[LIST] Movie Refs in The Simpsons v.1.00
Andrew Gill
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Movie List from The Simpsons V.1.00
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Maintained by Andrew A. Gill
<fruadman_tru...@juno.com>
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For a copy of the current list (Including minor additions that don't
get posted until the next season), send me some mail (Note: I am not a
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This list was originally courtesy Raymond J. Chen, but the maintenance
has been usurped by me, since it hasn't been updated since Jan. 19,
1992. (Read the SNPP charter: "If a list should remain unmaintained
for 5 years, said list becomes property of Richard Milhaus Nixon."
Well, the charter's pretty old, too.) It also allows me to include
additional references from myself. These are marked with an [A]. (You
just knew that there was a machiavellian reason for this...)
To contact me for changes, corrections, additions, hypocrisy, et
cetera, write me. I will make a concerted effort to answer all
comments. I know this is incomplete...
This is a movie list digest for movies referenced in The Simpsons.
Contacts have been taken out, as they have nothing to do with the
purpose of this document (i.e. to provide a list of movies Simpsons
fanatics may want to see). If more info about the specific references
is required, see
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or
<http://www.snpp.com/search.html>
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---Begin List
McBain
- [A] this is an actual movie and series of books.
Citizen Kane
Satyajit Ray's movies
- 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)
Patton
Full Metal Jacket
The Longest Day
A Clockwork Orange
Stripes
An Officer and a Gentleman
The Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant)
Gone With the Wind
It's a Wonderful Life
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
The Shining
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
The Amityville Horror
Psycho
The Fly
The Tidewater Tides
The Natural
Nearly any other movie about baseball (Major League, Mr. Destiny)
Saturday Night Live / Wayne's World
Pride of the Yankees
`New York, New York'
The Karate Kid
Jaws
Miracle on 34th Street; Field Of Dreams
Fantasia
Wizard of Oz
? 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.
- Colors, when Robert Duvall is shot.
- The Human Comedy, ``check it out if you don't believe me''
- Potemkin, when the mother holds her dead child
- Rebel Without a Cause, ``I'm pretty sure''
- Romeo and Juliet, the final scene
- West Side Story, the final scene
- Superman, when Superman finds Lois Lane dead
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.
DOA
All That Jazz
The Graduate
North by Northwest
Gandhi
Vertigo
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Terminator
Heaven Help Us
Cool Hand Luke
Caddyshack
Cabaret
Tucker
Damn Yankees
The Godfather
Twins
Predator
2001
Lethal Weapon
E.T.
Friday the 13th
American Graffiti, Animal House, Back to School, Fish Called Wanda,
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Cooley High, etc.
any movie about high school or college
Tom Jones (the movie)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
If I Had A Million
Batman
Back to the Future
Rocky
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The Empire Strikes Back
Yellow Submarine
Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Dead Poets Society
Teachers
The Thing
Little Big Man
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Fugitive
Since You Went Away
The Omen
Pet Semetary
Three Men and a Baby
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Some Hitchcock movie (Saboteur?)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Deliverance
Rain Man
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Silence of the Lambs
Alice in Wonderland
The Sting
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
James Bond movies
Akira, the Japanese anime series
Willie Wonka (and the Chocolate Factory)
Risky Business
Trading Places, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blues Brothers, etc.
Goodfellas
The Pope of Greenwich Village
Frank Sinatra (one of his movies, perhaps?)
- Bart singing `Witchcraft'. Also his expression at the end of the
scene.
Night of the Living Dead
Alien, The Andromeda Strain
Goldfinger
The Jazz Singer
Brighton Beach Memoirs
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
Midnight Express
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the remake)
Frankenstein
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
RoboCop 2
Robocop
The Thing with Two Heads
The Incredible Two Headed Transplant
The Man with Two Heads
-[A] Maybe he means "The man with two brains?"
The Magnificent Seven
National Velvet
High Chaparral
You Can Take This Job and Shove It (a song and a movie)
Days of Thunder
Colors (a movie reference within a movie reference)
Grease
Deathrace 2000
The Right Stuff
Ben Hur
Grease
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cocktail
The Nutty Professor
Top Secret
Busting Loose
Raising Arizona
Real Genius
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[8F12]
Two Minute Warning
Apocalypse Now
[8F15]
Bullitt
Kojak
The Wild One
Beverly Hills Cop
[8F17]
Ben Casey
Old Yeller
[8F18]
The Great Escape
The Birds
[8F20]
The Elephant Man
Les Miserables
Black Widow
[8F22]
Casablanca
[8F23]
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime
The Gold Rush
[8F24]
Ben Hur
Wuthering Heights/Dr. Zhivago/Far From the Madding Crowd
Lord of the Flies
[9F01]
Risky Business
[9F04]
Gremlins
Cape Fear (new version)
IT
Ghostbusters
- [A] no. I found the script, and it's not in there. The closest is
"Help, help, there's a bear in the building!"
