Editing Treehouse of Horror XVI/References

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== Cultural references ==
=== Opening Sequence ===
*[[Kang]] and [[Kodos]] wonder if speeding up time will allow the [[Chicago Cubs]] to win the {{W|World Series}}, a reference to the team's long-standing {{W|List of Major League Baseball franchise postseason droughts|championship drought}}, which lasted from 1908 to 2016.

=== B.I.: Bartificial Intelligence ===
*''{{W|A.I. Artificial Intelligence}}'': Punned in the title and parodied throughout the segment.
*The song featured during [[Bart]]'s "jealousy" montage is "{{W|New Kid in Town}}" by the {{W2|Eagles|band}}.
*The scene where Bart meets the group of robots in the woods is a spoof of the music video for the song "{{W|Rockit}}" by {{W|Herbie Hancock}}. The walking pair of robot legs were featured in the video.
*The segment concludes with a short parody of ''[[The Exorcist]]'', featuring a possessed [[Homer]].
=== Survival of the Fattest ===
*The second segment is a parody of ''{{W|The Most Dangerous Game}}'', a 1923 short story by {{W|Richard Connell}}.
*The segment title is a pun on the [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]]-inspired catchphrase, "{{W|survival of the fittest}}".

=== I've Grown a Costume on Your Face ===
*The segment's title is a reference to the song "{{W|I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face}}" from the musical ''{{W|My Fair Lady}}''. It is also an allusion to a [[List of songs/Season 14|song]] that [[Bart]] and [[Sideshow Bob]] sing in Bart's room in the [[Season 14]] episode "[[The Great Louse Detective]]".
*Television series references:
**''{{W2|Buffy the Vampire Slayer|TV series}}'': In the episode "Halloween", most of the residents of Sunnydale don cursed costumes that transform them into what they are dressed as.
**The classic ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'': In the episode "The Masks," four greedy heirs are turned into monsters by the hideous masks each wears at their benefactor's behest.
**''{{W|The Fairly OddParents}}'': In the episode "Scary GodParents," Timmy wishes that everybody's Halloween costumes were real.
*After all of [[Springfield]]'s citizens are turned into real-life versions of their costumes, [[Mayor Quimby]] as Mayor McCheese says, "I am not a happy meal right now" as dogs lick at him, a reference to [[McDonald's]] {{W|Happy Meal}}s.
*At the end of the segment, [[Maggie]] the witch flies up to the moon, accompanied by the theme music of ''[[Bewitched]]'', in a scene very similar to the TV series' title animation.

