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SimpsonsWriters
Alphabetical


 * Al Jean (Mom and Pop Art)
 * Brian Scully (Make Room for Lisa, Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Dan Greaney (I'm with Cupid, Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * David M. Stern (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers", Viva Ned Flanders)
 * David S. Cohen| (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * David S. Cohen (Bart the Mother)
 * Donick Cary (D'oh-in in the Wind, Thirty Minutes over Tokyo, Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * George Meyer (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Ian Maxtone-Graham (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * Jane O'Brien (Lard of the Dance)
 * John Swartzwelder (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble", Homer to the Max, Maximum Homerdrive, Monty Can't Buy Me Love, The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
 * Julie Thacker (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * Larru Doyle (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * Larry Doyle (Wild Barts Can't Be Broken)
 * Larry Doyle (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * Mark Kirkland (The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
 * Matt Selman (Simpsons Bible Stories, They Saved Lisa's Brain)
 * Mike Scully (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Richard Appel (When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * Ron Hauge (Mayored to the Mob)
 * Tim Long (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * Tom Martin (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * (The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
 * director    =  (The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)

Sectioned

Bart the Mother

 * David S. Cohen

D'oh-in in the Wind

 * Donick Cary

Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"

 * John Swartzwelder

Homer to the Max

 * John Swartzwelder

I'm with Cupid

 * Dan Greaney

Lard of the Dance

 * Jane O'Brien

Lisa Gets an "A"

 * Ian Maxtone-Graham

Make Room for Lisa

 * Brian Scully

Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"

 * David M. Stern

Maximum Homerdrive

 * John Swartzwelder

Mayored to the Mob

 * Ron Hauge

Mom and Pop Art

 * Al Jean

Monty Can't Buy Me Love

 * John Swartzwelder

Simpsons Bible Stories

 * Tim Long
 * Larry Doyle
 * Matt Selman

Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

 * Tom Martin
 * George Meyer
 * Brian Scully
 * Mike Scully

The Old Man and the "C" Student

 * Julie Thacker

The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

 * John Swartzwelder
 * director    =
 * Mark Kirkland
 * Mark Kirkland

They Saved Lisa's Brain

 * Matt Selman

Thirty Minutes over Tokyo

 * Donick Cary
 * Dan Greaney

Treehouse of Horror IX

 * Donick Cary
 * Larru Doyle
 * David S. Cohen|

Viva Ned Flanders

 * David M. Stern

When You Dish Upon a Star

 * Richard Appel

Wild Barts Can't Be Broken

 * Larry Doyle

SimpsonsDirectors
Alphabetical


 * "I'm so very tired" (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Bob Anderson (I'm with Cupid, Lisa Gets an "A")
 * Dominic Polcino (Lard of the Dance)
 * Jim Reardon (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Mark Ervin (Monty Can't Buy Me Love, Wild Barts Can't Be Broken)
 * Mark Kirkland (D'oh-in in the Wind, Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers", The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * Matthew Nastuk (D'oh-in in the Wind, Make Room for Lisa)
 * Mike B. Anderson (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
 * Nancy Kruse (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * Neil Affleck (Viva Ned Flanders)
 * Pete Michels (Homer to the Max, They Saved Lisa's Brain, When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * Steven Dean Moore (Bart the Mother, Mom and Pop Art, Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Steven Dean Moore| (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * Swinton O. Scott III (Maximum Homerdrive, Mayored to the Mob)

Sectioned

D'oh-in in the Wind

 * George Carlin as Seth
 * Martin Mull as Munchie

Homer to the Max

 * Ed Begley, Jr. as himself

I'm with Cupid

 * Jan Hooks as Manjula
 * Elton John as himself

Lard of the Dance

 * Lisa Kudrow as Alex Whitney

Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"

 * Johnny Kassir as Possum
 * Hank Williams, Jr. as Canyenero singer

Mayored to the Mob

 * Mark Hamill as himself and Leavelle
 * Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony

Mom and Pop Art

 * Isabella Rossellini as Astrid Weller
 * Jasper Johns as himself

Monty Can't Buy Me Love

 * Michael McKean as Jerry Rude

Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

 * Fred Willard as Wally Kogen
 * Troy Aikman as Himself
 * Rosey Grier as Himself
 * John Madden as Himself
 * Dan Marino as Himself
 * Rupert Murdoch as Himself
 * Dolly Parton as Herself
 * Pat Summerall as Himself

The Old Man and the "C" Student

 * Jack LaLanne as himself

They Saved Lisa's Brain

 * Stephen Hawking as himself

Thirty Minutes over Tokyo

 * George Takei as Wink
 * Denice Kumagai as Japanese Mother
 * Karen Maruyama as Japanese Stewardess
 * Gedde Watanabe as Japanese Father/Waiter
 * Keone Young as Fish

Treehouse of Horror IX

 * Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
 * Ed McMahon
 * Jerry Springer
 * Regis Philbin
 * Kathie Lee Gifford|

Viva Ned Flanders

 * The Moody Blues as themselves

When You Dish Upon a Star

 * Alec Baldwin as himself
 * Kim Basinger as herself
 * Ron Howard as himself
 * Brian Grazer as himself

Wild Barts Can't Be Broken

 * Cyndi Lauper as herself

SimpsonsBlackboard
Alphabetical


 * "'The President did it' is not an excuse." (Mayored to the Mob)
 * "A trained ape could not teach gym" (Mom and Pop Art)
 * "Grammar is not a time of waste." (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * "I am not a licensed hairstylist." (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
 * "I cannot absolve sins." (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * "I do not have diplomatic immunity." (Make Room for Lisa)
 * "I have neither been there nor done that" (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * "I will not do the 'Dirty Bird'." (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * "I will not file frivolous lawsuits" (The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
 * "I will not scream for ice cream" (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * "It does not suck to be you" (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * "Loose teeth don't need my help." (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * "My mother is not dating Jerry Seinfeld" (Viva Ned Flanders)
 * "No one cares about my sciatica" (Homer to the Max)
 * "No one wants to hear from my armpits" (They Saved Lisa's Brain)
 * "Hillbillies are people too." (I'm with Cupid)
 * "Sherri does not 'got back'" (Wild Barts Can't Be Broken)
 * "butt.com is not my e-mail address" (When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * NO ONE CARES WHAT MY DEFINITION OF "IS" IS (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * Bart paints "The Simpsons Halloween Special IX" on the board with a blood-soaked brush| (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * Marge, carrying a laundry basket, hangs the rest of the family up to dry. (When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * none (Lard of the Dance)

Sectioned

D'oh-in in the Wind

 * NO ONE CARES WHAT MY DEFINITION OF "IS" IS

Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"

 * "I am not a licensed hairstylist."

Homer to the Max

 * "No one cares about my sciatica"

I'm with Cupid

 * "Hillbillies are people too."

Lard of the Dance

 * none

Lisa Gets an "A"

 * "I will not scream for ice cream"

Make Room for Lisa

 * "I do not have diplomatic immunity."

Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"

 * "Grammar is not a time of waste."

Maximum Homerdrive

 * "It does not suck to be you"

Mayored to the Mob

 * "'The President did it' is not an excuse."

Mom and Pop Art

 * "A trained ape could not teach gym"

Monty Can't Buy Me Love

 * "I have neither been there nor done that"

Simpsons Bible Stories

 * "I cannot absolve sins."

Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

 * "I will not do the 'Dirty Bird'."

The Old Man and the "C" Student

 * "Loose teeth don't need my help."

The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

 * "I will not file frivolous lawsuits"

They Saved Lisa's Brain

 * "No one wants to hear from my armpits"

Treehouse of Horror IX

 * Bart paints "The Simpsons Halloween Special IX" on the board with a blood-soaked brush|

Viva Ned Flanders

 * "My mother is not dating Jerry Seinfeld"

When You Dish Upon a Star

 * "butt.com is not my e-mail address"

When You Dish Upon a Star

 * Marge, carrying a laundry basket, hangs the rest of the family up to dry.

