Apparently, someone had some free time on his or her hands and used it to post various stills from The Simpsons episodes which mimic various famous movie or television scenes. Considering that the show has been around for almost 20 years, it's certainly had time to get such pastiche correct.

These stills seem to originate from earlier episodes, back when the naysayers would say the show was good. I admit I don't recognize every Simpsons episode in the list (or for that matter every movie still in the list), but it's easy to tell that the writers and animators were trying to reference the original movie or show for satire's sake.

Of course, the first set of scenes is pretty obvious. It's from an early Halloween special which was a direct parody of The Shining, so naturally there are scene references. I'm surprised they didn't use the monorail episode from early on which parodied The Music Man. Perhaps that was just too obscure. Or maybe the whole process is like trying to pick the best apples out of an entire forest of apple trees.

So which pastiches or parodies from The Simpsons are your favorites?

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