Every Star Trek Reference, Easter Eggs & Jokes In The Simpsons
23. What Was That Noise?
Sticking with the Treehouse of Horror theme, the ninth instalment sees Lisa and Bart - in the second part of the episode, The Terror of Tiny Toon - become trapped inside the world of Itchy and Scratchy.
How does one get to enter such a world, you scream? By sticking a radioactive battery in the remote control, of course - duh!
After Bart finds some plutonium in Homer's toolbox, he jams it into the remote control and begins pressing random buttons, much to the chagrin of Lisa. If you pay close attention, however, you'll notice that the sound made by the remote when it's being fired towards the television is the same sound as the Federation hand phasers used in various Star Trek series.
The sound appears in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, and here, The Simpsons. Or would that be Star Trek: Springfield?