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22 Short Films About Springfield

Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"

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Trivia

An image of Itchy from Itchy & Scratchy can be seen during Cletus' story.
This episode reveals that Dr. Nick drives with corpses to get through carpool lanes. In The Fat and the Furriest, Homer disguised his candy ball as a passenger to drive through a carpool lane.
This episode, alongside "Simpsons Bible Stories", "Four Great Women and a Manicure" and "The Fight Before Christmas" are the only anthology episodes that contain more than three stories.
There are eleven scenarists mentioned in the last credits.
The "Skinner and the Superintendent" intro includes clips from "Whacking Day", "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", "'Round Springfield", and "Team Homer".
This episode has the most amount of writers with a total of 11 writers.
The "Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel" intro includes clips from "Bart Gets an Elephant", "Itchy & Scratchy Land", "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", and "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield".
The Springfield Shopper already isn't free, but it costs 25 cents.
This episode was supposed to be the pilot episode for a spinoff series that focused on the lives of everyone in Springfield except the Simpsons. It was stated that it would have been too much work and the idea was abandoned.
This is one of the episodes written by Matt Groening, along with Some Enchanted Evening, The Telltale Head, and Colonel Homer.
There was originally going to be a scene on a plane with Ralph Wiggum and Krusty the Clown.
When Lisa has the gum thrown on her hair you can see across the street the house president Bush bought earlier in the season, the house is gone in every other episode except for "Much Apu About Nothing".
In late 2017, Skinner's story, Skinner and the Superintendent, became an internet meme known as Steamed Hams, where people would make edits of the scene in a manner exactly like the Nutshack theme and LazyTown musical number, We Are Number One the previous year with the "but every time/but it's" titles. Such edits have led Bill Oakley, the segment's writer, to release the original draft of the script on Twitter. Although the segment was commonly discussed in Simpsons related places on the internet, it picked up as an edit meme around October-November of 2017. As of 2018, the meme is still popular on YouTube.
This is the last episode where Snake Jailbird's car Lil' Bandit is a 1969 Dodge Charger. Later on in the episode "Realty Bites" of Season 9 the car is now a 1968 Pontiac Firebird. It is likely Snake's actions in this episode resulted in the Dodge being written off as he crashed it into a wall so sometime offscreen until the events of "Realty Bites" he either bought or stole the Firebird as a replacement.

References

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: The episode's title is a play on that of the 1993 film.
Like Quentin Tarantino's film, Pulp Fiction, the episode's plot is episodic and interconnected. Additionally there are several more lengthy parodies. The ensemble of the Chief Wiggum, Snake and Herman plot is based on the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Wiggum, Lou and Eddie's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion between Vince Vega and Jules Winnfield. Later, Snake runs down Wiggum like Butch Coolidge does to Marsellus Wallace. He then crashes into a wall, running down a fire hydrant and mailbox just like in the film. The two then fight and roll into Herman's shop, he ties them up, ball gags them and waits for Zed to arrive before being knocked out by a medieval weapon yielded by Milhouse. This again mirrors the film, with Herman in the role of Maynard.
1999: Apu's line "I'm going to party like it was on sale for $19.99!" references Prince's song.
'Slacker': This episode's parody of Richard Linklater's episodic independent drama comedy film. Smithers and Burns even referenced the title.
Freak-A-Zoid: Apu sings the song by Midnight Star.
E.R.: Dr. Nick's scenes parody the popular medical series.
Bazooka Joe: When people are giving suggestions to Lisa, Lionel Hutz suggests that Lisa keep the gum in as evidence, as Bazooka Joe has deep pockets.
Van Heflin: Jasper says he would like Van Heflin's nose.
Maggie's giggle was also used as a sound effect for a commercial for Huggies Diapers.

Goofs

Smithers suffers severe allergic reactions to the bee sting in this episode, yet in "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" he was stung by several bees but suffered no problems at all. Bee sting allergies are often triggered on the second instance of being stung, Smithers could have developed his life-threatening allergy after the previous episode.
Despite having returned to the house on a date with Agnes Skinner in "Bart the Fink", in this episode Chalmers apparently required directions to Skinner's house as if he had never been there before. This episode may take place prior to Bart the Fink. It is also possible that Chalmers just doesn't care enough about Skinner to remember where he lives.
Chief Wiggum loses his hat in the fight with Snake, but in the next chapter of his story he is wearing it again.

The knight helmet with gray holes that are meant to be black
Snake and Chief Wiggum open the door of Herman's store inwards, but in the scene inside the store, it is open outwards.
The knight helmet that Milhouse wears has holes which are colored black but which turn gray for a frame.
After Nelson laughs at Lisa's bad hair, she walks away to where the tall man was driving, but she is then seen near the sewer where Nelson was hiding, which was on the opposite direction.
Mrs. Glick trips, falls and gets stuck into a trash can during the Nelson segment, but is later seen among the crowd that is laughing at Nelson.
When Chalmers says "Despite the fact they are obviously grilled", the bite mark on his burger disappears.
- In addition, when Chalmers picks up a burger, 3 out of 4 of them disappear.

