This episode is the last one to be rated nine or higher on Internet Movie Database.
This episode is the first appearance of Duffman.
Previous Episode References[]
Blood Feud: Homer tries to wet the mail in a mailbox (with a hose/with his penis)
Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment, Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment, Homer vs. Patty and Selma: Titles that have Homer vs. [someone or something], though here, it's reversed.
Like Father, Like Clown: Bart and Hasidic Jewish rabbis (Bart befriends them so he can talk to Rabbi Krustofsky about forgiving his son/Bart thinks they're the members of ZZ Top).
I Love Lisa: A boot is put on a car tire (Miss Hoover's/Homer's)
A Star is Burns: A Simpsons episode where New York City is involved (Jay Sherman leaves New York for Springfield/The Simpsons go to New York to retrieve Homer's car).
Duffless and A Star is Burns: A Simpson character voiced by Dan Castellaneta (Homer/Barney [twice]) has a hard time staying sober.
Summer of 4 ft. 2: A Simpsons episode ends with Homer driving a damaged car over a bridge.
Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk: Homer imagines himself dancing in a magical place (The Land of Chocolate/Flushing Meadows, which is literally depicted as a meadow with toilets in it).
Bart vs. Australia: A Squeaky-Voiced Teen-type character exists outside of wherever Springfield is (the Australian Squeaky-Voiced Teen who doesn't know what a frog is/the Squeaky-Voiced Teen who calls Homer a "jackass" for being a bad driver, despite that he's stuck under a cab that ran him over).
Marge vs. the Monorail: Reference to a celebrity going to a drug rehab center (Lurleen Lumpkin/the main singer in Kickin' It who looks like a composite of Charlie Sheen and Robert Downey, Jr.)
A male character (Milhouse/Homer) desperately has to go to the bathroom.
The Very Tall Man is featured.
A Simpsons episode that has become a meme years later (because of the "Steamed Hams" vignette/because of conspiracy theories that it predicted the 9/11 attacks and was temporarily banned for showing the original World Trade Center towers).
Cultural Reference[]
Jurassic Park - The way the bowl of peanuts starts to vibrate as the Duffmobile approaches references the 1993 film, particularly the cup of water vibrating when the Tyrannosaurus Rex approaches.
The music that plays as Duffman enters the bar is "Oh Yeah" by Yello.
Lakmé - The musical sequence played during the Flushing Meadows segment is a stylistic parody of the piece, Flower Duet from the opera Lakmé by Leo Delibes.
Homer's recollection of his first trip to New York begins with the song "The Entertainer," made famous by the 1973 film The Sting.
The X-rated films Homer walks past in this scene have reference to the films Jeremiah Johnson, The Godfather Part II, and Five Easy Pieces, all films coming out between 1970 and 1974 which helps to place the time when Homer went there.
C.H.U.D. - The recollection ends with "...and that's when the C.H.U.D.s came at me." Marge responds: "Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the Pimps and C.H.U.D.s."
Woody Allen, a notable New Yorker, makes a brief appearance in Homer's flashback scene. He throws trash on Homer from several stories above.
Homer wants to buy a piece of pizza from Original Famous Ray's Pizza which is a parody of the many Ray's Pizza shops around New York.
Bart visits the headquarters of Mad magazine. Alfred E. Neuman pokes his head out of the offices, while the White Spy from their Spy vs. Spy series is visible in the room behind him.
In New York, Bart sees a trio of Hasidic Jews and mistakes them for ZZ Top.
The lead actor in the Betty Ford Clinic musical looks like actor and former SNL cast member, Robert Downey, Jr., who became notorious for his drug problems and run-ins with the law in the 1990s.
The song that plays during the credits is "New York, New York", sung by Michael Dees.
Goofs[]
When everyone enters Moe's Tavern for the evening rush, Homer is wearing his necktie from work, but after he draws an egg from the pickle jar, his tie is gone.
During Kickin' It: A Musical Journey through the Betty Ford Center, when there is the shot from above the stage, underneath the main actor there is tape marking his spot. Then, there is a shot of the front of the stage, and the tape has disappeared.
After Lenny says "Hey, it's Duffman!", In the next shot, the cheerleader girl with the ponytail changes skin color from brown to yellow. Then in the very next shot, her skin color changes back to brown.
When Duffman first arrives at Moe's Tavern, he hands several people cans of beer from his utility belt. In the very next shot, after Barney tells Duffman that he's the designated driver and cannot claim his free bottomless mug of Duff, Duffman's belt is still completely stocked with cans.
Homer tapes a number of homemade signs to both front windows of Moe's Tavern requesting information about the car Barney drove off with, in the shot immediately after Barney is dropped off by the chauffeur not only are the signs gone from the window, but Moe's only has one front window.
When a younger Homer accidentally throws a banana at a pimp, the banana residue changes color between tan and white a few times.
The amount of damage of the windows and headlights on Homer's car changes innumerable times between shots.
The Khlav Kalash's dark and light brown sections repeatedly change place.
The car's headlights are destroyed while Homer tries to get the car boot off his car using a jackhammer; however, during the credits as the screen pans away from Homer's car showing the Brooklyn Bridge, the headlights are shown intact.
An outside mirror reappears and disappears from Homer's car between shots.
Homer's wristwatch reappears and disappears during scenes where he has to call and wait for the officer.
When Homer attempts to leave without his getting his car towed away, his car door he opens has no window or door post. But when he first stops to get his car boot off, the car door now has changed with a window and a door post present.
As Homer is infuriated by the radio tunes playing, he kicks and breaks the radio. But when he's trying to get his car boot off, the radio (shown from an inside view of the car) has fixed itself.
At the end, as Homer says "We'll see, honey. We'll see." while getting hit by the garbage, Marge's body changes color to the green on her dress, and her dress changes to yellow (although Marge's head remains yellow).
The tower without its antenna
When the original World Trade Center was still around, the North Tower had a 360 ft. tall TV antenna on the center of its roof which was installed in 1978. However, at the moment when Homer discovers the restroom to be out of order in the South Tower's indoor observation deck, he rushes himself over to the North Tower where it is noticeably missing. It is worthless because all other shots of the roof in this episode show it.
