Rome-Old and Juli-Eh/References

General

References/Trivia

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Credits

Quotes

• The title of this episode is a pun on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
• The battle sequence with Bart, Lisa, and the box salesmen uses The Fields of the Pelennor, a portion of the score from the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and the scene itself is a parody of the Battle of the Hornburg from The Two Towers and the Battle of the Pelennor Fields from The Return of the King. One of the A.S.S. delivery men even flies a Fell beast like the Nazgûl.
• When the A.S.S. legions show up at the Simpsons, Bart asks Lisa "Who knew a bunch of guys in brown shirts could cause so much trouble?" The reference is to the Brown Shirts of the Sturmabteilung (SA) who were the most violent members of the German National Socialist (Nazi) Party before they took over Germany in 1933.
• Lisa calls the box fort Boxingham Palace, a reference to Buckingham Palace.
• When Homer and Patty prepare their mental images so they can kiss each other without barfing, Homer imagines Patty as Marge, Marge as a cowgirl, Marge as a dancer, Marge as a satan and Marge as a chef, Patty imagines Homer as Edna Krabappel.
• When Abe gets the kitchen appliances confused, he thought the microwave was a TV, and put in a VHS of Sands of Iwo Jima.
  • It is interesting to know that Abe set it to run for two hours, but the movie is only 100 minutes long.