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Steal This Episode
A reference to the 2000 biographical film Steal This Movie!, which looks at Abbie Hoffman’s conversion to life as an activist.
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Specs and the City
A reference to the late 90s/early 2000s television show Sex and the City – the less adult aspect of the title is a nod to the Google Glass-style “Oogle Goggles” Mr. Burns gives his employees.
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Days of Future Future
A reference to Days of Future Past, the X-Men comic series published in 1981, before being adapted as a movie in 2014.
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The Yellow Badge of Cowardge
A reference to “The Red Badge of Courage”, a civil war novel written by Stephen Crane and published in 1895.
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Dead Putting Society
A play on the title of the 1989 Robin Williams-starring film Dead Poets Society.
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Homer Alone
This is a play on the blockbuster Home Alone films – Homer being left alone with the kids due to Marge visiting Rancho Relaxo.
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A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love
I’m just a hunka hunka burning love
A not-so-veiled reference to the above lyrics from Elvis Presley’s classic “Burning Love”.
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Treehouse of Horror
Following the first in Season 2, each subsequent year has featured a Halloween episode with the title “Treehouse of Horror”, however they are also known as “The Simpsons Halloween Special”, followed by the number of the episode in Roman numerals.
The Treehouse aspect comes from the first episode, in which Bart and Lisa share scary stories in Bart’s own treehouse – though the only horror being experienced was by Homer.
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Treehouse of Horror, Part III: The Raven
Not a parody in this instance, as they utilise Edgar Allan Poe’s well known poem “The Raven”, with Homer as the narrator, and Bart as the titular Raven.
