The Simpsons: A New Mystery Made The Weirdest Lost Fan Theory Even Better
The mystery of the giant foot statue in The Simpsons season 33 made the weirdest Lost fan theory even better, seemingly confirming the showrunners knew all about it. While the disembodied foot statue appeared in “Boyz N the Highlands”, the show never really explained or contextualized it, apparently just suggesting that a giant statue once stood in its place: the Springfield Colossus, perhaps. That would fit with Lost's mysterious statue of Taweret, which originally appears as only a foot in the sci-fi show.
The Simpsons has referenced all manner of classic TV shows over the years. The show’s annual «Treehouse of Horror» Halloween specials, for example, began life as a parody of the classic anthology series The Twilight Zone but this might be the deepest cut of all time. Rather than overtly reference Lost by mocking, praising, or even acknowledging the show itself, The Simpsons season 33 gag called back to the Lost fan theory that the Statue of Taweret only had four toes as a nod to The Simpsons. In the absence of an answer, claims were made of the statue's strange toe set-up being a nod to how The Simpsons characters only have 4 fingers and toes.
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The Simpsons’ “Boyz N the Highlands” features Bart, Nelson, Dolph, and Martin journeying to “Ankle Rock,” a rock formation in the shape of a foot cut off at the ankle. The location is apparently modeled on an identical mysterious statue featured in Lost’s island setting, but the series never explains why the episode included this reference. Where earlier Simpsons season 33 episodes mocked Prestige TV shows, the rest of episode 12 doesn’t parody Lost, the comparison is never noted in-series, and
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