The Simpsons: The Regina Monologues
Episode score
7.8
Good
The Regina Monologues
- 317.
- Season: 15
- Episode: 4
- First Aired: 11/23/2003
- Prod Code: EABF22
- Mr. Burns has been said to be around 100 something years old but in this episode, the ATM was his age and he typed in 4 digits. edit »
- Smithers: Sir, I've spotted you over a hundred thousand dollars this year. Couldn't you carry your own money?
Mr. Burns: Money is for the poor! edit » - Marge: That was very sweet of the Queen, letting you go in exchange for taking Madonna back to America. edit »
- Snake: Um, does the bill have bank teller blood on it?
Lisa: No, it doesn't.
Snake: I'm sorry I wasted your time. edit » - (on a power line pole that's about to fall down)
Bart: Uh oh…
Homer: You know the drill; try to land on my back fat. edit » - Homer: Well Marge, you gotta admit, I've been on my best behavior this trip.
Marge: You punched out three people on the street.
Homer: That was over soccer results. Can you believe they gave Giggs a yellow card in the box?!
Marge: Do you understand any part of what you just said?
Homer: I understood the word 'gave'… unless it means something else in this country! edit » - Prison Tour Guide: In this cell sits Homer Simpson, the most villainous blaggard to be held in this tower since Edward, the puppy eater. edit »
- Homer: Oh Marge, I am so sorry. I should have listened to whatever it was you were saying.
Marge: It's partly my fault. I've been nagging you so much on this trip; you couldn't know which nags to focus on! edit » - Homer: Milord, we Americans love queens, be they homecoming or dairy. This woman, however, is an imposter! Her luggage is inscribed H.R.H. which means her real name must be Henrietta R. Hippo. edit »
- Squeaky Voiced English Teen: Welcome to Judi Dench's Fish & Chips. Now completely free of mad fish disease.
Homer: Fish? I dunno… I’m not really a vegetarian.
Squeaky Voiced English Teen: Please order or Miss Dench will be furious. She'll beat us, she will.
Judi Dench: Who are you talking to?!
Squeaky Voiced English Teen: No one, Mum! I swear!
Judi Dench: I'll Mum you!!
Squeaky Voiced English Teen: AHH...OOF...OW...OH...BLIMEY! edit » - Lisa: Press the gray brick in the back of the fireplace.
Homer: Sweet freedom, here I… Owww!
Lisa: Put out the fire first! edit » - (Bart and Milhouse are playing a video game called "Hockey Dad")
Video Game Dad 1: Your kid sucks!
Video Game Dad 2: Bring it on!
Hockey Game Voiceover: Hockey Dads! Commence fighting! (the video characters start fighting violently)
Bart: Hockey Dad rules! Feel the drunken wrath of Chuck Shadowski!
Video Game Kid: Dad, stop! It's only assault, don't make it murder!
Bart: Ignore, ignore! (Dad 1 kills Dad 2)
Hockey Game Voiceover: You're a big man! BIG MAN! edit » - Space Band: It's Bart's moon party from outer space, with R2D2 playin' the bass. edit »
- Homer: Well Marge, if I die in here there's one thing I want you to remember. Don't buy any videotapes in England. They won't work with our VCR! edit »
- Homer: America rules! Our Beatles are way better than your precious Rolling Stones! edit »
- Lisa: Why did you let him be his own barrister?
Marge: What difference could it make? He hit the friggin' Queen! edit » - Homer: That's it! I'm acting the way America acts best: unilaterally! edit »
- Homer: We're big shot tourists from everyone's favourite country, the USA. We saved your ass in Vietnam and shared our prostitutes with Hugh Grant, so give me some free maps and none of that dry British wit. edit »
- Homer: Marge I'll be on my best behaviour. You have my word as a gentlemen and a lady. Now let's see, which rifle should I bring? edit »
- Burns: My Moolah! It's escaping my clutches! edit »
- Homer: (After meeting Tony Blair) Wow, I can't believe we just met Mr. Bean! edit »
- Ian McKellen: Please, take these free tickets to my play!
Homer: What? What play?
Ian McKellen: We thespians believe it’s bad luck to mention the name of this particular play out loud.
Homer: You mean 'MacBeth'?
(A car splashes Ian McKellen.)
