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| − | *The title and plot are both references to ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHA%D0%AFLY CHAЯLY], ''a 1968 film based on the 1959 [[wikipedia:Daniel Keyes|Daniel Keyes]] novel [[wikipedia:Flowers for Algernon|Flowers for Algernon]]. |
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| − | *The ''Sick, Twisted, and Totally F***ed Up Animation Festival'' may be modeled after ''[[w:Spike_and_Mike's_Sick_and_Twisted_Festival_of_Animation|Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation]]''. |
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| − | *The clay animation watched by Flanders and his kids, ''The New Gravey and Jobriath'', is a parody of ''[[w:Davey_and_Goliath|Davey and Goliath]]'', a similarly Christian-themed animation. This is one of the few scenes in the show to depart from traditional cel or cel-style animation. |
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| − | **"Gravey" intends to blow up Planned Parenthood, a pro-choice collection of organizations. |
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| − | **"Jobriath" was also the stage name of a [[w:Jobriath|1970s glam rock singer]]. |
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| − | *The faux old footage of ''[[Itchy & Scratchy|Itchy & Scratchy]]'' advertising for [[Laramie Cigarettes]] is likely a reference to the first season of ''[[w:The_Flintstones|The Flintstones]]'', when commercials aired featuring Fred and Barney enjoying [[w:Winston_(cigarette)|Winston Cigarettes]]. |
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| − | *[[Wikipedia:Louis Armstrong|Louis Armstrong]] is seen smoking with Itchy and Scratchy in the above commercial. |
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| − | *[[Ozmodiar]], a parody of [[w:The_Great_Gazoo|The Great Gazoo]] from ''The Flintstones'', appears twice during this episode, once after [[Bart]] says cartoons do not have to make sense, and once more after all the employees are laid off from the plant. |
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| − | *Homer blames eBay (rapidly gaining fame at the time this episode premiered) for the poor-quality cowbell he purchased. |
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| − | *Intelligent Homer solves multiple [[w:Rubik's_Cube|Rubik's Cubes]] in his spare time. |
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| − | *The film ''Love is Nice'', starring Julia Roberts, Richard Gere and Bill Pullman (but not Bill Paxton) is a parody of the other Roberts and Gere films, ''[[w:Runaway_Bride_(1999_film)|Runaway Bride]]'' and ''[[w:Pretty_Woman|Pretty Woman]]''. |
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| − | *The line "Is that your final answer?" refers to ''[[w:Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Millionaire?|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]''. |
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| − | *When the researchers examine the x-ray of Homer's brain, they use a visual enhancement machine similar to the one used by Deckard in Ridley Scott's film ''[[w:Blade_Runner|Blade Runner]]''. |
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| − | *The name of the animation firm, Animotion, is probably taken from [[w:Animotion|the band]] known for their 1985 hit "[[w:Obsession_(song)|Obsession]]". |
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| − | *The animated dog that dances to Homer's movements during the Animotion process resembles [[w:Snoopy|Snoopy]]. |
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| − | *During the couch gag in the opening credits, [[w:Philip J. Fry|Fry]] from ''[[Futurama]]'' is dropped onto the sofa, before being sucked away again. |
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| − | *While mailing his suggestions in the suggestion tube, Homer is humming [[w:Johann_Sebastian_Bach|Johann Sebastian Bach's]] Concerto Brandenburg #3. |
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| − | *When the Simpson family visit the animation convention, Bob and Larry from [[w:VeggieTales|VeggieTales]] are shown on one of the booths. |
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| − | *This episode is referenced in The Simpsons comic "Laughter is not the Best Medicine". [[Dr. Hibbert]] shows an X-Ray of Homer's head and the crayon is seen. |
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| − | *[[Moe]], who says he is an unlicensed surgeon, describes his procedure as "the old [[w:Crayola|Crayola]] oblongata". This refers to the [[w:Medulla_Oblongata|Medulla Oblongata]], the lower half of the brainstem. |
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| − | *In Homer's fantasy of stock ownership a giant gorilla in shackles, wearing a green top hat and holding fistfuls of cash is a reference to King Kong. |
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| − | *In the anime Bart watches the final scene is a reference to the Japanese flag. |
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==Previous Episode References== |
==Previous Episode References== |
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| + | *[[Homer Loves Flanders]], [[So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show|So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show]], [[Lisa the Simpson]]: Homer's stupidity is explained (Bart saying that being a loser is genetic, Homer losing his brainpower from being in a coma, The Simpson Gene, and Homer getting a crayon stuck in his head). |
