King-Size Homer/References

General	References/Trivia	Gags	Appearances	Gallery	Quotes	Credits

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King-Size Homer

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Trivia

• First episode to establish that Mr. Burns went to Yale University.

Goofs

• Homer's wristwatch disappears when goes to the kitchen on his first day working from home.

Cultural References

• The "Iroquois twist" was a made-up exercise by the show writer to sound old-timey. The Iroquois are a Native American tribe who inhabit what is now southern Ontario and upstate New York.

Previous Episode References

• "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" and "Homer's Triple Bypass": A Simpson male goes to Dr. Nick Riviera for backwards medical advice.
• "New Kid on the Block": Homer eats everything in a restaurant and gets kicked out over it.
• "Homer's Night Out", "The War of the Simpsons", and "Homer Goes to College": Marge worries that Homer is setting a bad example for the children.
• "Bart Gets an "F"", "Separate Vocations", "The Otto Show", "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie", "Whacking Day", and "Bart Gets Famous": an imagine spot featuring a bad future for Bart (repeating the fourth grade with his son/being a drifter who's been kicked out of town/being a drugged-out British rock star whose excesses have alienated him from his bandmates/working as a sleazy male stripper whose female fans hate him/getting a job testing dangerous food additives and turning into a monster after drinking a diet cola called "Nature's Goodness"/getting impaled while cleaning his sister's many awards and ending up on a 2034 version of Match Game as one of the members of the washed-up celebrity panelists/being a lardo on workman's comp).
• "Homer Defined":
  • Homer saves the town from a nuclear disaster that he caused.
  • Search for the Sun (Springfield's premier soap opera) is shown.
• "Homer the Heretic": Homer wants to stay home from an obligation (going to church/going to work) and Marge objects to it.
• "Home Sweet Home-Diddly-Dum-Doodily": The error message on the phone about Homer's fingers being too fat to dial is similar to the one that tells Homer and Marge that they can't contact their children and ends with, "You...negligent...monster."