Wild Barts Can't Be Broken

 * "Sherri does not 'got back'"

SimpsonsCouchGags
Alphabetical


 * A live-action hand spins a picture of the family, and the ink splatters. (Viva Ned Flanders)
 * As the family sits on the couch an iceberg's tip causes them to sink with the couch. Only Maggie emerges, turning on the TV. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * As the family sits on the couch, an iceberg's tip causes them to sink with the couch. Only Maggie floats, and she turns on the TV. (They Saved Lisa's Brain)
 * In a Dr. Strangelove parody, the family rides a couch, à la "riding the bomb" in the movie. (Wild Barts Can't Be Broken)
 * In a Dr. Strangelove parody, the family rides a couch, à la the bomb in the movie. (Mom and Pop Art)
 * Salon-style hair dryers switch the family's hairstyles. (I'm with Cupid)
 * Salon-style hair dryers switch the family's hairstyles. Maggie falls off the couch because of the weight of Marge's hair. (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * The couch takes off like a rollercoaster. (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * The family attempts to sit on the couch, but it moves backwards and they fall to the floor. Nelson, pointing his finger at the family, says, "Haw haw!" (Lard of the Dance)
 * The family enters, with the sizes reversed, Homer being the smallest and Maggie the largest. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * The family forms a chorus line, which turns into a large production number. (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * The family has green frog-like bodies, sitting on a lily pad replacing the couch, and Homer opens his mouth, with his tongue turning the TV on. (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
 * The family is crushed into a block. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * The family is put through a shredder. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * The family sit on the couch, then a bar comes down over their heads and it takes off like a roller coaster. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * The family slips on banana peels, but luckily everyone lands on the couch. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * The firemen hold the couch and adjust it to hold Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, but Homer falls through the floor. (Make Room for Lisa)
 * The living room becomes a movie theater. (The Old Man and the "C" Student, The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
 * Two firemen hold the couch adjust it to catch Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, but Homer falls through the floor. (Bart the Mother)
 * Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees sit on the couch, waiting for the family| (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * Marge, carrying a laundry basket, hangs the rest of the family to dry on a closeline. (Homer to the Max)
 * Phil Hartman as Troy McClure (Bart the Mother)

Sectioned

Bart the Mother

 * Two firemen hold the couch adjust it to catch Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, but Homer falls through the floor.

Bart the Mother

 * Phil Hartman as Troy McClure

D'oh-in in the Wind

 * The family sit on the couch, then a bar comes down over their heads and it takes off like a roller coaster.

Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"

 * The family has green frog-like bodies, sitting on a lily pad replacing the couch, and Homer opens his mouth, with his tongue turning the TV on.

Homer to the Max

 * Marge, carrying a laundry basket, hangs the rest of the family to dry on a closeline.

I'm with Cupid

 * Salon-style hair dryers switch the family's hairstyles.

Lard of the Dance

 * The family attempts to sit on the couch, but it moves backwards and they fall to the floor. Nelson, pointing his finger at the family, says, "Haw haw!"

Lisa Gets an "A"

 * Salon-style hair dryers switch the family's hairstyles. Maggie falls off the couch because of the weight of Marge's hair.

Make Room for Lisa

 * The firemen hold the couch and adjust it to hold Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, but Homer falls through the floor.

Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"

 * The couch takes off like a rollercoaster.

Maximum Homerdrive

 * The family enters, with the sizes reversed, Homer being the smallest and Maggie the largest.

Mayored to the Mob

 * The family is crushed into a block.

Mom and Pop Art

 * In a Dr. Strangelove parody, the family rides a couch, à la the bomb in the movie.

Monty Can't Buy Me Love

 * The family forms a chorus line, which turns into a large production number.

Simpsons Bible Stories

 * The family slips on banana peels, but luckily everyone lands on the couch.

Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

 * As the family sits on the couch an iceberg's tip causes them to sink with the couch. Only Maggie emerges, turning on the TV.

The Old Man and the "C" Student

 * The living room becomes a movie theater.

The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

 * The living room becomes a movie theater.

They Saved Lisa's Brain

 * As the family sits on the couch, an iceberg's tip causes them to sink with the couch. Only Maggie floats, and she turns on the TV.

Thirty Minutes over Tokyo

 * The family is put through a shredder.

Treehouse of Horror IX

 * Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees sit on the couch, waiting for the family|

Viva Ned Flanders

 * A live-action hand spins a picture of the family, and the ink splatters.

Wild Barts Can't Be Broken

 * In a Dr. Strangelove parody, the family rides a couch, à la "riding the bomb" in the movie.

SimpsonsTrivia
Note, the bot needs improvement if we're going to use this alphabetical section since it's sorting the sub-list on one of the pages alphabetically - but it probably doesn't make sense to sort the trivia anyway.

Alphabetical


 * After Battling Seizure Robots goes to commercial a brief photo of the reporter interviewing the 2 headed cow from In Marge We Trust appears. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Although a Japanese-dub of The Simpsons has been produced for many years, this episode has never aired in Japan. According to the DVD commentary for "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", this episode didn't air in Japan because of the scene where Homer hurls the Emperor of Japan into a pile of used "sumo thongs." (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Apu with a statue of Ganesh (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * Comic Book Guy with a copy of "Sad Sack" (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * Dr. Hibbert with a vase (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * Herman with a German military helmet (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * In line at the antiques appraisal show are: (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * In the Japanese version of the series, Homer usually says "D'oh" as opposed to the phrase heard in this episode, (shimatta-baka-ni or damn it stupid!) but when the subtitle is shown it reads D'oh. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Krusty scratching his back with a menorah (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * Miss Hoover with some books (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * One of this episode's guest stars is George Carlin. In a previous episode, Krusty the Clown is told he's being sued by Carlin for plagiarizing "The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television." (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * Principal Skinner with an old blunderbuss-bellshaped musket. (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * Seth and Munchie bear striking resemblances to George Carlin and Martin Mull. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * The haiku Lisa reads isn't in traditional Japanese form of 5-7-5 syllables. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * The origami crane scene with the "last million yen" makes the value of a million yen look trivial, but in reality one million yen are worth approximately 8 to 9 thousand U.S. Dollars, depending on the current exchange rate. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * This episode was rated TV-14 DL, the second time for The Simpsons. (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * While Ned Flanders is driving, he has a hallucination where he sees the Grateful Dead Dancing Bears: Melody and Verse with the Skeleton who says "Mornin' Ned". They are followed by the Marching Hammers from Pink Floyd's The Wall marching down the road and The Rolling Stones' "Lips & Tongue" which ask him to "Pucker up Ned". Series creator Matt Groening has admitted to being a huge Dead, Floyd and Stones fan. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * Apu (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Barney (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Bumblebee Man (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Captain McCallister (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Carl (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Chief Wiggum (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Comic Book Guy (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Dr. Nick Riviera (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Jasper (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Dr. Hibbert (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Kirk Van Houten (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Krusty the Clown (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Lenny (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The blue haired lawyer (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Charlie (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Moe (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Ned Flanders (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Reverend Lovejoy (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Sideshow Mel (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Squeaky Voiced Teen (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * (10-33) Actual bear in air. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * (10-34) Can't unchain wallet. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * (10-35) Hot enough for ya? (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * (10-36) Ghost truck on highway. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * (10-37) Ask me about my grandchildren. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * (10-38) Outsider blabbing about auto-drive system. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * (10-39) I love you gay buddy. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * (10-40) Taxes due. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * Alex is seen again in many more episodes as a student at Springfield Elementary. (Lard of the Dance)
 * Alien-Maggie reappears in Treehouse of Horror X. (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * Answering (though not necessarily correctly) one theological question, Adam and Eve are shown with navels. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * Both the plot and subplot are referenced in the episode title. (Lard of the Dance)
 * During Homer's dream sequence, he imagines himself as part of several famous paintings: Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy," Picasso's "Musiciens aux masques," and Dalí's "The Persistence of Memory." In addition, Andy Warhol throws Campbell's soup cans at him. (Mom and Pop Art)
 * Ed McMahon's appearance was very surprising: the writers originally got Troy McClure to host World's Deadliest Executions, but the scene had to be re-done after Phil Hartman died. This would have been Hartman's last appearance on the show, and it would have been retained if not for the dark subject matter in relation to his recent murder. (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * First appearance of the Vegas wives: Amber and Ginger. (Viva Ned Flanders)
 * Homer correctly states Adolf Hitler's birthday as April 20 and identifies it with Barney's which is the same day in the scene where Flanders and Homer are at the roulette table. Because the Columbine High School massacre was intentionally executed on that date, the line was changed in several rebroadcast versions to June 15, same as Lassie's (the line about Lassie's birthday was in the closed captions of the original version and the syndicated versions). The syndicated versions have the original line about Hitler's birthday. (Viva Ned Flanders)
 * In 'The Terror of Tiny Toon', Poochie makes a brief appearance, once again voiced by Homer, until he is run over by Itchy and Scratchy who are fighting with Bart and Lisa. (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * In the first segment Ned Flanders played the part of God, as if in opposition to Treehouse of Horror IV, where he was the Devil. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * In this episode it is revealed that the school was called the worst school in Missouri, supposedly revealing which state Springfield is in, causing Lisa and Principal Skinner to react in astonishment at the fact that the location has been revealed, but immediately afterward it is said that the school was moved "brick by brick" to its current, still unknown, location. (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * It also referenced in Al Gore measuring up the Oval office curtains when Homer hangs up on President Clinton's congratulatory phone call. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Lisa claims Alex drinks "Iced Tea", although in the episode "Simple Simpson", Lisa tells Homer that she left her iced tea in the basement. (Lard of the Dance)
 * Mayor Quimby's bodyguard's names are Ernie and Big Tom. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * Ned's age is revealed to be 60. However, in "Hurricane Neddy", he is seen in a flashback from thirty years ago, when he was still a kid. (Viva Ned Flanders)
 * Nessie appears to work at the casino created in the earlier episode, $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling). (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * On the tour of the post office, Nelson asks Postmaster Bill "Ever been on a killing spree?". This alludes to the act of going postal. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * One part of this episode involved Homer looking at a picture of Akbar and Jeff framed in the museum. (Mom and Pop Art)
 * Part of this episode was written by Al Jean in a line at an amusement park. (Mom and Pop Art)
 * Robert Englund and Kane Hodder supply the voices of "Freddy" and "Jason" in the opening sequence. (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * The "Bolivian tree lizard" is a fictional species. However, its behavior mirrors the habits of the cuckoo (though the cuckoo does not eat its host). (Bart the Mother)
 * The coach in Homer's fantasy about going to the Super Bowl bears a striking similarity to long-time Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The episode "Jazzy and the Pussycats" would reveal that Homer's Las Vegas wife, Amber, had died after overdosing while riding a rollercoaster. Thus, a funeral was held for her at the beginning of the episode. (Viva Ned Flanders)
 * The episode claims that the extra four digits in ZIP codes are used as "citizen relocation codes". (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The people Homer brings to the Super Bowl are: (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The show features a deliberate obfuscation of the location of Springfield. When Marge is on the phone with the Vincent Price's Egg Magic people, she is instructed to leave her address in order to get feet that were advertised on the box as being included but had been left out. Marge says the beginning of the address but when she gets to the city and state, Maude walks into view causing Marge to say, "Springfield...Oh, Hi ya, Maude!" (Obviously meant to sound like "Ohio".) (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The song playing over the end credits is Highway to Hell by AC/DC. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * The song that is played while Homer waits for his car is the popular "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Coincidentally, Julius Wechter, who wrote that tune, died the next day when the episode first aired. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The song that plays while Homer and the guys run through the stadium is "Song 2" by Blur (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The title "Lisa Gets an A" parodies the title of the second-season opener of the show, "Bart Gets an F", as does another second-season title, "Bart's Dog Gets an F". (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * The trucker CB code list consists of: (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * This episode took place around the time of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. This is referenced in the audio splicing in the bar, "I hear President Clinton (muffled) is going to be there with his wife Hillary, the producers suggesting that they did not know who would be in office when the episode aired. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * This episode was animated long before anyone knew who would go to Super Bowl XXXIII. The producers emphasized this by the deliberately obvious audio splicing in Moe's Tavern, and the awkward way the men held the beer mugs in front of their mouths (so you couldn't read their lips). (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * This is the last episode in which Phil Hartman appears, as Troy McClure. Hartman was murdered earlier in 1998, and so the producers dedicated this episode to him. (Bart the Mother)
 * Though obviously not canonical, this episode is never rectified with the rest of the series, which continues on even though the world is shown to be ending here. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * To date, this is the last episode of The Simpsons to be animated overseas by Anivision. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * Bart (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Crazy Old Man (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford appeared as live-action guests as themselves in this episode, a Simpsons first, and the second time live-action has been used in a Simpsons episode. The first time was at the end of Treehouse of Horror VI. (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * Principal Seymour Skinner (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)

