Difference between revisions of "The Wizard of Oz"

{{TB|[[Bart]] wakes up and says, ''"I did go away, [[Marge Simpson|Mom]]! I was miles and miles and miles away, writhing in agony in the pits of Hell! And you were there! And you and you and you,"'' which is similar to Dorothy's line when she awakens at the end of the movie.}}

{{TB|When [[Mr. Burns]] is scooping out Homer's brain, he hums "{{W|If I Only Had a Brain}}".}}

{{TB|[[Sideshow Bob]] says his goodbyes to his cellmates before leaving [[Springfield Penitentiary|prison]], and the last one says, "Bye, bye [[Snake]]. I'll miss you most of all," which is Dorothy's line to [[Scarecrow]] before leaving Oz.}}

{{TB|After [[Herb Powell]] gives gifts to [[Marge]], Bart, [[Lisa]], and [[Maggie]], Homer (whose fondest wish was to have the [[Spinemelter 2000]]) dejectedly comments, "I don't think there's a vibrating chair in that bag for me." Homer's lament echoes a scene near the end of the movie, where after the {{W2|Wizard of Oz|character}} gives gifts to the Scarecrow, the [[Cowardly Lion]], and the [[Tin Man]] (a diploma, a medal, and a testimonial, respectively), Dorothy—who wants only to go home—sadly says, "I don't think there's anything in that black bag for me."}}

{{TB|Marge, telling the story of how the [[Simpson family]] moved into [[742 Evergreen Terrace]], says that while they were house-hunting, they passed on a house full of cats. Back in the present, Bart muses, "I could have trained them to be my unholy army of the night." Then, envisioning just that, he says, "Go, my pretties! Kill! Kill!" in a manner reminiscent of the {{W|Wicked Witch of the West}} sending out her flying monkeys.}}

{{TB|After the Simpsons move into 742 Evergreen Terrace, Ned and [[Rod]] Flanders sing "[[We Welcome You to the Neighborhood]]" to Homer. The song is to the same tune as "We Welcome You to Munchkinland", which the Munchkins sing for Dorothy.}}

{{TB|On the way to [[Gladys Gurney|Aunt Gladys]]' funeral, Bart and Lisa sing "{{W|Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead}}".}}

{{TB|Mr. Burns' guards are parodies of the Winkie Guards. Their song is also very similar. On the audio commentary, it is commented that there was discussion in the writer's room about the actual lines from the original song: they actually had to rewatch the film to get the lyrics right.}}

{{TB|Mr. Burns sets his {{W|Winged monkeys|flying monkeys}} free. However, they just fall to the ground rather than fly.}}

{{TB|Homer puts on [[Henry Kissinger]]'s glasses and quotes the Scarecrow's line "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining sides" from the 1939 film, only to be corrected by another man. While Homer's line is a direct quote from the film, the correct mathematical theory is indeed what the man who corrects him tells him.}}

{{TB|Homer observes [[Patty and Selma]] seated in rocking chairs caught up in a tornado. This is similar to the scene where Dorothy observes an elderly woman in a rocking chair floating by during a tornado.}}

{{TB|Homer finds a bunch of spilled sugar and decides he can get rich by selling it door-to-door. He keeps the sugar in a pile in his backyard, where he obsessively guards it from thieves. Soon, the sugar attracts bees from a local apiary. The beekeepers track the swarm down and offer to buy the bees back from Homer for $2,000. However, before the transaction can be completed, it begins to rain, dissolving the sugar, and the bees fly away, leaving Homer without any money or sugar. The sugar-melting scene is a parody of the "I'm Melting" scene where Dorothy uses a bucket of water to (accidentally) kill the {{W|Wicked Witch of the West}}. "My sugar is melting, melting, oh what a world!" -Homer}}

{{TB|Trying to learn where [[Lenny]] and [[Carl]] go that they're so secretive about, Homer ties a can of yellow paint to the back of their car and pokes a hole in it. When they drive away, the can starts dripping paint on the road, leaving a trail. Homer chuckles and says, "All I have to do is follow the 'yellow drip road'", a reference to the {{W|yellow brick road}}.}}

