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== Goofs == | == Goofs == | ||
| + | [[File:Wronghead.jpg|thumb|Homer's head misaligned with his shirt]] | ||
| + | [[File:Missingknot.jpg|thumb|Space between Hibbert's knot and robe]] | ||
| + | [[File:Offproportion.jpg|thumb|Homer out of proportion with the cars]] | ||
*The "Honeybunch" insignia wasn't on [[Horatio McCallister|Captain McAllister]]'s ship until Homer mentioned it and it wasn't seen when Homer was thrown off the ship. | *The "Honeybunch" insignia wasn't on [[Horatio McCallister|Captain McAllister]]'s ship until Homer mentioned it and it wasn't seen when Homer was thrown off the ship. | ||
*It is impossible to explode your kidney from "holding it in" too long, because it is the bladder that holds the urine. | *It is impossible to explode your kidney from "holding it in" too long, because it is the bladder that holds the urine. | ||
*The tracks in the concrete appear before the railcar wheels rolled over it. | *The tracks in the concrete appear before the railcar wheels rolled over it. | ||
*When Homer was parallel parking the railcar, he looked awfully out of proportion to the cars on either side of him. If you look closely you'll see that he barely comes up to the height of the trunk on the closest car. | *When Homer was parallel parking the railcar, he looked awfully out of proportion to the cars on either side of him. If you look closely you'll see that he barely comes up to the height of the trunk on the closest car. | ||
| + | *When the Simpsons are in the car, at one point Homer's head is misplaced slightly so that there appears to be a piece of shirt under the collar where his head is meant to be. | ||
| + | *As Dr. Hibbert laughs after Homer exits the hospital, the bottom of the knot on the back of his hat repeatedly disappears, so that there is a noticeable space between the bottom of the knot and Hibbert's shirt (even though the former is supposed to behind the latter). | ||
*The dialogue during the gunfight was not put into closed captioning. | *The dialogue during the gunfight was not put into closed captioning. | ||
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Cultural references
- The scene where the car breaks down outside Springfield Retirement Castle and Homer tries to restart the engine while Abe walks slowly towards the car parodies the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead.
- Grampa sings "Happy Birthday to Me".
- Homer said he wanted to watch Inside the Actor's Studio.
- Grampa reads Jack and Jill to a young Homer. Homer then asks if it's the same Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk, "Jack Sprat", "Jack Be Nimble", Jack Frost and "Little Jack Horner".
- At one point "Doc Martens" and "Dr. Bombay" are called for over the hospital intercom. "Doc Martens" refers to a British footwear brand Dr. Martens and "Dr. Bombay" refers to a character from the 1960s sitcom Bewitched.
- Call Me Delish-Mael is a pun on "Call me Ishmael", the opening line in the novel Moby-Dick.
- Krusty sings "You Are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker.
- The ship of lost souls scenes bears a resemblance to "No Exit" by Jean Paul Sartre.
- The man in dinner jacket is a parody of Peter Lorre.
- The sequence of Homer nearly being run over by a car references Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North by Northwest.
Trivia
- Dr. Hibbert said both of Grampa's kidneys were fine the day before the "blowout", but in "Old Money", Grampa tells Bea Simmons that he has only one working kidney.
- Homer didn't pay for his sailor outfit when he was "fleeing in shame".
- When the Simpsons leave Bloodbath Gulch, a blue Canyonero drives past.
Goofs
File:Wronghead.jpg
Homer's head misaligned with his shirt
File:Missingknot.jpg
Space between Hibbert's knot and robe
File:Offproportion.jpg
Homer out of proportion with the cars
- The "Honeybunch" insignia wasn't on Captain McAllister's ship until Homer mentioned it and it wasn't seen when Homer was thrown off the ship.
- It is impossible to explode your kidney from "holding it in" too long, because it is the bladder that holds the urine.
- The tracks in the concrete appear before the railcar wheels rolled over it.
- When Homer was parallel parking the railcar, he looked awfully out of proportion to the cars on either side of him. If you look closely you'll see that he barely comes up to the height of the trunk on the closest car.
- When the Simpsons are in the car, at one point Homer's head is misplaced slightly so that there appears to be a piece of shirt under the collar where his head is meant to be.
- As Dr. Hibbert laughs after Homer exits the hospital, the bottom of the knot on the back of his hat repeatedly disappears, so that there is a noticeable space between the bottom of the knot and Hibbert's shirt (even though the former is supposed to behind the latter).
- The dialogue during the gunfight was not put into closed captioning.