Sectioned

Bart the Mother

 * This is the last episode in which Phil Hartman appears, as Troy McClure. Hartman was murdered earlier in 1998, and so the producers dedicated this episode to him.
 * The "Bolivian tree lizard" is a fictional species. However, its behavior mirrors the habits of the cuckoo (though the cuckoo does not eat its host).

D'oh-in in the Wind

 * One of this episode's guest stars is George Carlin. In a previous episode, Krusty the Clown is told he's being sued by Carlin for plagiarizing "The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television."
 * While Ned Flanders is driving, he has a hallucination where he sees the Grateful Dead Dancing Bears: Melody and Verse with the Skeleton who says "Mornin' Ned". They are followed by the Marching Hammers from Pink Floyd's The Wall marching down the road and The Rolling Stones' "Lips & Tongue" which ask him to "Pucker up Ned". Series creator Matt Groening has admitted to being a huge Dead, Floyd and Stones fan.
 * Seth and Munchie bear striking resemblances to George Carlin and Martin Mull.

Lard of the Dance

 * Both the plot and subplot are referenced in the episode title.
 * Alex is seen again in many more episodes as a student at Springfield Elementary.
 * Lisa claims Alex drinks "Iced Tea", although in the episode "Simple Simpson", Lisa tells Homer that she left her iced tea in the basement.

Lisa Gets an "A"

 * The title "Lisa Gets an A" parodies the title of the second-season opener of the show, "Bart Gets an F", as does another second-season title, "Bart's Dog Gets an F".
 * In this episode it is revealed that the school was called the worst school in Missouri, supposedly revealing which state Springfield is in, causing Lisa and Principal Skinner to react in astonishment at the fact that the location has been revealed, but immediately afterward it is said that the school was moved "brick by brick" to its current, still unknown, location.

Maximum Homerdrive

 * The trucker CB code list consists of:
 * (10-33) Actual bear in air.
 * (10-34) Can't unchain wallet.
 * (10-35) Hot enough for ya?
 * (10-36) Ghost truck on highway.
 * (10-37) Ask me about my grandchildren.
 * (10-38) Outsider blabbing about auto-drive system.
 * (10-39) I love you gay buddy.
 * (10-40) Taxes due.

Mayored to the Mob

 * Mayor Quimby's bodyguard's names are Ernie and Big Tom.
 * To date, this is the last episode of The Simpsons to be animated overseas by Anivision.

Mom and Pop Art

 * During Homer's dream sequence, he imagines himself as part of several famous paintings: Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy," Picasso's "Musiciens aux masques," and Dalí's "The Persistence of Memory." In addition, Andy Warhol throws Campbell's soup cans at him.
 * Part of this episode was written by Al Jean in a line at an amusement park.
 * One part of this episode involved Homer looking at a picture of Akbar and Jeff framed in the museum.

Monty Can't Buy Me Love

 * This episode was rated TV-14 DL, the second time for The Simpsons.
 * In line at the antiques appraisal show are:
 * Herman with a German military helmet
 * Dr. Hibbert with a vase
 * Miss Hoover with some books
 * Comic Book Guy with a copy of "Sad Sack"
 * Krusty scratching his back with a menorah
 * Apu with a statue of Ganesh
 * Principal Skinner with an old blunderbuss-bellshaped musket.
 * Nessie appears to work at the casino created in the earlier episode, $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling).

Simpsons Bible Stories

 * Though obviously not canonical, this episode is never rectified with the rest of the series, which continues on even though the world is shown to be ending here.
 * Answering (though not necessarily correctly) one theological question, Adam and Eve are shown with navels.
 * In the first segment Ned Flanders played the part of God, as if in opposition to Treehouse of Horror IV, where he was the Devil.
 * The song playing over the end credits is Highway to Hell by AC/DC.

Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

 * This episode was animated long before anyone knew who would go to Super Bowl XXXIII. The producers emphasized this by the deliberately obvious audio splicing in Moe's Tavern, and the awkward way the men held the beer mugs in front of their mouths (so you couldn't read their lips).
 * This episode took place around the time of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. This is referenced in the audio splicing in the bar, "I hear President Clinton (muffled) is going to be there with his wife Hillary, the producers suggesting that they did not know who would be in office when the episode aired.
 * It also referenced in Al Gore measuring up the Oval office curtains when Homer hangs up on President Clinton's congratulatory phone call.
 * On the tour of the post office, Nelson asks Postmaster Bill "Ever been on a killing spree?". This alludes to the act of going postal.
 * The song that is played while Homer waits for his car is the popular "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Coincidentally, Julius Wechter, who wrote that tune, died the next day when the episode first aired.
 * The coach in Homer's fantasy about going to the Super Bowl bears a striking similarity to long-time Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry.
 * The show features a deliberate obfuscation of the location of Springfield. When Marge is on the phone with the Vincent Price's Egg Magic people, she is instructed to leave her address in order to get feet that were advertised on the box as being included but had been left out. Marge says the beginning of the address but when she gets to the city and state, Maude walks into view causing Marge to say, "Springfield...Oh, Hi ya, Maude!" (Obviously meant to sound like "Ohio".)
 * The people Homer brings to the Super Bowl are:
 * Bart
 * Comic Book Guy
 * Bumblebee Man
 * Ned Flanders
 * Lenny
 * Carl
 * Moe
 * Barney
 * Apu
 * Squeaky Voiced Teen
 * Reverend Lovejoy
 * Krusty the Clown
 * Dr. Nick Riviera
 * Sideshow Mel
 * Jasper
 * Kirk Van Houten
 * Dr. Hibbert
 * Captain McCallister
 * The blue haired lawyer
 * Charlie
 * Chief Wiggum
 * Principal Seymour Skinner
 * Crazy Old Man
 * The episode claims that the extra four digits in ZIP codes are used as "citizen relocation codes".
 * The song that plays while Homer and the guys run through the stadium is "Song 2" by Blur

