The Otto Show/References - Revision history

SolarBot: replaced: {{W|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}} → Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2025-02-25T11:28:42Z

replaced: {{W|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}} → Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

SolarBot: replaced: == Cultural references == → == Cultural references == (4), typos fixed: Lybian → Libyan, replaced: → (8)

2025-01-02T22:39:54Z

replaced: == Cultural references == → == Cultural references == (4), typos fixed: Lybian → Libyan, replaced: → (8)

Simpsons88 at 18:55, December 20, 2024

2024-12-20T18:55:49Z

Mythigator: /* Cultural references */ Homer is singing the real lyrics to "Spanish Flea"

2022-12-13T02:32:26Z

‎Cultural references: Homer is singing the real lyrics to "Spanish Flea"

69.255.225.138: /* Goofs */

2022-07-17T15:24:51Z

‎Goofs

Solar Dragon: /* Goofs */

2022-01-16T13:15:20Z

‎Goofs

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: {{w| → {{W| (4)

2021-10-16T07:23:48Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: {{w| → {{W| (4)

CJG00: /* Goofs */

2021-02-05T07:24:48Z

‎Goofs

SolarBot: /* Cultural references */replaced: {{W|William Miller (poet)|William Miller}} → {{W2|William Miller|poet}}

2020-12-12T23:51:13Z

‎Cultural references: replaced: {{W|William Miller (poet)|William Miller}} → {{W2|William Miller|poet}}

HomerGriffin: /* Goofs */

2020-02-06T20:50:58Z

‎Goofs

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 **While the band is playing, he hums along to "{{W|Summer Samba}}" by {{W|Marcos Valle}}.
 **After the riot breaks out and the police start showing up in force, he sings along to an instrumental version of "[[Spanish Flea]]", performed by {{W|Herb Alpert|Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass}}.
-*According to [[Kent Brockman]], the [[Springfield Coliseum]] once held a premiere of ''{{W|The Magic Flute}}'', the opera by {{W|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}}.
+*According to [[Kent Brockman]], the [[Springfield Coliseum]] once held a premiere of ''{{W|The Magic Flute}}'', the opera by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]].
 *[[Maggie]]'s toy guitar plays "{{W|Pop Goes the Weasel}}".
 *Bart tries to play "{{W|Polly Wolly Doodle}}", a traditional American children's song, on his guitar.

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 *[[Bart]] wears a T-shirt of the fictional English heavy metal band {{Chs|Spinal Tap}}. Their World Tour includes shows in [[London]], [[Paris]], [[Munich]] and [[Springfield]].
 *[[Homer]] finds a can of [[Billy Beer]] in the jacket he used to wear in rock concerts. This American beer started to be produced in 1977.
-*[[Selma]] compares [[Homer]]'s appearance to that of "[[Davy Crockett]] in his bald-skin cap". This is a play on the {{W|coonskin cap}} that the American politician Davy Crockett used to wear.
+*[[Selma]] compares Homer's appearance to that of "[[Davy Crockett]] in his bald-skin cap". This is a play on the {{W|coonskin cap}} that the American politician Davy Crockett used to wear.
 *[[Milhouse]] traded 50,000 {{W|Bazooka Joe}} comic strips for his jacket.
-[[File:Spinal Tap kicking Muammar Gaddafi.png|250px|thumb|[[Comic Book Guy]] tries to sell a {{Chs|Spinal Tap}} T-Shirt depicting the band kicking Lybian revolutionary [[Muammar Gaddafi]]. The US and Libya had a hostile relationship during Gaddafi's rule, especially during the 1980s]]
+[[File:Spinal Tap kicking Muammar Gaddafi.png|250px|thumb|[[Comic Book Guy]] tries to sell a {{Chs|Spinal Tap}} T-Shirt depicting the band kicking Libyan revolutionary [[Muammar Gaddafi]]. The US and Libya had a hostile relationship during Gaddafi's rule, especially during the 1980s]]
-*[[Comic Book Guy]] tries to sell a Spinal Tap T-Shirt depicting the band kicking [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in the butt. Gaddafi was a Libyan revolutionary who ruled [[Libya]] from 1969 until his death by rebel forces in 2011.
+*Comic Book Guy tries to sell a Spinal Tap T-Shirt depicting the band kicking [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in the butt. Gaddafi was a Libyan revolutionary who ruled [[Libya]] from 1969 until his death by rebel forces in 2011.
 *In an interview with [[KBBL]], [[David St. Hubbins]] says that after the {{W|fall of the Berlin Wall}}, Spinal Tap's records started selling in the "dismal" side of the {{W|Iron Curtain}}. He is referring to the {{W|Eastern Bloc}}, the group of countries under the influence or control of the [[Soviet Union]] during the {{W|Cold War}}.
 *Spinal Tap opens the concert with "[[Break Like the Wind]]".
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 == Goofs ==
-*During the scene where [[Nelson]] is mocking [[Bart]] while waiting for the bus, his vest and shirt switch colors during the zoomed in part when he says "polly wolly crappy."
+*During the scene where [[Nelson]] is mocking Bart while waiting for the bus, his vest and shirt switch colors during the zoomed in part when he says "polly wolly crappy."
-*In this episode, [[Comic Book Guy]] has a full beard instead of his usual stubble.
+*In this episode, Comic Book Guy has a full beard instead of his usual stubble.
 *When Otto crashes into the street sign at the end and bends it, it is seen unbent in the next shot.
 *During the bus scene [[Sherri]] and [[Terri]]'s hair and dress colors are switched.

