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The films sometimes painterly visuals add resonance to the tiniest details two toddlers grappling with each other on the beach; a couple making out on a blanket, their faces unseen; a mother spilling her babys milk.
Mama embodies the films theme of the inability of people to communicate in the most literal way possible she speaks not English but Italian, and in a low voice thats barely audible.
In all these films, awesome natural forces are always nearby, waiting to remind the characters that there are larger elements of life that must be respected.
This is a reference to the common cartoon trope of a skeleton escaping a character's mouth in fright, and possibly a reference to the Ray Bradbury short story "Skeleton".
In the film Young Jebediah Springfield, which relates the founding of Springfield, the group of pilgrims see a wild buffalo, with one of them proclaiming, "It's some sort of land cow!" Presumably a reference to sea cows, also known as manatees.
In the episode "Worst Episode Ever", it is revealed, in a film that Bart and Milhouse find in Comic Book Guy's stash of illegal films hidden in his basement, that Springfield is classified Nuclear Whipping Boy in case of an emergency and will be bombed at will by all allies to calibrate their missiles.