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Trivia[]
- The Lost in Space robot was voiced by Dick Tufeld, although uncredited.
- In reality, Jonathan Harris didn't do appearances or cameos for TV shows, which is why his voice was impersonated in this episode.
- As an in-joke Lenny isn't wearing a costume when he says, "His whole life has been leading up to that moment".
- This is the last episode to air in 1998.
- Homer previously didn't know Reverend Lovejoy's name in "Marge Be Not Proud".
- This episode aired on the day that the pilot episode of Family Guy premiered.
- Ironically, the rats milk that Fat Tony distributed was arguably healthier for kids due to it having a higher protein content than cows' milk.[1]
Cultural References[]
- This episode's title references the film Married to the Mob, which featured Alec Baldwin. This reference is used again in season 25's episode title "Married to the Blob".
- The movies watched in the beginning is Roger Corman's Titanic.
- Üter wears a Futurama shirt to the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con, Futurama wouldn't first air until exactly three months and eight days later from this episode.
- Among the autograph signers at the Con are:
- Gort from the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still.
- The Tom Baker incarnation of The Doctor from the BBC television series.
- Film icon Godzilla.
- When Mark Hamill makes his entrance at the convention, he uses his lightsaber to knock down several cardboard cutouts of Imperial Stormtroopers and one of Wonder Woman. Hamill, at the time, did the voice of The Joker, in the DC Animated Universe series.
- Among the mob beating C-3PO is a Cylon from television series Battlestar Galactica.
- Earlier in the episode, specifically during the convention advert, C-3PO also ended up fighting (and losing) against a Cylon in a tag-team wrestling match, with R2-D2 refusing to help. The advert also had him alongside R2 being referred to as the "gay robots of Star Wars."
- Homer's sleeper hold looks more like a Vulcan nerve pinch from "Star Trek".
- Mark Hamill hollers at Homer to "Use the forks!" to foil Louie's assassination attempt on Mayor Quimby, a parody of "Use the Force", one of the catchphrases from the "Star Wars" film series.
- Homer's statement about Quimby making the trains run on time is based on an infamous defense of former Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
- When Homer thinks he killed Mayor Quimby, he mentions the 1989 film Weekend At Bernie's.
- Fat Tony beating Mayor Quimby with a bat references a scene in the film The Untouchables where Al Capone (played by Robert De Niro) beats one of his henchmen to death with a baseball bat (and was itself a reference to a real-life situation where Capone beat three of his henchmen to unconsciousness with a baseball bat before ordering them to be shot due to their conspiring to kill Capone earlier). In addition, Fat Tony says "I want the mayor dead. I want his wife dead. I want his cat and his dog dead!" A reference to a similar line said by Capone in the film after learning that Eliot Ness took down one of his beer shipments.
- On a similar note, Fat Tony running an operation involving granting "milk" for schoolchildren (barring his milking rats) was a reference to one of Capone's front jobs during the Depression.
- The music that plays when Jeffery Albertson encounters a fan at the convention, is almost the same music when Captain Christopher Pike was with Vina in the Star Trek pilot, The Cage.
- The autograph table scene has bars from the original Star Trek series theme song playing in the background.
- Homer mentions that he received a Double Double Double Double from Krusty Burger; it is a parody of the In-n-Out Double Double.
- Bart when encountering Dr. Smith, or at least his actor, claims he's not Dr. Smith as he's seen the movie, referring to the 1998 movie, which had the character being portrayed by Gary Oldman.
- When barely anyone showed up to Neil Armstrong's booth, his agent protests that Armstrong actually went into space, referencing his landing on the moon in 1969. Armstrong also paraphrases his famous "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Step for Mankind" speech when threatening to fire his agent for causing a waste of his time regarding setting up a booth.
- The song that Leavelle was singing to celebrate the recruits' graduation was a rendition of I Will Always Love You first sung by Dolly Parton in 1973 and then later sung by Whitey Houston for the soundtrack of the 1992 film, The Bodyguard that had also starred Houston as musician and actress, Rachel Marron and Kevin Costner as Marron's bodyguard and former Secret Service agent, Frank Farmer. Houston's version was playing in the end scene where Homer was carrying Mark Hamill to safety while kicking members of the crowd to clear a path, like Farmer did while he was carrying Marron in his arms in the The Bodyguard. After Houston's death on the 11th February 2012, Houston's version of I will Always Love You went to Number One in the charts. Like Houston's version, the original version by Parton was also featured on the soundtrack for the 1982 musical film, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas that also starred Parton as madam, Miss Mona Stangley and Burt Reynolds as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd.
- After Fat Tony unsubtly threatens Quimby with being assassinated as revenge for shutting down his rat milking operation, Homer, after claiming he wasn't intimidated, asks Bart to check the key ignition to his car before Marge's refusal had him settling for taking a taxi instead. This is a reference to a common mafia execution, where someone targeted by the mafia has their car's key ignition tampered with to have the car explode with the occupant inside if they put the key into the ignition.
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.
- 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.