Treehouse of Horror XXXI/References

== Cultural References ==
=== Opening Sequence ===
* During the opening sequence, there is a scrolling list of 50 real-life events that Donald Trump has done or said (some have been censored), without directly mentioning him by name:
** Made it okay to shoot hibernating bears.
** Put children in cages.
** Called Mexicans rapists.
** Imitated disabled reporter.
** Looks lousy in a tennis outfit.
** Can't get wife to hold hand.
** Called third world countries ****holes.
** Called Tim Cook 'Tim Apple'.
** Said Jewish people who vote Democrat are disloyal.
** Showed top secret documents at Mar-A-Lago restaurant.
** Called white supremacists 'fine people'.
** Leaked classified information to Russian ambassador.
** Asked the president of Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.
** Called for China to investigate the Bidens.
** Walked into the dressing room at Miss Teen USA pageant.
** Pressed the Australian prime minister to help Barr investigate Mueller.
** Talked about grabbing *****.
** Lied about the size of his inauguration.
** Refused to release tax returns.
** Gutted the E.P.A..
** Confiscated and destroyed interpreter's notes after meeting with Putin.
** Tweeted classified photo of Iran missile site.
** Called Baltimore a 'disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess'.
** Described Meryl Streep as 'over-rated'.
** Leaked information to the press about the 2017 Manchester arena bombing.
** Did not attend any White House correspondents' dinner.
** Said Megyn Kelly had 'blood coming out of her whatever'.
** Called Carly Fiorina 'horseface'.
** Ruined impeachment.
** Brought Ivanka to the G7 summit.
** Corrupted Congress.
** Appointed and didn't fire Betsy DeVos.
** Put Jared in charge of Mideast.
** Served McDonald's to Clemson football team.
** Destroyed democracy.
** Lost Hong Kong.
** Threatened Marie Yovanovitch.
** Pulled the U.S. out of climate agreement.
** Allowed bounties on soldiers.
** Invaded Portland.
** Withdrew from W.H.O..
** Bragged about knowing the date.
** Commuted sentences.
** Said to swallow bleach.
** Person, woman, man, camera, TV.
** Destroyed post office.
** Paid $750 in taxes.
** Wants third term.
** Wanted to be on Mount Rushmore.
** And we haven't even said the worst one.
=== Toy Gory ===
*In the poster of "Treehouse of horror XXXI", as Bart is going to get stabbed in the head, Milhouse Van Houten runs towards Bart to prevent him from getting stabbed in the head. This was excluded from the episode proper.
* "Toy Gory" is a parody of the Toy Story movies.
**The toys gain sentience once outside of a human character's view, like all the toys in Toy Story.
*** The toys then gain sentience in front of a human character to enact their revenge against Bart for destroying their brethren, much like the first Toy Story movie where they do the same against Sid Phillips.
**The way Bart acts during this segment is a reference to Sid Phillips, the antagonist of the first Toy Story who loves torturing toys for fun.
**How Bart is turned into a string toy is a reference to Woody, who himself is a string toy.
**Krusty and Radioactive Man's roles in this segment are very similar to that of Woody and Buzz.
**In his destruction spree, Bart blows up a T-Rex toy, which is a reference to the toy T-rex Rex; he also blends some Army Men.
**The lamp in Bart's treehouse is Luxo Jr., one of the two characters in Pixar's first ever short and the mascot for the studio.
* This segment features toys making an effort to kill their owners; while this kind of plotline is (loosely) featured in the Child's Play movies, the 2023 film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, depicting some of Christopher Robin's toys, especially Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, attempting to kill their owner, would depict such a scenario. However, the reasons involved neglect rather than physical abuse. 
** While the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise has long been affiliated with The Walt Disney Company, the producer of Toy Story and current owners of The Simpsons, Blood and Honey was made after the original 1926 book entered the public domain in the United States.
*Individually, aside from the TCM gag, "Toy Gory" is the first episode of the series to be entirely done in CGI. Before this, each full-length episode and segment in each anthology episode were done in 2D animation, with "Treehouse of Horror VI"'s "Homer³" and "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII"'s "Coralisa" having certain segments be animated in CG albeit used sparingly for alternative worlds in those stories.
