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Treehouse Of Horror IV (The Simpsons Halloween Special IV)

This episode premiered on October 28th, 1993. It ran in its usual time slot and was followed by The Sinbad Show. It ran opposite Missing Persons, The Heat Of The Night and Mad About You.

The opening sequence is the headstones from the cemetery: Elvis "Accept It" (Both a reference to people claiming Elvis was still alive and the short lived series that ran opposite The Simpsons in their first season), A Balanced Budget (in reference to the U.S. budget fight of 1993), Subtle Political Satire (in reference to the previous headstone), TV Violence (which is shot full of bloody holes). The couch gag is a zombie Simpsons family comes out of a hole and sitting on the couch. In the background is the classic ship painting but now it's sinking and surrounded by sharks.

The show starts with Bart narrating like Rod Serling in the Night Gallery series. Marge shows up and tells him to warn people that the show is not for small children, then she hands him Maggie while she heads to the gift shop to look for earrings. 

The Devil And Homer Simpsons (the title refers to The Devil and Danial Webster) Homer is dreaming about a fashion show however instead of models there are donuts. When he wakes up all the donuts at work are gone including his emergency donut. Homer offers to sell his soul and Satan Flanders shows up and makes him sign a contract for a donut. Homer realizes there is a loophole, if he doesn't eat the last bite the Devil can't take his soul. Later that night Homer goes to the fridge and eats the last of the donut and the Devil shows up. Lisa insists on a fair trial, the Devil offers to hold it the next day but Homer has to spend 24 hours in hell, he then says a familiar hello to Bart. In hell Homer is forced to eat donuts, but it's not a punishment to him. "James Coco went mad in 15 minutes" (James Coco was a character actor who had died in 1987). Marge hires Lionel Hutz to be their attorney, when he realizes he's going to lose he sneaks out the bathroom window. Marge shows the jury her wedding photo where on the back Homer pledged his soul to Marge and the jury decides in her favor. The Devil curses Homer and turns his head into a donut, which he keeps eating. The cops are waiting for him to come out, coffee ready.

When Homer taunts Satan Ned he turns into Chernabog, the character from Disney's Fantasia (Night On Bald Mountain) 

Door in Hell, Hell Labs Ironic Punishment Division

Satan's jury of the damned, Benedict Arnold, Lizzy Borden, Richard Nixon (Nixon points out that he isn't dead yet, however 6 months later he really did die), John Wilkes Booth, Black Beard, John Dillinger, the starting line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers (best known for the Red Army game in which they played the Russian military hockey team in a rather brutal game resulting in a lot of penalties, the team then went on to play the rest of the NHL season with a lot of fights and injuries)

Continuity error: In this episode Homer and Marge get married in the emergency room, by Reverend Lovejoy while Dr. Hibbert takes care of Homer, he at the entire wedding cake. However in the episode I Married Marge they get married at Shotgun Pete's Wedding Chapel just across the state line

School Bus aka Terror at 5 1/2 Feet (Based on the classic Twilight Zone episode Nightmare at 30,000 feet)

Bart is on his way to school when the tire falls off and the bus crashes into an on coming truck. However it turns out to just be a nightmare (7 years before the Final Destination movies). On the way to school Bart looks out the window and sees a gremlin on the side of the bus. When Bart warns Otto he looks out and sees Moleman driving an AMC Gremlin, Otto runs the car off the road and when it barely taps a tree it explodes. The aliens see the bus and laugh at earthlings who are afraid of a creature that does not exist, but when they look out the window of their space ship the gremlin is pulling out the wires. Principal Skinner, who is riding on the bus, pulls down Bart's window shade (like in the Twilight Zone) but when Bart peeks out he sees Willie who is catching a ride. Bart sees the gremlin pulling the lug nuts off the tire, like in his dream. Bart manages to hit the gremlin with a road flair, it falls off and gets run over by Flanders, who then takes him home to heal him. Bart is sent off to The New Bedlam Mental Hospital. As the ambulance drives away the gremlin pops up in the back window with Ned's head shouting "Howdly Ho Bart!" (This was a version of the ending of the Twilight Zone movie)

Krusty Trading Cards: Krusty Visits Relatives in Annapolis, Maryland. Krusty Poses For Trading Card Photo.

