Treehouse of Horror XXII/References

Trivia

 * This is the first Treehouse of Horror since Treehouse of Horror XX that aired before Halloween, which isn’t saying much.
 * This may be the first episode to do fart jokes.
 * God return from THOH XVI(Unless you not count THOH XVIII Ned mentioned he.)
 * Jimbo、Dolph and Keary throw a Skunk at Bart's Old body.
 * This also mean first episode feature least one Skunk since Slepping with Enemy.

Previous episode references

 * "Radio Bart": A Simpson (Bart/Homer) impersonated someone with a radio to selfishly manipulate a Flanders (Rod and Todd/Ned)
 * "Homer the Whopper": One of the robbers Homer thwarts also appears in Comic Book Guy's Everyman comic
 * "Treehouse of Horror IV": The Halloween special ends with a Christmas theme
 * "Homer's Night Out", "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" and "Love is a Many Strangled Thing": A character (Marge/Abe/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar/God) strangles Homer
 * "Simple Simpson" and "Homer the Whopper": Homer becomes a superhero
 * "Jaws Wired Shut": Homer suffers from an injury (broken jaw/paralysis) that causes him to become mute without brain damage and finds an alternative way of communicating
 * "Mobile Homer": A spider harms Homer
 * "Treehouse of Horror VIII": A Simpson (Bart/Homer) suffers from a bug-related mishap
 * "Treehouse of Horror XV": Ned murders another character (Homer/several Springfieldians)

Cultural references

 * Homer getting his arm trapped in a boulder almost is a reference to 127 Hours.
 * The way Ned kills Patty and Selma is a reference to Wille E. Coyote.
 * Maggie emerging from Bart's "stomach" could reference to famous film Alien. This was previously parodied in the previous THOH opening.
 * The third story "In the Na'vi" was based on James Cameron's Avatar, for example Hilarium is parody on Unobtainium.
 * Enemies only wanna gets a thing,but good side casts defeat almost everyone also happen in other media,包括Mega Man: Rock Force.
 * Homer transforming into a superhero after he is bitten by a spider is a homage to Spider-Man. He also references Spider-Man in Simple Simpson.

List of Simpsons characters who portrayed Avatar characters

 * Bart Simpson as Jake Sully
 * Rigellians as the Na'vi
 * Kamala as Neytiri
 * Lisa Simpson as Grace Augustine
 * Superintendant Chalmers as Miles Quaritch
 * Milhouse Van Houten possibly portrayed as Norm Spellman


 * In the beginning of the episode, Homer wipes his forehead with a bar of Hershey's chocolate.
 * Dial D for Diddly references the 2000 Hong Kong horror film, "Dial D for Demons".
 * In the Na'vi references the 1941 film, "In The Navy".
 * In the third segment, Superintendent Chalmers is in an exoskeleton that look the exact same as the exoskeleton called The Commander from ios game Sentinel 3: Homeworld.