Bart 'N' Frink/References

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Cultural References

• The title of this episode is a reference to the 1991 American black comedy thriller film Barton Fink.
  • "Bart 'N' Frink" was also the name of a level on the defunct "The Simpsons: Tapped Out" game.
• Comic Book Guy is reading from Wizardry & Pretend. Other games on the shelves include:
  • Accounting of the Hanseatic League (Hanseatic League was in present-day Northern Germany and box cover has the Salzspeicher in Lübeck and two portraits of Hanseatic merchants by Hans Holbein the Younger, Georg Giese and unidentified, and based on the BBC page about the Hanseatic League).
  • Insurance!
  • Mid-Level Tax Assessor
  • 1,000 Pages of Rules
  • Buy and Hold: The Game of Cautious Stock Investing
  • Drudgery: The Game
  • Terraforming The Sun (parody of Terraforming Mars)
  • The Gentrifiers of Cattan (parody of The Settlers of Catan)
  • Pirate Battle!: A Game of Long Division
  • Cosmic Wars CCG (parody of Star Wars CCG)
  • This Game's Box is Huge!
  • This One is Even Bigger!!!
• The song "Weird Friendship" is a parody of the Oingo Boingo new wave song "Weird Science" which was also the main theme for the 1985 John Hughes teen sci-fi/comedy movie Weird Science.
  • Oingo Boingo's frontman who also wrote "Weird Science" was Danny Elfman, composer of "The Simpsons theme song."
• Johnson Bryans is a spoof of anti-aging obsessed tech multimillionaire Bryan Johnson.
• Professor Frink's dorm room at Silicon Valley Tech has a poster of Albert Einstein sticking out the tongue, a photograph taken by UPI photographer Albert Sasse at Princeton University on March 14, 1951 as Albert Einstein was leaving a party for his 72^nd birthday.
• Homer says that before eating something, say "I don't mind if I do", a catchphrase of the fictional Colonel Humphrey Chinstrap on the 1940s British radio comedy show "It's That Man Again."

Trivia

• Signs around Fun For Your Lives! Game Store include "Please Leash You Beholder", "We Don't Service Androids Here", "Dice: 20-Side Maximum Strictly Enforced" and on the bathroom door "Ladies Use Restaurant Bathroom Next Door".

Continuity

• Fun For Your Lives! Game Store is next to Cavity Falls Children's Dentistry. ("Homer and Her Sisters")
• Some of game players at the store include the 3 nerds who tutored Homer in nuclear physics ("Homer Goes to College"), the Superfriends ("Bart's Comet"), the nerd at Springfield Elementary who told Oliver to bring "our friend" Bart a hard-boiled egg and some prune juice after Martin saved an extra nerdy-looking Bart from the bullies ("The Last Temptation of Homer"), Alex the spelling bee champion ("I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can") and the comic book aficionado who Comic Book Guy flirts with at Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con ("Mayored to the Mob").
• The store has a CCG (Customizable Card Game) for Cosmic Wars, The Simpsons go-to spoof of Star Wars ("Co-Dependent's Day" and "Steal This Episode") although later in the episode a Stormtrooper costume is on display at Peter Linz's mansion.
• Martin is drinking an Apple Zoom juice box. ("Desperately Seeking Lisa")
• Comic Book Guy is drinking a can of Blue Bronco Energy Drink. ("Bart Gets a "Z"")
• Professor Frink is a wizard. ("The Serfsons")
• Back at Silicon Valley Tech, Professor Frink's dorm room had a poster for Sadgasm, Homer, Lenny, Carl and Lou's onetime grunge band. ("That '90s Show")
• Reference to Steve Wozniak designing Apple's personal computers. ("Homerpalooza", "The Girl Code")