Treehouse of Horror XXII/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 23 Episode References
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Cultural references

Opening sequence

• The opening sequence is a parody of 127 Hours.
  • Homer gets his arm trapped like Aron Ralston and gnaws through several limbs, before gnawing through his trapped arm. Ralston had to amputate his own arm to get released.
  • 127 Hours is also referenced in the episode The Blue and the Gray, where Homer tries to chew through his leg when he is unable to untie his foot from a bedpost. After knawing on his leg for a few secounds he declares he only has "127 hours to go!"
• Maggie pops out of Bart's astronaut costume in a reference to the Chestburster in Alien.
• As Homer drives through town with the candy, music from the movie Psycho plays.

The Diving Bell and Butterball

• The segment is a parody of The Diving Bell and Butterfly.
• The Brothers Karamazov is a real life book.
• Homer gets bitten by a spider and becomes a parody of Spider-Man.
• The cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark are seen.

Dial D for Diddily

• The title is a reference to Dial M for Murder.
• The segment is a parody of Dexter.
  • The music in the segment was the "Dexter" theme by Rolfe Kent.
• The scene where Ned kills Patty and Selma is a parody of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner of Looney Tunes.

In the Na’Vi

• The segment is a parody of the film, Avatar.
  • The floating mountains are seen, except they are actually falling.
  • All the creatures and nature attack the humans as they do in the film.
  • The machines used by the humans to fight are very similar to those from the film.
  • Hillarium is a parody of Unobtanium, a rare mineral wanted in the film.
  • Bart is a parody of Jake Sully and Kamala is a parody of Neytiri.
• The name is a reference to the song, "In the Navy" and the Na'vi, the alien species in Avatar.
• Cletus asks if they're in Kansas any more, a reference to The Wizard of Oz.
• Kamala says there is no Rigellian word for "yours" or "mine", then a Rigellian says that that's why they didn't enjoy the movie, Yours, Mine and Ours.

Credits

• After the three segments, when all the characters are gathering on the stage, Grampa walks on and asks when they'll be doing the Black Swan.
• Dan Castellaneta's scary name is a reference to the 1920's horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
• Don Barrozo's scary name is a reference to the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead.

Trivia

• One of the robbers looks like one of the robbers thwarted by Everyman in "Homer the Whopper".