Martin is wearing a Wang Computer shirt. (After a series of financial problems Wang was bought out by Getronics in 1999, who was bought out by KPN who was then bought out by CompuCom)

This is the first appearance of Uter Zorker, the German foreign exchange student. He offers Milhouse a bite of his Vengelerstrasse bar or some Marzipan JoyJoy "Mit Iodine!" He offers Bart a lick of his Flavor Wax. 

Bart gets sent to the New Bedlam Mental Hospital, first seen in the episode Stark Raving Dad. We also see the ambulance shot (with the mental hospital name on it) from the One Fish Two Fish episode. 

Bart Simpson's Dracula (Based on the movie Bram Stroker's Dracula which had come out the year before) Several people in Springfield turn up dead, drained of their blood, Wiggums thinks it's a mummy so he has the Egyptian wing of the museum destroyed, including a painting of the Mona Lisa. The Simpsons are invited to Burns' house in Pennsylvania. Bart and Lisa nose around and find a lever that opens a trap door, to a washer and dryer. Meanwhile across the hall is a neon sign that says To Secret Vampire Room with No Garlic in flashing green letters. While reading Burns' book the other vampires wake up and attack Bart, who becomes a vampire. The family returns to Burns' lair and drive a stake through his heart but later Grandpa shows up as a vampire, it turns out Marge is the head vampire. The show ends with the family doing A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Book at Burns' vampire lair "Yes I Am A Vampire by Monty Burns, Foreword by Steve Allen. While reading the book all the other vampires come out of their coffin and Bart does a bit from Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein and The Three Stooges. Bart shows up outside of Lisa's window like in the Salem's Lot miniseries. He's joined by Milhouse, Martin, Ralph and Janey. 

Sign on Burns' vampire stairs "Super Fun Happy Slide" with a lever. When Bart pulls it he ends up sliding into the vampires.

The show ends with the family doing the Hark The Herald Angel Sings bit from A Charlie Brown Christmas while Milhouse plays a toy piano and SLH dances like Snoopy. 

Night Gallery paintings: Mystery and Melancholy Of A Street by Giorgio de Chirico (Marge shadow on wall), Self Portrait by Van Gogh (of Homer), Three Musicians by Picasso (Lisa playing the sax) Persistence Of Memory by Dali (Maggie stretched over stilts) Relativity By MC Escher (Homer chasing Bart on the endless stairs) The Scream by Edvard Munch (Lisa), The False Mirror by Marguerite, Death Of Marat by Jacques-Louise David (Homer writing a shopping list for Duff, chips, pork rinds), The Son Of Man by Marguerite (Bart behind the apple), Dogs Playing Poker by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (No Simpsons characters are in the painting, not even SLH)

The show ends with the family doing the Hark The Herald Angel Sings bit from A Charlie Brown Christmas while Milhouse plays a toy piano and SLH dances like Snoopy. 

The closing credit song is combined with The Addams Family theme song. 

Marge On The Lam

This episode premiered on November 4th, 1993. It ran in its usual time slot and opposite the regular programs. 

There is no chalkboard gag and the couch gag is the family crashing through a fake backdrop that the couch is painted on.

The show starts with Garrison Keillor reading from A Prairie Home Companion on a PBS pledge drive. Marge calls in and pledges $30, they send her two tickets to the ballet. Homer is excited because he thinks it's bears in cars. Ruth Sanders, the next door neighbor, borrows the power sander, that has Ned's name on it. Homer gets his hand stuck in a soda machine, while trying to get home he gets his arm stuck in a candy vending machine. Marge invites Ruth to go to the ballet, which is held in the gymnasium and ends when the ballerina breaks the basket off the backstop. It turns out that if Homer had let go of the can of soda he could have gotten out. Marge tells Homer she's going out again tomorrow night and flashes back to when she tried to make friends but Homer busted into the house, wearing a No Fat Chicks shirt and carrying the skunk that sprayed him, which it does again. Homer is upset that he and Marge won't be able to watch Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman together. (the show ran on Saturday nights from 1993 to 1997 on CBS) Homer is jealous of Marge going out so he calls his friends including Mr. Burns. Everybody is busy so he decides to go out by himself and tells the kids to Home Alone it. Just then Lionel Hutz shows up and agrees to $8 an hour and two popsicles. Homer gets kicked out of the Kwik-E-Mart for reading the magazines "This is not a library" and out of the library for eating a hotdog and drinking a soda "This is not a Kwik-E-Mart". Ruth takes Marge to shoot cans. Lionel Hutz is burning all his papers and changing his name to Miguel Sanchez. Homer goes to the Springfield sign where Wiggums offers him a ride home. Along the way they start chasing Ruth, she stole her ex husband's car. She shuts off the lights and loses Wiggums. In the morning Ruth drops Marge off at a diner but they take off together again when they hear sirens, it turns out to be a kid scaring off the customers. The kids see Marge and Ruth on the news. The episode does the Thelma and Louies ending of driving to the edge of a Grand Chasm but it's Homer and Wiggums that go over the edge, landing in a pile of garbage. They do the Dragnet ending. The charges were dropped against Ruth and she got her back child support (thanks to her ex hiring Lionel Hutz as his attorney) Lionel Hutz was paid $8 for 32 hours of baby sitting. Marge was charged with destruction of antique cans and paid .50¢ for the cans and $2000 dollars in punitive damages. Homer was turned over to the army for medial testing.

