(part of my ongoing Unexpected Literary References series) It's no secret that Catcher in the Rye is J.D Salinger's most famous work. So, I suppose The Simpsons doesn't so much insult Salinger as it does simply remind people that Salinger was important at one time, for one book. In this, Season 22 Episode 16 episode called "A Midsummer’s Nice Dream" (the title itself a literary reference) Marge discovers "A box set of all of J.D Salinger's novels except Catcher in the Rye" among a pile of garbage that once belonged to the town hoarder, implying that only a crazy hoarder would actually keep copies of these "other" books.