Movie References in The SimpsonsOriginally by Raymond
Chen
Contributions from Andrew A. Gill and Alex
Franklin
Maintained by Joel
Thomas (joel@snpp.com)
The
guidelines I (tried) to use is that to be on this list, the reference must
be from a movie, be it dialogue, camera work, characters, actors, or music
that is most commonly associated with a movie. I pretty much just used my
judgement. If you don't agree with me, drop me a line.[general]
+ 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.
~ 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]
+ 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
~ 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.
[7G11] Jacques to be Wild
+ An Officer and a Gentleman
- the final scene
[7G13] The Crepes of Wrath
+ 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
[7G01] Some Enchanted Evening
. Jaws
- the music as Ms. Botz approaches
[7F03] Bart Gets an F
The Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant) {?}
+ Gone With the Wind
- `As God as my witness, I will pass fourth grade!'
{hk}
[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.
+ 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 Fly
- The `Ow' you hear when the bug zapper does its
thing.
[7F05] Dancin' Homer
+ 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.
+ 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'
~ "Saturday Night Live"/Wayne's World
- `I'm gonna miss you too.... not.'
(SNL didn't invent it.)
[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.')
[7F10] Bart Gets Hit by a Car
+ 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 unconscious. 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
approaching 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]
~ 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
[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}
~ Gandhi
- Marge serves Lisa lemonade during her nonviolent
protest. {jd}
(Gandhi drinks only lemonade [lemon in water]
during his fast.)
[7F15] Principal Charming
+ 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.
~ 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.
+ 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.
~ 2001
- The way Marge's needle spins in the air, cf. the
bone and pen. {fs}
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.
~ 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!''
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
~ 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}
~ A Streetcar Named Desire
- Lisa yells `Mr. Bergstrom!' [cf `Stella!'] under
his window. {pk}
~ 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}
[7F20] War of the Simpsons
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}
[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}
~ 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
.'' {abw}
The Maltese Falcon
- Martin says "This is the stuff dreams are made
of." {sp, kjg}
[7F22] Blood Feud
Citizen Kane
- The windows an curtain behind his death bed match those in
the death scene at the beginning of the movie. {jg2}
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.
Deliverance
- Smithers' banjo playing. ``If you've seen the
movie you know what I'm talking about'' claims
{bk}.
[7F24] Stark Raving Dad
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
Alice in Wonderland
- the painting in the congressman's office. {bsk}
The Sting
- touching your finger to your nose as a signal
+ 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
[7F23] When Flanders Failed
+ 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 Part III
- Joe Mantegna as a gangster
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]
Raging Bull (another Scorsese movie)
- Bart pouring a champagne fountain. {me}
+ Night of the Living Dead
- Skinner's body rising from the dirt {my}
[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.''
James Bond movies
- Miss Pennycandy (Miss Moneypenny). Beautiful, but
always holding out futilely for Krusty (Bond). {mr}
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
+ The Monkey's Paw
- the play is about a monkey's paw which grants
wishes, though the wishes always carry with them
undesirable side-effects.
+ 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}
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the remake)
- Jasper the dog. {dh}
+ 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, cacophony of
caliginous cogs and camshafts!" {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)
+ 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}
+ You Can Take This Job and Shove It (a song and a movie)
- You can take this job and restaff it! {dk}
[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}
- 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}
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
North by Northwest
- the music as the girls chase Bart {hrl}
~ Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- removing the screws to get at Bart
Cocktail
- Tipsy McStagger's and buying a drink for a chain
of bars {rc}
+ Sean Penn
- Krusty punches out a photographer.
+ The Nutty Professor
- ``And the secret ingredient is... LOVE!'' {rc}
[8F09] Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
~ Top Secret
- Listening to an awful `learn German' tape.
Moe's calling Bart a `pip' is not a movie reference. Check
your dictionary.
[8F10] I Married Marge
~ Raising Arizona and no doubt others
- `By the time you read this, I will be gone.' {ajr}
[8F11] Radio Bart
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}
Jaws
- the man with the fishhook and chocolate bar
is the character Quint (Robert Shaw) {spf, wab}
+ the song `Axel F' from Beverly Hills Cop
- the music as Bart descends the well {hot, sg}
[8F12] Lisa the Greek
~ Apocalypse Now
- ``Smells like... victory'' {jdb}
~ 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 Macaulay Culkin when he notices that
Maggie is missing
[8F16] Bart the Lover
[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}
[8F15] Separate Vocations
+ 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 Wild One
- "What are you rebelling against?"
