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Cultural references

Opening sequence

• The opening sequence is a parody of 127 Hours.
  • Homer gets his arm trapped like Aron Ralston and gnaws through several limbs, before gnawing through his trapped arm. Ralston had to eat through his own arm to get released.
• Maggie pops out of Bart's astronaut costume in a reference to Alien.

The Diving Bell and Butterball

• The segment is a parody of The Diving Bell and Butterfly.
• The Brothers Karamazov is a real life book.
• Homer gets bitten by a spider and becomes a parody of Spider-Man.

Dial D for Diddly

• The title is a reference to Dial M for Murder.
• The segment is a parody of Dexter.
• The scene where Ned kills Patty and Selma is a parody of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner of Looney Tunes.

In the Na’Vi

• The segment is a parody of the film, Avatar.
  • The floating mountains, as seen in the film, are actually falling.
  • All the creatures and nature attack the humans as they do in the film.
  • The machines used by the humans to fight are very similar to those from the film.
  • Hillarium is a parody of Unobtanium, a rare mineral wanted in the film.
  • Bart is a parody of Jake Sully from the film and Kamala is a parody of Neytiri.
• The name is a reference to the song, "In the Navy" and the Na'vi, the alien species in Avatar.
• Cletus asks if they're in Kansas any more, a reference to The Wizard of Oz.

Trivia

• One of the robbers looks like one of the robbers thwarted by Everyman in "Homer the Whopper".

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