Treehouse of Horror VIII/References

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Treehouse of Horror VIII

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Cultural References

• "The HΩmega Man" is an extended homage to film The Omega Man, which was one of Mike Scully's favorite movies as a child.
• The song Homer dances to in the church is "War" by Edwin Starr.
• In "The HΩmega Man," Homer runs over Johnny and Edgar Winter while fleeing the mutants pursuing him, and he cries, "Die, you chalk-faced goons!" The Winter brothers are both albino.
• The title "Fly vs. Fly" is a reference to the Mad magazine comic strip "Spy vs. Spy." The segment itself is

  

  Spy vs Spy

  based on "The Fly."
• The creature with 2 butts that comes out is reference to a Sean Silverstri poem in Where The Sidewalk Ends that explains the positives of a creature like that.
• The creature with Santa's Little Helper's head in one side and Snowball II's head in the other side is similar to CatDog
• In "Easy-Bake Coven", the animators referenced the film The Crucible for many of their designs.
• In "The HΩmega Man" when Ned says why Norms & Freaks can't get along, it is similar to the movie franchise "Monster High" where Normies (Humans) & Monsters do not get along.
• Edna Krabappel is wearing a Scarlet A, which is a reference to the novel The Scarlet Letter.
• "Easy Bake Coven" is loosely based on the Salem witch trials, while the title is a reference to the children's toy called an Easy-Bake Oven. There is a brief reference to the Looney Tunes character Witch Hazel when Marge, Patty and Selma float on their brooms and click their heels before flying away on their brooms.
• Taz's sounds are used when Bart's head is in the fly and there's another reference to the view of the cliff similar to a Roadrunner cartoon.
• Brad Bird has the scary name 'NEVERMORE'. This is based on the poem 'The Raven', also parodied in the original Treehouse of Horror.
• In "Easy-Bake Coven", Homer is dressed as Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie.
• In "Easy-Bake Coven" the way Marge, as a witch, announces to Patty & Selma (also witches) that she had to leave her family when they found out she was a witch, they asked if she finally "left Derwood." is how Endora messing up Darrin's name when talking to Samantha, "Derwood" being one of the frequent mix-ups from Bewitched.

Trivia

• This is the seventh Treehouse of Horror to have the cast's names changed due to Halloween e.g. Bat Groening. The first six being Treehouse of Horrors II-VII.
• Kang and Kodos originally weren't supposed to appear in this episode, but David Cohen managed to persuade the producers to keep them in.
• Homer already had a bomb shelter built, in the Tracey Ullman short "World War III".
• Marge, Patty and Selma click their heels before flying away on their brooms.
• Marge, Patty and Selma's brooms sound like airliner jet engines when flying.
• Technically, Homer's "That sounds like witch talk to me, Lisa" was correct because if Marge was a witch, then Lisa would be part witch.
• The actual TV rating system does not have a TV-21 or TV-666 rating in real-life.