"Whaddya got?" (Marlon Brando) {rc}
Dirty Harry
- Bart's sunglasses as hall monitor
[ray-ray@unvax.union.edu]
[8F17] Dog of Death
~ Old Yeller
- SLH attacks a grizzly {jcl}
+ 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
[8F20] Black Widower
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}
The Wizard of Oz
- ``Snake, I'm going to miss you most of all.''
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.
The Maltese Falcon
- Mary Astor takes the fall
(the sliding metal bars of the elevator doors)
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
[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
+ The Gold Rush {ajr}
- the Charlie Chaplin hobo eating a boot.
+ 2001: A Space Odyssey {jdb}
- the big, coloured, circular Homer-eye made it
gratuitous.
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.
~ James Bond
- the classical villains' escape by hydrofoil.
[8F18] A Streetcar Named Marge
+ 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.
[9F02] Lisa the Beauty Queen
All That Jazz
- The Bob Fosse-esque director of the beauty
pageant. @{mbb}
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
+ A Clockwork Orange
Gremlins
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}
? Ghostbusters
- ``Marge! The doll is trying to kill me, and the
toaster's been laughin' at me!'' Rick Moranis?
{ns}
+ 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}
[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.
[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
[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!"
+ 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
[9F09] Homer's Triple Bypass
[9F10] Marge vs. the Monorail
The Untouchables
- Agent Malone from the EPA has the voice of Robert
Stack as Elliot Ness @{rnk}
+ 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
+ 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}
~ Trading Places {jl}
- putting out a cigarette in your mouth
+ Lawrence of Arabia
- theme music playing when Bart eyes the Duff Beer-amid
+ The Terminator {jt}
- the robot of George Washington
(glowing red eyes and "living tissue over a metal
endoskeleton")
[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 the
scene. The original movie is black-and-white, for
which shadows are important. @{jmv}
Raiders of the Lost Ark
When Harry Met Sally
- but see capsule
The Shining
- Trab Pu Kcip @{jb}
[9F13] I Love Lisa
[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 Fly
- Bart-hamster hybrid similar to man-fly hybrid
{bjr}
- "Help me! Help me!"
All Creatures Great and Small {dh}
- 'All Creatures Great and Cheap' name of the pet
store
+ 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
+ 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)
[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}
~ 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}
+ 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.
+ 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
[9F18] Whacking Day
+ JFK
- Oliver Stone's reinterpretation of a tragic day in
Dallas.
[9F20] Marge in Chains
. Psycho
+ JFK
[9F19] Krusty Gets Kancelled
[9F21] Homer's Barbershop Quartet
[9F22] Cape Feare
+ 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}
+ 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!"
+ Star Wars/Spaceballs
- Burns' escape pod
The Maltese Falcon
- "jade monkey" stuff
+ The Untouchables (the movie)
- Burns' meeting with the admissions committee
Jaws
+ 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")
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
+ 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
+ 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
The Little Mermaid
- she combs her hair with a fork, just like Lionel Hutz
+ Psycho
- Skinner's mother
+ 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
+ Steven Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster
{tc}
- title of first story
+ Salem's Lot/The Lost Boys
- Bart floating outside the window
- "It's cool to be a vampire"
+ The Addams Family
- closing music has the theme song mixed in
[1F03] Marge on the Lam
+ Thelma and Louise
- blue convertible
- much of plot
+ Hollywood
- "SPRINGFIELD" letters on hill
[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
+ 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
+ On the Town
- Bart & Milhouse Broadway song (see capsule)
+ Crocodile Dundee
- Hans Moleman: "You call that a knife?"
+ Deliverance
- shot of rafts moving slowly through the darkened
trees
+ Friday the 13th
- closing scene around campfire
+ Ah, Wilderness {ddg}
- Itchy & Scratchy episode title
[1F07] The Last Temptation of Homer
+ The Last Temptation of Christ
- episode title
+ 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
+ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indian boy saying, "the refuge of the damned"
+ Wizard of Oz
- Burns to monkeys: "Fly, my pretties!"
