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Simpsons Movie References In GIFs

Simpsons Movie References In GIFs

Simpsons Movie References In GIFs
Danielle de Wolfe
04 September 2014

We’ve often found ourselves deciphering some of the numerous film references written into episodes of The Simpsons by Matt Groening and co. The Fox cartoon is a veritable gold-mine of big screen references.

As whether it’s the Australian sport of knifey-spooney, near copyright-breaching nanny Shary Bobbins, or Homer’s deliciously deluded ode to Jack Nicholson in The Shining, some of these homages have become important and legendary in their own right.

And now one Tumblr blog, Movie Simpsons, has ingeniously used GIFs to pair some of the show's finest movie references with the real-life films which they ape. And in the case of Homer’s King Kong, we mean that literally.

Alongside the obvious ones (Homer's rolling belly boulder following Bart's young Indy-like adventurer down the stairs a la Raiders Of The Lost Ark ) there might even be a few accrued by the website which you hadn't spotted the first time. Here we've assembled some of the best...

Moviesimpsons.tumblr.com

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