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Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real...the sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
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Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real...the sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
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The "Schoolhouse Rock" segment ("Amendment To Be") is a parody of I'm Just a Bill. Both it and "I'm Just a Bill" were performed by entertainer Jack Sheldon.
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Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein and Matt Groening can be seen in animated form among the crowd who is on the street laughing at Nelson. According to Oakley, he and Weinstein are in the scene because they told the animators to fill the streets with idiots. Also seen in this scene is Don Brodka from Marge Be Not Proud.
The sign at the Kwik-E-Mart reads "closed for the second time ever". Up until that point, the only other time the store was shown as being closed was in Stark Raving Dad.
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt.
The first Itchy and Scratchy cartoon "Steamboat Itchy" first appeared in the episode Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie. The credits read: Written, Directed, and Created by Roger Myers; Music by Roger Myers and George Gershwin, Produced by Roger Myers and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919".
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show.
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Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt. (The Day the Violence Died)
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919". (The Day the Violence Died)
The sign at the Kwik-E-Mart reads "closed for the second time ever". Up until that point, the only other time the store was shown as being closed was in Stark Raving Dad. (22 Short Films About Springfield)
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Matt Groening has stated that Rainier Wolfcastle's line, "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" is his favourite line of the entire series. This should not be taken too seriously though, as he has made the same assertion about numerous other lines.
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Moe was a part of "The Little Rascals", but the series wasn't called that until it was put on television. However, it should be noticed that many people have claimed to have been members of the Little Rascals without actually having been, so this might not be a legitimate claim. Besides, if Moe was really an "Our Gang" member, he would have been around 80 years old at the time of this episode's premiere.
Bart Simpson isn't chosen for the part of Fallout boy, despite actually being taller than Milhouse who gets the part. It should also be noted that if the director wanted Bart as Fall-Out Boy even though he was too short, he could have made him worn shoes with lifts on them to make Bart look taller (but considering the budget for the movie, they probably wouldn't have had enough for it).
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Moe was a part of "The Little Rascals", but the series wasn't called that until it was put on television. However, it should be noticed that many people have claimed to have been members of the Little Rascals without actually having been, so this might not be a legitimate claim. Besides, if Moe was really an "Our Gang" member, he would have been around 80 years old at the time of this episode's premiere. (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
Bart Simpson isn't chosen for the part of Fallout boy, despite actually being taller than Milhouse who gets the part. It should also be noted that if the director wanted Bart as Fall-Out Boy even though he was too short, he could have made him worn shoes with lifts on them to make Bart look taller (but considering the budget for the movie, they probably wouldn't have had enough for it). (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
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When Willie explodes from Maggie's Pacifier being shoved into his exhaust vent, the word 'SATAN' is visible within the cracks of the crater along the top edge.
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When Willie explodes from Maggie's Pacifier being shoved into his exhaust vent, the word 'SATAN' is visible within the cracks of the crater along the top edge. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
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Matt Groening said that Rainier Wolfcastle's line, "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" is among his favorite lines from the entire series.
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The idea of selling someone's soul is taken from Greg Daniel's childhood, when he bought the soul of a bully. When the bully came to Daniels crying one night he jacked up the price and the bully got his soul back.
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The idea of selling someone's soul is taken from Greg Daniel's childhood, when he bought the soul of a bully. When the bully came to Daniels crying one night he jacked up the price and the bully got his soul back. (Bart Sells His Soul)
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In the opening scene Reverend Lovejoy mispronounces the band name "Iron Butterfly" as "I. Ron Butterfly", in reference to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. He also refers to the song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" as "In the Garden of Eden", effectively pronouncing it correctly.
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This is the third shoplifting-themed episode: previously one of the Tracey Ullman shorts that featured Bart stealing candy bars, and Marge accidentally shotlifted in Marge in Chains. It's also the second episode with a Christmas theme, the first being the very first episode, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.
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There are two references to Adolf Hitler, first, there is a game at the Try'n'Save called, 'Save Hitler's Brain', secondly, when the camera looks at the different family Photos, one of the has Bart immitating Hitler with a comb and a Nazi salute. And there is also a game called 'SimReich' at the store, referring to Hitler's third reich and the SimCity computer games.
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There are two references to Adolf Hitler, first, there is a game at the Try'n'Save called, 'Save Hitler's Brain', secondly, when the camera looks at the different family Photos, one of the has Bart immitating Hitler with a comb and a Nazi salute. And there is also a game called 'SimReich' at the store, referring to Hitler's third reich and the SimCity computer games. (Marge Be Not Proud)
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In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfild would be.
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In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfild would be. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
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Apu's line, "For the next five minutes, I'm going to party like it's on sale for $19.99!", references Prince's hit song, 1999.
Dr. Nick's story is very similar to many scenes from E.R.
Superintendent Chalmers says "Aurora borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?" which is a reference to the 1995 movie "The Langoliers", where Cpt. Brian Engle says: "You're kidding. The aurora borealis over California? And at this time of year?"
===The Tarantino connection===
The episode contains numerous references to Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Like the film, the episode's plot is episodic though interconnected. Apu's brother Sanjay makes a square with his fingers, like Uma Thurman. The policemen's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion; the Krustyburger restaurant it takes place in also bears a striking resemblance to the diner Pumpkin and Honey Bunny attempt to rob in the film. In addition, Misirlou is playing in the background on the Krusty Burger's jukebox.
The subplot involving Chief Wiggum and Snake is a direct parody of the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Snake runs over the donut-carrying Wiggum at a red light, like Bruce Willis did to Ving Rhames, and Wiggum chases after Snake (although his motive is exchanging insurance information rather than revenge). The two run into Herman's Pawn Shop, where Herman beats up and binds and gags the two, then waits for "Zed" to arrive. The Van Houtens come in instead, and a visibly annoyed Herman lets Milhouse use the restroom. Herman then threatens Kirk with his shotgun, but Milhouse unintentionally knocks out the shopkeeper with a spiked mace he found in the back room. Wiggum then hops out the open door, still tied to his chair, and falls down in the middle of the street.
Simpsons writer Ian Maxtone-Graham was the basis of the tall man in the car who gives Nelson his comeuppance.
There are several major characters who did not get their own story in the scene where the various Springfieldianites are trying to help Lisa, including Groundskeeper Willie, Lionel Hutz, Otto, Sideshow Mel, Lenny, Mayor Quimby, Dr. Hibbert, the Sea Captain, Mr. Teeny and Üter. There are also some minor one-time characters, such as Corporal Punishment, Colonel Hapablap, Dr. Colossus, Handsome Pete and the Capitol City Goofball.
Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein and Matt Groening can be seen in animated form among the crowd who is on the street laughing at Nelson. According to Oakley, he and Weinstein are in the scene because they told the animators to fill the streets with idiots. Also seen in this scene is Don Brodka from "Marge Be Not Proud".
The sign at the Kwik-E-Mart reads "closed for the second time ever". Up until that point, the only other time the store was shown as being closed was in "Stark Raving Dad".
The Spanish used during the Bumblebeeman's story is very bad. There are several words used that are not actually words (Woodpecker in Spanish is not "wudpequero") and many phrases seem like they were written in English and quickly translated into Spanish using a dictionary. Clearly, the crude Spanish was the intention of the writers because they are usually quite picky about correct translations. In several DVD commentaries, the writers say they went to various trustworthy sources to make sure they had correct translations - this is probably ironic, however, with the mistakes being deliberate for comedic value.
The episode contains numerous references to Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Like the film, the episode's plot is episodic though interconnected. Apu's brother Sanjay makes a square with his fingers, like Uma Thurman. The policemen's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion; the Krustyburger restaurant it takes place in also bears a striking resemblance to the diner Pumpkin and Honey Bunny attempt to rob in the film. In addition, Misirlou is playing in the background on the Krusty Burger's jukebox. (22 Short Films About Springfield)
The subplot involving Chief Wiggum and Snake is a direct parody of the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Snake runs over the donut-carrying Wiggum at a red light, like Bruce Willis did to Ving Rhames, and Wiggum chases after Snake (although his motive is exchanging insurance information rather than revenge). The two run into Herman's Pawn Shop, where Herman beats up and binds and gags the two, then waits for "Zed" to arrive. The Van Houtens come in instead, and a visibly annoyed Herman lets Milhouse use the restroom. Herman then threatens Kirk with his shotgun, but Milhouse unintentionally knocks out the shopkeeper with a spiked mace he found in the back room. Wiggum then hops out the open door, still tied to his chair, and falls down in the middle of the street. (22 Short Films About Springfield)
The Spanish used during the Bumblebeeman's story is very bad. There are several words used that are not actually words (Woodpecker in Spanish is not "wudpequero") and many phrases seem like they were written in English and quickly translated into Spanish using a dictionary. Clearly, the crude Spanish was the intention of the writers because they are usually quite picky about correct translations. In several DVD commentaries, the writers say they went to various trustworthy sources to make sure they had correct translations - this is probably ironic, however, with the mistakes being deliberate for comedic value. (22 Short Films About Springfield)
The sign at the Kwik-E-Mart reads "closed for the second time ever". Up until that point, the only other time the store was shown as being closed was in "Stark Raving Dad". (22 Short Films About Springfield)
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The episode opens with a somewhat complicated joke: the law firm is called Dewey, Cheatem, Howe and Weisemann - the gag being that the obvious joke name is Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, but somewhere along the line they've acquired a fourth partner, ruining the pun.
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The episode opens with a somewhat complicated joke: the law firm is called Dewey, Cheatem, Howe and Weisemann - the gag being that the obvious joke name is Dewey, Cheatem & Howe, but somewhere along the line they've acquired a fourth partner, ruining the pun. (Bart the Fink)
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The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the cartoon movie Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter and became the first (and only) cartoon movie to be given the X rating.
The "Schoolhouse Rock" segment ("Amendment To Be") is a parody of I'm Just a Bill. Both it and "I'm Just a Bill" were performed by entertainer Jack Sheldon.
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse.
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter.
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development.
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood.
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise.
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [1] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [2].
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind.
The Lard Lad's roar when he first comes to life is actually Godzilla's roar.
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater.
"Homer³" is inspired by the 1962 The Twilight Zone episode called "Little Girl Lost". Homer even explicitly mentions "...that twilighty show about that zone..."
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference.
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game.
Homer asks Bush to "apologize for the tax hike", a reference to Bush creating a 31% income tax as part of the 1990 Budget Reconciliation Act, despite his 1988 campaign promise of creating no new taxes.
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office.
Bush says that he'll ruin Homer "like a Japanese banquet", a reference to an incident that happened on January 8, 1992. During a state dinner, then-president Bush vomited on the lap of the Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa.
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office.
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah.
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment."
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name."
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer.
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident.
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president.
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office.
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[3]
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When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference.
The episode is dedicated to the memory of Doris Grau, a script supervisor and voice provider of Lunchlady Doris.
This is the last episode David Mirkin was the executive producer and show runner.
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt.
The first Itchy and Scratchy cartoon "Steamboat Itchy" first appeared in the episode Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie. The credits read: Written, Directed, and Created by Roger Myers; Music by Roger Myers and George Gershwin, Produced by Roger Myers and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Homer Groening, Matt Groening's father, died two days before this episode aired.
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919".
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show.
This is the third episode to show its title within the show.
The featured, alternate ending to Who Shot Mr. Burns? was created to prevent any staff (be it writers, or even the overseas animators) on the Simpsons from spoiling the mystery.
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him.
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created.
This is the only episode to suggest the house is a set. The later episode parodying VH-1's "Behind the Music", Behind the Laughter, insists the house is an actual house and the show is shot on location.
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer.
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O.J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene.
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions Burns' Heir#Robotic Richard Simmons.
Despite the hype over the appearance of George and Barbara Bush in this episode, they were actually voiced by cast members Harry Shearer and Tress MacNeille. Dan Castellaneta voiced Gerald Ford. This is actually the second appearance for Barbara Bush, although in the earlier cameo in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington, she was voiced by Maggie Roswell and showed off the Presidential bathroom.
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run.
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LIKE2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owns a house in Vail, Colorado in real life.
This episode features the first appearance of Disco Stu.
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car.
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later becoming President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan.
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes.
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms.
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood.
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[4]
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The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon.
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Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu?
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room.
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise.
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush)
Homer: I guess you might say he's barking up the wrong bush! Heh, heh, heh, heh!
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it.
Homer: D'oh!
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush!
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it!
Barbara Bush: George, it's time to get dressed
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club.
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo!
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door]
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch.
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Cinnaburst commercials - "Those magazines cause a disturbing amount of laughter." (Team Homer)
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.Manuel Noriega#Overthrow (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise. (The Day the Violence Died)
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment." (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [5] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [6]. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter. (The Day the Violence Died)
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood. (The Day the Violence Died)
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the cartoon movie Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter and became the first (and only) cartoon movie to be given the X rating. (The Day the Violence Died)
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse. (The Day the Violence Died)
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development. (The Day the Violence Died)
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name." (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president. (Two Bad Neighbors)
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According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood. (Two Bad Neighbors)
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O.J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt. (The Day the Violence Died)
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919". (The Day the Violence Died)
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan. (Two Bad Neighbors)
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show. (The Day the Violence Died)
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions [7]. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run. (Two Bad Neighbors)
This is the last episode David Mirkin was the executive producer and show runner. (Team Homer)
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[8] (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference. (Team Homer)
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LIKE2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owns a house in Vail, Colorado in real life. (Two Bad Neighbors)
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
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Barbara Bush: Oh, George, is that all you ever think about? The boys probably just want a letter of recommendation. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush (taking his time at the menu): Let's see now. A "Krusty Burger"? That doesn't sound too appetizing. What kind of stew do ya have? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush: That's really more of a weekend thing, Ray. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Everyone: Oh yeah, that's right. etc. (putting hands down) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Bar, the boys are out in the front yard. They'll help me think of a plan to get those Simpsons. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No! That's not Bar and me. It's them. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No, [points at the Simpson house], the man and his boy. You know, the boy is named Bart, I don't know the name of the man. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door] (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: [opening door] Boys? [Homer pulls the fake cardboard cutouts out of the way] Where are you going? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Nerr, look at thoose phonies, sucking up to Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: OK, Son: give him the glue! [Bart squeezes some glue onto Bush's hair while Homer stuffs a multicolored afro on top, they run off, laughing] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Okay, let's give it up for the new guy! Now, let's all turn around and pay attention to me again! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Dr. Hibbert: I don't understand. Are you saying you and Barbara are bad neighbors? (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Hi everyone. I'm George Bush. (everyone stares) Uh, former President George Bush? (everyone begins cheering) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George: (at the Elks Club later) And that's why I will continue to oppose teen alcoholism in all its forms! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer (driving like mad into Krusty Burger): Oh, I only have one more minute before they stop serving those breakfast balls! D'oh! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: I'm going to punch George Bush in the face! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush) (Two Bad Neighbors)
Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise. (Two Bad Neighbors)
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The family drops down from the ceiling one at a time with their head in a noose. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The family is portrayed as a fax, and the couch as a fax machine (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch. (Team Homer)
The family runs into the couch uncolored, the colors are then sprayed on them by robotic arms. (The Day the Violence Died)
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The title could be a reference to the comic 'Nick Fury and His Howling Commandos' or one of the many others with those types of titles.
One of the several Simpsons episodes to reference the film They Saved Hitler's Brain, as a flashback shows Grandpa Simpson about to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a sniper rifle, saying "Now they'll never save your brain, Hitler."
The failed assassination attempt itself is a reference to the movie The Day of the Jackal.
The lights from the Hellfish's eyes pointing where to dig is an homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Montgomery Burns introduces himself to an assassin over the telephone as "M.B." The assassin replies, "Ah, Marion Barry! Is it time for another shipment already?"
Double Dare – Spoofed in the opening "Krusty the Clown Show" segment.
Twilight's Last Gleaming - Title and similar plot.
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964 Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet.
"Daisy" political ad – The montage of scenes mentioned above ends with Maggie picking at a daisy - a parody of the famous political ad for the American presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson.
Wright brothers – A vintage aircraft, said to be the plane used for the historic flight, is on display at the Springfield Air Show.
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film.
Tom Baker arrives in character as the Doctor (from Doctor Who), as part as a delegation of esteemed TV Representatives. Other representatives include:
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke.
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap (voiced by R. Lee Ermey) says, "What is your major malfunction?" to Sideshow Bob, which is a line delivered by Ermey's character in another Stanley Kubrick war movie, Full Metal Jacket.
Col. Hapablap also exclaims, "What in the World According to Garp?", which is a reference to the famous John Irving novel and film adaptation, "The World According to Garp.
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set.
An alien is found in Hangar 18 which could be a reference to the 1980s film or the song by Megadeth
Kent Brockman ends his farewell speech by announcing that he will be writing a column for PC World magazine.
Garfield -- Fat, lasagna-eating cat from the comic strip of the same name
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency.
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the cartoon movie Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter and became the first (and only) cartoon movie to be given the X rating.
The "Schoolhouse Rock" segment ("Amendment To Be") is a parody of I'm Just a Bill. Both it and "I'm Just a Bill" were performed by entertainer Jack Sheldon.
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse.
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter.
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development.
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood.
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise.
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [9] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [10].
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind.
The Lard Lad's roar when he first comes to life is actually Godzilla's roar.
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater.
"Homer³" is inspired by the 1962 The Twilight Zone episode called "Little Girl Lost". Homer even explicitly mentions "...that twilighty show about that zone..."
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference.
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game.
Homer asks Bush to "apologize for the tax hike", a reference to Bush creating a 31% income tax as part of the 1990 Budget Reconciliation Act, despite his 1988 campaign promise of creating no new taxes.
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office.
Bush says that he'll ruin Homer "like a Japanese banquet", a reference to an incident that happened on January 8, 1992. During a state dinner, then-president Bush vomited on the lap of the Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa.
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office.
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah.
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment."
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name."
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer.
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident.
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president.
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office.
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.Manuel Noriega#Overthrow
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During the part where Comic Book Guy is searching for word about the Radioactive Man movie, one can see Prince as one of the computer nerds.
The boardroom discussion regarding who should play Radioactive Man parodies then-60-year-old Adam West's well-publicized insistence that he reprise his role as Batman for the 1989 film adaptation.
The Scoutmaster in the flashback to the campy 70's series is based on Paul Lynde.
In the DVD commentary, Matt Groening said that Rainier Wolfcastle's line, "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" is among his favorite lines from the entire series.
Mr Burns and his hired mercenary attempt to kill Grandpa in several ways. They include:
Dropping poison in the glass which contained Abe's dentures while he slept. However, Grandpa put an alarm clock in his mouth and threw his glass against the wall, unintentionally avoiding danger.
The assassin dressed up as Homer, Mr. Burns as Marge, and Smithers as Bart so they could enter the nursing home. Grandpa realized that his family never comes to see him and survives a knife throwing attack.
The assassin chases after Abe through the nursing home with a something that looks like a MP 40 submachinegun. Abe is saved when an angry nurse opens fire at the assassin with a shotgun, the shotgun blasts accenting her words "Our residents are trying to nap!".
It is not explained who hid the treasure.
Sheldon Skinner would not actually be related to Seymour Skinner (Armin Tamzarian), as we know him, given the episode of The Principal and the Pauper. Instead, Sheldon Skinner would be related to the Seymour Skinner that was introduced in that episode, despite looking similar to the Seymour Skinner who is principal of Springfield Elementary.
It is often wondered by many people if it is actually Lisa or Maggie who says "Santa?" when Mr. Burns crashes though the wall. The Audio Commentery for the episode states that Lisa said it.
It's entirely possible that this episode explains how Grandpa became a member of the Stonecutters - he saved Mr. Burns' life. And, of course, the only way to become a Stonecutter is by being the son of a Stonecutter, or saving the life of a Stonecutter.
Asa Phelps can be rewritten to spell out "A Sap Helps".
The character of Griff is a reference to director Samuel Fuller who always had a character with this name in all of his films - notably Mark Hamill in The Big Red One - which also concerns a WWII platoon.
This episode was due to be shown on BBC Two on 14 September2001, but was replaced with Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield because of the part where Sideshow Bob steals the Wright Brothers plane at the air show, kidnaps Bart, and plans to crash the plane into the shack where Krusty was doing his "show" was considered "in poor taste" due to the September 11 attacks.
One of the O's in Ocho is an eight-Ball.
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too."
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference.
The episode is dedicated to the memory of Doris Grau, a script supervisor and voice provider of Lunchlady Doris.
This is the last episode David Mirkin was the executive producer and show runner.
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt.
The first Itchy and Scratchy cartoon "Steamboat Itchy" first appeared in the episode Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie. The credits read: Written, Directed, and Created by Roger Myers; Music by Roger Myers and George Gershwin, Produced by Roger Myers and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Homer Groening, Matt Groening's father, died two days before this episode aired.
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919".
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show.
This is the third episode to show its title within the show.
The featured, alternate ending to Who Shot Mr. Burns? was created to prevent any staff (be it writers, or even the overseas animators) on the Simpsons from spoiling the mystery.
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him.
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created.
This is the only episode to suggest the house is a set. The later episode parodying VH-1's "Behind the Music", Behind the Laughter, insists the house is an actual house and the show is shot on location.
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer.
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O.J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene.
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions [11].
Despite the hype over the appearance of George and Barbara Bush in this episode, they were actually voiced by cast members Harry Shearer and Tress MacNeille. Dan Castellaneta voiced Gerald Ford. This is actually the second appearance for Barbara Bush, although in the earlier cameo in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington, she was voiced by Maggie Roswell and showed off the Presidential bathroom.
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run.
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LIKE2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owns a house in Vail, Colorado in real life.
This episode features the first appearance of Disco Stu.
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car.
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan.
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes.
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms.
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood.
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[12]
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One of the producers says they want to stay far away from making the movie like the campy 1970's Radioactive Man, but Dirk Richter died in the 1960's and the only Radioactive Man TV show mentioned was the one from the 1950's that had Laramie cigarettes as its sponsor (mentioned on the season two episode Three Men and a Comic Book).
Moe was a part of "The Little Rascals", but the series wasn't called that until it was put on television. However, it should be noticed that many people have claimed to have been members of the Little Rascals without actually having been, so this might not be a legitimate claim. Besides, if Moe was really an "Our Gang" member, he would have been around 80 years old at the time of this episode's premiere.[verification needed]
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon.
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Grampa: Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" 'cause the Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles...
Martin: "Dickety"? Highly dubious.
Grandpa: What are you cacklin' at, fatty?! Too much pie, that's your problem!
Homer: "Second class? What about Social Security, bus discounts, Medic-Alert jewelry, Gold Bond powder, pants all the way up to your armpits, and all those other senior perks? Oh, if you ask me, old folks have it pretty sweet."
Mr. Burns: There, Simpson; seven gone. As soon as you're in your pressboard coffin, I'll be the sole survivor and the treasure will be mine.
Grampa: Over my dead body, it will!
Burns: (angry groan) That's exactly the point! Oh, Simpson, can't you go five seconds without humiliating yourself?
Grampa:(his pants drop) How long was that?
Mr. Burns (defending the assassination attempt): "I tried to meet you halfway on this, Simpson, but you had to be Little Johnny Live-a-lot."
Bart: "Hey, Mr. Burns! Can I go with you to get the treasure? I won't eat much and I don't know the difference between right and wrong."
Mr. Burns: "Oh, you're a good boy, but the child labor people have been watching me like a hawk. (pushes Bart off his mechanical platform) Well, I'm off to get paintings. As they say, 'time is Monet.' As you were, Sarge! (laughs sinisterly and accidentally presses a button, sending him crashing through a wall) Oh, terribly sorry. Back to sleep, little girl."
