Treehouse of Horror IX/References
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Cultural references
- America's Funniest Home Videos - Parodied in World's Deadliest Executions.
- The Tonight Show - Ed McMahon hosting World's Deadliest Executions uses two of his trademark lines from The Tonight Show.
- Shocker - Hell Toupee plot.
- Amazing Stories - Hell Toupee name.
- Body Bags - Hair turns someone evil.
- Alien - The hair attacks Bart like the facehugger in the movie attacks Kane.
- Child's Play - The death of the hair.
- Hill Street Blues - Chief Wiggum yells "Freeze, hairball!".
- Peanuts - Maggie walks to the dead hair and holds it while sucking her thumb.
- Pleasantville - Plot of The Terror of the Tiny Toon.
- Twilight Zone: The Movie - Plot of The Terror of the Tiny Toon.
- Stay Tuned - plot of The Terror of the Tiny Toon.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 - plot of The Terror of the Tiny Toon.
- The Terror of Tiny Town - The Terror of the Tiny Toon name.
- Tiny Toon Adventures - The Terror of the Tiny Toon name.
- Starship Troopers - Punned in the segment title Starship Poopers.
- Alien - Maggie attacks Jerry Springer in the same style as a facehugger from the movie.
Trivia
- The Three Strikes Law that served as the reason for Snake's execution was later used in The Simpsons: Hit and Run for a certain mission in Level 3.
- This is the first episode to use the new production code design, xABFxx.
Continuity
- The Simpsons also confront a murderous hairdo in the comic story Hair Piece.
Goofs
- In the segment Starship Poopers, when Homer is dragged around by Maggie, he smashes the TV. In the next scene, however, the TV is no longer damaged.
- In the intro, the garage door is purple-pink instead of its usual peach-tan color.
- When Homer leaves the bedroom in the middle of the night, his hair is darker than usual, presumably because of the lighting. But a few moments earlier his hair was colored its usual color despite the lighting being the same.
- When Homer enters Moe's to kill Moe, Moe's chest lacks chest hair initially but then the chest hair appears in the next shot.
