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The scene where Homer chases Flanders's car is a parody of the sequence in Terminator 2: Judgment Day in which Robert Patrick's T-1000 chases the heroes in the police car after escaping from the hospital. Homer emerging through the Flanders hedge also parodies the T-1000's shape shifting abilities.
After Homer is teased by several people, who imply that Ned is Marge's secret love, Homer decides to read the book. However, after falling asleep on page one and lying to Marge that he had read the book and approved of it, he listens to the audiobook version (read by the Olsen Twins). After arguing with Marge, Homer decides to confront Ned.
While Marge saves Homer from the wreckage, Ned breaks into Barb's orphanage to steal the money back, and seduces her to get the key to the safe. Ned drives away with the money and passes by an escaped Homer, which causes Ned to crash his car which catches on fire. Homer saves Ned by pulling him out of the burning car with the money.
The character also appears in the episodes "Homer Loves Flanders" (who tells Homer that, if Homer actually went to work for eight days instead of camping out outside the ticket window for football tickets, he would have earned enough to get his tickets from a scalper), "Homer and Apu" (as one of the angry customers in the beginning of the ...
"The Devil and Homer Simpson" was written by Daniels and McGrath. [5] The first time Devil Flanders appears, he resembles the devil Chernabog from Fantasia (1940); Silverman particularly admired the animation in that sequence. [6] Oakley loved the idea of Flanders being the Devil because he was the character whom viewers would least expect.
Flanders tells Homer that his Shroud of Turin beach towels were stolen during one of the burglaries. [5] Herman Hermann shows Homer a bomb the military developed to drop on Beatniks. Homer's dream of riding the bomb to oblivion is a parody of the climactic scene of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
When Homer first meets Mindy, he imagines her as Venus in Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus. [1] To deal with Homer and Mindy charging room service to the company, Mr. Burns unleashes flying monkeys à la the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939). However, the attempt fails as the monkeys all fall to their deaths. [2]
You say that the word "sacrilicious" was used by The Supersuckers several years before Homer uses it, but the album "The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers" was released in 1995, and the episode in which Homer says "Mmm... sacrilicious," (Homer Loves Flanders, 1F14) aired in 1994. Why does an "i" proceed the "l" in "sacrelicious".