Treehouse of Horror XXII/References

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Treehouse of Horror XXII

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Trivia

• This is the first Treehouse of Horror since Treehouse of Horror XX that aired before Halloween, which isn’t saying much.

Previous episode references

• "Radio Bart": A Simpson (Bart/Homer) impersonated someone with a radio to selfishly manipulate a Flanders (Rod and Todd/Ned)
• "Homer the Whopper": One of the robbers Homer thwarts also appears in Comic Book Guy's Everyman comic
• "Treehouse of Horror IV": The Halloween special ends with a Christmas theme
• "Homer's Night Out", "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" and "Love is a Many Strangled Thing": A character (Marge/Abe/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar/God) strangles Homer
• "Simple Simpson" and "Homer the Whopper": Homer becomes a superhero
• "Jaws Wired Shut": Homer suffers from an injury (broken jaw/paralysis) that causes him to become mute without brain damage
• "Mobile Homer": A spider harms Homer
• "Treehouse of Horror VIII": A Simpson (Bart/Homer) suffers from a bug-related mishap
• "Treehouse of Horror XV": Ned murders another character (Homer/several Springfieldians)

Cultural references

• Homer getting his arm trapped in a boulder is a reference to 127 Hours.
• The way Ned kills Patty and Selma is a reference to Wille E. Coyote.
• Maggie emerging from Bart's "stomach" is a reference to Alien. This was previously parodied in the previous THOH opening.
• The third story "In the Na'vi" was based on James Cameron's Avatar, for example Hilarium is parody on Unobtainium.

List of Simpsons characters who portrayed Avatar characters

• Bart Simpson as Jake Sully
• Rigellians as the Na'vi
• Kamala as Neytiri
• Lisa Simpson as Grace Augustine
• Superintendant Chalmers as Miles Quaritch
• Milhouse Van Houten possibly portrayed as Norm Spellman

• In the beginning of the episode, Homer wipes his forehead with a bar of Hershey's chocolate.
• Dial D for Diddly references "Dial M for Murder".
• In the Na'vi references the song, "In The Navy".
• In the third segment, Superintendent Chalmers is in an exoskeleton that look the excact same as the exoskeleton called The Commander from ios game Sentinel 3: Homeworld.