+ Lady and the Tramp
- Homer and Mindy share a chili dog just like Lady and
Tramp share a strand of spaghetti
[1F08] $pringfield
Dr. Strangelove (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb) {ab}
- episode title is actually "$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
+ Rain Man
- Tom Cruise/Dustin Hoffman lookalikes at the blackjack
table where Homer works
+ 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
+ Dr. Strangelove
- Homer as Slim Pickens, wearing the hat and riding the
bomb
+ Dead Poets' Society {rl}
- Jimbo painting "Carpe Diem", which is used in the
movie
+ It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- see capsule
[1F11] Bart Gets Famous
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
[1F10] Homer and Apu
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Tucker {rc}
- someone from Washington takes care of Lisa Lionheart
[1F13] Deep Space Homer
+ 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
+ Planet of the Apes
- Homer imitates Charlton Heston: "Damn them all to
hell!"
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
[1F16] Burns' Heir
+ Fatal Attraction
- Burns appears dead in the bathtub, then attacks
Smithers
+ 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})
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ 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
+ Chaplin's The Gold Rush
- the potatoes on the forks scene
Reservoir Dogs {rg}
- Bart and Burns standing off with guns similar to scene
in movie
+ Les Brown and His Band of Renown {th}
- Red Breem & His Band of Some Esteem at the old folks'
ball
+ 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
+ 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
Blue Sky {rl}
- nude people swimming being watched from a helicopter
+ 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
+ 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
+ The Wizard of Oz [again! - ed]
- the sugar melting scene, plus Homer's dialog
[2F01] Itchy & Scratchyland
+ Last Action Hero
- I&S cartoon title
- Bart's dry, cool wit making him an action hero
+ 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
+ Jurassic Park
- logo on side of helicopter
- flying into park on helicopter
- Frink talking about chaos theory just like Jeff
Goldblum in movie
+ 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
+ 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}
[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
+ 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
+ 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
[2F03] Treehouse of Horror V
+ Kubrick's movie adaptation of Steven King's The
Shining (see episode 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
+ 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
+ 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)
+ 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)
[2F04] Bart's Girlfriend
+ Planet of the Apes
- cornfield sequence at the beginning: children rounded
up like humans in the movie
+ 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
+ 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 (Veruca
Salt opens many of them in the book {mk})
+ Demolition Man
- Homer throwing grenade, running away in slow motion
has same camera angle
+ 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
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 Priscilla Presley
+ Flesh and Bone
- 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
+ Oliver Stone's JFK
- "We're through the looking glass, people" muttered by
Garrison
[2F08] Fear of Flying
+ 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
+ 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
Raiders of the Lost Ark
- looks like Homer's underwear get dropped into an ark
- ghosts fly out
+ 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
+ From Here to Eternity {av}
- Homer and Marge on the beach
+ "Die Hard" {mh}
- the terrorist in Homer's fantasy sounds a good deal
like the terrorist from the movie
+ "Look Who's Talking" {mk}
- the adventures of Homer's sperm
[2F11] Bart's Comet
+ 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
[2F12] Homie the Clown
+ Close Encounters of the Third Kind {th}
- Homer builds a circus tent out of mashed potatoes,
just like Richard Dreyfuss does
+ Prizzi's Honor {kt}
- Don Vittorio based on William Hickey's character, Don
Corrado Prizzi
[2F13] Bart vs. Australia
+ 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
+ Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior {cc}
- Wez is in the mob chasing Bart and Homer
+ 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
[2F31] A Star Is Burns
The Fly {av}
- Todd Flanders' "Help me!"
