• New article from the Springfield Shopper: A Sneak Peek for “Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes” has been released!
  • New article from the Springfield Shopper: Season 36 News: Even more Preview Images for “O C’mon All Ye Faithful” have been released!
  • New article from the Springfield Shopper: Season 36 News: The stories which the segments of “Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes” are based of have been announced!
  • Wikisimpsons needs more Featured Article, Picture, Quote, Episode and Comprehensive article nominations!
  • Wikisimpsons has a Discord server! Click here for your invite! Join to talk about the wiki, Simpsons and Tapped Out news, or just to talk to other users.
  • Make an account! It's easy, free, and your work on the wiki can be attributed to you.
TwitterFacebookDiscord

Little Orphan Millie/References

Wikisimpsons - The Simpsons Wiki
< Little Orphan Millie
Revision as of 00:59, October 15, 2010 by Mythigator (talk) (Cultural references)
References/Trivia


Cultural references

  • This episode title is a pun on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie and Milhouse's name.
  • Uncle Norbert is an obvious parody of Indiana Jones.
  • Adagio for Strings is played during the "dark and gloomy" scene showing the coastguards driving toward the Simpson's house. Adagio for Strings was also used for the main theme in Oliver Stone's anti-war movie Platoon. The scene itself is a parody of a scene from Saving Private Ryan, where Mrs. Ryan is informed of the death of her sons.
  • Homer's song "You're the Wilma to my Fred" is a reference to another animated sitcom, The Flintstones.
  • Part of "The Raiders March" from the Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark is played when Uncle Norbert flies Milhouse home in his biplane.

Template:Season 19 R