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"Lost Verizon" |
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Premiere[]
- The premiere of this episode was watched by 7.43 million people in America.
Cultural references[]
- The episode title is a pun on Lost Horizon and a reference to Verizon Communications.
- Inga-Bar Beerman's is a reference to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
- Crocodile Drunkee's is a parody of Crocodile Dundee.
- Principal Skinner crosses the freeway in a similar fashion to the game Frogger.
- The Allied Peas mascot is a parody of the Jolly Green Giant.
- Bart, Nelson and Milhouse eat grilled Twizzlers.
- The Rich Texan is seen wearing a Texas Longhorns polo while he is golfing.
- Denis Leary is seen wearing a Boston Red Sox baseball cap. In real life, Leary is a big Red Sox fan.
- Bart, as one of his pranks, uses Leary's phone to, in Leary's name, order a ton of New York Yankees hats and Derek Jeter jerseys, much to Leary's annoyance (see above).
- Thanks to one of Bart's pranks, Leary appears in the movie adaptation of the children's book Everybody Poops as the constipated gorilla.
- The song playing when Bart is collecting golf balls is Workin' Man Blues by Merle Haggard.
- Denis Leary is seen eating Frosted-Strawberry Pop Tarts.
- The plot may be a reference to the movie Stuck in the Suburbs.
- Denis Leary mentions his career as Diego in the Ice Age movies.
- One of the frightened Incas ran whooping and partially crawling, similar to Zoidberg from Futurama.
Trivia[]
- This marks the second time Bart has pulled a prank on Australia since "Bart vs. Australia", as well as making a string of calls to different countries.
- The Australia "Boot to the Butt" flag from Bart vs. Australia makes a reappearance in the Australian bar, but with a blue background instead of the black background.
- This is the second time Homer loses track of Maggie, and the third time a family member lost track of her. The other times were in "Homer Alone" and "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" (the latter episode being done by Bart Simpson and the former one was by Homer Simpson).
- This is the second episode in which Bart uses a communication device for a series of pranks until he becomes one of the device's victims. The first was "Radio Bart".
- Machu Picchu was previously mentioned in "Mom And Pop Art".
Goofs[]
- The overhead pedestrian walkway the kids are standing on to watch Skinner from disappears whenever the view switches to show Skinner dodging traffic.
- When Lisa told Homer to do laundry, Homer magically appeared in front on the computer screen in the next scene