Ian McKellen: Quiet, you plundering fool! You'll curse us all!
Homer: What, by saying 'MacBeth'?
(An anvil falls on Ian McKellen's foot.)
Ian McKellen: OW! Stop saying it!
Homer: Saying what?
Ian McKellen: 'MACBETH'!! Oh, now I've said it.
(McKellen is hit by lightning.)
Bart: This is cool! 'MacBeth', 'MacBeth', 'MacBeth'.
(McKellen is hit by lightning each time Bart says 'MacBeth'.)
Marge: Bart, stop saying 'MacBeth'!
(McKellen is hit by lightning.)
Lisa: Mom, you said 'MacBeth'.
(McKellen is hit by lightning.)
Homer: Mr. 'MacBeth', I'm really sorry.
(McKellen is hit by lightning.)
Ian McKellen: That’s quite alright. You didn't know. edit » - Homer: (to Queen Elizabeth II) But we Americans are England's children! I know we don't call as often as we should, and we aren't as well behaved as our goody-two shoes brother, Canada. Who by the way has never had a girlfriend. (whispers) I'm just sayin'… edit »
- Homer: Yes, I've been jailed on six continents. All I have to do is kill a penguin. edit »
- Lisa: Look! It's J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books! You've turned a generation of kids onto reading.
Rowling: Thank you, young muggle.
Lisa: Can you tell me what happens at the end of the series?
Rowling: He grows up and marries you. Is that what you want to hear?
Lisa: Yes… edit »
- This is John Swartzwelder's last episode after working on the show for 15 years. edit »
- Tony Blair took time out from the war on Iraq to record this episode, a point that came up often on British television when it was recorded, screened in America and screened in Britain edit »
- Abbie is the second half-sibling Homer has, the first being Herb Powell from "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes?". edit »
- In one scene, an excerpt from "Mars: Bringer of War" from The Planets by Gustav Holst is played. The composition was also quoted in Frank Zappa's "Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin" (from the Absolutely Free album), and various live peformances of "Call Any Vegetable." Matt Groening, the show's creator, is a huge Zappa fan. edit »
- Tony Blair recorded his lines for the episode April 11, 2003. edit »
- Blackboard Joke: None.
Couch Gag: The family enters the living room via a Play-Doh Fun Factory® die and each member is rendered in a different color Play-Doh® at their respective place on the couch. Homer is yellow, Marge is orange, Lisa is green, Maggie is red and Bart is lavender. edit »
- The Brady Bunch
The plot point of Bart finding a $1,000 bill and Marge telling him to advertise for its rightful owner is inspired by the 1970 episode of The Brady Bunch titled "The Treasure of Sierra Avenue". edit » - Hertz Rent-a-Car
The Simpsons rent a Mini Cooper from an "'Ertz" rent-a-car branch. This parodies the Hertz corporation. edit » - The Vagina Monologues
The the title of this episode is a pun on Eve Ensler's play, The Vagina Monologues. The word "Regina" is substituted as the Latin word for Queen. edit » - Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Bart is an obvious pun on the name of the real Museum of Modern Art located in New York. edit » - Macbeth
The famous Macbeth theater superstition is parodied when Sir Ian McKellen is repeatedly hurt after Homer keeps mentioning the name of the Shakespearean play. edit » - The ceremonial-style music heard over the credits is "Rule Britannia", composed by James Thomson and Thomas Arne in 1740. edit »
- In the first shot of London you see dozens of nannies flying around the sky dressed like Mary Poppins as seen in the 1964 film of the same name. edit »
- The music from the James Bond movies can be heard when Marge and Homer eject from the London Eyes. edit »
- J. K. Rowling: Rowling: (sigh) He grows up and marries you. Is that what you want to hear?
This is probably significant referance to J.K. Rowling's reaction to constantly being asked for spoilers about the end of the series. J.K. has had numorus interviews where she has stated that she has hinted that Harry has the probablity of not living to see his eightienth birthday. Also she doesn't want to spoil the series since it still has many undecided paths it could take. edit » - Bart (to Burns): "Beat it Bony Curtis!"
Bart calls Burns Bony Curtis. This is a reference to legendary actor Tony Curtis. edit » - Homer: Can you believe they gave Giggs a yellow card in the box?!?!
