Difference between revisions of "Guess Who's Coming to Skinner/References"

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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
• In the collectarium room, the stain glass window of the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast is seen.
• The snow globes includes:
  • The Big Ben.
  • Queen Victoria.
  • St. Augustine Lighthouse and Mount Rushmore.
  • The Eiffel Tower.
  • Mount Vernon.
  • One based on A Trip to the Moon.
  • Monticello and Napoleon on horseback (inspired by the painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David).
  • The zoom on Milhouse with one of a small cabin is a parody of the opening of Citizen Kane.
• Gaelic Scrabble is parody of Scrabble and uses real Scottish Gaelic words.
• Hub is based on Neil and his father is based on Neil's father from the movie Dead Poets Society. Kurtwood Smith voiced both Hub and Neil's father. Kurtwood was suggested by Michael Price based on their early work together on F Is for Family.

Continuity

• Skinner's eye was treated at the Lenny Leonard Wing of the Eye Trauma Center, a reference to Lenny's eye injuries. ("The Old Man and the "C" Student", et al.)
• Hub appears. ("Estranger Things")

Goofs

• Nelson previously egged Skinner's father's grave, but in this episode they're in a bag in his house.

Trivia

• The snow globe fight was inspired by a gift exchange between Matt Selman and Michael Price.