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Cultural References[]
- Martin's power plant model resembles the terraforming colony in the movie Aliens.
- Frank Grimes himself is based on Michael Douglas' character of Bill Foster from Falling Down.
Trivia[]
- When Homer reverses into Frank Grimes' car, there is a sign showing the parking space is reserved for Frank Grimes. Next to it is a sign that says 'Reserved for LENNY', which omits his surname.
- This is one of Matt Groening's favorite episodes.
- Hank Azaria based the voice of Frank Grimes partially on William H. Macy, who would guest star as himself in "Homer's Paternity Coot".
- This is one of the few times at all that Homer actually was pleased about his Grammy. Normally, whenever a character mentions a Grammy Award on the show, it's always in a disparaging light (cf. someone throwing it at Homer's head on "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Grammys being considered contraband in prison on "Black Widower")
- Lisa barely has any lines or a real role in this episode, mostly because her voice actress was sick with the flu at the time the show was recording lines. This would continue into the next episode.
- Despite being controversial among fans for exaggerating Homer's stupidity and killing off an allegedly sympathetic character, this is the highest rated Simpsons episode on Internet Movie Database (IMDb), at 9.3/10[1] and is considered by most fans to be the best episode of the series (and, in some fans' eyes, the last episode that is considered good).
Continuity[]
- "Homerpalooza": Homer has a picture of himself with The Smashing Pumpkins
- "Deep Space Homer": Homer was an astronaut and actually went into space.
- "Two Bad Neighbors": Homer is friends with former President Gerald Ford.
- "Homer's Barbershop Quartet": Homer had his own band and won a Grammy.
- "Homer Goes to College" and "Homer Defined":
- Homer causes and stops a nuclear disaster through dumb luck.
- Someone is shocked and horrified that Homer stopped a nuclear disaster through dumb luck.
- "The Last Temptation of Homer": Homer is upset over a new hire at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant (Mindy, because he's infatuated with her/Frank Grimes, because Frank hates everything about Homer and his allegedly good life).
- "Bart the Lover": Homer curses and spouts angry gibberish while building something.
- "Duffless" and "Lisa's Rival": An idiot character (Bart/Ralph Wiggum/Homer) wins a competition involving building models (the science fair at school/the diorama fair at school/the junior nuclear plant model contest).
- "Marge in Chains": The Simpsons have lobster for dinner (Marge remembers the time Homer tried to cook seafood for dinner, but the fish was still alive and the lobsters were pinching him [on top of that, Marge mentioned in "New Kid on the Block" that she has a seafood allergy that puts her in anaphylactic shock, so why would Homer serve her that in the first place?]/Marge serves lobster to Frank Grimes and Grimes mentions it in his rant about how Homer doesn't deserve his cushy life).
- Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious: A Simpsons episode ends with a one-shot character dying (Shari Bobbins getting sucked into a jet engine/Frank Grimes goes insane and grabs two high voltage wires barehanded).
- "Last Exit to Springfield":
- An episode considered to be the best episode of The Simpsons (the former is according to Entertainment Weekly; the latter, according to most fans and IMDb).
- "Last Exit to Springfield", "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show", and "Black Widower": An episode ends with a darkly comic twist on the "characters laugh at the end of an episode" trope (the dentist forgetting to turn off the nitrous oxide/Marge mentioning that Homer lost nearly half of his brain function during his coma/Bart telling everyone that they should get out of the hotel hallway before they all suffocate from the gas leak Sideshow Bob caused in his murder attempt on Selma/everyone laughing at Homer talking in his sleep at Frank Grimes' funeral and not shedding a tear over Grimes' death).
Goofs[]
Lenny's beard far below his nose.
Marge with smooth hair on the top.
Marge's hair in front of the car's windshield.
Charlie with the wrong glasses color.
The cup behind the platform on the coffee machine.
Charlie with clear glasses.
- As Lenny discusses how Homer didn't need a degree to get his job, his beard is drawn too low down for a frame.
- When the sulfuric acid dissolves the wall, a piece of the wall is dissolved only to somehow appear again.
- Bart removes two of the three safety signs on the staircase in the factory. Then, the third one vanishes on its own.
- Lenny states that Homer started working at the plant on the day it opened. However, this is impossible since Homer applied for the job in 1980 in "I Married Marge", when the plant was already open (the plant opened in 1968 when Homer was twelve). Also in The Way We Was it was mentioned while Homer was a student that they would open the power plant soon, but back then Homer was 18 years old so if he started working on the day it opened then it would mean he started working at the plant at age 18 but Homer hadn't been employed at the plant at age 18. As shown in "Springfield Up" he had several jobs prior to starting working at the plant.
- Lenny also states that Homer doesn't need any degree (which would indicate he doesn't have any) but Homer earned it (although during the closing credits) in "Homer Goes to College".
- The close up of Homer opening the door for Frank Grimes depicts a purple doorknob, but the next shot shows the doorknob as blue.
- Moe's Tavern is depicted as being on Industrial Way in this episode.
- Why would the Simpsons serve Frank Grimes lobster for dinner when (a) Lisa is a vegetarian, as of "Lisa the Vegetarian", and (b) Marge has a seafood allergy that's implied to be lethal (cf. "New Kid on the Block")? Unless the food was for Homer, Bart, and Frank...
- As Marge urges Homer to face his fear of Frank Grimes, the top of her hair is smooth and lacks the curls that it usually has.
- Later in the same scene, the top of Marge's hair is drawn in front the top of the car's windshield, when it should be behind it since she is inside the car.
- At one point, Sarah Wiggum is seen in the audience at the power plant model contest. Unusually, she is not wearing lipstick.
- In a far shot of the audience at the power plant model contest, the lenses of Charlie's glasses are white instead of aqua.
- For a frame, when Milhouse is trying to get coffee from the machine, the cup is drawn behind the platform which it is supposed to stand on.
- When Lenny talks about his and Carl's degrees, his beard is off of his face for a frame.
- During Frank Grimes' funeral, the Simpsons move from the second row of seats to the front row.
- Also during the funeral, in a faraway shot Charlie's glasses aren't filled in so that they are just his skin color.
- At the contest, Chief Wiggum is heard but not seen. Even if he was, he would be sitting next to his wife Sarah, who is seen in the audience. Hank Azaria ad-libbed his line, "Ralph, get off the stage, sweetie!"
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