+ Cabaret {rm}
- Moe as Joel Grey dancing on his bar {av}
+ Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, Hollywood screenwriters
+ 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
+ Love Story {jsg}
- Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw meet in a library and argue
over a book, just like Lisa and Hugh
[2F18] Two Dozen and One Greyhounds
+ Disney's 101 Dalmatians
- episode title
- puppies watching TV {mk}
- Branford II poking his head up too high while watching
TV, like dalmatian pup Lucky {mk}
- villain wants to make clothes out of the dogs {mk}
- many puppies about to be made into clothing {ddg}
+ 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}
+ Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
- the names of some of the puppies are the same
"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
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
+ Jimmy Stewart
- bank manager is a clear take-off
[2F32] 'Round Springfield
+ 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
[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
[2F22] Lemon of Troy
+ Alice in Wonderland {tk}
- Milhouse disappearing into the bushes makes him look
like the Cheshire Cat in the Disney movie
+ Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
- kids on hill watching other kids on bikes circling
tree
[2F16] Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)
+ 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
+ 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
[2F20] Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)
+ Patton, the movie {hl}
- guy in movie shot down a German plane with a handgun,
like Grampa says he did
[2F17] Radioactive Man
+ Singin' in the Rain
- McBain has trouble saying "Up and atom"
+ 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
[3F01] Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily
+ Outbreak {av}
- Milhouse gets sick from a monkey
+ 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
+ The Exorcist
- Maggie's head turning 180 degrees, just like Linda
Blair's
[3F02] Bart Sells His Soul
+ Sleepless in Seattle {bw}
- Itchy & Scratchy title "Skinless in Seattle"
+ 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
+ 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, streets numbered into the 200s)
[3F03] Lisa the Vegetarian
+ 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
[3F04] Treehouse of Horror VI
[the most ever? - ed]
+ Attack of the 50-foot Woman
- first segment title
- similar plot: large creatures rampage
+ Godzilla
- Lard Lad's roar is identical
+ Ghostbusters
- Lard Lad rampaging through the city similar to Sta-Puf
Marshmallow Man's behavior
+ 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}
+ 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)
+ Alien^3 {mkn}
- segment title written similarly
+ Tron {bdp}
- the green grid looks as though it's from the movie
+ 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}
+ Howard the Duck
- Homer landing in a dumpster when he appears in our
world
- similar animation of Homer walking down the street
+ 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
+ What's Eating Gilbert Grape? {mc}
- Bart and others looking through window at obese Homer
lifted straight from the movie
[3F06] Mother Simpson
+ 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
+ Apocalypse Now
- "Ride of the Valkyries" is played while attacking
[3F08] Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
+ Twilight's Last Gleaming {rl}
- episode title
+ 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
+ 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}
+ Failsafe
- sudden still photos of Springfieldianites just as the
bomb goes off similar to movie
+ Patton {rl}
- "Matt Groening's picture" is on a backdrop of the US
flag, like the movie
+ Casino Royale and other Bond movies
- James Bond gambling looks similar (it was Chemin de
Fer in the original film {ddg})
+ Terminator 2
- Richard Simmons robot's eye reforming very similar to
T1000
[3F07] Marge Be Not Proud
+ Forrest Gump {br}
- Marge appropriates "Life is like a box of chocolates"
from the movie
+ A Streetcar Named Desire {dh}
- "A Streetcar Named Death" video game
[3F10] Team Homer
+ The Jazz Singer {rl}
- "I have no son!" line
+ The Killing Fields {ddg}
- Homer has somehow acquired Dr. Haing S. Ngor's Oscar
for his role in the movie
+ 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
[3F11] Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
+ 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
servants. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Ed Begley.
Jr.
+ Steppin' Out, movie with Liza Minelli
- name of clothes store
+ 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
+ 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}
+ Groucho Marx {hl}
- Marge paraphrases a quote from him: "I would not want
to join a club that would have me as a member"
[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
+ Pickfair, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford's estate
{jh}
- Krusty lived at "Schtickfair"
+ 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
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
~ Psycho II {dga}
- A body is exhumed
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
+ Swimming with Sharks {bc}
- Burns throws pencils in Homer's face and yells at
Homer like Frank Whaley to Kevin Spacey
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, awaiting peanuts from Smithers
with the mouth opening exactly like Alex in the film
[3F16] The Day the Violence Died
+ Ghostbusters {hl}
- Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd used fire extinguishers to
freeze ghosts and a liquid nitrogen freezer to detain
them
+ 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 villain looks like the hackneyed villian of
Felix cartoons
- much of the plot (see capsule))
+ Disney short The Skeleton Dance {mk}
- "Rich Uncle Skeleton" similar
[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
+ Planet of the Apes
- well, duh
+ 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
+ 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
[3F17] Bart on the Road
Ferris Bueller's Day Off {hl}
- movie about a teenager who skips school and steals a
car with his friends
+ Apollo 13/Apollo 13 disaster
- Lisa uses the trademark "Houston, we have a problem"
and calls it Homer 13
+ 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 Vacation {vr}
- the station wagon that pulled up beside the 4 guys,
where the dad threatened to turn the car around if the
kids didn't stop screwing around
~ 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
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
+ 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}
+ Pippi Longstockings, Swedish children's story turned
horrible film
- the name "Snippy Longstockings" is similar
"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.
