The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer/References

Cultural references

 * In The Seven-Beer Snitch Fat Tony says Marge sometimes drives his son home from school and Marge says he must be Michael's dad
 * Otto's exclamation "Real songs are about deals with the devil, far-off lands, and where you'd find smoke in relation to water." are allusions to the songs "Devil went down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels Band, "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin &amp; "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple.
 * The song Metallica plays as they ride away in the back of Hans Moleman's truck is the title track from their 1986 album "Master of Puppets".
 * Krusty the Clown, owner of the chain of Krusty Burger restaurants, pays the mafia to keep McDonalds and Burger King out of Springfield.
 * When Fat Tony is driving his Lincoln Navigator in the carpool, The Sopranos theme song is heard. Additionally, several Sopranos actors (including Joe Pantoliano and Michael Imperioli) voice mob characters in this episode, note that they had their real faces in this episode.
 * Nelson says in this episode that "There is no Mafia" which is another reference to The Sopranos, where Anthony Soprano Sr. says this to his daughter Meadow.
 * Fat Tony works, as he says, in "Waste Management", which is the official job of Anthony Soprano Sr.
 * Fat Tony asks Milhouse for one of his binders to use as a trap. Fat Tony chooses the Garfield binder rather than the Love Is... binder. "I prefer the cat, he hates Mondays, and we can all relate."
 * The house of Fat Tony also strongly resembles that of Tony Montana from the movie Scarface.
 * Fat Tony's son, Michael, is named in honor of Michael Corleone, son of Don Vito Corleone, in Mario Puzo's The Godfather Trilogy. His hairstyle is also extremely similar to Al Pacino's around the time of the film.
 * At the end of the episode Michael says to Lisa: "Don't ever ask me about my business", a quotation from The Godfather. The room where this takes place is very similar to the location in the original movie.
 * Homer claims Shark Tale to be the best gangster movie ever.
 * Fat Tony asks "Who wants to sleep with the fishes?.. Because I brought this Finding Nemo bedspread!" "Sleeping with the fishes" is a gang language quote for dumping a dead body into the river. This is also referenced in  The Simpsons Movie  where Fat Tony tries to dump his "yard trimmings" into the Springfield river.
 * The episode title is a reference to the film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, which also involves a crime boss and food.
 * When Fat Tony arrives for the carpool, he says "We are going for a ride!.... By which I mean the carpool" Much of Fat Tony's quotes is related to gang language.
 * After Johnny Tightlips says to Michael that he has to stand up as mob boss, Louie says that he wants to drop by the Lexus dealership to test drive their new hybrid. Tightlips replies to him that he's a hybrid, half-idiot and half-moron. This is a joke on the hybrid motor setup of an electric motor and a gas engine.
 * The promotional image for this episode is based off of promotional material for the HBO original series The Sopranos