New Kid on the Block/References
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"New Kid on the Block"
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Cultural references[edit]
Bart and Laura's dance is a parody of the dancing in the film
Top Hat.
- The name of this episode is a reference to the early '90s boy band, New Kids on the Block.
- When Sylvia Winfield tells Homer to cover his garbage, a moose is revealed to be eating from it, making a reference to the opening sequence of Northern Exposure. The theme song also plays.
- The name of The Frying Dutchman is a reference to the legendary ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman.
- During The Frying Dutchman advert and scenes at the restaurant, "The Sailor's Hornpipe" is heard.
- According to Ruth Powers, a Time cover story called Springfield "America's worst city."
- The "Springfield Welcome Mobile" package that Marge presents to Ruth includes a porno movie called Das Butt, a pun on the German war movie Das Boot.
- Bart's jacket and pipe when Laura babysits the kids are a reference to the founder of Playboy, Hugh Hefner. Lisa also refers to Bart as "Hef."
- At The Frying Dutchman, a picture of the ship's wheel of the SS Minnow from Gilligan's Island is on the wall.
- Bart's fantasy of him and Laura dancing is a parody of the scene of Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont dancing in the film Top Hat.
- When Homer decides to take The Frying Dutchman to court, he compares himself to the "Spanish guy [who] fought the windmills." Marge asks him if he means Don Quixote, and Homer tells her that he means Man of La Mancha, a musical adapted from the teleplay I, Don Quixote by Dale Wasserman.
- Lionel Hutz took on a fraudulent advertising case against the film The NeverEnding Story.
- Grampa says that he had a crush on the oldest woman, who was 120 years old, who delivered pianist and composer Eubie Blake. He then said that she fell in with the "Guinness Book of Records crowd."
- According to the newspaper, the Mostly Mozart Festival, a classical music festival, was in town.
- The scene of the bailiffs coming into the courtroom with sacks of letters to Santa is a parody of the film Miracle on 34th Street.
- The shot of Homer drooling at the commercial for The Frying Dutchman is recycled from "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" and is mirror-flipped in this episode.
- Bart says "Can't a guy's skin look its yellowest", though in future and past episodes the Simpsons refer to other yellow people's skin as "white".
- In the flashback when Jimbo puts Bart's head in the toilet, Bart's shirt is green rather than the usual orange.
- Wes Archer and Rich Moore are among the people bringing letters to Santa Claus into the courtroom.
- According to Bart's phone call to Moe's, the Simpsons original address was 1094 Evergreen Terrace, instead of 742.
Continuity[edit]
- When Homer is eating and Horatio McCallister is trying to attract people, three people go in. In the next shot, the people are outside.
