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Homer the Vigilante |
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Trivia[]
- A poster in Flanders' rumpus room reads: Seven days without a drink makes me weak.
- Pictures of Fat Tony and Ms. Botz (the babysitter bandit) can be seen at Springfield Police Station.
- Kwik-E-Mart's street number is shown to be 4950.
- There is an "El Barto" graffiti tag on the police station's wall.
- The graffiti being written by Jimbo reads 'carpe diem' Latin for 'Seize the Day'.
- This was the second episode in a row to include a Dr Strangelove reference, in this case Homer riding the nuclear bomb with a cowboy hat.
- When Homer is riding in the sidecar with the Rapmaster 2000 megaphone people on the street mistake him for MC Hammer.
- This is the first episode to air in 1994.
- The improvised uniforms Homer's vigilantes are wearing are:
- Homer: A Victorian-era jungle explorer outfit.
- Skinner: A Green Beret uniform.
- Apu: An Indian Army uniform circa the 1800s.
- Barney: A fast food restaurant uniform
- Moe: A Boy Scouts uniform, topped with a Kaiser German helmet.
- Skinner appears to be wearing his Vietnam era uniform including his previously stated green beret. His rank insignia is unclear and changes color and shape throughout the episode. He wears a single circular medal with a blue ribbon which could be a number of decorations and a blue bar above his medals which could be the Presidential unit citation. Skinner should at least have a Vietnam campaign medal (Yellow and red stripe) and likely a purple heart.
- Chief Wiggum lists the Simpsons address as 723 Evergreen Terrace.
- One of the kids dancing behind Homer and Barney’s bike looks like a younger Homer.
- Principal Skinner's trading card put out in 1994 by SkyBox has "his most prized possession" his Stormin' Norman Commemorative Plates show on the front as plates of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf in army fatigues making a salute behind an large American flying behind him.
Cultural References[]
- The race scene at the end of the episode parodies It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, numerous characters from the movie appear, including Phil Silvers, whom Bart tricks into driving his car into a river.
- Homer imagines himself riding the bomb, in a parody of Dr. Strangelove.
- The scene between Homer and Skinner outside the museum references Dragnet.
- Molloy is based on David Niven's character A. J. Raffles from the film Raffles.
- The opening scene parodies the opening scene of the film To Catch a Thief.
- Principal Skinner's Stormin' Norman Commemorative Plates are a reference to Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf who got the nickname "Stormin' Norman" because he lead "Operation Desert Storm" in 1991 in the Gulf War.
Goofs[]
Apu's hand is yellow
The opening of Homer's shirt overlaps his hand
- When Nelson calls Bart about his stamp collection, the closed-captions miscredit the line to Milhouse.
- When everyone is cheering for Ned, Apu's hand is yellow.
- At the 4:30 mark, there is a white handwriting in a black background that reads "SC-59" backwards which is shown for a split second.
- In one shot where Homer, Barney, and Apu hold crowbars, Barney blinks and one of his eyelids is not filled in for a frame.
Barney's unfilled eyelid
- When Homer is on the news talk show he puts his hand on his chest and the opening of his shirt appears over the back of his hand.
- Homer's lips don't move when he says, "No burning leaves without a permit!", nor does the man's lips move when he says, "I got one!"
