Flanders' Ladder/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The title of the episode is a reference to Jacob's Ladder, referring to a ladder to heaven described in the Book of Genesis.
- The plot, wherein Bart sees dead people and helps them with their unfinished business, is the plot of The Sixth Sense.
- Bart tricks Lisa into playing The Scary Maze Game.
- Homer trows board games into the fire:
- In the VHS collection, there are recordings of
- When Homer presses play on the VHS, the 1997 Ricola commercial.
- On the Homer's Xxxercise tape, the song "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John plays.
- Ned Flanders use the IMDbible web site a parody of the IMDb Web Site.
- Rod and Todd recite the lines "If I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take" from the Christian child's prayer "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep".
- In Bart's brain, The Scream by Edvard Munch appears, with Bart as the screamer.
- A chalkboard saying "Roots of Singh" is also seen, a reference to Simon Singh. On the chalkboard is the equation x^5-57x^4+1249x^3-13191x^2+67438x-134064=0, which has solutions x=19,9,14,7,8, using the code A=1, B=2, etc., this spells "SINGH".
- Homer mentions getting every answer in Jeopardy! wrong.
- The final montage is a parody Six Feet Under's series finale.
- The song playing over it and credits is "Breathe Me" by Sia. The same song was used in the Six Feet Under finale.
- Smithers kills himself when Mr. Burns marries Angelina Jolie.
- Additionally, the magazine in which he learns about the marriage Peephole is a parody of People magazine.
Continuity[edit]
- The episode was dedicated in memory of Tom Wolfe, who died on May 14, 6 days before the episode aired.
