Diggs/References
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Cultural references
- The episode is a parody of Catcher in the Rye[1]
- Marge says the mental hospital Diggs is staying at is an Arkham Asylum type of place referencing Arkham Asylum from the DC Comics.
- The episode makes various allusions to the novel "A Separate Peace". Particularly, Diggs's leap off of the tree branch, Brinker Hadley's signature on Digg's cast, and the mental breakdown of a loner and outsider (Leper Lepellier).
- Some of the names on Diggs's cast:
- Cthulhu
- TARDIS and Dalek #7 from Doctor Who.
- Alan Turing, inventor of the Turing Machine.
- Phineas Fogg, most likely intended to be Phileas Fogg from Around the World in Eighty Days.
- Kilgore Trout, a fictional character created by writer Kurt Vonnegut.
- Oedipa Maas and Dr. Hilarius from The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.
- Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard.
- Clare Quilty from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
- Brinker Hadley from A Separate Peace.
- William Wharton, an author.
- Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce's literary alter-ego.
- Major T. J. "King" Kong from Dr. Strangelove.
- John Swartzwelder, former writer, producer and consultant for The Simpsons.
- The song playing while Bart and Diggs are having fun is "Come Saturday Morning" performed by The Sandpipers.
- The poem that Diggs quotes while Bart and Diggs sit in the tree and also when he releases all of the falcons is "The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Trivia
Continuity
- Bart once again displays his ability to swallow various inedible objects "They Saved Lisa's Brain".
References
