Editing Treehouse of Horror XXIV/References

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== Cultural references ==
=== Opening sequence ===
*The first part with the zombies is a reference to ''{{w|The Night of the Living Dead}}''.
*There is a Mecha and a Kaiju battling it out in a reference to the 2013 del Toro's film, ''{{w|Pacific Rim}}''.
*The Dead Raven landing on the [[Tire Fire]] is a reference to ''{{w|Planet of Vampires}}''.
*[[Lard Lad]] becoming alive is a reference to "[[Treehouse of Horror VI]]".
*Chief Wiggum looks similar to the Cyclops from the ''{{w|7th Voyage of Sinbad}}''.
*[[Alfred Hitchcock]] tosses bird seed on [[Mrs. Krabappel]] and birds attack her, referencing the movie, ''{{w|The Birds (movie)|The Birds}}''.
*The blackboard gag's text is a reference to ''[[The Shining]]''.
**The man standing next to him is [[Stephen King]], author of The Shining.
*Groundskeeper Willie's appearance is a reference to [[Hellboy]] and the character he buries under the leaves is {{w|Karl Ruprecht Kroenen}} from the film.
*Homer's mutated appearance is a reference to the reapers from ''{{w|Blade 2}}''. [[Carl]]'s appearance is a reference to [[Blade]] as well.
*Lenny's mug saying "I Hate Mondays" is a reference to ''[[Garfield]]''.
*[[Matt Groening]]'s original designs for the [[Simpson family]] from ''"[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]"'' are buried underground, as well as the skeleton of [[Godzilla]].
*[[Mr. Burns]] is re-imagined as the Pale Man from Guillermo del Toro's ''"{{w|Pan's Labyrinth}}"'', who ends up eating the unfortunate pixie [[Smithers]].
**The family also later recreates the final scene of the film during the couch gag.
*[[Maggie]] rides on the grocery checkout belt with scarabs from del Toro's first film, ''"{{w|Cronos}}"''.
*The cash register reads 666, the number of the beast.
*del Toro's second film, ''"{{w|Mimic}}"'', is referenced, with [[Marge]] as the giant cockroach.
*The music class is substituted by the phantoms of ''{{w|The Phantom of the Opera}}'', [[Dewey Largo]], instead, is dressed as ''{{w|The Phantom of the Paradise}}''.
*Pictures of the music class refer to (from left to right): Starships Poopers from "[[Treehouse of Horror IX]]", The Island of Dr. Hibbert from "[[Treehouse of Horror XIII]]", The Raven from "[[Treehouse of Horror]]" and Milhouse and the Great Pumpkin from "[[Treehouse of Horror XIX]]".
*The monster which picks Bart with its tentacles is [[Cthulhu]] from ''{{w|At the Mountains of Madness}}''.
*The characters standing on the sidewalk are:
**Author [[H. P. Lovecraft]] is having coffee with the giant winged and tentacled monster Cthulhu, a reference to perhaps his most famous creation.
**{{ch|Edgar Allan Poe}}, who holds up his arm for the three-eyed raven to alight, a reference to Poe's poem "{{w|The Raven}}".
**[[Ray Bradbury]] adding tattoos to a tattooed man, a reference to his book ''{{w|The Illustrated Man}}''.
**Fantasy and science fiction author [[Richard Matheson]] standing next to a hooded, cloaked figure wearing dark glasses, a zombie from the 1971 movie ''{{w|The Omega Man}}'', based on Matheson's novel ''{{w|I Am Legend (novel)|I Am Legend}}''.
*The {{w|Universal monsters}} who chase after a crowd of Springfield citizens, referencing the mob that chases after the monster:
**[[Dracula]].
**[[Frankenstein's monster]].
**{{w|The Wolf Man|The Wolf Man}}.
**The {{w|Creature from the Black Lagoon}}.
**The [[Mummy]].
**The {{w|Bride of Frankenstein}}.
**[[The Invisible Man]].
**The Mutant from Metaluna from ''{{w|This Island Earth}}''.
*Maggie terrorizes [[Milhouse]] behind the wheel of the evil 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III from ''{{w|The Car (film)|The Car}}''.
*Among the creatures and characters in the field next to the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|Simpsons' house]] are:
**A creature from ''{{w|Hellboy II: The Golden Army}}'', also from del Toro.
**[[Rod Serling]], author and host of the TV series ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', smoking a cigarette.
**The robot from the TV series ''{{w|Lost in Space}}''.
**The alien from the 1979 movie, ''[[Alien]]''.
**"The Man in the Beaver Hat" from the 1927 lost film ''{{w|London After Midnight (film)|London After Midnight}}''.
**A mole from ''{{w|The Mole People}}'', writing "El Muerto" on the wall, a reference to [[El Barto]].
**Coming out of the ground, a [[Morlock]] from the 1960 movie ''{{w|The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine}}''.
**A line drawing in profile of [[Alfred Hitchcock]] as in the beginning of TV series ''{{w|Alfred Hitchcock Presents}}'', being drawn by [[Hans Moleman]].
**The robot monster from the 1953 movie ''{{w|Robot Monster}}''.
**Three of {{w|Ray Harryhausen}}'s sword-wielding skeletons from the 1963 movie ''{{w|Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)|Jason and the Argonauts}}''. 
**Ray Harryhausen's Ymir from the 1957 movie ''{{w|20 Million Miles to Earth}}''.
**The object that collides into Kang and Kodos Spaceship is a reference to ''{{w|The First Man in the Moon}}''.
**Two aliens from the 1957 movie  ''{{w|Invasion of the Saucer Men}}''.
**''{{w|The Thing from Another World}}'' from the movie with the same name.
**The vampire {{w|Count Orlok}} from the 1921 movie ''{{w|Nosferatu}}''.
**The flying saucer and robot [[Gort]] from the 1951 movie ''{{w|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}'', with Gort shooting out a laser beam from his visor.
**[[Brundlefly]] from the film ''[[The Fly]]''.
**The pinhead {{w|Schlitzie}} from {{w|Tod Browning}}'s 1932 movie ''{{w|Freaks}}'', which could also reference Pepper from ''{{w|American Horror Story: Asylum}}''.
**The Mummy and the Invisible Man again.
**{{w|Rondo Hatton}} from ''{{w|House of Horrors}}''.
**[[Death]].
*[[Homer]] is Santi from del Toro's "''{{w|The Devil's Backbone}}''"
*Lisa falls down the rabbit hole à la ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''.
*[[Hypnotoad]] from ''[[Futurama]]'' makes an appearance.

