The Cartridge Family/References

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◄ Treehouse of Horror VIII

The Cartridge Family

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Trivia

• This episode was originally banned in the UK because of the soccer riot opening and the episode depicting guns in a comical and positive light (which the UK's censor boards finds to be offensive and likely to encourage others into committing gun violence, especially with the Dunblane school massacre occuring around the time this episode premiered).
  • Despite this, the episode did appear on a UK VHS called The Simpsons: Too Hot for TV (which includes a lot of episodes that have been banned and heavily-edited shown uncut and uncensored) and on the season nine DVD set.
  • When the episode finally aired on UK TV, the end scene of Marge trying to throw out the gun, but stopping when she realized it makes her look cool was edited, making it seem that Marge got rid of the gun offscreen, yet the edit ruins the explanation of why she was walking like a femme fatale when she exited the motel.
• In this episode, Homer goes through the five day waiting period he needs to retrieve his gun. The blackboard gag for "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" implies that Bart was against the waiting period.
• Homer's gun record is the following: Frequent problems with alcohol, put in an insane aslyum (Stark Raving Dad), beat up former president George H.W. Bush (Two Bad Neighbors)
• "The Waiting" by Tom Petty plays when Homer waits five days for his gun.
• The things that pass by Homer during his five-day waiting period for a gun: a line of baby ducks, a Target store truck, Patty and Selma on a tandem bike, and Ned Flanders on a riding mower.

Cultural References

• The gun shop is based on the shop that the LAPD went to during the North Hollywood bank robbery when they ran out of ammunition.
• The title of this episode is a play on the name of 1970s television series The Partridge Family.
• The end music is the theme to the 1960s show The Avengers.
• The song playing when Homer is sitting and watching things go by while he is waiting five days for his gun is The Waiting by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Petty rarely lets his music be used on television, but being a fan of The Simpsons, he allowed them to use it.