This episode was based on the movie Thelma and Louise.

You know Troy McClure from such telethons as Out With Gout in 88 and Let's Save Tony Orlando's House. 

Crystal Buzz Cola, based on Crystal Pepsi which was out at that time. Inside the machine is a severed arm holding Fresca can.

Springfield High School gym sign: Tonight Professional Ballet. Tomorrow Closed to fix gas leak. 

Marge and Ruth go to Jittery Joes Coffee Shop with a neon sign of a shaky hand holding a cup of coffee. They also go to the Shot Kickers bar, but the O is burned out so, you know. The Hate Box, a nuevo punk bar. The Seething Sister gas station and diner. 

Ruth pops a cassette into the car's player and the song is Sunshine, Lollypops by Leslie Gore, she changes the tape to Welcome To The Jungle by Guns N Roses. (the cassette player is a dated reference.)

The people at the country bar are line dancing, which became popular in 1990 with the release of My Achey Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus. 

Lionel Hutz watches LA Law. A show that ran from 1986 to 1994 on NBC. 

Mayor Quimby is at the punk bar and claims he's there with is nephew. This is the first mention of Fred although not by name. 

Highway sign: Entering Badlands High-Speed chases use Diamond Lanes. 

Lionel Hutz, aka Miguel Sanchez, aka Dr. Nguyen Van Thoc. 

The Springfield Police badge has the LA City hall building in the center with the two nuclear plant cooling towers on the side. 

Bart's Inner Child

This episode premiered on November 11th 1993. It ran in its usual time slot and opposite the regular programs except for Missing Persons on ABC.

There is no chalkboard gag and the couch gag is a really fat guy is sitting on the couch, the whole couch. The family squeezes in next to him.

Homer finds an ad for a free trampoline, he imagines building an amusement park in his back yard. He starts charging people to jump on the trampoline but everyone keeps getting hurt. Homer tries to take it back to Krusty but has a gun pulled on him. In order to get rid of the trampoline Bart puts a chain on it and Snake shows up to steal it. Marge and Homer get into a fight and she finds out that she spends all her time nagging the family. When Marge goes to her sisters for advice they tell her to check out Brad Goodman, a self help guru. Marge and Homer start the talking out all their problems, Homer gets away with eating a pan of brownies. Marge is excited to go to a live seminar by Brad Goodman. Skinner pretends the dummy on stage is his mother and beats it up. Bart mocks Brad and gets called up on stage, he calls himself Rudiger. Brad tells everyone to be like Bart, only Lisa sees the danger in the situation. Kent Brockman curses and eats canned whip cream on the news. Reverend Lovejoy plays The Entertainer on the pipe organ, badly. All the kids at school make joke comments in class. Everyone in town goes to the overpass to spit on passing cars. Bart finds that he's not unique anymore. Springfield holds their first Do What You Feel Festival replacing the Do What We Say Festival started by 1948 German immigrants. During the festival Smithers says he loves Mr. Burns, who isn't listening. Patty and Selma ride a horse thorough town naked. Homer shows up in a robe and bear slippers (seen in the episode Homer The Heretic). James Brown shows up to sing I Feel Good until the band stand collapse. The Ferris wheel breaks loose, crashes into the zoo and sets all the animals free. A huge fight breaks out. Apu claims Bart is responsible for everything that happened. He and Homer try to escape in a parade float. Instead of chasing them the town people decides to go to the old mill and get some cider. 