== Trivia ==
*"I've Grown a Costume on Your Face" is similar to an issue of the ''[[Simpsons Comics]]'' [[Bartman]], in which an [[Itchy and Scratchy]] brought to life through alien technology create a nuclear explosion which turns the Simpsons into costumed superheroes.
*This is the first [[Treehouse of Horror series|Treehouse of Horror]] episode to not be the premiere of its season since "[[Treehouse of Horror X]]".
*This is the only Simpson episode where God's face is completely shown (in the opening).
=== Costumes in "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face" ===
*[[Homer Simpson]]: a decapitated man
*[[Marge Simpson]]: a skeleton with a human head
*[[Bart Simpson]]: a werewolf
*[[Lisa Simpson]]: [[Albert Einstein]]
*[[Maggie Simpson]]: a witch
*[[Martin Prince]]: {{W|Oberon}}, king of the fairies, from ''{{W|A Midsummer's Night Dream}}''
*[[Groundskeeper Willie]]: a bug spray can
*[[Hans Moleman]]: a mole, even though he didn't dress as one
*[[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon]]: [[R2-D2]]
*[[Dr. Hibbert]]: [[Dracula]] (mistaken for Blacula by Mayor Quimby)
*[[Milhouse Van Houten]]: a bulldozer
*[[Kirk Van Houten]]: A strong man
*[[Ned Flanders]]: a flower (which looks somewhat like Bob the Angry Flower)
*[[Nelson Muntz]]: the {{W|Lone Ranger}}, but everyone (including the witch) thinks he is a raccoon
*[[Mayor Quimby]]: [[Cheesy McMayor]]
*Mayor Quimby's bodyguard: A cat
*[[Abraham Simpson]]: a gorilla
*[[Sideshow Mel]]: [[Spider-Man]]
*[[Chief Wiggum]]: Jared Fogle
*[[Lou]]: A muskateer
*[[Eddie]]: Also a muskateer
*[[Horatio McCallister]]: {{W|Poseidon}} (interestingly, he was cast as [[Poseidon]] in "[[Tales from the Public Domain]]")
*[[Edna Krabappel]]: A snake
*[[Lenny Leonard]]: prison inmate
*[[Carl Carlson]]: mummy
*[[Principal Skinner]]: {{W|G.I. Joe}}
*[[Agnes Skinner]]: Southern belle
*[[Patty]]: horse's front
*[[Selma]]: horse's back
*[[Gil]]: a ghost
*[[Barney Gumble]]: [[Frankenstein's monster]]
*[[Moe Szyslak]]: {{Ch|Hugh Hefner}}
*[[Disco Stu]]: {{Ch|Steve Martin}}/Arrow through the head
*[[Jasper Beardsley]]: [[Scarecrow]] from ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''
*[[Sherri]] and [[Terri]]: Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee from the ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' sequel ''Alice Through The Looking Glass''.
*[[Squeaky-voiced teen]]: [[Tin Man]] from ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''
*[[Professor Frink]]: Caveman
*[[Bumblebee Man]]: Bumblebee
*[[Old Jewish man]]: His brother, Irving

*Other costumes include an {{W|Imperial Scout Trooper}}.

=== Deaths in "Survival of the Fattest" ===
These are the people whom [[Mr. Burns]] massacres in the segment "Survival of the Fattest." The deaths are in chronological order.
*[[Comic Book Guy]]: Shot after refusing to run.
*[[Blue-haired lawyer]]: Killed after defending Burns.
*[[Apu]]: Shot after being discovered hiding in a bush, but is reincarnated as a rabbit. After reincarnation, he gets caught in a bear trap.
*[[Krusty the Clown]]: Shot once by Burns, only to begin to tell a joke. He is then shot multiple more times through the chest to keep him from finishing.
*Dr. [[Julius Hibbert]]: Flung from a tree by [[Homer]], and then became the first to be shot out of the air by Burns.
*Dr. [[Nick Riviera]]: Flung from a tree and shot immediately after Hibbert.
*[[Lou]] the Cop: Flung from a tree and shot after Dr. Nick.
*[[Kirk Van Houten]]: Flung from a tree, shot and killed after Lou.
*[[The Yes Guy]]: Flung from a tree, and then shot after Kirk.
*[[Kent Brockman]]: Flung from a tree, and was the last person to be shot out of the air.
*[[Moe Syzlak]]: He was flung from the tree along with the others, but Burns missed him. After taunting Burns, he ironically lands on on a weather vane, impaling himself. He still survives, wins the lottery, and is about to leave to cash it in, but [[Chief Wiggum]] lands on him, crushing and finally killing him.
*[[Clancy Wiggum]]: Falls on a weathervane and dies instantly, crushing Moe.
*[[Professor Frink]]: Eaten by Homer, who passes up bananas, saying that they look green.
*[[Sideshow Mel]]: Shot by Burns, using machine guns on a plane during a strafing run.
*[[Dewey Largo]]: Also shot during the strafing run.
*[[Groundskeeper Willie]]: Shot and killed during the strafing run, dying at exactly the same time as Mel and Plute.
*[[Carl]]: Shot during the strafing run, but survives until just before Lenny dies.
*[[Lenny]]: Shot during the strafing run, but survives long enough to see his idea of heaven.
*[[Barney]]: Shot three times through the chest while being used as a diversion by Homer.

== Continuity ==
=== Survival of the Fattest ===
*Marge reminds Bart of when he killed a bird ("[[Bart the Mother]]").

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