Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind/References

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Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind

E. Pluribus Wiggum ►

Cultural References

• The title is a reference to the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
• The plot and imagery are a homage to It's a Wonderful Life.
• The chalkboard gag refers to Hannah Montana.
• Scrat the Squirrel from Ice Age makes an appearance.
• The closing song is a cover of Day After Day by Badfinger.
• Homer falls off a bridge only to be saved and have a surprise party for him. Similar to "The Game" with Michael Douglas.
• Forget me Shot is a parody of Forget me Not.
• The bartender spitting into Homer's drink before he forgets everything is a reference to the movie "Memento".
• As Homer grows fast-forward, the music video Everyday by Carly Comando plays.
• At the end of the "Picture A Day for 39 Years" scene, there's a YouTube replay parody (resembling the version from the time the episode was made/aired) with the exact 50 seconds listed as how long the scene lasts which is true. The bottom of the video list is a video of "Kitten Smokes on Toilet" which has incredibly more views than Homer's.
• While falling, Homer's life flashes before his eyes. The scene is a parody on the popular YouTube video by Noah Kalina which features a fast montage of thousands of pictures of him spanning a period of six years all played sequentially.
• Chief Wiggum asks Homer who Jack the Ripper was and Homer answers the Queen's private surgeon. This is referencing a debunked theory which, despite no evidence and discredited by historians, gain popularity in the 1970s and then expanded upon in Alan Moore's graphic novel From Hell that the Jack the Ripper murders were committed by Sir William Gull who had been appointed appointed one of Queen Victoria's Physicians-in-Ordinary in 1872.
• The tune in the beginning of the episode is similar to the tune of Winter Wonderland, which was used in the episode "Bart Gets an "F"".