Other items in the newspaper free column: Flame Thrower Vietnam Era, Orig. takes reg unleaded. Fatboy Bomb call Herman KL9-4327. Grateful Dead Tix Capitol City. Grave digger's lantern. Good News Bible (a modern translation). Homer wants to get free surplus barrels of mayo from Operation Desert Storm. (at this time they were only a year old, today they'd be 30 years old)

Krusty the Clown lives at 534 Center St.

Homerland Admissions $50. Trampoline World, Muckville USA (a mud hole), Fort Adventure (a maze made from old mattresses that the homeless shelter was giving away)

Pop Culture reference: The scene with all the children injured while jumping on the trampoline is a take on the wounded soldiers in the Atlanta scene from Gone With The Wind. When Homer throws the trampoline over a cliff it's a spoof on the Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons. Brad Goodman's guest is Martha Quinn, one of the original MTV VJ's. 

Troy McClure, you might remember me from such self help videos as Smoke Yourself Thin and Get Confident, Stupid.

Inner voices at the Brad Goodman lecture: Ned "Stay the course, Big Ned, you're doing super". Homer "Food goes in here", Moe "Hey Moe. What's matter? You no talks with your accent no more. Mamma Mia (done is a Chico Marx accent)

First Church Of Springfield, Today's Topic: "Be like unto the boy"

No Tell Motel

First mention of McGonigle TV cop. (sounds like Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry)

James Brown did the actual singing in this episode.

Boy Scoutz N the Hood

This episode premiered on November 18th 1993. It ran in it's usual time slot and opposite Matlock, the miniseries Return To Lonesome Dove and Mad About You.

The title of the episode came from the 1991 movie Boyz N The Hood

There is no chalkboard gag and the couch gag is the eyeballs appear in a dark room, when the lights go on they are free floating until the rest of the Simpson's bodies show up and pop them into place. 

 Bart and Milhouse run out of money at the mall arcade, the pimple faced security guards kick them out. At home Homer drops his last peanut under the couch and finds $20 however he falls on his last peanut and the bill blows away, right to Bart and Milhouse. They decide to get a super squishy made out of just syrup. Bart and Milhouse go on a bender, looking at fancy skateboards, playing in the VIP section of the arcade, watching a live stage version of Cats (no buttholes), Bart shoots one of the cats with an ice spitball. They visit the Rub-On Tattoos parlor "Open 24 Hours". The next day Bart wakes up to find he's joined the Jr. Campers. Milhouse shaves a dirty word into his hair and Barney, who drank some of the Squishy wakes up on a ship, basically Shanghaied. Nelson steals Bart's uniform but Bart doesn't care, the bullies threaten Bart unless he plays along. Bart finds out that Jr. Campers attend meetings in the middle of class. Ned is the scout master and they are bathing Jasper, Bart tries to take off but knocks himself out with his kerchief. He plans to quit again until he finds out the campers get to use knives, although he has to start off with a rubber one. Bart quits again but on the way home sees all the fun things you can do with a knife. Bart plans on quitting again until he learns how to make traps. His victim is Homer. Bart finds out that there is a father/son camping trip. Ned gets Ernest Borgnine to be the volunteer dad for the one camper whose father is in prison. Bart wants Homer to say no but he says yes instead. Flanders and Homer wind up on the same raft. Homer loses the map but has one from Krusty Burger. At a fork in the river they go the wrong way and drift out to sea. Homer puts himself in charge of the rations and then eats everything. When they see a seaplane Homer takes the flair gun, shoots the plane down and before the pilot hits the water he's rescued by another plane. Dolphins show up to tell them they are all going to die and then swim away. Homer uses the last cheese doodle to catch a fish but doesn't tie off the line. Homer gives Bart a Swiss Army knife he stole from Borgnine, who is trying to fight off a bear without it. When Homer goes to give Bart the knife he drops it with all the attachments open. It bounces several times but doesn't cause a rupture, however the magnifying lens burns a hole in the raft, just then Homer smells a Krusty Burger and they are saved when they arrive at a restaurant on an oil platform. The other rafters wind up at an old abandon summer camp, just as the Friday The 13th music starts to play. 

