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Life on the Fast Lane

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Moaning Lisa

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Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons)

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The Call of the Simpsons

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There's No Disgrace Like Home

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The Call of the Simpsons

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  • Penny Marshall
  • Christopher Collins
  • June Foray
  • Paul Willson[1]


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Bart the Genius

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  • "I will not waste chalk"

Homer's Night Out

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  • "I will not call my teacher 'hot cakes'"

Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons)

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  • "I will not skateboard in the halls"

Krusty Gets Busted

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  • "They are laughing at me, not with me"

Moaning Lisa

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  • "I will not instigate revolution"

Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons)

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  • "I will not yell 'Fire' in a crowded classroom."

The Call of the Simpsons

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  • "I will not draw naked ladies in class"

The Crepes of Wrath

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  • “Garlic gum is not funny”

The Telltale Head

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  • "I did not see Elvis"; one line reads "I did see Elvis"

There's No Disgrace Like Home

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  • "I will not burp in class"

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  • "I will not yell 'Fire' in a crowded classroom."[2]


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Homer's Night Out

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  • the family finds the couch occupied with exact clones of themselves.

Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons)

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  • The family hurries on to the couch which makes it collapse.

Krusty Gets Busted

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  • Maggie pops out of the couch, and lands in Marge's arms

Moaning Lisa

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  • The Simpsons pile on to the couch, Maggie pops up in the air and Marge catches her.

Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons)

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  • The entire family tightly fits onto the couch. No gag.

The Call of the Simpsons

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  • Nothing special.

The Crepes of Wrath

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  • The family hurries onto the couch and Homer pops off.

The Telltale Head

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  • Bart is squeezed off the couch, flies out of frame, and lands in front of the TV.

There's No Disgrace Like Home

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  • The family hurries on to the couch and Homer is squeezed off it.

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  • The entire family tightly fits onto the couch. No gag.[1]


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Bart the General

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  • This episode marks the first appearance of:
  • Ironically, Nelson doesn't say "Haw Haw!" (which he would later be infamous for) at all in his first episode, and didn't use it until "Three Men and a Comic Book" in Season 2.
  • Lisa calls her teacher "Mrs. Hoover" instead of "Miss Hoover."
  • During their first fight, Nelson hits Bart twelve times in the face before he knocks Bart out.
  • This is the first episode we see Bart cry. Homer then proceeds to dry his tears with a hairdryer.
  • This is the first episode we see Springfield Retirement Castle, the retirement home where Grampa Simpson lives.
  • Maggie does not appear in this episode
  • Grampa's list of words he does not want to hear on television again:
  • 1. Bra
  • 2. Horny
  • 3. Family Jewels
  • Milhouse now has blue hair (he had black hair in "Bart the Genius").
  • There are African shields and spears in Herman's antique shop.
  • Bart asks Herman whether he lost his arm in the war, to which Herman warns Bart, "Next time your teacher tells you to keep your arm inside the bus window, you do it!" Two episodes earlier, in "Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons)", Mrs. Krabappel tells the children to keep their arms in the bus and says, "We all know the tragic story of the young man who stuck his arm out the window and had it ripped off by a big truck coming in the other direction." However the audio commentary stated that it was supposed to be a running gag that Herman would explain his missing arm differently each time.
  • In the Czech-dubbed version Herman is portrayed as a Neo-Nazist, greeting Bart with the words "Sieg Heil, mein Junge" and claiming that he lost his arm while hailing from a bus.
  • The children go after the sandbag with a plunger, a feather duster and flyswatters, before Herman finishes it off with a bayonet.
  • Bart and his army use a classic Pincer's movement to attack Nelson. "It can't fail against a ten-year-old!"
  • In Herman's model of the town, he spells the "Kwik-E-Mart" as "Quick-E-Mart."
  • Marge brings the cupcakes in before Nelson signs the treaty and we never actually see him sign it.
  • In the United Kingdom, this was one of the first episodes released on video cassette in the early 1990s, and thus was many viewers' introduction to the series (especially in the days before the series was shown on terrestrial television).
  • In Bart's first dream sequence, he throws 10 knives at Nelson, and shoots at him 98 times.

