Mayored to the Mob/References

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Trivia

• This is the last episode to air in 1998.

Previous Episode References

• "Marge Be Not Proud": Homer doesn't know Reverend Lovejoy's name.
• "The PTA Disbands": Bart drinks milk that's not from a cow (Malk/Fat Tony's rat milk)
• "Homer's Triple Bypass": Ned Flanders prays for something inconsequential (thanks God for volumes one, two, and four of Sweatin' to the Oldies/prays that tonight's dinner theater show is better than Othello with Peter Marshall).
• "D'oh-in' in the Wind": Bart's blackboard punishment references the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex scandal ("No one cares what my definition of 'is' is"/"'The President Did It' is not an excuse).
• "Mr. Plow":
  • Bart doesn't recognize the original actor of a TV show (Adam West/Johnathan Harris) that was turned into a movie (Batman/Lost in Space).
  • Bart's only knowledge of a 1960s TV show is from a (then-recent) movie remake.
  • Homer eats a watermelon, rind and all.
• "Homie the Clown" and "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": An episode where Homer has a run-in with Springfield's local Italian Mafia.
• "Homer Goes to College": Homer hates nerds.
• "A Star Is Burns" and "Team Homer": Shauna Tifton (Princess Kashmir) has a job other than as a stripper/bachelor party entertainer (she was a stage actress with Krusty the Clown in the montage of how terrible Springfield is/was a member of The Home Wreckers bowling team/is in the bodyguard class with Homer).
• "Selma's Choice": Homer gives Bart the keys to the car.
• "Three Men and a Comic Book":
  • Mayor Quimby appears at a convention that appeals to geeks (comic book/sci-fi).
  • The Simpsons go to a convention that appeals to geeks (comic book/sci-fi)
• "Bart Carny": Homer doesn't know what a bribe is.
• "The Boy Who Knew Too Much":
  • Moe and bribery
  • Money is seen in a sack with a dollar sign on it.
• "Lisa's Sax":
  • Moe's Tavern has a roach infestation.
  • Milhouse drinks milk that's not cow-based (tells Bart he has to drink soy milk because real milk could kill him/is one of the many kids who drinks Fat Tony's rat milk).
• "The Joy of Sect": A spaceship turns out to be a fake.
• "Fear of Flying": Homer is banned from Moe's (for his lame sugar prank/for not paying his tab and leaving the bathroom a mess).
• "Marge vs. the Monorail" and "Whacking Day": Mayor Quimby introduces a celebrity guest star at an event (and unlike those two episodes, he gets Mark Hamill's introduction right).
• "Homer the Smithers":
  • Homer gets a job as the assistant to a corrupt figure (Mr. Burns/Mayor Quimby)
  • Plot point of Homer thinking he killed the figure he's working for (Homer punching Mr. Burns in the face/Mayor Quimby accidentally flying off his treadmill and out the window).
• "Deep Space Homer": No one in Springfield cares about astronauts (NASA decides to send an average man into outer space because viewers love blue-collar slob sitcoms more than space launches/no one comes to Neil Armstrong's booth at the sci-fi convention).
• "Homer Badman":
  • Homer causes chaos at a convention.
  • Homer having beer bottles stuffed in his clothes is similar to Marge having candy stuffed in her trenchcoat.
• "Grade School Confidential": Reference to a male character being a virgin in his 40s (Principal Skinner/Comic Book Guy).
• "The Telltale Head": Characters go cloud-gazing (Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney/Mayor Quimby's bodyguards).
• "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": The Tom Baker version of Doctor Who appears.
• "Lisa the Greek" Moe has money for illegal transactions (sports betting/bribing Mayor Quimby)
• "The Springfield Files":
  • Gort and Chewbacca appear at the same time.
  • An actor from a famous space opera (Leonard Nimoy from Star Trek/Mark Hamill from Star Wars) guest stars on The Simpsons.
  • "The Springfield Files," "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk," "Bart vs. Australia," and "Colonel Homer": Homer drinks a beer that's not Duff (Red Tick Beer/Henry K. Duff's Private Reserve/Foster's Beer/Fudd Beer/Duffenbrau).

Cultural References

• The Bodyguard (movie):
  • Lavelle singing I Will Always Love You as part of the bodyguard graduation.
  • Homer carrying Mark Hamill through the crowd as the Whitney Houston version of I Will Always Love You plays.
• Married to the Mob: title is a spoof of the one from this movie.
• Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex scandal:
  • Bart's blackboard punishment for this episode is "'The President Did It' is not an excuse."
  • Mayor Quimby sexually harasses interns (peeps into the female interns' restroom and hits on one of them) as Homer is rescuing him.
• Titanic (1997 James Cameron version) and Roger Corman (director)
  • The "$1000 Movie" is an extremely low-budget version of the James Cameron movie.
• Jaws (movie): The risen Titanic attacking the survivors is reminiscent of this movie
• "Superfriends" (Saturday morning cartoon series): One episode had the Titanic raised and became a shark-like monster
• "Battlestar Galactica" (TV show):
  • The Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con commercial features tag-team wrestling with "the mighty robots" from this TV show vs. "the gay robots from Star Wars"
• Star Wars (movie series)
  • The Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con commercial has "the mighty robots from Battlestar Galactica" vs. "the gay robots from Star Wars"
  • Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) tells Homer to "use the forks" instead of "the Force"
  • Chewbacca is barred from entering Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con
• "Star Trek" (TV series)
  • "Set Phasers on Fun" a spoof of the original series' signature phrase, "Set phasers on stun".
  • Several characters at the convention dress as characters from the various incarnations of this show.
  • Homer's sleeper hold looks like the Vulcan nerve pinch
  • Music playing when the Comic Book Guy falls in love was either from the original series episode with the blood sucking woman or the "Glass Menagerie" episode
• Revenge of the Nerds (movie): Homer screams, "NERDS!", like Ogre did when he first spotted them on his fraternity building.
• Barbarella (movie): Mrs. Krabappel dresses like her at the convention.
• Moonraker (part of the James Bond movie series): Comic Book Guy falling in love with the nerd girl similar to Jaws falling for a nerdy Scandinavian girl.
• Weekend at Bernie's (movie): Homer's line about making a dead Mayor Quimby look like he's alive in an elaborate farce.
• The Untouchables (movie):
  • Fat Tony whaling on Mayor Quimby with a baseball bat.
  • Fat Tony's "I want them dead" rant.

Quimby with black hair

Goofs

Fat Tony missing the circles under his eyes

• When Mayor Quimby speaks at the Bi-Mon Sci-Fi Con, his hair is black instead of brown.
• When Fat Tony says, "I am not so much disappointed as I am blinded with rage", the dark circles under his eyes disappear.
• How did the Robot from "Lost in Space" knows Bart's name when he was warning him to stay away from Johnathan Harris?
• When Quimby falls out of the window from the view looking at the building, the window for the floor below is visible, but when the camera angle changes to behind Homer's head the window is gone and only a solid brick wall can be seen all the way to the ground.
• In the final scene, when Homer is carrying Mark Hamill, you can see a person on the ground, whom Homer kicked. However, a person walks in front of him, and when he passes, the person is not there anymore.
• Additionally, throughout that final scene, several bystanders' outfits and hairs change color.

Censorship

• This episode is unavailable for streaming on Disney+ in Singapore.