Arcade games, Touch of Death, Alien, Terminator. Martin plays My Dinner With Andre, the joystick offer the choice of Trenchant Insight, Tell Me More and Bon Mot. View Master and Panamanian Strongman (the game Bart is playing) In the game the Strongman, in a King Kong building climb, gets shot by planes and then Bush Sr. shows up to kick him and says "Winners Don't Use Drugs" (This is a spoof on Manuel Noreaga, the dictator of Panama)

Milhouse appears in a scout uniform in Lisa The Beauty Queen although he isn't one of the scouts in this episode.

When Bart orders an all syrup squishy Snake is in the background robbing Sanjay. 

Squishy machine settings: Recommended Dosage, Unhealthy Dosage, Experimental. 

Bart and Milhouse sing Springfield Springfield to the tune of New York, New York from the movie On The Town, one of the sailors even makes an appearance. They chew Toothless Joes Gum Flavors Chewing Product. Toothless Joe looks like Gummy Joe from the episode Last Exit To Springfield. During the montage scene we see the Triple G Rated Theater. 

Note on the Junior Campers meeting room: Not Affiliated with the Boy Scouts Of America

Bart reads The 10 Do's and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety (The only thing I learned was hand it to someone handle first and make sure they've got a grip before letting go) The main character is Donny Don't, like the character Goofus from the Goofus and Gallant comic strip that ran in the Highlights For Children magazine. 

Dr. Hibbert does an emergency appendectomy on the street and when he tosses it away it explodes like a hand grenade. 

Bart's merit badges, Archery, Debt Collecting, Taxidermy, TV Game Shows, Patch Forgery. 

The Itchy and Scratchy Show "AAAHHH! Wilderness" The placard has Itchy roasting a marshmallow on Scratchy's burning tail. While camping it starts to rain so Itchy stakes Scratchy's hands and feel to the ground and put a poll under his stomach in order to use him as a tent, lightning strikes Scratchy. (I thought the title came from Aaahh!! Real Monsters! but that animated series premiered a year after this episode aired)

Self aware joke, when Bart criticizes the choice of knots used in the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon Lisa says "Cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic" Just as Homer walks by the window while also sitting on the couch. 

Homer imagines dancing with candy to Sugar Sugar by the Archies (a cartoon band). When the battery dies on the tape deck (dated reference) he throws it overboard, despite it being Todd's birthday present. Homer says "Water water everywhere so lets all have a drink" a misquote from the poem The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge. Just then a seagull shows up and drops dead. Moe comes at Hanz Moleman with a knife, Hans pulls a bigger one from his cane and says "You call that a knife? This is a knife", a reference to the scene in Crocodile Dundee.

The other rafts are drifting down the river while Dueling Banjos plays and they are stalked by hillbillies in the woods, a take on the movie Deliverance.

Chief Wiggums has wanted posters for The Babysitter Bandit, Johnny Tightlips and Fat Tony on his wall.

Flanders loses control and starts saying Diddly over and over, this will come back in a later episode.

The Krusty Kids Meal comes with a free slide whistle. A reference to the Sideshow characters.

Ernest Borgnine did his own voice over work for the episode including singing and playing the guitar at the end.

The Last Temptation Of Homer

This episode premiered on December 9th, 1993, it ran in its usual time slot and opposite Missing Persons, The Heat Of The Night and Mad About You.

The title is based on the 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ.

The chalkboard gag is "All Work And No Play Makes Bart A Dull Boy" (It's written in a pattern similar to the movie The Shining). The couch gag is the family runs in and sits down but it's the set for The Late Show with David Letterman (which had premiered on CBS four months earlier, it was also the first time the couch gag took place outside of the Simpson living room)

