E0502 - Cape Feare
Bob's Goal: Killing Bart.
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Trivia
- The film that Bob and the Simpsons see at the theater is "Ernest Goes Somewhere Cheap," in reference to the Ernest series of films. Bob's pronounced enjoyment of the film indicates that he can enjoy a bit of lowbrow humor.
- This episode features multiple references to the films Cape Fear and The Night of the Hunter, both featuring Robert Mitchum as a violent, sexually depraved criminal.
- The episode's title is of course in reference to Cape Fear, a 1962 psychological thriller about a lawyer (Gregory Peck) stalked by Max Cady (Robert Mitchum), a convicted rapist, who he had sent to jail. When Cady begins to threaten Bowden's teenage daughter, he moves his family to a houseboat in Cape Fear, NC, in hopes of cornering Cady.
- The theater scene is a prody of a scene from the 1991 remake of Cape Fear, with Bob in the role of Cady (now Robert DeNiro).
- Bob's knuckle tattoos, "luv" and "h_t," are in reference to another of Robert Mitchum's roles: that of Harry Powers in the 1955 thriller The Night of the Hunter. Powers is a preacher who aims to murder a widow and her children for financial gain, and who notably has knuckle tattoos reading "love" and "hate."
- This is the first episode where we see Bob's love of Gilbert & Sullivan.
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