Homer and Bart watch a very late episode of The Three Stooges. This is ironic because the writer of the fictional episode "Brittle Boneheads" is Jules White III, supposedly a grandson of Jules White, who was the show's director.
Fat Tony, in his cameo appearance in this episode, is revealed to like the 2002 movie The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Some of the photo-shopped images of Krusty feature him as: Neil Armstrong, the soldiers at Iwo Jima, the Tank Man, and Jim Leavelle, the Dallas police detective escorting Lee Harvey Oswald through the basement of the Dallas police department when Oswald was shot and killed.
The bit with Krusty complaining about the FCC not allowing him to say certain words on the air is a reference to George Carlin's "7 Words You Can't Say on TV" stand-up bit.
Mayor Quimby's quip about his regretting building his lover an opera house after hearing her voice for the first time is a reference to the sequence in Citizen Kane where Charles tries to make his mistress Suzanne (who was already successful as a nightclub singer) into an opera singer, but gets trashed by critics for not having the vocal talent for opera.
In Krusty's campaign commercial, the voiceover saying "The man from funny" is a parody of an ad for Bill Clinton in 1992, where Clinton was a the man "From a town called Hope."
Homie the Clown: Krusty and George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say on TV" bit.
Rosebud: Someone's face is Photoshopped on historical photographs.
Goofs[]
Marge's pearls and Lisa's dress are a light orange
When the plane hits the living room of the Simpsons' house, it reversed by itself. Planes cannot reverse by themselves. They will need a pushback car or must turn around.
Regardless that it’s a joke, why didn’t Fat Tony blow his nose on his white handkerchief from his jacket pocket instead of his pizza slice he was eating (Doesn’t he even realize that one blowing his or her nose on food is unsanitary?)? It's just funnier this way.
When Krusty says he's on Pepto and Xanax, Marge's pearls and Lisa's dress turn to a light orange.
At the moment, if you play that scene in slow motion, where Louie asks Johnny, “Why do we gotta watch ‘The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood?’,” his nose briefly disappears and then reappears immediately right at the end of him asking that question.
Krusty's navel is visible through his tank top
Planes can't fly so low unless on approach and at takeoff which is likely the situation plus with the perspective the planes are likely higher than they seem.
Krusty's navel can be seen when wearing the tank-top in his offensive sketch (unless the tank top is tight enough that you can see through it).
Krusty is shown to be with the Simpson family in a hotel room on the night of the election. Most political candidates, especially those running for a seat in the United States Congress, typically hold rallies on election night, where the candidate gives a victory or concession speech (depending on the outcome) to a room full of supporters.
With planes flying close enough to shake the Simpson house, why weren't other residents of Evergreen Terrace complaining about the noise?
Production Notes[]
The final draft of this episode is dated June 13, 2002.[1]