=== "Oh, the Places You’ll D’oh!" ===
*"The Fat in the Hat" is a parody of ''{{w|The Cat in the Hat}}'' by {{w|Dr. Seuss}}. The segment's title "Oh, the Places You'll D'oh!" is a parody of Dr. Seuss's book ''{{w|Oh, the Places You'll Go!}}''. The names, rhyming and anapestic (short-long-short) meter in this segment are true to that of Dr. Seuss's writing.
*While blowing up City Hall the Fat in the Hat wears [[Guy Fawkes]]' Mask from the movie ''{{w|V for Vendetta}}''.
*The pants that ''The Fat in the Hat'' pulls down are the '''Scary Green Pants''' from the story ''What Was I Scared Of?'' from {{w|The Sneetches and Other Stories}} by {{w|Dr. Seuss}}.

=== "Dead and Shoulders" ===
*The title of the second segment, "Dead and Shoulders" is a reference to the shampoo brand {{w|Head & Shoulders}}.
*The second segment is similar to the ''[[Futurama]]'' {{IS|Season 2}} episode, "{{IS|Put Your Head on My Shoulders}}", when [[Philip J. Fry]] is beheaded during a flying car accident in Mercury, and his head is attached to [[Amy Wong]]'s body. It is also similar to the ending of the segment "Homer's Nightmare" in "[[Treehouse of Horror II]]" where [[Mr. Burns]]' head ends up attached to [[Homer]]'s body. It also is a reference to such science fiction movies as the 1971 film ''{{w|The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant}}'' and the 1972 film ''{{w|The Thing with Two Heads}}''.

