Treehouse of Horror XXI/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

Cultural References

Opening

• Professor Frink walks past an X-ray machine, revealing that he has an Alien inside him.
• Frink has created his own Frankenstein's Monster.
• References to The Office:
  • Frink's monster makes a couple of references to the show.
  • Frink's monster and some other monsters have a scene that parodies the show's opening sequence.
  • The first several frames of the episode's opening credits have the same font and layout as The Office.

War and Pieces

• The segment is a parody of Jumanji.
• Board games that come to life include:
  • Taffy Land (Candy Land)
  • Drops and Risers (Snakes and Ladders)
  • Consternation (Concentration)
  • Ravenous Ravenous Rhinos (Hungry Hungry Hippos)
  • Mouse Catch Mouse Trap
  • Battleboat (Battleships
  • Funopoly (Monopoly)
  • Crate of Apes (Barrel of Monkeys)
  • Yahtzu (Yahtzee)
  • Tiddlywonks (Tiddlywinks)
  • Satan's Path
  • Spinning tops
  • Connect Three (Connect Four)
  • Tumbling Game
  • Ice Hockey Game
  • Dominoes
  • Lego-style blocks
  • Chess
  • Mystery Date
  • Operation
  • Scrabble
  • Cluedo (called "Clue" in North America)
• Milhouse's death scene in the segment is almost identical to Jack Dawson's in Titanic.

Master and Cadaver

• The title is a pun on the 2003 movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
• The plot parodies Dead Calm.
• At the end, Maggie imitates Alex from A Clockwork Orange.
• Colonel Ketchup is a parody of Colonel Mustard.

Tweenlight

• TheTwilight series is punned in the title and parodied throughout the segment.
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  Yogi's cameo appearance.
• Yogi Bear makes a cameo appearance, carrying Ranger Smith's head in a picnic basket.
• Milhouse's jealousy of Edmund, and his resulting transformation into a French Poodle, are a parody of the Twilight character Jacob Black and his family's ability to transform into wolves.
• Count von Count and Big Bird from Sesame Street are seen in Dracula-la Land.

Trivia

• This is the first Treehouse of Horror episode since THOH V to warn viewers not to watch it.
• The Wilhelm scream is heard at a couple of places in the episode:
  • During the "War and Pieces" segment, when Bart and Milhouse kill enemy characters in the video game they're playing.
  • After the closing credits (instead of the usual "Treehouse of Horror" scream), when the Gracie Films card appears.

Goofs

• In tweenlight, ned's body is shown, then a second later, all is left is his glasses