Last Exit to Springfield/References

Trivia
"Last Exit to Springfield", located at www.lardlad.com, is a Simpsons fan site owned by Adam Wolf. He is also the owner of a popular website stating Simpsons news, Simpsons Channel (simpsonschannel.com).

Cultural references

 * The title of the episode is a homage to Hubert Selby Jr.'s controversial book Last Exit to Brooklyn.
 * The body of the union president is seen buried under a football field, a homage to the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa.
 * Mr. Burns' outfit is based on Buster Brown.
 * Homer's imagination of a life of organized crime is based on the famous San Gennaro sequence in The Godfather Part II, accepting donuts rather than a necklace and an orange.
 * Lisa has a dream that echoes the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine, which Al Jean says had to be changed enough so that everything was slightly different due to legal reasons.
 * The scene where Lisa acquires her monstrous braces and breaks her mirror is based on the 1989 film Batman.
 * The song played by Lisa is Mason Williams' "Classical Gas".
 * Before Mr. Burns shuts off the power to the town in response to the strike, he says, "From Hell's heart I stab at thee" which is a reference to Captain Ahab's curse, from the film Moby Dick.
 * The workers' resistance to the power outage, and Mr. Burns' response, is a spoof of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.