Night of the Living Wage/References

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Night of the Living Wage

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Cultural References

• The title of this episode is a reference to the 1968 zombie horror film Night of the Living Dead.
• Tweeters Sinai Bird Hospital is a reference to Cedars-Sinai Hospital, a major hospital in Los Angeles, California. It is also the hospital where Frank Sinatra died.
• This episode parodies The Bear episode "Review".
• Freetos are a parody of Fritos, but spelled like Cheetos, which are a cheese curl/cheese puff snack. Fritos are corn chips.
• It was revealed that Truth-Anne's chicken was named Gwyneth Poultry.
  • The name, Gwyneth Poultry, is a pun on Gwyneth Paltrow.
• Demented Dollars with Fiscal Cliff is a parody of the CNBC* program Mad Money and its host Jim Cramer. The host Fiscal Cliff's name is a pun on fiscal cliff.
• The GimmeChow anti-union video is a parody of the anti-union training video produced by Amazon. The video also parodies the animation style of Butch Hartman.
• Krusty Fried Chicken is a parody of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
• Marge saying "No, Chef" and "Yes, Chef" is a reference to Hell's Kitchen.

Previous Episode References

• "A Star is Burns": Hans Moleman is hit in the groin by a Grindiron Glinders delivery thrown by Marge just like he is hit by a football in Man Getting Hit by Football.
• "Homer's Phobia": A gay man (the nameless steel mill worker/Dewey Largo) says, "Hot stuff! Coming through!"
• Bart names five of Marge's jobs:
  • Cop ("The Springfield Connection")
  • Realtor ("Realty Bites")
  • Gym owner ("Husbands and Knives")
  • Erotic baker ("Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes")
  • Weed sommelier ("Highway to Well")
  • He didn’t mention her jobs at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant ("Marge Gets a Job") or Springfield Elementary ("The PTA Disbands") or when she and Moe owned The Nag and Weasel Pub ("Mommie Beerest") or the romance novel she wrote was published ("Diatribe of a Mad Housewife") or when she started doing carpentry odd jobs ("Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em") or when she became a live-TV musical theatre director ("I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh") or when she was a church counselor ("In Marge We Trust") or when she got a job as a segment producer for a daytime talk show ("The King of Nice") or the Pretzel Wagon or at Mother Hubbard's Sandwich Cupboard and a taxi driver My Fare Lady.
• Bart's listing of Marge's previous jobs is similar to Homer's line in "Bart Star": "You quit every job you've ever had-- cop, pretzel vendor, church counselor, professional gambler..." and Homer listing off all the jobs he had on the season 13 episode, "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge".
• "Game Done Changed": Truth-Anne appears.
• Treehouse of Horror XII ("Hex and the City"): reference to Cedars-Sinai Hospital (the shrunken head after he regrew from being drenched in fire sprinkler water/Tweeters Sinai Bird Hospital).

Trivia

• This episode is rated TV-14 on American television (along with a viewer discretion warning), due to suggestive dialogue, offensive language, and moderate bloody violence. Despite this, Disney+ rated this episode TV-PG.
• Marge did say "f**k" when she slipped on the floor, but it was actually bleeped. It can be found on his Twitter/X post, which her mouth was not pixelated on the second image.

Goofs

• Homer claims Marge that he can't cook, yet he has been seen cooking in different ways in past episodes, like in "Viva Ned Flanders", where he cooked a turkey using the house chimney on top and he cooked paella in Habeas Tortoise. He probably means he can't cook well, which explains the chimney barbecue.
• Gil Gunderson is erroneously named “Jill”

References

*whose Turkish counterpart got fined by the Radio and Television Supreme Council for the scene in "Treehouse of Horror XXII" where the Devil asks God for a coffee, which was blasphemy.

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