Thirty Minutes over Tokyo

 * Although a Japanese-dub of The Simpsons has been produced for many years, this episode has never aired in Japan. According to the DVD commentary for "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", this episode didn't air in Japan because of the scene where Homer hurls the Emperor of Japan into a pile of used "sumo thongs."
 * In the Japanese version of the series, Homer usually says "D'oh" as opposed to the phrase heard in this episode, (shimatta-baka-ni or damn it stupid!) but when the subtitle is shown it reads D'oh.
 * The origami crane scene with the "last million yen" makes the value of a million yen look trivial, but in reality one million yen are worth approximately 8 to 9 thousand U.S. Dollars, depending on the current exchange rate.
 * After Battling Seizure Robots goes to commercial a brief photo of the reporter interviewing the 2 headed cow from In Marge We Trust appears.
 * The haiku Lisa reads isn't in traditional Japanese form of 5-7-5 syllables.

Treehouse of Horror IX

 * Ed McMahon's appearance was very surprising: the writers originally got Troy McClure to host World's Deadliest Executions, but the scene had to be re-done after Phil Hartman died. This would have been Hartman's last appearance on the show, and it would have been retained if not for the dark subject matter in relation to his recent murder.
 * Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford appeared as live-action guests as themselves in this episode, a Simpsons first, and the second time live-action has been used in a Simpsons episode. The first time was at the end of Treehouse of Horror VI.
 * In 'The Terror of Tiny Toon', Poochie makes a brief appearance, once again voiced by Homer, until he is run over by Itchy and Scratchy who are fighting with Bart and Lisa.
 * Alien-Maggie reappears in Treehouse of Horror X.
 * Robert Englund and Kane Hodder supply the voices of "Freddy" and "Jason" in the opening sequence.

Viva Ned Flanders

 * First appearance of the Vegas wives: Amber and Ginger.
 * Homer correctly states Adolf Hitler's birthday as April 20 and identifies it with Barney's which is the same day in the scene where Flanders and Homer are at the roulette table. Because the Columbine High School massacre was intentionally executed on that date, the line was changed in several rebroadcast versions to June 15, same as Lassie's (the line about Lassie's birthday was in the closed captions of the original version and the syndicated versions). The syndicated versions have the original line about Hitler's birthday.
 * Ned's age is revealed to be 60. However, in "Hurricane Neddy", he is seen in a flashback from thirty years ago, when he was still a kid.
 * The episode "Jazzy and the Pussycats" would reveal that Homer's Las Vegas wife, Amber, had died after overdosing while riding a rollercoaster. Thus, a funeral was held for her at the beginning of the episode.

