The Simpsons: 20 Best Movie Parodies
3. Cape Fear
Seen in: Cape Feare (Season 5, Episode 2)
As well as being Bart's nemesis Sideshow Bob's best episode, Cape Feare is, unless the title didn't tell you, a whole-episode spoof of not one but two versions of Cape Fear - the original 1962 Robert Mitchum thriller and the 1991 remake with Robert De Niro.
The shape of the episode is lifted entirely from the films, with the family going on the run from a killer who tracks them down to their houseboat home. The scene where Bob laughs and smokes his way through a cinema screening is also taken from the remake where De Niro's Max Cady does the same.
It is such a successful spoof that the original film's theme music by Bernard Hermann (The Simpsons really like him) is now known to a generation as Sideshow Bob's theme.