ext_13249 ([identity profile] apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] beamjockey 2011-09-15 01:33 am (UTC)

Matt Groening productions are remarkably sophisticated, under the shallow surface (a little like the best of The Onion.)
There is at least one entire web site devoted to Stanley Kubrick references in The Simpsons. Kubrick was a big Simpsons fan (your weird factoid for the day: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/1999/jul/16/stanleykubrick2).
http://www.simpsonsfolder.com/library/stanley_kubrick.html
http://kubrickfilms.tripod.com/id40.html (at the very bottom)
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-218204.html

other references from Tom Jones to The Ten Commandments to Psycho
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/09/22/simpsons-scenes-and-their-reference-movies/
http://www.snpp.com/guides/movie_refs.html
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=218204
http://animatedtv.about.com/cs/lists/a/movspoofs.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFHDIMLIWgg


During an argument over whether they ever enjoyed foreign films, Marge said, "Come on, Homer, you liked 'Rashomon' " -- and Homer replied, "That's not how I remember it."

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