Bart has painted all the parking space lines at school one foot closer. When the teachers arrive they are all crowded in. Mrs. Krabappal punishes Bart by calling on him first for every question. It turns out Bart has eye problems. Homer pulls a joke on an employee who drops a beaker and floods a chamber with toxic gas. The rest of the crew discover that the safety glass leaks and the emergency exit is only painted on the wall. When one of the employees complains to Burns he gets sucked up in a tube and winds up in the Middle East as a dancer. Burns tries to hire an illegal alien just as the Labor Relations Board comes breaking in and orders Burns to hire a woman. Burns hires Mindy Simmons and Homer falls in love with her. Homer goes to the bar for advice, Barney reads some from a bar napkin. Homer goes to talk to Mindy he finds out they have a lot in common. When he gets home he finds that Marge is sick, Bart is a nerd and Lisa burned dinner. Homer panics and calls the Marital Stress Hotline, Ned Flanders picks up the phone and recognizes Homer's voice. When Homer tries to flee he knocks himself out and sees his guardian angel who appears at Sir Isaac Newton, Homer doesn't recognize him so he turns into Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes. His guarding angel shows him his life without Marge (Ala It's a Wonderful Life). Homer lives in a mansion and Marge is the President. Meanwhile Martin introduces Bart to the Nerd secrete hideout. Burns chooses Homer and Mindy to represent the plant at a convention in Capitol City. Mindy wants to get naughty and orders room service and charges it to the plant. After two weeks Bart takes off the shoes and glasses, the bullies still beat him up. At the convention Homer and Mindy win a romantic dinner at Madame Chao's. After dinner Homer's fortune cookie says "You will find happiness with a new love". Meanwhile back in the kitchen they run out of "new love" cookies so they open up the barrel of "stick with your wife" cookies. Mindy and Homer kiss but then Marge comes to join him. 

The Labor Relations Board smashes into the plant like the agents in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice. They mention finding a Brazilian Soccer team working in the reactor core "that plane crashed on my property!" This is a reference to the Rugby team that crashed in the Andes and had to resort to cannibalism to survive.

Stewart the duck works at the plant.

Hibbert Moneymaking Organization (HMO) When Marge takes in Bart Hibbert asks if she has insurance, he has a tube similar to Burns but turns it off when she says yes.

The optometrist gives Bart a pair of glasses and says that Menachem Begin wore a similar pair. (the Prime Minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983). When Bart goes through all the treatments he looks and sounds like Jerry Lewis.

When Homer sees Mindy for the first time he imagines her as Venus on a clam shell with Carl and Lenny as cherubs. The image is the painting The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. "Homer, what's the matter? Ain't you never seen a naked chick riding a clam before?" When leaving the plant Homer drives in reverse and crashes into a trout hatchery, the fish sing "Homer loves Mindy". Homer gets on the elevator with Mindy and has to think unsexy thoughts, he pictures Selma and Patty shaving their legs and Barney in a bikini singing the theme song to I Dream Of Jeanie. However Barney turn into Mindy. On TV Kent Brockman is looking at the secret affairs of Kennedy, Eisenhower, Bush and Clinton (5 years before the impeachment). Homer sees a commercial with beautiful woman who says Just Do It (Which was the slogan of Nike), in this case it's the National Ringwork Association (the other NRA) telling people to check their scalp. When Homer tries to read a note to Mindy off his hand he smears it and says "oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert. (Well known film critic in the day)

Capitol City, The Windy Apple. 

Homer calls the Marital Stress Hotline from a payphone 

Homer says Mindy probably thinks Ziggy has gotten preachy too. Mr Burns first mentions Ziggy in the episode Brush With Greatness. 

When Burns finds out about Mindy ordering room service he releases his flying monkeys but they all fall and die. (It's a parody of The Wizard Of Oz) When Mindy and Homer both eat a footlong chili dog they end up kissing (A parody of Lady and the Tramp)

Capital City Plaza Hotel "Legionnaires' Disease-Free Since 1990.

Capitol City Convention Center "Welcome National Energy Convention" (the sign is made with lightbulbs that burn out) Booths: Cold Fusion, Oil Power, What About Wind?, Coal Water. There is also a Solar Energy booth, "Cheap, Clean Hope For Tomorrow" Hanz Moleman is running the booth, a group of thugs knock him out and change it to Fossil Fuel "Use us and nobody gets hurt". Springfield Nuclear Power Plant "As seen on 60 Minutes" There is a portrait of Mr. Burns with Joe Fusion on his shoulder and a stack of his book "Will There Ever Be A Rainbow?" first seen in the episode Blood Feud. 

Issac Hays sings Can't Get Enough Of Your Love. He also sang the song in the episode Whacking Day. 

Michelle Pfeiffer does the voice of Mindy, Werner Klemperer (the original actor from Hogan's Heroes) does the voice of Colonel Klink (it was the last time he ever did it)

This was episode 90. There will be one more in 1993 and that means I only have 30 more years of The Simpsons to go.