Mom and Pop Art/References

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Mom and Pop Art

The Old Man and the "C" Student ►

Previous Episode References

• "Brush With Greatness": A Simpson parent (Marge/Homer) gets into art (Marge revives her painting hobby/Homer is dubbed an outsider artist)
• "Stark Raving Dad": Reference to Homer being a mental patient.
• "Homer's Phobia": Homer acts homophobic over the idea that Bart might be gay.
• "Bart Gets an Elephant": Flanders thinks a Biblical sign of the end of days has come true (thinking The Four Elephants of The Apocalypse [with Maude correcting him with "That's 'Horsemen', Ned"] have come because Stampy ran into his yard/thinks God flooded Springfield to drown the wicked and spare the righteous, but sees Homer alive).
• "The Springfield Files": The bait and switch joke of something nice and well put-together turning out to be a picture is used (the nice living room turning out to be the front cover of the Better Homes Than Yours magazine amid the Simpsons' messy living room/Homer complimenting on the nice barbecue grill he has allegedly built, then freaking out that the one he has built looks nothing like the picture on the box).
• "Bart the Lover", "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", "Dumbbell Indemnity", and "Homer at the Bat": Homer's ineptitude at being a handyman.
• "Bart's Inner Child": Homer goes insane trying to do something in the backyard (cut up the trampoline/build a grill).
• "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": Homer keeps something dangerous in Maggie's crib (a bottle of Schnapps/a shotgun)
• "Marge Gets a Job", "Treehouse of Horror III", "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (parts one and two), and "The Cartridge Family": Homer has a gun in the house.
• "Brother From Another Series": Evergreen Terrace gets flooded.
• "Maximum Homerdrive": Reference to Beanie Babies in conjunction with crime.
• "Homer's Barbershop Quartet": the Yoko Ono-esque Japanese conceptual artist that Barney once dated is seen.
  • "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", "Mr. Plow", and "A Star is Burns": Barney is talented, despite being a drunk.

Goofs

• When Jasper Johns is seen stealing a light bulb in the art museum, the light continues to shine even when he takes the bulb out and runs off.
• When we cut to Moe’s after Homer used his rage on his art, the buildings that were shown only are Moe’s and King Toots.

Production Notes

• The final draft for this episode was published on August 12, 1998.

August 12, 1998