Grampa: "Only if you're ready to stare danger in the face, put your manhood to the ultimate test, and take..."
Homer: "Pass."
Ned Flanders: "Well, howdy-doodily, stranger! Couldn't help but notice you're stealing my boat."
Grampa: "I'll bring it back."
Ned: "You ever operated a powerboat?"
Grampa: "No."
Ned: "Know anything about water safety?"
Grampa: "No."
Ned: "What do you need it for?"
Grampa: "It's a secret."
Ned: "Hoo-hoo, sounds spine-tingling-dingling! Just promise you'll have a good time. Maude, boys, come on up! We're gonna have a little camp out in the dinghy!"
Grampa: Well, at least I got to show you I wasn't always a pathetic old kook...
Bart: You never were, Grampa.
Grampa: Oh... I'd hug ya, but I know you'd just get embarrassed.
Bart: I won't get embarrassed; I don't care who knows I love my Grampa. both hug
Baron:(pulls up in his roadster with techno track playing) Hey, fun boys, get a room! (peels out)
Grampa: I'm not gonna kill ya. That'd be cowardly. Monty Burns cowardly. I just wanna watch you squirm...
Mr. Burns:(enthusiastically) Yes sir! Is this to your liking?(Begins to squirm pathetically)
Grampa: There is one thing we don't stand for in the U.S. Army and that's trying to kill your commanding officer! You're out of my unit! You're out of the tontine! And that means the paintings are mine! Private, you are dismissed!
(Abe's sniper rifle sight shows Adolf Hitler inspecting a line of German soldiers. He positions the crosshairs on Hitler's head and prepares to change the course of history)
(just before he fires, a tennis ball flies in, throwing off his aim. The bullet then just spins the Führer's hat around, shocking the German troops)
Burns: Little help?
Burns (after the tontine is explained): Now, remember. You can't all sign with an "X".
Edna Krabappel: Well, Bart, maybe your grandfather should come up and give someone else a chance to interrupt.
Abe: About time, knothead. (hits her in the forehead with an oatmeal spoon.)
Vidal: There is one more way to kill a man, but it is as intricate and precise as a well-played game of chess. [bursts into Retirement Castle with a machine gun and shoots away. He blows everything to bits but Abe and Jasper.]
Jasper (oblivious): Was that me or was that you?
(Abe runs out of the room to the nurse's counter)
Abe: Nurse! Someone's trying to kill me!
Nurse: Okay, we'll do something about that right away. Let's start by doubling your medication.
[Vidal comes in, shoots everywhere]
Nurse:[loads shotgun and shoots] Our residents!... [shoots] are trying!... [shoots] to nap! [shoots]
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. [shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one] It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart...
Homer: Sold. You wrap it up, I'll start bringing in the pennies.
Burns pulls up to the gas pump in a motor quadricycle]
(Marge tries on their first dress, a large red leather one.)
Patty: This dress is "Fantasy in Maroon". It's got some cigarette burns, but you can patch them up with new vinyl.
Marge: Its a little bit..."peppery" for me...let's put it in the "maybe pile"...
(Marge is then seen in an extremely tight, revealing purple minidress, and large hoop earrings.)
Selma: This used to be a Halloween costume, but it found its way into my regular rotation.
Marge: Uh huh...
[Evelyn tells Marge that if all goes right at Saturday's ball, she'll be willing to sponsor Marge for membership.]
Marge: I'll be there with bells on.
Susan: Where exactly will you be attaching them to that mangled Chanel suit?
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing.
[Homer shows off his new golf skills in the bathroom as Burns and Smithers watch via the plant CCTV]
Burns: Who is that lavatory linksman, Smithers?
Smithers: Homer Simpson, sir. One of the fork and spoon operators from sector 7-G.
Burns: Well, he's certainly got a loose waggle. Perhaps I've finally found a golfer worthy of a match with Monty Burns, eh?
Smithers: His waggle is no match for yours, sir. I've never seen you lose a game. Except for that one in '74 when you let Richard Nixon win. That was very kind of you, sir.
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?
Smithers: Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently.
Burns: Bah. Schedule a game and I'll ask him myself.
Bart (seeing the Wright Brothers plane): Look at that hunk of junk.
Grandpa: Oh, jeeh—you're ignorant! That's the Wright Brothers' plane. At Kitty Hawk in 1903, Charles Lindbergh flew it fifteen miles on a thimble full of corn oil. Single handedly won us the Civil War, it did!
Bart: So how do you know so much about American history?
Grandpa: I piece it together mostly from sugar packets.
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces?
Normal-looking prisoner: [cheerily] I'm right here, Chief!
Wiggum: Oh. Then where's Sideshow Bob?
Another prisoner: Uh, he ran off.
Wiggum: Oh, great. Well...if anyone asks, I beat him to death, okay? (Leaves the place)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out)
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out.
Grandpa (in a porta-loo): This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone made an awful mess down there.
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno!
Mayor Quimby: Well then we have no option, bring in the esteemed representatives of television.
Tom Baker, Steve Urkel, Kent Brockman, Bumblebee Man and Krusty come in.
Krusty: (Upon seeing the porno) Hey hey! This is my kinda meeting!
Bart:(to the squeaky-voiced Security Police Senior Airman) Way to guard the parking lot, Top Gun!
Squeaky-voiced SP: I have three medals for this!
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force.
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent.
Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu?
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room.
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise.
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush)
Homer: I guess you might say he's barking up the wrong bush! Heh, heh, heh, heh!
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it.
Homer: D'oh!
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush!
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it!
Barbara Bush: George, it's time to get dressed
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club.
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo!
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door]
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch.
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Cinnaburst commercials - "Those magazines cause a disturbing amount of laughter." (Team Homer)
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[13] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise. (The Day the Violence Died)
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment." (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [14] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [15]. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter. (The Day the Violence Died)
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood. (The Day the Violence Died)
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the cartoon movie Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter and became the first (and only) cartoon movie to be given the X rating. (The Day the Violence Died)
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse. (The Day the Violence Died)
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development. (The Day the Violence Died)
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name." (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president. (Two Bad Neighbors)
During the part where Comic Book Guy is searching for word about the Radioactive Man movie, one can see Prince as one of the computer nerds. (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
The boardroom discussion regarding who should play Radioactive Man parodies then-60-year-old Adam West's well-publicized insistence that he reprise his role as Batman for the 1989 film adaptation. (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood. (Two Bad Neighbors)
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O.J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt. (The Day the Violence Died)
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919". (The Day the Violence Died)
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too." (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show. (The Day the Violence Died)
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions [16]. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[17] (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference. (Team Homer)
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LIKE2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owns a house in Vail, Colorado in real life. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Moe was a part of "The Little Rascals", but the series wasn't called that until it was put on television. However, it should be noticed that many people have claimed to have been members of the Little Rascals without actually having been, so this might not be a legitimate claim. Besides, if Moe was really an "Our Gang" member, he would have been around 80 years old at the time of this episode's premiere.[verification needed] (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
One of the producers says they want to stay far away from making the movie like the campy 1970's Radioactive Man, but Dirk Richter died in the 1960's and the only Radioactive Man TV show mentioned was the one from the 1950's that had Laramie cigarettes as its sponsor (mentioned on the season two episode Three Men and a Comic Book). (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
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Bush (taking his time at the menu): Let's see now. A "Krusty Burger"? That doesn't sound too appetizing. What kind of stew do ya have? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush: That's really more of a weekend thing, Ray. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Everyone: Oh yeah, that's right. etc. (putting hands down) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Bar, the boys are out in the front yard. They'll help me think of a plan to get those Simpsons. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No! That's not Bar and me. It's them. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No, [points at the Simpson house], the man and his boy. You know, the boy is named Bart, I don't know the name of the man. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door] (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: [opening door] Boys? [Homer pulls the fake cardboard cutouts out of the way] Where are you going? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Nerr, look at thoose phonies, sucking up to Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: OK, Son: give him the glue! [Bart squeezes some glue onto Bush's hair while Homer stuffs a multicolored afro on top, they run off, laughing] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Okay, let's give it up for the new guy! Now, let's all turn around and pay attention to me again! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation? (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces? (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno! (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out) (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Dr. Hibbert: I don't understand. Are you saying you and Barbara are bad neighbors? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing. (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Hi everyone. I'm George Bush. (everyone stares) Uh, former President George Bush? (everyone begins cheering) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George: (at the Elks Club later) And that's why I will continue to oppose teen alcoholism in all its forms! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grandpa (in a porta-loo): This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone made an awful mess down there. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Homer (driving like mad into Krusty Burger): Oh, I only have one more minute before they stop serving those breakfast balls! D'oh! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: I'm going to punch George Bush in the face! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush) (Two Bad Neighbors)
Mr. Burns: "Oh, you're a good boy, but the child labor people have been watching me like a hawk. (pushes Bart off his mechanical platform) Well, I'm off to get paintings. As they say, 'time is Monet.' As you were, Sarge! (laughs sinisterly and accidentally presses a button, sending him crashing through a wall) Oh, terribly sorry. Back to sleep, little girl." (Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish")
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. [shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one] It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart... (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The family appears as Sea Monkeys, swim to a row of clams (in the place of the couch), and watch an open treasure chest (in the place of the TV). (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The family drops down from the ceiling one at a time with their head in a noose. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The family is portrayed as a fax, and the couch as a fax machine (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch. (Team Homer)
The family runs into the couch uncolored, the colors are then sprayed on them by robotic arms. (The Day the Violence Died)
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The flashback scene where Homer tries to fit in with a group of guys in a van is similar to scenes from Dazed and Confused.
There are several Woodstock references in the episode, including Lisa noting that Hullabalooza was just like Woodstock, except "with security guards and ads everywhere."
Homer's line "but all I really wanted was a club sandwich." is from the Guns N Roses album Appetite for Destruction.
When Otto's shoes start talking what they say is a reference to the opening lines of 1999 by Prince. This scene is missing from syndcation episodes due to censorship. (Although has been shown several times in re-runs outside the USA)
Lisa jokingly claims she has "Chester A. Arthritis" in the historical society. This is a reference to the twenty first president of the United States: Chester A. Arthur.
The name of Donald Sutherland's character, Hollis Hurlbut, is based on the names of two Harvard freshman dorms, Hollis Hall and Hurlbut Hall. (List of Harvard dormitories) As many fans have probably noted, a large number of Simpsons writers (past and present) are Harvard College alumni.
Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel Christopher Columbus and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate.
Lisa's poster of Jebediah Springfield resembles the "Wanted for Treason" poster circulated around Dallas about John F Kennedy before he was assassinated.
The pig that Homer roasts and blasts into the air, flying over the nuclear power plant, is a direct reference to the Pink Floyd'sAnimals album cover (see also Pink Floyd pigs).
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To do research for this episode, writer Brent Forrester went to one of the Lollapalooza concerts, which he describes as a horrible experience. Several of the jokes in this episode are based on his experiences: cameras (including his own) were literally being seized and thrown in the garbage, there were numerous advertisements and a random guy walked up to him and said "how's it going, big narc?"1
The Simpsons writers were aiming to have a group from several different genres: a hip hop group (Cypress Hill), alternative & grunge groups (Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins) and a classic rock singer. Originally, Bob Dylan was sought to be in the episode, but he declined and instead the writers got Peter Frampton.2
The members of No Doubt shown behind Homer.
Originally, Courtney Love was wanted for this episode but she declined. According to the DVD commentary, one of the groups had said that if Courtney Love was in the episode, they wouldn't be.3 Love was wanted specifically for one joke which would be in an exchange between her and Homer:
Courtney Love: Hi Homer! I'm a huge fan. Courtney Love.
Homer: Homer Grateful!
However, she did not appear and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins was put in her place, changing the joke to:
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
Sonic Youth plays the grunge version of the End Credits, which Matt Groening says is his all-time favorite alternate version of the end credits.4
At Homer's confrontation with the Hullabalooza crowd, we see a brief shot of Homer with the members of not-yet-very-famous No Doubt behind him. Gwen Stefani's brother Eric Stefani (who himself had been a former member of the band but had left by the time) was working as an animator at The Simpsons at the time and he was the one who added them in.5
The Rover Hendrix act break joke has been called one of the worst jokes in Simpsons history by the writers and producers.6
Homer reads the computer readout in a rather flat monotone, similar to how a computer voice synthesizer would read it.
Iroquois Twists, the politically incorrect exercises that Mr. Burns leads in the final sequence, are fictitious. They were made up by the writers to sound old-timey.
This is one of the only episodes in which Mr. Burns is portrayed as vigorous and athletic (at least for a man his age), rather than his more usual frail self.
In the clothing store, Homer walks past two mannequins wearing identical outfits and riding on bikes. These are based on Billy and Benny McCrary, the world's heaviest twins who weighed 700+ pounds each.
Donald Sutherland also worked with Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa) on Heaven Help Us, which was Smith's first film.
Writer David S. Cohen created the word "cromulent", which was intended to sound like a real word but play on the fact that it and "embiggens" are completely fabricated.
When Jebediah Springfield's grave is being dug up, the shovel flings dirt onto the grave of Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson was buried in his hometown of Bloomington, Illinois.
When Jebediah Springfield (born Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination.
Donald Sutherland's son and fellow Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland would go on to guest star on The Simpsons in the episodes G.I. D'oh and 24 Minutes.
In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfield would be.
The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that when played backwards contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. One of the backwards snippets says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." - a reference to the Paul is dead theory. The backwards speech in the track is also a reference to this theory. The recited recipe can be found on the "Extras" section on Disc 1 of the seventh season DVD box set.
One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to.
When Lisa asks Paul "Where is Linda?", Linda appears and says "I'm right here, whenever we're in Springfield, we like to spend time in Apu's garden in the shade!" referencing the Beatles song "Octopus's Garden" from the album Abbey Road.
When Homer leaves "work" to see a movie, he meets Bart & Lisa at the door, presumably coming from school. After Homer comes home from the theater, he calls for Bart & Lisa, but gets no answer, implying he is alone in the house. Later, as he is driving an ice cream truck to the plant, he passes Lisa in the school bus, again presumably coming home from school.
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Roadie: Ah, boy. There goes Peter Frampton's big finale. He's gonna be pissed off. Frampton: You're damn right I'm gonna be pissed off! I bought that pig at Pink Floyd's yard sale!
Roadie: Someone here ordered the London Symphony Orchestra, possibly while high. Cypress Hill, I'm looking in your direction.
Frampton: Homer Simpson ruins my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth is in my cooler. Get out of there, you kids!
Cypress Hill: You guys know "Insane In The Brain?" Conductor: We mostly know classical, but, eh, we could give it a shot.
Bart: What religion are you? Homer: Oh, you know, the one with all those well-meaning rules that don't work in real life...Christianity.
Marge: Cannons are designed to hurt! THEY'RE DESIGNED TO HURT! Lisa: Shhh! Mom, Dad needs our support!
Teenager: (sarcastically) Oh look, the cannonball guy, he's cool. Another Teenager: Are you being sarcastic, dude? Teenager: I don't even know anymore.
Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. (imitating Smithers) NOBODY'S going to pay a hundred-percent "service charge." Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir.
Concert Manager: Homer, there's nothing worse than a yellow-bellied freak, unless... that's his act. I expect your resignation on my desk. Homer: You have a desk? Concert Manager: I mean the hood of my car.
Concert Manager: "Homer, nothing's more important to me than the health and well-being of my freaks. I'm sending you to a vet."
Homer: Die? Well, you don't scare me doc, 'cause dying would be a stone groove. (cocky) Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix?
Doctor: Yes, pick up your puppy. (indicates an ancient hound-dog named "Rover Hendrix")
Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool. Bart:(unimpressed) Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool. Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square". Lisa: That song is so lame. Homer: So lame that it's... cool? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Am I cool, kids? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring, right? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge:(frustrated) Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried everything here. Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told you're cool. Bart:(puzzled, uncertain) Well, sure you do. Lisa:(bewildered) How else would you know?
[Homer, in a record store, notices a poster for Hullabalooza.] Homer: Now, here are some of your no-name bands. Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails? Hullabalooza? Record Store Clerk: Hullabalooza is a music festival; the greatest music festival of all time. Homer: There can only be one truly great festival a lifetime and it's the US Festival. Record Store Clerk: The what festival? Homer: The US festival. It was put on by that guy from Apple Computers. Record Store Clerk:What computers?
Homer: (after having his bota bag confiscated at the Hullabalooza gate) Oh, my home-made Kalua.
Grampa Simpson: I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!
Otto:(watching Frampton use a talkbox) Wow, his guitar is talking... hey my shoes are talking too!
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
Homer Simpson: (after being questioned about the water quality in Springfield) We have a saying for that: 'If it's brown drink it down, if it's black send it back.'
Homer: You know Marge, I thought I had an Appetite for Destruction. But all I really wanted was a club sandwich.
Homer Simpson: Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Homer Simpson: Nobody knows the band, Grand Funk? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer?
Film narrator: "1796. A fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible. Their destination: New Sodom. This is their story."
Jebediah Springfield: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." (sic)
Edna Krabappel: "Embiggens? Humph, I've never heard that word before I moved to Springfield."
Hollis Hurlbut (to eight-year-old Lisa): "You're banned from this Historical Society! You and your children and your children's children! ...For three months."
Mayor Quimby: "Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?"
Miss Hoover: "This is nothing but dead white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you who keep the rest of us from landing a husband."
Chief Wiggum (using Jebediah Springfield's skull as a hand puppet): "There is no silver tongue. Is there, Bonesy?"
Skinner: Uh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.
Willie: [angrily] I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself!
Ned Flanders:[at his barbecue] I've got family here from all over the world. This is José Flanders.
José Flanders: Buenos ding-dong-diddly-dias, señor.
Ned Flanders: And this is Lord Thistlewick Flanders.
Lord Thistlewick Flanders: Charmed. [nudged by Ned] Uh, a-googly-doogly.
Ned Flanders: Ha ha. Terrific.
Homer: I know! I'll throw my own barbecue, the greatest barbecue this town has ever seen, and I'll only invite who I want. That'll show ya'!
Ned Flanders: Can I come?
Homer: Sure...d'oh!
Animatronic Wolf: Come out, come out, or I'll bloooow your house in.
Animatronic Pigs: Not by the hairs of our chinny chin chin.
Bart: What a load of crappy crap crap.
Homer: Quiet, boy. I have a feeling some bad stuff is about to go down.
Marge: [to Maggie] This is where the wolf blows down the pigs house.
Bart: [sarcastically] He blows, all right. He blows big time.
Marge: That's it, honey, get into the spirit!
Jimmy: [disturbed by what he saw on the "killing floor"] Uhh, Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says it's wrong to eat meat. Is he crazy?
Troy: No, just ignorant. You see, your crazy friend never heard of "The Food Chain." Just ask this scientician.
"Scientician" : [looks up from microscope] Uh…
Troy: He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably eats another creature to survive.
[Sequence of "nature" footage shows a lion attacking a gazelle, an eagle carrying off a sheep, a dog catching a Frisbee, and a gorilla reaching for some bananas, until a shark eats him.]
Troy: Don't kid yourself, Jimmy! If a cow ever got the chance, he would eat you and everyone you cared about!
[Dramatic zoom onto a cow.]
Jimmy: Wow, Mr. McClure. I was a Grade A moron to ever question eating meat.
Troy: You sure were, Jimmy. You sure were. [begins rubbing Jimmy's head]
Jimmy: You're...hurting...me!
Ralph Wiggum: When I grow up, I’m going to Bovine University!
Lisa: No, I can't! I can't eat any of them!
Homer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Apu: Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like Paul's song, Live and Let Live.
Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel Christopher Columbus and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Lisa jokingly claims she has "Chester A. Arthritis" in the historical society. This is a reference to the twenty first president of the United States: Chester A. Arthur. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Lisa's poster of Jebediah Springfield resembles the "Wanted for Treason" poster circulated around Dallas about John F Kennedy before he was assassinated. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
The flashback scene where Homer tries to fit in with a group of guys in a van is similar to scenes from Dazed and Confused. (Homerpalooza)
There are several Woodstock references in the episode, including Lisa noting that Hullabalooza was just like Woodstock, except "with security guards and ads everywhere." (Homerpalooza)
When Otto's shoes start talking what they say is a reference to the opening lines of 1999 by Prince. This scene is missing from syndcation episodes due to censorship. (Although has been shown several times in re-runs outside the USA) (Homerpalooza)
One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that when played backwards contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. One of the backwards snippets says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." - a reference to the Paul is dead theory. The backwards speech in the track is also a reference to this theory. The recited recipe can be found on the "Extras" section on Disc 1 of the seventh season DVD box set. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
The Simpsons writers were aiming to have a group from several different genres: a hip hop group (Cypress Hill), alternative & grunge groups (Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins) and a classic rock singer. Originally, Bob Dylan was sought to be in the episode, but he declined and instead the writers got Peter Frampton.2 (Homerpalooza)
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. (Homerpalooza)
Courtney Love: Hi Homer! I'm a huge fan. Courtney Love. (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely. (Homerpalooza)
At Homer's confrontation with the Hullabalooza crowd, we see a brief shot of Homer with the members of not-yet-very-famous No Doubt behind him. Gwen Stefani's brother Eric Stefani (who himself had been a former member of the band but had left by the time) was working as an animator at The Simpsons at the time and he was the one who added them in.5 (Homerpalooza)
However, she did not appear and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins was put in her place, changing the joke to: (Homerpalooza)
In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfield would be. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
In the clothing store, Homer walks past two mannequins wearing identical outfits and riding on bikes. These are based on Billy and Benny McCrary, the world's heaviest twins who weighed 700+ pounds each. (King-Size Homer)
Iroquois Twists, the politically incorrect exercises that Mr. Burns leads in the final sequence, are fictitious. They were made up by the writers to sound old-timey. (King-Size Homer)
On the outside of the historical society’s building it claims "where the dead come alive (metaphorically)". (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Originally, Courtney Love was wanted for this episode but she declined. According to the DVD commentary, one of the groups had said that if Courtney Love was in the episode, they wouldn't be.3 Love was wanted specifically for one joke which would be in an exchange between her and Homer: (Homerpalooza)
This is one of the only episodes in which Mr. Burns is portrayed as vigorous and athletic (at least for a man his age), rather than his more usual frail self. (King-Size Homer)
To do research for this episode, writer Brent Forrester went to one of the Lollapalooza concerts, which he describes as a horrible experience. Several of the jokes in this episode are based on his experiences: cameras (including his own) were literally being seized and thrown in the garbage, there were numerous advertisements and a random guy walked up to him and said "how's it going, big narc?"1 (Homerpalooza)
When Jebediah Springfield (born Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
When Lisa asks Paul "Where is Linda?", Linda appears and says "I'm right here, whenever we're in Springfield, we like to spend time in Apu's garden in the shade!" referencing the Beatles song "Octopus's Garden" from the album Abbey Road. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Writer David S. Cohen created the word "cromulent", which was intended to sound like a real word but play on the fact that it and "embiggens" are completely fabricated. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
The members of No Doubt shown behind Homer. (Homerpalooza)
Sonic Youth plays the grunge version of the End Credits, which Matt Groening says is his all-time favorite alternate version of the end credits.4 (Homerpalooza)
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When Homer leaves "work" to see a movie, he meets Bart & Lisa at the door, presumably coming from school. After Homer comes home from the theater, he calls for Bart & Lisa, but gets no answer, implying he is alone in the house. Later, as he is driving an ice cream truck to the plant, he passes Lisa in the school bus, again presumably coming home from school. (King-Size Homer)
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Apu: Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like Paul's song, Live and Let Live. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Bart: What religion are you? Homer: Oh, you know, the one with all those well-meaning rules that don't work in real life...Christianity. (Homerpalooza)
Bart: What's that extra B for? [in the Latin American dubbed version Bart says "What's that extra O for?"] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. (Homerpalooza)
Concert Manager: "Homer, nothing's more important to me than the health and well-being of my freaks. I'm sending you to a vet." (Homerpalooza)
Concert Manager: Homer, there's nothing worse than a yellow-bellied freak, unless... that's his act. I expect your resignation on my desk. Homer: You have a desk? Concert Manager: I mean the hood of my car. (Homerpalooza)
Cypress Hill: You guys know "Insane In The Brain?" Conductor: We mostly know classical, but, eh, we could give it a shot. (Homerpalooza)
Doris: [picks up a hot dog in a bun, shakes the weiner out, and slaps the bun down on Lisa's tray] Yum. It's rich in bunly goodness. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Film narrator: "1796. A fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible. Their destination: New Sodom. This is their story." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Frampton: Homer Simpson ruins my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth is in my cooler. Get out of there, you kids! (Homerpalooza)
Grampa: [peeking from Baby's bed] I'm sorry, but it was 150 degrees in the car! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Grampa:(annoyed) Just leave me in the car with the window open a crack. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Hollis Hurlbut (to eight-year-old Lisa): "You're banned from this Historical Society! You and your children and your children's children! ...For three months." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Homer (to Hollis Hurlburt): Hello. Town crier, got a couple of questions for you. One: where's the fife? Two: give me the fife. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Homer Simpson: (after being questioned about the water quality in Springfield) We have a saying for that: 'If it's brown drink it down, if it's black send it back.' (Homerpalooza)
Homer Simpson: Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. (Homerpalooza)
Homer Simpson: Nobody knows the band, Grand Funk? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer? (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Quiet, boy. I have a feeling some bad stuff is about to go down. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: (after having his bota bag confiscated at the Hullabalooza gate) Oh, my home-made Kalua. (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Die? Well, you don't scare me doc, 'cause dying would be a stone groove. (cocky) Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix? (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely. (Homerpalooza)
Homer: I know! I'll throw my own barbecue, the greatest barbecue this town has ever seen, and I'll only invite who I want. That'll show ya'! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool. Bart:(unimpressed) Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool. Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square". Lisa: That song is so lame. Homer: So lame that it's... cool? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Am I cool, kids? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring, right? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge:(frustrated) Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried everything here. Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told you're cool. Bart:(puzzled, uncertain) Well, sure you do. Lisa:(bewildered) How else would you know? (Homerpalooza)
Jimmy: [disturbed by what he saw on the "killing floor"] Uhh, Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says it's wrong to eat meat. Is he crazy? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Jimmy: Wow, Mr. McClure. I was a Grade A moron to ever question eating meat. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Marge: (After Lisa drives by on a lawnmower) Bart!!! No!!! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Miss Hoover: No, Ralph, there aren't any more. Just try to sleep while the other children are learning. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Miss Hoover: "This is nothing but dead white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you who keep the rest of us from landing a husband." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Roadie: Ah, boy. There goes Peter Frampton's big finale. He's gonna be pissed off. Frampton: You're damn right I'm gonna be pissed off! I bought that pig at Pink Floyd's yard sale! (Homerpalooza)
Skinner: Uh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Smithers: Will you be donating that million dollars now, sir? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Teenager: (sarcastically) Oh look, the cannonball guy, he's cool. Another Teenager: Are you being sarcastic, dude? Teenager: I don't even know anymore. (Homerpalooza)
Troy: Don't kid yourself, Jimmy! If a cow ever got the chance, he would eat you and everyone you cared about! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably eats another creature to survive. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: No, just ignorant. You see, your crazy friend never heard of "The Food Chain." Just ask this scientician. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: You sure were, Jimmy. You sure were. [begins rubbing Jimmy's head] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Willie: [angrily] I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. (imitating Smithers) NOBODY'S going to pay a hundred-percent "service charge." Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir. (Homerpalooza)
Chief Wiggum (using Jebediah Springfield's skull as a hand puppet): "There is no silver tongue. Is there, Bonesy?" (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Grampa Simpson: I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you! (Homerpalooza)
[It gets caught in a dam spillway, and when the pressure builds, it shoots into the sky.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[Passes traffic, jumps a bridge and lands in the water.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[Sequence of "nature" footage shows a lion attacking a gazelle, an eagle carrying off a sheep, a dog catching a Frisbee, and a gorilla reaching for some bananas, until a shark eats him.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[They start laughing, but the grilled pig suddenly passes by flying.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
It's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
It's just a little slimy, it's still good, it's still good! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[Homer, in a record store, notices a poster for Hullabalooza.] Homer: Now, here are some of your no-name bands. Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails? Hullabalooza? Record Store Clerk: Hullabalooza is a music festival; the greatest music festival of all time. Homer: There can only be one truly great festival a lifetime and it's the US Festival. Record Store Clerk: The what festival? Homer: The US festival. It was put on by that guy from Apple Computers. Record Store Clerk:What computers? (Homerpalooza)
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The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the cartoon movie Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter and became the first (and only) cartoon movie to be given the X rating.
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On the Krusty Christmas Special, Krusty references guest stars including "respected private citizen Tom Landry" and "South American sensation Xoxchitla." Krusty experiences severe difficulty pronouncing the name of the latter guest, who vaguely resembles the Brazilian children's television host Xuxa.
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This is the third shoplifting-themed episode: previously one of the Tracey Ullman shorts that featured Bart stealing candy bars, and Marge accidentally shoplifted in Marge in Chains. It's also the second episode with a Christmas theme, the first being the very first episode, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.
It should be noted that the first episode, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire aired on the same date six years earlier, making this episode the 6th Anniversary of The Simpsons.
The writers had been thinking about doing a Christmas show, but no one wanted to take it on because they thought that they would just be repeating the first episode.
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On the Krusty Christmas Special, Krusty references guest stars including "respected private citizen Tom Landry" and "South American sensation Xoxchitla." Krusty experiences severe difficulty pronouncing the name of the latter guest, who vaguely resembles the Brazilian children's television host Xuxa. (Marge Be Not Proud)
The writers had been thinking about doing a Christmas show, but no one wanted to take it on because they thought that they would just be repeating the first episode. (Marge Be Not Proud)
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In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [18] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [19].
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind.
The Lard Lad's roar when he first comes to life is actually Godzilla's roar.
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater.
"Homer³" is inspired by the 1962 The Twilight Zone episode called "Little Girl Lost". Homer even explicitly mentions "...that twilighty show about that zone..."
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference.
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game.
Homer asks Bush to "apologize for the tax hike", a reference to Bush creating a 31% income tax as part of the 1990 Budget Reconciliation Act, despite his 1988 campaign promise of creating no new taxes.
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office.
Bush says that he'll ruin Homer "like a Japanese banquet", a reference to an incident that happened on January 8, 1992. During a state dinner, then-president Bush vomited on the lap of the Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa.
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office.
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah.
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment."
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name."
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer.
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident.
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president.
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office.
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[20]
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Despite the hype over the appearance of George and Barbara Bush in this episode, they were actually voiced by cast members Harry Shearer and Tress MacNeille. Dan Castellaneta voiced Gerald Ford. This is actually the second appearance for Barbara Bush, although in the earlier cameo in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington, she was voiced by Maggie Roswell and showed off the Presidential bathroom.
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run.
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LIKE2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owns a house in Vail, Colorado in real life.
This episode features the first appearance of Disco Stu.
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car.
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan.
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes.
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms.
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood.
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[21]
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon.
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Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu?
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room.
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise.
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush)
Homer: I guess you might say he's barking up the wrong bush! Heh, heh, heh, heh!
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it.
Homer: D'oh!
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush!
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it!
Barbara Bush: George, it's time to get dressed
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club.
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo!
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door]
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[22] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment." (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [23] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [24]. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name." (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsWritersS07':
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood. (Two Bad Neighbors)
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car. (Two Bad Neighbors)
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan. (Two Bad Neighbors)
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[25] (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LIKE2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owns a house in Vail, Colorado in real life. (Two Bad Neighbors)
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The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsRunnersS07':
Barbara Bush: Oh, George, is that all you ever think about? The boys probably just want a letter of recommendation. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush (taking his time at the menu): Let's see now. A "Krusty Burger"? That doesn't sound too appetizing. What kind of stew do ya have? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush: That's really more of a weekend thing, Ray. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Everyone: Oh yeah, that's right. etc. (putting hands down) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Bar, the boys are out in the front yard. They'll help me think of a plan to get those Simpsons. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No! That's not Bar and me. It's them. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No, [points at the Simpson house], the man and his boy. You know, the boy is named Bart, I don't know the name of the man. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door] (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: [opening door] Boys? [Homer pulls the fake cardboard cutouts out of the way] Where are you going? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Nerr, look at thoose phonies, sucking up to Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: OK, Son: give him the glue! [Bart squeezes some glue onto Bush's hair while Homer stuffs a multicolored afro on top, they run off, laughing] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Okay, let's give it up for the new guy! Now, let's all turn around and pay attention to me again! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Dr. Hibbert: I don't understand. Are you saying you and Barbara are bad neighbors? (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Hi everyone. I'm George Bush. (everyone stares) Uh, former President George Bush? (everyone begins cheering) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George: (at the Elks Club later) And that's why I will continue to oppose teen alcoholism in all its forms! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer (driving like mad into Krusty Burger): Oh, I only have one more minute before they stop serving those breakfast balls! D'oh! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: I'm going to punch George Bush in the face! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush) (Two Bad Neighbors)
Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise. (Two Bad Neighbors)
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The flashback scene where Homer tries to fit in with a group of guys in a van is similar to scenes from Dazed and Confused.
There are several Woodstock references in the episode, including Lisa noting that Hullabalooza was just like Woodstock, except "with security guards and ads everywhere."
Homer's line "but all I really wanted was a club sandwich." is from the Guns N Roses album Appetite for Destruction.
When Otto's shoes start talking what they say is a reference to the opening lines of 1999 by Prince. This scene is missing from syndcation episodes due to censorship. (Although has been shown several times in re-runs outside the USA)
Lisa jokingly claims she has "Chester A. Arthritis" in the historical society. This is a reference to the twenty first president of the United States: Chester A. Arthur.
The name of Donald Sutherland's character, Hollis Hurlbut, is based on the names of two Harvard freshman dorms, Hollis Hall and Hurlbut Hall. (List of Harvard dormitories) As many fans have probably noted, a large number of Simpsons writers (past and present) are Harvard College alumni.
Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel Christopher Columbus and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate.
Lisa's poster of Jebediah Springfield resembles the "Wanted for Treason" poster circulated around Dallas about John F Kennedy before he was assassinated.
The pig that Homer roasts and blasts into the air, flying over the nuclear power plant, is a direct reference to the Pink Floyd'sAnimals album cover (see also Pink Floyd pigs).
Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsWritersS07':
To do research for this episode, writer Brent Forrester went to one of the Lollapalooza concerts, which he describes as a horrible experience. Several of the jokes in this episode are based on his experiences: cameras (including his own) were literally being seized and thrown in the garbage, there were numerous advertisements and a random guy walked up to him and said "how's it going, big narc?"1
The Simpsons writers were aiming to have a group from several different genres: a hip hop group (Cypress Hill), alternative & grunge groups (Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins) and a classic rock singer. Originally, Bob Dylan was sought to be in the episode, but he declined and instead the writers got Peter Frampton.2
The members of No Doubt shown behind Homer.
Originally, Courtney Love was wanted for this episode but she declined. According to the DVD commentary, one of the groups had said that if Courtney Love was in the episode, they wouldn't be.3 Love was wanted specifically for one joke which would be in an exchange between her and Homer:
Courtney Love: Hi Homer! I'm a huge fan. Courtney Love.
Homer: Homer Grateful!
However, she did not appear and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins was put in her place, changing the joke to:
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
Sonic Youth plays the grunge version of the End Credits, which Matt Groening says is his all-time favorite alternate version of the end credits.4
At Homer's confrontation with the Hullabalooza crowd, we see a brief shot of Homer with the members of not-yet-very-famous No Doubt behind him. Gwen Stefani's brother Eric Stefani (who himself had been a former member of the band but had left by the time) was working as an animator at The Simpsons at the time and he was the one who added them in.5
The Rover Hendrix act break joke has been called one of the worst jokes in Simpsons history by the writers and producers.6
Homer reads the computer readout in a rather flat monotone, similar to how a computer voice synthesizer would read it.
Iroquois Twists, the politically incorrect exercises that Mr. Burns leads in the final sequence, are fictitious. They were made up by the writers to sound old-timey.
This is one of the only episodes in which Mr. Burns is portrayed as vigorous and athletic (at least for a man his age), rather than his more usual frail self.
In the clothing store, Homer walks past two mannequins wearing identical outfits and riding on bikes. These are based on Billy and Benny McCrary, the world's heaviest twins who weighed 700+ pounds each.
Donald Sutherland also worked with Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa) on Heaven Help Us, which was Smith's first film.
Writer David S. Cohen created the word "cromulent", which was intended to sound like a real word but play on the fact that it and "embiggens" are completely fabricated.
When Jebediah Springfield's grave is being dug up, the shovel flings dirt onto the grave of Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson was buried in his hometown of Bloomington, Illinois.
When Jebediah Springfield (born Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination.
Donald Sutherland's son and fellow Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland would go on to guest star on The Simpsons in the episodes G.I. D'oh and 24 Minutes.
In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfield would be.
The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that when played backwards contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. One of the backwards snippets says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." - a reference to the Paul is dead theory. The backwards speech in the track is also a reference to this theory. The recited recipe can be found on the "Extras" section on Disc 1 of the seventh season DVD box set.
One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to.
When Lisa asks Paul "Where is Linda?", Linda appears and says "I'm right here, whenever we're in Springfield, we like to spend time in Apu's garden in the shade!" referencing the Beatles song "Octopus's Garden" from the album Abbey Road.
When Homer leaves "work" to see a movie, he meets Bart & Lisa at the door, presumably coming from school. After Homer comes home from the theater, he calls for Bart & Lisa, but gets no answer, implying he is alone in the house. Later, as he is driving an ice cream truck to the plant, he passes Lisa in the school bus, again presumably coming home from school.
Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsBlackboardS07':
Roadie: Ah, boy. There goes Peter Frampton's big finale. He's gonna be pissed off. Frampton: You're damn right I'm gonna be pissed off! I bought that pig at Pink Floyd's yard sale!
Roadie: Someone here ordered the London Symphony Orchestra, possibly while high. Cypress Hill, I'm looking in your direction.
Frampton: Homer Simpson ruins my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth is in my cooler. Get out of there, you kids!
Cypress Hill: You guys know "Insane In The Brain?" Conductor: We mostly know classical, but, eh, we could give it a shot.
Bart: What religion are you? Homer: Oh, you know, the one with all those well-meaning rules that don't work in real life...Christianity.
Marge: Cannons are designed to hurt! THEY'RE DESIGNED TO HURT! Lisa: Shhh! Mom, Dad needs our support!
Teenager: (sarcastically) Oh look, the cannonball guy, he's cool. Another Teenager: Are you being sarcastic, dude? Teenager: I don't even know anymore.
Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. (imitating Smithers) NOBODY'S going to pay a hundred-percent "service charge." Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir.
Concert Manager: Homer, there's nothing worse than a yellow-bellied freak, unless... that's his act. I expect your resignation on my desk. Homer: You have a desk? Concert Manager: I mean the hood of my car.
Concert Manager: "Homer, nothing's more important to me than the health and well-being of my freaks. I'm sending you to a vet."
Homer: Die? Well, you don't scare me doc, 'cause dying would be a stone groove. (cocky) Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix?
Doctor: Yes, pick up your puppy. (indicates an ancient hound-dog named "Rover Hendrix")
Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool. Bart:(unimpressed) Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool. Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square". Lisa: That song is so lame. Homer: So lame that it's... cool? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Am I cool, kids? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring, right? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge:(frustrated) Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried everything here. Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told you're cool. Bart:(puzzled, uncertain) Well, sure you do. Lisa:(bewildered) How else would you know?
[Homer, in a record store, notices a poster for Hullabalooza.] Homer: Now, here are some of your no-name bands. Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails? Hullabalooza? Record Store Clerk: Hullabalooza is a music festival; the greatest music festival of all time. Homer: There can only be one truly great festival a lifetime and it's the US Festival. Record Store Clerk: The what festival? Homer: The US festival. It was put on by that guy from Apple Computers. Record Store Clerk:What computers?
Homer: (after having his bota bag confiscated at the Hullabalooza gate) Oh, my home-made Kalua.
Grampa Simpson: I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!
Otto:(watching Frampton use a talkbox) Wow, his guitar is talking... hey my shoes are talking too!
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
Homer Simpson: (after being questioned about the water quality in Springfield) We have a saying for that: 'If it's brown drink it down, if it's black send it back.'
Homer: You know Marge, I thought I had an Appetite for Destruction. But all I really wanted was a club sandwich.
Homer Simpson: Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Homer Simpson: Nobody knows the band, Grand Funk? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer?
Film narrator: "1796. A fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible. Their destination: New Sodom. This is their story."
Jebediah Springfield: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." (sic)
Edna Krabappel: "Embiggens? Humph, I've never heard that word before I moved to Springfield."
Hollis Hurlbut (to eight-year-old Lisa): "You're banned from this Historical Society! You and your children and your children's children! ...For three months."
Mayor Quimby: "Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?"
Miss Hoover: "This is nothing but dead white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you who keep the rest of us from landing a husband."
Chief Wiggum (using Jebediah Springfield's skull as a hand puppet): "There is no silver tongue. Is there, Bonesy?"
Skinner: Uh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.
Willie: [angrily] I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself!
Ned Flanders:[at his barbecue] I've got family here from all over the world. This is José Flanders.
José Flanders: Buenos ding-dong-diddly-dias, señor.
Ned Flanders: And this is Lord Thistlewick Flanders.
Lord Thistlewick Flanders: Charmed. [nudged by Ned] Uh, a-googly-doogly.
Ned Flanders: Ha ha. Terrific.
Homer: I know! I'll throw my own barbecue, the greatest barbecue this town has ever seen, and I'll only invite who I want. That'll show ya'!
Ned Flanders: Can I come?
Homer: Sure...d'oh!
Animatronic Wolf: Come out, come out, or I'll bloooow your house in.
Animatronic Pigs: Not by the hairs of our chinny chin chin.
Bart: What a load of crappy crap crap.
Homer: Quiet, boy. I have a feeling some bad stuff is about to go down.
Marge: [to Maggie] This is where the wolf blows down the pigs house.
Bart: [sarcastically] He blows, all right. He blows big time.
Marge: That's it, honey, get into the spirit!
Jimmy: [disturbed by what he saw on the "killing floor"] Uhh, Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says it's wrong to eat meat. Is he crazy?
Troy: No, just ignorant. You see, your crazy friend never heard of "The Food Chain." Just ask this scientician.
"Scientician" : [looks up from microscope] Uh…
Troy: He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably eats another creature to survive.
[Sequence of "nature" footage shows a lion attacking a gazelle, an eagle carrying off a sheep, a dog catching a Frisbee, and a gorilla reaching for some bananas, until a shark eats him.]
Troy: Don't kid yourself, Jimmy! If a cow ever got the chance, he would eat you and everyone you cared about!
[Dramatic zoom onto a cow.]
Jimmy: Wow, Mr. McClure. I was a Grade A moron to ever question eating meat.
Troy: You sure were, Jimmy. You sure were. [begins rubbing Jimmy's head]
Jimmy: You're...hurting...me!
Ralph Wiggum: When I grow up, I’m going to Bovine University!
Lisa: No, I can't! I can't eat any of them!
Homer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Apu: Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like Paul's song, Live and Let Live.
Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel Christopher Columbus and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Lisa jokingly claims she has "Chester A. Arthritis" in the historical society. This is a reference to the twenty first president of the United States: Chester A. Arthur. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Lisa's poster of Jebediah Springfield resembles the "Wanted for Treason" poster circulated around Dallas about John F Kennedy before he was assassinated. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
The flashback scene where Homer tries to fit in with a group of guys in a van is similar to scenes from Dazed and Confused. (Homerpalooza)
There are several Woodstock references in the episode, including Lisa noting that Hullabalooza was just like Woodstock, except "with security guards and ads everywhere." (Homerpalooza)
When Otto's shoes start talking what they say is a reference to the opening lines of 1999 by Prince. This scene is missing from syndcation episodes due to censorship. (Although has been shown several times in re-runs outside the USA) (Homerpalooza)
One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that when played backwards contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. One of the backwards snippets says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." - a reference to the Paul is dead theory. The backwards speech in the track is also a reference to this theory. The recited recipe can be found on the "Extras" section on Disc 1 of the seventh season DVD box set. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
The Simpsons writers were aiming to have a group from several different genres: a hip hop group (Cypress Hill), alternative & grunge groups (Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins) and a classic rock singer. Originally, Bob Dylan was sought to be in the episode, but he declined and instead the writers got Peter Frampton.2 (Homerpalooza)
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. (Homerpalooza)
Courtney Love: Hi Homer! I'm a huge fan. Courtney Love. (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely. (Homerpalooza)
At Homer's confrontation with the Hullabalooza crowd, we see a brief shot of Homer with the members of not-yet-very-famous No Doubt behind him. Gwen Stefani's brother Eric Stefani (who himself had been a former member of the band but had left by the time) was working as an animator at The Simpsons at the time and he was the one who added them in.5 (Homerpalooza)
However, she did not appear and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins was put in her place, changing the joke to: (Homerpalooza)
In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfield would be. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
In the clothing store, Homer walks past two mannequins wearing identical outfits and riding on bikes. These are based on Billy and Benny McCrary, the world's heaviest twins who weighed 700+ pounds each. (King-Size Homer)
Iroquois Twists, the politically incorrect exercises that Mr. Burns leads in the final sequence, are fictitious. They were made up by the writers to sound old-timey. (King-Size Homer)
On the outside of the historical society’s building it claims "where the dead come alive (metaphorically)". (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Originally, Courtney Love was wanted for this episode but she declined. According to the DVD commentary, one of the groups had said that if Courtney Love was in the episode, they wouldn't be.3 Love was wanted specifically for one joke which would be in an exchange between her and Homer: (Homerpalooza)
This is one of the only episodes in which Mr. Burns is portrayed as vigorous and athletic (at least for a man his age), rather than his more usual frail self. (King-Size Homer)
To do research for this episode, writer Brent Forrester went to one of the Lollapalooza concerts, which he describes as a horrible experience. Several of the jokes in this episode are based on his experiences: cameras (including his own) were literally being seized and thrown in the garbage, there were numerous advertisements and a random guy walked up to him and said "how's it going, big narc?"1 (Homerpalooza)
When Jebediah Springfield (born Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
When Lisa asks Paul "Where is Linda?", Linda appears and says "I'm right here, whenever we're in Springfield, we like to spend time in Apu's garden in the shade!" referencing the Beatles song "Octopus's Garden" from the album Abbey Road. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Writer David S. Cohen created the word "cromulent", which was intended to sound like a real word but play on the fact that it and "embiggens" are completely fabricated. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
The members of No Doubt shown behind Homer. (Homerpalooza)
Sonic Youth plays the grunge version of the End Credits, which Matt Groening says is his all-time favorite alternate version of the end credits.4 (Homerpalooza)
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When Homer leaves "work" to see a movie, he meets Bart & Lisa at the door, presumably coming from school. After Homer comes home from the theater, he calls for Bart & Lisa, but gets no answer, implying he is alone in the house. Later, as he is driving an ice cream truck to the plant, he passes Lisa in the school bus, again presumably coming home from school. (King-Size Homer)
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Apu: Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like Paul's song, Live and Let Live. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Bart: What religion are you? Homer: Oh, you know, the one with all those well-meaning rules that don't work in real life...Christianity. (Homerpalooza)
Bart: What's that extra B for? [in the Latin American dubbed version Bart says "What's that extra O for?"] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. (Homerpalooza)
Concert Manager: "Homer, nothing's more important to me than the health and well-being of my freaks. I'm sending you to a vet." (Homerpalooza)
Concert Manager: Homer, there's nothing worse than a yellow-bellied freak, unless... that's his act. I expect your resignation on my desk. Homer: You have a desk? Concert Manager: I mean the hood of my car. (Homerpalooza)
Cypress Hill: You guys know "Insane In The Brain?" Conductor: We mostly know classical, but, eh, we could give it a shot. (Homerpalooza)
Doris: [picks up a hot dog in a bun, shakes the weiner out, and slaps the bun down on Lisa's tray] Yum. It's rich in bunly goodness. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Film narrator: "1796. A fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible. Their destination: New Sodom. This is their story." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Frampton: Homer Simpson ruins my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth is in my cooler. Get out of there, you kids! (Homerpalooza)
Grampa: [peeking from Baby's bed] I'm sorry, but it was 150 degrees in the car! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Grampa:(annoyed) Just leave me in the car with the window open a crack. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Hollis Hurlbut (to eight-year-old Lisa): "You're banned from this Historical Society! You and your children and your children's children! ...For three months." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Homer (to Hollis Hurlburt): Hello. Town crier, got a couple of questions for you. One: where's the fife? Two: give me the fife. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Homer Simpson: (after being questioned about the water quality in Springfield) We have a saying for that: 'If it's brown drink it down, if it's black send it back.' (Homerpalooza)
Homer Simpson: Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. (Homerpalooza)
Homer Simpson: Nobody knows the band, Grand Funk? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer? (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Quiet, boy. I have a feeling some bad stuff is about to go down. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: (after having his bota bag confiscated at the Hullabalooza gate) Oh, my home-made Kalua. (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Die? Well, you don't scare me doc, 'cause dying would be a stone groove. (cocky) Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix? (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely. (Homerpalooza)
Homer: I know! I'll throw my own barbecue, the greatest barbecue this town has ever seen, and I'll only invite who I want. That'll show ya'! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool. Bart:(unimpressed) Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool. Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square". Lisa: That song is so lame. Homer: So lame that it's... cool? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Am I cool, kids? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring, right? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge:(frustrated) Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried everything here. Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told you're cool. Bart:(puzzled, uncertain) Well, sure you do. Lisa:(bewildered) How else would you know? (Homerpalooza)
Jimmy: [disturbed by what he saw on the "killing floor"] Uhh, Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says it's wrong to eat meat. Is he crazy? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Jimmy: Wow, Mr. McClure. I was a Grade A moron to ever question eating meat. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Marge: (After Lisa drives by on a lawnmower) Bart!!! No!!! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Miss Hoover: No, Ralph, there aren't any more. Just try to sleep while the other children are learning. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Miss Hoover: "This is nothing but dead white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you who keep the rest of us from landing a husband." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Roadie: Ah, boy. There goes Peter Frampton's big finale. He's gonna be pissed off. Frampton: You're damn right I'm gonna be pissed off! I bought that pig at Pink Floyd's yard sale! (Homerpalooza)
Skinner: Uh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Smithers: Will you be donating that million dollars now, sir? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Teenager: (sarcastically) Oh look, the cannonball guy, he's cool. Another Teenager: Are you being sarcastic, dude? Teenager: I don't even know anymore. (Homerpalooza)
Troy: Don't kid yourself, Jimmy! If a cow ever got the chance, he would eat you and everyone you cared about! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably eats another creature to survive. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: No, just ignorant. You see, your crazy friend never heard of "The Food Chain." Just ask this scientician. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: You sure were, Jimmy. You sure were. [begins rubbing Jimmy's head] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Willie: [angrily] I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. (imitating Smithers) NOBODY'S going to pay a hundred-percent "service charge." Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir. (Homerpalooza)
Chief Wiggum (using Jebediah Springfield's skull as a hand puppet): "There is no silver tongue. Is there, Bonesy?" (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Grampa Simpson: I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you! (Homerpalooza)
[It gets caught in a dam spillway, and when the pressure builds, it shoots into the sky.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[Passes traffic, jumps a bridge and lands in the water.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[Sequence of "nature" footage shows a lion attacking a gazelle, an eagle carrying off a sheep, a dog catching a Frisbee, and a gorilla reaching for some bananas, until a shark eats him.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[They start laughing, but the grilled pig suddenly passes by flying.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
It's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
It's just a little slimy, it's still good, it's still good! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[Homer, in a record store, notices a poster for Hullabalooza.] Homer: Now, here are some of your no-name bands. Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails? Hullabalooza? Record Store Clerk: Hullabalooza is a music festival; the greatest music festival of all time. Homer: There can only be one truly great festival a lifetime and it's the US Festival. Record Store Clerk: The what festival? Homer: The US festival. It was put on by that guy from Apple Computers. Record Store Clerk:What computers? (Homerpalooza)
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Mr Burns and his hired mercenary attempt to kill Grandpa in several ways. They include:
Dropping poison in the glass which contained Abe's dentures while he slept. However, Grandpa put an alarm clock in his mouth and threw his glass against the wall, unintentionally avoiding danger.
The assassin dressed up as Homer, Mr. Burns as Marge, and Smithers as Bart so they could enter the nursing home. Grandpa realized that his family never comes to see him and survives a knife throwing attack.
The assassin chases after Abe through the nursing home with a something that looks like a MP 40 submachinegun. Abe is saved when an angry nurse opens fire at the assassin with a shotgun, the shotgun blasts accenting her words "Our residents are trying to nap!".
It is not explained who hid the treasure.
Sheldon Skinner would not actually be related to Seymour Skinner (Armin Tamzarian), as we know him, given the episode of The Principal and the Pauper. Instead, Sheldon Skinner would be related to the Seymour Skinner that was introduced in that episode, despite looking similar to the Seymour Skinner who is principal of Springfield Elementary.
It is often wondered by many people if it is actually Lisa or Maggie who says "Santa?" when Mr. Burns crashes though the wall. The Audio Commentery for the episode states that Lisa said it.
It's entirely possible that this episode explains how Grandpa became a member of the Stonecutters - he saved Mr. Burns' life. And, of course, the only way to become a Stonecutter is by being the son of a Stonecutter, or saving the life of a Stonecutter.
The character of Griff is a reference to director Samuel Fuller who always had a character with this name in all of his films - notably Mark Hamill in The Big Red One - which also concerns a WWII platoon.
When the light showing where the treasure is buried points to the sea, two "D'oh"s can be heard, revealing that Grandpa also says "D'oh".
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Nelson: Ha Ha..ah ha, wow. I didn't think he was going to do "Moon River", but then...bam! SECOND ENCORE!
Father:(screaming) If YOU kids... CAN'T keep your hands to yourselves, I'm gonna TURN this car around, and there'll be NO CAPE CANAVERAL FOR ANYBODY! (Nelson reaches out from the window of Bart's car and slaps the man's back.) THAT'S IT! BACK TO WINNIPEG!!
Technician: ....so I su...OH MY, OH MY GOD, OH MY LORD SPRINGFIELD NUCLEAR, YOU'RE OPERATING WITHOUT A T-437!
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. [shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one] It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart...
Homer: Sold. You wrap it up, I'll start bringing in the pennies.
[Burns pulls up to the gas pump in a motor quadricycle]
(Marge tries on their first dress, a large red leather one.)
Patty: This dress is "Fantasy in Maroon". It's got some cigarette burns, but you can patch them up with new vinyl.
Marge: Its a little bit..."peppery" for me...let's put it in the "maybe pile"...
(Marge is then seen in an extremely tight, revealing purple minidress, and large hoop earrings.)
Selma: This used to be a Halloween costume, but it found its way into my regular rotation.
Marge: Uh huh...
[Evelyn tells Marge that if all goes right at Saturday's ball, she'll be willing to sponsor Marge for membership.]
Marge: I'll be there with bells on.
Susan: Where exactly will you be attaching them to that mangled Chanel suit?
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing.
[Homer shows off his new golf skills in the bathroom as Burns and Smithers watch via the plant CCTV]
Burns: Who is that lavatory linksman, Smithers?
Smithers: Homer Simpson, sir. One of the fork and spoon operators from sector 7-G.
Burns: Well, he's certainly got a loose waggle. Perhaps I've finally found a golfer worthy of a match with Monty Burns, eh?
Smithers: His waggle is no match for yours, sir. I've never seen you lose a game. Except for that one in '74 when you let Richard Nixon win. That was very kind of you, sir.
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?
Smithers: Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently.
Burns: Bah. Schedule a game and I'll ask him myself.
Father:(screaming) If YOU kids... CAN'T keep your hands to yourselves, I'm gonna TURN this car around, and there'll be NO CAPE CANAVERAL FOR ANYBODY! (Nelson reaches out from the window of Bart's car and slaps the man's back.) THAT'S IT! BACK TO WINNIPEG!! (Bart on the Road)
Nelson: Ha Ha..ah ha, wow. I didn't think he was going to do "Moon River", but then...bam! SECOND ENCORE! (Bart on the Road)
Technician: ....so I su...OH MY, OH MY GOD, OH MY LORD SPRINGFIELD NUCLEAR, YOU'RE OPERATING WITHOUT A T-437! (Bart on the Road)
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation? (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing. (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. [shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one] It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart... (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
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Troy: That's right boys, Troy's back from the gutter, and he's brought someone with him!
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The title could be a reference to the comic 'Nick Fury and His Howling Commandos' or one of the many others with those types of titles.
One of the several Simpsons episodes to reference the film They Saved Hitler's Brain, as a flashback shows Grandpa Simpson about to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a sniper rifle, saying "Now they'll never save your brain, Hitler."
The failed assassination attempt itself is a reference to the movie The Day of the Jackal.
The lights from the Hellfish's eyes pointing where to dig is an homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Montgomery Burns introduces himself to an assassin over the telephone as "M.B." The assassin replies, "Ah, Marion Barry! Is it time for another shipment already?"
The character of Griff is a reference to director Samuel Fuller who always had a character with this name in all of his films - notably Mark Hamill in The Big Red One - which also concerns a WWII platoon.
Double Dare – Spoofed in the opening "Krusty the Clown Show" segment.
Twilight's Last Gleaming - Title and similar plot.
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964 Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet.
"Daisy" political ad – The montage of scenes mentioned above ends with Maggie picking at a daisy - a parody of the famous political ad for the American presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson.
Wright brothers – A vintage aircraft, said to be the plane used for the historic flight, is on display at the Springfield Air Show.
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film.
Tom Baker arrives in character as the Doctor (from Doctor Who), as part as a delegation of esteemed TV Representatives. Other representatives include:
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke.
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap (voiced by R. Lee Ermey) says, "What is your major malfunction?" to Sideshow Bob, which is a line delivered by Ermey's character in another Stanley Kubrick war movie, Full Metal Jacket.
Col. Hapablap also exclaims, "What in the World According to Garp?", which is a reference to the famous John Irving novel and film adaptation, "The World According to Garp.
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set.
An alien is found in Hangar 18 which could be a reference to the 1980s film or the song by Megadeth
Kent Brockman ends his farewell speech by announcing that he will be writing a column for PC World magazine.
Garfield -- Fat, lasagna-eating cat from the comic strip of the same name
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency.
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter.
The "Schoolhouse Rock" segment ("Amendment To Be") is a parody of I'm Just a Bill. Both it and "I'm Just a Bill" were performed by entertainer Jack Sheldon.
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse.
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter.
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development.
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood.
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise.
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [26] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [27].
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind.
The Lard Lad's roar when he first comes to life is actually Godzilla's roar.
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater.
"Homer³" is inspired by the 1962 The Twilight Zone episode called "Little Girl Lost". Homer even explicitly mentions "...that twilighty show about that zone..."
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference.
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game.
Homer asks Bush to "apologize for the tax hike", a reference to Bush creating a 31% income tax as part of the 1990 Budget Reconciliation Act, despite his 1988 campaign promise of creating no new taxes.
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office.
Bush says that he'll ruin Homer "like a Japanese banquet", a reference to an incident that happened on January 8, 1992. During a state dinner, then-president Bush vomited on the lap of the Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa.
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office.
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah.
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment."
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name."
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer.
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident.
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president.
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office.
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[28]
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Sheldon Skinner would not actually be related to Seymour Skinner (Armin Tamzarian), as we know him, given the episode of "The Principal and the Pauper". Instead, Sheldon Skinner would be related to the Seymour Skinner that was introduced in that episode, despite looking similar to the Seymour Skinner who is principal of Springfield Elementary.
Asa Phelps can be rewritten to spell out "A Sap Helps".
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. [shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one] It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart...
Homer: Sold. You wrap it up, I'll start bringing in the pennies.
[Burns pulls up to the gas pump in a motor quadricycle]
(Marge tries on their first dress, a large red leather one.)
Patty: This dress is "Fantasy in Maroon". It's got some cigarette burns, but you can patch them up with new vinyl.
Marge: Its a little bit..."peppery" for me...let's put it in the "maybe pile"...
(Marge is then seen in an extremely tight, revealing purple minidress, and large hoop earrings.)
Selma: This used to be a Halloween costume, but it found its way into my regular rotation.
Marge: Uh huh...
[Evelyn tells Marge that if all goes right at Saturday's ball, she'll be willing to sponsor Marge for membership.]
Marge: I'll be there with bells on.
Susan: Where exactly will you be attaching them to that mangled Chanel suit?
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing.
[Homer shows off his new golf skills in the bathroom as Burns and Smithers watch via the plant CCTV]
Burns: Who is that lavatory linksman, Smithers?
Smithers: Homer Simpson, sir. One of the fork and spoon operators from sector 7-G.
Burns: Well, he's certainly got a loose waggle. Perhaps I've finally found a golfer worthy of a match with Monty Burns, eh?
Smithers: His waggle is no match for yours, sir. I've never seen you lose a game. Except for that one in '74 when you let Richard Nixon win. That was very kind of you, sir.
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?
Smithers: Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently.
Burns: Bah. Schedule a game and I'll ask him myself.
This episode was due to be shown on BBC Two on 14 September2001, but was replaced with Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield because of the part where Sideshow Bob steals the Wright Brothers plane at the air show, kidnaps Bart, and plans to crash the plane into the shack where Krusty was doing his "show" was considered "in poor taste" due to the September 11 attacks.
One of the O's in Ocho is an eight-Ball.
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too."
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference.
The episode is dedicated to the memory of Doris Grau, a script supervisor and voice provider of Lunchlady Doris.
This is the last episode David Mirkin was the executive producer and show runner.
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt.
The first Itchy and Scratchy cartoon "Steamboat Itchy" first appeared in the episode Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie. The credits read: Written, Directed, and Created by Roger Myers; Music by Roger Myers and George Gershwin, Produced by Roger Myers and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Homer Groening, Matt Groening's father, died two days before this episode aired.
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919".
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show.
This is the third episode to show its title within the show.
The featured, alternate ending to Who Shot Mr. Burns? was created to prevent any staff (be it writers, or even the overseas animators) on the Simpsons from spoiling the mystery.
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him.
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created.
This is the only episode to suggest the house is a set. The later episode parodying VH-1's "Behind the Music", Behind the Laughter, insists the house is an actual house and the show is shot on location.
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer.
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O.J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene.
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions [29].
Despite the hype over the appearance of George and Barbara Bush in this episode, they were actually voiced by cast members Harry Shearer and Tress MacNeille. Dan Castellaneta voiced Gerald Ford. This is actually the second appearance for Barbara Bush, although in the earlier cameo in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington, she was voiced by Maggie Roswell and showed off the Presidential bathroom.
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run.
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LIKE2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owns a house in Vail, Colorado in real life.
This episode features the first appearance of Disco Stu.
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car.
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan.
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes.
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms.
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood.
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[30]
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The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon.
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Grampa: Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" 'cause the Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles...
Martin: "Dickety"? Highly dubious.
Grandpa: What are you cacklin' at, fatty?! Too much pie, that's your problem!
Homer: "Second class? What about Social Security, bus discounts, Medic-Alert jewelry, Gold Bond powder, pants all the way up to your armpits, and all those other senior perks? Oh, if you ask me, old folks have it pretty sweet."
Mr. Burns: There, Simpson; seven gone. As soon as you're in your pressboard coffin, I'll be the sole survivor and the treasure will be mine.
Grampa: Over my dead body, it will!
Burns: (angry groan) That's exactly the point! Oh, Simpson, can't you go five seconds without humiliating yourself?
Grampa:(his pants drop) How long was that?
Mr. Burns (defending the assassination attempt): "I tried to meet you halfway on this, Simpson, but you had to be Little Johnny Live-a-lot."
Bart: "Hey, Mr. Burns! Can I go with you to get the treasure? I won't eat much and I don't know the difference between right and wrong."
Mr. Burns: "Oh, you're a good boy, but the child labor people have been watching me like a hawk. (pushes Bart off his mechanical platform) Well, I'm off to get paintings. As they say, 'time is Monet.' As you were, Sarge! (laughs sinisterly and accidentally presses a button, sending him crashing through a wall) Oh, terribly sorry. Back to sleep, little girl."
Grampa: "Only if you're ready to stare danger in the face, put your manhood to the ultimate test, and take..."
Homer: "Pass."
Ned Flanders: "Well, howdy-doodily, stranger! Couldn't help but notice you're stealing my boat."
Grampa: "I'll bring it back."
Ned: "You ever operated a powerboat?"
Grampa: "No."
Ned: "Know anything about water safety?"
Grampa: "No."
Ned: "What do you need it for?"
Grampa: "It's a secret."
Ned: "Hoo-hoo, sounds spine-tingling-dingling! Just promise you'll have a good time. Maude, boys, come on up! We're gonna have a little camp out in the dinghy!"
(Rod and Todd cheer)
Grampa: Well, at least I got to show you I wasn't always a pathetic old kook...
Bart: You never were, Grampa.
Grampa: Oh... I'd hug ya, but I know you'd just get embarrassed.
Bart: I won't get embarrassed; I don't care who knows I love my Grampa. both hug
Baron:(pulls up in his roadster with techno track playing) Hey, fun boys, get a room! (peels out)
Grampa: I'm not gonna kill ya. That'd be cowardly. Monty Burns cowardly. I just wanna watch you squirm...
Mr. Burns:(enthusiastically) Yes sir! Is this to your liking?(Begins to squirm pathetically)
Grampa: There is one thing we don't stand for in the U.S. Army and that's trying to kill your commanding officer! You're out of my unit! You're out of the tontine! And that means the paintings are mine! Private, you are dismissed!
(Abe's sniper rifle sight shows Adolf Hitler inspecting a line of German soldiers. He positions the crosshairs on Hitler's head and prepares to change the course of history)
(just before he fires, a tennis ball flies in, throwing off his aim. The bullet then just spins the Führer's hat around, shocking the German troops)
Burns: Little help?
Burns (after the tontine is explained): Now, remember. You can't all sign with an "X".
Edna Krabappel: Well, Bart, maybe your grandfather should come up and give someone else a chance to interrupt.
Abe: About time, knothead. (hits her in the forehead with an oatmeal spoon.)
Vidal: There is one more way to kill a man, but it is as intricate and precise as a well-played game of chess. [bursts into Retirement Castle with a machine gun and shoots away. He blows everything to bits but Abe and Jasper.]
Jasper (oblivious): Was that me or was that you?
(Abe runs out of the room to the nurse's counter)
Abe: Nurse! Someone's trying to kill me!
Nurse: Okay, we'll do something about that right away. Let's start by doubling your medication.
[Vidal comes in, shoots everywhere]
Nurse:[loads shotgun and shoots] Our residents!... [shoots] are trying!... [shoots] to nap! [shoots]
Bart (seeing the Wright Brothers plane): Look at that hunk of junk.
Grandpa: Oh, jeeh—you're ignorant! That's the Wright Brothers' plane. At Kitty Hawk in 1903, Charles Lindbergh flew it fifteen miles on a thimble full of corn oil. Single handedly won us the Civil War, it did!
Bart: So how do you know so much about American history?
Grandpa: I piece it together mostly from sugar packets.
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces?
Normal-looking prisoner: [cheerily] I'm right here, Chief!
Wiggum: Oh. Then where's Sideshow Bob?
Another prisoner: Uh, he ran off.
Wiggum: Oh, great. Well...if anyone asks, I beat him to death, okay? (Leaves the place)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out)
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out.
Grandpa (in a porta-loo): This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone made an awful mess down there.
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno!
Mayor Quimby: Well then we have no option, bring in the esteemed representatives of television.
Tom Baker, Steve Urkel, Kent Brockman, Bumblebee Man and Krusty come in.
Krusty: (Upon seeing the porno) Hey hey! This is my kinda meeting!
Bart:(to the squeaky-voiced Security Police Senior Airman) Way to guard the parking lot, Top Gun!
Squeaky-voiced SP: I have three medals for this!
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force.
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent.
Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu?
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room.
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise.
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush)
Homer: I guess you might say he's barking up the wrong bush! Heh, heh, heh, heh!
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it.
Homer: D'oh!
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush!
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it!
Barbara Bush: George, it's time to get dressed
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club.
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo!
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door]
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch.
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Cinnaburst commercials - "Those magazines cause a disturbing amount of laughter." (Team Homer)
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[31] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise. (The Day the Violence Died)
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment." (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [32] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [33]. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter. (The Day the Violence Died)
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood. (The Day the Violence Died)
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter. (The Day the Violence Died)
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse. (The Day the Violence Died)
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development. (The Day the Violence Died)
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name." (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation? (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing. (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. [shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one] It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart... (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood. (Two Bad Neighbors)
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O.J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt. (The Day the Violence Died)
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919". (The Day the Violence Died)
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too." (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show. (The Day the Violence Died)
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions [34]. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[35] (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference. (Team Homer)
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LIKE2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owns a house in Vail, Colorado in real life. (Two Bad Neighbors)
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
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Bush (taking his time at the menu): Let's see now. A "Krusty Burger"? That doesn't sound too appetizing. What kind of stew do ya have? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush: That's really more of a weekend thing, Ray. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Everyone: Oh yeah, that's right. etc. (putting hands down) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Bar, the boys are out in the front yard. They'll help me think of a plan to get those Simpsons. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No! That's not Bar and me. It's them. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No, [points at the Simpson house], the man and his boy. You know, the boy is named Bart, I don't know the name of the man. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door] (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: [opening door] Boys? [Homer pulls the fake cardboard cutouts out of the way] Where are you going? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Nerr, look at thoose phonies, sucking up to Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: OK, Son: give him the glue! [Bart squeezes some glue onto Bush's hair while Homer stuffs a multicolored afro on top, they run off, laughing] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Okay, let's give it up for the new guy! Now, let's all turn around and pay attention to me again! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces? (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno! (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out) (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Dr. Hibbert: I don't understand. Are you saying you and Barbara are bad neighbors? (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Hi everyone. I'm George Bush. (everyone stares) Uh, former President George Bush? (everyone begins cheering) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George: (at the Elks Club later) And that's why I will continue to oppose teen alcoholism in all its forms! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grandpa (in a porta-loo): This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone made an awful mess down there. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Homer (driving like mad into Krusty Burger): Oh, I only have one more minute before they stop serving those breakfast balls! D'oh! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: I'm going to punch George Bush in the face! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush) (Two Bad Neighbors)
Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Mr. Burns: "Oh, you're a good boy, but the child labor people have been watching me like a hawk. (pushes Bart off his mechanical platform) Well, I'm off to get paintings. As they say, 'time is Monet.' As you were, Sarge! (laughs sinisterly and accidentally presses a button, sending him crashing through a wall) Oh, terribly sorry. Back to sleep, little girl." (Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish")
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The family appears as Sea Monkeys, swim to a row of clams (in the place of the couch), and watch an open treasure chest (in the place of the TV). (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The family drops down from the ceiling one at a time with their head in a noose. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The family is portrayed as a fax, and the couch as a fax machine (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch. (Team Homer)
The family runs into the couch uncolored, the colors are then sprayed on them by robotic arms. (The Day the Violence Died)
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Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise.
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Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu doesn't advertise. (Two Bad Neighbors)
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Lisa jokingly claims she has "Chester A. Arthritis" in the historical society. This is a reference to the twenty first president of the United States: Chester A. Arthur.
The name of Donald Sutherland's character, Hollis Hurlbut, is based on the names of two Harvard freshman dorms, Hollis Hall and Hurlbut Hall. (List of Harvard dormitories) As many fans have probably noted, a large number of Simpsons writers (past and present) are Harvard College alumni.
Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel Christopher Columbus and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate.
Lisa's poster of Jebediah Springfield resembles the "Wanted for Treason" poster circulated around Dallas about John F Kennedy before he was assassinated.
The pig that Homer roasts and blasts into the air, flying over the nuclear power plant, is a direct reference to the Pink Floyd'sAnimals album cover (see also Pink Floyd pigs).
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Homer reads the computer readout in a rather flat monotone, similar to how a computer voice synthesizer would read it.
Iroquois Twists, the politically incorrect exercises that Mr. Burns leads in the final sequence, are fictitious. They were made up by the writers to sound old-timey.
This is one of the only episodes in which Mr. Burns is portrayed as vigorous and athletic (at least for a man his age), rather than his more usual frail self.
In the clothing store, Homer walks past two mannequins wearing identical outfits and riding on bikes. These are based on Billy and Benny McCrary, the world's heaviest twins who weighed 700+ pounds each.
Donald Sutherland also worked with Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa) on Heaven Help Us, which was Smith's first film.
Writer David S. Cohen created the word "cromulent", which was intended to sound like a real word but play on the fact that it and "embiggens" are completely fabricated.
When Jebediah Springfield's grave is being dug up, the shovel flings dirt onto the grave of Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson was buried in his hometown of Bloomington, Illinois.
When Jebediah Springfield (born Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination.
Donald Sutherland's son and fellow Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland would go on to guest star on The Simpsons in the episodes G.I. D'oh and 24 Minutes.
In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfield would be.
The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that when played backwards contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. One of the backwards snippets says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." - a reference to the Paul is dead theory. The backwards speech in the track is also a reference to this theory. The recited recipe can be found on the "Extras" section on Disc 1 of the seventh season DVD box set.
One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to.
When Lisa asks Paul "Where is Linda?", Linda appears and says "I'm right here, whenever we're in Springfield, we like to spend time in Apu's garden in the shade!" referencing the Beatles song "Octopus's Garden" from the album Abbey Road.
When Homer leaves "work" to see a movie, he meets Bart & Lisa at the door, presumably coming from school. After Homer comes home from the theater, he calls for Bart & Lisa, but gets no answer, implying he is alone in the house. Later, as he is driving an ice cream truck to the plant, he passes Lisa in the school bus, again presumably coming home from school.
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Film narrator: "1796. A fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible. Their destination: New Sodom. This is their story."
Jebediah Springfield: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." (sic)
Edna Krabappel: "Embiggens? Humph, I've never heard that word before I moved to Springfield."
Hollis Hurlbut (to eight-year-old Lisa): "You're banned from this Historical Society! You and your children and your children's children! ...For three months."
Mayor Quimby: "Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?"
Miss Hoover: "This is nothing but dead white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you who keep the rest of us from landing a husband."
Chief Wiggum (using Jebediah Springfield's skull as a hand puppet): "There is no silver tongue. Is there, Bonesy?"
Skinner: Uh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.
Willie: [angrily] I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself!
Ned Flanders:[at his barbecue] I've got family here from all over the world. This is José Flanders.
José Flanders: Buenos ding-dong-diddly-dias, señor.
Ned Flanders: And this is Lord Thistlewick Flanders.
Lord Thistlewick Flanders: Charmed. [nudged by Ned] Uh, a-googly-doogly.
Ned Flanders: Ha ha. Terrific.
Homer: I know! I'll throw my own barbecue, the greatest barbecue this town has ever seen, and I'll only invite who I want. That'll show ya'!
Ned Flanders: Can I come?
Homer: Sure...d'oh!
Animatronic Wolf: Come out, come out, or I'll bloooow your house in.
Animatronic Pigs: Not by the hairs of our chinny chin chin.
Bart: What a load of crappy crap crap.
Homer: Quiet, boy. I have a feeling some bad stuff is about to go down.
Marge: [to Maggie] This is where the wolf blows down the pigs house.
Bart: [sarcastically] He blows, all right. He blows big time.
Marge: That's it, honey, get into the spirit!
Jimmy: [disturbed by what he saw on the "killing floor"] Uhh, Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says it's wrong to eat meat. Is he crazy?
Troy: No, just ignorant. You see, your crazy friend never heard of "The Food Chain." Just ask this scientician.
"Scientician" : [looks up from microscope] Uh…
Troy: He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably eats another creature to survive.
[Sequence of "nature" footage shows a lion attacking a gazelle, an eagle carrying off a sheep, a dog catching a Frisbee, and a gorilla reaching for some bananas, until a shark eats him.]
Troy: Don't kid yourself, Jimmy! If a cow ever got the chance, he would eat you and everyone you cared about!
[Dramatic zoom onto a cow.]
Jimmy: Wow, Mr. McClure. I was a Grade A moron to ever question eating meat.
Troy: You sure were, Jimmy. You sure were. [begins rubbing Jimmy's head]
Jimmy: You're...hurting...me!
Ralph Wiggum: When I grow up, I’m going to Bovine University!
Lisa: No, I can't! I can't eat any of them!
Homer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Apu: Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like Paul's song, Live and Let Live.
Jebediah Springfield and the annual Springfield anniversary parallel Christopher Columbus and the annual national holiday which bears his name. In the episode it is revealed by Lisa that Springfield was not a hero but a pirate. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Lisa jokingly claims she has "Chester A. Arthritis" in the historical society. This is a reference to the twenty first president of the United States: Chester A. Arthur. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Lisa's poster of Jebediah Springfield resembles the "Wanted for Treason" poster circulated around Dallas about John F Kennedy before he was assassinated. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
One of Paul McCartney's stipulations for doing the guest spot was that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism be a permanent one. Thus, it is an instance of continuity in the Simpsons universe that has been strictly held to. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
The version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" that plays over the end credits is an original mix by the Simpsons staff that when played backwards contains snippets of Paul McCartney reciting a recipe for lentil soup – a throwback to an earlier gag. One of the backwards snippets says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive." - a reference to the Paul is dead theory. The backwards speech in the track is also a reference to this theory. The recited recipe can be found on the "Extras" section on Disc 1 of the seventh season DVD box set. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
In episode "Marge vs. the Monorail" is shown the house where Jebediah was born, even though "Lisa the Iconoclast" shows the arrival of Jebediah to the place where later Springfield would be. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
In the clothing store, Homer walks past two mannequins wearing identical outfits and riding on bikes. These are based on Billy and Benny McCrary, the world's heaviest twins who weighed 700+ pounds each. (King-Size Homer)
Iroquois Twists, the politically incorrect exercises that Mr. Burns leads in the final sequence, are fictitious. They were made up by the writers to sound old-timey. (King-Size Homer)
This is one of the only episodes in which Mr. Burns is portrayed as vigorous and athletic (at least for a man his age), rather than his more usual frail self. (King-Size Homer)
When Jebediah Springfield (born Hans Sprungfeld) is shown laughing after writing his confession, he has a real tongue and not the prosthetic silver one. However, it should be noted that this scene is believed, by fans, to take place in Lisa's imagination. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
When Lisa asks Paul "Where is Linda?", Linda appears and says "I'm right here, whenever we're in Springfield, we like to spend time in Apu's garden in the shade!" referencing the Beatles song "Octopus's Garden" from the album Abbey Road. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Writer David S. Cohen created the word "cromulent", which was intended to sound like a real word but play on the fact that it and "embiggens" are completely fabricated. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
When Homer leaves "work" to see a movie, he meets Bart & Lisa at the door, presumably coming from school. After Homer comes home from the theater, he calls for Bart & Lisa, but gets no answer, implying he is alone in the house. Later, as he is driving an ice cream truck to the plant, he passes Lisa in the school bus, again presumably coming home from school. (King-Size Homer)
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Apu: Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know you can influence people without badgering them always. It's like Paul's song, Live and Let Live. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Doris: [picks up a hot dog in a bun, shakes the weiner out, and slaps the bun down on Lisa's tray] Yum. It's rich in bunly goodness. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Film narrator: "1796. A fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible. Their destination: New Sodom. This is their story." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Grampa: [peeking from Baby's bed] I'm sorry, but it was 150 degrees in the car! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Grampa:(annoyed) Just leave me in the car with the window open a crack. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Hollis Hurlbut (to eight-year-old Lisa): "You're banned from this Historical Society! You and your children and your children's children! ...For three months." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Homer (to Hollis Hurlburt): Hello. Town crier, got a couple of questions for you. One: where's the fife? Two: give me the fife. (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Homer: Quiet, boy. I have a feeling some bad stuff is about to go down. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: I know! I'll throw my own barbecue, the greatest barbecue this town has ever seen, and I'll only invite who I want. That'll show ya'! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Homer: Marge? Since I'm not talking to Lisa, would you please ask her to pass me the syrup? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Jimmy: [disturbed by what he saw on the "killing floor"] Uhh, Mr. McClure? I have a crazy friend who says it's wrong to eat meat. Is he crazy? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Jimmy: Wow, Mr. McClure. I was a Grade A moron to ever question eating meat. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Marge: (After Lisa drives by on a lawnmower) Bart!!! No!!! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Miss Hoover: No, Ralph, there aren't any more. Just try to sleep while the other children are learning. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Miss Hoover: "This is nothing but dead white male-bashing from a PC thug. It's women like you who keep the rest of us from landing a husband." (Lisa the Iconoclast)
Skinner: Uh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Smithers: Will you be donating that million dollars now, sir? (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: Don't kid yourself, Jimmy! If a cow ever got the chance, he would eat you and everyone you cared about! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: He'll tell you that, in nature, one creature invariably eats another creature to survive. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: No, just ignorant. You see, your crazy friend never heard of "The Food Chain." Just ask this scientician. (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Troy: You sure were, Jimmy. You sure were. [begins rubbing Jimmy's head] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
Willie: [angrily] I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[It gets caught in a dam spillway, and when the pressure builds, it shoots into the sky.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[Passes traffic, jumps a bridge and lands in the water.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[Sequence of "nature" footage shows a lion attacking a gazelle, an eagle carrying off a sheep, a dog catching a Frisbee, and a gorilla reaching for some bananas, until a shark eats him.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
[They start laughing, but the grilled pig suddenly passes by flying.] (Lisa the Vegetarian)
It's just a little airborne, it's still good, it's still good! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
It's just a little slimy, it's still good, it's still good! (Lisa the Vegetarian)
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Double Dare – Spoofed in the opening "Krusty the Clown Show" segment.
Twilight's Last Gleaming - Title and similar plot.
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet.
"Daisy" political ad – The montage of scenes mentioned above ends with Maggie picking at a daisy - a parody of the famous political ad for the American presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson.
Wright brothers – A vintage aircraft, said to be the plane used for the historic flight, is on display at the Springfield Air Show.
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film.
Tom Baker arrives in character as the Doctor (from Doctor Who), as part as a delegation of esteemed TV Representatives. Other representatives include:
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke.
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap (voiced by R. Lee Ermey) says, "What is your major malfunction?" to Sideshow Bob, which is a line delivered by Ermey's character in another Stanley Kubrick war movie, Full Metal Jacket.
Col. Hapablap also exclaims, "What in the World According to Garp?", which is a reference to the famous John Irving novel and film adaptation, "The World According to Garp.
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set.
An alien is found in Hangar 18 which could be a reference to the 1980s film or the song by Megadeth
Kent Brockman ends his farewell speech by announcing that he will be writing a column for PC World magazine.
Garfield -- Fat, lasagna-eating cat from the comic strip of the same name
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency.
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter.
The "Schoolhouse Rock" segment ("Amendment To Be") is a parody of I'm Just a Bill. Both it and "I'm Just a Bill" were performed by entertainer Jack Sheldon.
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse.
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter.
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development.
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood.
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise.
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [36] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [37].
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind.
The Lard Lad's roar when he first comes to life is actually Godzilla's roar.
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater.
"Homer³" is inspired by the 1962 The Twilight Zone episode called "Little Girl Lost". Homer even explicitly mentions "...that twilighty show about that zone..."
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference.
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game.
Homer asks Bush to "apologize for the tax hike", a reference to Bush creating a 31% income tax as part of the 1990 Budget Reconciliation Act, despite his 1988 campaign promise of creating no new taxes.
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office.
Bush says that he'll ruin Homer "like a Japanese banquet", a reference to an incident that happened on January 8, 1992. During a state dinner, then-president Bush vomited on the lap of the Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa.
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office.
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah.
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment."
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name."
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer.
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident.
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president.
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office.
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[38]
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This episode was due to be shown on BBC Two on 14 September2001, but was replaced with Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield because of the part where Sideshow Bob steals the Wright Brothers plane at the air show, kidnaps Bart, and plans to crash the plane into the shack where Krusty was doing his "show" was considered "in poor taste" due to the September 11 attacks.
One of the O's in Ocho is an eight-Ball.
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too."
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference.
The episode is dedicated to the memory of Doris Grau, a script supervisor and voice provider of Lunchlady Doris.
This is the last episode David Mirkin was the executive producer and show runner.
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt.
The first Itchy and Scratchy cartoon "Steamboat Itchy" first appeared in the episode Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie. The credits read: Written, Directed, and Created by Roger Myers; Music by Roger Myers and George Gershwin, Produced by Roger Myers and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Homer Groening, Matt Groening's father, died two days before this episode aired.
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919".
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show.
It is revealed on the DVD comentary for this episode that Matt Groening origanally wanted a family of mice to live in the Simpsons house, it is also mentioned that the doorways in the Simpsons house resemble Homer's head.
This is the third episode to show its title within the show.
The featured, alternate ending to Who Shot Mr. Burns? was created to prevent any staff (be it writers, or even the overseas animators) on the Simpsons from spoiling the mystery.
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him.
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created.
This is the only episode to suggest the house is a set. The later episode parodying VH-1's "Behind the Music", Behind the Laughter, insists the house is an actual house and the show is shot on location.
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer.
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O.J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene.
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions [39].
Despite the hype over the appearance of George and Barbara Bush in this episode, they were actually voiced by cast members Harry Shearer and Tress MacNeille. Dan Castellaneta voiced Gerald Ford. This is actually the second appearance for Barbara Bush, although in the earlier cameo in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington, she was voiced by Maggie Roswell and showed off the Presidential bathroom.
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run.
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LUV2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owned a house in Vail, Colorado in real life.
This episode features the first appearance of Disco Stu.
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car.
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan.
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes.
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms.
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood.
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[40]
Additions to ListGenBot list 'SimpsonsBlackboardS07':
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon.
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Bart (seeing the Wright Brothers plane): Look at that hunk of junk.
Grandpa: Oh, jeeh—you're ignorant! That's the Wright Brothers' plane. At Kitty Hawk in 1903, Charles Lindbergh flew it fifteen miles on a thimble full of corn oil. Single handedly won us the Civil War, it did!
Bart: So how do you know so much about American history?
Grandpa: I piece it together mostly from sugar packets.
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces?
Normal-looking prisoner: [cheerily] I'm right here, Chief!
Wiggum: Oh. Then where's Sideshow Bob?
Another prisoner: Uh, he ran off.
Wiggum: Oh, great. Well...if anyone asks, I beat him to death, okay? (Leaves the place)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out)
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out.
Grandpa (in a porta-loo): This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone made an awful mess down there.
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno!
Mayor Quimby: Well then we have no option, bring in the esteemed representatives of television.
Tom Baker, Steve Urkel, Kent Brockman, Bumblebee Man and Krusty come in.
Krusty: (Upon seeing the porno) Hey hey! This is my kinda meeting!
Bart:(to the squeaky-voiced Security Police Senior Airman) Way to guard the parking lot, Top Gun!
Squeaky-voiced SP: I have three medals for this!
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force.
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent.
Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu?
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room.
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu don't need to advertise.
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush)
Homer: I guess you might say he's barking up the wrong bush! Heh, heh, heh, heh!
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it.
Homer: D'oh!
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush!
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it!
Barbara Bush: George, it's time to get dressed
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club.
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo!
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door]
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch.
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Cinnaburst commercials - "Those magazines cause a disturbing amount of laughter." (Team Homer)
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[41] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise. (The Day the Violence Died)
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment." (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [42] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [43]. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter. (The Day the Violence Died)
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood. (The Day the Violence Died)
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter. (The Day the Violence Died)
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse. (The Day the Violence Died)
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development. (The Day the Violence Died)
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name." (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president. (Two Bad Neighbors)
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood. (Two Bad Neighbors)
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O.J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt. (The Day the Violence Died)
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919". (The Day the Violence Died)
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan. (Two Bad Neighbors)
It is revealed on the DVD comentary for this episode that Matt Groening origanally wanted a family of mice to live in the Simpsons house, it is also mentioned that the doorways in the Simpsons house resemble Homer's head. (The Day the Violence Died)
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too." (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show. (The Day the Violence Died)
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions [44]. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[45] (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference. (Team Homer)
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LUV2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owned a house in Vail, Colorado in real life. (Two Bad Neighbors)
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
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Bush (taking his time at the menu): Let's see now. A "Krusty Burger"? That doesn't sound too appetizing. What kind of stew do ya have? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush: That's really more of a weekend thing, Ray. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Everyone: Oh yeah, that's right. etc. (putting hands down) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Bar, the boys are out in the front yard. They'll help me think of a plan to get those Simpsons. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No! That's not Bar and me. It's them. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No, [points at the Simpson house], the man and his boy. You know, the boy is named Bart, I don't know the name of the man. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door] (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: [opening door] Boys? [Homer pulls the fake cardboard cutouts out of the way] Where are you going? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Nerr, look at thoose phonies, sucking up to Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: OK, Son: give him the glue! [Bart squeezes some glue onto Bush's hair while Homer stuffs a multicolored afro on top, they run off, laughing] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Okay, let's give it up for the new guy! Now, let's all turn around and pay attention to me again! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bart:(to the squeaky-voiced Security Police Senior Airman) Way to guard the parking lot, Top Gun! (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces? (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno! (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out) (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Dr. Hibbert: I don't understand. Are you saying you and Barbara are bad neighbors? (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Hi everyone. I'm George Bush. (everyone stares) Uh, former President George Bush? (everyone begins cheering) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George: (at the Elks Club later) And that's why I will continue to oppose teen alcoholism in all its forms! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grandpa (in a porta-loo): This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone made an awful mess down there. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Homer (driving like mad into Krusty Burger): Oh, I only have one more minute before they stop serving those breakfast balls! D'oh! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: I'm going to punch George Bush in the face! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush) (Two Bad Neighbors)
Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Wiggum: Oh, great. Well...if anyone asks, I beat him to death, okay? (Leaves the place) (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
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The family appears as Sea Monkeys, swim to a row of clams (in the place of the couch), and watch an open treasure chest (in the place of the TV). (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The family drops down from the ceiling one at a time with their head in a noose. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The family is portrayed as a fax, and the couch as a fax machine (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch. (Team Homer)
The family runs into the couch uncolored, the colors are then sprayed on them by robotic arms. (The Day the Violence Died)
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The detective's "one more thing" line is a nod to Columbo.
The commercial for Bonestorm is a parody of the Slim Jim commercials. A wild Santa Claus, who is the game's spokesman, is a take on Slim Jim spokesman "Macho Man" Randy Savage. The commercial also parodies Mortal Kombat, featuring a cameo by a Liu Kang doppelganger who fights against a tank, and one of the characters in Bonestorm looks similar to Goro.
The Try-N-Save discount store takes its name from the Pic 'n' Save store chain. The store is modeled after discount stores such as Kmart and Wal-Mart.
In The Simpsons Hit & Run, the opening missions of Stage 2 focuses on Bart trying to get a copy of "Bonestorm 2", despite the threat of expulsion from school for skipping. Sadly, the next shipment of the game never came due to Homer and Marge attacking the delivery truck during a Stage 1 mission.
When Bart is debating whether or not to steal the game, he imagines likenesses of Sonic The Hedgehog, Donkey Kong, Mario and Luigi (who are depicted with the opposites of their actual heights) urging him to take it.
On the Krusty Christmas Special, Krusty references guest stars including "respected private citizen Tom Landry" and "South American sensation Xoxchitla." Krusty experiences severe difficulty pronouncing the name of the latter guest, who resembles the Brazilian children's television host Xuxa.
When Bart is looking at Milhouse's house for the first time and Milhouse is playing the Bonestorm game, notice the shot when Milhouse is being "blown away" from the speakers in his chair. This is a reference to Maxell whose media commonly have the "blown away guy" in a chair.
The radical group Mother Simpson becomes involved with is loosely based on the Weather Underground Organization. Specifically, the story of group leader and former fugitive Bernardine Dohrn served as the inspiration for Mother Simpson’s life on the run.
The antibiotic bomb that goes off in the Burns lab is triggered by a Spiro Agnew alarm clock, which can be seen here.
When Maggie is shown dancing in her diaper and covered in slogans, it is a parody of the filler scenes of Goldie Hawn (and other female castmembers like Ruth Buzzi and Jo Anne Worley) dancing in a bikini with slogans and drawings painted on their bodies shown on Laugh-In.
The song originally intended to be taped over Mr. Burns’s cassette of “Walküenritt” was “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” but was unclearable (too expensive), and ABBA’s “Waterloo” was selected instead (although the closed-captioning of the original broadcasting lists the last song as “Don't You Want Me”).
Before the family confronted Mona about her past, she was reading Steal This Book.
When Mr. Burns was at the post office asking the postal clerk "I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?", Prussia was once a powerful European empire that now covers Germany and parts of Poland, Siam was a country now known Thailand, and the autogyro was an aircraft that later paved the way for the invention of the helicopter.
Moe says that the Bears are "smarter than the aver-age bear" and "they swiped my pic-a-nic basket" in an homage to the Yogi Bear cartoons.
The "I Want You ... Out!" poster is similar to the famous Uncle Sam army recruitment poster.
Apu's parents in the flashback scene resemble the parents of the character for which he was named, the eponymous protagonist of Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy.
The title could be a reference to the comic 'Nick Fury and His Howling Commandos' or one of the many others with those types of titles.
One of the several Simpsons episodes to reference the film They Saved Hitler's Brain, as a flashback shows Grandpa Simpson about to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a sniper rifle, saying "Now they'll never save your brain, Hitler."
The failed assassination attempt itself is a reference to the movie Day of the Jackal.
The lights from the Hellfish's eyes pointing where to dig is an homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Montgomery Burns introduces himself to an assassin over the telephone as "M.B." The assassin replies, "Ah, Marion Barry! Is it time for another shipment already?"
