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The Color Yellow
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Cultural references[]

  • The episode title is a reference to the Alice Walker novel The Color Purple.
  • The episode makes reference to the movie National Treasure: The Book of Secrets when Lisa tells about Eliza Simpson and Milhouse shows another diary.
  • When Ralph Wiggum steps up to the stage, he then tells a spoof about the TV show Sesame Street and the Toy Story film series: "The King had dreams! Dreams where Elmo and Toy Story had a party!"
  • The line where Homer tells Bart to "march to Selma" is a spoof of the Selma to Montgomery marches that occurred in 1965, where African-Americans led a civil-rights protest by marching from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery, in an attempt to register African-American voters in the Southern United States.
  • After showing the stop while your ahead quilting thing, they mention a famous scene from the original 1974 movie Carrie (1974), they mention when she was being crowned prom, she was splattered with pig's blood and got angry. Plus since she has supernatural powers, she gets angry and scares everyone away.
  • Mr. Burns outfit and mannerisms are reminiscent of Colonel Sanders.
  • The scene where Virgil plays the violin is a reference to the book Twelve Years a Slave.

Goofs[]

  • As Eliza falls in front of the hay after she was scared by an owl, she drops her lantern. But in the next shot, she's holding it.
    • Eliza could've repicked up the latern offscreen.
  • There is an anachronism in this episode. In one scene, there is a flashback from the diary of Eliza Simpson, which shows a scene taking place in 1860, at a party in Kentucky where the music playing is Blue Danube waltz. However, the Blue Danube was composed in Vienna, 1866.
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  • The Canadian flag that appears in the episode is not the official flag of Canada until 1965.
  • Why would Lisa just focus on the Simpsons's side (her dad's side) of the family? What about her mom's side (the Bouviers) or Grampa's side of the family before they took on the last name Simpson? Or Herb Powell's side of the family (which included that carny woman that had sex with Abe for money)? Or Abbie's?

Trivia[]


ā—„ Season 20 Season 21 References/Trivia Season 22 ā–ŗ
Homer the Whopper ā€¢ Bart Gets a "Z" ā€¢ The Great Wife Hope ā€¢ Treehouse of Horror XX ā€¢ The Devil Wears Nada ā€¢ Pranks and Greens ā€¢ Rednecks and Broomsticks ā€¢ O Brother, Where Bart Thou? ā€¢ Thursdays with Abie ā€¢ Once Upon a Time in Springfield ā€¢ Million Dollar Maybe ā€¢ Boy Meets Curl ā€¢ The Color Yellow ā€¢ Postcards From the Wedge ā€¢ Stealing First Base ā€¢ The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed ā€¢ American History X-cellent ā€¢ Chief of Hearts ā€¢ The Squirt and the Whale ā€¢ To Surveil With Love ā€¢ Moe Letter Blues ā€¢ The Bob Next Door ā€¢ Judge Me Tender
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