This Great Mashup Of ‘Simpsons’ Film References Proves It’s The Most Cultured Show On TV

Did you, like me, put a hasty end to widely-respected pursuits such as ballet and piano in favour of spending your entire childhood watching and re-watching The Simpsons? Are you that person who inevitably diffuses the tension in rapid-fire pub arguments about politics with a line from ‘Treehouse of Horror‘ or Kent Brockman?

Please add this to your arsenal of comebacks to pull out when people accuse you of being uncultured:

Cataloguing just a small sample of the countless film references used in the iconic show, this clip from Vimeo user Celia Gómez gives a nice little indication of the accidental film education you’ve been getting over the past 27 years. It’s not just the obvious blockbusters like Spiderman and Terminator either; with nods to Hitchcock’s Psycho, Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Welles’ Citizen Kane, you’ve basically absorbed a first semester of tertiary film studies.

Here are a few great ones they left out:

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Casablanca, 1942

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Singin’ In The Rain, 1952

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The Great Escape, 1963

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Goldfinger, 1964

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Everything By Guillermo del Toro

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Crocodile Dundee, 1986

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