Trivia

• Julio's revealed to originally from Costa Rica, when he is with a group of Mexicans beating up Krusty the Clown for his offensive jokes towards Hispanic-Americans.
• A character who resembles Troy McClure can be seen among the Mexicans beating Krusty up.
• This is the last episode to be air in 2007.
• This is the second Homer tries to jump off the only bridge out of town, the first being "Homer's Odyssey", but in that episode he didn't succeed in jumping.
• We learn Marge doesn't get along with Sarah Wiggum, hence why she had to lie to Clancy so he can't bring her.
• This is the second time someone pushes Homer from a great height where he planned to jump in the first place. The first was in "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder".
• In the "Picture A Day for 39 Years" it reveals that Homer failed the second grade. Homer would be smart at that time from the Simpsons gene shown in "Lisa the Simpson". This explains the Simpsons gene doesn't affect the whole series.
• During "Picture A Day for 39 Years" part, Homer makes a Pyramid, The Taj Mahal, and The Brooklyn Bridge out of "Duff" beer cans.
• In the "Picture A Day for 39 Years", there are versions of Homer from previous episodes:
  • "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" (stage costume)
  • "Homer and Apu" (with giant novelty hat)
  • "Homer the Great" (with either The Stone of Shame or The Stone of Triumph)
  • "King-Size Homer" (morbidly obese)
  • "Lisa the Iconoclast" (as Town Crier)
  • "Jaws Wired Shut" (his jaws were wired shut)
  • "I Am Furious (Yellow)" (as Hulk)
  • "King of the Hill" (in mountain gear)
  • "The Bart of War" (dressed in Native American war garb)
  • "See Homer Run" (as The Safety Salamander)
  • "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" (Indian-dressed)
  • "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" (soldier)
  • "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" (ice cream salesman)
  • "Crook and Ladder" (fireman)
  • "The Great Louse Detective" (Mardi Gras king)
  • "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" or "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (Santa)
  • "Dancin' Homer" (possibly, due to Isotopes merch {yet he had a different costume})
• While Homer is going through all of his memories (basically screenshots from older episodes), the following episodes are seen:
  • "Tennis The Menace" (Homer and Abe at the funeral home, Krusty onstage, Homer with Marge, Lenny and Carl)
  • "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" (Krabappel talking to Nelson on picture day)
  • "The Call of the Simpsons" (Homer as Bigfoot, when the family arrive at the park, Homer with honey and bees in his mouth, Bart lamenting over Homer getting tranquilized, Homer naked, Homer as Bigfoot with Bart, Homer and Marge with Cowboy Bob)
  • "The Crepes of Wrath" (Ugolin and Bart on the motorcycle, Homer laying on the couch)
  • "The Telltale Head" (Bart and Homer talking to the mob, the bullies outside the movie theatre, Bart in Sunday School, Homer's face when saying "Catch it!" while listening to football, Bart taking off his church clothes, Marge's face when yelling "Now move it!", Chief Wiggum making a speech)
  • "Viva Ned Flanders" (Amber and Ginger with Gunter and Ernst)
  • "Behind the Laughter" (The Simpsons greeting everyone, the Fox Broadcasting door, the Simpsons in the recording booth, roses falling on The Simpsons)
  • "Kamp Krusty" (Krusty at Wimbledon)
  • "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" (Homer talking to his family)
  • "Homer the Heretic" (Homer lying on the couch in his robe)
  • "HOMR" (Homer in the laboratory, the laboratory creature, Homer talking to Lenny and Carl, Moe doing Homer's brain surgery, a classic Itchy & Scratchy cartoon)
  • "Das Bus" (The class preparing for the Model UN meeting, Bart and Martin eating, Comic Book Guy asking Homer about his internet company)
  • "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" (Homer, Bart, Wally Kogen and the boys in Rupert Murdoch's skybox)
  • "Homerazzi" (Homer taking pictures of various celebrities at Rainier Wolfcastle's wedding, Homer at the celebrity dance club later in the episode)
  • "Radioactive Man" (A Hollywood street)
  • "Team Homer" (Homer and Chief Wiggum in the bowling alley)
  • "Treehouse of Horror" (Serak the Preparer putting in salt, Homer going insane in "Bad Dream House", Serak with Homer and Marge)
  • "Krusty Gets Busted" (Krusty lined up with a bunch of clowns)
  • "Bart the Lover" (Homer swearing in front of Ned)
  • "Treehouse of Horror VI" (Willie as the giant spider and in Martin's dream)
  • "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (Homer and Marge as island natives)
  • "Weekend at Burnsie's" (Homer in the hospital)
  • "$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" (Kent Brockman interviewing Barney)
  • "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" (When Otto, Apu, Wiggum, and Homer arrive)
  • "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" (Homer's hallucination)
  • "Homer Loves Flanders" (Ned with his gun)
  • "Faith Off" (Bart as a faith healer)
  • "Lisa's Pony" (Lisa on her pony, the dawn of man)
  • "Lady Bouvier's Lover" (The Simpsons reenacting the Armour Hot Dogs commercial)
  • "She of Little Faith" (The Simpson family in Christmas clothes)
  • "Little Big Girl" (Bart and Darcy meet, the family's, the wedding preacher's, and Darcy and her dad's "Awww" reaction to Darcy's mom having another baby)
  • "Homer's Night Out" (Homer with Gulliver Dark)
  • "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" (the farm where Homer lived as a child)
  • "D'oh-in' in the Wind" (the mural by Mona painted for Homer)
  • "Mother Simpson" (Mona leaving Abe and young Homer)
  • "The Way We Was" (Homer and Marge together at high school)
  • "Bart Gets an Elephant" (Bart, Snowball II and Santa's Little Helper seeing Stampy for the first time)
  • "Moaning Lisa" (Lisa sadly looking at herself in the bathroom mirror)
  • "A Fish Called Selma" (Selma and Troy McClure's wedding)
  • "Bathtime" Tracey Ullman short (Bart in the bathtub)
  • "Lisa Gets an "A"" (Homer holding Pinchy)
  • "Some Enchanted Evening" (Marge roaring at the kids, Marge cooking breakfast)
  • "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" (Homer on Mr. Burns' screen, Mr. Burns about to spit out a piece of Blinky)
  • "Burns' Heir" (Martin auditioning for Mr. Burns, Lisa auditioning for Mr. Burns, Bart as Burns' son)
  • "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" (Homer looking at a popsicle figure)
  • "Cape Feare" (Homer in a Witness Relocation Program shirt with the family)
  • "The Italian Bob" (Sideshow Bob introducing Francesca and Gino Terwilliger to the Simpsons, the Simpsons on the plane)
  • "Bart's Comet" (Bart's Big Butt Skinner balloon)
  • "The Joy of Sect" (Marge running away from the Movementarians)
  • "Two Bad Neighbors" (The Simpsons' window covered in dirt)
  • "A Star is Torn" (Homer and Bart making a recording)
  • "The Way We Weren't" (Homer and Marge's first kiss)
  • "Mr. Plow" (The Mr. Plow commercial, Homer and Barney at Moe's)
  • "Simpsons Tall Tales" (The Simpson family sitting in a train car)
  • "Stark Raving Dad" (Homer making a call from the asylum)
  • "Treehouse of Horror V" (Uter looking up at Principal Skinner, the Simpson family in a futuristic alternate reality)
  • "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacey" (The old folks carrying Abe)
  • "Bart the General" (Homer and Bart in the kitchen during the beginning of Act 1)
  • "Funeral for a Fiend" (The Simpsons being booed at Sideshow Bob's funeral, Sideshow Bob and his family in jail, the Wes Doobner commercial)
  • "Treehouse of Horror IV" (Ned as the Devil talking to Homer, the family saying "Happy Halloween, everyone!" at the end of "Bart Simpson's Dracula")
  • "Lisa the Vegetarian" (Homer, Marge and Bart singing "You don't win friends with salad")
  • "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (The FOX censor, Marge accused of witchcraft by Moe, Marge about to be pushed off a cliff, the living room with the matter transporter)
  • "Treehouse of Horror XII" (The family screaming when Mr. Burns scares them in the opening, Marge lying in a futuristic bed)
  • "Tales from the Public Domain" (Moe as Claudius and Marge as Gertrude, Bart as Hamlet, Krusty as a jester)
  • The Normal couch gag
  • The Circus Line couch gag
  • The Skis couch gag
  • The title sequence (Maggie getting scanned at the supermarket)

Goofs

• In Homer's memories, he was shown diving naked near a cliff, but he couldn't have remembered that because it was in a dream that Marge had in church. There is also another memory from Martin's dream from "Treehouse of Horror VI". It is possible that Homer imagined them separately.
• Through the first two acts, as well as during Homer's cascade, it is winter in Springfield and the snow falls in many scenes, if not it is on the ground. In the party boat scene, all of a sudden there is no precipitation and everyone is dressed lightly as if it were a warm, pleasant night (not to mention it would be weird to be partying on a ship's deck in cold weather, the water should also be frozen).
• After Homer jumped on the boat, you can see that the boat is far away from the bridge.
• When Lisa says "I guess" after Homer asks her to come, her tongue is discolored yellow.