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Simpsons Bible Stories |
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Previous Episode References[]
- "22 Short Films About Springfield": Non-canon vignette episodes that aren't part of the "Treehouse of Horror" series.
- "Homer the Heretic":
- Simpsons family members are stuck in church during extreme weather (a blizzard/a heat wave).
- Homer angers God
- "There's No Disgrace Like Home", "Home Sweet Home-Diddily-Dum-Doodily", and "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment": The Simpsons are destined to go to Hell (Homer has a vision of Flanders and his family ascending to Heaven while Marge and the kids are devils luring him to drive them to Hell/Flanders tells Bart, Lisa, and Maggie they need a "less hellbound family" when he drives them to get baptized at the Springfield River/Lisa sees her family in Hell watching stolen cable/The Apocalypse ending where The Flanders go to Heaven and Lisa almost joins them until Homer pulls her down and the Simpsons go to Hell when the ground opens up).
- "Natural Born Kissers": Homer and Marge are naked outdoors.
- "King-Size Homer" Homer eats a talking pig
- "Simpson Tide": Homer eats an anthropomorphic food item (the doughnut defense attorney on The Planet of the Doughnuts/the talking pig in The Garden of Eden)
- "Treehouse of Horror IV": Flanders is a divine being (The Devil/God) on a non-canon episode of The Simpsons
- "Bart the General": Bart fights back against Nelson
- "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday": Homer regrets not using "those pizza coupons", which may or may not be the ones from Doughy's Pizza.
- "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" and "Marge Simpson in 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'": A joke implying that someone has soiled himself out of fear (one of the kids in The Bloodening predicts that the farmer "...hopes [he] has shepherd's pie in [his] knickers"/Homer taking a bunch of toilet paper after the rhino attacks the Port-A-Potty he's hiding in/Marge asking Bart if he's wearing clean underwear during the Apocalypse, and Bart replies, "Not anymore").
- "Homer Alone" and "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": Marge is naked and has her hair down (when she's taking a bath at Rancho Relaxo/when she's showering and finds her hair near the drain/when she's Eve in the Adam and Eve story).
- "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": Marge worries about Bart wearing clean underwear during a crisis.
Cultural References[]
- The oil lamp which lights Goliath II's cigar resembles the lamp from Disney's Aladdin. Ironically, gigantic wrestler/actor Andre the Giant, who was in the Fox-distributed 1987 film The Princess Bride, died in January 1993, two months after Aladdin's release.
- The line where Pharaoh Skinner notes that he enjoys the frog legs he is eating appears to mock the Jewish religion, which deems frogs as non-kosher food. Skinner is played by secular Jewish actor Harry Shearer.
- Bart's line of "No, the bush set me up!" references the arrest of Marion Barry in 1990. While Marion was being arrested he exclaimed "No, the bitch set me up!"
- Goliath II's roar before his death and his fall from the Tower of Babel parody Godzilla and King Kong films.
- David's careless judgement of Goliath, who was the "terrible" King he presumed him to be and was in fact "the greatest king they ever had," may be a parody of how some 1960s protest leaders, such and the Yippies and SDS, and Hollywood figures who were more willing to support the Kennedys carelessly judged U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded John F, Kennedy and who also behind-the-scenes had a more prominent role in passing civil rights and War on Poverty legislation, which involved things such as infrastructure construction, than the general public knew; evidence of his behind-the-scenes works was preserved through documented evidence such as Oval Office tapes.
- When Chief Wiggum shoves Lisa and Milhouse into the pyramid, he says 'Give my regards to the British Museum' a reference to how many Egyptian artifacts are on display in the UK.
- The Omni-Lash resembles a Cat-O-Ninetails whip, a precursor of which was actually used in Ancient Egypt, and was supposedly one of the whips used on Jesus by the Romans.
- The fantasy of Bart's dream was inspired by and references several films by Jerry Bruckheimer, particularly Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. It also uses various elements from other action films.
- Santa's Little Helper talks with a voice that reassembles of the dog Goliath in the 1960s Christian stop-motion animated television series Davey and Goliath.
Music[]
- Highway to Hell by Australian hard rock band AC/DC plays during the end credits.
- Winner Takes It All, which was featured on the soundtrack for the 1987 arm wrestling-themed film Over the Top, played while Bart trains. The training scene, which concludes with an arm wrestling match between David and the sheep, even parodies the song's music video, which features Hagar arm wrestle a character played by Sylvester Stallone, and/or the film Over the Top itself.
Adam with no navel
Goofs[]
Maggie with a blue pacifier and Charlie with gray-brown hair
- The story of Solomon comes before David and Goliath, but in the Bible it was the other way around. Also in the Bible, it says that Solomon is the heir and son of David.
- Chief Wiggum, in Bart's dream of David, asks the king David, "Where's your Messiah now?". But in the Bible, Jesus is descended from David's line and in Homer's dream Jesus is there, but Solomon was David's son and he was also an ancestor of Jesus.
- When God notices that Gary the Unicorn is dead, Adam's navel disappears a few times briefly.
- At one point, the blue and yellow of the Pharaoh's headpiece swap color with each other.
- At church, Charlie has gray-brown hair instead of his usual dirty blonde/ginger hair.
- For a moment, when Bart is falling asleep, Maggie's pacifier is blue instead of red.
- During the scene where Chief Wiggum and his officers are talking about the Omni-Lash, the piece of jewelry around Wiggum’s neck is missing.
Production Notes[]
- The final draft for this episode was published on August 13, 1998.[1]
August 13, 1998