Treehouse of Horror XXX/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season Episode
← 665 "The Fat Blue Line"	"Treehouse of Horror XXX/References"	"Gorillas on the Mast" 667 →

Cultural references

Opening sequence

• It's a parody mash-up of The Omen and The Exorcist.
• A poster for the movie Nemo appears, a reference to the movie Finding Nemo.
• A poster for the movie Racecar appears, a parody of Cars.
• On the mirror Homer sees Nemo's poster mirrored with the text OMEN appearing.
• Mickey Mouse and the number of the Beast, 666, appear as marks on Maggie's head.

Danger Thing

• It's a parody of Netflix's Stranger Things.
  • The title card appears in the same font as the show's.
  • The theme song plays during the title card and intermissions.
  • Stranger Things was previously parodied as Odder Stuff in the episode I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can.
  • Lisa goes to the Starcourt Mall, where many important scenes from the third season of the show happen.
    • The rats in the scene are a reference to the ones coming out of the mall in the show, an important point in the story from Chapter 2: The Mall Rats onward.
• Lisa shaves her head like Eleven's.
• Bart plays the controversial Atari 2600 game E.T., showing off perfectly how the game is bad, while Milhouse mentions the movie.
• In the Over Under, parody of the show's Upside Down, The Tracey Ullman Show version of Lisa and Bart, and the Demogorgon appear.
• Amazon delivers in the Over Under, with a fleet of flying monsters to deliver packages.

Heaven Swipes Right

• The segment is a parody of to Heaven Can Wait

When Hairy Met Slimy

• It's not a parody of When Harry Met Sally..., but of The Shape of Water.

Continuity

Danger Things

• An Odgenvillian with a Minnesota Vikings jersey is seen in the crowd at the football scene. ("Coming to Homerica")
• Professor Farnsworth appears. ("Simpsorama")
• The Rolling Stones appears. ("How I Spent My Strummer Vacation").

Trivia

Opening sequence

• The mark of the beast on Maggie's head changes to "Episode 666 or 667 if Fox changes the schedule", referencing the actual number of the episode and the fact that Fox tendes to change the air schedules of their show costantly, many times condamning them to cancellation.

Credits

• A mosaic with a scene from each Treehouse of Horror episode is shown, with the text "Treehouse of Horror XXX" super-impressed. Afterwards, a mosaic with a scene from each of the 600 episodes of the show is shown, with the text "Episode 666" super-impressed.

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The Winter of Our Monetized Content • Go Big or Go Homer • The Fat Blue Line • Treehouse of Horror XXX • Gorillas on the Mast • Marge the Lumberjill • Livin La Pura Vida • Thanksgiving of Horror • Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? • Bobby, It's Cold Outside • Hail to the Teeth • The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson • Frinkcoin • Bart the Bad Guy • Screenless • Better Off Ned • Highway to Well • The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby • Warrin' Priests: Part One • Warrin' Priests: Part Two • The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds • The Way of the Dog