Homer's Night Out

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  • This episode marks the first appearances of Carl Carlson (though his voice is different) and Shawna Tifton (Princess Kashmir), who is seen again in "Lisa's Pony", in which she is dating Apu.
  • On the photocopying machine it says 5 cents on the label but it says 10 cents on the coin slot

Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons)

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  • The episode marks the first appearance of:
  • On their way to Springfield Powerplant the children pass the Springfield Toxic Waste Dump, the Springfield Tire Yard (which is not on fire as of yet), the Springfield State Prison, and Springfield Elementary School.
  • Mrs. Krabappel tells the children to keep their arms in the bus and says, "We all know the tragic story of the young man who stuck his arm out the window and had it ripped off by a big truck coming in the other direction." To which Bart says (with his arm in his shirt), "And I was that boy!" Two episodes later, in "Bart the General", Bart asks Herman whether he lost his arm in the war, to which Herman warns Bart, "Next time your teacher tells you to keep your arm inside the bus window, you do it!"
  • A sign at the plant reads, "Our Safety Record: [7] Days Since Last Accident."
  • Bart's report card includes an F in Social Studies, an F in Math, a D in Physical Education, a U in Science, a U in Reading, and a U in Writing.
  • Homer pens his suicide note on "Dumb Things I Gotta Do Today" stationery. And his suicide attempt is a simulation Virginia Woolf died.
  • When Homer reaches the bridge he is almost run over by who appears to be Hans Moleman, who zooms by in a car.
  • El Barto is signed on the steps of city hall when Chief Wiggum talks about the graffiti problem in Springfield. He then passes around an artist sketch of the culprit who looks like an older and tougher Bart Simpson.
  • Springfield Shopper headlines: "Simpson Says Safe!," "Dozens Cheer Homer Simpson," "Homer Simpson Strikes Again!," "Watch Out, Here Comes Homer," and "Enough Already, Homer Simpson!"
  • In the scene where Homer and another man are making the announcement to everyone, if you look very carefully you can see a man in the background who looks like Brad Goodman from season 5 episode "Bart's Inner Child".
  • Mr. Burns' voice is slightly different than usual. This is because Christopher Collins performed his voice for this episode.
  • Waylon Smithers was accidentally animated as an African American due to a communication error with Korean animators. The mistake was explained as Smithers had an extreme suntan. A similar mistake was made with Sherri and Terri's father, also drawn as black, despite his children both being ghost-white (He hasn't appeared in the show since, even at events such as their birthday party, where their much whiter-skinned mother was present.). Perhaps Sherri and Terri are biracial.

Krusty Gets Busted

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  • Krusty's main clown competition is Hobo Hank. Hobos were among the acts Krusty claims to have flattened in "Krusty Gets Kancelled."
  • In a flashback of Krusty's heart attack, he is advertising pork products. Being a rabbi's son, it is ironic to eat pork, being against Jewish dietary laws.