◄ Season 6	Season 7 References/Trivia	Season 8 ►
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two) • Radioactive Man • Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily • Bart Sells His Soul • Lisa the Vegetarian • Treehouse of Horror VI • King-Size Homer • Mother Simpson • Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming • The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular • Marge Be Not Proud • Team Homer • Two Bad Neighbors • Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield • Bart the Fink • Lisa the Iconoclast • Homer the Smithers • The Day the Violence Died • A Fish Called Selma • Bart on the Road • 22 Short Films About Springfield • Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" • Much Apu About Nothing • Homerpalooza • Summer of 4 Ft. 2

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 == Trivia ==
-*An image of Itchy from [[Itchy & Scratchy]] can be seen during [[Cletus]]' story.
+*An image of [[Itchy]] from [[Itchy & Scratchy]] can be seen during [[Cletus]]' story.
-*This episode reveals that Dr. Nick drives with corpses to get through carpool lanes. In [[The Fat and the Furriest]], Homer disguised his candy ball as a passenger to drive through a carpool lane.
+*This episode reveals that [[Nick Riviera|Dr. Nick]] drives with corpses to get through carpool lanes. In [[The Fat and the Furriest]], [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] disguised his candy ball as a passenger to drive through a carpool lane.
 *This episode, alongside "[[Simpsons Bible Stories]]", "[[Four Great Women and a Manicure]]" and "[[The Fight Before Christmas]]" are the only anthology episodes that contain more than three stories.
 *There are eleven scenarists mentioned in the last credits.
 *The "Skinner and the Superintendent" intro includes clips from "[[Whacking Day]]", "[[Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song]]", "[['Round Springfield]]", and "[[Team Homer]]".
+*This episode has the most amount of writers with a total of 11 writers.
 *The "Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel" intro includes clips from "[[Bart Gets an Elephant]]", "[[Itchy & Scratchy Land]]", "[[Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily]]", and "[[Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield]]".
 *The [[Springfield Shopper]] already isn't free, but it costs 25 cents.
-*This episode was supposed to be the pilot episode for a spinoff series that focused on the lives of everyone in Springfield except the Simpsons. It woas stated that it would have been too much work and the idea was abandoned.
+*This episode was supposed to be the pilot episode for a spinoff series that focused on the lives of everyone in Springfield except the Simpsons. It was stated that it would have been too much work and the idea was abandoned.
 *This is one of the episodes written by [[Matt Groening]], along with [[Some Enchanted Evening]], [[The Telltale Head]], and [[Colonel Homer]].
-*There was originally going to be a scene on a plane with Ralph Wiggum and Krusty.
+*There was originally going to be a scene on a plane with [[Ralph Wiggum]] and [[Krusty the Clown]].
-*When Lisa has the gum thrown on her hair you can see across the street the house president Bush bought earlier in the season, the house is gone in every other episode except for "[[Much Apu About Nothing]]".
+*When [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] has the gum thrown on her hair you can see across the street the house president Bush bought earlier in the season, the house is gone in every other episode except for "[[Much Apu About Nothing]]".
-*Barney's bar tab at Moe's Tavern is at $14 billion, but after Barney paid $2,000, Moe said that it's "at least halfway." But this could mean Moe was not going to school when he was young, missing math lessons or beer killing Barney's brain cells (or he simply could've been to lazy to do the actual math right then and there).
-*In order to pay off his $14 billion bar tab, Barney would need to pay for ten beers a day, at $2 each, for roughly 1.95 million years.
 *In late 2017, Skinner's story, [[22_Short_Films_About_Springfield#Skinner.27s_Story | Skinner and the Superintendent]], became an internet meme known as ''Steamed Hams'', where people would make edits of the scene in a manner exactly like the ''Nutshack theme'' and ''LazyTown'' musical number, [[w:c:lazytown:We Are Number One|We Are Number One]] the previous year with the "but every time/but it's" titles. Such edits have led [[Bill Oakley]], the segment's writer, to release the original draft of the script on Twitter. Although the segment was commonly discussed in ''Simpsons'' related places on the internet, it picked up as an edit meme around October-November of 2017. As of 2018, the meme is still popular on YouTube.
+*This is the last episode where [[Snake Jailbird]]'s car [[Lil' Bandit]] is a 1969 Dodge Charger. Later on in the episode "[[Realty Bites]]" of Season 9 the car is now a 1968 Pontiac Firebird. It is likely Snake's actions in this episode resulted in the Dodge being written off as he crashed it into a wall so sometime offscreen until the events of "Realty Bites" he either bought or stole the Firebird as a replacement.
 == References ==
 *'''''[[wikipedia:Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould|Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould]]''''': The episode's title is a play on that of the 1993 film.
