Brush with Greatness/References

Trivia

 * Homer weighs 239 lbs in this episode; he was the same weight in "Homer's Night Out" and "King-Size Homer". By the end of the episode he is down to 225 pounds.
 * When Carl Carlson speaks in the episode, it is Lenny's voice actor.

Cultural References

 * Much of the music and scenes of Homer's workouts are similar to the training montage in Rocky.

Goof
When Krusty was being pressed by News Reporters about the incident at Mt. Splashmore with the H2WHOA!! and his attempts at driving them away, he apparently wipes away the "white makeup" on his head, despite the fact that it was implied in Homer's Triple Bypass that Krusty's bypass surgery that gave him a pacemaker permanently bleached his skin white.