Life on the Fast Lane

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  • Occasionally, this episode is called "Jacques to Be Wild". When the episode was originally planned, it called for Albert Brooks to voice "Björn" (a parody to Björn Borg), a Swedish tennis instructor, but Albert Brooks thought it would be better to make Brooks' character French. The title was, therefore, originally "Bjorn to Be Wild".
  • Albert Brooks is credited under the name "A. Brooks" in this episode, as with all his other appearances on The Simpsons.
  • The stores Homer passes in the Springfield Mall are The International House of Answering Machines, The Jerky Hut (too salty), The Ear Piercery, The Caramel Corn Warehouse (too corny), and Girdles n' Such Fancy Lingerie (too exciting).
  • Among the past birthday gifts Homer has given to Marge are a tackle box and a Connie Chung calendar.
  • Marge's shoe size is 13 AA.
  • Jacques strangely loses his French accent when he calls out, "Four onion rings!"
  • The moon is seen to have three craters on it, much like a bowling ball when Jacques is dropping her off.
  • Jacques takes Marge to Shorty's Coffee Shop for brunch.
  • Hank Azaria does not take part in this episode
  • This is Helen Lovejoy and Lenny's first appearance.
  • This Is Also The First Apprence Of Charlie, Jaques& Barneys Bowlarama
  • Jacques lives at the Fiesta Terrace.
  • Jacques appears again in The Simpson's 7th Season episode "Team Homer" and makes a brief cameo as a bowler in the past in "And Maggie Makes Three" He also appears in the "Do the Bartman" music video and virtually every time the Bowlarama is seen.
  • The plot of this episode was submitted to the Dear Abby column disguised as a real-life problem. [2]
  • At one point, creator Matt Groening cited this as his favourite episode (to the surprise of many fans).[citation needed]
  • Like Bart The General, the opening sequence is quickly cut off
  • In popular terminology a gift given with the selfish intent of being used by the giver rather than the receiver is referred to as a "bowling ball for Marge," citing this episode.

Moaning Lisa

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  • Lisa brushes her teeth with "Glum Toothpaste".
  • In the script, the opening scene with Lisa looking into the mirror is called "an Ingmar Bergman moment."
  • Lisa finds Bleeding Gums Murphy on the same bridge Homer was going to jump off of in order to commit suicide in "Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons)".
  • Bart's prank call to Moe: Bart calls Moe's Tavern and asks for Jacques, last name Strap. Moe's response: "When I find you I am going to gut you like a fish and drink your blood." This is the second prank call. Moe's hair is now gray.
  • This episode marks the first appearance of Ralph Wiggum, however his appearance, his mannerisms, and his voice are different from how he would be for the rest of the series.
  • The season 18 episode "Moe'N'a Lisa"'s title may have been a slight reference to this episode's title.
  • Lisa is wailing out for "the homeless family living out of its car, the Iowa farmer whose land has been taken away by unfeeling bureaucrats, the West Virginia coal miner..."
  • The note from Principal Skinner says, "Lisa refuses to play dodgeball because she is sad."
  • Games at the Noise Land Video Arcade, the games include Eat My Shorts, PAC-RAT II, Itchy vs. Scratchy, Escape from Grandma's House, and Robert Goulet Destroyer.

Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons)

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  • The episode's production number is 7G01, as it was the first Simpsons episode produced and, if not for the aforementioned animation problems, it would have served as the series premiere.
  • Dr. Marvin Monroe's Therapy Hotline number is 555-PAIN.
  • When Dr. Marvin Monroe says "I'm as sure as my voice is annoying.", this is referencing how difficult and annoying it was for Harry Shearer to provide Monroe's voice. As commented on audio commentaries in both the first and third season DVD sets, this is much of the reason that Marvin Monroe seldom appeared in the series, and partly why he was "killed off" in season 6.
  • The name of the baby sitting service Marge calls is: Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Baby-sitting Service.
  • Homer maintains a clean shaven appearance for exactly seven seconds. Then his beard stubble starts to grow back.
  • Chilly is the elf who cannot love.
  • The number for America's Most Armed and Dangerous is 1-800-U-SQUEAL.
  • The name of the band at the restaurant is The Larry Davis Experience. They would return for the party in "Homer to the Max".
  • Maggie falls over 22 times. (The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family says 19.)
  • One of the elves' faces on the title card for the elves movie resembles Professor Hubert Farnsworth, a character in Matt Groening's later show, Futurama.
  • A continuity error in this episode is, in the scene where Bart is shown sitting tied up on the couch and Ms. Botz walks in carrying a tied-up Lisa in her arms before dumping her on the sofa alongside Bart, you can see quite clearly that the rope Ms. Botz has used to bind Lisa is wound right around her body from the neck right down to her ankles. A few shots later when Maggie comes down and frees her, the rope tying Lisa's legs together at the knees has disappeared.
  • Ms. Botz makes a background appearance in the mental hospital in "Hurricane Neddy".
  • This Marks The First Appearance Of:
  • This Is the first Technical Appearance Of:

