Difference between revisions of "The Otto Show/References"

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Cultural references[edit]

• Bart wears a T-shirt of the fictional English heavy metal band 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 coonskin cap that the American politician Davy Crockett used to wear.
• Milhouse traded 50,000 Bazooka Joe comic strips for his jacket.

Comic Book Guy tries to sell a 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.
• In an interview with KBBL, David St. Hubbins says that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Spinal Tap's records started selling in the "dismal" side of the Iron Curtain. He is referring to the Eastern Bloc, the group of countries under the influence or control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
• 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 "Summer Samba" by 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 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
• According to Kent Brockman, the Springfield Coliseum once held a premiere of The Magic Flute, the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Maggie's toy guitar plays "Pop Goes the Weasel".
• Bart tries to play "Polly Wolly Doodle", a traditional American children's song, on his guitar.
• During his impromptu jam on the school bus, Otto performs "Free Bird", one 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.
• Seymour Skinner once drove an all-terrain vehicle in Da Nang during the Vietnam War.
• 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.
• The landlord found some Cycle magazine copies in Otto's apartment.
• Apu gives Bart an Squishee with chutney, a spread typically associated with cuisines of the Indian subcontinent.
• When Bart offers Otto to live in the Simpsons' garage, Otto says "Somebody Up There Likes Me", referencing David Bowie's famous song "Somebody Up There Likes Me" from the album Young Americans.
• Otto watches the American game show The Price Is Right at the Simpsons' house.
• Otto asks Marge if she has any Where's Waldo? books.
• Homer says "This is not Happy Days and he is not The Fonz", when talking about Otto.
• Patty calls Otto "Wee Willie Washout", a reference to the nursery rhyme "Wee Willie Winkie" by William Miller.

Trivia[edit]

• A large pile of gold is seen between the floors of the living room and Lisa's bedroom.

Continuity[edit]

• Otto later gets fired in the episode "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer".

Goofs[edit]

• 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.
• 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.