Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?/References

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Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?

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Previous Episode References

• "Bart the Lover": Homer curses in front of children.
• "Homerpalooza": Homer carpools Bart, Lisa, and their friends to school (or a school function)
• "Bart's Inner Child", "I Love Lisa", and "Treehouse of Horror IX" ("Starship Poopers"): Someone gets bleeped out for using bad language.
• "Homer the Vigilante" and "Treehouse of Horror VI" ("Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores"): Homer breaks the fourth wall by saying, "We'll be right back!"
• "The PTA Disbands" and "Treehouse of Horror V" ("Nightmare Cafeteria"): Uter is missing and presumed dead.
• "The Springfield Files": Mr. Burns is fooled by Homer's lame attempt at ditching work.
• "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer": Homer has bad luck at an outdoor food festival.
• "The Old Man and the "C" Student": Uter's mom looks like the Swiss delegate from the Olympics committee.
• "The Front": A Simpson male (Grampa/Homer) gets a writing job thanks to a Simpson kid (Bart and Lisa/Lisa) doing all the work.
• "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": A cassette tape ends with "Turn tape over!"
• "Homer's Barbershop Quartet": Someone makes a crude dummy of Homer (Marge, so the kids won't miss him while he's on tour/Homer himself, so he can take the kids on their field trip).
• "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace": Homer's line, "People will think what I tell them to think!" is similar to "Women will like what I tell them to like!"

Cultural References

• The title references the 1967 film, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner".
• Homer's song about food partly resembles the tune from the song "I Feel Pretty", from "West Side Story".
• The typewriter with a missing key references the film "Misery".
• Props referencing various films that are seen at Planet Hype include Herbie from "The Love Bug", the coffee mug from "Heartbeeps", the cane from "Citizen Kane", the awful script from "The Cable Guy" (which Homer rips up in utter outrage as it nearly ruined Jim Carrey's career), an alien resembling one from "Mars Attacks!", a model of the Titanic, models of an X-Wing and TIE fighters, and a statue of C-3PO.
• Luigi references the "horse head" scene from "The Godfather".
• Homer typing the same thing over and over spoofs the 1980 film "The Shining".
• "Citizen Kane" is referenced multiple times throughout the episode, such as the "cane from Citizen Kane" and the scene where Homer tells Lisa, 'people will think what I tell them to think' and that she, 'can't do this to me, I'm Homer Simpson!' as she leaves the room.
• Homer's dummy sings on it's recording a parody of Donna Summer's "She works hard for the money".

Goofs

• There was a cane in Citizen Kane. However, it did not play a major role in the narrative, which may be why Lisa doesn't remember it.
• In the scene where the restaurateurs, critics and animals are behind Homer and Lisa, and are about to give the former his comeuppance, Daphne Beaumont's lipstick disappears from her lips when she clenches her teeth.