SimpsonsCultural
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 * Dateline NBC – The scene where Marge's SUV rolls over and the gas tank explodes, and her remarks afterward, refers to an ill-fated 1992 "Dateline NBC" investigative report about the gas tank crashworthiness of 1973-1991 Chevrolet and GMC full-sized pickup trucks. (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * Peanuts - When a ranger at the zoo tries to shoot a rhinoceros with a tranquilizer dart, the dart bounces off the rhino's skin, then off Homer's rear, and hits a sloth. The sloth dances like Snoopy for a few seconds before passing out. (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * The Gods Must Be Crazy – The "fact" that a rhino will instinctively try to put out a fire stems from this movie. (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom – The name of the zoo, Wild Animal Kingdom, is inspired by the 1960s nature series. (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * Apu owns "concert against Bangladesh", featuring the song "You Make Me Feel So Young" by Frank Sinatra; the album's name is a reference to George Harrison's The Concert for Bangladesh. (I'm with Cupid)
 * Apu says "My humble message of love has become a Valentine's Day Massacre (I'm with Cupid)
 * As the Simpsons go into Hell, the AC/DC song Highway to Hell is playing. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * At Homer's imagined funeral are President Lenny, Bishop Flanders, and multiple-Oscar-winner Barney Gumble, and the Robot from Lost in Space and, inexplicably, Heckle and Jeckle. (The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
 * At the Springfield Elementary School talent show: (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * Bart derailing the train with a penny and having the penny smooshed flat is a reference to Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King. In the introduction to the book, King talks about lies his friends told him as a child, among which were; a penny getting hit by a train would be flattened, and another telling him it would de-rail the train, leading him to the conclusion that it did both. (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * Chuck Garabedian is a real name of a talk show host in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Homer Simpson chief's cry: "Simp-SON!!!" is very similar to Mr. Spacely's cry "Jet-SON!!!" from the Jetsons. (Homer to the Max)
 * Homer sings Witch Doctor while in the tank, an American number one single by David Seville in 1958. However, by the time the episode premiered in the UK (April 25, 1999) a cover version by the Cartoons was in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart, giving the song an unintended sense of topicality. (Make Room for Lisa)
 * Homer sings the Max Power theme to the tune of the theme song from the 1964 film Goldfinger. (Homer to the Max)
 * Lisa saying the line "Get your stinky paw off me!" parodies the classic line from the 1968 film Planet of the Apes. (Make Room for Lisa)
 * Lisa spots the Hello Kitty factory. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Mr. Burns's press conference falling apart when all of the flashbulbs go off is reminiscent of King Kong. (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * The Battling Seizure Robots is a reference to the Pokémon episode Dennō Senshi Porygon. The flashing lights (caused by an exploding rockets attack) during that episode caused seizures throughout Japan, resulted in the brief hospitalization of hundreds of children, especially those with epilepsy. The episode was later banned, though nowadays, most countries often include a warning about some TV programmes containing flashing images that might affect epileptic viewers. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * The game show which the Simpsons take part in to win tickets back home is an extremely over the top parody of Japanese gameshows. Although not even close to being as brutal as depicted in this episode, Japanese gameshows are notorious for being very unusual, some demanding a lot of awkward physical activity from its participants. Of partial note is the passing resemblance of the bridge over the volcano to the Takeshi's Castle game bridge ball (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * The antiques appraisal TV show "Cash In Your Legacy" is a parody of Antiques Roadshow. (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * The electric hammer that Homer invents is very similar to one invented by the father in the 1984 film Gremlins. The character in the film also had a reputation for inventions that either didn't work, or only worked for a couple of weeks. (The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
 * The episode ends in a heart-shaped iris, à la Love, American Style. (I'm with Cupid)
 * The episode pays homage to The X-Files episode "Triangle", with Homer falling asleep at work and waking up to music suspiciously like the swing music from "Triangle" and a voice on the radio saying that it is 1939. (Make Room for Lisa)
 * The episode title is a spoof of a funny T-shirt saying "I'm with stupid", with an arrow pointing to the next guy. (I'm with Cupid)
 * The name Homer picks out for Marge, "Chesty LaRue," was also a name used for Elaine by Jerry on Seinfeld when a button on her shirt fell off, exposing cleavage. (Homer to the Max)
 * The square watermelon Homer buys is a reference to the real ones that exist in Japan. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * The title is a pun on the Beatles' song Can't Buy Me Love, whose refrain is "Money can't buy me love". A cover of the song appeared in the previous episode. (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * The title is a take on Thomas Edison's nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park," which was his home. (The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
 * The title puns on the classic TV show, Make Room for Daddy. (Make Room for Lisa)
 * There really is a restaurant in Amarillo, Texas called the Big Texan that has a contest for eating a 72 oz (4.5 lb, 2.04 kg) steak dinner. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * When Homer introduces Lisa to her new room and roommate - Bart, he hums the theme from The Odd Couple, a TV series from the 1970s, based on a play by Neil Simon. (Make Room for Lisa)
 * When Homer is reading about Edison at the library, one of the books on the table is called A Child's Garden Of Edison. This is a parody on A Child's Garden of Verses, a book of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson. (The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace)
 * When Marge says to Homer on the plane that she liked Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, Homer claims he doesn't remember it that way. The underlying joke is that this famous film is about people remembering different things about the same event. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * When Nelson/Golitah falls off the tower parodies the way King Kong falls off the Empire State Building in the 1933 film. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * When the family visits the new MegaStore, Bart asks Homer for money. Homer then hands Bart, Lisa and Marge money much like in the intro of Married... with Children where Al hands money to Bud (his son), Kelly (his daughter), Peg (his wife), and Buck (the family dog). (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * Screaming Yellow Zonkers – The episode title is a play on the popcorn snack (as well as a double-entendre, given the pigmentation of people in the world of the Simpsons). (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * Sport utility vehicles – The episode lampoons the then recent SUV craze, and increases in road rage. Also spoofed are vehicles marketed toward female demographics, whether a specific model (e.g., the Dodge La Femme of the mid-1950s) or a model package (the Fashion Accessory Group offered on the 1978 Ford Mustang). (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * "Dash Dingo", the video game Lisa becomes addicted to, is a parody of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. The music that plays when the game starts is exactly like the music when the Crash game starts. Also, the evil floating Australian head is a parody of the Crash games' villain, Doctor Neo Cortex. The game also revolves around finding and devouring "seven crystal babies", referencing the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance and the Chaos Emeralds from the Sonic the Hedgehog series (Dash Dingo needs the same number of crystal babies as there are Chaos Emeralds). (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * "Hell Toupée" is loosely based on the Wes Craven film Shocker, as well as the Amazing Stories episode also called "Hell Toupée." The ending, spoofing the horror convention of the ever-undying villain, specifically parodies the end of the 1988 film Child's Play, about a doll, Chucky, inhabited by the soul of a serial killer, plus that take its ending. Also, the plot's aspect of an innocent patient having serial killer parts transplanted onto them is very similar to 1991's Body Parts, directed by Eric Red. (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * "Doc Martens" is a famous shoe brand. A doctor of the same name works in the podiatry department of the Springfield Hospital. Podiatry, a branch of medicine dealing with the foot, would be a fitting match for a doctor named after a shoe. (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
 * Homer: (shopping for ice cream) "Cherry Garcia? Honey Bono? Desmond Tutti Frutti?" (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * Nelson: "Well la-di-da, Lady Cheaterly." (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * Fame – The teachers sing (very badly) "Not Gonna Teach Forever" to the tune of the Irene Cara song, which was the theme to the film and TV series. (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * Fever - Mrs. Krabappel sings this song, dancing naked to pink balloons all over her body (She pops them one by one with a pin as the song goes on). (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * Who's on First? – Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner botch the famous comedy routine of Abbott and Costello. (Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers")
 * A Native American character, 'Chief' smashes a window to escape using a heavy object which was part of a water dispenser (even though the door was open). (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * Bart takes the members of the old folks home out on a boat trip as a break from their tedious routine. (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * The old folks home has a "medication time". (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * The primary nurse in the old folks home resembles the character Nurse Ratched from said film. (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * The ice cream flavors are named after Jerry Garcia (the Grateful Dead's lead singer), Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher) and Archbishop Desmond Tutu (South African anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Prize Winner). There's also a flavor called Milli Vanilla, a reference to Milli Vanilli, the infamous musicians who had to give up their Grammy Award after it was revealed that someone else sang their songs and all the duo did was lip sync. Cherry Garcia is an allusion to Ben & Jerry's, an ice cream company that gives their ice cream flavors amusing names, like Cherry Garcia. Lisa also mentions flavors called Candy Warhol, Xavier Nougat, and Sherbert Hoover, respectively named after Andy Warhol, Xavier Cugat, and Herbert Hoover. (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * This is a reference to the D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * Aboard the Gone Fission II, Smithers is seen drawing Mr. Burns naked, reclining on a chaise longue, but Burns is seen dressed. This is a parody of the scene in Titanic where Jack Dawson draws Rose DeWitt Bukater nude. (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * Alex tells Lisa not to be a "Phoebe". Guest star Lisa Kudrow is best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay on Friends. She also tells Lisa that she loves her name. (Lard of the Dance)
 * Americatown features pictures of the Kool-Aid Man, Uncle Sam, and Elvis Presley on the sign. It's decorated with other pictures of a star, a gun, a pie, a guitar, a baseball bat, and a baseball. Inside animatronic figures are seen: E.T. seems to be pointing up Marilyn Monroe's flying skirt, Abraham Lincoln dances with the Statue of Liberty, and Muhammad Ali fighting Neil Armstrong. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Among those signing autographs are Gort, from the Day the Earth Stood Still, Doctor Who, and Godzilla. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * Apu's sandcastle is a very detailed replica of India's famous Taj Mahal. (When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * At one point in the episode, Ralph refers to Superintendent Chalmers as "Super Nintendo Chalmers." (Lisa Gets an "A")
 * At the convention, Uter wears a Futurama shirt. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * At the end of the credits Homer mutters "I buried Flanders," spoofing the "Paul is dead" theory, in fact; the music in the end credits is a knock-off of The Beatles's "Tomorrow Never Knows". (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * Homer angrily addresses Ron Howard as "Potsie" (another Happy Days character) and "Horshack" (a character from Welcome Back, Kotter). (When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * Homer is revealed to have sold his family's tools in exchange for M&M's. According to Marge, this isn't the first time. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * Homer's dream is a spoof of Hanna-Barbera's Yogi Bear. When he falls asleep again he starts thinking he's Magilla Gorilla. (When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * Homer's rant about "appearing in commercials dancing with vacuum cleaners" is a reference to a 1997 TV advertisement that depicted Fred Astaire dancing with a Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner. (When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * Homer: "We can't even pay our bills, and they're drinking Royal Crown Cola!" Royal Crown Cola is a cheaper brand than Pepsi or Coke, so Homer is really just being irritated for no good reason. (When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * Homer: (to Marge) "Who am I? Kreskin?" When Marge is puzzling about what Bart might be doing in his tree-house she asks Homer what he thinks, and in a very short quip he mentions Kreskin. George Kresge, better known as "The Amazing Kreskin," (b. January 12, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey) is a mentalist, popular on North American television in the 1970s and still busy as a live performer. He appears annually on New Years Day on CNN to give his predictions for the upcoming year. Perhaps his best known trick is finding the check for his performance fee, which he instructs his hosts to hide before each show. He has only failed to find the check nine times. (Bart the Mother)
 * Hospital intercom System: "Doc Martens to Podiatry" (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
 * In the Moses segment, Chief Wiggum resembles Edward G. Robinson's character from The Ten Commandments. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * In the background at the convention is a booth for Roswell, Little Green Man. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * In the scene at Moe's Tavern, when Barney is impersonating Homer, one of the phrases he says is "That boy ain't right!" This is a phrase Hank Hill often said on King of the Hill to describe his son, Bobby. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Inside the arcade of the Family Fun Center, there is a game called "Pack-Rat Returns"; a reference to the arcade game "Peter Packrat". (Bart the Mother)
 * Nelson (to Bart): "You're an octowussy!" This is a pun on the title of the 1983 James Bond movie Octopussy. (Bart the Mother)
 * One of the cardboard Stormtroopers Mark Hamill knocks down with his plastic lightsaber is actually a cut-out of Wonder Woman. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * One of the lights (seatbelt, smoking) on the plane is Godzilla and lights when he attacks. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * Seth and Munchie's dog, Ginsberg, is named after the beat poet Allen Ginsberg. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * Some of the plot from "The Terror of Tiny Toon" is similar to the 1998 movie Pleasantville as well as from segment #3 of "Twilight Zone - The Movie", which was the same segment that contained Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson) getting trapped and killed in a TV cartoon. Also the Dark Comedy "Stay Tuned" and the sixth film of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series have cartoon/video game sequences. The title of the episode comes from the 1938 western/comedy movie The Terror of Tiny Town and possibly from the series Tiny Toon Adventures. (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * The "Vincent Price's Egg Magic" kit is a reference to the "Vincent Price's Shrunken Head" kits, which were a popular toy in the 1970s. The set allowed you to turn a peeled apple into a "shrunken head" of sorts using the provided tools and some household items. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The Carpenters' song, "Close to You", was played back in the episode, "The Way We Was", when Homer first met Marge. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * The Comic Book Guy's T-Shirt-joke "C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN" refers to the American children's book series Dick and Jane, where the phrases "See Spot. See Spot Run. Run, Spot, Run" were moulded. (They Saved Lisa's Brain)
 * The chalkboard gag, "No one cares what my definition of 'is' is", refers to a deposition made by Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * The end title for Mr. Burns' promo for the Nuclear Power Plant reads, "An Alan Smithee Film" - from 1968 until 1999, this was a pseudonym used by producers who wanted to dissociate themselves from a movie they had lost creative control over. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * The episode title is a joke off the odd Brazilian science fiction movie, They Saved Hitler's Brain. (They Saved Lisa's Brain)
 * The episode title is a reference to the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive, based on his short story "Trucks." The film features Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa Simpson). (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * The episode's title and basic plot – Bart killing a mother bird with his BB gun – are taken from the classic Andy Griffith Show episode "Opie the Birdman" (wherein Opie adopts three baby birds after he kills their mother with a slingshot). (Bart the Mother)
 * The episode's title is a reference to a song by Pere Ubu called "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" or to the 1944 film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Both the film and the song are based on the quick US bombardments on Tokyo during World War II, called Doolittle Raid. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * The erotic photographer is modeled after famous Rolling Stone photographer Annie Leibovitz. (They Saved Lisa's Brain)
 * The first scene parodies the 1973 film Westworld. (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
 * The fish that Bart kills during his job in Osaka is a reference to the fable ''The Fisherman and His Wife. (Thirty Minutes over Tokyo)
 * The maître d' at the dinner theater is patterned after Frank Nelson, a character actor who had a recurring role on The Jack Benny Program and later appeared on "I Love Lucy". (Mayored to the Mob)
 * The movie Homer and Bart watch at the drive-in is a play on the 1989 movie The Thing that Ate Everybody starring Dan Castellaneta. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * The name Wally Kogen is a nod to Simpsons writing team Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, who penned the previous Super Bowl episode, "Lisa the Greek". Football players named Kogen and Wolodarsky were also mentioned in "The Telltale Head", "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" and "When Flanders Failed". (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The psychedelic version of the Simpsons theme that appears at the end of the episode is performed by Yo La Tengo. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * The ripples in their water when the crowd of people come is a reference to Jurassic Park. (When You Dish Upon a Star)
 * The scene where Abe and Jasper are sitting on a bench laughing is taken directly from the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-head. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * The scene where Bart frees the seniors and they "frolic" outside of the home is a parody of The Beatles' movie A Hard Day's Night. (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * The scene where Homer, horrified, watches the kids drinking rat milk, references Soylent Green. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * The scene where Marge/Eve is making tools is similar to a scene in the Dawn of Man sequence from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Simpsons Bible Stories)
 * The scene where the Mensans decide to hold a Renaissance-themed meeting in the park, in costume and in character, is possibly based upon the Society for Creative Anachronism: a historical reenactment group devoted to studying the Middle Ages. SCA members not only have a strong reputation for being intellectuals, but their gatherings are often held in public parks. This can and does lead to the occasional conflict with a 21st-century lout who adopts a hostile attitude towards the group's presence and activities -- such as when Lenny and Carl refuse to give up the gazebo. (They Saved Lisa's Brain)
 * The seniors at the retirement castle watch a seniors-edited (and redubbed) version of Gone with the Wind.The movie was almost sixty years old when this episode aired. (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * The song "Luke be a Jedi" is a parody of the song "Luck be a Lady" from Guys and Dolls. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * The song played while Homer does his midnight harvest is Time of the Season by The Zombies, while the song that plays while the town is tripping is White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. Other songs in the episode include Incense and Peppermints by Strawberry Alarm Clock and Uptown Girl by Billy Joel. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * The title is a play on Bob Dylan's song "Blowin' in the Wind". (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * The title itself refers to the dance show Lord of the Dance. (Lard of the Dance)
 * The title of "Starship Poopers" is a parody of the novel Starship Troopers. Maggie kills Jerry Springer in a similar fashion to Alien. (Treehouse of Horror IX)
 * The title of this episode comes from the U2 song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * The title of this episode is parody of Married to the Mob. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * The truck's built-in device said, "I'm afraid I can't let you do this, Red!", spoofing the line spoken by HAL in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * The watermelons used to represent protectees are labeled Sting, Madonna, Al Gore and Ann Landers. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * There are many instances which parody the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * This episode is one of two episodes (the other being "Fraudcast News") featuring the song "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls. Closed captioning reveals that "Dancing Queen" by ABBA was supposed to be played instead. (Maximum Homerdrive)
 * This is one of three title puns on The Old Man and the Sea; the two other are The Old Man and the Lisa and The Old Man and the Key. (The Old Man and the "C" Student)
 * When Homer is trying read a liability form that requires his signature, the nurse says "Don't read it, sign it" in the same way that the prison guard says this to Alex in the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
 * When Nelson goes inside to cook lunch on a frying pan after Bart kills the bird, he is seen humming the theme song to the show itself. (Bart the Mother)
 * When the bodyguard instructor lays on top of the wagon that has a green mound on it holding a sniper rifle, it parodies the grassy knoll theory of the Kennedy assassination. (Mayored to the Mob)
 * Grampa and Jasper after drinking the "juice" that Homer had made them act like Beavis and Butt-head. (D'oh-in in the Wind)
 * PETA is an animal-rights group whose name stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They have several celebrity members. (When You Dish Upon a Star)

