The Immigration of the Body Snatchers/References

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References/Trivia

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Cultural references

• The comic's title and plot are based on the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
• While Homer is running from the pod people he briefly talks to a man named Pete Benson. Pete tells Homer that he's being chased by a horde of zombies and heads for an abandoned shopping mall, à la Dawn of the Dead.
  • Pete Benson is an employee at Bongo Comics.
• The aliens and monsters at the end of the comic are references to: The Terminator, Planet of the Apes, Dracula, Frankenstein and Friday the 13th. There is also a reference in this scene to Soylent Green.
• A Frenchman is holding a book titled Le Genius du Jerry Lewis.
• Maggie gives Homer John Tesh music to send him to sleep.