Much Apu About Nothing - S7-E23
Trivia: Apu enrolls in Springfield Heights Institute of Technology. Anyone else find that acronym amusing?
Tree House of Horror VI - S7-E6
Trivia: In the story where Homer get transported to the 3rd dimension there is a string of hexadecimal numbers floating in space. The string reads: %46%72%69%6E%6B%20%72%75%6C%65%73%21. If you paste these into your browser address bar you can see that these convert to say 'Frink rules!'
Trivia: In this episode Donald Sutherland plays the museum curator. In the 1975 film "The Day of the Locust" he plays a character called "Homer Simpson".
Tree House of Horror VI - S7-E6
Trivia: In the segment Homer3, you can see at one point in the background of the 3-D world a tea kettle. This is a reference by the animators to the first object ever digitally animated into 3-D, a kettle. You can also see the number 733, which if you look on a normal phone it spells out PDF, the software they used to make the sequence. There's a special on these on the 7th season DVD's.
Trivia: Troy McClure's strange house that looks like a UFO on a pole is based on an actual house in the Hollywood Hills that looks just like that. It can be seen in Brian De Palma's film, "Body Double" (1984).
Trivia: Bart changes the lyrics to Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to "In the Garden of Eden." This was in fact the original title of the song, but because Ron Bushy had difficulty listening through a headset, he misinterpreted the title. It was not due to Doug Ingle being drunk while singing, as the popular rumor has it.
The Simpson's 138th Show Spectacular - S7-E10
Trivia: The credits read "Written by Penny Wise" and "Directed by Pound Foolish."
Trivia: Paul McCartney agreed to guest star on the condition that Lisa's conversion to vegetarianism remain permanent. This is one of the few points of continuity that has been strictly adhered to.
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming - S7-E9
Trivia: When we are first introduced to Sideshow Bob, he is building a ship out of sticks. Look at his name tag. It says A-113 on it. A-113 is the classroom number used by character animation students at CalArts, frequently used as an inside joke by graduates, right the way up to Pixar movies.
Trivia: In this episode, Wolfcastle says "Real acid?" and starts to have doubts about filming the scene. In The Terminator, Arnie (who Wolfcastle is a parody of) said the exact same thing when he learned that the crew were going to pour acid on his clothing for a smoke effect.
Answer: Willy referred to an encounter he believed he had with actual aliens, while Wiggum thought he was referring to the arcade game.