The Simpsons likes its pop culture references. There’s an argument to be made that the show leans on them a little too heavily in recent years. And if there’s one go-to grab bag for references in that Fox-sponsored writers’ room, it has to be the filmography of Stanley Kubrick. Allusions and outright parodies of films like A Clockwork Orange and The Shining are so prevalent that French video editor Candice Drouet was able to piece them and their corresponding influences into one super-tight two-minute supercut.
As much like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal this compilation is, there’s one reference to 1971’s A Clockwork Orange that’s missing. Perhaps the best one of all. It’s from the 1993 episode “Duffless” from the show’s fourth season, and it’s maybe the most clever visual gag they ever employed. You can just skip right ahead to the 1:15 mark.