=== "Freaks no Geeks" ===
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*The title of the third vignette, "Freaks No Geeks" is a pun of the title of the TV series ''{{w|Freaks and Geeks}}''. In addition, {{w|Geek show|geek}} is the term for a sideshow performer of repulsive acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
*When [[Kang]] and [[Kodos]] say they are from a {{w|globular cluster}} and show their fear of the dark, it is a reference to the premise of {{w|Nightfall (Asimov short story and novel)}}.
*The plot and characters of "Freaks No Geeks" are parodies of ''{{w|Freaks}}'', a 1932 {{w|Motion Picture Production Code|Pre-Code}} horror film about sideshow performers. The chorus of "one of us, one of us" comes directly from that movie.
**[[Barney Gumble]] is a parody of ''{{w|Prince Randian}}''.
**[[Carl Carlson]] and [[Lenny Leonard]] are a parody of ''{{w|Schlitzie}}''.
**[[Gil Gunderson]] is a parody of ''{{w|Josephine Joseph}}''.
**The [[Miniature Marvels]] are a parody of ''{{w|The Doll Family}}''.
**[[Raphael]] is a parody of ''{{w|Johnny Eck}}''.
*In the end of the episode Homer says to his kids: "And that, kids, is how I met your mother" which is a reference to the TV show ''{{W|How I Met Your Mother}}''. The theme tune for the show then plays after he says it.

=== Credits ===
*In the cast credits, during the scene in which [[Burns' manor]] is destroyed, the credit to [[Denise Sirkot]] is presented as an App Icon, which resembles [[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]'s.
*[[Sam Simon|simonsam@twitTERROR]] is a reference to [[Twitter]] and Sam Simon's Twitter account name.
*[[Marc Wilmore|Marknado]] is a reference to the film ''{{W|Sharknado}}''.
*[[Rob LaZebnik|To Live & Die in LaZebnik]] is a reference to the film ''{{W|To Live and Die in L.A. (film)|To Live and Die in L.A.}}''.
*[[Tim Long|Tim Long-Il]] is a reference to [[Kim Jong-il]].
*[[Jeff Westbrook|Curse of the Werebrook]] is a reference to ''{{W|The Curse of the Werewolf}}''.
*[[Yeardley Smith|The Longest Yeard(ley)]] is a reference to the film ''{{W|The Longest Yard (1974 film)|The Longest Yard}}''.
*[[Andrea Romero|Andrea "No Relation To George" Romero]] refers to {{W|George A. Romero}}, a Canadian-American film director.
*[[Alexander Duke|The Dukexorcist]] is a reference to ''{{W|The Exorcist}}''.
*[[Danny Elfman|Nightmare on Elfstreet]] is a reference to ''{{W|Nightmare on Elm Street}}''.
*[[Chris Ledesma|@mxedtr]] is the name of Chris Ledesma's Twitter account.

== Trivia ==
*This is the second ''[[Treehouse of Horror series|Treehouse of Horror]]'' episode to have a Halloween-themed opening sequence. The first was "[[Treehouse of Horror IX]]" in [[Season 10]].
*With an airdate of October 6, 2013, "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" is so far the ''Treehouse of Horror'' episode that has aired the earliest in the calendar year.
*In the opening, Lard Lad comes to life with lightning referencing "[[Treehouse of Horror VI]]".
*This is the first ''Treehouse of Horror'' episode since "[[Treehouse of Horror IX]]" to have a chalkboard gag.
*This episode features the first Halloween-themed [[couch gag]] since "[[Treehouse of Horror X]]".
*This is the first (and only) ''Treehouse of Horror'' episode whose segment uses the word [[D'oh]].

== Continuity ==
*In the Music room various versions of the Phantom of the Opera appear along with pictures of the [[Grand Pumpkin]] from "[[Treehouse of Horror XIX]]". Along with the animal people from "[[Treehouse of Horror XIII]]", half alien Maggie "[[Treehouse of Horror IX]]" and Homer as the tortured narrator "[[Treehouse of Horror]]".
*[[Defonzo Palmer]] and [[Marcus Le Marquez]] appear. "[[Jazzy and the Pussycats]]"
*A reconstructed [[Griff McDonald]] is seen as one of the soldiers fighting off zombies. ("[[Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"]]")
*The [[Lard Lad]] statue comes to life again. ("[[Treehouse of Horror VI]]", ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'')
*Pictures in the music room include:
**[[The Raven Narrator]]. ("[[Treehouse of Horror I]]")
**Alien Maggie. ("[[Treehouse of Horror IX]]")
**The Manimals. ("[[Treehouse of Horror XIII]]")
**The [[Grand Pumpkin]]. ("[[Treehouse of Horror XIX]]")

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