Treehouse of Horror V/References

Opening Sequence

 * During Marge's introduction, a black-and-white movie clip appears which is ostensibly from a movie called 200 Miles to Oregon. There is no such actual movie with that title, but it may be a reference to the original 3:10 to Yuma, in which Glenn Ford starred as Ben Wade.
 * Bart's introduction (where his voice appears as waves on an oscilloscope) is a parody of the Control Voice's introduction in the 1960s TV series The Outer Limits.

The Shinning

 * The Shining - Referenced in the title and parodied throughout the segment.
 * Maggie spells "REDRUM" with her blocks when Homer tries to watch the TV.
 * Analogous to Jack Torrance endlessly typing "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," Homer writes "No TV and no beer make Homer go crazy" all over the walls. The only thing Homer types is "Feelin' fine," which briefly reassures Marge, until a lightning flash reveals the writing on the walls.
 * Groundskeeper Willie and Moe are parallels of the characters Dick Halloran and Lloyd the bartender, respectively.
 * Homer does a "Heeeere's Johnny!" scene, but he breaks into the wrong room. He then breaks into another room announcing himself as David Letterman, only to find Grampa has arrived. The final time, he finds the right room and announced himself as several guests on 60 Minutes.
 * After Marge discovers that Homer has written 'No TV and no beer make Homer go crazy' all over the walls, Homer bursts through a door and scares her. In The Shining, Jack sneaks up on Wendy and asks her what she thinks of his 'book'. In the film it is written as : "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".
 * Among Moe's gang of "ghouls" are the following:
 * Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street movies
 * Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies
 * Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies
 * Dracula from the movie of the same name.
 * The Wolfman from the movie of the same name.
 * The Mummy from the movie of the same name.
 * Scotchgard - When Homer hits Willie in the back with an axe, Marge says that she hopes the rug was Scotchgarded.
 * A Chorus Line - A parody of the song "One" plays on the portable TV when the Simpsons are frozen in the snow. It is also played during the closing sequence.

Time and Punishment

 * Crime and Punishment - The classic novel by Dostoyevsky is punned in the title.
 * The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show - Mister Peabody and Sherman appear during Homer's first trip back in time. Later, Kang's and Kodos's heads were replaced with their's.
 * Jurassic Park - When Homer first arrives in the past, he says, "I've gone back to the time when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos!"
 * A Sound of Thunder - The idea that Homer causes significant alterations to the future by killing a mosquito is a parody of A Sound of Thunder in which a hunter goes back in time to hunt dinosaurs. The hunter kills a butterfly by accident only to find that this alters the future the hunter returns to.

Nightmare Cafeteria

 * Soylent Green - Principal Skinner hits on the idea of serving students as food to solve the problem of overcrowding, similar to the movie's plot.

Closing Sequence

 * The song the inside-out Simpsons and Groundskeeper Willie sing and dance to is a parody of "One" from A Chorus Line. It was also played at the end of "The Shinning."

Trivia

 * Bart's opening dialogue was used at Halloween Horror Nights XIX outside of Universal Orlando.
 * This is the fourth Treehouse of Horror to have the cast's names changed due to Halloween e.g. Bat Groening. The first three being Treehouse of Horror II, Treehouse of Horror III and Treehouse of Horror IV.

The Shinning

 * Before Mr. Burns and Smithers leave for the winter, Smithers suggests to Burns that cutting off the cable television and beer supply may have been the reason that the previous caretakers went insane and murdered their families. Burns then says that owes Smithers a Coke if everyone gets slaughtered, which he also says in "Treehouse of Horror II" in the scene where him and Smithers are returning Homer's brain to his body.
 * A deleted scene has Bart encountering Sherri and Terri as the ghosts of the previous caretaker's daughters. Bart is skateboarding in the halls, turns a corner, and sees Sherri and Terri, who sing, "Your daddyyyy's going to kill youuuu." Bart then skates down another hall and sees Patty and Selma, who tell him, "They're right, y'know."

Nightmare Cafeteria

 * The segment comes full circle from the episode Bart the Murderer, where Principal Skinner disappears and one of the rumors going around Springfield Elementary School is that Skinner was ground into hamburger and served for lunch in the cafeteria.
 * According to the DVD commentary, a scene that was written, but not used, had Sherri and Terri being served for lunch as "Terri-yaki with Sherri Sauce."
 * The overcrowded classroom in this episode was later reused for "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh."
 * If you look at the upper-right hand side of the crowded detention, you can cleary see Lisa, yet the reason is unknown. Lisa being sent to detention in Treehouse of Horror XX in Dial 'M' for Murder became a plot for that section.
 * The last time someone gained weight in a Treehouse of Horror was in "Treehouse of Horror IV".

The Shinning

 * Bart finds a chainsaw out of nowhere and it disappears upon speaking with Willie.
 * It is unknown how Grandpa got to the mansion if he was dropped off at a gas station.

Time and Punishment

 * When the machine picks up the Simpsons house, to take it to the 'Re-Neducation Centre', the garage is on the wrong side of the house. It is on the correct side in the following shots of Homer returning.
 * When Marge, Bart and Lisa are talking to Ned, Marge's pearls are white instead of red.

Nightmare Cafeteria

 * When the staff come after Bart and Lisa, Mrs. Krabappel is no longer overweight.
 * In the beginning you see Wendell Borton in class, then when Bart went to go the dentention room, Wendell Borton is in the room, when Seymour Skinner told Bart Simpson to go to the Cafeteria Wendell Borton is seen again.