Difference between revisions of "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson/References"

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Cultural references[edit]

• The episode's chalkboard gag, "I am not licensed to do anything" is likely a pun on Licence to Kill from the James Bond series.
• The Springfield Ivenstorettes invested in El Bombastico, a Mexican lucha libre wrestler. According to the poster, El Bombastico performs at "El Coliseo de Tijuana". This is a reference to the Arena Coliseo, an arena primarily used for lucha libre which is located in Mexico City, but not in Tijuana.
• At the Franchise Expo, Investo the Robot shouts "Danger, danger!" after Bart damages its circuits with soda. This is a reference to the same phrase used by the Environmental Control Robot in the TV series Lost in Space.
• At Disco Stu's Can't Stop the Learnin' Disco Academies:
  • The disco song "The Hustle" by Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony is heard.
  • There is a poster of John Travolta in his iconic role as Tony Manero in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever.
  • Disco Stu does Fonzie's "Eyyyyyyy" from the sitcom Happy Days.
  • Stu's goldfish platforms are similar to the pair worn by Flyguy (Antonio Fargas) in the 1988 film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
• Patti LaBelle's famous 1987 hit "New Attitude" is heard when Helen, Edna, Agnes, Luann and Maude buy Fleet-A-Pita.
• The "You'll be there" speech Frank Ormand gives to Marge when she buys the pretzel franchise is a parody of the "I'll be there" speech Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) gives to "Ma" Joad (Jane Darwell) in the 1940 American drama film The Grapes of Wrath.
  • Frank Ormand, voiced by Jack Lemmon, is based on Lemmon's character from the American tragedy film Glengarry Glen Ross.
  • In his speech, Ormand references Bavaria, as pretzels have been an integral part of German baking traditions for centuries.

Marge places a Hang in there, Baby motivational poster. The poster dates back to late 1971

• Marge places a Hang in there, Baby motivational poster in the garage. The poster dates back to late 1971.
• The popular song "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac is heard when the Fleet-A-Pita van arrives to Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.
• Marge tries to have a peaceful relationship with Fleet-A-Pita and compares the two to department stores Macy's and Gimbels. Gimbels was also considered the chief rival of Macy's with their feud popularized in American culture.
  • Agnes recalls that Gimbels is "long gone". The company closed in 1987, ten years before this episode aired.
• Two of the Spuckler children, Rumer and Scout are named after two of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's children, Rumer Glenn Willis and Scout LaRue Willis.
• The name of another of the Spuckler Children, Q-Bert, is based on the 1982 arcade video game Q*bert.
• Mr. Burns wins a 1997 Pontiac Astrowagon at the Springfield War Memorial Stadium. The car was designed to resemble the Pontiac Trans Sport minivans from the 90s generation.
• The scene with the crowd throwing pretzels to the field is based on an incident where the Los Angeles Dodgers were forced to forfeit. It happened on August 10, 1995, when the fans threw promotional baseballs onto the field to protest a bad call during the 9th inning.
• Former baseball player Whitey Ford tries to calm down the riot. He is also mentioned to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• The decorated front yard of Frank Ormand's house, with the moving mechanical art parodies the garden in Sam Bissell's home in the 1964 film Good Neighbor Sam. Sam was also portrayed by Jack Lemmon, who voiced Frank Ormand in this episode.
• "The Lineman" by Sam Spence (better known nowadays for its use in SpongeBob SquarePants) plays during the montage when the Mafia takes out the other businesses.
  • This scene parodies the hitting jobs in the 1990 crime drama Goodfellas.
  • The scene where Legs stabs a pizza at Luigi's is a parody of an scene from The Godfather where Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) kills Virgil Sollozzo (Al Lettieri) at Louis Italian-American Restaurant.
• The Fleet-A-Pita owners hire the Japanese organized crime group Yakuza to fight the Springfield Mafia.

Goofs[edit]

• When the short Yakuza member was thrown though the kitchen window, he went into the backyard, but the battle was waging in the front yard - However, it is possible that he just ran around to the front, or the fight enveloped the grounds.
• When everyone started throwing pretzels at Mr. Burns in the stadium, pretzels started coming off-screen from nowhere.
• A laser is pointed at Principal Skinner; however, seconds later, the laser is nowhere to be seen. Although the laser could have been moved away from being pointed at the face.
• At the fair, Helen Lovejoy picks up a pita and bites a corner off it. Then there's an angle change where Christopher tells Helen the ingredients. When the camera cuts back to Helen, the pita is untouched.
• Many coloring mistakes occur during the mafia fight, when there is a top-down view of the gangs advancing on each other members of the Yakuza have the colours of Fat Tony, Legs and Louie, when Marge suggests her and Homer go inside, Louie is seen backing away from the overweight member of the Yakuza but has Legs' colours and when Homer starts talking about the short Yakuza member, another member of the Yakuza passes shouting "Hi-ya!" he also has Legs' colours, also when there is a shot of the kitchen with the gang war seen through the window we briefly see Legs with Louie's colours.
• When Marge throws down the fliers, one of the people in the crowd who is African-American briefly has a yellow (Caucasian) arm, it happens twice both times when his arm is in the bent position.