Into Another World Trivia Quiz

Answer: Marge's sisters

Marge's sisters and her husband have been consistently at odds for almost the entire run of the show, and this episode follows the usual pattern. Homer is eager to escape the company of Patty and Selma, so tries desperately to find a good place in which to conceal himself during their visit. They, in their turn, aren't particularly fussed by his absence when they arrive.

Answer: His hammock in the backyard

Homer's first thought is the hall closet, but he discovers that Bart and Lisa are already hiding there, and they claim a prior possession. Well, actually, they inform him that they have "called it." After muttering about all that legal mumbo jumbo stuff, Homer looks under the rug (nobody would ever notice the bump in the middle of the floor, would they?), but Santa's Little Helper growls and Snowball II squawls as only an angry cat can, so he backs off to leave them in control of that hiding spot. Desperately searching, as the doorbell has rung and time is quickly running out, his eyes fall on the bookcase, which he pulls away from the wall saying, "I never looked behind this watchamacallit case before." When he leans against the wall, it glows blue and a buzzing sound is heard - clearly something exotic lurks there!

Answer: Bart

When Marge opens the door to her sisters, Patty asks her, "How's it hanging?" while Selma strides across to the closet. When she opens the closet door, Bart and Lisa are sprung hiding there. Bart recovers first, and offers to take his aunt's coat for her; Lisa immediately repeats the offer, then we cut to see them all entering the living room.

Answer: Cleaning and organizing seashells

The sisters announce that they have brought along a pillowcase of shells they collected during a recent holiday, and the family is going to have the pleasure of cleaning and organizing them. Patty adds that they will also need to remove the dead hermit crabs, and demonstrates that you can just suck them out. Charming.

Answer: Geometric figures

Specifically, we see spheres, cubes, cylinders and cones, some of which are stationary, and some of which are zooming around - keep your eyes on them! We also see a model Parthenon, a street sign with labels for X-, Y-, and Z-axes, which will also make another appearance.

Some random mathematical formulae can also be seen spinning around. Homer is now shown as a 3D animated character, rather than the usual plane cartoon figure used in the show.

Answer: "Holy macaroni!"

After a few amazed, and amazingly articulate, thoughts ("Oh, glory of glories! Oh, heavenly testament to the eternal majesty of God's creation!"), Homer's first spoken words are "Holy macaroni!" He then shouts out for help to Marge, asking her where he is.

When she suggests that, if he sees towels, it might be the linen cupboard (again), he replies, "No, it's a place I've never been before." Worried he might be stuck wherever he is, he comments on his three-dimensionality, summing it up with, "I'm so bulgy!" After wandering around a bit, he comes across a goldfish pond with 3D fish, comments, "Mmmm, unprocessed fish sticks!" and drools in his own inimitable fashion.

When one of the flying cones stabs Homer's posterior, he pulls it out and throws it - of course, when it lands it creates a hole similar to a gravity well, which is going to be a problem.

Answer: Ned Flanders

Marge's first comment is that Ned has a ladder, then we see him having completed an unsuccessful search. Selma comments, "It's like he just disappeared into fat air", and the twins snigger. Reverend Lovejoy asks if Homer can see a light, and tells him to move into the light. Dr Hibbert asks what it's like, and Homer tries to compare it to the movie 'Tron' (in which a character is trapped inside a computer), but it turns out nobody has seen it, so that isn't helpful.

Answer: Professor Frink

Although it is the kind of subject on which Lisa could well have been heard showing off her extensive knowledge, it is Professor Frink who draws a diagram on the living room wall to attempt to illustrate the concept of three dimensions. He describes taking a square (a concept that Chief Wiggum finds difficult enough to handle) and asks them to consider letting it grow along a hypothetical Z-axis, turning it into a cube, or (his preferred name for the object) a Frinkahedron. This honors the longtime tradition of mathematicians and scientists naming their discoveries after themselves.

Chief Wiggum is so unnerved by this concept that he tries to shoot the third dimension into submission. Homer dodges the bullets, which disappear into the expanding black hole. Watching the spreading devastation, Homer says, "There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I'd read that book by that wheelchair guy." This is the closest Stephen Hawking comes to appearing in this episode.

Answer: Bart

Abe, Homer's father, tries to go through in a deep-sea diving outfit, but Professor Frink stops him, on the grounds that it is too dangerous. After a bit of uncertain buzzing, Bart grabs the rope, ties it around his waist, and leaps in after his father.

When he arrives, he finds Homer on the other side of the expanding hole, and climbs that coordinate axis sign in an attempt to reach him, but it doesn't reach far enough across the hole. Homer tries to jump to safety, but falls into the hole, apparently falling into pieces. Bart is snapped back to the normal two-dimensional world, where he reports, "We hit a little snag when the universe sort of collapsed on itself."

Answer: Erotic cake shop

Homer's sweet tooth is well known. In an earlier segment of this episode, his insistence on getting a gigantic doughnut like the one on the sign of a doughnut shop led to a nightmare rampage of giant advertising mascots. Then there was the time he sold his soul for a doughnut, and the immediate attraction he felt for Mindy (who shared his love of doughnuts), the episode when he traveled back in time and changed the present, refusing to retain an otherwise acceptable alternative reality when nobody knew what a doughnut was (ironically, it was then shown that they precipitated from the sky), and many more examples.

It is no wonder that an erotic cake shop stops his complaints about how awful this new place was!