I actually watched the show, back in the day, as a silly, guilty pleasure, without any inkling of the Very Bad Thing that was looming for us all in 2016.
Sure there were credible rumors that the goodies in their picks were ‘salted’, but the fact remains that whatever they were gushing over was, in fact, actually there on screen.
Did anyone notice The Simpsons had their SERIES FINALE last night? It’s not really the end of the Simpsons, they just thought it would be fun to have the last episode of the series (Bart turns 11) as the first episode of Season 36.
Simpsonized! (Outside events parodied on the show)
“That’s odd. Usually the blood gets off on the second floor.” - Mr. Burns, in a parody of The Shining, watching blood flow from the elevators.
FOPS and DANDIES - Signs at the two separate entrances to the Vienna Opera House, parodying Amadeus
Rosebud - The Simpsons send up Citizen Kane with Mr. Burns and his bear Bobo.
“Doctor Zaius” - sung to the tune of “Rock Me Amadeus”, and performed in musical adaptation of The Planet of the Apes (re-named on the show as “Stop the Planet of the Apes I Want to Get Off!”, itself a play on the title of another musical, “Stop the World - I Want to Get Off!”)
Simpsonized! (Outside events parodied on the show)
“That’s odd. Usually the blood gets off on the second floor.” - Mr. Burns, in a parody of The Shining, watching blood flow from the elevators.
FOPS and DANDIES - Signs at the two separate entrances to the Vienna Opera House, parodying Amadeus
Rosebud - The Simpsons send up Citizen Kane with Mr. Burns and his bear Bobo.
“Doctor Zaius” - sung to the tune of “Rock Me Amadeus”, and performed in musical adaptation of The Planet of the Apes (re-named on the show as “Stop the Planet of the Apes I Want to Get Off!”, itself a play on the title of another musical, “Stop the World - I Want to Get Off!”)
2001: A Space Odyssey is referenced in “Deep Space Homer” in a few ways - thinking specifically of the zero-grav potato-chip-eating ballet set to “The Blue Danube.”
Simpsonized! (Outside events parodied on the show)
“That’s odd. Usually the blood gets off on the second floor.” - Mr. Burns, in a parody of The Shining, watching blood flow from the elevators.
FOPS and DANDIES - Signs at the two separate entrances to the Vienna Opera House, parodying Amadeus
Rosebud - The Simpsons send up Citizen Kane with Mr. Burns and his bear Bobo.
“Doctor Zaius” - sung to the tune of “Rock Me Amadeus”, and performed in musical adaptation of The Planet of the Apes (re-named on the show as “Stop the Planet of the Apes I Want to Get Off!”, itself a play on the title of another musical, “Stop the World - I Want to Get Off!”)
2001: A Space Odyssey is referenced in “Deep Space Homer” in a few ways - thinking specifically of the zero-grav potato-chip-eating ballet set to “The Blue Danube.”
In “Bart vs. Australia,” the Simpson family is air lifted out of the US Embassy in Australia, referencing the helicopter evacuation of the US Embassy in South Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon.
Simpsonized! (Outside events parodied on the show)
“That’s odd. Usually the blood gets off on the second floor.” - Mr. Burns, in a parody of The Shining, watching blood flow from the elevators.
FOPS and DANDIES - Signs at the two separate entrances to the Vienna Opera House, parodying Amadeus
Rosebud - The Simpsons send up Citizen Kane with Mr. Burns and his bear Bobo.
“Doctor Zaius” - sung to the tune of “Rock Me Amadeus”, and performed in musical adaptation of The Planet of the Apes (re-named on the show as “Stop the Planet of the Apes I Want to Get Off!”, itself a play on the title of another musical, “Stop the World - I Want to Get Off!”)
2001: A Space Odyssey is referenced in “Deep Space Homer” in a few ways - thinking specifically of the zero-grav potato-chip-eating ballet set to “The Blue Danube.”
In “Bart vs. Australia,” the Simpson family is air lifted out of the US Embassy in Australia, referencing the helicopter evacuation of the US Embassy in South Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon.