The Scorpion's Tale/References

==Cultural References==
*The title is a pun to the in the constellation , named "".
*The coyote chasing the road runner is an obvious reference to the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
*The Hotenhoffer Pharmaceuticals company logo "HP" is a parody of the logo.
*The Hotenhoffer Pharmaceuticals' "Suitcase Suzies" were graduates of .
*A crane in the Hotenhoffer Pharmaceuticals mistakenly airlifts the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity from the teen sex comedy and drops it into the research area.
*Homer thinks Walter Hotenhoffer is Willy Wonka, the factory owner from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but Bart thinks Walter is actually , the obese and greedy German boy from that same film.
**A couple of times, Walter makes allusion to the chocolate river scene from the 1971 where Augustus Gloop tries to drink from the river, falls, and is sucked by a tube in which he gets stuck.
*Seymour Skinner uses for his acid reflux.
*When Milhouse finds the skeleton of a hippie, he starts repeating "Never get off the bus". This is a parody of the "Never get outa the boat" scene from the 1979 war film .
==Trivia==
*The name of the desert of Springfield is called Satan's Anvil, where it was likely due to the rock-shaped figure that looks like Satan as a blacksmith.
*We learn Seymour Skinner was once bitten by a rattlesnake on where Superintendent Chalmers often plays a prank to remind him.
*The last time a Simpsons eye sticks out was in "Lard of the Dance". In this episode, Bart is impressed about the family having its own 'monster' when both of Abe's eyes protrude right out of their sockets although it grossed him out in Lard of the Dance when Homer's eye bulge out while it was still in its socket.
*The main flower is this episode is called Silvertongue. In "Lisa the Iconoclast", it is revealed that Jebediah Springfield had a silver tongue.
*Many senior citizen characters appear at the end including Dorothy, Prudence and many others.
*Otto appears among the crowd of people who had taken the drug.
*The end credit music is the same Myst homage from the 6th Treehouse of Horror. This time, the Gracie Films theme is unchanged, same as the 20th Century Studios logo.
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