The Crash

The Simpsons "Das Bus" (1998)

dir. Pete Michels

Inception (2010)
dir. Christopher Nolan

The Glowing Car

Repo Man (1984)

dir. Alex Cox

The Simpsons "Homer Goes to College" (1993)
dir. Jim Reardon (written by Conan O'Brien!)


from Dack Janson

The Weightless Dance

The Simpsons "Deep Space Homer" (1994)
dir. Carlos Baeza

The Big Lebowski (1998)
dir. Joel Coen


from Cody Clarke

The Unfortunate Backdrop

The Simpsons "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala-Annoyed-Grunt-cious" (1997)

dir. Chuck Sheetz

30 Rock "Leap Day" (2012)
dir. Steve Buscemi

The Jungle Gym

Bart's Friend Falls in Love (1992)
dir. Jim Reardon

Let the Right One In (2008)
dir. Tomas Alfredson

The Overpass

The Simpsons "32 Short Films about Springfield" 1996
dir. Jim Reardon

King of the Hill "Plastic White Female" (1997)
dir .Jeff Myers

The Human Trainwreck

The Simpsons "The New Kid on the Block" (1992)
dir. Wes Archer

The Simpsons "Duffless" (1992)
dir. Jim Reardon

The Daydream

The Simpsons "Marge Gets a Job" (1992)
dir. Jeff Lynch

The New Yorker (2006)
Robert Leighton



Remember the Seinfeld where The New Yorker rips off Ziggy? It's kind of like that.

The Monty Hall Problem

 The Simpsons "Lemon of Troy"(1995)
dir. Jim Reardon

The Venture Bros. "Fallen Arches" (2006)
dir. Christopher McCulloch

The Moes

The Simpsons "Flaming Moe's" (1991)
dir. Rich Moore & Alan Smart

Being John Malkovich (1999)
dir. Spike Jonze

The Knockout

Dempsey and Firpo (1924)
George Bellows

The Simpsons "The Homer They Fall" (1996)
dir. Mark Kirkland


This is a reference within a reference - a quick shot in the middle of a montage parody of Raging Bull (hence the b/w).

The Freedom of Speech

Freedom of Speech (1943)
Norman Rockwell

The Simpsons "A Tale of Two Springfields" (2000)
dir. Shaun Cashman

The Alter Ego

Calvin and Hobbes (1988)
Bill Watterson

The Simpsons "Three Men and a Comic Book" (1991)
dir. Wes Archer

The Bloody Realization

"You made me bleed my own blood."
The Simpsons "Bart the General" (1990)
dir. David Silverman


"Nobody makes me bleed my own blood!"
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber

The Swimmer

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

dir. Leonard Nimoy

The Tracey Ullman Show "The Aquarium" (1988)

dir. Matt Groening