The Simpsons Movie/References

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Cultural references

Happy Feet and Grand Theft Auto reference.

• Titanic: Green Day plays "Nearer, My God, to Thee" on violins as their barge sinks, a reference to the last song the band onboard the Titanic played. The line "Gentlemen, it's been an honor playing with you tonight" is directly from 1997 movie Titanic
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me : When Bart is riding his skateboard naked, different passing objects are constantly covering his genitalia, a nod to similar techniques used in the films.
• Disney: Homer and Marge's love scene parodies many Disney films, with Disney-style animals helping them undress. Also, Bart, while wearing a black bra on his head like Disney-style ears, impersonates Mickey Mouse on the train, calling himself "the mascot of an evil corporation".
• Grand Theft Auto: Homer plays Grand Theft Walrus, an allusion to the video game series.
• Happy Feet: In the above game, his character shoots a tap-dancing penguin in reference to the film.
• Spider-Man: The "Spider-Pig" song is a parody of the theme song of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon.
• Harry Potter: Homer renames Spider-Pig Harry "Plopper" and dresses him in glasses and a lightning scar, a reference to the Harry Potter character.
• An Inconvenient Truth: The name of Lisa's lecture, An Irritating Truth, is a play on Al Gore's documentary.
• Full Metal Jacket: The bomb disposal robot was based on Vincent D'Onofrio's character Leonard "Pyle" Lawrence, who commits suicide in a similar way.
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi: At the end of the film, the crowd's celebration is similar to the conclusion of the final Star Wars film, with Carl performing exactly the same hand gestures as Lando Calrissian.
• Hillary Clinton: The former Democratic Presidential candidate appears as Itchy's vice president.
• Independence Day: The scene where the EPA Dome is delivered to Springfield (notably the immense shadow covering Springfield and the People's reactions) resembles the Alien Destroyers positioning themselves over Washington DC, New York City, and Los Angeles scenes in the movie.
• "American Idiot": A funeral version of the song is played at Green Day's funeral.
• Burger King: Krusty Burger's new product the Clogger is a reference to Burger King's product the Whopper.
• The Night of the Living Dead: The scene were the hands break the door and try to get Homer is similar to the scene in The Night of the Living Dead, where the zombies try to enter the farmhouse with the survivors.
• Homer has a Nokia phone.
  • Or, at least, a phone with the Nokia ringtone.

Trivia

• Snowball II doesn't appear during the movie.
• The film's "color and shading" was brighter than the one used on the show, since the film is made in a 16:3 aspect. Then 2 years later the same style of "color and shading" is used from the middle of Season 20.
• Ned refers to wetting oneself as "praying through the knees".
• Dr. Nick Riviera is killed by a giant piece of the dome's glass, yet in the season 20 episode "Lost Verizon", he is seen alive.
• Bart's penis is briefly shown to the viewers during his nude ride to Krusty Burger, but up until then and after that, it is blocked out.
• Homer's statement to Maggie after knocking Russ Cargill, "What a great accident you turned out to be!" was a reference to Homer's Maggie conception story in "And Maggie Makes Three", where he and Marge had conceived Maggie at a time that neither Marge nor Homer had planned.
• In some shots of the movie, the characters' tongues are pink instead of red.
• Herman Hermann is one of the people seen lifting up the Simpsons' car when they try to drive away.
• Colin can write backwards with ease.
• When Homer folds out the map of Alaska, he puts it on the wall, and it stays there without falling down, without any sellotape, blue tac or anything that helps things stick. The same goes for when Homer puts the map on the car.
• When Homer pulls the drapes to reveal America, there are several foreign billboard signs.
  • The Greek sign says: "Dimitri's Super Gyros Souvlaki"
  • The Russian sign says: "Learn to speak English or get out!".
• The Simpsons brought their winter clothes with them when they went to Alaska.
• Bart comes into the bedroom pointing to the TV saying "Did you see that?", meaning that there must have been another TV in the cabin.
• Marge hasn't looked around properly yet when she asks Bart if he's drinking whisky.
• In an overhead view of the people in The First Church of Springfield, Sherri, Terri, somebody and their mother can be seen. This "somebody" could be Sherri and Terri's father, but as their father's appearance changes a lot, and many of the characters are in a random order, it could be someone else.
• Just before the Simpson family arrive at church, Brandine and Cletus sit down.
• The Burger King promotional toys imply that the raccoon was also meant to be mutated along with the squirrel.
• When Bart imitates Mickey Mouse's voice, he sounds like Ralph Wiggum.

