Talk:Missionary: Impossible/Archive 1

Elmo and Oscar picture
The caption reads wrong it should read "Elmo knows where you live!"--Lerdthenerd 10:59, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

ohh
somebody beat me to the comfortably numb reference! haha —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.232.74.200 (talk) 04:34, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Hagar the Horrible
Hagar the Horrible is an American cartoon strip. Although it's true that the British Sun newspaper syndicates it, it isn't a British reference. Silas Maxfield (talk) 22:29, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Pump Up the Volume
I've removed the reference to Pump Up the Volume - primarily because Homer actually says, "Crank up the volume." It was a bit of a stretch anyways... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.243.84.25 (talk) 03:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced
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Cultural references

 * The title of the episode is in reference to the American television series and movie Mission: Impossible.
 * The name of the fictional island Microasia is a portmanteau of Micronesia, a real group of small islands in Oceania more similar to the island to where Homer was sent and the continent Asia, which neighbors Oceania.
 * Phone operators at the Fox Network fund-raising drive include Fox show characters Mulder and Scully (from The X-Files), Hank Hill (King of the Hill, though shown with yellow skin), Bender from Matt Groening's Futurama, Thurgood Stubbs from The PJs, Dylan McKay from Beverly Hills, 90210 and Rupert Murdoch.
 * Many PBS characters chase Homer, such as the Do Shut Up cast, Yo-Yo Ma, Mr. Rogers, and the Teletubbies. Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, and Elmo are also seen among the crowd.
 * Homer mentions The Flintstones when using a pelican to mix cement; he is also wearing a hat made of a tortoise shell.
 * When Homer is talking to his family through the radio Bart says that Marge doesn't let him read Hägar the Horrible strips.
 * When Betty White refers to "low-brow" programming during the Fox pledge drive sequence, the Family Guy logo is visible on the TV screen before she shuts it off. Ironically, Miss White would later be a guest voice herself on Family Guy in the episode "Peterotica".
 * Homer states that the murderous rampage by PBS was made possible by the Chubb Group. They were a major sponsor of PBS around the time of the episode.

Missionary Impossible: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF11 http://www.wtso.net/movie/36-The_Simpsons_1115_Missionary_Impossibl.html Marge on the Lam: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F03.html http://www.wtso.net/movie/258-The_Simpsons_506_Marge_on_the_Lam.html Matt2h (talk) 22:11, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Reference 1 is incorrect. Garrison Keillor does not appear in this episode. The author of the article must have confused this episode with another episode featuring PBS in which Garrison Keillor DOES appear (at the very beginning of the episode): "Marge On the Lam." Garrison Keillor is NOT among the PBS crowd chasing homer. I think that the author of the article has confused Garrison Keillor with Fred (Mr.) Rogers, who IS among the crowd, as referenced below.

British references

 * At the start of the episode, Bart asks Homer why he's watching PBS. Homer says that it shows many English sitcoms, and uses the British insult "Wankers".
 * Heard in the background of Do Shut Up is the Sex Pistols classic song "No Feelings".
 * Betty White mentions that Do Shut Up is the longest-running series on British Television and that PBS is running "all seven episodes", a reference to the relatively paltry number of episodes made per year (in comparison to American television) of sitcoms such as Fawlty Towers and Black Adder.
 * Briefly seen after the PBS ident on the Simpsons' TV is a representation of the famous 1968-1989 Thames Television ident, the ITV London Weekday franchise holder from 1968 to 1992.
 * There may not be a reference to be had on this, but the 'Thames' ident would be familiar to American audiences from preceding reruns of the 'Benny Hill Show'. The gag here is an homage to PBS airing British comedies. 2601:183:C200:BD9E:F0E6:7B3B:6AB1:77CE (talk) 01:05, 30 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Marge makes a reference to Pink Floyd's song Comfortably Numb. When Homer is licking frogs through the Ham radio Marge says "Hello? Hello? Is there anybody in there?"
 * Homer running in the church yelling "Sanctuary!" is an allusion to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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