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The Wizard of Oz is a novel that spawned several film adaptations.

References to The Wizard of Oz in The Simpsons

Episodes

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
3	38	"When Flanders Failed"	Homer asks Ned if The Leftorium is in "the merry old land of Oz".
42	"Treehouse of Horror II"	When Mr. Burns is scooping out Homer's brain, he hums "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz.
4	72	"Selma's Choice"	On their way to Aunt Gladys' funeral, Bart and Lisa sing "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" from The Wizard of Oz.
79	"Whacking Day"	Kent Brockman teases that a segment on Eye on Springfield will be about the Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz and where they are now.
5	85	"Rosebud"	Mr. Burns' guards are parodies of the Winkie Guards.
90	"The Last Temptation of Homer"	Mr. Burns sets his flying monkeys free. However, they just fall to the ground rather than fly.
91	"$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"	Homer quotes the line "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining sides.", only to be corrected by another man. This line was said by the Scarecrow.
6	115	"Homer the Great"	Homer says that he has to follow the "yellow drip road", a reference to the yellow brick road.
122	"Lisa's Wedding"	In Lisa's future, several people dressed as Tin Men, a Scarecrow and a Cowardly Lion are seen going to auditions for "Wizard of Oz".
11	231	"E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"	At the movie theater, when Homer has butter put on his Milk Duds to the point of overflow he says "Swim, my pretties," a parody of the Wicked Witch of the West's call to her flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz: "Fly, my pretties:". (This line isn't actually said in The Wizard of Oz, but Homer is relying on popular understanding.)
12	265	"Simpson Safari"	One of the pictures in Joan Bushwell's "Serious Research" book is of The Wizard of Oz.
13	278	"Jaws Wired Shut"	When Homer is twirling Maggie around by her pacifier, the music playing is the music from the tornado scene in 'The Wizard of Oz.
15	331	"Catch 'Em If You Can"	Grampa says that his feet were the feet sticking out from under the house in The Wizard of Oz.
21	450	"Thursdays with Abie"	Instead of the usual music of the choir singing "The Simpsons," the "Miss Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West" theme from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is heard as Agnes Skinner rides her bicycle across the title.
23	496	"Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson"	The "Liberal straw man's song" is a parody of "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz.

External links

The Wizard of Oz at Wikipedia

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