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Trivia[]
- The list of people who are are gay are made up of crew members who worked on the show, all of whom had to sign waivers in order to have their names on that list.
- The numbers that Principal Skinner reads off while observing through the telescope ("6 hours 19 minutes Right ascension, 14 degrees 22 minutes Declination") are actual astronomical coordinates. Principal Skinner is observing in the constellation Orion, just to the east of the star Xi Orionis (about 2/3 of the way between the stars Betelgeuse and Alhena), slowly moving northwards until he reaches 6 hours 19 minutes Right Ascension, 14 degrees 59 minutes Declination, a distance of 37 arc minutes, about the apparent width of the full moon. Bart finds his comet at 4 hours 12 minutes Right Ascension, 8 degrees 7 minutes Declination, in the constellation Taurus, just southwest of the star Mu Tauri.
Cultural References[]
Waldo in the shelter.
- Everyone getting outraged and wanting to come into Ned’s shelter is a reference to "The Twilight Zone" episode, "The Shelter".
- The "Three wise men" constellation is representing the Three Stooges' faces.
- For a couple of seconds when Homer tries to get the shelter door shut when everyone gets in, Waldo from "Where's Waldo" appears rather obtrusively on the left half of the screen. In subsequent views of that shot, Waldo is replaced with Mr. Spock of Star Trek.
- Skinner curses Pierre Jules César Janssen for having discovered helium (though Skinner says that Janssen invented helium, even though helium is a naturally-occurring element).
- He also claims one of his discoveries was stolen by a "Principal Kohoutek", this is a reference to Comet Kohoutek.
- Buttzilla, the other name for the weather balloon prank by Bart, is a play on to the name of the Japanese monster known as Godzilla.
- The siren raised by the observatory to warn Springfield about the comet, is the same as the air-raid siren to warn British people about Nazi bombings during the Blitz.
Homer with a yellow beard
Goofs[]
Yellow Apu
- When Bart initially opens Homer and Marge's bedroom door, Homer has a yellow beard. This is fixed when the camera switches to a close-up.
- The town meeting about the arrival of the comet takes place in the Springfield Town Hall, but at the end of the meeting, people are seen walking out of the Springfield County Court House instead.
- The presence of only one bridge out of town is inconsistent with both earlier and later episodes.
- When the crowd joins Flanders on the hill during the "Que Sera Sera" song, Apu appears yellow.
- There is another Barney, yet his hair is blue in one scene.
- It was shown in the previous episode "Whacking Day" that Springfield Elementary School had an old fallout shelter in the basement. At least Seymour Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie and other Springfield Elementary staff members could have taken cover from the comet in there. Of course knowing the professionalism and craftsmanship of most Springfieldians, it's possible the bomb shelter wasn't guaranteed to be totally safe.
- When everyone is in Ned's shelter the woman in the top left hand corner briefly has two pupils in each eye.
Jimbo Jones' hand appears white and yellow.
- When everyone is in Ned's shelter, in some takes, Jimbo Jones's hand appears white, mingling with Horatio McCallister's cap, in others it appears yellow.
- Despite being referred as a comet, Bart's comet is actually more akin to a meteorite, due to surviving it's way to Earth's surface and not burning entirely up.
- Selma claims that sheep are "lady goats." Actually, "lady goats" are called doe or nanny. Sheep can be both male and female. The female sheep, however, are called ewe.
- Comets are very cold and icy, and thus would not be continuously making a flaming sound like the Bart Simpson Comet did. As a matter of fact, there are cases of celestial bodies such as meteorites being covered in frost.
- There appeared to be a slightly darker skinned, black haired version of Moe besides the real Moe.
- When Ned tells the residents that the shelter is kind of full, Krusty's nose isn't red.
