Editing Treehouse of Horror/References

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== Cultural references ==
=== Opening and wraparounds ===
*[[Marge]] warning the viewers that the episode is scary is a reference to the 1931 film ''{{W2|Frankenstein|1931 film}}''.
*A fly says "ow!" as it flies into the bug zapper, a reference to ''[[The Fly]]''.
*Bart calls "The Raven" tame by the standards of modern films like the first part of ''{{W|Friday the 13th}}''

=== Bad Dream House ===
*The [[Evil House]] design is based on the house from ''{{W2|Psycho|1960 film}}''.
*The walls of the house bleeding is a reference to ''{{W|The Amityville Horror}}''.
*[[Maggie]]'s head turning 360 degrees is a reference to ''[[The Exorcist]]''.
*The house being built on an ancient Indian burial ground is a reference to ''{{W2|Poltergeist|movie}}''. The house also explodes in the same manner.
*Graves in the Indian Burial Ground include [[Pocahontas]], [[Sacagawea]] and [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]].

=== Hungry are the Damned ===
*The book ''[[How to Cook for Forty Humans]]'' is a reference to ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "{{W2|To Serve Man|The Twilight Zone}}".
*The Rigellians show the Simpsons the game ''[[Pong]]''.

=== The Raven ===
*The segment is based on ''{{W|The Raven}}'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]].
*[[The Raven narrator]]'s cup has "Amontillado" written on it, referencing ''{{W|The Cask of Amontillado}}''.
*Books {{Ch|The Raven}} drops include ''{{W|The Pit and the Pendulum}}'', ''{{W|The Telltale Heart}}'' and ''{{W|The Purloined Letter}}''.

== Trivia ==
*Despite the word "treehouse" being in all of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' Halloween specials, this special is the only one to have the treehouse motif.
*The tombstones at the beginning read from first to last, and left to right, in all caps: 
**Ezekiel Simpson
**Ishmael Simpson
**Cornelius V. Simpson
**[[Garfield]]
**[[The Grateful Dead]]
**[[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper, the friendly boy]]
**[[Elvis Presley|Elvis]]
**Your name here
**{{ch|Paul McCartney}}
***Paul McCartney's gravestone is a reference to the "Paul is dead" hoax of the 1960s.
**Disco and Violence on TV.
*[[Edgar Allan Poe]] is credited as a writer for the skit "The Raven".
*This is the only Halloween episode with the normal [[Gracie Films]] logo sequence; in "[[Treehouse of Horror II]]" and "[[Treehouse of Horror III|III]]" it features a {{w|pipe organ}} playing its jingle, and from "[[Treehouse of Horror IV]]" onwards, a scream replaces "shh".
*[[Kang]] and [[Kodos]] first appear in this episode, and [[Serak|Serak the Preprarer]] makes his only appearance in this episode.

== Continuity ==
*The home-world of Kang, Kodos and Serak is referenced as Rigel 7. It is next mentioned in "[[Treehouse of Horror IX]]" and physically appears in "[[Treehouse of Horror XXII]]" and in "[[The Man Who Came to Be Dinner]]".

== Goofs ==
[[File:Whitepearlagain.jpg|thumb|White pearls]]
*In "Hungry are the Damned", when Kang and Kodos' spaceship first arrived, Homer says that the burgers are getting cold. The burger he is eating has a bite out of it. However, in a close-up shot, it is a whole burger again.
*In the same segment, at the very end, the family looks up at Kang and Kodos' ship and Marge's necklace is white like Lisa's, when it should be red.


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