
- While confronting Sideshow Bob, Bart says to Lisa
"Get 'em Lis'". The ensuing few seconds of music is
the same as from many Batman fight scenes.
+ "Top Of The World" by the Carpenters
- Cecil sings a bit of this while preparing to blow
up the dam
~ "Catch-22" {ce}
- The part where Chief Wiggum tells Lou he'd promote
him to sergeant is pretty much a direct quote from
this book.

[4F13] My Sister, My Sitter
+ "My Sister, My Sister"
- title of this episode similar (This movie is about
two lesbian sisters, which is the non-Smithers gay
reference.) {ljs}
+ Adventures in Babysitting
- Everything goes wrong for Lisa, and one adventure
to another leads her to the location her parents
are dining at (replace Lisa's name with whoever the
babysitter was in this movie) {rj}
+ "The Babysitter Club" series of books
- Janey and Lisa are reading the "Babysitter Twins"
- the cover artwork is similar, as well {bjr}
+ Fozzie Bear
- Flanders having a "fozzie of a bear" is a reference
to this Muppets character.
- Universal Citywalk, Hollywood, CA {jh}
- The seafront looked awfully like the Universal
Citywalk in Hollywood, right down to the open
fountain.
+ Chevy's (a chain of restaurants) {hl}
- Name of a restaurant chain that had Chevy cars
sticking out the building. They had to close
because of the name Chevrolet was heavily
trademarked
- (Roger Smith says, "They're still around. For
example, there is one in the Crossroads area of
Walt Disney World.)
+ "It's a Wonderful Life" {jk}
- It's the Wonderful Knife store inspired by this
movie
+ Much Ado About Nothing {jk}
- Much Ado About Muffins gets title from this
Shakespeare play
+ The Disney Store
- "Itchy & Scratchy Store" based on this chain of
novelty stores
+ Mr. Peanut
- Homer looks like this advertising character when
dressed in his tuxedo
+ "Planet Hollywood" {mss}
- "Planet Hype" Springfield's version of this famous
restaurant (Joe Klemm writes that Planet Hollywood
is a restaurant chain owned be Arnold
Schwarznegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce
Willis.)
- the ringed planet logo is similar {ddg}
- "Wings," NBC
- Giant hoagie referred to as a "big sandwich" {dk}
- "12 Monkeys"
- The camera angle during Lisa's dream, bright
lights, the flash/camera angle switch. (I've seen
it somewhere, but I'm pretty sure it was in 12
monkeys) {rj}
- My Left Foot {jk}
- Lisa carrying Bart on a wheelbarrow

[4F15] Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment
+ "The Untouchables"
- the Walter Winchell-sounding narration {ddg}
+ English-Irish tensions {mar}
- explosion of pub refers to this (See "Comments"
sections)
~ "Sins of the Father" {hl}
- explosion of pub similar to movie
+ "Say No To Drugs" {bjr}
- one of the protesters adapts this to, "Say No To
Drunks"
+ Poe's graveside vigil
- Barney's tribute to the Duff Brewery is similar
(See "Personal Comments & Observations")
+ U-Haul {jh}
- the Li'l Lugger trailer has similar shape, and is
painted in a similar fashion, to those of this
move-it-yourself giant
~ "Super Mario Brothers" (the TV series) {lo}
- network of pipes leading to Moe's bar similar to
one shown in opening credits of this series
+ "The Night Hawks" by Edward Hopper {dga}
- Rex with Eddie and Lou at the diner closely
resemble this famous painting
+ Superman {jh}
- the Comic Book Guy's comment about being a
mild-mannered newspaper reporter by day is
referring to this

