The Seven-Beer Snitch/References

Cultural references

 * The title is a play on Billy Wilder's 1955 comedy The Seven Year Itch.
 * The various prison scenes parody several different movies and TV shows, most notably Oz and Escape from Alcatraz.
 * Marge refers to Fat Tony's son as Michael, a reference to the movie The Godfather. Michael would later be seen in series 18, in the episode "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer".
 * When arresting Homer, Chief Wiggum references the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
 * The hat Homer wears in prison is inspired by Simon Adebisi from the Oz series
 * This episode makes fun of the music of Philip Glass. When people are leaving during a piece of Beethoven Marge shouts "Wait! The next piece is an atonal medley by Philip Glass!" When she shouts this, everybody runs out of the hall, including the orchestra.
 * A theatre marquee in Shelbyville advertises "Sideshow Mel in Equus".
 * On the letter from Marge to Frank Gehry we can see an image of Snoopy. Another reference to him is when Santa's Little Helper is flying a red plane in a red scarf, very much like Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.
 * Homer is seen trying to escape from the prisoners on a Segway PT.
 * Frank Gehry is the first architect to appear on The Simpsons. There are several references to his unorthodox designs, such as Gehry crumpling a letter and throwing it, only to discover that it's the perfect building design.
 * When being asked to be the prison snitch, Homer asks if he will eat cheese and imitates Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.
 * The conductor of the orchestra resembles Herbert Von Karajan, a German conductor famous for his Beethoven conductings
 * When Mr Burns is reading out the list of drugs one of the is blue bomber which is a nickname fot the videogame character Mega Man.