King Kong
Night of the Living Dead
-[A] Can anybody tell if it's the remake or the original--or both?
Plan 9 from Outer Space
[9F05]
Stolen Kisses
[9F06]
Cheek to Cheek
[9F07]
The Inspector General
[9F10]
The Untouchables
The Music Man
Them!
[9F11]
Sophie's Choice
Prince of Tides
Trading Places
Lawrence of Arabia
Snow White
Yentl
[9F12]
Rocky III
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
When Harry Met Sally
Brother from Another Planet
All of Me
The Public Enemy
[9F14]
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
[9F15]
Last Exit to Brooklyn
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Marathon Man
Yellow Submarine
[9F18]
JFK
[9F22]
Edward Scissorhands/Rocky Horror Picture Show
Naked Gun
Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Friday the 13th
-[A] probably the latter
[1F01]
The Mind's Eye
Planet of the Apes
Conan the Barbarian
- the Wheel of Pain
- [A] I think it's just a generic torture scene, but, like Tekwar,
you've got to learn about it sometime.
[1F02]
Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail
Spaceballs/Star Wars
The Maltese Falcon
The Blob
Paper Chase
[1F03]
Thelma and Louise
[1F04]
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Little Mermaid
Twilight Zone, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
- [A] This was included in the Twilight Zone Movie, even though the
famous one was on the TV show.
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Nosferatu
Salem's Lot/The Lost Boys
Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown
[1F05]
Semi-Tough
The Ten Commandments
1941
Dirty Harry
- [A] The ref here is to the series of films. Somewhat less than a
genre, but more than a film:
- Dirty Harry
- Magnum Force
- The Enforcer
- Sudden Impact
- The Dead Pool
- In the Line of Fire (Arguably)
[1F07]
Brazil
My Fair Lady
A christmas Carol
Real Genius/Parker Lewis
Lady and the Tramp
[1F08]
Vega$
Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The Great Train Robbery
Rain Man
The Deliberate Delinquent
Melvin and Howard
[1F09]
Pink Panther movies
Molloy
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
[1F10]
Dune
The Hard Way
Lawrence of Arabia
Flame Over India
In the Line of Fire
[1F11]
The Beast With Five Fingers
The Hand
[1F12]
Bye, Bye Birdie
Big
Raising Arizona
Valley of the dolls
Tucker
[1F13]
Total Recall
The Reluctant Austronaut
Airplane II: The Sequel
Hellstrom Chronicles
Empire of the Ants
[1F14]
Ghost/Field of Dreams/Terminator 2
Live and Let Die
[1F15]
Rocky IV
Jurassic Park
Sound of Music
[1F16]
Fatal Attraction
Toys
Sliver
Taxi Driver
E.T.:The Extraterrestrial
Silver Spoons/Big
1984
[1F17]
Scarface
Gallagher
[1F18]
Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song
Aliens
Alien 3
Full Metal Jacket
[1F19]
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Hucleberry Finn
- [A] There has been at least one movie on this book, but there are
probably more.
Westworld
Back to the Future II
Free Willy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
[1F20]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
...And Justice for All
A Few Good Men
Chinatown
[1F21]
Lady Chatterly's Lover
- [A] aka Amant de lady Chatterley, L'
The Gold Rush
Reservoir Dogs
Cocoon
[1F22]
Animal House
Witness
Busby Berkeley
Blue Sky
Un Chien Andalou
Rear Window
[2F01]
Last Action Hero
National Lampoon's Vacation
The Wall
Deliverance
Saturday Night Fever
Battlestar Galactica
[2F02]
Bob Roberts
All the President's Men
[2F03]
Hellraiser
Crime and Punishment
Evil Dead 2
Sweeney Todd
[2F04]
Pulp Fiction
Rebel Without a Cause
[2F05]
The Mighty Ducks
Gamera
- [A] this might not be a reference of the same type, but like
Tekwar...
