• New article from the Springfield Shopper: Krusty’s aunt helps repair Homer’s relationship with Patty and Selma this December!
  • Wikisimpsons needs more Featured Article, Picture, Quote, Episode and Comprehensive article nominations!
  • Wikisimpsons has a Discord server! Click here for your invite! Join to talk about the wiki, Simpsons and Tapped Out news, or just to talk to other users.
  • Make an account! It's easy, free, and your work on the wiki can be attributed to you.
TwitterFacebookDiscord

Cape Feare/References

Wikisimpsons - The Simpsons Wiki
< Cape Feare
Revision as of 23:15, September 27, 2010 by UxieLover1994 (talk)
References/Trivia


Cultural References

  • The whole episode is a parody of the 1962 film, Cape Fear.
  • In the town of Terror Lake, Sideshow Bob stays at the Bates Motel, a reference to Psycho.
  • After boarding the Thompsons' houseboat, Bob attacks Bart with a machete, a possible reference to Friday the 13th movies, where the killer Jason Voorhees uses a machete as his primary weapon.
  • When Ned Flanders jumps out of the bushes and scares Bart, he is wearing a clawed glove with which is used to trim his hedges. The glove is a obvious reference to the Nightmare on Elm Street films, where Freddy Krueger kills his victims in their dreams with a razor-fitted glove.

Movie Moments

  • While the entire episode is a reference to the original Cape Fear film, one scene specifically referenced the 1991 remake. When Sideshow Bob is in a movie theatre, smoking and laughing uproariously, it is similar to the poor conduct of Max Cady (played by Robert De Niro) in a movie house where he laughs loudly at the film Problem Child, annoying the other moviegoers.

Trivia

  • This episode was banned in Germany due to the amount of violence and tension in this episode, and also due to the beginning featuring a character holding the ranking of Obergrupperfuehrer and wearing a complete SS officer's uniform. (Germany has laws prohibiting the use of Nazi references and symbols; for example, displaying the swastika is an offense punishable by up to one year of imprisonment.)
  • This episode was the last episode produced by original team that did the show.

Template:Season 5 R