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| − | *In [[Skinner's Sense of Snow|the previous episode]], Bart said he was going to miss the Itchy and Scratchy episode where they finally kiss the Laramie Cigarettes advert, Homer and Marge are watching, starts with the former pair kissing. |
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| + | **Homer Loves Flanders: Homer imitates Marge (during his imagine spot of him wearing a tall, blue wig/while he's filling out bank papers) |
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| − | *The last time Homer got thrown out of the movie theater for spoiling the ending of a predictable movie was [[Colonel Homer]]. |
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| + | *[[Mother Simpson]]: A flashback to Homer's childhood and his bedroom in the 1960s. |
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| + | *[[Treehouse of Horror III]] ("King Homer"): reference to the scene in the original 1933 version of ''King Kong'' where Kong is chained up on a Broadway stage (King Homer is chained on the stage/Homer imagines King Kong chained on the stage during his "We're in the Money" imagine spot). |
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| + | *[[Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk (Burns to Sell the Power Plant)|Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk]]: Homer buys stock shares in a company with disastrous results. |
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| + | *[[Lisa the Beauty Queen]]: A Dan Castellaneta-voiced character (Barney/Homer) gets a job as a human guinea pig. |
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| + | *[[The Homer They Fall]]: Dr. Hibbert finds something strange about Homer's head/brain anatomy through an X-ray (the layer of fluid that makes Homer impervious to falling after getting hit/the crayon stuck in his head) |
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| + | *[[Hurricane Neddy]]: A Simpson parent (Marge/Homer) solves a Rubik's cube. |
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| + | *[[Simpson and Delilah]]: Homer finally gets the capitol of North Dakota right as Bismarck (on the former episode, he thought it was Hitler, because both Bismarck and Hitler are the last names of German leaders). |
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| + | *[[Bart on the Road]] and [[Make Room for Lisa]]: Homer and Lisa bond. |
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| + | *[[El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)|El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer]]: Homer sadly walking the streets looking for an intellectual safe haven is similar to him walking the streets looking for his soul mate after realizing Marge may not be the one. |
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| + | *[[Fear of Flying]]: Homer gets banned from Moe's (for his lame sugar prank on Moe/for being an intellectual) |
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| + | *[[Cape Feare]], [[The Springfield Files]], [[Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment|Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment]], [[Simpson Tide]], [[Pygmoelian]], [[The Computer Wore Menace Shoes]]: Moe commits a crime while running his bar (cages endangered animals [the pandas and the killer whale from SeaWorld]; runs a speakeasy when Prohibition is enforced; holds ''The Deer Hunter''-style Russian roulette matches; has an expired, falsified liquor license; imprisons Hans Moleman under the floorboards; allows a burning effigy on the premises and performs amateur surgery on Homer). |
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| + | *[[Colonel Homer]]: Homer gets kicked out of a movie theater (for spoiling the ending to the military thriller he and Marge are watching/for pointing out how tired and predictable ''Love is Nice'' is). |
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| + | *[[Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood]]: A Simpson kid (Lisa/Bart) assures another (Bart/Lisa) that cartoons don't have to reflect reality or make sense, and is proven right (Homer walks past the house, even though he's been sitting on the couch throughout the scene/Ozmodiar appears besides Bart). |
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| + | *[[Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily]]: The Flanders kids watch a violent cartoon (Itchy & Scratchy/Gravey and Jobriath) |
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| + | *[[The Day the Violence Died]]: reference to plagiarism in animation (Roger Meyers Jr. gets taken to court over his father stealing Chester Lampwick's credit for creating Itchy/Professor Frink and Comic Book Guy call out the fat voice actor for basing his character voices on real actors). |
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| + | *[[The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase]]: Ozmodiar appears. |
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| + | *[[The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show]]: |
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| + | **Homer voices a talking dog. |
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| + | **Poochie merchandise appears, despite him getting killed off on his second cartoon. |