**The intro to "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" was done entirely in CG as well.
**A majority of the Season 25 episode "Brick Like Me" features CGI animation.
*Ben Mankiewicz interrupting the Debbie Reynolds movie The Swellest Slum on TCM by stating that they will no longer air the movie and announcing after the movie will be "nothing" after a character utters a racial slur is an apparent reference to classic films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy shown on TCM as well as classic films such as the original Dumbo on Disney+ and on HBO Max containing content/trigger warnings and being re-examined due to offensive scenes.
=== Into the Homer-verse ===
*This is the fourth Treehouse of Horror to feature different versions of Homer, following Treehouse of Horror XIII's "Send in the Clones", Treehouse of Horror XXIII's "Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure", and Treehouse of Horror XXV's "The Others".
*This is the first time that an episode features different versions of Mr. Burns.
**However, The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World had featured bosses that were different versions of Burns. Only they're his relatives.
*"Into the Homer-verse" is a parody of .
*During "Into the Homer-verse", Frog Prince from Treehouse of Horror XII's "Wiz Kids" segment appears.
*Homer-Barbera is a parody of the old cartoons.
*Disney Princess Homer is a parody of the Disney Princesses.
*Video Game Homer is a parody of Mario from the Super Mario franchise, including it's sound effects.
*Anime Homer is a parody of various Anime characters.
*Black and White Homer is a parody of Humphrey Bogart's character from the 1942 romantic drama film, , though, he is also playing off on Spider-Man Noir's appearance in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
*As the 8-bit version of Homer is sent into the normal Simpsons universe, he says "ANNOYED GRUNT", which is the script name for "D'oh".
=== Be Nine, Rewind ===
*"Be Nine, Rewind" is a a parody of the TV series and possibly the movie due to the events happening on Lisa's birthday. Also mentions similar films like having the main character reliving the same day over and over again. (Also similar to other time loop films.)
*Although the hospital scene was in 3D, the ending scene was still in 2D like other Treehouse of Horror series.
*Lisa turns 9 in this segment. As this is non-canon, Lisa will stay 8 years old.
*The episode’s title is a play on the Jack Black movie Be Kind Rewind, which came out the same year as the 19th Treehouse of Horror.
=== Credits ===
* Carolyn Omine's credit "Corona Omine" is possibly a reference to the "Coronavirus".
* The Scream on the Gracie Films was replaced with Daphne Blake screaming with her heart beating fast.
== Trivia ==
*Simpsons creator Matt Groening's other cartoon Futurama debuted a parallel universe in 2001, eight years before Family Guy's multi-verse which was featured in the 2009 episode "Road to the Multiverse". It also debuted 17 years before the multi-universes featured in the 2018 Spider-Man movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which "Into The Homer-verse" parodied.
*This episode was released early for viewers who signed up for an exclusive viewing through Decider on October 14, 2020.
*This episode was going to air on October 18, 2020, but was postponed to November 1, 2020 in the US due to Game 7 of the NLCS. The episode did air on its originally scheduled airdate on Citytv in Canada.
**This is the first Treehouse of Horror episode to premiere in November in 10 years since season 22's "Treehouse of Horror XXI" on November 7, 2010.
*In the Twitter preview of the episode, there were a few errors. They were later fixed in the TV airing.
*To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Treehouse of Horror series, the clips from the past 30 Treehouse of Horrors in reverse chronological order are used in the credits for this episode as a tribute which shows an image representing each segment in a countdown order starting from the most recent, which was "When Hairy Met Slimy" ("Treehouse of Horror XXX") to the very first, "Bad Dream House" ("Treehouse of Horror").
*Airing wise, this is the last episode to have white actors voice non-white characters.
==Goofs==
*Strangely, Maggie doesn’t appear in the hospital scene in Toy Gory. She also not in the scene ‘Into the Homer-Verse’.
* In Be Nine, Rewind, Allison Taylor doesn’t appear in the 2nd and 3rd cake scene.
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