The character of Griff is a reference to director Samuel Fuller who always had a character with this name in all of his films - notably Mark Hamill in The Big Red One - which also concerns a WWII platoon.
Double Dare – Spoofed in the opening "Krusty the Clown Show" segment.
Twilight's Last Gleaming - Title and similar plot.
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet.
"Daisy" political ad – The montage of scenes mentioned above ends with Maggie picking at a daisy - a parody of the famous political ad for the American presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson.
Wright brothers – A vintage aircraft, said to be the plane used for the historic flight, is on display at the Springfield Air Show.
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film.
Tom Baker arrives in character as the Doctor (from Doctor Who), as part as a delegation of esteemed TV Representatives. Other representatives include:
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke.
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap (voiced by R. Lee Ermey) says, "What is your major malfunction?" to Sideshow Bob, which is a line delivered by Ermey's character in another Stanley Kubrick war movie, Full Metal Jacket.
Col. Hapablap also exclaims, "What in the World According to Garp?", which is a reference to the famous John Irving novel and film adaptation, "The World According to Garp.
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set.
An alien is found in Hangar 18 which could be a reference to the 1980s film or the song by Megadeth
Kent Brockman ends his farewell speech by announcing that he will be writing a column for PC World magazine.
Garfield -- Fat, lasagna-eating cat from the comic strip of the same name
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency.
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter.
The "Schoolhouse Rock" segment ("Amendment To Be") is a parody of I'm Just a Bill. Both it and "I'm Just a Bill" were performed by entertainer Jack Sheldon.
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse.
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter.
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development.
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood.
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise.
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [46] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [47].
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind.
The Lard Lad's roar when he first comes to life is actually Godzilla's roar.
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater.
"Homer³" is inspired by the 1962 The Twilight Zone episode called "Little Girl Lost". Homer even explicitly mentions "...that twilighty show about that zone..."
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference.
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game.
Homer asks Bush to "apologize for the tax hike", a reference to Bush creating a 31% income tax as part of the 1990 Budget Reconciliation Act, despite his 1988 campaign promise of creating no new taxes.
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office.
Bush says that he'll ruin Homer "like a Japanese banquet", a reference to an incident that happened on January 8, 1992. During a state dinner, then-president Bush vomited on the lap of the Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa.
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office.
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah.
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment."
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name."
After the Bushes move out, President Ford moves in and claims that he likes nachos and beer.
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident.
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president.
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office.
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[48]
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This is the second-ever Simpsons Christmas special. There was a six-year gap between this one, and the first one, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, which was also the first-ever Simpsons episode. The writers had been thinking about doing a second Christmas show for many years, but no one wanted to take it on because they thought that they would just be repeating the first episode. After this episode, new Christmas episodes were made every following year.
This is the third shoplifting-themed episode: previously one of the Tracey Ullman shorts that featured Bart stealing candy bars, and Marge accidentally shoplifted in Marge in Chains.
As Milhouse says that all he had done was having entered his name (Thrillhouse), the term gets abbreviated to THRILLHO due to the limitation of 8 characters for the player's name just like in many videogames. (Which is somewhat silly in that Milhouse would have been able to fit his real name using the 8 available characters)
The first-ever Simpsons episode, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire aired on the same date six years earlier, making this episode the 6th Anniversary of The Simpsons.
While this is only the second Christmas episode, every season after this has had one.
One rebroadcast version of this episode edited out the store detective's line, "If I wanted smoke blown out of my ass, I'd stay at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose." It has been seen in syndication and on the season seven DVD.
The audio commentary for the episode reveals that guest star Lawrence Tierney's recording session was a very intimidating and stressful experience for the crew. Josh Weinstein recalls it as "the craziest guest star experience they've ever had", and involved "talking him out of bad ideas and trying to explain to him all these crazy jokes".
There are three references to Adolf Hitler, first, there is a game at the Try-N-Save called, 'Save Hitler's Brain', second, the Simpson family photos include one with Bart imitating Hitler with a comb and a Nazi salute, and third, there is a game called 'SimReich' at the store, referring to Hitler's third reich and the SimCity computer games.
This episode marks the second appearance of Homer’s mother. She first appeared in the season two episode “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” wherein she was voiced by Maggie Roswell.
When Mother Simpson hits her head on the van at the end of the episode, the “D’oh!” she yells is not actually her voice. Glenn Close couldn’t get it to sound right, and so Pamela Hayden was dubbed in her place.
Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and Tom Hayden; all 1960s liberal radicals are mentioned by Mona Simpson. Simpson obtained employment from these figures while on the run. Many will note the irony—“Marketing Jerry Rubin’s line of diet shakes, proofreading Bobby Seale’s cookbook, and running credit checks at Tom Hayden’s Porsche dealership.” As it turns out, Jerry Rubin did indeed have a line of diet shakes, and Bobby Seale did indeed write some cookbooks. Most of the irony lies with Tom Hayden owning a Porsche dealership, as he was well known as the figurehead of anti-establishment.
The DVD commentary for this episode reveals that the original title was going to be "The Anti-Immigrant Song" in reference to the Led Zeppelin song, Immigrant Song.
After graduating from "Caltech", Apu enrolls in the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, which has a taboo acronym ("SHIT").
At one point, as Homer and Apu are studying, Bart appears over the map of the USA and asks, "Watcha doing, studying?" They then proceed to tell Bart that they are looking for Springfield on the map. Barts goes, "Hey, we live right there!" and points to the map, but his head is blocking the map so we cannot see where he is pointing. This scene is not shown in syndication.
There is a scene where young Apu says goodbye to his family, including his future arranged marriage bride, Manjula. This is a foreshadowing, as Apu meets Manjula again for the marriage in The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons in Season 9. This scene is not shown in syndication.
In The Simpsons Hit & Run mission, This Little Piggy, Apu wears his American costume from this episode when Krusty wants him to become an American so he can track down a criminal.
The Bear Patrol plane is a B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
Caltech (California Institute of Technology) is actually an American college, famous in part for playing pranks on other colleges.
Homer's paycheck, where he complains about the $5 bear tax, also shows a gross pay of $479.60, net pay of $362.19 for 40 hours work, $56.25 for fed withholdings, $36.34 FICA, $10.45 state, and $9.37 municipal tax. [49]
One of the protestor's signs as Apu goes to take his citizenship test reads "Homer says 'Get Out'". Oddly enough, it is held by Mrs Glick.
Frink's prediction that computers would become ever larger and costlier is a play on the old belief, expressed by IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, that the world market for computers was limited to just a handful of people and companies.
During the part where Comic Book Guy is searching for word about the Radioactive Man movie, one can see Prince as one of the computer nerds.
The boardroom discussion regarding who should play Radioactive Man parodies then-60-year-old Adam West's well-publicized insistence that he reprise his role as Batman for the 1989 film adaptation.
The Scoutmaster in the flashback to the campy 70's series is based on Paul Lynde.
In the DVD commentary, Matt Groening said that Rainier Wolfcastle's line, "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" is among his favorite lines from the entire series.
Sheldon Skinner would not actually be related to Seymour Skinner (Armin Tamzarian), as we know him, given the episode of "The Principal and the Pauper". Instead, Sheldon Skinner would be related to the Seymour Skinner that was introduced in that episode, despite looking similar to the Seymour Skinner who is principal of Springfield Elementary.
Asa Phelps can be rewritten to spell out "A Sap Helps".
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. [shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one] It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart...
Homer: Sold. You wrap it up, I'll start bringing in the pennies.
[Burns pulls up to the gas pump in a motor quadricycle]
(Marge tries on their first dress, a large red leather one.)
Patty: This dress is "Fantasy in Maroon". It's got some cigarette burns, but you can patch them up with new vinyl.
Marge: Its a little bit..."peppery" for me...let's put it in the "maybe pile"...
(Marge is then seen in an extremely tight, revealing purple minidress, and large hoop earrings.)
Selma: This used to be a Halloween costume, but it found its way into my regular rotation.
Marge: Uh huh...
[Evelyn tells Marge that if all goes right at Saturday's ball, she'll be willing to sponsor Marge for membership.]
Marge: I'll be there with bells on.
Susan: Where exactly will you be attaching them to that mangled Chanel suit?
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing.
[Homer shows off his new golf skills in the bathroom as Burns and Smithers watch via the plant CCTV]
Burns: Who is that lavatory linksman, Smithers?
Smithers: Homer Simpson, sir. One of the fork and spoon operators from sector 7-G.
Burns: Well, he's certainly got a loose waggle. Perhaps I've finally found a golfer worthy of a match with Monty Burns, eh?
Smithers: His waggle is no match for yours, sir. I've never seen you lose a game. Except for that one in '74 when you let Richard Nixon win. That was very kind of you, sir.
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?
Smithers: Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently.
Burns: Bah. Schedule a game and I'll ask him myself.
This episode was due to be shown on BBC Two on 14 September2001, but was replaced with Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield because of the part where Sideshow Bob steals the Wright Brothers plane at the air show, kidnaps Bart, and plans to crash the plane into the shack where Krusty was doing his "show" was considered "in poor taste" due to the September 11 attacks.
One of the O's in Ocho is an eight-Ball.
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too."
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference.
The episode is dedicated to the memory of Doris Grau, a script supervisor and voice provider of Lunchlady Doris.
This is the last episode David Mirkin was the executive producer and show runner.
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt.
The first Itchy and Scratchy cartoon "Steamboat Itchy" first appeared in the episode Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie. The credits read: Written, Directed, and Created by Roger Myers; Music by Roger Myers and George Gershwin, Produced by Roger Myers and Joseph P. Kennedy.
Homer Groening, Matt Groening's father, died two days before this episode aired.
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919".
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show.
It is revealed on the DVD comentary for this episode that Matt Groening origanally wanted a family of mice to live in the Simpsons house, it is also mentioned that the doorways in the Simpsons house resemble Homer's head.
This is the third episode to show its title within the show.
The featured, alternate ending to Who Shot Mr. Burns? was created to prevent any staff (be it writers, or even the overseas animators) on the Simpsons from spoiling the mystery.
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him.
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created.
This is the only episode to suggest the house is a set. The later episode parodying VH-1's "Behind the Music", Behind the Laughter, insists the house is an actual house and the show is shot on location.
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer.
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O.J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene.
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions [50].
Despite the hype over the appearance of George and Barbara Bush in this episode, they were actually voiced by cast members Harry Shearer and Tress MacNeille. Dan Castellaneta voiced Gerald Ford. This is actually the second appearance for Barbara Bush, although in the earlier cameo in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington, she was voiced by Maggie Roswell and showed off the Presidential bathroom.
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run.
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LUV2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owned a house in Vail, Colorado in real life.
This episode features the first appearance of Disco Stu.
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car.
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan.
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes.
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms.
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood.
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[51]
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When Ned Flanders crashes into a tree, the car's airbag deploys. But Ned says in a later episode that "the church opposes them for some reason" (though this may not be a goof as Ned could have found this out and promptly removed them).
The episode incorrectly addresses the procedure for gaining citizenship in the United States. If Apu is out of status and illegal, he would not be eligible for citizenship until he had first gained lawful permanent resident (green card) status. Thus, Apu would have to first gain a green card and live as a lawful permanent resident for five years before applying for citizenship. With green card status, Apu would not be considered an illegal immigrant, and thus would not have to worry about deporation, but the episodes skips this notion and jumps straight from illegal status to citizen status.
One of the producers says they want to stay far away from making the movie like the campy 1970's Radioactive Man, but Dirk Richter died in the 1960's and the only Radioactive Man TV show mentioned was the one from the 1950's that had Laramie cigarettes as its sponsor (mentioned on the season two episode Three Men and a Comic Book).
Moe was a part of "The Little Rascals", but the series wasn't called that until it was put on television. However, it should be noticed that many people have claimed to have been members of the Little Rascals without actually having been, so this might not be a legitimate claim. Besides, if Moe was really an "Our Gang" member, he would have been around 80 years old at the time of this episode's premiere.[verification needed]
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon.
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Homer: Mom, I’m sorry I never come to see you. I’m just not a cemetery person. “Here lies—Walt Whitman”?! Aargh! Damn you, Walt Whitman! [kicking grave] I! Hate! You! Walt! Freaking! Whitman! Leaves of Grass, my ass!
(Lenny and Carl narrate dummy Homer’s fall down the cliff).
Carl: Oh no! He’s going over the falls!
Lenny: Oh good! He snagged that tree branch.
Carl: Oh no! The branch broke off!
Lenny: Oh good! He can grab onto them pointy rocks.
Carl: Oh no! Them rocks broke his arms and legs!
Lenny: Oh good! Those helpful beavers are swimming out to save him.
Carl: Oh no! They’re biting him… and stealing his pants!
Homer: I thought you were dead!
Mona: I thought you were dead!
Grave digger: Oh, dang blast it, isn't anyone in the daggabbing cemetery dead!?
Hans Moleman:(Opening the lid of his coffin) I didn’t want to cause a fuss, but now that you mention it… (His coffin is slowly lowered into the ground)
(At the Springfield Hall of Records)
Homer:(looking at his records) “Wife, Margorie. Children, Bartholomew, Lisa”—Aha! See? This thing is all screwed up! Who the heck is Margaret Simpson?
Mona: You know, Lisa, I feel like I have an instant rapport with you.
Lisa:(gasps) You didn’t dumb it down! You said “rapport.”
Mona: You didn’t have to tell Homer I was dead!
Abe: It was either that, or tell him his mother was a wanted criminal! You were a rotten wife, and I’ll never, ever forgive you! (beat) Can we have sex? Please?
Mona:(disgusted) Oh, Abe.
Abe: Well, I tried. What’s for supper?
Wiggum: Put out an APB on a Uosdwis R. Dewoh. Uh, better start with Greektown.
Friday: That’s “Homer J. Simpson,” Chief. You’re reading it upside down.
Wiggum: Cancel that APB. Oh, but bring back some of them, uh, gyros(pronouncing it “jy-roes”).
Friday: Chief, you’re talking into your wallet.
Friday: Freeze. FBI. The jig is up.
Abe: All right, I admit it! I am the Lindbergh baby. Waah! Waah! Goo goo. I miss my fly-fly dada.
Friday: Are you trying to stall us, or are you just senile?
Abe: A little from column A, a little from column B.
Homer: Don’t forget me!
Mona: Don’t worry, Homer. You’ll always be a part of me. (hits her head on the doorframe)D’oh!
Abe: (referring to Joe Namath) Look at them sideburns! He looks like a girl! Now, Johnny Unitas, there’s a haircut you can set your watch to!
Mona: (singing “Blowin’ in the Wind” with Lisa) How many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man…?
Homer: (interrupts out of nowhere) Seven!
Lisa: No, Dad, it’s a rhetorical question.
Homer: (trying to think) Rhetorical, eh? Eight!
Lisa: Do you even know what “rhetorical” means?
Homer: Do I know what “rhetorical” means?
Taxi Driver: Yeah, I might’ve seen her, it’s hard to tell from this old picture, ya know?
Gannon: Well, according to our computer aging program, she should look about… 25 years older.
Taxi Driver: Yeah! I seen her! That is to say, I saw her.
Burns (in a tank): I’ve been waiting twenty-five years for this moment.
(Burns puts a cassette in the tank’s player and it begins playing “Walkürenritt.” About five seconds in, it abruptly changes to “Waterloo” by ABBA)
Smithers: I’m sorry, sir. I must have taped over that.
Marge: A tombstone?!
Patty: It came with the burial plot, but that's not important: the important thing is, Homer's dead.
Selma: We've been saving for this since your wedding day.
Homer: (after Prop 24 passes) When will people learn? Democracydoesn't work!
Homer: (chanting) "Down with taxes! Down with taxes!"
Helen: "Will someone please think of the children?"
Homer: (pointing to the US flag) Please identify this object.
Apu: It appears to be the flag that disappeared from the public library last year.
Homer: Correct. Now, we all know the thirteen strips are for good luck, but why does the American flag have precisely forty-seven stars?
Apu: Because this particular flag is ridiculously out of date! The library must have purchased it during the brief period in 1912 after New Mexico became a state but before Arizona did!
Mayor Quimby: Very well. I promise swift and decisive action against these hibernating hucksters! (Everyone leaves, reassured, while Quimby helps himself to the pic-in-ic basket)
Homer: Oh my god, I got so swept up in the scapegoating and fun of Proposition 24 I never stopped to think it might affect somebody I might care about. (Pause) You know what Apu? I am really, really going to miss you. (Nails up an Uncle Sam sign that says "I Want You Out!" and walks away whistling)
Apu: Executive, Legislative and...Judicial.
Homer: No, no, and no! I guess we have to start all over with the electrical college.
Homer: Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer tax.
Lisa: That's the homeowner tax.
Homer: Well anyway, I'm still outraged!
Homer: Ah, not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm!
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, honey.
Lisa: By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away!
Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around here, do you?
Homer:(Looks around) Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.
Proctor: All right, here's your last question. What was the cause of the Civil War?
Apu: Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter--
Proctor: Wait, wait... just say slavery.
Apu: Slavery it is, sir.
Chief Wiggum: (arresting the bear, and Barney the drunk) Book 'em Lou. One count of being a bear. And one count of being an accessory to being a bear.
Moe Szyslak: (immediately accepting Mayor Quimby's scapegoating of the Immigrants) Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.
Maude: Oh, Marge... it was horrible! We were trapped in the house all afternoon... and, well... we had to drink toilet water! [sobs]
Marge: Well, things were bad everywhere.
Homer: I'm sick of these constant bear attacks. It's like a freakin' country bear jambaroo around here!
Selma: (On marrying Apu so he can stay in America) I'd rather eat poison. I'm already Selma Bouvier/Terwilliger/Hutz/McClure/Stu. Don't you think my name's long enough already without Nahumapesa... what's-it's-called slapped on the end of it!?
Grampa: Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" 'cause the Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles...
Martin: "Dickety"? Highly dubious.
Grandpa: What are you cacklin' at, fatty?! Too much pie, that's your problem!
Homer: "Second class? What about Social Security, bus discounts, Medic-Alert jewelry, Gold Bond powder, pants all the way up to your armpits, and all those other senior perks? Oh, if you ask me, old folks have it pretty sweet."
Mr. Burns: There, Simpson; seven gone. As soon as you're in your pressboard coffin, I'll be the sole survivor and the treasure will be mine.
Grampa: Over my dead body, it will!
Burns: (angry groan) That's exactly the point! Oh, Simpson, can't you go five seconds without humiliating yourself?
Grampa:(his pants drop) How long was that?
Mr. Burns (defending the assassination attempt): "I tried to meet you halfway on this, Simpson, but you had to be Little Johnny Live-a-lot."
Bart: "Hey, Mr. Burns! Can I go with you to get the treasure? I won't eat much and I don't know the difference between right and wrong."
Mr. Burns: "Oh, you're a good boy, but the child labor people have been watching me like a hawk. (pushes Bart off his mechanical platform) Well, I'm off to get paintings. As they say, 'time is Monet.' As you were, Sarge! (laughs sinisterly and accidentally presses a button, sending him crashing through a wall) Oh, terribly sorry. Back to sleep, little girl."
Grampa: "Only if you're ready to stare danger in the face, put your manhood to the ultimate test, and take..."
Homer: "Pass."
Ned Flanders: "Well, howdy-doodily, stranger! Couldn't help but notice you're stealing my boat."
Grampa: "I'll bring it back."
Ned: "You ever operated a powerboat?"
Grampa: "No."
Ned: "Know anything about water safety?"
Grampa: "No."
Ned: "What do you need it for?"
Grampa: "It's a secret."
Ned: "Hoo-hoo, sounds spine-tingling-dingling! Just promise you'll have a good time. Maude, boys, come on up! We're gonna have a little camp out in the dinghy!"
(Rod and Todd cheer)
Grampa: Well, at least I got to show you I wasn't always a pathetic old kook...
Bart: You never were, Grampa.
Grampa: Oh... I'd hug ya, but I know you'd just get embarrassed.
Bart: I won't get embarrassed; I don't care who knows I love my Grampa. both hug
Baron:(pulls up in his roadster with techno track playing) Hey, fun boys, get a room! (peels out)
Grampa: I'm not gonna kill ya. That'd be cowardly. Monty Burns cowardly. I just wanna watch you squirm...
Mr. Burns:(enthusiastically) Yes sir! Is this to your liking?(Begins to squirm pathetically)
Grampa: There is one thing we don't stand for in the U.S. Army and that's trying to kill your commanding officer! You're out of my unit! You're out of the tontine! And that means the paintings are mine! Private, you are dismissed!
(Abe's sniper rifle sight shows Adolf Hitler inspecting a line of German soldiers. He positions the crosshairs on Hitler's head and prepares to change the course of history)
(just before he fires, a tennis ball flies in, throwing off his aim. The bullet then just spins the Führer's hat around, shocking the German troops)
Burns: Little help?
Burns (after the tontine is explained): Now, remember. You can't all sign with an "X".
Edna Krabappel: Well, Bart, maybe your grandfather should come up and give someone else a chance to interrupt.
Abe: About time, knothead. (hits her in the forehead with an oatmeal spoon.)
Vidal: There is one more way to kill a man, but it is as intricate and precise as a well-played game of chess. [bursts into Retirement Castle with a machine gun and shoots away. He blows everything to bits but Abe and Jasper.]
Jasper (oblivious): Was that me or was that you?
(Abe runs out of the room to the nurse's counter)
Abe: Nurse! Someone's trying to kill me!
Nurse: Okay, we'll do something about that right away. Let's start by doubling your medication.
[Vidal comes in, shoots everywhere]
Nurse:[loads shotgun and shoots] Our residents!... [shoots] are trying!... [shoots] to nap! [shoots]
Bart (seeing the Wright Brothers plane): Look at that hunk of junk.
Grandpa: Oh, jeeh—you're ignorant! That's the Wright Brothers' plane. At Kitty Hawk in 1903, Charles Lindbergh flew it fifteen miles on a thimble full of corn oil. Single handedly won us the Civil War, it did!
Bart: So how do you know so much about American history?
Grandpa: I piece it together mostly from sugar packets.
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces?
Normal-looking prisoner: [cheerily] I'm right here, Chief!
Wiggum: Oh. Then where's Sideshow Bob?
Another prisoner: Uh, he ran off.
Wiggum: Oh, great. Well...if anyone asks, I beat him to death, okay? (Leaves the place)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out)
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out.
Grandpa (in a porta-loo): This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone made an awful mess down there.
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno!
Mayor Quimby: Well then we have no option, bring in the esteemed representatives of television.
Tom Baker, Steve Urkel, Kent Brockman, Bumblebee Man and Krusty come in.
Krusty: (Upon seeing the porno) Hey hey! This is my kinda meeting!
Bart:(to the squeaky-voiced Security Police Senior Airman) Way to guard the parking lot, Top Gun!
Squeaky-voiced SP: I have three medals for this!
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force.
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent.
Marge:(reading back of Homer's old jacket) Who's Disco Stu?
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room.
Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu don't need to advertise.
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush)
Homer: I guess you might say he's barking up the wrong bush! Heh, heh, heh, heh!
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it.
Homer: D'oh!
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions!
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush!
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it!
Barbara Bush: George, it's time to get dressed
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club.
Homer: [knocking at door with fake cardboard cutouts] Yoo hoo!
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door]
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch.
