# Quick Simpsons Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-simpsons-question/252696 "2004-06-29T13:26:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Coelacanth\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Coelacanth\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coelacanth_Soup)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-simpsons-question/252696/1 "2004-06-29T13:26:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-simpsons-question/252696/2 "2004-06-29T13:30:38Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-simpsons-question/252696/3 "2004-06-29T16:12:22Z")
Not only that, but the “fat man” was walking some poodles in the _Simpsons_ episode, and Hitchcock was walking poodles in his cameo in _The Birds_. ---
**Author:** ![Coelacanth\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Coelacanth\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coelacanth_Soup)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-simpsons-question/252696/4 "2004-06-29T17:37:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-simpsons-question/252696/5 "2004-06-29T18:04:18Z")
> [@Coelacanth Soup](#): > > 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. Pick up season 4 of the Simpsons on DVD while you’re at it. 😉 Watch that episode in full, instead of the trimmed-for-syndication version. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-simpsons-question/252696/6 "2004-06-29T18:37:50Z")
I miss the days when every Simpsons episode was chock full of movie parodies… ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-simpsons-question/252696/7 "2004-06-29T19:19:58Z")
Well call me stupid. I always thought that was some rip off of Aliens with Homer (Ripley) walking backwards and carrying out Maggy (Newt). I knew that was Hitchcock but I never added 2 and 2. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-simpsons-question/252696/8 "2004-06-29T21:21:01Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Well call me stupid. I always thought that was some rip off of Aliens with Homer (Ripley) walking backwards and carrying out Maggy (Newt). That would’ve only been true if Homer had a flame-thrower and periodically flash-fried the other babies. :shudder: