The Simpsons Road Rage/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Credits

Cultural references

• If the player picks up Captain McCallister and takes a long time to reach his intended destination, one of his possible comments is "Call me Ishmael. And late." This is a reference to the opening line of the novel Moby-Dick.

Trivia

• Although he appears very frequently driving Mr. Burns' limosine, Smithers does not speak at any point in the game.
• In printed ads for The Simpsons Road Rage, it depicted a drawn panel similar to a comic where the entire town is in calamity, with Marge, acting as a passenger to Homer in a convertible, tells him with fear that he's driving like a maniac, and Homer responding nonchalantly that "Driving's just a suggestion. Like pants."
• Mr. Plow is treated as a separate character from Homer.
• Due to the fact that the game is so similar to Sega's Crazy Taxi, Sega sued Fox. The two settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money.
• The game takes advantage of the date system incorporated into the games console by providing holiday-themed characters on certain dates.
  • Marge - Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November)
  • Bart - Halloween (October 31)
  • Apu - Christmas (December 25)
  • Krusty - New Years (January 1)
• In the save game menu in the PS2 browser, "Dancin' Homer" represents the save file for this game.
• Early builds of the game suggest that Principal Skinner, Moleman and Jasper were going to be playable.
• The scene at the end involving Kang and Kodos is not present in the PS2 version. This may have been because of the PS2 version's earlier release date.

Continuity

• Several of the game's dialogue clips also went on to be used in The Simpsons Skateboarding and The Simpsons: Hit & Run.
• Billboards appear throughout the game advertising a skateboarding competition. This would become the main plot of the game The Simpsons Skateboarding, released a year after this game.
• Two Radioactive Man comic covers appear on the sandwich board outside of the Android's Dungeon. One is the cover of the real life issue #1 and the other is the fictional issue #25 originally seen on the front cover of the real life comic Radioactive Man #100. The second cover would also been seen outside the Android's Dungeon in The Simpsons: Hit & Run.
• In the character select screen, if one selects Moe's Sedan, pandas will hop out of the trunk, a reference to "Cape Feare", where Moe was smuggling pandas.
• Some of the statues in Mr. Burns' garden have surveillance cameras in place of heads. This was originally shown in "Bart vs. Thanksgiving".
• The game's cover art was parodied in the "Krusty's Stop & Go" trophy in The Simpsons Game.