Bart's Comet/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

Trivia

• Everyone getting angry and wanting to come into Flander's shelter is a reference to "The Twilight Zone" episode, "The Shelter".
• For a couple of seconds when Homer tries to get the shelter door shut when everyone gets in, Waldo from "Where's Waldo" appears rather obtrusively on the left half of the screen.
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  Waldo in the shelter.
• Homer is the first to kick Ned out of the bomb shelter, but he also leaves first to die with him, leading everyone to safety.
• The song that Flanders sings after he's kicked out of the bomb shelter is "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)," sung by Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much.
• Homer states early in the episode that the comet will probably burn up and become smaller than a Chihuahua's head. At the end of the episode he is proven right, and both he and the kids are spooked by Homer being right for once.
• Skinner curses Pierre Jules César Janssen for having discovered helium.

Goofs

• When the crowd joins Flanders on the hill during the "Que Sera Sera" song, Apu appears yellow.