{{TB|The fortune teller says that in the future "the world has become a different place". The next shot shows a group of robots walking around, but they are then followed by people dressed as Tin Men, a Scarecrow, and a Cowardly Lion, revealing they are not actual robots, but people in Lisa's university about to audition for a school production of ''The Wizard of Oz''.}}

{{TB|The scene where [[Grampa]] says "And you were there, and you were there" is a parody of the movie's ending when Dorothy awakes back in [[Kansas]].}}

{{TB|[[Barney's Bowl-A-Rama]] whirled around high in the sky like Dorothy's farmhouse during the tornado.}}

{{TB|When {{ap|John|Cockamamie's}} pulls up in front of the Simpson home to take the family for a drive, his car horn plays "{{W|Over the Rainbow}}", the opening song from ''The Wizard of Oz''.}}

{{TB|Marge, [[Patty]], and [[Selma]] appear as green-skinned witches, resembling the equally green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West.}}

{{TB|Lisa's feet are exposed from the fallen-over bleachers like the Wicked Witch of the East's feet after Dorothy's house lands on top of her.}}

{{TB|At the movie theater, when Homer has butter put on his [[Milk Duds]] to the point of overflow, he says "Swim, my pretties", a parody of the Wicked Witch of the West's call to her flying monkeys: "Fly, my pretties!" (This line isn't actually said in ''The Wizard of Oz'', but Homer is relying on popular understanding.)}}

{{TB|When Maggie's pacifier gets caught in Homer's jaw wires and he twirls around in an attempt to dislodge her, the music playing is from the tornado scene.}}

{{TB|Grampa, attempting to impress a couple of women, says that the feet sticking out from under the house in ''The Wizard of Oz'' were his. He then demonstrates by making his feet roll up, as seen with the Wicked Witch of the East in the film.}}

{{TB|Bart builds a giant wicker statue of Lisa, intending to burn it down. Unaware of Bart's intentions, Lisa misinterprets the statue as a peacemaking gesture, and Bart decides to play along. Just then, [[Dolph]], [[Jimbo]], and [[Kearney]] arrive carrying lit torches. Jimbo says, "Yo, Bart, we're ready to torch the Wicker Witch of the West," punning the Wicked Witch of the West.}}

{{TB|During Halloween, [[Squeaky-voiced teen]] is dressed up as the Tinman, and [[Jasper Beardley]] as the Scarecrow. The witch who turns everything under a spell has a green color, much like the Wicked Witch of the West. Maggie is later also seen as a green-skinned witch.}}

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{{TB|Homer prays that if he dies in the [[2013 Springfield tornado|tornado]], he wants to be taken to Oz. However, he doesn't want [[Flanders]] to be the Scarecrow. The scene of the two people greeting while being on a rowing boat in a tornado is a parody of the "It's a Twister!" scene.}}

{{TB|Homer's fantasy football team is named ''Somewhere Over the Dwayne Bowe'', a pun on the song "{{W|(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow}}" and real-life American football player Dwayne Bowe.}}

{{TB|Sideshow Bob releases a number of flying cyborg monkeys on the tour group for the [[Krusty Brand Fun Factory]].}}

{{TB|Mr. Burns seems to own [[Dorothy's ruby slippers]].}}

{{TB|The plot is based on ''The Wizard of Oz,'' and the title comes from Dorothy's line, "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."}}

{{TB|In an effort to win a contest for the loudest and grossest video, Bart sets trucks loaded with killer bees, glue, and {{W|nitroglycerin}} rolling toward a crowd. As [[Mayor Quimby]], Homer, and Marge flee the chaos, they exclaim together, "Bees! Glue! Nitro! Oh my!" This is a reference to the "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" line by Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman just before they meet the Cowardly Lion in the movie.}}

{{TB|After being hit on the head during a skateboarding stunt, Bart has a dream where he and his family members are cavepeople. When he wakes up, he says he had the strangest dream, then points in turn to Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and Homer and tells them they were in it, echoing the scene where Dorothy wakes up at the end of the movie. Additionally, the neighbor's dog, [[Toto]], jumps onto Bart's bed, confusing him. In addition to being a namesake, the dog is also a look-a-like for {{W2|Toto|Oz}} the dog in the movie.}}