Talk:Brother from the Same Planet/Archive 1

I'm just noting here
I'm just noting here, I don't know where I heard it, but apparently Ren & Stimpy's Spumco did the storyboard for the R&S segment of the episode (although Simpsons cast members performed the voices).--4.244.27.182 21:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Useless Trivia
"Bart is asked to go to the movies by his friends, who are standing in the box of a pickup truck, which classmate Jimbo is driving."

Whats the point of that line? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.14.39.200 (talk) 03:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC).

Ren & Stimpy
Neither Kricfalusi nor West guest-starred in the Ren & Stimpy parody. Kricfalusi, in fact, had been fired from Ren & Stimpy long before this episode went into production. The show's use in the episode seems to mock the abysmal quality of episodes following Kricfalusi's departure. (Ibaranoff24 02:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC))

Unsourced info moved from article
Below unsourced material moved from article to talk page, could be added back into the article if sourced to WP:RS/WP:V secondary sources. Cirt (talk) 07:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

From intro
The plot of this episode is similar to a Ren and Stimpy cartoon produced around the same time and vice versa. Dan Castellaneta provided the voices of Ren and Stimpy in this sequence instead of Billy West. Incidentally, Rough Draft Studios does the animation for both that show and The Simpsons.

Cultural references

 * The R-rated movie Bart's friends are so excited about seeing is Barton Fink, a 1991 drama about a struggling screenwriter in the 1940s, which presumably is far from what they would hope to see. A later episode, "Bart the Fink", would take its title from that film, which, like The Simpsons, is produced by 20th Century Fox.
 * Milhouse writes "Trab pu kcip" on the wall, which is "Pick up Bart" backwards, a reference to Danny Torrance writing "redrum" which is "murder" backwards, in The Shining.
 * The woman that Bart mistakes for Homer in an ironic touch sings "I Am Woman".
 * While Bart is stuck in the storm waiting for Homer, a nun is lifted up by the wind, a reference to the TV series The Flying Nun.
 * The grapefruit scene is a reference to the James Cagney movie, The Public Enemy.
 * When Bart tells himself "Eye of the Tiger, Bart" he is making a reference to what Rocky says to himself in Rocky III.
 * When Homer tells Bart "You've been out galavanting around with that floozy of a bigger brother of yours, haven't you? Haven't you?! Look at me!" he is making a reference to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? when Richard Burton accuses his wife of adultery.
 * Skinner makes a reference to the movie Psycho when he says "Oh... there's mother now." This is the first time Skinner is portrayed as a Norman Bates-like character.
 * At one point, Bart tells Homer that he would fake the excitement he would have when Homer pushed him on the swing and demonstrates it, to Homer's horror. This is a reference to the infamous fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally....
 * A section of the fight between Homer and Tom parodies the introduction to Street Fighter II.
 * At one point, Bart watches "Tuesday Night Live", which is a parody of NBC's Saturday Night Live. At a commercial break, Bart comments that he misses Joe Piscopo, who was a castmember on the show from 1980 to 1984. Krusty appears on a sketch called "The Big Ear Family", which could be a reference to either the Coneheads or the Widettes; The Coneheads being a family of aliens with large cone-shaped heads, and the Widettes being a family of people with abnormally-large rear ends. According to DVD commentary, the entire part where Krusty is on Tuesday Night Live was Jon Vitti's way of criticizing Saturday Night Live at the time of the episode, which was being criticized for having overlong sketches with thin joke premises (and criticisms of this kind for SNL continue to this day), which explains Krusty's line about The Big Ear Family sketch going on for twelve more minutes, even though the joke's punchline was well established. The sequence originally had a longer version of the Tuesday Night Live band playing into the commercial break, but cut it because he didn't want to come off as being bitter (Vitti, along with writing this episode of The Simpsons, was a writer on Saturday Night Live during the 1985-1986 season along with fellow Simpson writers, George Meyer and John Swartzwelder).
 * The fight between Homer and Tom mirrors a fight at the end of The Quiet Man, a John Wayne movie.

Thanks
Thanks to for help with production info. Cirt (talk) 20:00, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

GA Review
This article has had a GA review and was promoted successfully to WP:GA status. For the review, see: Talk:Brother from the Same Planet/GA1. Cirt (talk) 13:14, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Real Corey Hotline
I'm not sure if there is anywhere to really work it in, but the Corey Hotline was actually a real service in the 1980s. There's a commercial for it here: Corey Hotline Ad 67.233.153.40 (talk) 08:45, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Is there a reliable secondary source for that info? -- Cirt (talk) 20:21, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Scary face
has anyone noticed when homer is apologising to bart in the car he makes a scary face after dropping barts sundae, his face looks like its melting! can this be mentioned in the article? --Lerdthenerd (talk) 16:19, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Is there a reliable secondary source for that info? -- Cirt (talk) 20:21, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * sadly i can't find any sources on line, only a youtube video called homerward. I've watched the episode, and its definately in the scene where homer gives bart a sundae, the scary face is probably what bart is thinking about at that point but under SYNTH we can't make that judgement--Lerdthenerd (talk) 11:27, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Family Guy Ripoff
Did anyone notice that the scene in which Homer is playing blackoff was subsequently ripped off, almost word for word, in the Family Guy episode "There's Something About Paulie"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.198.164.18 (talk) 23:38, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Barton Fink
Milhouse and the boys are going to the 1991 movie Barton Fink, in the german version at least. Can someone confirm for the original version and add to Cultural References? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.65.133.8 (talk) 17:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Title
Surprised it isn't mentioned that the title is an obvious reference to The Brother from Another Planet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.225.89.166 (talk) 04:28, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Is the image too frightening?
Is it? Wimpyguy (talk) 12:48, 21 July 2013 (UTC)