Difference between revisions of "A Streetcar Named Marge/References"

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Cultural references

• The plot references the film A Streetcar Named Desire, especially when Homer stands outside and yells: "Hey Maaaaaaaaaaarge!" to Marge, whom he can see through the window of Flanders' house. This is a reference to the scene where Marlon Brando's character Stanley Kowalski yells "Hey Steeeeeeeeeeella!".
• The scenes with Maggie trying to escape from the daycare centre (and later, to get the babies' pacifiers back) reference the film The Great Escape, especially the music and the scene where Maggie plays with a ball in her "cell" to kill time.
• When Homer, Lisa and Bart go to pick up Maggie from the daycare center, they see hundreds of babies sitting everywhere and sucking their pacifiers. Afraid but confident, Homer picks her up and leaves without saying a word. This is a reference to the film The Birds where the protagonists are confronted with hundreds of birds sitting on perches.
  • When Homer, Lisa, Bart and Maggie are outside, Alfred Hitchcock passes by with two dogs, in reference to a similar cameo the director made in The Birds.
• Maggie plays "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from "The Nutcracker" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on a xylophone.
• Author and philosopher Ayn Rand is mocked throughout the entire episode.
  • Head of the Ayn Rand School for Tots Mrs. Sinclair is reading "The Fountainhead Diet".

Trivia

• One of the objects Maggie tries to use to replace her pacifier seems to be a Bart Simpson toy.

Goofs

• As Marge is about to leave for her first audition, she walks across the room and she is wearing white slip-on shoes. Then her and Homer talk for a bit, then when it cuts to a wider shot after they talk, she now has her red flat-heels on.
• Apu is incorrectly colored yellow in the background during the first Blanche audition.