Difference between revisions of "Three Men and a Comic Book/References"

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Cultural references[edit]

• The episode title is a pun on the movie Three Men and a Baby.
• Bart says to Lisa that all the comics she buys are "Casper the Wimpy Ghost", referring to Casper the Friendly Ghost.
  • Bart says that he thinks that Casper is the ghost of Richie Rich.
• The "Close Encounter of the Comic Book Kind" Convention is a reference to the Steven Spielberg film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
• Martin asks the lost and found if they have his left Vulcan ear, from Star Trek. In the lost and found is a utility belt from Batman of DC Comics, a couple of Tricorders from Star Trek and a lightsaber from Star Wars.
• Buddy Hodges said that he played Rum Tum Tugger in the second touring company of Cats.
• Lisa bought thirty-five Casper comics and a dozen Lois Lane comics for a dollar.
• Homer said that he didn't know what Superman saw in Lois Lane and he preferred Wonder Woman.
• When Bart's adult voice reflects on his getting a part-time job:
  • The scene is a reference to The Wonder Years and the show's motif of main character Kevin Arnold's adult self narrating the story of his growing-up years.
  • The voice is provided by Daniel Stern, who was the narrator for The Wonder Years. Daniel Stern is also a brother of then part-time Simpsons writer David M. Stern.
  • The song playing is "Turn! Turn! Turn!" by The Byrds.
• Teenage Patty sings along to "Venus" by Frankie Avalon.
• Bart sings "I Need Some Money" to the tune of "The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)" from Gold Diggers of 1933.
• Bart, Martin and Milhouse fighting over the comic is a reference to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
• Bart calling Martin "piggy" and threatening to put an apple in his mouth is a reference to Lord of the Flies.
• Bart trying to save Milhouse from falling is a reference to the Alfred Hitchcock film Saboteur.

Trivia[edit]

• The black & white showing of the Radioactive Man segment at the comic book convention is sponsored by Laramie Cigarettes, with Radioactive Man telling Fallout Boy he is too young to smoke ("Sorry, not until you are sixteen!"). Moments later, Buddy Hodges, the actor who played Fallout Boy in the serial, is seen holding a cigarette.
• Before they took up smoking, Patty and Selma's voices were feminine before they had deep, gruff, raspy voices.

Continuity[edit]

• Otto's Busman comic was adapted into a Simpsons Comics story released in Simpsons Comics #4, The Gnarly Adventures of Busman.