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Previous Episode References[]
- Homer's Barbershop Quartet:
- Homer has a music career where he collaborates with a famous musician.
- Homer writes a popular novelty song ("Baby on Board"/"Everyone Hates Ned Flanders")
- Homer Goes to College: Homer misspells a word while singing ("smart" in "I Am So Smart"/Flanders' last name in his anti-Flanders song).
- I'm Goin' to Praiseland and Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily: Flanders' favorite flavor of something is plain (plain jelly Noah's Ark candy [instead of Chief Wiggum's more appropriate idea of the jelly candies being "two of every flavor"]/Flanders has non-fat ice milk in "wintergreen" and "unflavored"/Flanders' favorite Popsicle flavor is plain).
- Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner, The Computer Wore Menace Shoes, and A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love: Something Homer writes makes him popular (positive food reviews/investigative reports and, later, conspiracy theories on the Internet/fortune cookie messages/the song about Flanders)
- Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner only: Homer misspells "Flanders".
- The Computer Wore Menace Shoes only: Moe kidnaps someone (Hans Moleman/David Byrne) and keeps him locked up in his bar.
- Alone Again, Natura-Diddly: Maude Flanders' death is mentioned.
- Mother Simpson: Maggie inappropriately dances to music (frugs to the scene transition music from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In/dances suggestively to "Oops...I Did It Again" by Britney Spears).
- E-I-E-I-D'oh: The Simpsons temporarily move away to a farmland.
- The Front:
- A Simpson (Bart and Lisa/Homer) writes something (Itchy & Scratchy episodes/the anti-Flanders song) that becomes popular.
- A character (Artie Ziff/Rabbi Krustofsky) normally voiced by a celebrity (Jon Lovitz/Jackie Mason) is temporarily voiced by Dan Castellaneta.
- $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling): Homer is in a two-man suit (the oversized overalls on The Gong Show/David Byrne's oversized white suit from Stop Making Sense).
- Sweets and Sour Marge: reference to Andrea True Connection's "More More More" (Disco Stu gets wired on actual sugar [which he snorts like cocaine] and dances to that song/Moe's novelty song is a weak parody of it).
Cultural references[]
- Dude, Where's My Car? - The title of the episode parodies the 2000 movie.
- Misery - When Moe picks up David Byrne after he is badly injured, Byrne asks Moe to take him to the hospital. When Byrne asks why Moe drove right past it, Moe ask him "have you ever seen the movie Misery?". The movie Misery is about a writer who is hurt in a blizzard and is taken in (then held captive) by a crazed fan of his work.
Goofs[]
- The sound of the footsteps when Clara is running across the log do not match her actual footsteps.
- When Luke tells Lisa about what Clara told him, part of his hair turns the same shade of yellow as his skin for a frame.
Luke with partially yellow hair
- Lisa claims Luke was her first crush, but she's had other crushes before, like pretty boy celebrity, Corey (who may or may not be the same Corey from the movie, School of Hard Knockers); the teenage librarian from "Bart's Girlfriend" who makes fun of Ralph Wiggum for asking him if the library has Go Dog Go ("That's in Juvenile. This is Young Adult"), Nelson Muntz from "Lisa's Date with Density" (and mention in passing in later episodes, like "Girly Edition"), and the kid from West Springfield Elementary voiced by Frankie Muniz, to name a few examples.
- Lisa says that the Lazy I Ranch has no radio or TV so they don't have to listen to Homer's song but at the ranch, Maggie is seen dancing to "Oops!...I Did It Again" by Britney Spears on the radio.
Production Notes[]
August 8, 2002
- The final draft for this episode is dated August 8, 2002.[1]