Connections
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References
The ventriloquist dummy the girl uses in segment four is a reference to "Zero Hour!" when the passenger amuses Joey, the child, with the hand puppet ventriloquist
Apart from three of its sequences being remakes of three episodes and one referencing a fourth, the characters in the prologue hum the show theme and discuss it in general.
This is one of the episodes from the TV series that Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks discuss.
The description "...who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt."
A character named Helen Foley appears in both.
A man sworn against a different race transforms to resemble that race
Albert Brooks' character (incorrectly) thinks the episode about a stopwatch that freezes time was from this anthology series.
In the prologue segment, Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd are reminiscing about old Twilight Zone episodes. (Brooks says that this episode was from Outer Limits).
The troops in Vietnam mention they kill Neidermeyer, which was mentioned as his fate in the epilogue.
Eyeball-popping effect in "Nightmare" segment
Referenced in
When Billy leads Pete up to his room to show him the Mogwai, a rolled up movie poster for "Twilight Zone The Movie" can be seen standing on end against a wall. Director Joe Dante directed one of the sequences for that film a year earlier.
Video case is shown in a video store.
Tom: "Let's not forget his cameo appearance in the remake of the 'Twilight Zone' movie."
Reference to John Lithgow's character seeing a gremlin on a the plane's wing
Behind the scenes footage of the three actors' deaths from this film is included.
Reference to John Lithgow seeing a gremlin on a plane
In addition to Frank Dixon alluding to the episode upon which a segment from "The Twilight Zone: The Movie" is based, Dixon also mistakes an episode of The Outer Limits for an episdoe of The Twilight Zone, just like the two characters in the beginning of "The Twilight Zone: The Movie".
someone has a sign that says "There's something on the wing"
It is listed as one of the "sweded" movies.
Drama describes how Vic Morrow was decapitated during the production of the movie after a helicopter accident
Inspired by first scene.
The character of Julie (Jessica Sonneborn) says that her favorite movie is 'The Twilight Zone' when the girls are walking in the woods.
Features
During the "Kick the Can" segment.
Sound effects
Featured in
Behind the scenes footage of this film is featured.
DVD release reviewed + footage used
poster shown/behind the scenes footage
poster shown/behind the scenes footage
movie is reviewed
Spoofed in
The second segment of this episode, in which Bart has magical mental powers, lampoons the "It's a Good Life" segment of the "Twilight Zone" movie. Nancy Cartwright also appears in both.
The "Nighmare at 5 1/2 Feet" segment is a spoof of the "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" segment of the "Twilight Zone" movie.
The final segment is a parody of the famous Twilight Zone movie segment with the Gremlin on the plane
Alex sees Mort on the wing of the plane and thinks that he's a gremlin.