From: mxg77@po.cwru.edu   
      
   Well that was a fun milestone-retrospective themed Treehouse of Horror.   
   Generally pretty enjoyable first act (School Is Hell) with some dashes of meta   
   stuff, I assume an exciting Kubrick parody in A Clockwork Yellow (I haven't   
   read or seen ACO in over a    
   decade and got some but not all of the other references), and a pretty fun   
   trip down memory lane in The Others to go out with a bang.   
      
   DYN:   
   ...another TV-14 (DLSV)?   
   ...a Wilhelm scream in hell (unusual for this show's use of it, since it's in   
   the show's own world and not a work in it)?   
   ...Marge is reading the actual Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange in that part?   
      
   Previous episode stuff   
   Clips of at least the first 6 TOHs and then scattered others (assuming the   
   others were all real clips) in the opening montage   
   3F17: Naked Lunch comes up again (Martin's holding the book in reference to   
   Bart's prank)   
   1F04: Homer's donut punishment is being used on someone else in hell   
   3G03: Shary Bobbins seen (and "Cut Every Corner" music heard at that point);   
   not a reference at all but I was amused that cutting of/through treacle came   
   up later   
   9F04: Among many many other A Clockwork Orange references in Simpsons history,   
   this old TOH had one (Bart dressed as Alec)   
   2F03: It's hinted that Willie killed Maggie in act 3, and I can't help but   
   wonder if it's "revenge" for "Time and Punishment"   
      
   Meta   
   A blackboard gag by a kid in hell ("Eternal torment is the only just   
   punishment for the unbaptized")   
   I didn't catch or analyze every single TOH credits name but "Every. Scully.   
   Ever." is presumably a reference to FXX's marketing for their marathons of   
   newly acquired Simpsons episodes (Every. Simpsons. Ever. - even if they're not   
   presented in their    
   proper format or uncut - and next week, as an ad tonight noted, every past TOH   
   in its own marathon)   
   Half the stuff in act 3.   
      
   A few details on The Others   
   -frosty chocolate milkshakes should tip off anyone about what's coming up   
   -Married with Children (to go with late 80s early Fox)   
   -obviously all the old designs, voices, catchphrases, characterizations of the   
   Ullman shorts and to an extent very early Simpsons episodes (such as some Bart   
   phrases and Marvin Monroe)   
   -yet Lisa, who was much different in the shorts (more like Bart), gets only   
   one line (a bland direct quote from MG25), rather than anything being made of   
   her significant retool for the series (and old Maggie barely appears, without   
   so much as a fork in    
   an outlet)   
   -the many new animation styles at the end are reminiscent of some Family Guy   
   episodes of recent years, like the CGI versions in "Back to the Pilot" (which   
   also shares the theme of meeting the very early incarnations) and the   
   multitude of varieties in "   
   Road to the Multiverse"   
   -John Ratzenberger's CGI Homer voice might be a minor nod to the way he does a   
   voice in every Pixar feature, but it might not (also he's appeared as his   
   Cheers character in 2F08)   
   -funny that there would be a long and fairly direct "Family Portrait" (MG25)   
   piece to finish it up, since that was also the short used to open the 400th   
   episode, JABF15 (You Can't Always Say What You Want)   
      
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