Homer Loves Flanders/References

Episode	References	Gags	Appearances	Gallery	Quotes	Credits

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Homer Loves Flanders

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Goofs

• Homer's car is green in this episode, rather than the usual pink.
• There is a hedge around the Flanders' yard in this episode, instead of a fence.
• The Simpsons' carpet is pink in this episode.
• Marge's necklace is white when Homer throws their wedding photo in the trash and she enters the room, but turns back to its normal red color when she picks it up.
• The person at the front of the ticket queue (presumably a scalper), bought 30,000 tickets but there would be a limit to how many tickets one person could purchase.
• Maude says that Rod and Todd aren't allowed sugar however if you don't eat enough sugar you will get Hypoglycaemia, which can cause death.
• Ned gets disturbed by Homer breathing through his nose during prayer and Ned shouts "BREATH THROUGH YOUR DAMN MOUTH!!!" at him, but in the Season 8 episode "Hurricane Neddy", Ned mentions to the Lord that he doesn't swear.

Citations

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day: When Homer chases the Flanders as they try to escape in their car, he holds the golf clubs the same way as the T-1000 had shaped its arms. This then leads to Homer using the clubs to grab a hold of the car in the same manner as the T-1000. The scene where Homer walks through the hedges is also similar to the scene where the T-1000 walks through a barred door.
• Vertigo: The scene where Flanders is walking up the square staircase is a reference to the bell tower from the Hitchcock film Vertigo.
• 1966 University of Texas Shooting: When Flanders, during a dream sequence, begins to shoot citizens at random from the vantage point of a clock tower, he is mirroring the 1966 actions of real life mass shooter Charles Whitman.

Trivia

• When Homer changes the radio station, "I've Got Two Tickets to Paradise" by Eddie Money plays, so naturally, Homer sings along and copies the guitar riff.
• While driving in his car, Homer is listening to a fictitious song by Bobby McFerrin entitled "I'm Worried, Need Money," a spoof of McFerrin's one-hit wonder from the late 1980s, "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
• The scene were Homer enters the bush to leave Ned's garage became a popular internet meme, often retouched to show Homer wearing the colors of one team, then reemerging wearing the colors of another.

◄ Season 4	Season 5 References/Trivia	Season 6 ►
Homer's Barbershop Quartet • Cape Feare • Homer Goes to College • Rosebud • Treehouse of Horror IV • Marge on the Lam • Bart's Inner Child • Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood • The Last Temptation of Homer • $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) • Homer the Vigilante • Bart Gets Famous • Homer and Apu • Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy • Deep Space Homer • Homer Loves Flanders • Bart Gets an Elephant • Burns' Heir • Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song • The Boy Who Knew Too Much • Lady Bouvier's Lover • Secrets of a Successful Marriage