Giggs is a footballer who plays for Manchester United. A yellow card means the player has commited a foul and is being booke. If the player got 1 more yellow card and he will be sent off. "The box" is the penalty area, which is the area round the goal. edit » - :
The "mad fish disease" reference by the Pimple-Faced Kid (who badly offers an English accent) is a cheap pun on the real-life mad cow disease. edit » - :
Bart and Milhouse play the "Hockey Dad" video game on Bart's video game system. The game's premise is inspired by the real-life "hockey dad" manslaughter trial in Massechusettes. The case stemmed from a 44-year-old father beating another father to death at their sons' hockey practice in Reading, Mass., in July 2000. Thomas Junta, the real-life father who beat the rival father to death, was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison in January 2002 after a jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
"Hockey Dad's" rules and gameplay are styled after "Mortal Kombat" (basically, beat your opponent to a bloody pulp and then pull out his spine, heart, etc.). Adding to the fun: the son's pleas for mercy after one "father" gains a distinct advantage; video game versions of Springfield coppers Lou and Eddie haul the "winner" off (presumably to jail); and the requisite 8-bit primitive video game system music seen with all Simpsons video game parodies. edit » - :
Homer's draws the conclusion that Her Royal Highness' real name is Henrietta R. Hippo (thanks to the monogram on the Queen Majesty's nightbag), recalling the hippo character on the 1972-1975 children's series New Zoo Revue. edit » - :
Bart and Lisa laugh like Beavis and Butt-head during their sugar hallucination, mimicing MTV's delinquent duo. edit » - :
The sign, advertising "Urkel in 'Othello'" references a 1991 episode of the sitcom Family Matters, where clumsy nerd Urkel tries his hand at Shakesphere; in the sitcom, he had the male lead role to Laura having the female star billing in "Romeo and Juliet." edit » - :
Abbie, the woman who looks just like Homer in drag, is similar to Dana Plato dressing up like her male cousin from the Netherlands, Hans Von Drummond, in the Diff'rent Strokes episode, "The Von Drummonds." edit » - National Lampoon's European Vacation
Marge begging Homer to make their European vacation as normal as possible, but having to endure one mishap after another through his bumbling, parodies Clark Griswold ruining the family's vacation to Europe in the 1985 film National Lampoon's European Vacation. edit » - :
Homer appearing bare-chested on page 3 of The Sun references the London newspaper that everyday prints a picture of a topless woman on page 3. edit » - :
The opening couch gag (each member of OFF gets molded from the dies) pays homage to Play-Doh toys, where children used various dies to make different creations. edit » - Lord Daft-Wager: I bet I can turn these scamps into...
In George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion," a linguistics teacher teaches a flower girl how to speak like a lady. Also 'Daft-Wager' is English expression for a 'silly bet'. edit » - Homer: "Well, I'd like to return to Brazil, but I hear the monkey problem is even worse now!"
This is a sly dig at the tourist board of Rio de Janerio, who threatened to sue the makers of the program over its depiction of the city in the episode "Blame it on Lisa," in which a young orphan is shown fleeing from a band of feral monkeys. edit » - Marge: ...and a free copy of BartForum!
The official magazine of "The Museum of Modern Bart" is a spoof of ArtForum, a publication by Artforum International Magazine, which covers the various exhibitions going on at art museums around the world. edit » - :
For those of you that has never read or seen a Harry Potter book/movie the term "muggle" means a non-magic person. edit » - :
During the scene of the play, "The Cherry Orchard" featuring Evan Marriott, he says to a lady, "I don't have a cherry orchard." This scene is a parody of the "reality" television series "Joe Millionaire." Evan Marriott was the first poor man that tried to make single woman think he actually was the multi-millionaire the FOX network made him out to be. edit » - Homer: "There's Jimmy Page, the greatest thief of American black music who ever walked the earth."
Jimmy Page was the guitarist in a band that started in the late 1960's known as 'New Yardbirds' (later changed to Led Zeppelin). He is arguably one of the greatest (living) guitarists in the world. edit » - :
During the 'candy' sequence, Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" plays in the background. Also, Maggie portrays the "Baby on the Ceiling." Both are references to Danny Boyle's hit 1996 film "Trainspotting." edit »
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