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Cultural References
- This episode is a parody of the 1999 film Notting Hill.
- The episode title is a play on the 1937 film A Star is Born.
- When Helen Fielding runs around being chased by bobbies and a man in a gorilla suit (following the book club meeting and the end of the episode), it is an homage to the UK sketch comedy The Benny Hill Show. The music featured in the background of the sequences, "Yakety Sax", is the same music used in that series.
Trivia
- Seen across the mall from Ned's Leftorium are the businesses 'I Can't Believe It's a Law Firm!', 'Expensive Coffee In Little Cups' and 'Something Wicker This Way Comes'.
- Homer's lipsync from his response to Ned Flanders' "milk for free" saying is also off.
- Lenny's lip sync is off after admitting he's selling Sara's autograph on eBay.
- Sara asks Ned to ask for 'Zelda Fitzgerald' at the Springfield Four Seasons hotel where she is staying. Zelda Fitzgerald was the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby.
- Originally, Sara's line after Ned starts a fight with the director was "Katherine Hepburn never showed her breasts". In an airing in on August 27, 2003 it was changed to Angela Lansbury because Katherine Hepburn died months after this episode was shown.
- James L. Brooks is credited as Jim Brooks for his appearance.
| ā Season 13 | Season 14 References/Trivia | Season 15 āŗ |
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| Treehouse of Horror XIII ā¢ How I Spent My Strummer Vacation ā¢ Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade ā¢ Large Marge ā¢ Helter Shelter ā¢ The Great Louse Detective ā¢ Special Edna ā¢ The Dad Who Knew Too Little ā¢ The Strong Arms of the Ma ā¢ Pray Anything ā¢ Barting Over ā¢ I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can ā¢ A Star is Born-Again ā¢ Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington ā¢ C.E. D'oh ā¢ 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky ā¢ Three Gays of the Condo ā¢ Dude, Where's My Ranch? ā¢ Old Yeller-Belly ā¢ Brake My Wife, Please ā¢ The Bart of War ā¢ Moe Baby Blues | ||