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Bart the Mother

 * Homer: (to Marge) "Who am I? Kreskin?" When Marge is puzzling about what Bart might be doing in his tree-house she asks Homer what he thinks, and in a very short quip he mentions Kreskin. George Kresge, better known as "The Amazing Kreskin," (b. January 12, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey) is a mentalist, popular on North American television in the 1970s and still busy as a live performer. He appears annually on New Years Day on CNN to give his predictions for the upcoming year. Perhaps his best known trick is finding the check for his performance fee, which he instructs his hosts to hide before each show. He has only failed to find the check nine times.
 * Nelson (to Bart): "You're an octowussy!" This is a pun on the title of the 1983 James Bond movie Octopussy.
 * The episode's title and basic plot – Bart killing a mother bird with his BB gun – are taken from the classic Andy Griffith Show episode "Opie the Birdman" (wherein Opie adopts three baby birds after he kills their mother with a slingshot).
 * Inside the arcade of the Family Fun Center, there is a game called "Pack-Rat Returns"; a reference to the arcade game "Peter Packrat".
 * When Nelson goes inside to cook lunch on a frying pan after Bart kills the bird, he is seen humming the theme song to the show itself.

D'oh-in in the Wind

 * The title is a play on Bob Dylan's song "Blowin' in the Wind".
 * The psychedelic version of the Simpsons theme that appears at the end of the episode is performed by Yo La Tengo.
 * The chalkboard gag, "No one cares what my definition of 'is' is", refers to a deposition made by Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal.
 * At the end of the credits Homer mutters "I buried Flanders," spoofing the "Paul is dead" theory, in fact; the music in the end credits is a knock-off of The Beatles's "Tomorrow Never Knows".
 * The song played while Homer does his midnight harvest is Time of the Season by The Zombies, while the song that plays while the town is tripping is White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. Other songs in the episode include Incense and Peppermints by Strawberry Alarm Clock and Uptown Girl by Billy Joel.
 * The scene where Abe and Jasper are sitting on a bench laughing is taken directly from the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-head.
 * Seth and Munchie's dog, Ginsberg, is named after the beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
 * The end title for Mr. Burns' promo for the Nuclear Power Plant reads, "An Alan Smithee Film" - from 1968 until 1999, this was a pseudonym used by producers who wanted to dissociate themselves from a movie they had lost creative control over.
 * Grampa and Jasper after drinking the "juice" that Homer had made them act like Beavis and Butt-head.

Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"

 * Hospital intercom System: "Doc Martens to Podiatry"
 * "Doc Martens" is a famous shoe brand. A doctor of the same name works in the podiatry department of the Springfield Hospital. Podiatry, a branch of medicine dealing with the foot, would be a fitting match for a doctor named after a shoe.
 * The first scene parodies the 1973 film Westworld.
 * When Homer is trying read a liability form that requires his signature, the nurse says "Don't read it, sign it" in the same way that the prison guard says this to Alex in the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.

Homer to the Max

 * Homer Simpson chief's cry: "Simp-SON!!!" is very similar to Mr. Spacely's cry "Jet-SON!!!" from the Jetsons.
 * Homer sings the Max Power theme to the tune of the theme song from the 1964 film Goldfinger.
 * The name Homer picks out for Marge, "Chesty LaRue," was also a name used for Elaine by Jerry on Seinfeld when a button on her shirt fell off, exposing cleavage.

I'm with Cupid

 * Apu says "My humble message of love has become a Valentine's Day Massacre
 * The episode ends in a heart-shaped iris, à la Love, American Style.
 * Apu owns "concert against Bangladesh", featuring the song "You Make Me Feel So Young" by Frank Sinatra; the album's name is a reference to George Harrison's The Concert for Bangladesh.
 * The episode title is a spoof of a funny T-shirt saying "I'm with stupid", with an arrow pointing to the next guy.

Lard of the Dance

 * The title itself refers to the dance show Lord of the Dance.
 * Alex tells Lisa not to be a "Phoebe". Guest star Lisa Kudrow is best known for her role as Phoebe Buffay on Friends. She also tells Lisa that she loves her name.

