Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"/References
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"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
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Cultural references[edit]
- Grandpa Van Houten says he is not Superman before he shows the school kids his RV. He also tells the kids he and his wife won a chili contest in Beaumont, Texas.
- According to Abe, he has to use the word "dickety" because the Kaiser had stolen the word "twenty".
- After being humiliated at school, Bart proposes to put Grampa in a place where he could not get out. Lisa disagrees and says that old people must be respected, giving the example of Jacques Cousteau and Goldie Hawn. At the same time, Homer disagrees with Lisa and says that old people have too many benefits, mentioning Social Security, bus discounts, MedicAlert jewelry, Gold Bond powder and "pants all the way up to their armpits".
A flyer that says "Consider BURIAL at
SeaWorld" is in
Abe's mail
- One of the mail letters Abe received was a flyer that says "Consider BURIAL at SeaWorld".
- People in Burns' rolodex include mesmerists, dowsers, luddites, alienists, Zoroastrians, "alphabetizers" and assassins.
- Fernando Vidal's Villa in the middle of the jungle is somewhat similar to Alejandro Sosa's mansion from Scarface.
- When Mr. Burns calls Fernando Vidal, Burns only says his initials "MB", and Vidal thinks it was American politician Marion Barry.
- The picture Burns sends to Fernando showed Abe eating a Del Monte Foods can of peas.
- The scene where Grampa says "And you were there, and you were there" is a parody of the ending of the 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy returns to Kansas.
- Abe fought in the Battle of the Bulge, a major WW2 battle that took place in the Ardennes forest in 1944.
- In Abe's story of the Flying Hellfish, Burns only held the rank of private because he was demoted for obstructing a probe from J. Edgar Hoover.
- The scene where Grampa tries to assassinate Hitler with a sniper rifle is a parody of The Day of the Jackal, more specifically the scene where the Jackal (Edward Fox) tries to kill French president Charles de Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) but misses.
- When Abe is about to shoot, he says "Now they'll never save your brain, Hitler", a reference to the 1968 film They Saved Hitler's Brain.
- According to Abe, one of his photos in the US Army was published on Stars and Stripes, the daily American military newspaper.
- The Flying Hellfish raid on the castle recalls the attack on the chateau in the The Dirty Dozen.
- Abe and his Army men raiding a castle with valuable artworks is a parody of the plot of the 1970 war film Kelly's Heroes, in which American soldiers plot to raid a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
- Although Grampa's military unit was known as the "Flying Hellfish," both the elaborate headstone and stationery letterhead read "Fighting Hellfish."
- When Milhouse's grandfather announces that he has driven his house to the school, the topmost two buttons on his shirt disappear.
- During Grandparents' Day, as Mrs. Krabappel invites Grampa to speak, he is holding his oatmeal spoon in his left hand. Before and after, he's holding it in his right. When Grampa starts to sit at Mrs. Krabappel's desk, and during his nonsensical stories, the spoon has vanished.