+ 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)
[3F20] Much Apu About Nothing
Psycho {mar}
- Ned's screaming is straight out of this film
Tarzan {jh}
- Homer swinging from the wire is similar
+ 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
+ Casablanca {mar}
- the "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow" line is out
of this film
[3F21] Homerpalooza
~ Necessary Roughness {vm}
- "Par-tay"
+ Planet of the Apes
- someone in the crowd wears a T-shirt featuring Dr.
Zaius, that wacky orangutan
[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}
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
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)
Basket Case {dp}
- Siamese twin wants to be re-connected to the other
+ Star Wars {dp}
- spaceships attacking Bart similar to attack on the
Death Star
+ Citizen Kane, classic film by Orson Welles
- "Citizen Kang" spoofs the title of this classic movie
+ Independence 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
[3F23] You Only Move Twice
+ 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 villains 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", song from the 1937 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
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}
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
~ Police Academy {hl}
- Leslie Easterbrook's character subdues men by
squeezing their heads between her thighs
[4F03] The Homer They Fall
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.
+ Raging Bull, movie
- black and white boxing scenes in the middle of the
episode {psk}
- during the black and white 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}
~ 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 in capsule)
- Rainier Wolfecastle caught in "Hollywood
Prostitution Scandal"
- Charlie Sheen in boxing audience
+ "People Who Need People", Barbra Streisand song from
'60s Funny Girl {mar}
- song over the closing credits
[4F05] Burns, Baby Burns
+ 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
+ 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}
+ 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.
+ Johnny Hollywood {rl}
- final showdown is in a theater
- Joe Pesci imagines giving himself up to the cops
and getting shot
[4F06] Bart After Dark
+ 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}
[4F04] A Milhouse Divided
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.
[4F01] Lisa's Date With Density
+ Back to the Future {dga}
- mixing up "Density" and "Destiny," as in the title
Thunderball", James Bond movie {xn}
- raising his eyebrow, saying "Oh, REALLY?"
Waterworld
- a "Nuke the Whales" bumper sticker shown, like
Nelson's poster {dp}
+ 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
+ Wizard of Oz {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
Alice in Wonderland, Disney's adaptation of this
Lewis Carrol novel {jps} / Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate 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 problem.
- 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
A Clockwork Orange, 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
+ 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
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
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
- the Cheshire Cat appears in similar ways, forming
out of thin air
Terminator 2 {rj}
- Homer morphin around and "flipping" the direction
of his face
The Ten Commandments {dga}
- Homer running to the lighthouse resembles the
parting of the Red Sea
[3G01] The Springfield Files
+ 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
+ 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 equaled the
disappointment it caused.
+ Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock movie
- The Springfield Philharmonic is playing the famous
Bernard Herrmann score from the shower scene
+ High Anxiety, Mel Brooks movie
+ Rocky, movies starring Sylvester Stallone
- Apollo Creed is one of Rocky's opponents
+ 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
[4F08] The Twisted World of Marge Simpson
~ James Bond {hl}
- Bart's Blackboard line is "I am not licensed to do
anything"
Star Wars {dp2}
- Bart's R2-D2 whistle sound
+ Saturday Night Fever
- Picture of Travolta as Tony Manero on the wall
behind Disco Stu
+ I'm Gonna Get You Sucka {np}
- Disco Stu's goldfish platforms are similar to a
pair worn by a pimp in the film
+ 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
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
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
- Songs from the movie:
-"A Spoonful of Sugar" = "Cut Every Corner"
-"Feed the Birds Tuppence a Bag" = "A Boozehound"
+ 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)
Love, American Style {gb}
- the heart-shaped frame closing in after the
Barney/Moe song
+ The Sound of Music
- Shary mutters, "Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So..." while getting
Homer a beer
+ 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
[4F12] The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
[4F11] Homer's Phobia
+ Forbidden Planet, 1956 sci-fi classic starring Leslie
Nielsen {ma}
- The poster of "Clank, Clank, You're Dead!" looks like
that of this film
+ Pink Flamingos (1972 cult classic film) {ma}
- The pink flamingo in Cockamamie's
+ "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."
