Last night I watched a Simpsons re-run on Fox 26 in Houston – it was the Streetcar Named Marge episode with guest star John Lovitz. The subplot involved Maggie being placed in the Ayn Rand daycare center where she leads an uprising to take back the children’s pacifiers.
Q: After Maggie succeeds and Homer and Bart pick her up from the daycare they walk outside, Homer says, “Uhhh, babies” and a smiling heavy-set man walks by with a dog. Who is that man? and does he relate to Ayn Rand or to the eerie “sucking” scene that preceeds that event?
Knowing the writers at The Simpsons, I know that the man repesents some sort of joke or homage, but this time I’m wooshed. Thanks.
The man is Alfred Hitchcock, who appears walking by (or missing a bus, or, or) in his films. The scene that preceded the event was a parody of The Birds.
OK - cool - thanks. I haven’t seen *The Birds * in while - I suspected it was Hitchcock because of the intense eerieness of the nursery scene - I’ll have to go home and watch The Birds tonight and pick out that scene. I love The Simpsons.
Watch that episode in full, instead of the trimmed-for-syndication version.