Via our wonderful commenters last week I learned that the scene where Grandpa and Bea flirtatiously take their pills was from the 1963 film version of “Tom Jones”. (Sadly, Netflix has just informed me that it’s not available on DVD at the moment. Really?) That reminded me of this page (it was linked on boingboing two years ago) which has image by image comparisons of famous movie scenes and their Simpsons equivalents. Here are the “Tom Jones” ones:
There are, obviously, a bunch more on there and if you scroll all the way to the bottom they even have links to a few specific movies.
Dead Homer Society 
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To be honest, though, I wouldn’t have known myself if I didn’t nerd about on Wikipedia like a big nerdy nerd. Well, Wikipedia and the SimpsonsWiki and other places (and books). But as I said before, it’s a shame they don’t seem to do homages like that any more. Or maybe they do, but they’re too obscure for everyone else.
*cough*