Homer The Vigilante - Cultural References

Cultural References

The Molloy character is based on actor David Niven's performance as the character Raffles in the 1939 film Raffles. The music heard at the beginning of the episode during the burglaries is taken from the film The Pink Panther. Flanders tells Homer that his Shroud of Turin beach towels were stolen during one of the burglaries. Homer's dream of riding a nuclear bomb into oblivion is a reference to the famous scene from the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The scene of Homer and Principal Skinner talking in front of the museum is a reference to a scene from the television series Dragnet. In a reference to the plot of the 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Molloy sends the residents of Springfield on a hunt for a treasure that is buried under a big letter. The ending sequence of episode also parodies the film by using the same music and camera angles. In another scene that references It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Bart tricks American actor Phil Silvers into driving his car into a river, just like Silvers's character did in the film.