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 == Cultural references ==
-*[[Comic Book Guy]] tries to sell a {{Chs|Spinal Tap}} T-Shirt depicting the band kicking [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in the butt.
+*[[Bart]] wears a T-shirt of the fictional English heavy metal band {{Chs|Spinal Tap}}. Their World Tour includes shows in [[London]], [[Paris]], [[Munich]] and [[Springfield]].
 *Spinal Tap opens the concert with "[[Break Like the Wind]]".
-*When [[Homer]] is sitting in his car listening to the radio during the Spinal Tap concert:
+*When Homer is sitting in his car listening to the radio during the Spinal Tap concert:
 **While the band is playing, he hums along to "{{W|Summer Samba}}" by {{W|Marcos Valle}}.
-**After the riot breaks out and the police start showing up in force, he sings along to an instrumental version of "[[Spanish Flea]]" (performed by {{W|Herb Alpert|Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass}}).
+**After the riot breaks out and the police start showing up in force, he sings along to an instrumental version of "[[Spanish Flea]]", performed by {{W|Herb Alpert|Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass}}.
 *[[Maggie]]'s toy guitar plays "{{W|Pop Goes the Weasel}}".
-*Bart tries to play "{{W|Polly Wolly Doodle}}" on his guitar.
+*Bart tries to play "{{W|Polly Wolly Doodle}}", a traditional American children's song, on his guitar.
-*During his impromptu jam on the school bus, [[Otto]] performs "[[Free Bird]]" by {{W|Lynyrd Skynyrd}}.
+*During his impromptu jam on the school bus, [[Otto]] performs "[[Free Bird]]", one {{W|Lynyrd Skynyrd}} most iconic hits. Otto creates a traffic jam due to the song's duration, which extends to more than nine minutes in its album version.
-*The kids on the bus sing "[[Hail to the Bus Driver]]".
+*[[Seymour Skinner]] once drove an all-terrain vehicle in [[Da Nang]] during the {{W|Vietnam War}}.
-*Otto asks Marge if she has any ''{{W|Where's Wally?|Where's Waldo?}}'' books.
+*The kids on the bus sing "[[Hail to the Bus Driver]]", a children's song often sung on school bus trips to keep the kids amused.
 *Homer says "This is not ''{{ap|Happy Days|franchise}}'' and he is not [[Arthur Fonzarelli|The Fonz]]", when talking about Otto.
 *[[Patty]] calls Otto "Wee Willie Washout", a reference to the nursery rhyme "{{W|Wee Willie Winkie}}" by {{W2|William Miller|poet}}.

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 == Cultural references ==
-*[[Comic Book Guy]] tries to sell a {{Chs|Spinal Tap}} T-Shirt of them kicking [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in the butt.
+*[[Comic Book Guy]] tries to sell a {{Chs|Spinal Tap}} T-Shirt depicting the band kicking [[Muammar Gaddafi]] in the butt.
 *Spinal Tap opens the concert with "[[Break Like the Wind]]".
 *When [[Homer]] is sitting in his car listening to the radio during the Spinal Tap concert:
 **While the band is playing, he hums along to "{{W|Summer Samba}}" by {{W|Marcos Valle}}.
-**After the riot breaks out and the police start showing up in force, he sings along to an instrumental version of "[[Spanish Flea]]" (performed by {{W|Herb Alpert|Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass}}), making up his own lyrics.
+**After the riot breaks out and the police start showing up in force, he sings along to an instrumental version of "[[Spanish Flea]]" (performed by {{W|Herb Alpert|Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass}}).
 *[[Maggie]]'s toy guitar plays "{{W|Pop Goes the Weasel}}".
 *Bart tries to play "{{W|Polly Wolly Doodle}}" on his guitar.

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 == Goofs ==
-*During the scene where Nelson is mocking Bart while waiting for the bus, his vest and shirt switch colors during the zoomed in part when he says "polly wolly crappy."
+*During the scene where [[Nelson]] is mocking [[Bart]] while waiting for the bus, his vest and shirt switch colors during the zoomed in part when he says "polly wolly crappy."
-*In this episode, Comic Book Guy has a full beard instead of his usual stubble.
+*In this episode, [[Comic Book Guy]] has a full beard instead of his usual stubble.
 *When Otto crashes into the street sign at the end and bends it, it is seen unbent in the next shot.
-*During the bus scene Sherri and Terri's hair and dress colors are switched.
+*During the bus scene [[Sherri]] and [[Terri]]'s hair and dress colors are switched.
 {{Season 3|R}}