Lists

• Instruments Colin can play:
  • Piano
  • Guitar
  • Trumpet
  • Drums
  • Bass
• Things that cover Bart's "doodle":
  • His hand
  • Agnes Skinner's finger
  • A hedge
  • A cigarette packet lit by Jimbo and Dolph
  • Some bushes
  • A barrier
  • A ball
  • A frisbee
  • Some flowers
  • A remote-controlled car
  • Santa's Little Helper
  • A bird
  • Willie's spade and wheel barrel
  • A sprinkler
  • A bubble
  • Some dandelions
  • A fence (partially)
  • A hedge (partially)
  • A leaf
  • Ned's French fry
  • A plant next to a lamppost (when being tied to it)
  • His shirt (when Homer forgot his pants)
• Things put on Bart's cocoa:
  • Cream
  • A chocolate flake
  • Grated chocolate
  • Cream
  • Marshmallow
• Things Lisa likes about Colin:
  • Loves the environment
  • Has an Irish brogue
  • Not imaginary
• Things being dumped in the lake:
  • Krusty's flop sweat
  • Hair from the Crazy Cat Lady's cats
  • Moe's empty beer bottles
• Years on the "Pollution in Lake Springfield" line graph:
  • 1867
  • 1887
  • 1907
  • 1927
  • 1947
  • 1967
  • 1987
  • 2007
• Attempts to try to break the dome:
  • Firing guns at it
  • Hitting it with a bone
  • Running into it
  • Whacking it with clubs and spades
  • Punching it
  • Hitting it with a fish
  • Pushing a tree into it
  • Blowing bubbles at it
  • Ramming a power drill into it
  • Throwing custard pies at it
  • Making an elephant walk into it
• Russ Cargill wants the tough and soft guys arranged in this order:
  • Tough
  • Tough
  • Soft
  • Tough
  • Soft
  • Soft
  • Tough
  • Tough
  • Soft
  • Soft
  • Tough
  • Soft

Goofs

The house is not on fire.

