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The Fight Before Christmas |
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Cultural References[]
- The intro melody is a traditional song Carol of the Bells.
- The title is a parody of the book The Night Before Christmas.
- Katy Perry's song I Kissed a Girl is mentioned and said by Mr. Burns.
- It is the first time Katy Perry has been featured in The Simpsons.
- The DVD Maggie holds up is called the Fluppets, a parody of The Muppets.
- In the last segment Abe and Jasper are Statler and Waldorf, the two Muppets who comment on everything.
- There is a Powerpuff Girls episode of the same title.
- That episode actually has a fight and came first. Out of the many, many other titles The Simpsons could have choose, they choose this one. Kinda weird right?
- Bart's dream is a parody of the 2003 CGI movie The Polar Express.
- Dummkopf is a parody of Disney's Dumbo. The real Dumbo can also be seen seeing Dummkopf.
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is a real book by American journalist William L. Shirer.
- When Bart becomes Vice President of ClausCo at the North Pole, Peanuts character Schroeder can be seen playing his piano.
- Marge killing Hitler and the Nazis at Le Gamaar is a reference to the 2009 move Inglourious Basterds.
Continuity[]
- Second time Homer and Bart are seen 3D.
- Second time Homer has met a human.
- This is the second time the Simpsons sang "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
Trivia[]
- This is the first time the entire Simpson family is seen in 3D, as a previous episode, "Treehouse of Horror VI", only saw Homer and Bart in this style.
- This episode, alongside Simpsons Bible Stories, Four Great Women and a Manicure and 22 Short Films About Springfield are the only anthology episodes that contain more than three stories.
- At the end of the episode, as a tribute to Sesame Street, stated by Simon Singh's book "The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets", it ends with the traditional sponsorship announcement. However, the announcement says "Tonight's Simpsons episode was brought to you by the symbol umlaut, and the number e; not the letter e, but the number whose exponential function is the derivative of itself."
Goofs[]
- When the Security snowmen are melting, Lisa briefly disappears. She reappears later when Bart eats one of the guard's "nose".
- Televisions already existed in 1944, but they were very rustic and expensive.
- Martha Stewart managed to get pine tree branches from Marge's window, but the only thing close to the window was her improvised ladder with a fence.
- Katy is looking raunchy and is in a very seductive mood.