+ Hairspray, movie directed by John Waters {dga}
- Bart's wig resembles Ricki Lake's bouffant
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])
Jailhouse Rock {bjr}
- Krusty plays rockabilly tunes while in the slammer,
like Elvis in this movie
~ 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}
Universal Citywalk, Hollywood, CA {jh}
- The seafront looked awfully like the Universal
Citywalk in Hollywood, right down to the open
fountain.
+ It's a Wonderful Life {jk}
- It's the Wonderful Knife store inspired by this
movie
+ 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}
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
+ 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
+ Basic Instinct {hl}
- Mrs. Krabappel sat the same way as Sharon Stone on
her desk.
+ 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.
[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
+ Ernest Saves Christmas {sb}
- the name "Santos" is used in the place of Santa
+ Godzilla {jk}
- Zoidzilla comic book
Dumb & Dumber {dsb}
- a blind person with dead parrot
[4F17] The Old Man and the Lisa
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls {jk}
- the shrieking that Bret Hart and the real estate
agent hears.
~ "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}
[4F18] In Marge We Trust
Help {em}
- the scene where everyone is searching for Ned is
very reminiscent of The Beatles calling "Ringo!" in
the movie
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
Falling Down {al}
- the Frank Grimes character looks a little like the
mad engineer from this movie
- both characters also go on insane rampages
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
Live and Let Die {hl}
- boat chase through New Orleans bayou
+ 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
+ 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
[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
+ "Police Squad"/Naked Gun {djp}
- Wiggum drove his car poorly and up on the curb the
same way that Frank Drebin does
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
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
A Christmas Story {jk}
- Lisa's arms are stuck after the Eliminator, like
Randy's when he's in his winter clothes
[4F22] The City Of New York Vs. Homer Simpson
Jurassic Park
- At Moe’s, Barney notices the bowl of peanuts vibrating as the
Duff Partymobile approaches the same way things vibrate when
dinosaurs are approaching in this 1993 film and its subsequent sequels.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- As the Duff Partymobile approaches, the song "Oh Yeah" by Yello plays.
The song was popularized by its inclusion on the soundtrack to this
film as well as the film The Secret Of My Success with Michael J. Fox.
The Lone Ranger And The Lost City Of Gold/Allan Quatermain And The Lost City Of Gold
- When Barney is driving a very drunk Homer, Carl, and Lenny home,
Homer insists that Barney drive to "The Lost City of Gold."
He may have been referring to either the 1958 Lone Ranger film, or
a particularly bad 1987 film with Richard Chamberlain.
+ The Sting
- The music played during Homer’s flashback sequence in New York is a
reference to this 1973 Paul Newman/Robert Redford film set in the 1930s.
+ Woody Allen Films
- A 1970s era Woody Allen appears in a window to dump trash on Homer
during his flashback. This appears to be a reference because of the
era-appropriate caricature of Woody Allen, who appears in more modern
incarnations in other episodes, most recently in "The Blunder Years."
+ The Godfather, Part 2 Jeremiah Johnson, Five Easy Pieces
- During Homer’s flashback, he walks by several porn theaters, playing
films entitled The Godfather’s Parts 2, Jeremiah’s Johnson, and
Five Sleazy Pieces, all of which are references to great films
of the early 1970s.
+ C.H.U.D.
- Homer’s flashback ends with Homer complaining that the monsters from
this 1984 low budget horror film came at him in the New York sewers.
(Perhaps the joke here is juxtaposing this film against 70s classics
like the films parodied by the porno theaters. I suppose we’ll have
to ask Ian Maxtone-Graham.)
Roger & Me
- Homer smashing his car radio when he hears "Everything Is Beautiful" is
similar to an out-of-work auto worker smashing his car radio when he
hears "Wouldn’t It Be Nice" from this 1989 Michael Moore documentary.
