Difference between revisions of "King of the Hill/References"

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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the animated series King of the Hill, which aired on Fox from January 1997 to September 2009 and usually aired with The Simpsons.
• The mountain Homer climbs, The Murderhorn, is a parody of the Matterhorn.
  • The Matterhorn is also parodied in the two-page comic spread Itchy & Scratchy's Holiday Wonderland!, as the Splatterhorn.
• In the untitled McBain film, McBain is working with UNICEF, a United Nations Programme that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.
  • McBain also fights against Commie-Nazis, a reference to both Communism and the Nazis.
• The children, Homer and Ned play the game Capture the flag.
• Homer reads in his Powersauce bar that Deng Xiaoping had died. Xiaoping died over a year before the episode aired.

Continuity

• Zebra Girl makes another appearance, first appearing in "The Canine Mutiny".
• In the scene with Wolfcastle in the gym, Homer says that two months ago he didn't even know what dumbbell meant. The episode "Dumbbell Indemnity" was broadcasted exactly two months and two days before "King of the Hill".

Goofs

• Homer says that he only eats Powersauce bars. However, he also said that he only eats things in bar form, compressing spaghetti bolognese into a bar and eating that.