The Call of the Simpsons

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  • Flanders makes $27 more a week than Homer does (although this is based on Ned's original job at a pharmaceutical company, not the Leftorium).
  • Signs at Bob's RV-Roundup (formerly RVs R Us): "We give credit to everyone!"; "Bad Credit. Good!"; "Bankruptcy Shmankruptcy."
  • The Ultimate Behemoth RV: two-stories high with a fireplace, a full kitchen, four deep fryers---"one for each part of the chicken," a big-screen television set, and its own satellite, the Vanstar I.
  • The breaking Bigfoot report interrupts the president's address.
  • Signs advertising the Bigfoot cottage industry include "Half-Man, Half-Ape Burgers" and "Get Your Photo Taken with Bigfoot."
  • The fact that Homer is indeed the missing link is referenced again in "The Monkey Suit".
  • This is the first episode to feature Albert Brooks as a guest star. Like all his appearances, he is credited as A. Brooks.
  • Bart wears his "lucky red hat" for the first time in this episode.
  • This is the first episode in which Rod Flanders appears, but it is very brief.
  • This episode was the theme of a Burger King promotion including kids meal toys and collectable cups.
  • At the time of production, the writers and producers felt that this episode had the potential to be made into a two-part story. However, they eventually decided to make it as a single episode.

The Crepes of Wrath

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  • Homer mistakes Albanians for albinos
  • Seymor's nickname is “Spanky”, according to Mrs. Skinner.
  • Adil is from Tirana, Albania.
  • While Bart is in France, he stays at the “Château Maison”, which means “Castle House” in English.
  • The donkey's name is Maurice.
  • Bart has to go get antifreeze from 74 Voltaire Street (74 rue Voltaire); the 7 is drawn European-style, with a horizontal line through the middle.
  • Early in the episode, there is some actual dialogue in Albanian between Adil and his family, but later on the dialogue is just gibberish. The dialogue in French is very loosely translated, but correct, however.
    • The only notable mistake is that César's line "Qu'est-ce que je t'avais dit?" (What have I been telling you?) is translated as "He sees well enough", however, César's argument to Ugolin was that adding too much antifreeze to wine would not cause death, or blindness, hence the said translation. Also, "anti-freeze" is not translated; it should be "antigel".
  • When Bart talks to the policeman, the man says "Excusez moi? Je ne parle pas anglais... Voilà un bonbon... Je suis désolé, j'aimerais vraiment pouvoir vous aider." (Excuse me? I don't speak English...Here's a piece of candy...I'm sorry, I really would like to be able to help you).
  • In later seasons, Agnes Skinner's personality seems vastly different to her kindly demeanor in this episode. In the DVD audio commentary, Matt Groening offers the theory that her current mean streak can be attributed to being a victim of Bart's prank.
  • By the end of this episode Bart can speak perfect French. Later, in the episode “The Monkey Suit”, Bart's chalkboard gag is "Je ne parle pas Français" ("I don't speak French").
  • The number of Bart's flight back to the USA is 1988 (dix-neuf cent quatre vingt huit).
  • This is the first episode of the series to satirize a particular nation (other than America), in this case France. Episodes targeting another nation would become a recurring theme (typically once per season) in later seasons.