+ Ernest Films
- Among the Broadway signs Marge and the kids see before they go into a
performance of Kickin It is one for a play entitled Ernest Goes To Broadway.
+ Ben Hur
- The scene with Homer ramming the dilapidated car into the horse drawn
carriage parodies this 1959 classic.
[4F23] The Principal And The Pauper
~ The Prince And The Pauper
- Although the title is probably a reference to the Mark Twain book
more than any particular film version, the 1937 version with Claude
Rains and Errol Flynn does merit noting.
The Return Of Martin Guerre
- It has also been pointed out that the plot of this episode is nearly
identical to that of this 1982 French film with Gerard Depardieu
(thanks to the writer of this episode capsule).
+ Rebel Without A Cause
- In his younger days, Armin Tamzarian’s hair, clothes, and attitude
resemble James Dean from this definitive film.
+ Apocalypse Now
- The silhouettes of war with explosions in Skinner’s flashback are
reminiscent of a scene this film.
+ The Jazz Singer
- When Agnes says "I have no son" it parodies the classic scene from
this 1980 drama with Neil Diamond and Laurence Olivier.
~ Romeo And Juliet
- More a reference to the play (although the 1996 film version with
Leonardo DiCaprio came out around the time Ken Keeler would have
written the episode), while watching Kent Brockman’s report on the
Skinner controversy, Lisa Simpsons remarks "A rose by any other name
would smell as sweet" only to be shouted down by the rest of the family.
[3G02] Lisa’s Sax
+ The Woody Allen-Mia Farrow marriage
- Krusty and Woody share an ill-starred attempt at matrimony to this
actress {bjr}
- Mia's predisposition to adopt children is shown {bjr}
[5F02] Treehouse of Horror VIII
+ The Omega Man
- The first part of this TOH installment parodies this 1971 Charlton Heston
film about the last man on Earth. There are numerous references to the film,
including Homer nearly going insane then deciding he must move forward
and enjoy life, Homer watching a movie alone in a theater full of the
remains of the dead, the mutants’ black robes and white faces, and Homer
running around with his shirt off.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- The scene with a bomb hitting a city and instantly dissolving the residents
into charred skeletons is reminiscent of the same scene in this 1991
action blockbuster.
+ Tommy Boy/Black Sheep
- In the empty movie theater Homer watches a David Spade/Chris Farley movie,
referring to these two films from the mid-90s. [Sadly, Chris Farley died
two months after this episode aired.]
Return Of The Living Dead, Part 2
- The mutants pressing their eyes against the windows of Homer’s car and
rubbing them up and down is reminiscent of this film [and numerous other
zombie movies.]
+ The Fly
- The second part of this TOH installment parodies both the 1958 classic and
the 1986 remake with Jeff Goldblum. Bart getting the head of a fly and
getting trapped by a spider are the most obvious references to the original,
while the matter transporter is the most obvious reference to the remake.
+ The Crucible
- The third part of this TOH installment is a parody of the Arthur Miller play,
which was also a film in 1996 starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
+ The Scarlet Letter
- Mrs. Krabappel wears a scarlet ‘A’ like the heroine of this Nathaniel Hawthorne
novel and 1995 film starring Demi Moore.
[5F01] The Cartridge Family
Richard Gere
- The blackboard gag refers to an infamous Hollywood myth that Richard Gere
once had to be taken to the hospital to remove a gerbil that had been
stuffed in his rear as part of some kinky sex thing, back when he was
married to Cindy Crawford.
+ Annie Get Your Gun
- The gun store owner says "Be careful Annie Oakley" when Homer is playing
with a gun in the store, referring to the title character of this 1950s
movie musical.
[5F03] Bart Star
+ Spartacus
- The sports equipment shop where Springfield’s lads get their football
gear is named "Sportacus."
[5F04] The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons
+ The Two Mrs. Carrolls
- The title refers to this 1947 film with Humphrey Bogart and
Barbara Stanwyck.
+ Saturday Night Fever
- At the bachelor auction, a humiliated Moe struts off stage to a
Muzak version of "Staying Alive."
- The Wedding Banquet
- The plot of this episode has many similarities to this 1993 Ang Lee
film about a gay man who fakes a marriage with a woman to placate
his overbearing parents.
+ Days Of Thunder
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