[4F09] Grade School Confidential
+ "High School Confidential" {dga}
- episode title of "Grade School Confidential" spoofs
this movie's name
- "Home Improvement" {tg}
- Skinner's mom looks over the fence as she talks to
Seymour and Edna, just like Wilson talks to Tim
+ Charlie Brown
- Mrs. Krabappel's candle molded in the shape of this
comic strip character [{bjr} writes, "And I can
just see the John Waters character from 'Homer's
Phobia (4F11)' raving over how marvelously kitschy
it is"]
+ "The Name Game" {jk}
- Principal Skinner plays this game (the rules are
laid out in the song with this title) with Janey's
name
+ "Basic Instinct" {hl}
- Mrs. Krabappel sat the same way as Sharon Stone on
her desk.
+ "Star Trek: The Original Series" {jk}
- Bart's "set your faces to stunned" is a clever play
on "set your phasers to stun," a phrase often
associated with this series
~ "THE HONEYMOONERS" {hl}
- Homer thought Mrs. Krabappel's last name was
"Crandall," as in Ralph and Alice Crandall.
- (Incidentally, the late Audrey Meadows, who played
Alice, also did the voice for Bea Simmons in "Old
Money" [7F17].)
- "The Andy Griffith Show" {km}
- Chief Wiggum picks up the phone and says "Sarah,
get me Superintendent Chalmers" ... just like
Barney Fife makes calls on Andy Griffith.
+ "Lean On Me" {djp}
- Principal Skinner chains the doors from the inside
and uses a bullhorn the same as Principal Joe Clark
in the 1989 film.
+ the siege of Noriega at the Panama Papal Nunciate {ddg}
- the authorities try to force Skinner out with loud
music (See "Personal Comments & Observations,"
below)
+ Armour hot dogs theme {jh2}
- Wiggum's and Chalmers' reaction lines to Skinner's
"bomb" similar to lyrics of this jingle

[4F16] The Canine Mutiny
+ "The Caine Mutiny"
- title of this episode taken from the movie
- Mark Aaron Richey reminds us that this was
originally a novel by Herman Wouk
+ Dogs receiving credit cards {vc}
- premise of this episode based on real-life events
(See "Comments" section)
- "Married...with Children" {ol}
- a second season episode entitled "Master the
Possibilities" involves the Bundy family spending
money using a credit card accidentally issued to
Buck the Dog
+ Car-Toons {hl}
- 70s retro-art which Otto will appreciate
+ "Ernest Saves Christmas" {sb}
- the name "Santos" is used in the place of Santa
+ Godzilla {jk}
- Zoidzilla comic book
+ The Pep Boys {ol}
- automotive supply shop Lisa mentions during her
pep-pill-induced rant
+ Sports Illustrated {bjr}
- ads claim a subscription to this magazine is "the
gift that keeps on giving." Bart applies this
theory to his dog
+ "Lassie" {jk}
+ "Lad, a Dog" {bjr}
- one -- or both -- of these pooches inspired
Laddie's name
- Lassie (and possibly Lad, I don't know) is a
collie, just like Laddie.
- in fact, Laddie has a white mark on his nose,
which is like Lassie, and unlike most collies
- Sharks, and sleeping {vc}
- it's said sharks sleep while moving in water, just
as Laddie can sleep while jogging
- "The Critic" {hl}
- Bart answers phone in bed similar to Jay Sherman
+ The Wiz, a chain of electronics discount stores {jk}
- the First Church of Springfield's thrift shop has
the slogan, "Nobody beats the Rev," which echoes,
"Nobody beats the Wiz"
- Dumb & Dumber {dsb}
- a blind person with dead parrot
~ Ray Charles (ljs}
- a blind piano player
- "Henry Huggins" by Beverly Cleary {el}
- a dog chooses between two owners in a "come to me"
contest

