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Citations[]
- Kent Brockman's "Bite Back" is a parody of Fight Back! with David Horowitz.
Trivia[]
- The undercover news van has "ORDINARY VAN" written on it in huge letters.
- A sign in the world's first convenience store reads: The Master Knows All Except Combination To Safe.
- The slogan of the Monstromart: Where Shopping Is A Baffling Ordeal.
- The license plate of the ambulance reads: SLIP
- This episode was nominated for the 1994 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics for the song, "Who Needs The Kwik-E-Mart?".
- Clear back in the Season 1 DVD commentary, we learn that Apu's last name "Nahasapeemapetilon" was the full name of a high school friend of writer Jeff Martin.
- At one point in the Monstromart scene, Barney accidentally knocks over an overgrown Mrs. Maple syrup bottle, mistaking it for an actual lady, and reacts with horror at apparently killing her, claiming that it is all happening again. This was presumably a reference to "Rosebud", where Barney accidentally shot and killed a woman walking by Evergreen Terrace after Homer slammed a door in his face (having attempted to threaten Homer to give back Bobo the teddy bear due to Mr. Burns rediverting beer from Springfield in order to get back Bobo), and was implied to be arrested.
- This is one of the very few episodes where Apu wears his Kwik-E-Mart uniform in the store instead of his usual attire.
- Barney breaking the bottles and creating a cranberry juice tidal wave is a parody of the Ocean Spray commercials of the time.
- The Kwik-E-Mart is opened for 24 hours every day.
- The ambulance that took Homer to the hospital has the same appearance as the New Bedlam Hospital ambulance at the end of "Treehouse of Horror IV" segment "Terror at 5½ Feet".
- The Kwik-E-Mart is seen from 742 Evergreen Terrace, but only in this episode.
- The obnoxious Christians at the Indian airport are a joke about how Hare Krishnas would proselytize at American airports.
- The music playing in background when Homer and Apu travel through the desert and to the mountain is from the movie Lawrence of Arabia.
- In a deleted scene, Apu is revealed to wear a wig.
Goofs[]
Martin with a purple shirt
"Knik-E-Mart"
- The Kwik-E-Mart shouldn't have a "Do Not Accept Checks From These People" list, as they already have a policy against paying with checks, credit cards, and food stamps. They may have accepted checks early on and stopped taking them at some point, and just forgotten to take the "bad check" sign down.
- At the beginning of the episode, Martin Prince has a purple shirt which in the next shot changes to its usual white.
- At the end of "Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?" when Apu looks at the Kwik-E-Mart from a distance, the store's name is instead written as "Knik-E-Mart".
- When Apu looks at his old Squishee machine, we see the grape flavor and the cherry flavor, but both are dripping green apple.
- The first two rows of cups on the Squishee machine are white while the third has green cups.
- In one scene after the barking dog appears, Lisa's body shifts up and down and then back to normal.
- At one scene in Monstromart, a citizen's body changes from white to yellow to back to white in about half a second.