Baby You Can't Drive My Car/References

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"Baby You Can't Drive My Car"

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Cultural References

• The name of this episode is a reference to the lyrics "Baby, you can drive my car" from the song "Drive My Car" by The Beatles.

Trivia

• Hans Moleman drives an AMC Gremlin in this episode; he last drove this car in "Treehouse of Horror V".
• This is the second time in the series that Homer is fired from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant due to reckless driving which forced him to look for a new job. The first time was in "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife."
  • It was also when Homer got a job in which he would drive a vehicle after being fired.
• When Homer is celebrating the fact the CarGo dining hall serves free food, a melodic version of "Pure Imagination" plays in the background.

Goofs

• Homer acts like he’s never been in a self driving car before, but in "Maximum Homerdrive" he and Bart drove Red Barclay’s truck and later discovered it had an Autodrive system that makes the truck drive by itself.

Censorship

On the premiere on November, 6th, 2022 on Channel 4 they cut these two scenes.

• The goat biting a member of Cargo when they try to sacrifice him was cut.
• Krusty's smartcar driving him to a coke machine, Krusty saying "This isn't the type of coke I was talking about." and then the car driving him to a steel factory using coke was cut.