-* Like [[wikipedia:Quentin Tarantino|Quentin Tarantino's]] film, ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'','' ''the episode's plot is episodic and interconnected. Additionally there are several more lengthy parodies. The ensemble of the [[Chief Wiggum]], [[Snake]] and [[Herman]] plot is based on the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Wiggum, Lou and Eddie's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion between Vince Vega and Jules Winnfield. Later, Snake runs down Wiggum like Butch Coolidge does to Marsellus Wallace. He then crashes into a wall, running down a fire hydrant and mailbox just like in the film. The two then fight and roll into Herman's shop, he ties them up, ballgags them and waits for Zed to arrive before being knocked out by a medieval weapon yielded by [[Milhouse]]. This again mirrors the film, with Herman in the role of Maynard.
+* Like [[wikipedia:Quentin Tarantino|Quentin Tarantino's]] film, ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'','' ''the episode's plot is episodic and interconnected. Additionally there are several more lengthy parodies. The ensemble of the [[Chief Wiggum]], [[Snake]] and [[Herman]] plot is based on the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Wiggum, Lou and Eddie's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion between Vince Vega and Jules Winnfield. Later, Snake runs down Wiggum like Butch Coolidge does to Marsellus Wallace. He then crashes into a wall, running down a fire hydrant and mailbox just like in the film. The two then fight and roll into Herman's shop, he ties them up, ball gags them and waits for Zed to arrive before being knocked out by a medieval weapon yielded by [[Milhouse]]. This again mirrors the film, with Herman in the role of Maynard.
 *'''''[[wikipedia:1999 (song)|1999]]''''': Apu's line "I'm going to party like it was on sale for $19.99!" references [[wikipedia:Prince (musician)|Prince]]'s song.
 *'<nowiki/>'''[[wikipedia:Slacker (film)|Slacker]]'''': This episode's parody of [[wikipedia:Richard Linklater|Richard Linklater]]'s episodic independent drama comedy film. Smithers and Burns even referenced the title.
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 *'''''{{w|Bazooka (chewing gum)|Bazooka Joe}}''''': When people are giving suggestions to [[Lisa]], [[Lionel Hutz]] suggests that Lisa keep the gum in as evidence, as Bazooka Joe has deep pockets.
 *Van Heflin: Jasper says he would like Van Heflin's nose.
+*[[Maggie Simpson|Maggie's]] giggle was also used as a sound effect for a commercial for Huggies Diapers.
 == Goofs ==
-*Smithers suffers severe allergic reactions to the bee sting in this episode, yet in "[[Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk]]" he was stung by several bees but suffered no problems at all.'' Bee sting allergies are often triggered on the second instance of being stung, Smithers could have developed his life-threatening allergy after the previous episode.''
+*[[Waylon Smithers, Jr.|Smithers]] suffers severe allergic reactions to the bee sting in this episode, yet in "[[Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk]]" he was stung by several bees but suffered no problems at all.'' Bee sting allergies are often triggered on the second instance of being stung, Smithers could have developed his life-threatening allergy after the previous episode.''
-*Despite having returned to the house on a date with [[Agnes Skinner]] in "[[Bart the Fink]]", in this episode Chalmers apparently required directions to Skinner's house as if he had never been there before. ''This episode may take place prior to Bart the Fink. ''
+*Despite having returned to the house on a date with [[Agnes Skinner]] in "[[Bart the Fink]]", in this episode Chalmers apparently required directions to Skinner's house as if he had never been there before. ''This episode may take place prior to Bart the Fink. It is also possible that Chalmers just doesn't care enough about Skinner to remember where he lives. ''
-*Chief Wiggum loses his hat in the fight with Snake, but in the next chapter of his story he is wearing it again.
+*Chief Wiggum loses his hat in the fight with Snake, but in the next chapter of his story he is wearing it again.[[File:Millienight.png|thumb|The knight helmet with gray holes that are meant to be black]]
-*[[File:Millienight.png|thumb|The knight helmet with gray holes that are meant to be black]]Jasper supposedly got a nose job, but he is seen with his regular nose later on.
 *Snake and Chief Wiggum open the door of Herman's store inwards, but in the scene inside the store, it is open outwards.
 *The knight helmet that [[Milhouse]] wears has holes which are colored black but which turn gray for a frame.
-*After Nelson laughs at Lisa's bad hair, she walks away to where the tall man was driving, but she is then seen near the sewer where Nelson was hiding, which was on the opposite direction.
+*After [[Nelson Muntz|Nelson]] laughs at Lisa's bad hair, she walks away to where the tall man was driving, but she is then seen near the sewer where Nelson was hiding, which was on the opposite direction.
 *Mrs. Glick trips, falls and gets stuck into a trash can during the Nelson segment, but is later seen among the crowd that is laughing at Nelson.
 *When [[Gary Chalmers|Chalmers]] says "Despite the fact they are obviously grilled", the bite mark on his burger disappears.