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Season
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Episode number
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Episode name
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Reference
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5
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101
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"The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
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To dodge Principal Skinner, Bart hides under a blanket in the back seat of Freddy Quimby's convertible, similar to Marty McFly hiding under a blanket in the back seat of Biff Tannen's car in Back to the Future Part II.
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6
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117
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"Bart's Comet"
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Professor Frink uses a model of Springfield to demonstrate his plan for saving the town from the comet, a callback to scenes in Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part III where Doc Brown uses models to demonstrate plans to return to 1985 (from 1955 and 1885, respectively). Also, Frink's demonstration results in an explosion and fire, as does Doc's in Back to the Future.
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8
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160
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"Lisa's Date with Density"
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In addition to being a wordplay on the expression "date with destiny", the episode title is a reference to the scene in the first movie where George McFly attempts to ask Lorraine out on a date. George mixes up his words and says to her, "My density has brought me to you" and "I'm your density", when he means to say "destiny".
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178
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"The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
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Bart sneaks away from a school field trip at the Springfield Police Station and pulls a prank where he lines up a row of megaphones and speaks into the last one. The resulting blast of sound not only shatters windows all over town, but also sends Bart flying backwards across the room. In the opening scene of Back to the Future, Marty McFly turns Doc Brown's sound equipment to maximum volume, plugs in his guitar, strums a chord, and is sent flying backwards across the room by the force of the sound.
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10
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208
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"When You Dish Upon a Star"
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The time machine in Homer's movie script (The Terminizor: An Erotic Thriller) has a component which looks like the flux capacitor, a Y-shaped device which is the core component in Doc Brown's time machine.
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11
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243
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"Bart to the Future"
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Punned in the episode title. Also, the future Nelson Muntz bears a strong resemblance to Biff Tannen in the alternate history version of 1985 seen in Back to the Future Part II.
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13
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279
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"Half-Decent Proposal"
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In the first movie, shortly after Marty McFly arrives in 1955, he accidentally disrupts his parents' first meeting and later realizes that if he doesn't get them together, he will never be born. In "Half-Decent Proposal", Artie Ziff stages a re-creation of the senior prom, dances with Marge, and then kisses her. Homer watches through a skylight as the scene unfolds and laments, "If Marge marries Artie, I'll never be born!"
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19
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411
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"That '90s Show"
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Marvin Cobain calling his cousin Kurt is a reference to the scene in Back to the Future where Marvin Berry calls his cousin Chuck and holds the phone toward the stage while Marty McFly and the Starlighters perform "Johnny B. Goode".
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24
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510
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"Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
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The third segment, "Bart & Homer's Excellent Adventure", parodies the first movie. Professor Frink has built a time machine into a car, and Bart steals it and goes back to 1974 to buy a classic Radioactive Man comic book for its original cover price of 25 cents. While in the past, Bart disrupts Homer's and Marge's first meeting, which alters his own future as well, as Marge ends up marrying Artie Ziff. Bart decides he likes the change and wants to leave the new future as it is, but teen-aged Homer from 1974 and various other versions of Homer team up to try to change it back.
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26
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565
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"Walking Big & Tall"
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While Bart and Lisa are working on Springfield's new anthem (Lisa playing her sax and Bart making armpit noises), Maggie dials on her toy phone, then holds it up to the music and smiles. Maggie's call is a reference to the scene in Back to the Future where Marvin Berry calls his cousin Chuck and holds the phone toward the stage while Marty McFly and the Starlighters perform "Johnny B. Goode".
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27
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580
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"Friend with Benefit"
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When the Simpson family left Jambowski Island, the movie was about to be shown in the island's swim-up movie theatre.
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585
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"Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles"
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Doc Brown and Marty McFly appear in the LA-Z Rider couch gag.
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28
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631
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"3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage"
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Homer said that the only reason they waited through the end credits of the latest Marvel film was to see who sang "The Power of Love", and it was usually Huey Lewis.
"The Power of Love" is part of the "Back to the Future" soundtrack.
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32
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695
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"The Dad-Feelings Limited"
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Forward to the Past is a parody of Back to the Future.
- Mickey is a parody of Marty McFly.
- The professor is a parody of Doc Brown.
- 99 miles per hour is a reference to the 88 miles per hour necessary to travel through time with the DeLorean.
- The scientist's catchphrase "Great Steve" is a parody of Doc. Brown's catchphrase "Great Scott".
- "Rivers? Where we're going, we don't need rivers." is a reference to Doc's phrase "Roads? Where we're going We don't need Roads.".
- The theme at the end of the movie is a remix of the series' theme.
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34
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734
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"Treehouse of Horror XXXIII"
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In the SimpsonsWorld section, Bart re-enacts the microphone scene from "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" on several Ralph clones.
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36
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773
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"Treehouse of Horror XXXV"
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One of the pro-LED signs says "Led Me to the Future" with the style of Back to the Future's logo.
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790
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"Full Heart, Empty Pool"
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The team for "Enchantment Under the Retractable Hoops" is based on the "Enchantment Under the Sea" school dance in Back to the Future.
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