Treehouse of Horror XXI/References

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Treehouse of Horror XXI

Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life ►

Cultural References

Monster Office

Opening

• The creature inside Professor Frink when he goes past the X-ray resembles an Alien.
• Frink has made his own Frankenstein's monster.
• The monster refers to The Office, and the scene that immediately follows parodies the show's opening.
• The first few frames of the opening credits are also done in the same style as The Office.

War and Pieces

• The segment is a parody of Jumanji.
• Board games that come to life include:
  • Taffy Land (Candy Land)
  • Kerplunk (various building games)
  • Drops and Risers (Snakes and Ladders)
  • Consternation (Concentration)
  • Ravenous Ravenous Rhinos (Hungry Hungry Hippos)
  • Mouse Catch (Mouse Trap)
  • Battleboat (Battleships)
  • Funopoly (Monopoly and Monopoly variations)
  • Crate of Apes (Barrel of Monkeys)
  • Yahtzu (Yahtzee)
  • Tiddlywonks (Tiddlywinks)
  • Satan's Path
  • Spinning tops
  • Connect Three (Connect Four)
  • Tumble
  • Ice Hockey Game
  • Dominoes
  • Blocko (Lego)
  • Chess
  • Mystery Dude (Mystery Date)
  • Operation
  • Scrabble
  • Clue
• Colonel Ketchup (Colonel Mustard).

Master and Cadaver

• The title is a homage to the 2003 movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
• The plot parodies Dead Calm.
• At the end, Maggie imitates Alex from A Clockwork Orange.
• In the beginning scene, we see that Marge was about to be attacked by a shark, referencing Jaws.

Tweenlight

• The Twilight series is punned in the title and parodied throughout the segment.
• Yogi Bear is seen with Ranger Smith's head.
• Big Bird from Season street is bitted by.
• Seen in Dracula-la Land:
  • Grandpa Munster
  • Michael Jackson
  • Blackula
  • Nosferatu
  • Booberella
  • Count von Count
  • Dracula
  • Count Fudge-ula
  • Selene

Trivia

• This is the first time the viewers were told not to watch ever since Treehouse of Horror V.
• This is the first time since Treehouse of Horror XVII that no-one broke the fourth wall at the end to wish the viewers happy halloween.
• Bart, Lisa, and Milhouse were the only ones known to not be in one of the board games when they came to life, though there were some others that we didn't see (such as Maggie, Ned, or Patty).
• This episode aired after the three week hiatus on FOX.
• The Wilhelm scream is heard at a couple of places in the episode:
  • During the "War and Pieces" segment, when Bart and Milhouse kill enemy characters in the video game they're playing.
  • After the closing credits, when the Gracie Films card appears.
• This is the second episode where Homer plays Drops and Rises. The first was Any Given Sundance.
• It actually was 187 seconds between the words "Joel Cohen Will Die In 187 Seconds" and "As Predicted, Joel Cohen Just Died" in the opening credits as Joel H. Cohen is both a Co-Executive Producer and a Writer in this episode.
• The answer to the puzzle on the Consternation box is "A Board Game Rip-Off"

Goofs

• When Edmund was about to bite Lisa they were on the window seal, but come next seen they were standing up.