Deep Space Homer/References

Cultural References

 * The episode title is a pun on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
 * The episode features numerous film parodies, mostly referencing The Right Stuff and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
 * The scene where Homer and Barney are dueling in an arena is a reference to "The Gamesters of Triskelion," an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.
 * When Homer screams "Damn them all the hell!" after figuring out what the ending of Planet of the Apes meant, he is paradying what the main protagnists reaction was to finding the Statue of Liberty.
 * The music that plays while Homer is eating the potato chips is The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss II.

Trivia

 * Although at the beginning Homer is shown to have never been awarded Employee of the Month, losing out to an inanimate carbon rod, he was actually made Employee of the Month in episode 305, Homer Defined, after averting the core meltdown.

Goofs

 * The ant farm was perfectly intact in other scenes.