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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 isnāt 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.
ā Season 22 | Season 23 References/Trivia | Season 24 āŗ |
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The Falcon and the D'ohman ā¢ Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts ā¢ Treehouse of Horror XXII ā¢ Replaceable You ā¢ The Food Wife ā¢ The Book Job ā¢ The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants ā¢ The Ten-Per-Cent Solution ā¢ Holidays of Future Passed ā¢ Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson ā¢ The D'oh-cial Network ā¢ Moe Goes from Rags to Riches ā¢ The Daughter Also Rises ā¢ At Long Last Leave ā¢ Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart ā¢ How I Wet Your Mother ā¢ Them, Robot ā¢ Beware My Cheating Bart ā¢ A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again ā¢ The Spy Who Learned Me ā¢ Ned 'N Edna's Blend ā¢ Lisa Goes Gaga |