A League of Their Own
Slapshot
[2F06]
Time Bandits
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Demolition Man
[2F07]
Cheech and Chong
Bull Durham
Flesh and Bone
[2F08]
Say anything
[2F09]
Julius Caesar
The Last Emperor
[2F10]
And Baby Makes Three
From Here to Eternity
Look Who's Talking
Die Hard
[2F13]
The Rescuers Down Under
A Cry in the Dark
Crocodile Dundee
Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
Frogs
[2F14]
Flashdance
[2F15]
Alice in Wonderland
Love Story
Phantom of the Opera
[2F16]
Singin' in the Rain
Richard III
Indecent Proposal
[2F18]
101 Dalmations
Beauty and the Beast (Disney version)
[2F19]
Von Ryan's Express
Knight Moves
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Welcome Back, Kotter
[2F20]
Basic Instinct
[2F21]
The French Connection
Police Academy
Magnum Force
[2F31]
A Star is Born
Cabaret
Pocahontas
[2F32]
Madeline
The Jungle Emperor
- [A] aka Jangaru Taitei
The Lion King
[3F01]
Outbreak
Hamlet
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
[3F02]
The Stand
Sleepless in Seattle
Annie
[3F03]
I Spit on Your Grave
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- [A] I don't think so. The "Resistance is Useless" comes from further
back than that. I seem to remember it from the robot from
either "Forbidden Planet" or "Lost in Space." Still a great
movie, IMHO.
[3F04]
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman
Godzilla
The Pagemaster
Maximum Overdrive
Tron
The Black Hole
Howard the Duck
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Brief History of Time
[3F05]
Much Ado About Nothing
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
[3F06]
Running on Empty
[3F07]
Forrest Gump
Alien Autopsy
They Saved Hitler's Brain
- [A] aka Madmen of Mandoras aka Return of Mr. H, The
[3F08]
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Hangar 18
Top Gun
Failsafe
True Lies
Easy Rider
[3F09]
The Killing Fields
Caddyshack
[3F11]
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
Steppin' Out
The Great Gatsby
[3F12]
Barton Fink
[3F13]
Psycho II
Day of the Jackal
Day of the Locust
- [A] Hey, we had to put it in somewhere
[3F14]
Swimming With Sharks
- [A] aka Boss, The aka Buddy Factor, The
Billy Budd
[3F15]
Body Double
Spartacus
[3F16]
Casper
Superman
[3F17]
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Apollo 13
White Lightning
National Lampoon's Family Vacation
Star Trek IV
The China Syndrome
[3F18]
32 Short Films about Glenn Gould
Catch-22
Slacker
Flatliners
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Pippi Longstockings
[3F19]
Flying Leathernecks
Kelly's Heroes
The Deep
The Abyss
[3F20]
Tarzan
[3F21]
Necessary Roughness
[3F22]
Summer of '42
[3F23]
Dr. No
You Only Live Twice
Goldeneye
Hollywood Showcase
- [A] I always wondered what "Hooray for Hollywood" was from...
The Money Pit
The Firm
The Stepford Wives
Rhoda
Pope of Greenwich Village
Tapeheads
Altered States
Beetlejuice
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Alladin
Fiddler on the Roof
Speed
[3F31]
Casino Royale
[4F01]
Thunderball
[4F02]
Basket Case
Independence Day
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
[4F03]
The Great White Hype
- [A] And a chance to see a thin James Earl Jones
Raging Bull
Prize Fighter
[4F04]
Waiting to Exhale
[4F05]
Ransom
Death of a Salesman
Johnny Hollywood
[4F06]
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
[4F07]
Twister
The Dream Team
[4F08]
License to Kill
I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka
The Grapes of Wrath
[3G01]
High Anxiety
The Day the Earth Stood Still
[3G03]
Mary Poppins
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[A] references
[7F01]
Ghostbusters
- EPA men's "Either you bring this plant up to code or we'll shut it
down" is similar to "Now either you shut off those "beams" or we'll
shut them off for you."
[8F13]
A League of their own
- Homer asking someone else if he's on the team (cf. the illiterate
woman asking Geena Davis. She makes it, I think)
[8F24]
The Man with the Golden Gun
- The "superfluous third nipple"
Macbeth
- Lisa attempting to get the "dirt" from the grades off by rubbing
her hands, like Lady Macbeth's compulsive cleaning the king's
phantom blood from her hands
[1F02]
Of Mice and Men
- Bernie talks, and looks, like Lennie (In either the old one or the
remake, as Lennie's voice in the remake was a crappy rip-off of the
original)
[1F21]
Benny and Joon
- There was a scene in it with the "Gold Rush" potato bit. And I
think the Chaplin guys got real mad, too.
[2F31]
Mo' Better Blues (A Spike Lee Joint)
- Moe Better Booze is an obvious rip-off (And I'm really mad at Mr.
Cherry for not including it.)