
In one shot, when the family is at the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con, a poster for the film can be seen at the top right of the screen (see image). Also like HAL, as the circuit boards are removed, the Ultrahouse's voice becomes garbled and dies out completely when Homer removes the last one.Īlso sprach Zarathustra plays as Bart rolls Lisa (enclosed in the plastic bubble) off of the school roof to land on the giant chocolate cake commemorating Principal Skinner's years of service. Homer removes the circuit boards of the Ultrahouse to deactivate it, the same way that Bowman deactivates HAL. HAL makes the same suggestion to David Bowman.

When Marge tries to escape, the Ultrahouse suggests that she take a stress pill. Marge and Homer's bedroom resembles the bedroom seen at the end of the film. The "House of Whacks" segment has a number of references to 2001: The Navitron Autodrive System says "I'm afraid I can't let you do this, Red", referencing the famous line from HAL 9000. The satellite hits an embryonic Homer, who appears as a Star Child in orbit about Earth. Bart throwing the marker pen which turns into a satellite references the transition from the Dawn of Man sequence to the space station. Also, the closeup where Homer opens his mouth as he approaches a chip is a visual callback to the docking scene.Īlso Sprach Zarathustra plays during the episode's ending scene. In the scene where Homer eats the floating chips, the background music is "Blue Danube", which is heard during the docking scene in 2001. In the Itchy & Scratchy episode, Itchy leaves the ship to retrieve Scratchy, flying an EVA pod which resembles the ones on Discovery. Homer's vision when he rides the Spinemelter 2000 is based on the "Star Gate" sequence. While the other apes learn to use fire and tools, Homer uses the monolith as a back-scratcher and falls asleep leaning against it. References to 2001: A Space Odyssey in The Simpsons Episodes PictureĪt the beginning of the episode, Homer dreams he is one of the apes in the "Dawn of Man" sequence.

HAL malfunctions due to the mission's need for secrecy being incompatible with his programming, and Bowman is forced to deactivate him. The mission's true purpose (unbeknownst to Bowman but known to HAL) is to investigate the intelligence behind a mysterious black monolith that sent a radio signal to the outer reaches of the solar system and also (as shown in the film) influenced humanity's pre-history. The main characters are astronaut David Bowman and HAL 9000, the ship's computer. The film tells the story of the spaceship Discovery One, which is en route to Jupiter ostensibly on a scientific mission. Clarke went on to write two additional sequels in the 2001 series, 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey, neither of which has been adapted into a movie. A sequel to the novel, titled 2010: Odyssey Two, appeared in 1982 and was adapted into a film in 1984. Clarke, was written concurrently with the development of the film and was published after the film's release. The novel of the same title, by Arthur C.

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