Homer Defined/References


 * Mr. Burns wears a toupee in the photograph that is superimposed when he is communicating with Kent Brockman via speaker phone.

Movie Moments

 * When Homer stops the meltdown, he silently looks at the timer which was stopped at 007. This is reference to when an atomic bomb was stopped with seven seconds to spare and the timer showed 007, the number of James Bond, done by Sean Connery in Goldfinger.

Cultural References

 * Earvin "Magic" Johnson makes a shot at the end of the epsiode and remarks "I pulled a Homer" before several attractive cheerleaders. Ironically, two weeks after this episode aired, Johnson publicly announced that he had the Human Immoundeficiency Virus, the precursor to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and stated that he had contracted it as a result of extramarital relations with over 200 women.