Lisa Gets an "A"

 * "Dash Dingo", the video game Lisa becomes addicted to, is a parody of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. The music that plays when the game starts is exactly like the music when the Crash game starts. Also, the evil floating Australian head is a parody of the Crash games' villain, Doctor Neo Cortex. The game also revolves around finding and devouring "seven crystal babies", referencing the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance and the Chaos Emeralds from the Sonic the Hedgehog series (Dash Dingo needs the same number of crystal babies as there are Chaos Emeralds).
 * Homer: (shopping for ice cream) "Cherry Garcia? Honey Bono? Desmond Tutti Frutti?"
 * The ice cream flavors are named after Jerry Garcia (the Grateful Dead's lead singer), Sonny Bono (of Sonny and Cher) and Archbishop Desmond Tutu (South African anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Prize Winner). There's also a flavor called Milli Vanilla, a reference to Milli Vanilli, the infamous musicians who had to give up their Grammy Award after it was revealed that someone else sang their songs and all the duo did was lip sync. Cherry Garcia is an allusion to Ben & Jerry's, an ice cream company that gives their ice cream flavors amusing names, like Cherry Garcia. Lisa also mentions flavors called Candy Warhol, Xavier Nougat, and Sherbert Hoover, respectively named after Andy Warhol, Xavier Cugat, and Herbert Hoover.
 * Nelson: "Well la-di-da, Lady Cheaterly."
 * This is a reference to the D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
 * At one point in the episode, Ralph refers to Superintendent Chalmers as "Super Nintendo Chalmers."

Make Room for Lisa

 * The title puns on the classic TV show, Make Room for Daddy.
 * Homer sings Witch Doctor while in the tank, an American number one single by David Seville in 1958. However, by the time the episode premiered in the UK (April 25, 1999) a cover version by the Cartoons was in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart, giving the song an unintended sense of topicality.
 * When Homer introduces Lisa to her new room and roommate - Bart, he hums the theme from The Odd Couple, a TV series from the 1970s, based on a play by Neil Simon.
 * Lisa saying the line "Get your stinky paw off me!" parodies the classic line from the 1968 film Planet of the Apes.
 * The episode pays homage to The X-Files episode "Triangle", with Homer falling asleep at work and waking up to music suspiciously like the swing music from "Triangle" and a voice on the radio saying that it is 1939.

Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"

 * At the Springfield Elementary School talent show:
 * Who's on First? – Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner botch the famous comedy routine of Abbott and Costello.
 * Fame – The teachers sing (very badly) "Not Gonna Teach Forever" to the tune of the Irene Cara song, which was the theme to the film and TV series.
 * Fever - Mrs. Krabappel sings this song, dancing naked to pink balloons all over her body (She pops them one by one with a pin as the song goes on).
 * Dateline NBC – The scene where Marge's SUV rolls over and the gas tank explodes, and her remarks afterward, refers to an ill-fated 1992 "Dateline NBC" investigative report about the gas tank crashworthiness of 1973-1991 Chevrolet and GMC full-sized pickup trucks.
 * Peanuts - When a ranger at the zoo tries to shoot a rhinoceros with a tranquilizer dart, the dart bounces off the rhino's skin, then off Homer's rear, and hits a sloth. The sloth dances like Snoopy for a few seconds before passing out.
 * Screaming Yellow Zonkers – The episode title is a play on the popcorn snack (as well as a double-entendre, given the pigmentation of people in the world of the Simpsons).
 * Sport utility vehicles – The episode lampoons the then recent SUV craze, and increases in road rage. Also spoofed are vehicles marketed toward female demographics, whether a specific model (e.g., the Dodge La Femme of the mid-1950s) or a model package (the Fashion Accessory Group offered on the 1978 Ford Mustang).
 * Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom – The name of the zoo, Wild Animal Kingdom, is inspired by the 1960s nature series.
 * The Gods Must Be Crazy – The "fact" that a rhino will instinctively try to put out a fire stems from this movie.

Maximum Homerdrive

 * The episode title is a reference to the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive, based on his short story "Trucks." The film features Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa Simpson).
 * The movie Homer and Bart watch at the drive-in is a play on the 1989 movie The Thing that Ate Everybody starring Dan Castellaneta.
 * Homer is revealed to have sold his family's tools in exchange for M&M's. According to Marge, this isn't the first time.
 * This episode is one of two episodes (the other being "Fraudcast News") featuring the song "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls. Closed captioning reveals that "Dancing Queen" by ABBA was supposed to be played instead.
 * The Carpenters' song, "Close to You", was played back in the episode, "The Way We Was", when Homer first met Marge.
 * There really is a restaurant in Amarillo, Texas called the Big Texan that has a contest for eating a 72 oz (4.5 lb, 2.04 kg) steak dinner.
 * The truck's built-in device said, "I'm afraid I can't let you do this, Red!", spoofing the line spoken by HAL in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Mayored to the Mob

 * The song "Luke be a Jedi" is a parody of the song "Luck be a Lady" from Guys and Dolls.
 * The watermelons used to represent protectees are labeled Sting, Madonna, Al Gore and Ann Landers.
 * One of the cardboard Stormtroopers Mark Hamill knocks down with his plastic lightsaber is actually a cut-out of Wonder Woman.
 * The title of this episode is parody of Married to the Mob.
 * The maître d' at the dinner theater is patterned after Frank Nelson, a character actor who had a recurring role on The Jack Benny Program and later appeared on "I Love Lucy".
 * The scene where Homer, horrified, watches the kids drinking rat milk, references Soylent Green.
 * When the bodyguard instructor lays on top of the wagon that has a green mound on it holding a sniper rifle, it parodies the grassy knoll theory of the Kennedy assassination.
 * At the convention, Uter wears a Futurama shirt.
 * Among those signing autographs are Gort, from the Day the Earth Stood Still, Doctor Who, and Godzilla.
 * In the background at the convention is a booth for Roswell, Little Green Man.

Monty Can't Buy Me Love

 * The title is a pun on the Beatles' song Can't Buy Me Love, whose refrain is "Money can't buy me love". A cover of the song appeared in the previous episode.
 * The antiques appraisal TV show "Cash In Your Legacy" is a parody of Antiques Roadshow.
 * When the family visits the new MegaStore, Bart asks Homer for money. Homer then hands Bart, Lisa and Marge money much like in the intro of Married... with Children where Al hands money to Bud (his son), Kelly (his daughter), Peg (his wife), and Buck (the family dog).
 * Mr. Burns's press conference falling apart when all of the flashbulbs go off is reminiscent of King Kong.
 * Bart derailing the train with a penny and having the penny smooshed flat is a reference to Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King. In the introduction to the book, King talks about lies his friends told him as a child, among which were; a penny getting hit by a train would be flattened, and another telling him it would de-rail the train, leading him to the conclusion that it did both.

Simpsons Bible Stories

 * In the Moses segment, Chief Wiggum resembles Edward G. Robinson's character from The Ten Commandments.
 * The scene where Marge/Eve is making tools is similar to a scene in the Dawn of Man sequence from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
 * When Nelson/Golitah falls off the tower parodies the way King Kong falls off the Empire State Building in the 1933 film.
 * As the Simpsons go into Hell, the AC/DC song Highway to Hell is playing.

Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

 * The title of this episode comes from the U2 song "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
 * The name Wally Kogen is a nod to Simpsons writing team Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, who penned the previous Super Bowl episode, "Lisa the Greek". Football players named Kogen and Wolodarsky were also mentioned in "The Telltale Head", "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" and "When Flanders Failed".
 * The "Vincent Price's Egg Magic" kit is a reference to the "Vincent Price's Shrunken Head" kits, which were a popular toy in the 1970s. The set allowed you to turn a peeled apple into a "shrunken head" of sorts using the provided tools and some household items.

The Old Man and the "C" Student

 * There are many instances which parody the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest:
 * A Native American character, 'Chief' smashes a window to escape using a heavy object which was part of a water dispenser (even though the door was open).
 * Bart takes the members of the old folks home out on a boat trip as a break from their tedious routine.
 * The old folks home has a "medication time".
 * The primary nurse in the old folks home resembles the character Nurse Ratched from said film.
 * This is one of three title puns on The Old Man and the Sea; the two other are The Old Man and the Lisa and The Old Man and the Key.
 * Aboard the Gone Fission II, Smithers is seen drawing Mr. Burns naked, reclining on a chaise longue, but Burns is seen dressed. This is a parody of the scene in Titanic where Jack Dawson draws Rose DeWitt Bukater nude.
 * The seniors at the retirement castle watch a seniors-edited (and redubbed) version of Gone with the Wind.The movie was almost sixty years old when this episode aired.
 * The scene where Bart frees the seniors and they "frolic" outside of the home is a parody of The Beatles' movie A Hard Day's Night.

