Treehouse of Horror XVI/References

== Cultural References ==
===Opening Sequence===
*The opening references the fact that due to the Fox network's coverage of the World Series (which one game usually falls on Sunday), the Simpsons Halloween show is pushed to November. 
*Kang and Kodos wonder if speeding up time will allow the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series, a reference to the team's long-standing championship drought. In 2016, they won the World Series for the first time in 108 years. Coincidentally, this episode aired less than two weeks after the Chicago White Sox, the Cubs' crosstown rivals, ended their World Series title drought of 88 years.
===B.I. Bartificial Intelligence===
*A.I. Artificial Intelligence: Punned in the title and parodied throughout the segment.
*The song featured during Bart's "jealousy" montage is "New Kid in Town" by the Eagles.
*The scene where Bart meets the group of robots in the woods is a spoof of the music video for the song, Rockit by Herbie Hancock. The walking pair of robot legs were featured in the video.
*The segment concludes with a short parody of The Exorcist, featuring a possessed Homer, he just faked it so he won't have to go to work.
*The Robo-Tots ad that features a dog pulling a boy's swimming trunks down is a parody of the Coppertone ads.
*Bart says "D'oh" after the robot eat his shorts.
* As Bart is telling Lisa that he is going to jump, Lisa is reading Master of the Senate, the third book in biographer Robert A. Caro's series The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
===Survival of the Fattest===
*The second segment is a parody of the 1932 film, The Most Dangerous Game.
*This episode is somewhat similar to the 1993 film, Hard Target.
*The segment title is a pun on the Darwin-inspired catchphrase, Survival of the Fittest.
*It seems that Principal Skinner was the only survivor to escape from Mr. Burns besides Homer. However, he could've been shot by Mr. Burns, but it was not shown.
===I've Grown a Costume on Your Face===
*The segment's title is a reference to the song, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face from the musical, My Fair Lady. It is also an allusion to a song that Bart and Sideshow Bob sing in Bart's room in "The Great Louse Detective".
*Television series references:
**The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Halloween: In the episode "Halloween," most of the residents of Sunnydale don cursed costumes that transform them into what they are dressed as.
**The classic Twilight Zone: In the episode "The Masks," four greedy heirs are turned into monsters by the hideous masks each wear at their benefactor's behest.
**The Fairly OddParents: In the episode "Scary GodParents", Timmy wishes that everyone's Halloween costumes were real.
**The My Babysitter's a Vampire episode Halloweird, where guests at a Halloween party are transformed into their costumes.
**Reality Trip had kids in cosplay transformed into their costumes.
* After all of Springfield's citizens are turned into real-life versions of their costumes, Mayor Quimby as Mayor McCheese says, "I am not a happy meal right now" as dogs lick at him, a reference to McDonald's Happy Meals.
*At the end of the segment, Maggie the witch flies up to the moon, accompanied by the theme music of Bewitched, in a scene very similar to the TV series' title animation.
*Tress MacNeille voices the witch in this segment, who also voiced the Wicked Witch of the West in the animated Wizard of Oz show from the 90s.
==Trivia==
*The show Pomona on the opening sequence from FOX references the real life city of Pomona, California, which is located in Los Angeles County in the Pomona Valley with a population of 149,058 as of the 2010 United States census. "Pomona is hotter away from the beach" is said in the announcing of the new show at the game, because Pomona is thirty miles away from the nearest beach.
*"I've Grown a Costume on Your Face" is similar to an issue of Simpsons Comics' Bartman, in which Itchy and Scratchy are brought to life through alien technology create a nuclear explosion which turns the Simpsons into costumed superheroes.
*This is the first Treehouse of Horror episode to not be the premiere of its season since "Treehouse of Horror X".
*This is the only Simpsons episode where God's face is completely shown (in the opening).
*In I've Grown a Costume on Your Face, Chief Wiggum says he likes being Jared Fogle, as now he's "only a little overweight and sexually ambiguous." It was later discovered that Fogle is a sex offender.
===Costumes in "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face"===
*Homer: a decapitated man
*Marge: a skeleton
*Bart: a werewolf
*Lisa: Albert Einstein
*Maggie: a witch
*Apu: R2-D2
*Martin Prince, Jr.]]: Oberon, king of the fairies, from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
*Groundskeeper Willie: a bug spray can.