[4F17] The Old Man and the Lisa
+ "The Old Man and the Sea"
- episode borrows the title -- but nothing else --
from the Ernest Hemingway novel
+ Junior Achievement {jh}
- the Junior Achievers modeled after this nebulous
partnership between local businessmen and schools.
- [{bjr} says: Supposedly, the businessmen were
there to teach modern commerce practices, or
recruit new slave labor, or indoctrinate future
consumers; I was never sure which]
+ Uriah Heep
- "Uriah's Heap" recycling center is named for one of
the characters in "David Copperfield" by Charles
Dickens. {jh}
- a band from the 1970's, which lives on as the
inspiration for the Uriah's Heap recycling
drop-off {hl}
- Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls {jk}
- the shrieking that Bret Hart and the real estate
agent hears.
- Quisp cereal {ddg}
- here, it's "Kwisp"
+ Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige {nd}
- Grampa's "angry up the blood" is taken from a
Satchel Paige aphorism,
"Avoid fried foods, as they angry up the blood."
+ "That Girl"
- the whole scene where Burns persuades Lisa to help
him is a spoof of this series' opening credits
- on the show, which starred Marlo Thomas, a
conversation at the beginning would always end with
someone pointing to Thomas and saying, "That girl!"
Burns does the same thing with Lisa at the rest
home {bjr}
- the background music is identical {hl}
- Ms. Thomas would run in the park, flying a kite
that carried a stylized picture of herself. Lisa
flies a kite with such a picture of her when Burns
starts chasing her {bjr}
- at one point, Burns winks at Lisa from a store
window. On the real show, a mannequin winks at
That Girl. Also, the mannequin in the store looks
just like the one next to Burns {bjr}
- both Ms. Thomas and Ms. Simpson ride around on a
carousel {bjr}
~ "Animaniacs!" {av}
- "Ta Da Dump, Ta Da Dump": plot of this short is
Pesto Goodfeather (the Joe Pesci pigeon of the
Goodfeathers) getting his head caught in a six-pack
ring.
- "Dot's Entertainment": similar "That Girl" takeoff
with Dot doing the That Girl montage when another
character points to her and says "That girl!"
+ How the Grinch Stole Xmas {jk}
- Mr. Burns stole Xmas from 1981-1985.
+ "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" {hl}
- from the Pink Floyd song, from the "Wish You Were
Here" album
~ "Soylent Green" {ddg}
- Lisa tries to explain to people that recycling is
now bad, just as Soylent Green is well, I'd better
not spoil it in case you've never seen it)
- [Andrew Gill dissents: This scene was never in the
movie. It was only in the SNL spoof (a great
example of Phil Hartman's abilities, IMO).]
+ "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
- a scene were Lisa jumps on the truck and discovers
barrels of slurry is similar to a scene were Kevin
McCarthy sees a truckload of alien pods. {tm} {mm}
- ~ the townspeople robotically recycling their trash
remind me of the post- takeover people from the
movie {bjr}
+ Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lately That I Love
You" {sp}
- Bart's line to curry Lisa's favor

[4F18] In Marge We Trust
+ Def Comedy Jam {jk}
- parodied in title of Itchy and Scratchy cartoon
+ French atom bomb testing {hl}
- the "Itchy & Scratchy" episode refers to this (see
"Personal Comments & Observations")
- "Super Mario Land" Nintendo video game {il}
- the airplane Itchy flies with is very similar to
the one Mario and the princess are flying with when
you finish the game
- "It's Flashbeagle Charlie Brown" {rm}
- scene where Homer falls asleep in church, tilts
head and hitting chair yelling "Damn It!"
reminiscent to scene where Peppermint Patty falls
asleep in school, tilts her head and gets her nose
stuck in binder yelling "Ow!"
+ Mr. Clean detergent
- a cleaning detergent with bald guy on it {hl}
- name "Mr. Sparkle" similar to "Mr. Clean" {bjr}
- "Time Out of Joint," by Philip K. Dick {ek}
- subplot similar, including finding an odd box at
the dump
- ~ rifling through strange phone books for a number
to call
- Homer's wondering if there was some secret
significance to his face mysteriously showing up on
a box with strange markings
- "Church Chat" {ol}
- "Saturday Night Live" skit, featuring the "Church
Lady," similar to the "Listen Lady"
- "Help" {em}
- the scene where everyone is searching for Ned is
very reminiscent of The Beatles calling "Ringo!" in
the movie
- Busch Gardens {djp}
- the Tampa Bay theme park also has a train that
travels through wildlife areas on the park grounds
+ Habitat for Humanity {rmb}
- the Habitat for Huge Manatees is a pun on the name
of this organization, which builds houses for the
homeless
- [R. Maitland Baxter also points out that this is
the organization Jimmy Carter is affiliated with
-- Ed.]
- "Speed" {il}
- the part when Lovejoy and the baboon are facing
each other on the train is similar to the scene
which ends with the death of the bad guy
+ "Conquest of the Planet Of The Apes" {djp}
- the title of Rev. Lovejoy's sermon refers to this
1972 movie, which was the fourth in a series of
five 'Ape' films
+ "The Charge of the Light Brigade" {hl}
- "Cannons [baboons in Lovejoy's version] to the left
of me.
Cannons/baboons to the right of me"

