Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"/References
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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 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
- 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.
