Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"/References

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Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"

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Trivia

• The dialogue during the shootout was not captioned.
• The robot dancers of the Western themed bar were based on Heather Mills.
• Maggie isn't with the family during the hospital scenes.
• It is mentioned by Dr. Hibbert that Larry Hagman took the whole stock of kidneys, livers and hearts.
• This is arguably the second episode where a Simpson suffers the permanent extraction of an organ, the first being "'Round Springfield". However, Homer still has both kidneys in later episodes.

Cultural References

• The cowboy robot chasing the dancer robot around in a circle on the bar's balcony references the original Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.
• The scene where the car breaks down outside Springfield Retirement Castle and Homer tries to restart the engine while Abe walks slowly towards the car parodies the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead.
• Homer states that he wants to watch Inside the Actors Studio.
• At one point "Doc Martens" and "Dr. Bombay" are called for over the hospital intercom. "Doc Martens" refers to a British footwear brand and "Dr. Bombay" refers to a character from the 1960s sitcom Bewitched starring (all deceased) Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead and David White.
• The sequence of Homer nearly being run over by a car references Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 spy thriller film North by Northwest.
• The scenes on board the ship of lost souls reference Jean-Paul Sartre's 1944 theatre play No Exit.
• Homer states that he is now "the luckiest man on the face of the Earth now that Lou Gerhig is dead".

Goofs

• The tracks in the concrete appear before the railcar wheels rolled over it.
• The idea of Grampa suffering a "kidney blowout" is medically impossible. His bladder would have been the organ that would have ruptured from holding urine in for too long, since the bladder is the organ that retains the urine before it gets expelled by urination (the kidneys just filter what the body has consumed).
• In this episode, Grampa has two kidneys, but in Season 2 episode "Old Money", Grampa told Bea that he had one (unless he meant one that was still functioning).
• When Homer was parallel-parking the railcar, he was out of proportion compared to the cars on either side of him. Oddly, he barely comes up to the height of the boot on the closest car.
• The Frenchman says he stole his accordion from a blind monkey, but what he's actually playing is a concertina. An accordion has a full keyboard on it, is boxy rather than circular, and wouldn't be held easily with two hands (accordions have straps on them worn on the body that keep it in place).
• Homer is stated to still have both kidneys in later episodes, and when he is seen shirtless in "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" there is no kidney-shaped scar on his body.