This week, to celebrate the release of The Simpsons Movie on Friday, we’re bringing you the 20 best movie references from The Simpsons (that’s four a day, Mr Nash!). Here’s numbers 13 (ooh, unlucky for some!) to 16. Click here to watch the trailer.

13. CRIMSON TIDE

In the 1998 episode Simpson Tide, Homer joins the Naval Reserve, and subsequently seizes control of a nuclear submarine and causes an
international incident – all of which parodies the Jerry Bruckheimer/Tony Scott film Crimson Tide.

14. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

Wes Craven’s classic chiller is spoofed in a segment of the Halloween episode Treehouse of Horror VI entitled A Nightmare On Evergreen Terrace, in which a stripey-sweatered Groundskeeper Willie terrorizes Springfield’s children in their sleep – just like Freddy Krueger.

Classic quote: (Principal Skinner): “There’s no mystery about Willie. Why, he simply disappeared. Now, let’s have no more curiosity about this bizarre
cover-up.”

15. THE JAZZ SINGER

The 1991 episode Like Father Like Clown is loosely based on the 1927 ‘talking picture’ The Jazz Singer, in which the son of a Jewish Cantor, Al Jolson, defies his father and his faith in order to pursue his showbiz dreams. In the Simpsons’ version, it is Krusty the Klown (aka Herschel Krustofski) who earns the wrath of his father, a rabbi, by becoming a clown.

16. PLANET OF THE APES

The Simpsons loves its Planet of the Apes references. In A Fish Called Selma, actor Troy McClure – whom you may remember from such films as Dial ‘M’ for Murderessness and Give My Remains To Broadway – is cast in a musical production of the 1968 sci-fi classic. In another episode, Deep Space Homer,  Homer claims that the only danger of his upcoming space mission is if he lands on “the terrible planet of the apes.”

Classic quote: (Homer Simpson): “Wait a minute – Statue of Liberty. That was our planet! You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!”

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