The Telltale Head

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  • In The Simpsons Hit & Run level 02,a Buzz Cola of Jebediah Head is on the statue.
  • Marge pulls a Radioactive Man comic book from inside Bart's jacket before leaving the house for church.
  • Homer has an 8-track tape deck in his car.
  • A member of the angry mob carries a sign with the likeness of Jebediah Springfield's head and the words, "Have You Seen Me?"
  • The football announcer on Homer's car radio says, "This could be the most remarkable comeback since Lazarus rose from the dead."
  • Announcer: "Wolodarsky takes it at the 5... oh my, he fumbles," reference to show writer-producer Wallace Wolodarsky.
  • A sign inside church where Rev. Lovejoy has just given a sermon on the evils of gambling reads, "Bingo---Tuesday Night. Monte Carlo Night---Wednesday. Reno Retreat Saturday."
  • This is The first Episode were Tress MacNeille Takes part in
  • The movie marquee reads, "Space Mutants IV: The Trilogy Continues."
  • Among the items Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney steal from the Kwik-E-Mart is a copy of Playdude magazine.
  • Kearney stands on the lawn and leans on a sign that reads "Keep off the Grass."
  • Sideshow Bob's hair evolves from a huge red afro.
  • This is one of five Simpsons episodes to display the title on the screen, excluding the Treehouse of Horror episodes. The others are "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", "22 Short Films About Springfield", "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" and "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular".
  • Bart pronounces "wrath" incorrectly.
  • The Season 1 DVD boxset is missing two scenes from the episode: one where Bart told the crowd that, after decapitating the town statue, he realized he was taking his heritage for granted (an issue that would later resurface in Season 7's "Lisa the Iconoclast"), and another with church bells ringing. It is rumoured that these scenes, which add up to 28 seconds, were added to comply with an FCC regulation that all cartoons must include this length of educational content.
  • The DVD does, however, contain two scenes that were not in the original broadcast; an extended remark from Otto ("It's beautiful, man!"; "man" was not in the original broadcast), and Homer telling Bart that "most lynch mobs aren't this nice". These scenes add to five seconds; note, however, that the run time for this episode on the Season 1 DVD set is 22:42, and the run time for its original broadcast is 23:05. Bart mentions earlier in the episode that the story takes "about 23 minutes and five seconds" to tell; the story itself is only 17 minutes and 10 seconds, though this more likely refers to the length of the full episode.

There's No Disgrace Like Home

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  • This episode marks the first appearance of:
  • Lou is not African American in this episode, though he is later.
  • This episode was the first to be broadcast by the BBC, on BBC One on 23 November 1996, making it the first episode to be seen by UK terrestrial viewers (the satellite channel Sky One had shown the program since 1990). Moving to BBC Two from 10 March 1997, it continued on the BBC until terrestrial rights moved to Channel 4 in 2004.
  • This was the first episode seen in Australia on Channel Ten on February 3, 1991 . [citation needed]
  • This episode is usually shown as the first episode of Season 1 on German television as "Eine ganz normale Familie" (An ordinary family) and was the first to be aired on Premiere in 1991 and later that year on ZDF. The German DVD release of season 1 puts it into the US order of episodes. It was most likely chosen as episode 1 because it introduces a lot of characters and explains how the Simpsons work as a family. The Tracy Ullman sketches had not been seen in Germany.
  • Red, purple, green, blue: The colors of Jell-o molds Marge makes for the picnic.
  • A sign outside Burns manor reads, "Poachers will be shot."
  • The hypnotic show The Happy Little Elves supervises the children in the nursery at the company picnic.
  • Smithers wears his plant I.D. even at the picnic.
  • Marge gets drunk on punch that has "a little al-key-hol in it."
  • This is the first episode that Bart says his catch phrase "Don't have a cow."
  • This is the first episode that the Simpsons have been shot at.
  • The police dog's name is Bobo, which would later be used of the name for Mr. Burns' teddy bear in "Rosebud". When Homer is saying that they have to get $250 for the therapy, a teddybear that looks exactly like Bobo can be seen on a lower shelf near the stereo.
  • The phone number for Dr. Monroe's center is 1-800-555-HUGS.
  • Bart and Lisa's college fund amounts to $88.50, and Homer gets $150 for pawning his television, which means he had to find $11.50 in his wallet to afford the family therapy.
  • Their TV is a Motorola (note that Motorola hadn't made televisions since 1974), and the pawn clerk knows Homer's name when he enters.
  • Dr. Monroe keeps his aggression therapy mallets in a gun cabinet.
  • This episode appears in both Die Hard 2 and the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Glen Campbell". In the latter, Space Ghost and Zorak are watching the episode at the very beginning, and Space Ghost comments, "Er, which one's Homer again? The baby?"
  • At Marvin Monroe's therapy center, the family that Homer idolized at the picnic sits in the reception area.
  • The family that Marvin Monroe cures are a younger version of The Simpsons.
  • Marge's drawing of Homer is quite crude, in later seasons it would be established she is actually an accomplished artist.
  • The exact title of this episode can be found to vary slightly in different sources. One of the most common variations is There's No Place Like Homer.
  • This episode very much sums up the differences in character in the first season, with Marge being the one showing the family up, and Homer being ashamed by his family and striving to do better. Most surprising of all is Homer selling the television set - something the more recognised Homer of later seasons would never do.
  • While watching the boxing-match at Moe's, Homer says that his mother said to him: "Homer, you're a big disappointment". Given what we know from later episodes, it is more likely that Homer's father would say something like that.
  • This is the first time we see Marge drunk at the picnic.


