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Treehouse of Horror XVI/References

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Cultural References

  • The first segment is a parody of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
  • The end of the first segment concludes with a short parody of The Exorcist featuring a possessed Homer.
  • The song featured during Bart's jealousy segment is "New Kid in Town" by The Eagles
  • The second segment is a parody of The Most Dangerous Game, a 1923 short story by Richard Edward Connell.
  • The title "I've Grown a Costume to your Face" is a reference to the song "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from My Fair Lady. It is also an allusion to a song that Bart and Sideshow Bob sing in Bart's room in the episode "The Great Louse Detective", Season 14.
  • In the beginning segment, Kang and Kodos wonder if by speeding up time, maybe the Chicago Cubs can actually win the World Series. As of 2005, it has been 97 years since that club's last World Series title, and 60 years since their last Series appearance.
  • "B.I.: Bartificial Intelligence" spoofs the music video for the Herbie Hancock song, "Rockit." In the scene where Bart meets the group of robots in the woods, that song is played accompanied by a walking pair of robot legs that were featured in the video.
  • After all of Springfield's citizens are turned into real-life versions of their costumes, Mayor Quimby as Mayor McCheese says while being licked at by dogs quotes "I am not a happy meal right now" which is a reference to the McDonald's happy meals.
  • At the end of "I've Grown a Costume to your Face", Maggie the witch flies up to the moon to the theme music of Bewitched, the animation is also very similar to the Bewitched title animation.

Trivia

  • The episode is very similar to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Halloween", in which most of the residents of Sunnydale don cursed costumes that transform them into what they are dressed as. It is also similar to the classic Twilight Zone episode The Masks in which four greedy heirs are turned into monsters by the hideous masks each wears at their benefactor's behest, Halloweentown, and The Fairly OddParents Halloween special ("Scary GodParents") in which Timmy wishes that everybody's Halloween costumes were real. The episode is also similar to an issue of the Simpson Comic Bartman, in which an Itchy and Scratchy brought to life through alien technology create a nuclear explosion which turns the Simpsons into costumed superheroes.
  • This is first Treehouse of Horror to not be the premiere of its season since Treehouse of Horror X.
  • Among the costumes in "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face":
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