[4F19] Homer's Enemy
+ "The Odd Couple" {ddg}
- the perennial neat vs. sloppy battle
- "Falling Down" {al}
- the Frank Grimes character looks a little like the
mad engineer from this movie
- both characters also go on insane rampages
- "Seinfeld" {av}
- Homer eating the donuts with cutlery is like the
trend in an episode, where Elaine was watching her
boss eating a candy bar with a knife and fork
+ "Late Night with David Letterman" {hl}
- Bart in the office chair propelling himself with
fire extinguisher is the famous Letterman
rocket-chair stunt
- [Others claimed this was referencing Conan O'Brien.
Maybe, but Letterman did it first and thus gets the
reference -- Ed.]
- "Blade Runner" {rj}
- Martin's power plant looks like the Tyrell
corporation's headquarters
(or at least most of it anyway)

[4F20] The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase
+ "Sanford & Son" {hl}
- "Son of Sanford & Son" is a takeoff of this series
+ "Mannix" {hl}
+ "AfterM*A*S*H"
- "AfterMannix" spoofs two shows at once
+ "Magnum, P.I."
- title of "Chief Wiggum, P.I." borrowed from this
1980's series with Tom Selleck
+ "Miami Vice"
- Skinny Boy's look, with the white suit, pastel
shirt, and beard stubble based on Don Johnson's
character {bjr}
- similar Jan Hammer music theme for "Chief Wiggum,
PI" {hl}
- Like Johnson, Wiggum lives on a houseboat in this
series {bjr}
+ "Baretta" {bjr}
- Skinner chats with Huggy Bear from this 1970's
series
+ "Starsky & Hutch" {dj}
- character similar to Huggy Bear seen during opening
sequence
+ "The Big Easy"
- Wiggum's boat, "The Big Queasy," parodies this New
Orleans nickname
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the fathers (computer game){rj}
- The cemetery looks exactly like the one from the
game
- "Live and Let Die" {hl}
- boat chase through New Orleans bayou
+ "Charlie's Angels" {hl}
- the exhibit that Troy McClure, uh, admires is from
this series. It features "angels" Farrah, Kate, &
Jaclyn
+ "My Mother the Car" {bjr}
- the spirit of the main character's mother occupies
an antique car (yes, really), like Grampa "living"
in the love tester
- "The Nanny" {bjr}
- a stylized animation sequence sets up the premise
of the show
- I dream of Jeannie {rj}
- The Love-Matic opening is very similar to the
opening of the show
- "Knight Rider"
- a man relies on a talking "smart" machine for
advice (Michael Knight and K.I.T.T the supercar in
the series, Moe and Grampa in this segment) {bjr}
- when Grampa talks, the lights on the machine rise
and fall with his voice, like the lights on
K.I.T.T's dash
- (N.B.: the lights didn't actually do this until
the second season of "Knight Rider") {bjr}
- "Cheers" {ol}
- Establishing music for "The Love-Matic Grampa
very similar to the music for this series
+ "All Is Quiet On The Western Front" {hl}
- classic war movie and handy description of Moe's
love life ({jh} says it started as a novel by
Erich-Maria Remarque about a soldier in World War I)
+ "Cool Hand Luke" {bjr}
- "Luke Warm Luke" category on the Love Tester similar
+ "Alice"
- Moe's "kiss my dishrag" is similar to Flo's "kiss
my grits"
+ "2001: A Space Odyssey" {ddg}
- the Love Tester sings "Bicycle Built for Two", as
Hal does when "he's" shut down
- "Short Circuit 2" {ol}
- A talking robot plays Cyrano for its master Ben
played by Fisher Stevens); the girl finds out, but
likes him anyway
- Two guys pull down the talking robot Johnny 5 and
beat him with crowbars
- Subsequently, Johnny 5 begins speaking incoherently
to his master Ben
+ Museum of Television and Radio {bjr}
- the museum of TV and television similar in concept
and name. (There really is a museum of TV and
radio, in New York City)
+ "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour"
- a variety show starring a fictional family "as
themselves" with one actress replaced {ddg}
- for both the Simpsons' and the Bradys' shows one of
the "family" members had to be replaced (In the
case of the Bradys, Geri Reischl stepped into the
role of Jan, after Eve Plumb walked away. {dn})
Compare this to Lisa's absence from the show {ddg}
- the family wears mid-seventies fashions, which
makes sense since the Brady program aired in
1974 {bjr}
- the style of the song-and-dance numbers is similar
(both to the Brady show, and to other variety hours
of the era)
~ "The Donny and Marie Show" {dga}
- not really any specific reference, but I thought
I'd mention this one because Simpsons composer Alf
Clausen got his start on television as musical
director for the show
- "Saturday Night Live" {dj}
- the shot of the Baggy-Pants Players similar to cast
shots on this show
+ "The Sonny and Cher Show"
- the circular Homer-and-Marge logo similar to one on
the 70s variety show {ddg}
- like a few others, this show featured a whole lot
of atrocious composite musical numbers like the
candy montage {st}
- "Roseanne" {pu}
- replacement Lisa resembles the replacement Becky
from this show
+ "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"
- Kent Brockman's announcer setup -- his mannerisms
and the set background -- like those for this
show's announcer
- brief micro-clips show jokes, reaction shots, and
so forth
- "The Smothers Brothers" {rv}
- Marge's awkward attempts to insert an anti-war
message reminiscent of this show
+ Radio City Music Hall {bjr}
- Springfield has the similarly-named Radio City
Music Room
~ "Archie" comics {dj}
- the "H" on Homer's jacket in the malt shop
+ "I Want Candy" by the Strangeloves {djp}
- first song in the "Smile Time" medley
+ "Peppermint Twist" by Joey Dee and the
Starlighters {djp}
- Bart, "Lisa," and Maggie dance to this
+ "Whip It" by Devo {hl}
- song and video parodied
+ "Lollipop" by the Chordettes {dn}
- Jasper tries his hand at this song
~ Bart's Nightmare (game) {mss}
- Lisa, cast as a fairy who turns Bart into a frog,
like Homer turning Lisa into a frog in the "season
preview
~ "Duckman" {ddg}
- "long-lost triplets", like Beatrice/Bernice/Beverly
+ "The Flintstones"
- Ozmodiar is a near-clone of the Great Gazoo (see
Comments section for why that's significant)

