Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!/References

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Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!

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Cultural references

• The name of the story is a reference to the song "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz.
• Back to the Future: When Bart and Fry are using "hoverboards" to fly through Springfield, Comic Book Guy accuses them of ripping off Back to the Future Part II.
• The title is a reference to DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths and Marvel's Secret Wars.
• When Mr. Burns hears Hermes and Dr. Zoidberg discussing their problem, he enters the room with two bodyguards, one of which looks remarkably similar to Fry's father.

Trivia

• Homer and Marge use the What-If Machine.

Continuity

When Skinner says that Edna Krabappel ate some "undercooked steamed hams", it is a reference to the episode "22 Short Films About Springfield". During one of the episodes segments, Skinner "cooks" Superintendent Chalmers some steamed hams, which were actually just Krusty Burgers.

Goofs

• Principal Skinner says that Mrs. Krabappel is "home sick after eating some undercooked steam hams", but she was seen earlier in a crowd scene she might have faked sick to get the day off.
• When Bart arrives at school in Part Two, he is wearing a blue shirt, but then switches to his usual red-orange shirt in the next panel.
• The fact that comics give "false hope" for X-ray glasses contradicts with How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back where Bender uses his "lucky specs" to cheat in poker.
• After Apu and Comic Book Guy crashes into other with their cars, the latter mentioned the former to be as blind as Matt Murdock/Daredevil. In this panels his last name is mistakenly spoken as Murdoch.