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Psycho is an American horror franchise consisting of six films loosely based on the Psycho novels by Robert Bloch. The first film, Psycho (1960), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins, is by far the most famous and critically lauded and has therefore been referenced the most on The Simpsons.

References to Psycho in The Simpsons

Episodes

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
N/A	N/A	N/A	In Treehouse of Horror episodes, Norm MacLeod is credited as "Norman "Bates" MacLeod, a reference to Norman Bates, a character from Psycho.
2	16	"Treehouse of Horror"	The Evil House design is based on the Psycho House.
22	"Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"	The scene where Maggie attacks Homer with a mallet is a recreation of the infamous shower scene from Psycho (though not set in a shower). The soundtrack also quotes Bernard Hermann's famous score.
3	56	"Black Widower"	When Sideshow Bob goes to see Selma's dead corpse in the chair, he turns it around to see that Bart is there instead. He whacks the light, and as it swings back and forth, he sees Selma in the doorway. This sequence parodies the film's famous ending scene.
4	73	"Brother from the Same Planet"	Principal Skinner looks out the window of his office at an abandoned Victorian mansion on a hill and proceeds to have prolonged argument with his overbearing mother despite nobody being there. This is the first time Skinner has been portrayed as a Norman Bates-like character, with his house modelled after the Psycho House.
80	"Marge in Chains"	Troy McClure mentioned "P" is for Psycho, one of the films he starred on. This is a parody of the films Psycho and Dial M for Murder, both by Alfred Hitchcock.
Maude Flanders follows Marge to the Flanders bathroom and watches her through a hole in the wall, much like Norman Bates did to Marion Crane at the Bates Motel in Psycho.
5	82	"Homer's Barbershop Quartet"	In a deleted scene, Skinner going back to his mother. She asks him if he was with a woman, he says no, then she asks for a bath, followed by mad laughing and a close-up of their Psycho-parody house.
5	83	"Cape Feare"	In the town of Terror Lake, Sideshow Bob stays at the Bates Motel.
5	88	"Bart's Inner Child"	Seymour Skinner is told by Brad Goodman to ventilate his true feelings about his mother. He gives him a dummy of an old woman, sitting in a chair. The dummy looks similar to the corpse of the assassin's mother in Psycho (1960), who is also positioned in a chair. The button eyes mimick her skeleton face.
8	163	"The Springfield Files"	The busload of musicians that Homer encounters while in the woods play the frightening music from the shower scene.
9	187	"Realty Bites"	The murder house is modeled after the Psycho House.
24	518	"A Test Before Trying"	The Skinner's house resemblances that of the Psycho House
25	548	"Days of Future Future"	In a flash-forward Seymour Skinner is out to dinner with the preserved corpse of his mother which looks like corpse of Norman Bates' mother.
27	578	"Halloween of Horror"	Homer announces that he was going to tell a version of Psycho starring Seymour and Agnes Skinner as protagonists.
28	606	"The Nightmare After Krustmas"	Lisa plays the "The Murder" from the Psycho film soundtrack on her violin.
33	709	"Treehouse of Horror XXXII"	Ryan Koh's name "Psy-Koh IV: The Beginning" is a reference to the movie Psycho IV: The Beginning.

Comics

Picture	Comic issue	Story name	Reference
	Simpsons Comics #46	Angels with Yellow Faces	Marion Crane, named after the character of the same name from Psycho, is a bank cashier who gives Sideshow Bob a loan. She then goes to the Bates Motel.

Common Cast and Crew

Cast

Name	Role in Psycho	Role on The Simpsons
Julianne Moore	Played Lila Crane in the 1998 remake.	Voiced Consonance in the season 37 episode "Seperance".
William H. Macy	Played Milton Arbogast in the 1998 remake.	Voiced himself in the season 17 episode "Homer's Paternity Coot".
Robert Forster	Played Dr. Simon in the 1998 remake.	Voiced Lucky Jim in the season 20 episode "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes".

External links

Psycho at Wikipedia

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