The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

 * When Homer is reading about Edison at the library, one of the books on the table is called A Child's Garden Of Edison. This is a parody on A Child's Garden of Verses, a book of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson.
 * The title is a take on Thomas Edison's nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park," which was his home.
 * The electric hammer that Homer invents is very similar to one invented by the father in the 1984 film Gremlins. The character in the film also had a reputation for inventions that either didn't work, or only worked for a couple of weeks.
 * At Homer's imagined funeral are President Lenny, Bishop Flanders, and multiple-Oscar-winner Barney Gumble, and the Robot from Lost in Space and, inexplicably, Heckle and Jeckle.

They Saved Lisa's Brain

 * The episode title is a joke off the odd Brazilian science fiction movie, They Saved Hitler's Brain.
 * The scene where the Mensans decide to hold a Renaissance-themed meeting in the park, in costume and in character, is possibly based upon the Society for Creative Anachronism: a historical reenactment group devoted to studying the Middle Ages. SCA members not only have a strong reputation for being intellectuals, but their gatherings are often held in public parks. This can and does lead to the occasional conflict with a 21st-century lout who adopts a hostile attitude towards the group's presence and activities -- such as when Lenny and Carl refuse to give up the gazebo.
 * The erotic photographer is modeled after famous Rolling Stone photographer Annie Leibovitz.
 * The Comic Book Guy's T-Shirt-joke "C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN" refers to the American children's book series Dick and Jane, where the phrases "See Spot. See Spot Run. Run, Spot, Run" were moulded.

Thirty Minutes over Tokyo

 * The game show which the Simpsons take part in to win tickets back home is an extremely over the top parody of Japanese gameshows. Although not even close to being as brutal as depicted in this episode, Japanese gameshows are notorious for being very unusual, some demanding a lot of awkward physical activity from its participants. Of partial note is the passing resemblance of the bridge over the volcano to the Takeshi's Castle game bridge ball
 * In the scene at Moe's Tavern, when Barney is impersonating Homer, one of the phrases he says is "That boy ain't right!" This is a phrase Hank Hill often said on King of the Hill to describe his son, Bobby.
 * The episode's title is a reference to a song by Pere Ubu called "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" or to the 1944 film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Both the film and the song are based on the quick US bombardments on Tokyo during World War II, called Doolittle Raid.
 * The fish that Bart kills during his job in Osaka is a reference to the fable ''The Fisherman and His Wife.
 * Americatown features pictures of the Kool-Aid Man, Uncle Sam, and Elvis Presley on the sign. It's decorated with other pictures of a star, a gun, a pie, a guitar, a baseball bat, and a baseball. Inside animatronic figures are seen: E.T. seems to be pointing up Marilyn Monroe's flying skirt, Abraham Lincoln dances with the Statue of Liberty, and Muhammad Ali fighting Neil Armstrong.
 * When Marge says to Homer on the plane that she liked Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, Homer claims he doesn't remember it that way. The underlying joke is that this famous film is about people remembering different things about the same event.
 * The Battling Seizure Robots is a reference to the Pokémon episode Dennō Senshi Porygon. The flashing lights (caused by an exploding rockets attack) during that episode caused seizures throughout Japan, resulted in the brief hospitalization of hundreds of children, especially those with epilepsy. The episode was later banned, though nowadays, most countries often include a warning about some TV programmes containing flashing images that might affect epileptic viewers.
 * The square watermelon Homer buys is a reference to the real ones that exist in Japan.
 * One of the lights (seatbelt, smoking) on the plane is Godzilla and lights when he attacks.
 * Lisa spots the Hello Kitty factory.
 * Chuck Garabedian is a real name of a talk show host in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Treehouse of Horror IX

 * "Hell Toupée" is loosely based on the Wes Craven film Shocker, as well as the Amazing Stories episode also called "Hell Toupée." The ending, spoofing the horror convention of the ever-undying villain, specifically parodies the end of the 1988 film Child's Play, about a doll, Chucky, inhabited by the soul of a serial killer, plus that take its ending. Also, the plot's aspect of an innocent patient having serial killer parts transplanted onto them is very similar to 1991's Body Parts, directed by Eric Red.
 * Some of the plot from "The Terror of Tiny Toon" is similar to the 1998 movie Pleasantville as well as from segment #3 of "Twilight Zone - The Movie", which was the same segment that contained Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson) getting trapped and killed in a TV cartoon. Also the Dark Comedy "Stay Tuned" and the sixth film of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series have cartoon/video game sequences. The title of the episode comes from the 1938 western/comedy movie The Terror of Tiny Town and possibly from the series Tiny Toon Adventures.
 * The title of "Starship Poopers" is a parody of the novel Starship Troopers. Maggie kills Jerry Springer in a similar fashion to Alien.

When You Dish Upon a Star

 * Homer's rant about "appearing in commercials dancing with vacuum cleaners" is a reference to a 1997 TV advertisement that depicted Fred Astaire dancing with a Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner.
 * Homer: "We can't even pay our bills, and they're drinking Royal Crown Cola!" Royal Crown Cola is a cheaper brand than Pepsi or Coke, so Homer is really just being irritated for no good reason.
 * Apu's sandcastle is a very detailed replica of India's famous Taj Mahal.
 * PETA is an animal-rights group whose name stands for People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals. They have several celebrity members.
 * Homer's dream is a spoof of Hanna-Barbera's Yogi Bear. When he falls asleep again he starts thinking he's Magilla Gorilla.
 * Homer angrily addresses Ron Howard as "Potsie" (another Happy Days character) and "Horshack" (a character from Welcome Back, Kotter).
 * The ripples in their water when the crowd of people come is a reference to Jurassic Park.

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 * In this episode Groundskeeper Willie meets his father. However, in the episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One", when Willie is tending to the school hamster's burial, he says "You're lucky you're getting a decent burial.  Me own father got thrown in the bog". Previously, in "I Love Lisa", Willie sobs to Skinner during Ralph's death scene in the George Washington play, "I dinna cry when my old man was hung for stealin' a pig." (Monty Can't Buy Me Love)
 * When Bart takes out the light bulb, Homer is seen falling down the stairs to the basement. The basement door is located next to the stairs to the second floor of the house. However, in Lisa the Skeptic, we see that Homer tries to stick a skeleton in a closet at the same location. (Bart the Mother)
 * When the tree lizards hatch, all the family runs to the nearby table, however, Homer left the refrigerator open, when the camera zooms to him, he is standing in front of the fridge, but the door has been closed. (Bart the Mother)
 * Dr. Hibbert said both of Grampa's kidneys were fine the day before the "blowout", but in "Old Money" from season two Grampa tells Bea Simmons that he has only one working kidney. (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
 * During the showdown at the ranch, the bandit is "shooting" at Homer, who checks his watch. His watch, which he wasn't wearing before or after the shootout. (Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble")
 * Flanders is shown letting out his gut, but in many episodes he is shown having rock hard abs. (Sunday, Cruddy Sunday)
 * Ned cites Deuteronomy 7 as the source of the prohibition of "games of chance" but no such prohibition is found there. Verse 25 prohibits the silver and gold associated with idolatry but the primary prohibition of superstition is in Leviticus 19:26. (Viva Ned Flanders)

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Bart the Mother

 * When Bart takes out the light bulb, Homer is seen falling down the stairs to the basement. The basement door is located next to the stairs to the second floor of the house. However, in Lisa the Skeptic, we see that Homer tries to stick a skeleton in a closet at the same location.
 * When the tree lizards hatch, all the family runs to the nearby table, however, Homer left the refrigerator open, when the camera zooms to him, he is standing in front of the fridge, but the door has been closed.

Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"

 * Dr. Hibbert said both of Grampa's kidneys were fine the day before the "blowout", but in "Old Money" from season two Grampa tells Bea Simmons that he has only one working kidney.
 * During the showdown at the ranch, the bandit is "shooting" at Homer, who checks his watch. His watch, which he wasn't wearing before or after the shootout.

Monty Can't Buy Me Love

 * In this episode Groundskeeper Willie meets his father. However, in the episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One", when Willie is tending to the school hamster's burial, he says "You're lucky you're getting a decent burial.  Me own father got thrown in the bog". Previously, in "I Love Lisa", Willie sobs to Skinner during Ralph's death scene in the George Washington play, "I dinna cry when my old man was hung for stealin' a pig."

Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

 * Flanders is shown letting out his gut, but in many episodes he is shown having rock hard abs.

Viva Ned Flanders

 * Ned cites Deuteronomy 7 as the source of the prohibition of "games of chance" but no such prohibition is found there. Verse 25 prohibits the silver and gold associated with idolatry but the primary prohibition of superstition is in Leviticus 19:26.

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