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
When Homer and Bart shoot bottle rockets at the Bush house, it parodies a scene similar to the "Desert Storm" operation of the 1991 Gulf War, which occurred when Bush was in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Mr. Burns was at the post office asking the postal clerk "I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?", Prussia was once a powerful European empire that now covers Germany and parts of Poland, Siam was a country now known Thailand, and the autogyro was an aircraft that later paved the way for the invention of the helicopter. (Mother Simpson)
Cinnaburst commercials - "Those magazines cause a disturbing amount of laughter." (Team Homer)
Fail-Safe – At the beginning of the third act, we see scenes of everyday life across Springfield. One by one, with a "zooming" sound effect, they all freeze-frame in anticipation of the (supposedly) imminent nuclear blast. Such was the ending of the 1964 Cold War thriller by Sidney Lumet. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" is a parody of the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where a similar stellar cloud causes all machines, including cars, to move on their own, and attack mankind. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
"High Flight" sonnet quoted by the purportedly American Air Force general, which is actually more affiliated with the Royal Canadian Air Force. It is a similar jab to the British-made Harrier joke. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street. When Willie shows the shadow of his rake, it is a homage to Freddy Krueger's famous clawed glove. Willie is also dressed as Freddy would be, in a red and green striped sweater. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
Dr. Strangelove – The underground compound resembles the War Room from the film; also Professor Frink appears as the title character from the film. The tune that Sideshow Bob whistles while preparing the bomb is "We'll Meet Again," as sung by Vera Lynn at the end of the film. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Barbra Bush says George and Homer got off on the wrong foot, claiming their relationship is "just like the Noriega thing - now he and George are the best of friends." This reference to the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is actually the opposite of the real situation: as CIA director, Bush had arranged for annual payments to General Noriega, but years later Bush launched Operation Just Cause to depose him.[52] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush is paid a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. Homer calls him a "Commie friend" to Bush, referencing Gorbachev's role as the last leader of the Soviet Union before the fall of Communism and the thaw in relations between the two countries during Bush's term in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
During the Schoolhouse Rock parody, after the amendment is ratified, a character runs past the screen and imitates Curly Howard's trademark whooping noise. (The Day the Violence Died)
During the shot in which the shredded memoir is falling, a torn piece of paper briefly falls past the screen, with the only non-shredded words reading "V.P. Quayle" and "embarrassment." (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer attempts to persuade Marge not to sell his "Ayatollah Assa-hola" (Ayatollah Khomeni) t-shirt, claiming it works for any Ayatollah. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer demanding vengeance for Bush spanking Bart on the butt is a reference to those who were outraged by the Michael P. Fay incident. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer tricks Bush into coming to the door so he can glue a rainbow wig to his head by placing cardboard cutouts of Bush's sons in front of the door leading Bush to believe they're real. The sons represented are current President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" the radio announcement "Astronomers from Tacoma to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt. Scientists are recommending that necessary precautions be taken." [53] is an homage to the "announcements" near the start of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio play The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween 1938. In that play, the music of "Ramon Raquello and his orchestra" is interrupted by radio reports of astronomers at Princeton observing disturbances on Mars prior to the Martian invasion [54]. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
In The Simpsons Hit & Run, the opening missions of Stage 2 focuses on Bart trying to get a copy of "Bonestorm 2", despite the threat of expulsion from school for skipping. Sadly, the next shipment of the game never came due to Homer and Marge attacking the delivery truck during a Stage 1 mission. (Marge Be Not Proud)
In this episode, Rodger Meyers Jr. points out the well observed fact that many cartoons, especially the early 1960s Hanna-Barbera, are plagiarized live-action television shows and deeply resemble celebrities of the time. Examples include The Flintstones being a copy of The Honeymooners, Top Cat being based on Sgt. Bilko and, in one of the occasional times the show breaks the fourth wall, The Simpsons character Chief Wiggum being an animated counterpart of Edward G. Robinson. Wiggum, in the court at the time, looks at Meyers when he say the latter. (The Day the Violence Died)
Krusty the Clown thinks of a way to stay on the air while the TV station was conducting an Emergency Broadcast System test. Though FCC regulations prohibited the actual EBS tone from airing on that show, the tone heard on this episode is actually used as an Emergency Alert System attention signal on NOAA Weather Radio. When Krusty started airing his show in a civil defense shack, the EBS was activated as if there were an actual emergency. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Moe says that the Bears are "smarter than the aver-age bear" and "they swiped my pic-a-nic basket" in an homage to the Yogi Bear cartoons. (Much Apu About Nothing)
On the Krusty Christmas Special, Krusty references guest stars including "respected private citizen Tom Landry" and "South American sensation Xoxchitla." Krusty experiences severe difficulty pronouncing the name of the latter guest, who resembles the Brazilian children's television host Xuxa. (Marge Be Not Proud)
Roger Meyers, Sr., is again compared to Walt Disney when Joseph P. Kennedy is listed as a producer on Meyers' "Steamboat Itchy" cartoon in this episode. Walt Disney's cartoons were distributed to movie theatres from 1936 to 1952 by RKO Pictures, a movie studio founded when three Kennedy-owned companies merged with RCA in 1928. However, it should be noted that Joseph Kennedy sold all of his RKO stock in 1931 due to pressures from the Depression, so Disney and Kennedy never, in fact, worked together in Hollywood. (The Day the Violence Died)
The "I Want You ... Out!" poster is similar to the famous Uncle Sam army recruitment poster. (Much Apu About Nothing)
The cartoon "Itchy and Scratchy Meets Fritz The Cat" is a reference to the 1972 animated film Fritz the Cat that depicted drug use and sexuality in a frank matter. (The Day the Violence Died)
The character Roger Meyers, Sr. is based on Walt Disney, and many of the situations from this episode have their basis in fact or legend about the mogul. The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr., and Chester J. Lampwick mirrors the real-life relationship between Disney and his chief animator in the 1920s, Ub Iwerks, who has been credited by some as having co-created Mickey Mouse. (The Day the Violence Died)
The commercial for Bonestorm is a parody of the Slim Jim commercials. A wild Santa Claus, who is the game's spokesman, is a take on Slim Jim spokesman "Macho Man" Randy Savage. The commercial also parodies Mortal Kombat, featuring a cameo by a Liu Kang doppelganger who fights against a tank, and one of the characters in Bonestorm looks similar to Goro. (Marge Be Not Proud)
The film Tron (the first major film to use computer animation) is also mentioned by Homer as a means of describing his surroundings, as it featured similarly-styled vector-like computer graphics. In what appears to be a sly allusion to the film's lack of success at the box-office, none of the other characters are familiar with the reference. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The ornate building Homer encounters inside the third dimension (and is subsequently sucked into the black hole) is a recreation of the exterior of the library players encounter in the popular PC game Myst. The calm strings-based music throughout this segment similarly evokes the The Last Message (Imager Room Theme) from this game. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The radical group Mother Simpson becomes involved with is loosely based on the Weather Underground Organization. Specifically, the story of group leader and former fugitive Bernardine Dohrn served as the inspiration for Mother Simpson’s life on the run. (Mother Simpson)
The relationship between Roger Meyers, Sr. and Chester J. Lampwick also mirrors that of the creators of Felix the Cat: Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer. Like Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Pat Sullivan owned the cartoon studio and took all the credit, and it wasn't revealed until much later that Otto Messmer had been chiefly responsible for most of Felix's early development. (The Day the Violence Died)
The song originally intended to be taped over Mr. Burns’s cassette of “Walküenritt” was “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” but was unclearable (too expensive), and ABBA’s “Waterloo” was selected instead (although the closed-captioning of the original broadcasting lists the last song as “Don't You Want Me”). (Mother Simpson)
When Bart and Bush are looking through a photo album, Bart says that Bob Mosbacher is "a dumb name." (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Bart is debating whether or not to steal the game, he imagines likenesses of Sonic The Hedgehog, Donkey Kong, Mario and Luigi (who are depicted with the opposites of their actual heights) urging him to take it. (Marge Be Not Proud)
When Bart is looking at Milhouse's house for the first time and Milhouse is playing the Bonestorm game, notice the shot when Milhouse is being "blown away" from the speakers in his chair. This is a reference to Maxell whose media commonly have the "blown away guy" in a chair. (Marge Be Not Proud)
When Homer calls Bush a "wimp", this is a reference to the Wimp Factor, a criticism of Bush during the 1988 Election claiming that Bush looked "too weak" to be a president. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Maggie is shown dancing in her diaper and covered in slogans, it is a parody of the filler scenes of Goldie Hawn (and other female castmembers like Ruth Buzzi and Jo Anne Worley) dancing in a bikini with slogans and drawings painted on their bodies shown on Laugh-In. (Mother Simpson)
During the part where Comic Book Guy is searching for word about the Radioactive Man movie, one can see Prince as one of the computer nerds. (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
The boardroom discussion regarding who should play Radioactive Man parodies then-60-year-old Adam West's well-publicized insistence that he reprise his role as Batman for the 1989 film adaptation. (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
Caltech (California Institute of Technology) is actually an American college, famous in part for playing pranks on other colleges. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty, they'll eat me alive." I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation? (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Evelyn: Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing. (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
Salesman: [walking up] Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Those are all superior machines. But if you like to watch your TV, and I mean really watch it, you want the Carnivale. [shows Homer and Bart a TV very similar to their old one] It features two-pronged wall plug, pre-molded hand grip well, durable outer casing to prevent fallapart... (Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield)
According to the DVD commentary, Wes Archer, the episodes' director, attempted to TP George H. W. Bush's house during his childhood. (Two Bad Neighbors)
After graduating from "Caltech", Apu enrolls in the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, which has a taboo acronym ("SHIT"). (Much Apu About Nothing)
After showing the false ending of Who Shot Mr. Burns?, Troy states that the ending could have only worked if they somehow ignored all of the Simpson D.N.A. evidence, which would be "downright nutty." (This is not true, because the DNA has the same explanation that it did in the real ending: the tug-of-war with Maggie). There is then a short, uncomfortable pause. The joke is a reference to the recently-concluded O.J. Simpson trial, wherein the jurors found O.J. "not guilty" and later interviews found that the jurors had ignored O. J. Simpson's D.N.A. found at the crime scene. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
As Milhouse says that all he had done was having entered his name (Thrillhouse), the term gets abbreviated to THRILLHO due to the limitation of 8 characters for the player's name just like in many videogames. (Which is somewhat silly in that Milhouse would have been able to fit his real name using the 8 available characters) (Marge Be Not Proud)
At one point, as Homer and Apu are studying, Bart appears over the map of the USA and asks, "Watcha doing, studying?" They then proceed to tell Bart that they are looking for Springfield on the map. Barts goes, "Hey, we live right there!" and points to the map, but his head is blocking the map so we cannot see where he is pointing. This scene is not shown in syndication. (Much Apu About Nothing)
At the beginning of this episode, Bart and Homer interrupt Apu singing "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick while washing his car. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Chester is credited with being the Creator, Director, Cellu-lamino Artist, Electrocity Engineer, and Ethnographer in "Manhattan Madness", which depicts "Itchy the Lucky Mouse" running a very crude caricature of an Irishman through a hand rolled washing machine and then decapitating Theodore Roosevelt. (The Day the Violence Died)
Chester's inscription on the original Itchy drawing reads; "To Roger Myers: Keep drawing - your moxie more than makes up for your lack of talent. Your pal, Chester J. Lampwick, Sept 3, 1919". (The Day the Violence Died)
Due to the "picture" of Matt Groening and the subsequent cash register joke, Matt Groening frequently receives mail from several right-wing groups applauding him. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
During the rummage sale, Marge is seen selling t-shirts with the words "I Didn't Do It" on them. This is reminiscent of the episode Bart Gets Famous, in which he said that line while he appeared in a sketch on the Krusty the Clown show. This is one of many examples of the writers reusing props that appeared in previous episodes. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Frink's prediction that computers would become ever larger and costlier is a play on the old belief, expressed by IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, that the world market for computers was limited to just a handful of people and companies. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Homer's paycheck, where he complains about the $5 bear tax, also shows a gross pay of $479.60, net pay of $362.19 for 40 hours work, $56.25 for fed withholdings, $36.34 FICA, $10.45 state, and $9.37 municipal tax. [55] (Much Apu About Nothing)
In The Simpsons: Hit And Run mission, This Little Piggy, Apu wears his American costume from this episode when Krusty wants him to become an American so he can track down a criminal. (Much Apu About Nothing)
In the DVD commentary for this episode, the writers claim that they were not even vaguely aware that George Bush had a younger son also named George (at that time, he was Governor of Texas, later being elected President in 2000), and Homer's reference to one of the cardboard cut-out sons as "George Bush Jr." was simply meant to be a joke about the stupidity of Homer and Bart's plan. (Two Bad Neighbors)
It is revealed on the DVD comentary for this episode that Matt Groening origanally wanted a family of mice to live in the Simpsons house, it is also mentioned that the doorways in the Simpsons house resemble Homer's head. (The Day the Violence Died)
Lisa says particularly out-of-character at the start of the episode, "I want to meet the first female Stealth Bomber pilot. During the Gulf War she destroyed seventy mosques and her name is Lisa too." (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
One of the protestor's signs as Apu goes to take his citizenship test reads "Homer says 'Get Out'". Oddly enough, it is held by Mrs Glick. (Much Apu About Nothing)
One rebroadcast version of this episode edited out the store detective's line, "If I wanted smoke blown out of my ass, I'd stay at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose." It has been seen in syndication and on the season seven DVD. (Marge Be Not Proud)
The Lester and Eliza drawings are very similar to the original drawings of Bart and Lisa used in the Tracey Ullman Show. (The Day the Violence Died)
The audio commentary for the episode reveals that guest star Lawrence Tierney's recording session was a very intimidating and stressful experience for the crew. Josh Weinstein recalls it as "the craziest guest star experience they've ever had", and involved "talking him out of bad ideas and trying to explain to him all these crazy jokes". (Marge Be Not Proud)
The cash register actually displays 847.63, which, according to Groening, is the average amount of money spent per month to raise a baby in 1989 when the show was created. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
There are three references to Adolf Hitler, first, there is a game at the Try-N-Save called, 'Save Hitler's Brain', second, the Simpson family photos include one with Bart imitating Hitler with a comb and a Nazi salute, and third, there is a game called 'SimReich' at the store, referring to Hitler's third reich and the SimCity computer games. (Marge Be Not Proud)
There is one scene from "Grandpa VS Sexual Inadequacy" during the closing montage in which Marge and Homer are interrupted in bed by Bart. The blanket covering Marge's body is missing, because the drawings used were still missing the final layer. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode shows a deleted scene from "Burns' Heir" in which Mr. Burns releases a robotRichard Simmons on Homer, which regenerates by means of liquid metal when shot at (all of which is a parody of the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day). This was a real scene that got cut because the writers didn't think it was funny, but it always got laughs when shown at college screenings and animation conventions [56]. (The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular)
This episode was also inspired by the animosity towards the show by the Bushes from earlier in the series' run. (Two Bad Neighbors)
This is the second-ever Simpsons Christmas special. There was a six-year gap between this one, and the first one, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, which was also the first-ever Simpsons episode. The writers had been thinking about doing a second Christmas show for many years, but no one wanted to take it on because they thought that they would just be repeating the first episode. After this episode, new Christmas episodes were made every following year. (Marge Be Not Proud)
When Bart is questioning George the first time they meet, Bart asks "How many times were YOU president, George?" This may be a reference to his loss to Bill Clinton when running for a second term. Also, the destruction of his memoirs after a lot of hard work may be meant as a comical reason to explain why, in real life, he does not plan to write them.[57] (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Grampa Simpson says he was spanked by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions, he is making a joke about Grover Cleveland serving two non-consecutive terms. (Two Bad Neighbors)
When Mother Simpson hits her head on the van at the end of the episode, the “D’oh!” she yells is not actually her voice. Glenn Close couldn’t get it to sound right, and so Pamela Hayden was dubbed in her place. (Mother Simpson)
When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference. (Team Homer)
When Gerald Ford moves in at the end of the episode, the license plates for his two cars are MRDUH and LUV2SKI. The latter celebrates the former President's passion for skiing since he owned a house in Vail, Colorado in real life. (Two Bad Neighbors)
While this is only the second Christmas episode, every season after this has had one. (Marge Be Not Proud)
Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and Tom Hayden; all 1960s liberal radicals are mentioned by Mona Simpson. Simpson obtained employment from these figures while on the run. Many will note the irony—“Marketing Jerry Rubin’s line of diet shakes, proofreading Bobby Seale’s cookbook, and running credit checks at Tom Hayden’s Porsche dealership.” As it turns out, Jerry Rubin did indeed have a line of diet shakes, and Bobby Seale did indeed write some cookbooks. Most of the irony lies with Tom Hayden owning a Porsche dealership, as he was well known as the figurehead of anti-establishment. (Mother Simpson)
When Ned Flanders crashes into a tree, the car's airbag deploys. But Ned says in a later episode that "the church opposes them for some reason" (though this may not be a goof as Ned could have found this out and promptly removed them). (Much Apu About Nothing)
Moe was a part of "The Little Rascals", but the series wasn't called that until it was put on television. However, it should be noticed that many people have claimed to have been members of the Little Rascals without actually having been, so this might not be a legitimate claim. Besides, if Moe was really an "Our Gang" member, he would have been around 80 years old at the time of this episode's premiere.[verification needed] (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
One of the producers says they want to stay far away from making the movie like the campy 1970's Radioactive Man, but Dirk Richter died in the 1960's and the only Radioactive Man TV show mentioned was the one from the 1950's that had Laramie cigarettes as its sponsor (mentioned on the season two episode Three Men and a Comic Book). (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
The episode incorrectly addresses the procedure for gaining citizenship in the United States. If Apu is out of status and illegal, he would not be eligible for citizenship until he had first gained lawful permanent resident (green card) status. Thus, Apu would have to first gain a green card and live as a lawful permanent resident for five years before applying for citizenship. With green card status, Apu would not be considered an illegal immigrant, and thus would not have to worry about deporation, but the episodes skips this notion and jumps straight from illegal status to citizen status. (Much Apu About Nothing)
The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
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Apu: Because this particular flag is ridiculously out of date! The library must have purchased it during the brief period in 1912 after New Mexico became a state but before Arizona did! (Much Apu About Nothing)
Apu: It appears to be the flag that disappeared from the public library last year. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Barbara Bush: Oh, George, is that all you ever think about? The boys probably just want a letter of recommendation. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush (taking his time at the menu): Let's see now. A "Krusty Burger"? That doesn't sound too appetizing. What kind of stew do ya have? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Bush: That's really more of a weekend thing, Ray. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Everyone: Oh yeah, that's right. etc. (putting hands down) (Two Bad Neighbors)
Gannon: Well, according to our computer aging program, she should look about… 25 years older. (Mother Simpson)
George H.W. Bush: Bar, the boys are out in the front yard. They'll help me think of a plan to get those Simpsons. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: N'uh huh. Not going outside today, not with those neighbors. Staying right here till my speech to the Elk's club. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No! That's not Bar and me. It's them. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: No, [points at the Simpson house], the man and his boy. You know, the boy is named Bart, I don't know the name of the man. (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Who is it? [looks through spy hole without glasses on, sees two figures at the door] (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: [opening door] Boys? [Homer pulls the fake cardboard cutouts out of the way] Where are you going? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grave digger: Oh, dang blast it, isn't anyone in the daggabbing cemetery dead!? (Mother Simpson)
Hans Moleman:(Opening the lid of his coffin) I didn’t want to cause a fuss, but now that you mention it… (His coffin is slowly lowered into the ground) (Mother Simpson)
Homer's Brain: There it is, Homer. The cleverest thing you'll ever say and nobody heard it. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: (interrupts out of nowhere) Seven! (Mother Simpson)
Homer: (trying to think) Rhetorical, eh? Eight! (Mother Simpson)
Homer: Correct. Now, we all know the thirteen strips are for good luck, but why does the American flag have precisely forty-seven stars? (Much Apu About Nothing)
Homer: Nerr, look at thoose phonies, sucking up to Bush. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: No, no, and no! I guess we have to start all over with the electrical college. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Homer: OK, Son: give him the glue! [Bart squeezes some glue onto Bush's hair while Homer stuffs a multicolored afro on top, they run off, laughing] (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Oh, I wanted to write 'Disco Stud', but I ran out of room. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Okay, let's give it up for the new guy! Now, let's all turn around and pay attention to me again! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Mayor Quimby: Very well. I promise swift and decisive action against these hibernating hucksters! (Everyone leaves, reassured, while Quimby helps himself to the pic-in-ic basket) (Much Apu About Nothing)
Mayor Quimby: Well then we have no option, bring in the esteemed representatives of television. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
(Burns puts a cassette in the tank’s player and it begins playing “Walkürenritt.” About five seconds in, it abruptly changes to “Waterloo” by ABBA) (Mother Simpson)
Now, are there any questions? (everyone puts their hand up) -- keeping in mind that I already explained about my hair. (Two Bad Neighbors)
Abe: (referring to Joe Namath) Look at them sideburns! He looks like a girl! Now, Johnny Unitas, there’s a haircut you can set your watch to! (Mother Simpson)
Abe: A little from column A, a little from column B. (Mother Simpson)
Abe: All right, I admit it! I am the Lindbergh baby. Waah! Waah! Goo goo. I miss my fly-fly dada. (Mother Simpson)
Abe: It was either that, or tell him his mother was a wanted criminal! You were a rotten wife, and I’ll never, ever forgive you! (beat) Can we have sex? Please? (Mother Simpson)
Apu: Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter-- (Much Apu About Nothing)
Carl: Oh no! Them rocks broke his arms and legs! (Mother Simpson)
Carl: Oh no! They’re biting him… and stealing his pants! (Mother Simpson)
Chief Wiggum: (arresting the bear, and Barney the drunk) Book 'em Lou. One count of being a bear. And one count of being an accessory to being a bear. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Chief Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who eats people and takes their faces? (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Col. Hapablap: We've searched this base from top to bottom and found nothing but porno, porno, porno! (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Col. Leslie "Hap" Hapablap: What a day for an airshow! Not a cloud in the sky! Sideshow Bob: Except perhaps...a mushroom cloud. (Bob laughs manically as he carries away a 10 Megaton nuclear weapon in a wheelbarrow, but his laugh becomes less manic after the bomb almost falls out) (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Dr. Hibbert: I don't understand. Are you saying you and Barbara are bad neighbors? (Two Bad Neighbors)
Friday: Are you trying to stall us, or are you just senile? (Mother Simpson)
Friday: Chief, you’re talking into your wallet. (Mother Simpson)
Friday: That’s “Homer J. Simpson,” Chief. You’re reading it upside down. (Mother Simpson)
George H.W. Bush:(notices Homer and Bart walking to his house through the sewer) If he thinks George Bush won't go in to the sewer, he doesn't know George Bush! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: Hi everyone. I'm George Bush. (everyone stares) Uh, former President George Bush? (everyone begins cheering) (Two Bad Neighbors)
George H.W. Bush: I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet! (Two Bad Neighbors)
George: (at the Elks Club later) And that's why I will continue to oppose teen alcoholism in all its forms! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grampa: When I was a pup we got spanked by presidents 'til the cows came home. Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Grandpa (in a porta-loo): This elevator only goes to the basement. And someone made an awful mess down there. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Homer (driving like mad into Krusty Burger): Oh, I only have one more minute before they stop serving those breakfast balls! D'oh! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Mom, I’m sorry I never come to see you. I’m just not a cemetery person. “Here lies—Walt Whitman”?! Aargh! Damn you, Walt Whitman! [kicking grave] I! Hate! You! Walt! Freaking! Whitman! Leaves of Grass, my ass! (Mother Simpson)
Homer:(looking at his records) “Wife, Margorie. Children, Bartholomew, Lisa”—Aha! See? This thing is all screwed up! Who the heck is Margaret Simpson? (Mother Simpson)
Homer:(mockingly) Uh, Your youngest daughter! (Mother Simpson)
Homer: Ah, not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm! (Much Apu About Nothing)
Homer: First Bush invades my home turf, then he takes away my pals, then he makes fun of the way I talk--probably--now he steals my right to raise a disobedient, smart-alecky son! Well, that's it! (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Let's give it up for Table Five!! (everyone is going to see Bush, except Chief Wiggum, who is playing "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees on a piano, but Disco Stu stops to dance and Homer sings to the tune of it) Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Five! Ah, ah, ah, ah, Table Fiiiiiiiiiiiive! (Wiggum walks over to see Bush) (Two Bad Neighbors)
Homer: Oh my god, I got so swept up in the scapegoating and fun of Proposition 24 I never stopped to think it might affect somebody I might care about. (Pause) You know what Apu? I am really, really going to miss you. (Nails up an Uncle Sam sign that says "I Want You Out!" and walks away whistling) (Much Apu About Nothing)
Maude: Oh, Marge... it was horrible! We were trapped in the house all afternoon... and, well... we had to drink toilet water! [sobs] (Much Apu About Nothing)
Moe Szyslak: (immediately accepting Mayor Quimby's scapegoating of the Immigrants) Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them. (Much Apu About Nothing)
Mr. Burns: "Oh, you're a good boy, but the child labor people have been watching me like a hawk. (pushes Bart off his mechanical platform) Well, I'm off to get paintings. As they say, 'time is Monet.' As you were, Sarge! (laughs sinisterly and accidentally presses a button, sending him crashing through a wall) Oh, terribly sorry. Back to sleep, little girl." (Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish")
Selma: (On marrying Apu so he can stay in America) I'd rather eat poison. I'm already Selma Bouvier/Terwilliger/Hutz/McClure/Stu. Don't you think my name's long enough already without Nahumapesa... what's-it's-called slapped on the end of it!? (Much Apu About Nothing)
Sideshow Bob(having appeared on television in order to threaten the town to abolish television): By the way, I am aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Sideshow Bob: Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Soldier: (After he runs over the Wright Plane with a tank) Whoah...sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Taxi Driver: Yeah, I might’ve seen her, it’s hard to tell from this old picture, ya know? (Mother Simpson)
Like in a bowling alley Snowball II is swept from the room by the pin sweep and the Simpson family are placed on the lounge like pins. (Mother Simpson)
The family appears as Sea Monkeys, swim to a row of clams (in the place of the couch), and watch an open treasure chest (in the place of the TV). (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
The family drops down from the ceiling one at a time with their head in a noose. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
The family is portrayed as a fax, and the couch as a fax machine (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
The family run in and sit down as normal. The camera zooms in on a mouse hole to the right of the couch, and a family of five Simpson-esque mice run in and sit down on their own couch. (Team Homer)
The family runs into the couch uncolored, the colors are then sprayed on them by robotic arms. (The Day the Violence Died)
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Technically, Mrs. Feesch wouldn't have been able to play "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" in its entirety on the organ, because a sizeable portion of the song is Ron Bushy's drum solo; this solo is very distinct, and difficult to reproduce on another instrument.