[4F21] The Secret War of Lisa Simpson
+ "The Private War of Major Benson" {bw}
- this episode parodies title of this 1955 comedy,
featuring Charlton Heston, as the merciless ROTC
commander in a military school run by nuns
~ "The Secret World of Alex Mack" {cr}
- title of this episode could be a parody on the
title of this Nickelodeon series
- O.J. Simpson's Bronco chase {hl}
- the police cars following Bart on the lawnmower
+ Shannon Faulkner and the Citadel
- Lisa's efforts to enter Rommelwood similar to Ms.
Faulkner's real-life experience [See "Comments"
section -- Ed.]
+ "Police Squad" / "Naked Gun" {djp}
- Wiggum drove his car poorly and up on the curb the
same way that Frank Drebin does
+ Mr. Peanut {jh}
- "Mr. Ripe" looks a little like him
- "Back to the Future" {dj}
- the scene where Bart uses the megaphones similar to
the movie scene where Marty uses the large speakers
on his guitar
- "Alien" {hl}
- octopus attaching itself to Prof. Frink's face in
alien-like fashion
- German general Rommel {hl}
- school named Rommelwood [More, "Comments" section
-- Ed.]
~ Eggo Waffles {djp}
- Homer says "leggo my leg" ({djp} admits, "I know
... it's a stretch")
- "The Lords of Discipline" {hl}
- hazing at the school
- "Full Metal Jacket" {hl}
- rifle range scene a bit similar
- "An Officer And A Gentleman" {hl}
- obstacle course female cadet must complete to pass
- throwing the hats into air after graduation
- "Rebel Without a Cause" (rs}
- when Bart was trying to teach Lisa to cross the big
ditch at night, one of the cadets confronting him
was dressed like James Dean from this movie
- "American Gladiators" {jk}
- the Eliminator is the same name as the final event
on the show
- Marlboro Cigarettes {jg}
- the General says "Gentlemen, welcome to flavor
country," which is this brand's slogan
- "A Christmas Story" {jk}
- Lisa's arms are stuck after the Eliminator, like
Randy's when he's in his winter clothes
- It's a Small World {jk}
- a riff from this song heard as the family pulls up
to the dentist's office

Last updated on December 31, 1998 by Andrew A. Gill
(Phew! Almost didn't make it, this year.) (and...@snpp.com)

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