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Premiere[]
- This episode was watched by 18.5 million people in the US during its premiere.
Previous Episode References[]
- Homer Loves Flanders, So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show, Lisa the Simpson: Homer's stupidity is explained (Bart saying that being a loser is genetic, Homer losing his brainpower from being in a coma, The Simpson Gene, and Homer getting a crayon stuck in his head).
- Homer Loves Flanders: Homer imitates Marge (during his imagine spot of him wearing a tall, blue wig/while he's filling out bank papers)
- Mother Simpson: A flashback to Homer's childhood and his bedroom in the 1960s.
- Treehouse of Horror III ("King Homer"): reference to the scene in the original 1933 version of King Kong where Kong is chained up on a Broadway stage (King Homer is chained on the stage/Homer imagines King Kong chained on the stage during his "We're in the Money" imagine spot).
- Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk: Homer buys stock shares in a company with disastrous results.
- Lisa the Beauty Queen: A Dan Castellaneta-voiced character (Barney/Homer) gets a job as a human guinea pig.
- The Homer They Fall: Dr. Hibbert finds something strange about Homer's head/brain anatomy through an X-ray (the layer of fluid that makes Homer impervious to falling after getting hit/the crayon stuck in his head)
- Hurricane Neddy: A Simpson parent (Marge/Homer) solves a Rubik's cube.
- Simpson and Delilah: Homer finally gets the capitol of North Dakota right as Bismarck (on the former episode, he thought it was Hitler, because both Bismarck and Hitler are the last names of German leaders).
- Bart on the Road and Make Room for Lisa: Homer and Lisa bond.
- El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer: Homer sadly walking the streets looking for an intellectual safe haven is similar to him walking the streets looking for his soul mate after realizing Marge may not be the one.
- Fear of Flying: Homer gets banned from Moe's (for his lame sugar prank on Moe/for being an intellectual)
- Cape Feare, The Springfield Files, Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment, Simpson Tide, Pygmoelian, The Computer Wore Menace Shoes: Moe commits a crime while running his bar (cages endangered animals [the pandas and the killer whale from SeaWorld]; runs a speakeasy when Prohibition is enforced; holds The Deer Hunter-style Russian roulette matches; has an expired, falsified liquor license; imprisons Hans Moleman under the floorboards; allows a burning effigy on the premises and performs amateur surgery on Homer).
- Colonel Homer: Homer gets kicked out of a movie theater (for spoiling the ending to the military thriller he and Marge are watching/for pointing out how tired and predictable Love is Nice is).
- Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood: A Simpson kid (Lisa/Bart) assures another (Bart/Lisa) that cartoons don't have to reflect reality or make sense, and is proven right (Homer walks past the house, even though he's been sitting on the couch throughout the scene/Ozmodiar appears besides Bart).
- Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily: The Flanders kids watch a violent cartoon (Itchy & Scratchy/Gravey and Jobriath)
- The Day the Violence Died: reference to plagiarism in animation (Roger Meyers Jr. gets taken to court over his father stealing Chester Lampwick's credit for creating Itchy/Professor Frink and Comic Book Guy call out the fat voice actor for basing his character voices on real actors).
- The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase: Ozmodiar appears.
- The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show:
- Homer voices a talking dog.
- Poochie merchandise appears, despite him getting killed off on his second cartoon.
- Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo: jokes about Japanese cartoons (the family going into epileptic fits over Battling Seizure Robots/Bart and Lisa watching an anime about a girl warrior attacking a robot wolf).
- Lisa the Simpson: Someone pronounces "library" as "li-berry".
- Brother's Little Helper: The Screaming Monkey Research Center looks similar to the Pharm Team building.
- Saddlesore Galactica: The Comic Book Guy wears a "Worst _____ Ever" T-shirt.
- Mayored to the Mob: The Simpsons go to a convention that appeals to geeks (sci-fi/animation)
- Homer to the Max: jokes about the state of TV animation at the time (the line about TV networks liking animation because they don't have to pay the actors anything and they can be replaced/Marge's line about cartoons being everywhere "...or were, last year...")
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode to air in 2001, and the final episode to have season 11's "BABF##" production code.
- The episode was originally going to end with the crayon coming out of Homer's nostril during his hug with Lisa, with Homer then exclaiming, "Hey, I just remembered! PBS is showing an oral history of the Dust Bowl!" Lisa then pushes the crayon back up Homer's nose, and Homer responds, "Thanks, that was close." The episode that made it to air ended instead with a focus on Lisa's content face as she hugs Homer, who eats his sandwich and says, "Mmm, hug."
Homer's book is missing its text
Goofs[]
- When Homer looks at a book in the library, the book's text disappears.
- The crayon was never found because Dr. Hibbert always had his thumb over it on the X-rays he showed. Although it's possible that he knew but he wanted to milk Homer out of money for unnecessary procedures, because later episodes show that Dr. Hibbert is a worse doctor than Dr. Nick Riviera.
- Though his intelligence increased, Homer didn't gain a better understanding of a long-term plan. Though everyone was laid off at the time, they would have gotten their jobs back once the plant safety was brought up to code.
- Near the end of Homer's Animotion performance, as Homer walks off stage saying "Goodnight!" to the audience, the animated dog on the screen "walks" in place. But after Homer is shown going into the men's restroom, on the screen the dog walks from the right side back into the center to do his business.
- Homer freaks out when he goes blind from the appetite suppressant, but "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner" shows that Homer can sense food in other ways, like hearing pudding and being able to read what a cake says by sniffing the air.