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Technically, Mrs. Feesch wouldn't have been able to play "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" in its entirety on the organ, because a sizeable portion of the song is Ron Bushy's drum solo; this solo is very distinct, and difficult to reproduce on another instrument. (Bart Sells His Soul)
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As Mrs. Feesch plays "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" in church, a caption appears (to indicate a passage of time) that reads "Seventeen minutes later." That song actually does run seventeen minutes long.
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Lisa: Hmm. Pablo Neruda said, "Laughter is the language of the soul."
Rev. Lovejoy: I know one of you is responsible for this, so repeat after me. If I withhold the truth may I go straight to hell, where I will eat naught but burning hot coals and drink naught but burning hot cola.
Milhouse: Bart did it! That Bart right there!
Moe: "Now that's Moe like it! So bring the whole family. Mom, Dad, kids -- er, no old people. They're not covered by our insurance. It's fun! And remember our guarantee: if I'm not smiling when your check comes, your meal's on me. Uncle Moe's!" (forces a smile into the camera)
Moe: (realizing what he's done, begging) "Aw, come on, folks. Wait, please come back! Please, I got a new offer: whenever Uncle Moe threatens you, you get a free steak … fish."
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As Mrs. Feesch plays "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" in church, a caption appears (to indicate a passage of time) that reads "Seventeen minutes later." That song actually does run seventeen minutes long. (Bart Sells His Soul)
Moe: "Now that's Moe like it! So bring the whole family. Mom, Dad, kids -- er, no old people. They're not covered by our insurance. It's fun! And remember our guarantee: if I'm not smiling when your check comes, your meal's on me. Uncle Moe's!" (forces a smile into the camera) (Bart Sells His Soul)
Moe: (realizing what he's done, begging) "Aw, come on, folks. Wait, please come back! Please, I got a new offer: whenever Uncle Moe threatens you, you get a free steak … fish." (Bart Sells His Soul)
Rev. Lovejoy: I know one of you is responsible for this, so repeat after me. If I withhold the truth may I go straight to hell, where I will eat naught but burning hot coals and drink naught but burning hot cola. (Bart Sells His Soul)
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Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu don't need to advertise.
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Disco Stu: (After being told to buy Homer's jacket with 'Disco Stu' on it): Disco Stu don't need to advertise. (Two Bad Neighbors)
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The flashback scene where Homer tries to fit in with a group of guys in a van is similar to scenes from Dazed and Confused.
There are several Woodstock references in the episode, including Lisa noting that Hullabalooza was just like Woodstock, except "with security guards and ads everywhere."
Homer's line "but all I really wanted was a club sandwich." is from the Guns N Roses album Appetite for Destruction.
When Otto's shoes start talking what they say is a reference to the opening lines of 1999 by Prince. This scene is missing from syndcation episodes due to censorship. (Although has been shown several times in re-runs outside the USA)
At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set.
An alien is found in Hangar 18 which could be a reference to the 1980s film or the song by Megadeth
The way Bart atepts to save Homer is like in Poltergeist
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office.
To do research for this episode, writer Brent Forrester went to one of the Lollapalooza concerts, which he describes as a horrible experience. Several of the jokes in this episode are based on his experiences: cameras (including his own) were literally being seized and thrown in the garbage, there were numerous advertisements and a random guy walked up to him and said "how's it going, big narc?"1
The Simpsons writers were aiming to have a group from several different genres: a hip hop group (Cypress Hill), alternative & grunge groups (Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins) and a classic rock singer. Originally, Bob Dylan was sought to be in the episode, but he declined and instead the writers got Peter Frampton.2
The members of No Doubt shown behind Homer.
Originally, Courtney Love was wanted for this episode but she declined. According to the DVD commentary, one of the groups had said that if Courtney Love was in the episode, they wouldn't be.3 Love was wanted specifically for one joke which would be in an exchange between her and Homer:
Courtney Love: Hi Homer! I'm a huge fan. Courtney Love.
Homer: Homer Grateful!
However, she did not appear and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins was put in her place, changing the joke to:
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
Sonic Youth plays the grunge version of the End Credits, which Matt Groening says is his all-time favorite alternate version of the end credits.4
At Homer's confrontation with the Hullabalooza crowd, we see a brief shot of Homer with the members of not-yet-very-famous No Doubt behind him. Gwen Stefani's brother Eric Stefani (who himself had been a former member of the band but had left by the time) was working as an animator at The Simpsons at the time and he was the one who added them in.5
The Rover Hendrix act break joke has been called one of the worst jokes in Simpsons history by the writers and producers.6
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Chief Wiggum: OK, folks, show's over. Nothing to see here, shows... Oh, my God! A horrible plane crash! Hey, everybody, get a load of this flaming wreckage! Come on, crowd around, crowd around! Don't be shy, crowd around!
Krusty: (Having just lost everything) Everywhere I go I see teachers in Ferraris, research scientists drinking champagne. I tried to drink a coke on the bus, and they took away my pass!
Burns: I'll have my lunch now. I'll have a single pillow of shredded wheat, some steamed toast, and a dodo egg.
Burns: Get cracking! Answer my phone messages, install a computer system, and rotate my office so the window faces the hills!
Homer: Uh huh, uh huh. Um, could you repeat the part where you said about, umm, the things?...... The things?
Homer: Here are your messages. (reading answering machine messages) "You have thirty minutes to move your car", "You have ten minutes", "Your car has been impounded", "Your car has been crushed into a cube", "You have thirty minutes to pick up your cube". (phone rings and Homer answers) Hello, Mr. Burns' office.
Roadie: Ah, boy. There goes Peter Frampton's big finale. He's gonna be pissed off. Frampton: You're damn right I'm gonna be pissed off! I bought that pig at Pink Floyd's yard sale!
Roadie: Someone here ordered the London Symphony Orchestra, possibly while high. Cypress Hill, I'm looking in your direction.
Frampton: Homer Simpson ruins my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth is in my cooler. Get out of there, you kids!
Cypress Hill: You guys know "Insane In The Brain?" Conductor: We mostly know classical, but, eh, we could give it a shot.
Bart: What religion are you? Homer: Oh, you know, the one with all those well-meaning rules that don't work in real life...Christianity.
Marge: Cannons are designed to hurt! THEY'RE DESIGNED TO HURT! Lisa: Shhh! Mom, Dad needs our support!
Teenager: (sarcastically) Oh look, the cannonball guy, he's cool. Another Teenager: Are you being sarcastic, dude? Teenager: I don't even know anymore.
Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. (imitating Smithers) NOBODY'S going to pay a hundred-percent "service charge." Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir.
Concert Manager: Homer, there's nothing worse than a yellow-bellied freak, unless... that's his act. I expect your resignation on my desk. Homer: You have a desk? Concert Manager: I mean the hood of my car.
Concert Manager: "Homer, nothing's more important to me than the health and well-being of my freaks. I'm sending you to a vet."
Homer: Die? Well, you don't scare me doc, 'cause dying would be a stone groove. (cocky) Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix?
Doctor: Yes, pick up your puppy. (indicates an ancient hound-dog named "Rover Hendrix")
Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool. Bart:(unimpressed) Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool. Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square". Lisa: That song is so lame. Homer: So lame that it's... cool? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Am I cool, kids? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring, right? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge:(frustrated) Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried everything here. Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told you're cool. Bart:(puzzled, uncertain) Well, sure you do. Lisa:(bewildered) How else would you know?
[Homer, in a record store, notices a poster for Hullabalooza.] Homer: Now, here are some of your no-name bands. Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails? Hullabalooza? Record Store Clerk: Hullabalooza is a music festival; the greatest music festival of all time. Homer: There can only be one truly great festival a lifetime and it's the US Festival. Record Store Clerk: The what festival? Homer: The US festival. It was put on by that guy from Apple Computers. Record Store Clerk:What computers?
Homer: (after having his bota bag confiscated at the Hullabalooza gate) Oh, my home-made Kalua.
Grampa Simpson: I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you!
Otto:(watching Frampton use a talkbox) Wow, his guitar is talking... hey my shoes are talking too!
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
Homer Simpson: (after being questioned about the water quality in Springfield) We have a saying for that: 'If it's brown drink it down, if it's black send it back.'
Homer: You know Marge, I thought I had an Appetite for Destruction. But all I really wanted was a club sandwich.
Homer Simpson: Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
Homer Simpson: Nobody knows the band, Grand Funk? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer?
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At the time of this episode, a woman named Awilda Lopez was arrested for killing her adoptive daughter. When she was arrested, Lopez admitted to using her child as a mop to clean the floors of her house, similar to how Krusty the Clown uses Sideshow Mel in the beginning of this episode. Many fans found the joke to be in bad taste due to the timing of the events, but the joke has not been edited out and is included on the season seven DVD set. (Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming)
Homer and Ford simultaneously fall over the sidewalk incline when the show ends. This is a parody of Gerald Ford's clumsiness (most notably when he fell down the stairs of Air Force One several times) while in office. (Two Bad Neighbors)
There are several Woodstock references in the episode, including Lisa noting that Hullabalooza was just like Woodstock, except "with security guards and ads everywhere." (Homerpalooza)
When Otto's shoes start talking what they say is a reference to the opening lines of 1999 by Prince. This scene is missing from syndcation episodes due to censorship. (Although has been shown several times in re-runs outside the USA) (Homerpalooza)
The Simpsons writers were aiming to have a group from several different genres: a hip hop group (Cypress Hill), alternative & grunge groups (Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins) and a classic rock singer. Originally, Bob Dylan was sought to be in the episode, but he declined and instead the writers got Peter Frampton.2 (Homerpalooza)
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. (Homerpalooza)
Courtney Love: Hi Homer! I'm a huge fan. Courtney Love. (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely. (Homerpalooza)
At Homer's confrontation with the Hullabalooza crowd, we see a brief shot of Homer with the members of not-yet-very-famous No Doubt behind him. Gwen Stefani's brother Eric Stefani (who himself had been a former member of the band but had left by the time) was working as an animator at The Simpsons at the time and he was the one who added them in.5 (Homerpalooza)
However, she did not appear and Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins was put in her place, changing the joke to: (Homerpalooza)
Originally, Courtney Love was wanted for this episode but she declined. According to the DVD commentary, one of the groups had said that if Courtney Love was in the episode, they wouldn't be.3 Love was wanted specifically for one joke which would be in an exchange between her and Homer: (Homerpalooza)
The Rover Hendrix act break joke has been called one of the worst jokes in Simpsons history by the writers and producers.6 (Homerpalooza)
To do research for this episode, writer Brent Forrester went to one of the Lollapalooza concerts, which he describes as a horrible experience. Several of the jokes in this episode are based on his experiences: cameras (including his own) were literally being seized and thrown in the garbage, there were numerous advertisements and a random guy walked up to him and said "how's it going, big narc?"1 (Homerpalooza)
The members of No Doubt shown behind Homer. (Homerpalooza)
Sonic Youth plays the grunge version of the End Credits, which Matt Groening says is his all-time favorite alternate version of the end credits.4 (Homerpalooza)
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Burns: Get cracking! Answer my phone messages, install a computer system, and rotate my office so the window faces the hills! (Homer the Smithers)
Doctor: Yes, pick up your puppy. (indicates an ancient hound-dog named "Rover Hendrix") (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Uh huh, uh huh. Um, could you repeat the part where you said about, umm, the things?...... The things? (Homer the Smithers)
Bart: What religion are you? Homer: Oh, you know, the one with all those well-meaning rules that don't work in real life...Christianity. (Homerpalooza)
Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. (Homerpalooza)
Burns: I'll have my lunch now. I'll have a single pillow of shredded wheat, some steamed toast, and a dodo egg. (Homer the Smithers)
Concert Manager: "Homer, nothing's more important to me than the health and well-being of my freaks. I'm sending you to a vet." (Homerpalooza)
Concert Manager: Homer, there's nothing worse than a yellow-bellied freak, unless... that's his act. I expect your resignation on my desk. Homer: You have a desk? Concert Manager: I mean the hood of my car. (Homerpalooza)
Cypress Hill: You guys know "Insane In The Brain?" Conductor: We mostly know classical, but, eh, we could give it a shot. (Homerpalooza)
Frampton: Homer Simpson ruins my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth is in my cooler. Get out of there, you kids! (Homerpalooza)
Homer Simpson: (after being questioned about the water quality in Springfield) We have a saying for that: 'If it's brown drink it down, if it's black send it back.' (Homerpalooza)
Homer Simpson: Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact. (Homerpalooza)
Homer Simpson: Nobody knows the band, Grand Funk? The wild, shirtless lyrics of Mark Farner? The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher? The competent drum work of Don Brewer? (Homerpalooza)
Homer: (after having his bota bag confiscated at the Hullabalooza gate) Oh, my home-made Kalua. (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Die? Well, you don't scare me doc, 'cause dying would be a stone groove. (cocky) Got any messages for Jimi Hendrix? (Homerpalooza)
Homer: Here are your messages. (reading answering machine messages) "You have thirty minutes to move your car", "You have ten minutes", "Your car has been impounded", "Your car has been crushed into a cube", "You have thirty minutes to pick up your cube". (phone rings and Homer answers) Hello, Mr. Burns' office. (Homer the Smithers)
Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely. (Homerpalooza)
Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool. Bart:(unimpressed) Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool. Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square". Lisa: That song is so lame. Homer: So lame that it's... cool? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Am I cool, kids? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring, right? Bart and Lisa:(dismissive) No. Marge:(frustrated) Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried everything here. Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told you're cool. Bart:(puzzled, uncertain) Well, sure you do. Lisa:(bewildered) How else would you know? (Homerpalooza)
Otto:(watching Frampton use a talkbox) Wow, his guitar is talking... hey my shoes are talking too! (Homerpalooza)
Roadie: Ah, boy. There goes Peter Frampton's big finale. He's gonna be pissed off. Frampton: You're damn right I'm gonna be pissed off! I bought that pig at Pink Floyd's yard sale! (Homerpalooza)
Teenager: (sarcastically) Oh look, the cannonball guy, he's cool. Another Teenager: Are you being sarcastic, dude? Teenager: I don't even know anymore. (Homerpalooza)
Burns: And to think, Smithers, you laughed when I bought Ticketmaster. (imitating Smithers) NOBODY'S going to pay a hundred-percent "service charge." Smithers: It's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorant, sir. (Homerpalooza)
Chief Wiggum: OK, folks, show's over. Nothing to see here, shows... Oh, my God! A horrible plane crash! Hey, everybody, get a load of this flaming wreckage! Come on, crowd around, crowd around! Don't be shy, crowd around! (Bart the Fink)
Grampa Simpson: I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you! (Homerpalooza)
Marge: Cannons are designed to hurt! THEY'RE DESIGNED TO HURT! Lisa: Shhh! Mom, Dad needs our support! (Homerpalooza)
[Homer, in a record store, notices a poster for Hullabalooza.] Homer: Now, here are some of your no-name bands. Sonic Youth? Nine Inch Nails? Hullabalooza? Record Store Clerk: Hullabalooza is a music festival; the greatest music festival of all time. Homer: There can only be one truly great festival a lifetime and it's the US Festival. Record Store Clerk: The what festival? Homer: The US festival. It was put on by that guy from Apple Computers. Record Store Clerk:What computers? (Homerpalooza)
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The monkey seen in beginning of the episode who gives Bart head lice and Milhouse a severe fever is obviously a parody of the movie Outbreak, which aired six month before the airing of this episode, where the carrier of a deadly virus is a monkey with sticking similar resemble to the one in the scene.
Marge: So what was it like at the Flanders' house?
Homer: Yeah, gimme all the dirt.
Lisa: Let's see. Dirt... dirt.. well, there wasn't really much dirt.
Bart: There was a bunch of old paint cans in the garage, though.
Homer: [scoffs] Old Painty-Can Ned.
Welfare Guy: And you've all passed the drug test. Except for Marge. Marge, you tested positive for crack and PCP.
Marge: Oh my!
time passes*
Welfare Guy: Okay, the retest says you're clean. Sorry about the mistake.
Marge: The only thing I'm high on is love. Love for my son and daughters. Yes, a little LSD is all I need.
Welfare Guy: And put your garbage in a garbage can people! I can't stress that enough. don't just throw it out the window.
Marge: This is so humiliating.
Homer: Garbage in Garbage can. hm. makes sense.
Flanders: Welcome to your new home, neglect-areenos!
Homer: [test-driving an expensive car, and feigning a well-to-do English accent] What advantages does this motorcar have over, say, a train, which I could also afford?
Reverend Lovejoy: Ned...have you thought about one of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.
Homer: What I wouldn't give to hear Lisa play one of her jazzy tunes. [picks up her saxophone, and sings into it] Saxo-ma-phone, saxo-ma-phone...
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The monkey seen in beginning of the episode who gives Bart head lice and Milhouse a severe fever is obviously a parody of the movie Outbreak, which aired six month before the airing of this episode, where the carrier of a deadly virus is a monkey with sticking similar resemble to the one in the scene. (Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily)
Homer: [test-driving an expensive car, and feigning a well-to-do English accent] What advantages does this motorcar have over, say, a train, which I could also afford? (Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily)
Homer: What I wouldn't give to hear Lisa play one of her jazzy tunes. [picks up her saxophone, and sings into it] Saxo-ma-phone, saxo-ma-phone... (Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily)
Welfare Guy: And put your garbage in a garbage can people! I can't stress that enough. don't just throw it out the window. (Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily)
Welfare Guy: And you've all passed the drug test. Except for Marge. Marge, you tested positive for crack and PCP. (Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily)
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When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference.
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When Mr. Burns discovers a register entry in his checkbook for "bowling," he says to Smithers, "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" And Smithers says, "Uh, sir, that's your boweling." Burns says, "Ah yes." Then he sees the real bowling entry and repeats: "Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for bowling!" Upon replay of this episode in subsequent seasons, Fox cuts the first "bowling/boweling" reference. (Team Homer)
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Lisa's cool outfit is use it the video game the simpsons hit and run for a mition involving police chief wiggum
in this episode marge claims that bart had not siad "don't have a cow man" for 3 years this is true as he had not siad it since season 3
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Lisa's cool outfit is use it the video game the simpsons hit and run for a mition involving police chief wiggum (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
in this episode marge claims that bart had not siad "don't have a cow man" for 3 years this is true as he had not siad it since season 3 (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
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Christina Ricci recorded her lines over the phone and didn't go into the studio. 1
Lisa's cool outfit is used it the video game the Simpsons hit and run for a mission involving police chief Wiggum
in this episode marge claims that bart had not said "don't have a cow man" for 3 years this is true as he had not said it since season 3
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Lisa's cool outfit is used it the video game the Simpsons hit and run for a mission involving police chief Wiggum (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
in this episode marge claims that bart had not said "don't have a cow man" for 3 years this is true as he had not said it since season 3 (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
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One of the producers says they want to stay far away from making the movie like the campy 1970's Radioactive Man, but Dirk Richter died in the 1960's and the only Radioactive Man TV show mentioned was the one from the 1950's that had Laramie cigarettes as its sponsor (mentioned on the season two episode Three Men and a Comic Book).
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One of the producers says they want to stay far away from making the movie like the campy 1970's Radioactive Man, but Dirk Richter died in the 1960's and the only Radioactive Man TV show mentioned was the one from the 1950's that had Laramie cigarettes as its sponsor (mentioned on the season two episode Three Men and a Comic Book). (Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode))
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When Mr. Burns was at the post office asking the postal clerk "I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?", Prussia was once a powerful European empire that now covers Germany and parts of Poland, Siam was a country now known Thailand, and the autogyro was an aircraft that later paved the way for the invention of the helicopter.
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When Mr. Burns was at the post office asking the postal clerk "I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?", Prussia was once a powerful European empire that now covers Germany and parts of Poland, Siam was a country now known Thailand, and the autogyro was an aircraft that later paved the way for the invention of the helicopter. (Mother Simpson)
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It is revealed in this episode that Mr. Burns has a mother, however all she can do it dial and yell acording to smithers.
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It is revealed in this episode that Mr. Burns has a mother, however all she can do it dial and yell acording to smithers. (Homer the Smithers)
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In this episode marge claims that bart had not said "don't have a cow man" for 3 years. This is true as he had not said it since season 3
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In this episode marge claims that bart had not said "don't have a cow man" for 3 years. This is true as he had not said it since season 3 (Summer of 4 Ft. 2)
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The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon.
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The parents' meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars appears to be at night. However, Marge says the meeting was held at the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month. The 13th hour of the day is 1:00pm, early afternoon. (Treehouse of Horror VI)
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The first part of the Schoolhouse Rock parody reappears in Bart-Mangled Banner.
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It is revealed in this episode that Mr. Burns has a mother, however all she can do is dial and yell acording to smithers.
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It is revealed in this episode that Mr. Burns has a mother, however all she can do is dial and yell acording to smithers. (Homer the Smithers)
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