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Cultural references[]

  • The episode title is a reference to the sitcom How I Met Your Mother.
  • The aspect of the Simpson family going into Homer's dreams, one at a time, is a parody of the Christopher Nolan film Inception. Further references to the film include:
    • A dream involving skiing on a snowy mountain.
    • Entering a dream within a dream to slow their descent.
    • Arriving at the deepest dream layer with high rise buildings next to a beach (depicted as discarded food, beer cans, and beer bottles in the episode), which begin to collapse.
    • Walking up a vertical road in a dream.
    • A spinning top that topples in real life but spins indefinitely in a dream.
  • The closing credits feature audio of the song "Dream Operator" written by David Byrne with vocals from David Byrne and Glenn Close. The song originally comes from Talking Heads' penultimate album, True Stories.
  • In a dream, The Simpsons appear in The Tracey Ullman Show shorts style where it references The Simpsons short Family Therapy.
  • Grampa says his and Mona's tiffs is actually a television program, featuring Mitch Miller shouting at "one of his idiot singers." Miller produced for many singers, including Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, and Johnny Mathis.
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  • While monitoring the Simpsons in the real world, Professor Frink reads Scientific Springfieldian, a reference to the magazine Scientific American.
  • In the crowd of women supporting drunk driving in Homer's dream, one can see Maude Flanders.
  • When Homer and Bart are fishing in Lake Springfield, if you look closely you can see Plopper's waste silo from The Simpsons Movie.
  • In Homer's dreams, he has Jennifer Aniston's hair from Friends.
  • In Homer's dreams, different actors appear as constructs of the movie trivia part of Homer's subconscious:
  • Mr. Simpson's Wild Ride is a parody of the Disneyland attraction Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
  • Smithers

    Smithers with the Portal Gun and the turrets.

    When Smithers goes into the supply closet, two 'turrets' from the hit game Portal come out to shoot him, Smithers quickly uses a Portal Gun (also from the game) and portals them away.
  • The slow-motion fight between Clancy Wiggum and Professor Frink is a reference to The Matrix Revolutions where Neo punches Agent Smith in the face in slow-motion.

Trivia[]

Goofs[]

  • The configuration of the Uralarm Whizz-No-More 9000 changes as Homer plugs the alarm mechanism into the main console.
  • As Homer was thinking of Apu, a picture of a younger Mona featured her with white hair instead of auburn.


ā—„ Season 22 Season 23 References/Trivia Season 24 ā–ŗ
The Falcon and the D'ohman ā€¢ Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts ā€¢ Treehouse of Horror XXII ā€¢ Replaceable You ā€¢ The Food Wife ā€¢ The Book Job ā€¢ The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants ā€¢ The Ten-Per-Cent Solution ā€¢ Holidays of Future Passed ā€¢ Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson ā€¢ The D'oh-cial Network ā€¢ Moe Goes from Rags to Riches ā€¢ The Daughter Also Rises ā€¢ At Long Last Leave ā€¢ Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart ā€¢ How I Wet Your Mother ā€¢ Them, Robot ā€¢ Beware My Cheating Bart ā€¢ A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again ā€¢ The Spy Who Learned Me ā€¢ Ned 'N Edna's Blend ā€¢ Lisa Goes Gaga
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