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  • War movies - several war movies are parodied or homaged in various scenes throughout the episode:
    • Full Metal Jacket - The scene where the "trainees" do pull-ups and other exercises on a jungle-gym-type structure as the sun sets in the background.
    • The Longest Day - The shot of the GI helmet resting on its top while Nelson and his goons try to escape
    • Patton - Several lines of dialogue, Bart slapping one of his soldiers (for "being a disgrace") and the music are lifted directly from the movie. "The key to Springfield has always been Elm Street. The Greeks knew it, the Carthaginians knew it, now you know it."
    • Stripes - Herman running up and jabbing the training dolls with his bayonet, just like in the movie.
  • Life V-J Day photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in New York's Times Square - One of Bart's "soldiers" grabs Lisa and passionately kisses her, the moment preserved on film. The pose of both the boy and Lisa are identical to the famous photograph shot by Alfred Eisenstaedt. However, Lisa slaps the boy and tells him to knock it off.
  • Nuremberg Trials - The cronies' comments, "We were only following orders," effectively summarize those of Adolf Hitler's former Nazi leaders during the trials.
  • Italy in World War II - Earlier on Nelson's cronies follow him loyally, but when they are surrounded, they give up to Bart's army. In World War II, Italy was originally a loyal ally to Germany, and followed Mussolini, however when the Allies made advances, the Italian military surrendered to the Allies and betrayed Mussolini and declared war on Germany.
  • Peace treaties – Various peace treaties (and events surrounding them) are referenced in the armistice between Bart and Nelson:
  • ABC Afterschool Special and CBS Schoolbreak Special - Bart's post-episode speech, where he warns about the dangers of war and recommends further reading on the topic, pays homage to those "after school specials."
  • Herman uses a declaration of war from the Franco-Prussian War and changes "Otto von Bismarck" to read "Bart Simpson" and changes "Napoleon III" to read "Nelson Muntz."

Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons)

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  • Get Smart - The powerplant doors that open up in different forms.
  • The Odyssey - The episode title comes from the Greek epic.
  • Al Jolson - Burns says: “I haven't seen anything like it since Jolson.”
  • John Henry was a Steel Driving Man - Bart is forced to sing it because he was being too loud on the bus.

