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Cultural references[edit]
Opening Sequence[edit]
- Kang and Kodos wonder if speeding up time will allow the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series, a reference to the team's long-standing championship drought, which lasted from 1908 to 2016.
B.I.: Bartificial Intelligence[edit]
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence: Punned in the title and parodied throughout the segment.
- The song featured during Bart's "jealousy" montage is "New Kid in Town" by the Eagles.
- The scene where Bart meets the group of robots in the woods is a spoof of the music video for the song "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock. The walking pair of robot legs were featured in the video.
- The segment concludes with a short parody of The Exorcist, featuring a possessed Homer.
Survival of the Fattest[edit]
- The second segment is a parody of The Most Dangerous Game, a 1923 short story by Richard Connell.
- The segment title is a pun on the Darwin-inspired catchphrase, "survival of the fittest".
I've Grown a Costume on Your Face[edit]
- The segment's title is a reference to the song "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from the musical My Fair Lady. It is also an allusion to a song that Bart and Sideshow Bob sing in Bart's room in the Season 14 episode "The Great Louse Detective".
- Television series references:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the episode "Halloween", most of the residents of Sunnydale don cursed costumes that transform them into what they are dressed as.
- The classic The Twilight Zone: In the episode "The Masks," four greedy heirs are turned into monsters by the hideous masks each wears at their benefactor's behest.
- The Fairly OddParents: In the episode "Scary GodParents," Timmy wishes that everybody's Halloween costumes were real.
- After all of Springfield's citizens are turned into real-life versions of their costumes, Mayor Quimby as Mayor McCheese says, "I am not a happy meal right now" as dogs lick at him, a reference to McDonald's Happy Meals.
- At the end of the segment, Maggie the witch flies up to the moon, accompanied by the theme music of Bewitched, in a scene very similar to the TV series' title animation.
Trivia[edit]
- "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face" is similar to an issue of the Simpsons Comics 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 the first Treehouse of Horror episode to not be the premiere of its season since "Treehouse of Horror X".
- This is the only Simpson episode where God's face is completely shown (in the opening).
Costumes in "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face"[edit]
- Homer Simpson: a decapitated man
- Marge Simpson: a skeleton with a human head
- Bart Simpson: a Eddie Munster
- Lisa Simpson: Albert Einstein
- Maggie Simpson: a witch
- Martin Prince: Oberon, king of the fairies, from A Midsummer's Night Dream
- Groundskeeper Willie: a bug spray can
- Hans Moleman: a mole, even though he didn't dress as one
- Apu Nahasapeemapetilon: R2-D2
- Dr. Hibbert: Dracula (mistaken for Blacula by Mayor Quimby)
- Milhouse Van Houten: a bulldozer
- Kirk Van Houten: A circus strong man
- Ned Flanders: a flower (which looks somewhat like Bob the Angry Flower)
- Nelson Muntz: the Lone Ranger, but everyone (including the witch) thinks he is a raccoon
- Mayor Quimby: Cheesy McMayor
- Mayor Quimby's bodyguard: A cat
- Abraham Simpson: a gorilla
- Sideshow Mel: Spider-Man
- Chief Wiggum: Jared Fogle
- Eddie and Lou: Musketeers
- Horatio McCallister: Poseidon (interestingly, Poseidon was portrayed as the Sea Captain in "Tales from the Public Domain")
- Edna Krabappel: A snake
- Lenny Leonard: prison inmate
- Carl Carlson: mummy
- Principal Skinner: G.I. Joe
- Agnes Skinner: Southern belle
- Patty: horse's front
- Selma: horse's back
- Gil: a ghost
- Barney Gumble: Frankenstein's monster
- Moe Szyslak: Hugh Hefner
- Disco Stu: Steve Martin with an arrow through the head
- Jasper Beardley: Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz
- Luigi: a tiered cake
- Sherri and Terri: Tweedledum and Tweedledee from the Alice in Wonderland sequel Alice Through The Looking Glass.
- Squeaky-voiced teen: Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz
- Professor Frink: Caveman
- Bumblebee Man: Bumblebee
- Old Jewish man: His brother Irving
- Other costumes include an Imperial Scout Trooper, an astronaut, a football player, a Native American.
Deaths in "Survival of the Fattest"[edit]
These are the people whom Mr. 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.
- Dr. Julius Hibbert: Flung from a tree by Homer, and then became the first to be shot out of the air by Burns.
- Dr. Nick Riviera: Flung from a tree and shot immediately after Hibbert.
- Lou the Cop: Flung from a tree and shot after Dr. Nick.
- Kirk Van Houten: Flung from a tree, shot and killed after Lou.
- The Yes Guy: Flung from a tree, and then shot after Kirk.
- Kent Brockman: Flung from a tree, and was the last person to be shot out of the air.
- Moe Szyslak: He was flung from the tree along with the others, but Burns missed him. After taunting Burns, he ironically lands on on a weather vane, impaling himself. 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.
- Sea Captain: Unknown, possibly survived.
- Principal Skinner: Unknown, possibly survived.
- Otto Mann: Unknown, possibly survived.
- Professor Frink: Eaten by Homer, who passes up bananas, saying that they look green.
- Sideshow Mel: Shot by Burns, using machine guns on a plane during a strafing run.
- Dewey Largo: Also shot during the strafing run.
- Groundskeeper Willie: Shot and killed during the strafing run, dying at exactly the same time as Mel and Plute.
- Carl: Shot during the strafing run, but survives until just before Lenny dies.
- Lenny: Shot during the strafing run, but survives long enough to see his idea of heaven.
- Barney: Shot three times through the chest while being used as a diversion by Homer.
Continuity[edit]
Survival of the Fattest[edit]
- Marge reminds Bart of when he killed a bird ("Bart the Mother").