• When the floating stage is sinking, the box from where Green Day were singing The Simpsons lyrics disappears, then it reappears, and in the next shot it disappears again.
• During the town meeting held by Lisa, people constantly change places.
• In one shot of the church, Comic Book Guy is not recording Grampa.
• When Homer is driving away from the lake after dumping the silo there, the wall mysteriously disappears to the left.
• After Russ Cargill presents the Multi-eyed squirrel to President Schwarzenegger and the president is looking at the squirrel, the squirrel's eye on the side is missing even though it's present in the shot before and after.
  • In the same scene, the squirrel is gone missing in one shot.
• Moe's Tavern says Moe's Bar instead of Moe's Tavern.
  • He could have changed the sign.
• Marge runs out of the house with her hair on fire, because the house is on fire, but when the family is in the car and being carried off by the crowd, the house is not on fire.
• In the scene where the sinkhole disappears, the positions of people and the family's car does not match between shots.
• The sinkhole on the outside of the dome as well as the rock next to it dissapears after the sinkhole inside the dome is destroyed.
• When Marge chases Bart around the hotel room for drinking whiskey, he pulls out two drawers from the bureau, but when Homer enters the room, they're back in the bureau.
• The back door in the hotel room gradually closes between shots.
• Several error can be seen with the ball of death scene:
  • When Homer runs the wheel of death, the price car is gone, and when drive away from there, the car is facing from the stage rather than along it.
  • Homer falls straight on his head facing the other direction, but when the fair man speaks to him, he is more tangled in to the motorcycle facing his direction.
  • After Homer falls down the ball of death the third time, the fair man tells him he has one more try and Homer lifts his head, but the third shot show his head being kept to the ground by the motorcycle's wheel.
    • Also, his hand is more laid backwards the first shot.
  • When Lisa tells Homer to not slow down, the ramp leading to the stage is missing.
• The geography of the Simpsons' house in Alaska is inconsistent:
  • In the first shot, there's a lake outside the house, which is also visible in the last shot when Homer collapses on an ice flake and drifts away, but in a later scene, Homer is pushed by an avalanche to the front door without there being any lake there at all.
  • In the first scene, the house is quite close to the lake, but in subsequent scenes, the house is located ontop of a small hill above the lake.
• The first shot of Grand Canyon shows lines of clothing that the later shots lack.
• The shadows in the tent with the old inuit lady is inconsistent.
• When Homer is removing the six husky dogs' harnesses, only four harnesses have been removed, but in the next scene, all the dogs' harnesses are off.
• After Lisa and Bart fall asleep in the police transport, Lisa's saxophone moved.
• When Homer was taking his hand off his crotch, his pants ripped, but in the next shot, his pants are normal.
  • Also, his hand should have been glued to his other hand.
• Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson take the train from Alaska to Seattle, Wash. (The train shown in Alaska is exactly the same one that arrives in Seattle.) This is not possible, because there is no rail link, (passenger or freight), between Alaska and Seattle.
• When Moe is Nayah Nayah Nayahing, the part of his body visible looks like Otto's.
• When Homer and Bart were heading for the Springfield sign, the P was straight, then the P is curved and the motorbike is used to ramp itself into the air.
• When Homer and Bart are jumping Springfield Gorge, they are shown with varying chances of making it, with one shot actually predicting them making the jump.
  • Similar things like this happen throughout the movie.
• When Homer's motorcycle lands onto the ground, he is on a lawn, but in the next shot, they are on a cliff instead of a lawn.
• When Homer is going past the people on a motorbike to pick up Marge, Comic Book Guy appears twice in the crowd.
• Dr. Nick Riviera dies in the movie, but returns in "Lost Verizon" somehow.
  • However, this could be a joke.
• 740 Evergreen Terrace is next to the Flanders house, not the Simpsons house. Also, another version of the house appears in its place.
• When Comic Book Guy used his cell phone in church, it has no symbols or numbers, which it has when he visits the Simpsons' home.
• While the bomb disarming robot is disarming the bomb, Chief Wiggum can be seen without damaged clothes, in a later shot they appear damaged.
• In the video of Homer and Marge's wedding day, other members of the Simpson family are present at the wedding. This conflicts with the events of "I Married Marge", in which it is revealed they got married at Shotgun Pete's with no family members present.
• Willie is drawn with brown hair instead of red and it is not red until the end of the movie.
• Billie Joe Armstrong doesn't have tattoos on his arms in the movie - he does in real life.
• Dewey Largo appears 2 times while Bart is skateboarding to the Krusty Burger, once at the start and the other at the end.
• Several coloring mistakes occur:
  • When Bart tumbles down the roof, his shirt color is light pink.
  • When the Springfielders prop up the KBBL tower, Hans Moleman has Jasper's colors.
  • When everyone looks in awe as Bart is about to throw the bomb, Agnes Skinner has Mrs. Glick's colors.
  • When Homer pulls up on the bike, Señora Bumblebee Man has Agnes Skinner's colors.
  • Gareth Prince twice has Charlie's colors towards the end.

Continuity

• The ambulance wreckage from "Bart the Daredevil" remains at the side of Springfield Gorge.
• Many characters from seasons 1 through 18 make cameos (from 7G01 to JABF19).
• Nero's Palace and Peacock are seen when Ned points out Nevada. ("Viva Ned Flanders")
• The Stonecutter Lodge is seen at the beginning. ("Homer the Great")