The Computer Wore Menace Shoes/References

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The Computer Wore Menace Shoes

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Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the 1969 Disney movie The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, which was remade into a TV movie in 1995, starring Kirk Cameron.
• The episode is both a parody of, and an homage to, the 1960s TV series The Prisoner. Patrick McGoohan voices Number 6 in the episode, reprising his character from The Prisoner (In the episode, "The Village" has been replaced by "The Island").
• When Comic Book Guy reads the rumor on Mr. X's Homepage regarding the supplies for road maintenance being diverted by Mayor Quimby to developing a swimming pool in his office, Comic Book Guy shouts "There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling!", mirroring a line made by Treebeard upon the discovery of Saruman's destruction and burning of its forests for Sauron in the second installment of The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy: The Two Towers.
• When Homer is sailing away, the boss of the clan is watching him from a big building with a round window, and is trying to stop him using different things. This is a reference to the 1997 movie The Truman Show, when Truman Burbank is trying to escape from the fake town.

Trivia

• Number 6's boat took 33 years to built according to him. This is a reference to the year that The Prisoner first aired on TV (1967).
  • When the boat is later stolen by Homer, Number 6 proclaims that it's the third time the boat has been stolen from him. In The Prisoner, Number 6 managed to escape from The Island twice with a boat in different episodes.
• List of websites Homer visits:
  • Springfield Police Home Page
  • The Dancing Jesus Home Page
  • Homer's Web Page (made by Homer)
  • Mr. X (made by Homer)
• The computer salesman says one of his computers is the kind astronauts use to do their taxes and Homer says, "I was an astronaut!" The salesman doesn't believe him, but Homer was actually an astronaut during the episode "Deep Space Homer."
• In Matt Groening's other show Futurama Bender calls himself Mr.X so he won't be killed by the mafia.
• In this episode Homer spreads gossip on Springfield's denizens. Such gossip was previously spread in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken," where it was suggested the gossip gets posted on the internet. However in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" it was revealed that Homer had a lot of secrets, making him hypocritical.

Goofs

• Near the new pool, there is a guy with the words "City Worker" on the back of his blue shirt putting finishing touches on a statue. He is using cement from a bag labeled POTHOLE CEMENT. Later, when we see people repairing the pothole, they are wearing orange jump suits, and the stuff they are filling the hole with is most definitely tar.
• When Homer enters his URL to show the family his page, all the keys he types are function keys, control keys, and numeric keypad keys—but no letters.
• When Homer has the computer in the kitchen it has a can holder and other features. But when he is using it on the sofa it has none of those features on it.
• Doesn't Lisa have a computer with Internet connection (in "A Tale of Two Springfields," she looks up a website called whatbadgerseat.com)? If so, then what was the point of Homer buying one of his own?
• Potholes are actually treated with a 'Cold' or 'Hot' mix, depending on the season, which it's a asphalt-based mixture, not cement.
• Hit Counters aren't updated in real-time.
• If Burns and Smithers didn't want anyone to know what they were up, why didn't they just use the executive washroom since low-level workers, like Homer, aren't allow there?
• The woman presenting the Pulitzer never mentioned the category in which Homer won the prize.
• In this episode Homer ran a website. In Das Bus, he ran an internet company (despite not knowing that the Internet exists on computers).