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| + | *[[Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo]]: jokes about Japanese cartoons (the family going into epileptic fits over Battling Seizure Robots/Bart and Lisa watching an anime about a girl warrior attacking a robot wolf). |
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| + | *[[Lisa the Simpson]]: Someone pronounces "library" as "li-berry". |
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| + | *[[Brother's Little Helper]]: The Screaming Monkey Research Center looks similar to the Pharm Team building. |
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| + | *[[Saddlesore Galactica]]: The Comic Book Guy wears a "Worst _____ Ever" T-shirt. |
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| + | *[[Mayored to the Mob]]: The Simpsons go to a convention that appeals to geeks (sci-fi/animation) |
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| + | *[[Homer to the Max]]: jokes about the state of TV animation at the time (the line about TV networks liking animation because they don't have to pay the actors anything and they can be replaced/Marge's line about cartoons being everywhere "...or ''were'', last year...") |
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==Trivia== |
==Trivia== |
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| + | *This is the first episode to air in 2001, and the final episode to have season 11's "BABF##" production code. |
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| − | *According this episode, Moe knows some kind of surgery, at least knows how to insert a crayon in Homer's brain. |
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| + | *The episode was originally going to end with the crayon coming out of Homer's nostril during his hug with Lisa, with Homer then exclaiming, "Hey, I just remembered! PBS is showing an oral history of the Dust Bowl!" Lisa then pushes the crayon back up Homer's nose, and Homer responds, "Thanks, that was close." The episode that made it to air ended instead with a focus on Lisa's content face as she hugs Homer, who eats his sandwich and says, "Mmm, hug." |
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| − | *A phone number of Moe's plastic surgery is 800-555-0000. |
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| + | [[File:Notext.jpg|thumb|Homer's book is missing its text]] |
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| + | == Goofs == |
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| + | * When Homer looks at a book in the library, the book's text disappears. |
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| + | * The crayon was never found because Dr. Hibbert always had his thumb over it on the X-rays he showed. ''Although it's possible that he knew but he wanted to milk Homer out of money for unnecessary procedures, because later episodes show that Dr. Hibbert is a worse doctor than [[Nick Riviera|Dr. Nick Riviera]].'' |
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| + | * Though his intelligence increased, Homer didn't gain a better understanding of a long-term plan. Though everyone was laid off at the time, they would have gotten their jobs back once the plant safety was brought up to code. |
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| + | * Near the end of Homer's Animotion performance, as Homer walks off stage saying "Goodnight!" to the audience, the animated dog on the screen "walks" in place. But after Homer is shown going into the men's restroom, on the screen the dog walks from the right side back into the center to do his business. |
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| + | * Homer freaks out when he goes blind from the appetite suppressant, but "[[Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner]]" shows that Homer can sense food in other ways, like hearing pudding and being able to read what a cake says by sniffing the air. |
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Premiere
- This episode was watched by 18.5 million people in the US during its premiere.
Previous Episode References
- Homer Loves Flanders, So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show, Lisa the Simpson: Homer's stupidity is explained (Bart saying that being a loser is genetic, Homer losing his brainpower from being in a coma, The Simpson Gene, and Homer getting a crayon stuck in his head).
- Homer Loves Flanders: Homer imitates Marge (during his imagine spot of him wearing a tall, blue wig/while he's filling out bank papers)
- Mother Simpson: A flashback to Homer's childhood and his bedroom in the 1960s.
- Treehouse of Horror III ("King Homer"): reference to the scene in the original 1933 version of King Kong where Kong is chained up on a Broadway stage (King Homer is chained on the stage/Homer imagines King Kong chained on the stage during his "We're in the Money" imagine spot).
- Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk: Homer buys stock shares in a company with disastrous results.
- Lisa the Beauty Queen: A Dan Castellaneta-voiced character (Barney/Homer) gets a job as a human guinea pig.
- The Homer They Fall: Dr. Hibbert finds something strange about Homer's head/brain anatomy through an X-ray (the layer of fluid that makes Homer impervious to falling after getting hit/the crayon stuck in his head)
- Hurricane Neddy: A Simpson parent (Marge/Homer) solves a Rubik's cube.
- Simpson and Delilah: Homer finally gets the capitol of North Dakota right as Bismarck (on the former episode, he thought it was Hitler, because both Bismarck and Hitler are the last names of German leaders).
- Bart on the Road and Make Room for Lisa: Homer and Lisa bond.
- El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer: Homer sadly walking the streets looking for an intellectual safe haven is similar to him walking the streets looking for his soul mate after realizing Marge may not be the one.
- Fear of Flying: Homer gets banned from Moe's (for his lame sugar prank on Moe/for being an intellectual)
- Cape Feare, The Springfield Files, Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment, Simpson Tide, Pygmoelian, The Computer Wore Menace Shoes: Moe commits a crime while running his bar (cages endangered animals [the pandas and the killer whale from SeaWorld]; runs a speakeasy when Prohibition is enforced; holds The Deer Hunter-style Russian roulette matches; has an expired, falsified liquor license; imprisons Hans Moleman under the floorboards; allows a burning effigy on the premises and performs amateur surgery on Homer).
- Colonel Homer: Homer gets kicked out of a movie theater (for spoiling the ending to the military thriller he and Marge are watching/for pointing out how tired and predictable Love is Nice is).
- Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood: A Simpson kid (Lisa/Bart) assures another (Bart/Lisa) that cartoons don't have to reflect reality or make sense, and is proven right (Homer walks past the house, even though he's been sitting on the couch throughout the scene/Ozmodiar appears besides Bart).
- Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily: The Flanders kids watch a violent cartoon (Itchy & Scratchy/Gravey and Jobriath)
- The Day the Violence Died: reference to plagiarism in animation (Roger Meyers Jr. gets taken to court over his father stealing Chester Lampwick's credit for creating Itchy/Professor Frink and Comic Book Guy call out the fat voice actor for basing his character voices on real actors).
- The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase: Ozmodiar appears.
- The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show:
- Homer voices a talking dog.
- Poochie merchandise appears, despite him getting killed off on his second cartoon.
- Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo: jokes about Japanese cartoons (the family going into epileptic fits over Battling Seizure Robots/Bart and Lisa watching an anime about a girl warrior attacking a robot wolf).
- Lisa the Simpson: Someone pronounces "library" as "li-berry".
- Brother's Little Helper: The Screaming Monkey Research Center looks similar to the Pharm Team building.
- Saddlesore Galactica: The Comic Book Guy wears a "Worst _____ Ever" T-shirt.
- Mayored to the Mob: The Simpsons go to a convention that appeals to geeks (sci-fi/animation)
- Homer to the Max: jokes about the state of TV animation at the time (the line about TV networks liking animation because they don't have to pay the actors anything and they can be replaced/Marge's line about cartoons being everywhere "...or were, last year...")
Trivia
- This is the first episode to air in 2001, and the final episode to have season 11's "BABF##" production code.
- The episode was originally going to end with the crayon coming out of Homer's nostril during his hug with Lisa, with Homer then exclaiming, "Hey, I just remembered! PBS is showing an oral history of the Dust Bowl!" Lisa then pushes the crayon back up Homer's nose, and Homer responds, "Thanks, that was close." The episode that made it to air ended instead with a focus on Lisa's content face as she hugs Homer, who eats his sandwich and says, "Mmm, hug."
Homer's book is missing its text
Goofs
- When Homer looks at a book in the library, the book's text disappears.
- The crayon was never found because Dr. Hibbert always had his thumb over it on the X-rays he showed. Although it's possible that he knew but he wanted to milk Homer out of money for unnecessary procedures, because later episodes show that Dr. Hibbert is a worse doctor than Dr. Nick Riviera.
- Though his intelligence increased, Homer didn't gain a better understanding of a long-term plan. Though everyone was laid off at the time, they would have gotten their jobs back once the plant safety was brought up to code.
- Near the end of Homer's Animotion performance, as Homer walks off stage saying "Goodnight!" to the audience, the animated dog on the screen "walks" in place. But after Homer is shown going into the men's restroom, on the screen the dog walks from the right side back into the center to do his business.
- Homer freaks out when he goes blind from the appetite suppressant, but "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner" shows that Homer can sense food in other ways, like hearing pudding and being able to read what a cake says by sniffing the air.