Editing Guillermo del Toro opening sequence/References

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==Cultural References==

*There is a Mecha and a Kaiju battling it out in a reference to the 2013 Del Toro film, ''{{w|Pacific Rim}}''.
*Chief Wiggum looks similar to the Cyclops from the ''{{w|7th Voyage of Sinbad}}''.
*[[Alfred Hitchcock]] tosses bird seed on [[Mrs. Krabappel]] and birds attack her, referencing the movie, {{w|The Birds (movie)}}. 
*Groundskeeper Willie's appearance is a reference to [[Hellboy]] and the character he buries under the leaves is a Kroenen from the film.
*Homer's mutated appearance is a reference to the reapers from ''{{W|Blade 2}}''. Carl's appearance is a reference to [[Blade]] as well.
*[[Matt Groening]]'s original designs for the [[Simpson family]] from ''"[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]"'' are buried underground, as well as the skeleton of {{w|Godzilla}}.
*[[Mr. Burns]] is re-imagined as the Pale Man from Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning ''"{{w|Pan's Labyrinth}}"'', who ends up eating the unfortunate pixie [[Smithers]].
**The family also later recreates the final scene of the film during the couch gag.
*[[Maggie]] rides on the grocery checkout belt with scarabs from del Toro's first film, ''"{{w|Cronos}}"''
*del Toro's second film, ''"{{w|Mimic}}"'', is referenced, with [[Marge]] as the giant cockroach.
*The characters standing on the sidewalk are:
**Author {{w|H. P. Lovecraft}} is having coffee with the giant winged and tentacled  monster [[Cthulhu]], a reference to perhaps his most famous creation.
**{{w|Edgar Allan Poe}}, who holds up his arm for the (3-eyed) raven to alight, a reference to Poe's poem "{{w|The Raven}}".
**{{w|Ray Bradbury}} adding tattoos to a tattooed man, a reference to his book ''{{w|The Illustrated Man}}''.
**Fantasy and science fiction author {{w|Richard Matheson}} standing next to a hooded, cloaked figure wearing dark glasses, a zombie from the 1971 movie ''{{w|The Omega Man}}'', based on Matheson's novel ''{{w|I Am Legend (novel)|I Am Legend}}''.
*The {{w|Universal monsters}} ([[Dracula]], [[Frankenstein's monster]], {{w|The Wolf Man|the Wolf Man}}, the {{w|Creature from the Black Lagoon}}, the [[Mummy]], the {{w|Bride of Frankenstein}}, [[The Invisible Man]], and the Mutant from Metaluna from "''{{w|This Island Earth}}''") chase after a crowd of Springfield citizens. Referencing the mob that chases after the monster. 
*Maggie terrorizes [[Milhouse]] behind the wheel of the evil 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III from "{{w|The Car (film)|The Car}}''".
*Among the creatures and characters in the field next to the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|Simpsons' house]] are:
**Two aliens from the 1957 movie  ''{{w|Invasion of the Saucer Men}}''.
**The flying saucer and robot [[Gort]] from the 1951 movie ''{{w|The Day the Earth Stood Still}}'', with Gort shooting out a laser beam from his visor.
**Three of {{w|Ray Harryhausen}}'s sword-wielding skeletons from the 1963 movie ''{{w|Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)|Jason and the Argonauts}}''. 
**Ray Harryhausen's Ymir from the 1957 movie ''{{w|20 Million Miles to Earth}}''.
**The vampire {{w|Count Orlok}} from the 1921 movie ''{{w|Nosferatu}}''.
**The robot monster from the 1953 movie ''{{w|Robot Monster}}''.
**The pinhead {{w|Schlitzie}} from {{w|Tod Browning}}'s 1932 movie ''{{w|Freaks}}'', which could also reference Pepper from ''{{w|American Horror Story: Asylum}}''.
**"The Man in the Beaver Hat" from the 1927 lost film ''{{w|London After Midnight (film)|London After Midnight}}''.
**{{w|Rod Serling}}, author and host of the TV series ''{{w|The Twilight Zone}}'', smoking a cigarette.
**The robot from the TV series ''{{w|Lost in Space}}''.
**Coming out of the ground, a [[Morlock]] from the 1960 movie ''{{w|The Time Machine (1960 film)|The Time Machine}}''.
**A line drawing in profile of [[Alfred Hitchcock]] as in the beginning of TV series ''{{w|Alfred Hitchcock Presents}}'', being drawn by [[Hans Moleman]]
**The alien from the 1979 movie, ''[[Alien]]''.
*[[Homer]] is a pale-skinned ghost with a smoking head from del Toro's "''{{w|The Devil's Backbone}}''"
*Lisa falls down the rabbit hole a la ''{{w|Alice in Wonderland}}''.
*[[Hypnotoad]] from ''[[Futurama]]'' makes an appearance.