Treehouse of Horror XXII/References

==Trivia==
*This is the first Treehouse of Horror since "Treehouse of Horror XX" that aired before Halloween.
*This is the first time since Season 2's first ever Treehouse of Horror episode to be the third episode of a season.
*Lisa and Maggie do not appear in the Dial D for Diddily segment.
*Homer, Marge and Maggie do not appear in the In the Na'vi segment.
*This Treehouse of Horror episode received very negative reviews thanks to "The Diving Bell and the Butterball", making this the worst Halloween special in the show. A "Awful Animations" video by Steve Reviews about this episode was also uploaded.
==Previous episode references==
*"Radio Bart": A Simpson (Bart/Homer) impersonated God with a radio to selfishly manipulate a Flanders (Rod and Todd/Ned) without them knowing.
*"Homer the Whopper": One of the robbers Homer thwarts also appears in Jeffery Albertson's Everyman comic.
*"Treehouse of Horror IV": The Halloween special ends with a Christmas theme.
*"Homer's Night Out", "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" and "Love is a Many Strangled Thing": A character (Marge/Abe/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar/God) strangles Homer.
*"Simple Simpson" and "Homer the Whopper": Homer becomes a superhero.
*"Jaws Wired Shut": Homer suffers from an injury (broken jaw/paralysis) that causes him to become mute without brain damage and finds an alternative way of communicating.
*"Mobile Homer": A spider harms Homer.
*"Treehouse of Horror VIII": A Simpson (Bart/Homer) suffers from a bug-related mishap.
*"Treehouse of Horror XV": Ned murders another character (Homer/several Springfieldians).
*"Treehouse of Horror XX": The music played during the opening was played in the segment "Dial "M" for Murder, Or Press # to Return to the Main Menu".
*"Hurricane Neddy": Ned uses swear words at Homer as he threatens to kill him, despite the fact that he doesn’t swear.
==Cultural references==
*Homer getting his arm trapped in a boulder almost is a reference to 127 Hours.
*The way Ned kills Patty and Selma is a reference to Wille E. Coyote. Ned's method of killing Snake draws references to David and Goliath which David kills Goliath through a stone.
*Maggie emerging from Bart's "stomach" could reference to famous film Alien. This was previously parodied in the previous THOH opening.
*Enemies only want to get a thing, but good side casts defeat almost everyone also happen in other media, Mega Man: Rock Force.
*Homer transforming into a superhero after he is bitten by a spider is a homage to Spider-Man. He also references Spider-Man in Simple Simpson. In addition, Homer’s superhero costume resembles Spider-Man’s costume, but with the colors reversed, resembling his evil-twin, Web-Man.
*At the beginning of the episode, Homer is painted as Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen.
* In the beginning of the episode, Homer wipes his forehead with a bar of Hershey's chocolate.
*The first story, The Diving Bell and the Butterball was based on the biographical film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
*The second story, Dial D for Diddily, was based on the TV show, Dexter.
*Dial D for Diddly is a pun on the 1954 crime thriller film, Dial M for Murder. This is the third THOH segment that references this film. The first was Dial "Z" for Zombies in Treehouse of Horror III, second was Dial 'M' for Murder or Press '#' to Return to Main Menu in Treehouse of Horror XX. There is also an episode called Dial "N" for Nerder.
*The third story, In the Na'vi, was based on the science fiction film, Avatar, for example Hilarium is parody on Unobtainium.
*In the Na'vi is a pun on the 1941 film, In the Navy. The Na'vi is the alien species in Avatar.
* In the third segment, Superintendent Chalmers is in an exoskeleton that look exactly the same as the exoskeleton called The Commander from ios game Sentinel 3: Homeworld.
===List of Simpsons characters who portrayed Avatar characters===
:Bart Simpson as Jake Sully
:Rigellians as the Na'vi
:Kamala as Neytiri
:Lisa Simpson as Grace Augustine
:Superintendent Chalmers as Miles Quaritch
:Milhouse Van Houten as Norm Spellman
:Krusty the Clown as Parker Selfridge
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