Bart's Comet/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

Trivia

• 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.
• 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.
• Although flightless birds, the penguins at Springfield Zoo are able to fly away when the comet approaches, in an intentionally ridiculous joke.

Cultural references

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Waldo in the shelter.

• 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.
• 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.