Treehouse of Horror XXV/References

Introduction

 * In the introduction of the episode, it shows clips from previous treehouse of horror shows:
 * "The Raven" from Treehouse of Horror, October 25th 1990.
 * "If I Only Had a Brain" from Treehouse of Horror II, October 31st 1991.
 * "Dial Z for Zombies" From Treehouse of Horror III, October 29th 1992.
 * "The Devil and Homer Simpson" from Treehouse of Horror IV, October 28th 1993.
 * "The Shinning" from Treehouse of Horror V, October 30th 1994.
 * "Homer³" from Treehouse of Horror VI, October 29th 1995.
 * "Citizen Kang" from Treehouse of Horror VII, October 27th 1996.
 * "Fly vs. Fly" from Treehouse of Horror VIII, October 26th 1997.
 * "The Terror of Tiny Toon" from Treehouse of Horror IX, October 25th 1998.
 * "I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did" from Treehouse of Horror X October 31st 1999.
 * "Scary Tales Can Come True" from Treehousese of Horror XI, November 1st 2000.
 * "Hex and the City" from Treehouse of Horror XII, November 6th 2001.
 * "Send in the Clones" from Treehouse of Horror XIII, November 3rd 2002.
 * "The Island of Dr. Hibbert" from Treehouse of Horror XIII, November 3rd 2002.
 * "Frinkenstein" from Treehouse of Horror XIV, November 2nd 2003.
 * "Four Beheadings and a Funeral" from Treehouse of Horror XV, November 7th 2004.
 * "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face" from Treehouse of Horror XVI, November 6th 2005.
 * "You Gotta Know When to Golem" from Treehouse of Horror XVII, November 5th 2006.
 * "Heck House" from Treehouse of Horror XVIII, November 4th 2007.
 * "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse" from Treehouse of Horror XIX, November 2nd 2008.
 * "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind" from Treehouse of Horror XX, October 18th 2009.
 * "Tweenlight" from Treehouse of Horror XXI, November 7th 2010.
 * "The Diving Bell and Butterball" from Treehouse of Horror XXII, October 30th 2011.
 * "Unnormal Activity" from Treehouse of Horror XXIII, October 7th 2012.
 * "Oh, the Places You'll D'oh!" from Treehouse of Horror XXIV, October 6th 2013.
 * Four other clips are also shown but they are new animations:
 * Homer eating his insides.
 * Santa's Little Helper with a cat mask using a chain saw.
 * Lisa with Bart's severed head and trying to squish it.
 * Marge hiding a gun in her hair. Her hair splits in two and starts firing.
 * The opening tittle card was constructed from body parts of the previously mentioned guest stars.

School Is Hell

 * This has the exact same name as the book by the creator Matt Groening that's established by his comic strip .
 * Two bullies shove a student into a locker that's modeled after the Iron Maiden torture device.
 * One of the kids is punished on a doughnut feeding machine that was used to punish Homer in Treehouse of Horror IV.
 * Hot Stuff makes a short appearance. He was placed in "super hell" for how "lame" his comics are.
 * Pat Benatar's song "Hell Is for Children" plays in the background of the first segment, while Bart is showcasing his lessons.
 * Bart's classes parody the following lessons:
 * Long Division; instead of algorithms, Bart stretches and bifurcates a Satyr with an axe.
 * Show and Hell from Show and Tell.
 * Quantum Satanics from Quantum Mechanics.
 * The books Bart receives for his The Literature of Hell class, parody the following:
 * Tender Are My Whipped Buttocks from Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
 * Fahrenheit 451,000 from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
 * I'm Not Even Dead Yet by John Irving. At the time of this episode, John Irving is still alive, since the previous authors have already past away.
 * The O'Reilly Factor for Kids by Bill O'Reilly, an actual book and the only one that's not a parody.
 * Marge's bumper sticker states "My child is an honor student in hell" with a satanic star as a symbol.
 * Instead of no. 2 pencils, the teacher writes no. 2 pitchforks on the chalkboard during Bart's final exams.
 * Bart's full name in hell is Beelzebart, a pun of the name Beelzebub, which is another contemporary name for the devil.
 * Superintendant Chalmers placed Noah Webster in hell because it angered him when Noah changed the word "theatre" into "theater" in Webster's dictionary.

A Clockwork Yellow

 * The segment title and the segment itself is a parody of .
 * Also features parodies of Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Barry Lyndon, all films directed by Stanley Kubrick.

The Others

 * The segment title (it has the same name) and the segment itself is a parody of .
 * During the initial haunting of the Simpsons residence, the television loops a sitcom "Married with Children" throughout various channels, such as Fox, The History Channel, Al Jazeera, BET, Animal Planet and Syfy. Few of them replace original actors with the ones that their channel focuses on:
 * Al Jazeera - replaces American actors with Arab actors.
 * BET - replaces white American actors with African-American actors.
 * Animal Planet - replaces actors with anthropomorphic animals.
 * Syfy - replaces actors with Xenomorphs from the movie "Aliens".
 * At the end of special when alternate universe versions of The Simpsons arrive at the house, the first ones to show up are a CGI version of The Simpsons with John Ratzenberger voicing Homer, possibly a reference to Pixar movies in which every one so far has had him voicing at least one character. Next, the anime version of The Simpsons consist of Homer as Roronoa Zoro of One Piece, Marge as Rangiku Matsumoto of Bleach, Bart as Naruto Uzumaki of Naruto, Lisa as Mikasa Ackerman of Attack on Titan, Maggie as Pikachu of Pokémon, and Santa's Little Helper as Haku of Spirited Away. Others show the Simpsons as characters from South Park, Adventure Time, Archer, the Sylvain Chomet couch gag, LEGO minifigures (as they looked in Brick Like Me), as Minions from Despicable Me, and the animal Simpsons from Treehouse of Horror XIII.