I'm Goin' to Praiseland/References

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Cultural references

• Comic Book Guy's dream parodies Star Trek, Catwoman and Agent 99 (Get Smart TV series). Coincidentally, actress Anne Hathaway portrayed both characters in Get Smart and The Dark Knight Rises.
• In Disco Stu's discothèque vision of Heaven:
  • Frank Sinatra was seen in Disco Stu's dream.
  • The end sequence song (and the song that plays when Disco Stu hallucinates that he is being let into a disco version of Heaven) is "Get Dancin'" by Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes.

Previous Episode References

• "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily":
  • Flanders deals with the death of his wife
  • Rachel Jordan appears
• "Skinner's Sense of Snow": Flanders worries about a gas leak that causes people to hallucinate (the carbon monoxide from his car/the gas grill leak).
• "Lisa the Skeptic": An allegedly religious phenomenon enraptures the town (the angel skeleton/the Maude Flanders statue) and Homer exploits it for money.
• "King of the Hill": The church has an event that serves food (a picnic/an ice cream social)
• "Lisa the Vegetarian":
  • Bart mentions the nursery rhyme theme park that has since shut down.
  • Characters going to a lame theme park.
• "Selma's Choice": Hallucinations at a theme park (Lisa drinking the tainted water from "The Little Land of Duff" ride/the gas leak that causes everyone to hallucinate).
• "22 Short Films about Springfield" and "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson": The Tall Man (who's a caricature of Ian Maxtone-Graham) appears (during the "Nelson makes fun of people" vignette/when The Simpsons go on the bus to New York/during Disco Stu's vision of Heaven).
• "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace":
  • Patches and Poor Violet (the orphans) appear
  • The town raises money to help another citizen, only for it to go pear-shape.
• "Home Sweet Home-Diddly-Dum-Doodily": Homer is accused of abusing a child (his own children/Patches and Poor Violet).
• "Bart Carny": The Rich Texan owns (or, in this case, finances) a carnival/theme park.

Goofs

Manjula with yellow skin and brown hair

• When the citizens are leaving the park in disappointment, Manjula, who is behind Apu, is yellow, has brown hair, and is wearing blue clothes.

Gareth Prince with blond hair

• At one point, when the Simpsons and Flanders are outside and in front of the latter family's house, Rod's shirt is green.

Helen with lipstick

• After Helen Lovejoy makes a very tall stack of ice cream scoops on the cone, she is wearing lipstick.

Brandine with a green belly

• When Professor Frink showcases his cow, Brandine Spuckler's belly is drawn the same color of green as the top garment she wears instead of yellow.
• Once, when Martin Prince Sr. is seen among other attendees at the church's ice cream social, his hair is blond.

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  Milhouse with black eyebrows

  During the King David's Wild Ride roller coaster, Milhouse briefly has black eyebrows.
• When Homer burns Bo Peep, one statue sheep don't have a skeleton and the other sheep has one. (That's because it was a real sheep)
• Homer wasn't seen putting beer bottles inside Old Woman's Shoe in "Lisa the Vegetarian" (Though they may be instead from him, working and drinking at Praiseland, before it opened).

Production Notes

• The final draft for this episode was published on September 5, 2000.