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== Cultural References == | == Cultural References == | ||
Revision as of 17:38, March 13, 2020
Cultural References
- The story's title is a pun on the 1977 sci-fi film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
- While Lisa is playing with her dolls:
- She has Malibu Stacy tend to a sick pony, calling her "Doctor Malibu Stacy Medicine Woman", a reference to the 1990s TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
- She finds that Bart has pranked Malibu Stacy by switching her head for a monkey's head and exclaims in dismay, "A Planet of the Apes head on Malibu Stacy?"
- Homer and Bart watch a FOX TV show called When Cartoon Animals Attack Other Cartoon Animals, a reference to When Animals Attack!.
- When Bart is playing with the controls on Kang's and Kodos's ship:
- He zaps David Hasselhoff while he's performing "Hooked on a Feeling" for Oktoberfest.
- He presses a button which activates the "Crop Circle Ray" and draws a peace symbol in Otto's herb garden.
Continuity
- The El Barto and El Grampo graffiti tags are seen on a "Welcome to Springfield" sign when Kang and Kodos arrive in town.
- When Bart is playing with the controls on the aliens' ship, he inadvertently uses the "cow-defacing gun" to leave the El Barto tag on a cow.
- Kodos says to Kang, "I'm sending this one [Bart] back. Unless you want to eat him?" Bart defiantly says, "Eat my shorts!"
