Fear of Flying/References

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Fear of Flying

Homer the Great ►

Trivia/Goofs

• The name of the lesbian bar is the "She-She Lounge".
• The man who looks very similar to Homer is named "Guy Incognito" who later appears in The Simpsons Movie.
• Homer's favorite song is revealed to be "It's Raining Men" (which is also Smithers' favorite song, as he keeps the record after Moe tosses it out the door)
• While they were seen previously in Moe's Tavern during the episode Flaming Moe's, Homer's co-workers Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson officially become regular patrons at Moe's Tavern in this episode.
• When Homer asks Bart for his wallet, Bart pulls it out of his pocket.
• In this episode, Marge freaks out over flying, but in "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington," Marge had no trouble flying in an airplane.
• Considering that Moe is a snake-handler (as seen in "Homer the Heretic"), the venom from the cobra biting him really should not have affected him. It could be a different type of snake to the ones he handles.
• Despite being banned from Moe's Tavern in this episode, Homer is seen at Moe's again in later episodes.

Cultural References

• The episode's title is a reference to Erica Jong's novel Fear of Flying.
• One of the bars that Homer visits is the bar from the sitcom Cheers. All of the characters are voiced by the actors who played them in Cheers, with the exception of Frasier Crane who remains silent. Despite the fact that Kelsey Grammer has made multiple appearances on the Simpsons as Sideshow Bob, he does not lend his voice to this episode.
• Grampa being left on a plane and proceeding to slap his hands on his face and yell is a reference to the movie Home Alone.
• The films Homer rents are Hero, Fearless, and Alive, the latter of which Marge watches. All of them involve plane crashes.
• Marge's recurring dream is that she is in TV series Lost in Space: She is Mrs. Robinson, Homer is Dr. Smith, and Lisa is the Robot.
• The flashback where Marge and her mother have a biplane shooting at them in a cornfield is a parody of Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest.
• Marge calls Dr. Zweig "Lowenstein", a reference to Barbara Streisand's character in the film The Prince of Tides.