*Hans Moleman: a mole, even though he didn't dress as one
*Dr. Hibbert: Dracula (mistaken for Blacula by Mayor Quimby)
*Milhouse: a bulldozer
*Kirk: A strong man
*Ned Flanders: a flower (which looks somewhat like Bob the Angry Flower)
*Nelson: the Lone Ranger, but everyone (including the witch) mistakes him as a raccoon
*Mayor Quimby: Mayor McCheese
* Mayor Quimby's bodyguard: A cat
*Grandpa: a gorilla
*Sideshow Mel: Spider-Man
*Chief Wiggum: Jared Fogle
*Lou: A musketeer
*Eddie: A musketeer
*Sea Captain: Poseidon (he played Poseidon in "Tales from the Public Domain")
*Edna Krabappel: A snake
*Lenny: A prison inmate
*Carl: A mummy
*Principal Skinner: G.I. Joe
*Agnes Skinner: Southern belle
*Patty and Selma: Two-person horse costume (Patty is the horse's head and Selma is the horse's rear end)
*Gil: A ghost
*Dewey Largo: A clown
*Cletus: 17th Century nobleman
*Barney: Frankenstein's monster
*Moe: Hugh Hefner
*Disco Stu: Steve Martin with an arrow through his head
*Jasper: The Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz
*Sherri and Terri: Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee from Alice in Wonderland
*Squeaky-Voiced Teen: The Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz
*Luigi: Wedding Cake
*Professor Frink: Caveman
*Bumblebee Man: Bumblebee (quite obvious)
*Old Jewish Man: His brother, Irving.
===Deaths in "Survival of the Fattest"===
These are the people whom Mr. Burns massacres in the segment "Survival of the Fattest". The deaths, in chronological order, are the following:
*Comic Book Guy: Shot after refusing to run.
*Blue-haired Lawyer: Killed after defending Burns.
*Apu: Shot after being discovered hiding in a bush, but is reincarnated as a rabbit. After reincarnation, he gets caught in a bear trap.
*Krusty the Clown: Shot once by Burns, only to begin to tell a joke. He is then shot multiple more times through the chest to keep him from finishing.
*Dr. Julius Hibbert: Flung from a tree by Homer, and then became the first to be shot out of the air by Burns.
*Dr. Nick Riviera: Flung from a tree and shot immediately after Hibbert.
*Lou: Flung from a tree and shot after Dr. Nick.
*Kirk Van Houten: Flung from a tree, shot and killed after Lou.
*The Yes Guy: Flung from a tree, and then shot after Kirk.
*Kent Brockman: Flung from a tree, and was the last person to be shot out of the air.
*Moe Szyslak: He was flung from the tree along with the others, but Burns missed him. After taunting Burns, he ironically lands on on a weather vane, impaling himself. He still survives, wins the lottery, and is about to leave to cash it in, but Chief Wiggum lands on him, crushing and finally killing him.
*Clancy Wiggum: Falls on a weathervane and dies instantly, crushing Moe.
*Professor Frink: Killed offscreen then eaten by Homer, who passes up bananas, saying that they look green.
*Sideshow Mel: Shot by Burns, using machine guns on a plane during a strafing run.
*Dewey Largo: Also shot during the strafing run.
*Groundskeeper Willie: Shot and killed during the strafing run, dying at exactly the same time as Mel and Dewey.
*Carl: Shot during the strafing run, but survives until just before Lenny dies.
*Lenny: Shot during the strafing run, but survives long enough to see his idea of heaven.
*Barney: Killed offscreen, then shot three times through the chest while being used as a diversion by Homer.
*Otto Mann: Killed offscreen, his head is seen in the headbag.
*Horatio McCallister: Killed offscreen, his head was thrown out of the headbag.
==Continuity==
==="Survival of the Fattest"===
*Marge reminds Bart of when he killed a bird ("Bart the Mother").
==End Credits==
*Al Jean was credited as Al "Family Guy" Jean.
*Yeardley Smith is credited as "The Lizard Queen" which is a reference to Lisa's drunken/drug-adled line from "Selma's Choice".
*Hank Azaria is credited as "No Seriously, The Republican Party", which is somewhat odd as his real name or a variant of it does not appear in the "name" at all.
==Goofs==
* When Homer, Carl, and Lenny were in the first shot, the plaques that Mr. Burns would hang their heads on are missing but after Barney says "The most dangerous game, I wonder what it could be?" The plaques suddenly appear over Lenny and Carl.
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