“No TV and no beer make Homer something something.”
The Simpsons references The Shining
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The Demogorgon, named at the campaign table in episode one.
The monolith becomes a vending machine, and Homer becomes the ape.
The time-split episode runs the DeLorean gag into the ground, lovingly.
The Red Room and the Overlook share a wallpaper guy, spiritually.
Data's quest for personhood echoes the replicants' more than a little.
A four-part deep dive on Book 1's reference density.
The body in the shed is framed like the kennel scene.
“Game over, man” gets a full deadpan re-read.
The word that banishes the Carrionites is “Expelliarmus!” — “Good old J.K.!”
Mr. Burns plays Lord Montymort in the “Wiz Kids” segment of Treehouse of Horror XII.
Troy wakes up in Spider-Man pajamas, a wink at Donald Glover's campaign to play Peter Parker.
Bart and Lisa enrol at Springwood Academy, a Hogwarts send-up with Lisa as the star pupil.