Treehouse of Horror XVI/References

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References/Trivia

Appearances

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Credits

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Cultural References

• The first segment is a parody of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
• The end of the first segment concludes with a short parody of The Exorcist featuring a possessed Homer.
• The song featured during Bart's jealousy segment is "New Kid in Town" by The Eagles
• The second segment is a parody of The Most Dangerous Game, a 1923 short story by Richard Edward Connell.
• The title "I've Grown a Costume to your Face" is a reference to the song "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from My Fair Lady. It is also an allusion to a song that Bart and Sideshow Bob sing in Bart's room in the episode "The Great Louse Detective", Season 14.
• In the beginning segment, Kang and Kodos wonder if by speeding up time, maybe the Chicago Cubs can actually win the World Series. As of 2005, it has been 97 years since that club's last World Series title, and 60 years since their last Series appearance.
• "B.I.: Bartificial Intelligence" spoofs the music video for the Herbie Hancock song, "Rockit." In the scene where Bart meets the group of robots in the woods, that song is played accompanied by a walking pair of robot legs that were featured in the video.
• After all of Springfield's citizens are turned into real-life versions of their costumes, Mayor Quimby as Mayor McCheese says while being licked at by dogs quotes "I am not a happy meal right now" which is a reference to the McDonald's happy meals.
• At the end of "I've Grown a Costume to your Face", Maggie the witch flies up to the moon to the theme music of Bewitched, the animation is also very similar to the Bewitched title animation.

Trivia

• The episode is very similar to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Halloween", in which most of the residents of Sunnydale don cursed costumes that transform them into what they are dressed as. It is also similar to the classic Twilight Zone episode The Masks in which four greedy heirs are turned into monsters by the hideous masks each wears at their benefactor's behest, Halloweentown, and The Fairly OddParents Halloween special ("Scary GodParents") in which Timmy wishes that everybody's Halloween costumes were real. The episode is also similar to an issue of the Simpson Comic Bartman, in which an Itchy and Scratchy brought to life through alien technology create a nuclear explosion which turns the Simpsons into costumed superheroes.
• This is first Treehouse of Horror to not be the premiere of its season since Treehouse of Horror X.
• Among the costumes in "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face":
  • Lisa: Albert Einstein
  • Marge: a skeleton
  • Maggie: a witch
  • Martin: Oberon, king of the fairies, from A Midsummer's Night Dream
  • Willie: a bug spray can
  • Homer: a decapitated man
  • Hans Moleman: a mole, even though he didn't dress as one
  • Bart: a werewolf
  • Apu: R2-D2
  • Dr. Hibbert: Dracula (mistaken for Blacula by Mayor Quimby)
  • Milhouse: a bulldozer
  • Ned: a flower (which looks somewhat like Bob the Angry Flower)
  • Nelson: the Lone Ranger, but everyone (including the witch) thinks he is a raccoon
  • Mayor Quimby: Mayor McCheese
  • Grandpa: a gorilla
  • Sideshow Mel: Spider-Man
  • Wiggum: Jared Fogle
  • Sea Captain: Poseidon (he played Poseidon in "Tales from the Public Domain")
  • Lenny: prison inmate
  • Carl: mummy
  • Skinner: G.I. Joe
  • Agnes: Southern belle
  • Patty: horse's rear
  • Selma: horse's head
  • Gil: a ghost
  • Barney: Frankenstein's monster
  • Moe: Hugh Hefner
  • Disco Stu: Steve Martin/Arrow through the head
  • Jasper: Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz
  • Professor Frink: caveman
  • Bumblebee Man: Bumblebee (quite obvious).
  • [1]: A snake
  • [2]]: Tin man from The Wizard of Oz
  • Other costumes include an Imperial Scout Trooper.
• These are the people who Burns massacres in the segment "Survival of the Fattest." The deaths are in chronological order.
  • Comic Book Guy: Shot after refusing to run.
  • Blue Haired Lawyer: Killed after defending Burns.
  • Apu: Shot after being discovered hiding in a bush, but is reincarnated as a rabbit. After reincarnation, he gets caught in a bear trap.
  • Krusty the Clown: Shot once by Burns, only to begin to tell a joke. He is then shot multiple more times through the chest to keep him from finishing.
  • Julius Hibbert: Flung from a tree by Homer, and then became the first to be shot out of the air by Burns.
  • Dr. Nick Riveara: Flung from a tree, shot immediately after Hibbert.
  • Lou the Cop: Flung from a tree, shot after Dr. Nick.
  • Kirk Van Houten: Flung from a tree, shot and killed after Lou.
  • Reverand Lovejoy: Flung from a tree, and then shot after Kirk.
  • Kent Brockman: Flung from a tree, and the last person to be shot out of the air.
  • Moe Syzlak: He was flung from the tree along with the others, but Burns missed him. After taunting Burns, he ironically lands and is impaled on on a weather vane. He still survives, wins the lottery, and is about to leave to cash it in, but Chief Wiggum lands on him, crushing and finally killing him.
  • Clancy Wiggum: Falls on a weathervane and dies instantly, crushing Moe.
  • Professor Frink: Eaten by Homer, who passes up Bananas saying they looked Green.
  • Sideshow Mel: Shot by Burns (who used machine guns on a plane during a flyby).
  • Mr. Plute: Shot during the flyby.
  • Groundskeeper Willie: Shot and killed during the flyby, dying at the exact same time as Mel and Plute.
  • Carl: Shot during the flyby, but survived just before Lenny.
  • Lenny: Shot during the flyby, but surviving long enough to see his idea of heaven.
  • Barney: Shot three times through the chest while being used as a diversion by Homer.