Cape Feare/References

== Citations ==
*The episode is a parody of the 1962 film, Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum.
*The Simpsons and Sideshow Bob watch the movie Ernest Goes Somewhere Cheap, an obvious parody of Jim Varney's Ernest movies.
*Sideshow Bob's prison number for this episode is A113. A113 is a little known easter egg Brad Bird puts into the movies and cartoons he makes, such as this episode, all Pixar films, two other Simpsons episodes ("Krusty Gets Busted" and "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"), and other productions.
**A113 is the room number for the classroom at CalArts when Brad Bird was a student there.
**Coincidentally, Bob's voice actor, Kelsey Grammer played Stinky Pete in the 1999 Pixar movie Toy Story 2.
*In the town of Terror Lake, Sideshow Bob stays at the Bates Motel, a reference to Psycho.
*When leaving for Terror Lake, Bart and Homer wear fedoras similar to the ones worn by Ricky Ricardo and Fred Mertz in the I Love Lucy episode "California, Here We Come!".
**In the same scene, the Simpsons sing along with the FBI Choir's performance of "Three Little Maids from School are We from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado.
*After boarding the Thompsons' (Simpsons) houseboat, Bob attacks Bart with a machete, a possible reference to Friday the 13th movies, where the killer Jason Voorhees uses a machete as his primary weapon.
*When Ned Flanders jumps out of the bushes and scares Bart, he is wearing a clawed glove with which is used to trim his hedges. The glove is an obvious reference to the Nightmare on Elm Street films, where Freddy Krueger kills his victims in their dreams with a razor-fitted glove.
*While the entire episode is a reference to the original Cape Fear film, one scene specifically referenced the 1991 remake. When Sideshow Bob is in a movie theatre, smoking and laughing uproariously, it is similar to the poor conduct of Max Cady (played by Robert De Niro) in a movie house where he laughs loudly at the film Problem Child, annoying the other moviegoers.
*Sideshow Bob's knuckle tattoos ("luv" and "hāt") are a reference to the film The Night of the Hunter, in which the murderous Harry Powell (also played by Robert Mitchum) has the words "love" and "hate" tattooed, on his knuckles.
*Moe's Tavern's phone number is 39943.
* The Itchy and Scratchy cartoon is called Spay Anything, referencing the movie Say Anything, and spoofs the laser scene from Goldfinger.
* To stall for time, Bart asks Sideshow Bob to sing the entire score of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, H.M.S. Pinafore.
==Trivia==
*Treehouse of Horror XXXIV, which also aired thirty years later, featured a segment where Bob realizes that Bart was having him do the HMS Pinafore performance to stall him and then kills Bart before the police can rescue him.
*This episode was banned in Germany for depicting violence against a child and depicting a character holding the ranking of Obergrupperfuehrer (and wearing a complete SS officer's uniform) [the announcer for Up Late with McBain]. Germany has strict laws prohibiting the use of Nazi references and symbols unless it is for educational or historic reasons (i.e., if it is for a documentary). Displaying the swastika alone is enough to get someone put in prison for a year. Nevertheless, the episode was dubbed and finally aired in Germany in 1999, with the first scene edited, making it start with Bart and Lisa receiving mail. Interestingly enough, the phrase "No one who speaks German could be an evil man" received no controversy.
*This episode was the last episode produced by the original show writers and runners.
*Beginning with this episode, the showrunner credit (in this case, Executive Producers Al Jean and Mike Reiss) now appears at the end of the episode, before the Executive Producers credit for James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, and Sam Simon. Prior to this, the showrunner credit was usually the first opening credit to be superimposed during the first scene of an episode.
* Much like season four's "Kamp Krusty" and season 17's "Bonfire of the Manatees", this episode was originally conceived as the plot for a feature film version of The Simpsons. However, the writers did not know how to stretch the story past the thirty-minute mark (which they already had difficulty with when writing this episode), so it was turned into a regular episode.
==Goofs==
*The houseboat changes designs between shots.
*The rakes Sideshow Bob walks into in some scenes seem to be coming out of nowhere.
*Although the kids are watching Up Late With McBain (which is implied to be a late night talk show style program), Marge announces mail delivery, which occurs during daylight hours. Up Late With McBain probably did so bad in its timeslot that it got canceled and the remaining episodes aired during daytime hours when barely anyone would be watching. It's rare, but it does happen to television shows (at least before the days of streaming and Internet-based series).
*At Springfield Police Station, there is a picture of a wanted criminal with title "Reward" at first and after a few minutes there is a picture of Fat Tony with the title "Wanted".
*When Sideshow Bob is listing the residents of the neighborhood who would not be killed, he does not mention Rod and Todd Flanders. Sideshow Bob probably didn't know that Ned and Maude Flanders have children.
*When Clancy Wiggum, Lou and Eddie pull out their weapons towards Sideshow Bob at the end of the episode, the guns make shotgun reloading noises despite being pistols.
*When Sideshow Bob says, "...that little baby Simpson...", Maggie's right eyelash disappears when she looks at Bob's direction. When she goes back to her looking direction, her eyelash appears back on.
*In a deleted scene, when Homer asks Wiggum where he got the sloppy joes, his mouth doesn't move.
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