Krusty Gets Busted

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  • Black Sox Scandal – The famous line, "Say it ain't so, Joe!" is mimicked when Bart utters, "Say it ain't so, Krusty!"
  • The Flintstones – Lisa's line, "If cartoons were meant for adults, they'd put them on in prime time", is a stab at The Simpsons' predecessors-in-kind.
  • The Day the Music Died – The Channel 5 pre-trial report, "The Day the Laughter Died", is a play on the common phrase, referring to the plane crash that killed rock stars Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
  • Hamlet – Bart's observation, "Comedy, thy name is Krusty!" is a play on the Hamlet line, "Frailty, thy name is woman!"
  • Time and Newsweek - Krusty is shown on the cover of Timely and Newsweekly magazines.
  • Romania - Kent Brockman says, "children of all ages, from eight to eighty, hang on each new development like so many Romanian trapeze artists."
  • Krusty the Clown – several references:
  • Book burning - The townspeople participate in a public burning of Krusty memorabilia.
  • "Burning Love" – The title of Elvis Presley's 1972 hit is used as the title of the first Itchy & Scratchy short (as well as another reference to The King).
  • Mission: Impossible – The distinctive theme to the 1960s crime drama plays as Bart and Lisa arrive at the Kwik-E-Mart to begin their investigation of the armed robbery.
  • The New York Review of Books – Sideshow Bob's version is The Springfield Review of Books, which contains "amusing caricatures of Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag".
  • The Man in the Iron Mask - Sideshow Bob reads the end of the chapter "An Homeric Song", and announces, "Next week, chapter 35 of The Man in the Iron Mask: 'The Death of a Titan.'"
  • Cole Porter - Bob sings "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" to end his show.
  • Stoicism - Just before Bart announces he has solved the mystery, Bob says, "In ancient Greece, there was a school of thought called stoicism".
  • Scooby-Doo – Sideshow Bob's line, "And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for these meddling kids", is akin to what the villain says when caught at the end of every "Scooby-Doo" episode.
  • Tom and Jerry – Because this is their first full-fledged appearance, Itchy & Scratchy are a violent parody of the famous MGM cat and mouse duo. Scratchy fills Tom's shoes as the hapless cat, who is forever tormented by Itchy the mouse, an ultra-sadistic version of Jerry.
  • Woodsy Owl – Krusty's poster, "Give a hoot, read a book!" is a spoof of Woodsy Owl's advertising campaign, "Give a hoot, don't pollute!"
  • Garfield and Friends the plot of this episode is similar to an episode called "Binky Goes Bad" in which Binky the clown is framed for robbery.
  • The Beatles - Beatles records and merchandise were burned after John Lennon was quoted saying the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus'.

Life on the Fast Lane

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  • The title is a pun on The Eagles' song "Life in the Fast Lane". The initial title ("Bjorn To Be Wild") was meant to be a play on Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild".
  • When Homer comes home after buying the bowling ball for Marge, he whistles the tune of In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg, just as Peter Lorre's character did in the 1931 film M
  • Lisa and Bart begin to go through something similar to the "12 stages of divorce for kids" from Matt Groening's book "Childhood is Hell" of the Life in Hell series. Lisa says there are "eight separate stages". She is shown experiencing stage three, fear, and "mired" in stage five, self-pity. Bart is shown experiencing stage two, denial, as well as fear.
  • The scene near the end parodies the film An Officer and a Gentleman, and contains the same music, "Up Where We Belong".

Moaning Lisa

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  • The episode title is a play on Leonardo da Vinci's painting the Mona Lisa.
  • The video game Bart & Homer play is based on Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!.
  • The background noise of the arcade is the music from the Tetris arcade machine.
  • Lisa's school band is practicing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", the patriotic American song, based on the melody of the British national anthem "God Save the Queen". Mr. Largo says to Lisa, "There's no room for crazy bebop in My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
  • The controllers being used on Bart's video game system resemble Atari 2600 joysticks, but the graphics on the TV would suggest a newer model console.

Some Enchanted Evening (The Simpsons)

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  • The chalkboard gag sentence is a reference to the old "don't yell fire in a crowded theater" rule.
  • "America's Most Wanted" - The "America's Most Armed and Dangerous" show is a parody of the FOX network show. The host of the parody is a John Walsh-soundalike (voiced by Christopher Collins).
  • The Happy Little Elves - These elf-like creatures are similar to other fantasy folk-type cartoon characters, most notably The Smurfs and The Care Bears.
  • "Jaws" - The ominous-sounding music as Ms. Botz approaches Bart and Lisa is similar to the music that plays when the bloodthirsty shark is about to attack in the movie.
  • "Patricia" - Homer hums the song, made famous by Cuban bandleader Perez Prado.
  • "Some Enchanted Evening" - The episode title is taken from the title of a song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" and is also the name of a 1978 Blue Öyster Cult album.
  • A dirty limerick - When Homer calls the babysitting service he gives them a fake name of Samson, reiterating it with the line "No, I said Samson, not Simpson." This is a reversal of the poem, which ends with "My name is Simpson, not Samson."

The Call of the Simpsons

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The Crepes of Wrath

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  • The episode's title is a play on John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath" (the movie that is based off the novel, is, like The Simpsons, a Fox property).
  • The two winemakers, César and Ugolin, are named after the peasants from the 1986 French films Jean de Florette, and Manon des sources (Manon of the Springs), according to producer George Meyer.
  • On the way to the chateau, Bart and the motorcycle driver pass through several famous paintings.
  • Ugolin whistles the melody of “Alouette” while walking to the fields;

The Telltale Head

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  • The episode title is a reference to the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. In addition, Bart actually hears the head talking when he is overcome with guilt. The story also very similar to Paul Jennings' "....Headley Hopkins...".
  • The Bridge over the River Kwai - the line "What have I done?"
  • When Bart awakes to a find the head of Jebediah Springfield in bed next to him, it is reminiscent of the scene from "The Godfather" where Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) "persuades" Woltz to cast Fontane in the movie by leaving the head of the producer's prize racehorse in his bed.
  • Homer reads about a bowling ball called "The Hammer of Thor" that will "send your pins to Valhalla."
  • When Bart wakes up, he says "Top of the world, ma!", referring to the final scene of White Heat.

There's No Disgrace Like Home

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SimpsonsGoofs

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  • In the background of the nuclear power plant Lenny (white) and Carl (black) are working but they swap races. They return to normal in the next shot (Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons))
  • When Bart's class is walking down the hallway at the nuclear power plant, one of the twins (either Sherri or Terri), is animated as just a floating head. (Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons))
  • When Homer goes out of the house after writing his suicide note and picks up the stone, his lips move but no words are spoken. (Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons))
  • Waylon Smithers was accidentally animated as an African American due to a communication error with Korean animators. The mistake was explained as Smithers having an extreme suntan. A similar mistake was made with Sherri and Terri's father, also drawn as black despite his children both being ghost-white. (He hasn't appeared in the show since, even at events such as their birthday party, where their much whiter-skinned mother was present.) (Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons))


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Homer's Odyssey (The Simpsons)

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  • Waylon Smithers was accidentally animated as an African American due to a communication error with Korean animators. The mistake was explained as Smithers having an extreme suntan. A similar mistake was made with Sherri and Terri's father, also drawn as black despite his children both being ghost-white. (He hasn't appeared in the show since, even at events such as their birthday party, where their much whiter-skinned mother was present.)
  • When Bart's class is walking down the hallway at the nuclear power plant, one of the twins (either Sherri or Terri), is animated as just a floating head.
  • When Homer goes out of the house after writing his suicide note and picks up the stone, his lips move but no words are spoken.
  • In the background of the nuclear power plant Lenny (white) and Carl (black) are working but they swap races. They return to normal in the next shot


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  1. ^ a b c Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "Some Enchanted Evening". BBC. Retrieved 2007-02-12.
  2. ^ a b Richmond, Ray; Antonia Coffman (1997). The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to our Favorite Family. Harper Collins Publishers. pp. 30–31. ISBN 0-00063-8898 Parameter error in {{ISBN}}: checksum-1.
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