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Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Bobby, It's Cold Outside
Hail to the Teeth

Cultural References[]

  • This episode title references the 1944 song Baby, It's Cold Outside.
  • The song sung by the Simpson family while in the car is "Baby Shark".
  • The now-defunct Gimbel's department store chain is shown and mentioned in the flashback scene from Mr. Burns's childhood.
  • Both NCIS: New Orleans and Quantum Leap are referenced when Wiggum talks with a justifiably irate Scott Bakula upon releasing him from custody. Similarly, Steve Ballmer references Mistaken Identity when being released. Sandra Bullock also puts on a blue blindfold when being released, referencing her role in the film Bird Box.
  • The Simpsons watch the "Fox News Yule Log", a parody of the WPIX Yule Log that ran from 1966 to 1989, and revived in 2001. This show features various "liberal" items being burned in a fireplace, including the U.S. Constuitution, the Bill of Rights, a portrait of President John F. Kennedy, and copies of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, It Takes a Village by Hilary Clinton, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, and Emily Post's Book of Etiquette.

Trivia[]

  • This is the last episode to air in the 2010s.
  • This episode is the sequel to "Gone Boy".
  • This is the second Sideshow Bob episode to be a Christmas episode.
  • This is the second Sideshow Bob episode to be a sequel to another Sideshow Bob episode, despite the fact that every episode he appears in we get a hint of what he has done.
  • Homer mentions that he used to be a mall Santa and still has his "Santa Belt", which was a reference to the series premiere.
  • Bob's flashback to dark secrets references the following:
    • "Cape Feare": Bob's exercise routine in jail as well as his attempt at murdering Bart inside the houseboat.
    • "The Bob Next Door": Bob's face being removed by a waitress (although technically that was actually Walt Warren), and also his escape from jail has his face briefly flap off before he restores it.
  • The suspects of who the identity of the gift thieves were via Lenny's hint were the following:
  • The life goals Sideshow Bob had were of the following:
    • Work till age 67
    • Retire with pension
    • Date age-appropriate woman
    • Learn Chinese
    • Find birth father

Goofs[]

  • Mr. Burns says that both his parents died when he was little but in "Homer the Smithers" we see that Mrs. Burns is still alive at age of 122.
    • Also in The Mansion Family he mentions that cause of his parents' death is because they got in his way. If he ran over them then he would already be a grown man not a child because it is very unlikely that he would drive a car as being a child.
    • Also in "Rosebud" the flashback shows that he abandoned his parents when he was a kid along with his brother George and his teddy bear Bobo to live with a billionaire.
  • Cassandra mentions that Sideshow Bob had no wedding ring, even though he was married to Francesca Terwilliger.
    • It is unconfirmed whether or not Bob and Francesca divorced if that's the case.
  • One of Bob's life goals say "Find Birth Father". Even though his actual birth father is Robert Terwilliger, Sr..
  • The flashback takes place in 1935 and in it, Mr. Burns is a child, but in "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" we see a flashback from 1906 and it shows Mr. Burns as a child, so after 29 years Burns wouldn't have been a child anymore.
  • The website that Lenny uses to buy his Christmas gifts doesn't have a top-level domain in its URL.
  • Homer's address on his Kris Kringle Union card lists him as living at Springfield Beach, which the same place Sideshow Bob's card says.


Season 30 Season 31 References/Trivia Season 32
The Winter of Our Monetized ContentGo Big or Go HomerThe Fat Blue LineTreehouse of Horror XXXGorillas on the MastMarge the LumberjillLivin' La Pura VidaThanksgiving of HorrorTodd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?Bobby, It's Cold OutsideHail to the TeethThe Miseducation of Lisa SimpsonFrinkcoinBart the Bad GuyPlaydate with DestinyScreenlessBetter Off NedHighway to WellThe Incredible Lightness of Being a BabyWarrin' Priests (Part One)Warrin' Priests (Part Two)The Hateful Eight-Year-OldsThe Way of the Dog
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