Treehouse of Horror XXII References

Returning for one night only to provide a list of references that I saw in tonight's episode of the Simpsons.

Personally, I'm with everyone when they say that this is one of the weaker THOH of all time (either the show has officially ran out of ideas or the writers decided to phone this one in).

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Refs.

Alien -Maggie's costume in the prologue

Watchmen -Homer as Dr. Manhatten

Psycho -Homer sneaking away with the candy similar to Marion stealing $40,000

Aron Ralston -Homer's situation after falling off the canyon similar to what happened to him

The Diving Bell and The Butterfly -First Story spoofs this -Story starts from Homer's POV a la the film

Spiderman -Homer gaining superpowers after being bitten by a spider

Dexter -Second Story Plot

Road Runner -Patty and Selma dying in this fashion

In the Navy -Third Story Title

Avatar -Third Story Plot -Bart in a wheelchair a la the main character in the film when not in the Na' Vi body

The Wizard of Oz -"Are we in Kansas anymore?"

Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Perfect Mate" -Kamala named after a character that Capt. Picard falls for in this episode

Wacky Wall Walker -Kamala, after colliding with a tree, goes down it in the style of this toy

Black Swan -Abe dressed as Natalie Portman at the end of the episode

-Joe Klemm

The writers thought they were making a Family Guy script.

Also... Dial M for Murder. (The title of one of this segment was Dial D for Diddly.)

Yeah. Other than some nice animation (the Road Runner sequence in particular) this didn't have much going for it. A disappointment after a good start to the season.

Kamala is also the name of a professional wrestler from the 80's. That was the first thing I thougt of, and I'm a pretty big TNG fan.

I felt as though some of the monsters in the Avatr sequence were reminiscent of Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine, but I couldn't say it was an intentional reference.

On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Brett A. Pasternack wrote:

I can't remember specifics now, but two of the segments just seemed to leave us hanging, as if the commercial break had to come at that point rather than the true ending of the segment. I'm pretty oblivious to a lot of the things people don't like, so I suspect this had to be a really bad episode for me to think it wsa badly done.

Michael

Yeah, part of me was thinking of the wrestler, too. However, I'm also well aware that the aliens are supposed to be named after characters from Star Trek. So, as soon as I finished watching last night's episode, I googled "Star Trek Kamala", and it came up with information about the ST:TNG episode "The Perfect Mate".

Oh, that's a good point--Kang and Kodos reference Klingons, yes.

Kang is a klingon.

Kodos is a human. His nickname is "The Executioner".

Both are Star Trek characters.

Was Homer communicating with his farts supposed to be a reference to this guy? Captain Christopher Pike?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/malkoff/409350769/

Who communicated with a beeper? Dennis Miller referred to this guy as the "Star Trek character who was living in the washing machine."

Mr. Museum

On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, [email] wrote:

Only if you want to stretch things.

There are plenty of real instances of people communicating with whatever means they have, weather it's morse code by whistling or blinking morse code or just blinking (a certain number for yes, a certain number for no) in response to questions asked, sometimes requiring someone to go through the alphabet until the right letter comes up. Plenty of adaptive hardware to help them too.

There was even that guy Stephen Hawking on The Simpsons who used a computer to talk.

There is no reason to think a fictional show is the basis.

You might as well invoke a movie to be the source of Homer biting his arms and leg off, rather than the real life man who got trapped with his arm under a rock and he cut it off to get free.

Michael

Michael Black wrote in news:[email]:

It has become a habit to attribute everything on The Simpsons to a REFERENCE.

It is only a reference if the writer wanted it to be. Otherwise, it's just a coincidence. As most of them listed in this group are.