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The Last Temptation of Homer |
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Trivia[]
- Lisa barely appears in this episode, and Maggie doesn't appear at all. However, Maggie does appear in a deleted scene.
- Werner Klemperer, who voices Colonel Klink in this episode, did not use Klink's real voice. He instead used the director's imitation of Klink, as he forgot how Klink talked after Hogan's Heroes was cancelled.
- While trying to tell Mindy that they should avoid each other, Homer referenced a Buddhist chant (Nam Myoho Renge Kyo) and John Wilkes Booth. ("Sic semper tyrannis.")
- Bart has a poster of his rocket in his bedroom.
- Mindy isn't the first female employee at the power plant; it was actually
- The plant has had women working at it including Ms. Finch in "Principal's World" and Marge in "Marge Gets A Job." It might be the plant currently has no women working at it when Mindy gets hired.
- The upscale restaurant Madame Chao's is a word play on "chow" as to chow down on (something) means to eat (something) in noisy or eager way especially informally.
- The character of babbling bellhop might have been written as a mimicker of Conan O'Brien who had been a writer on The Simpsons and left at the end of Season 4 just before this episode went into production.
Previous and Future Episode References[]
- This was the first of two episode titles to reference "The Last Temptation of Christ", the second being Season 9's episode "The Last Temptation Of Krust".
- Barry White's song "Can't Get Enough of You Babe" was last heard in "Whacking Day."
- This isn't the first episode where Mr. Burns hires a female worker. He hired Marge (then fired her after finding out that she is married) in the previous season's episode, "Marge Gets a Job." Ms. Finch was also seen working at the Power Plant in the episodes "Principal Charming" and "Rosebud."
- Smilin' Joe Fission from "Homer's Odyssey" appears on the sign behind Homer and Mindy in the energy convention.
- Capital City was last featured in "Dancin' Homer." A few bars from Tony Bennett's song "Capital City" play when the Capital City skyline is shown in this episode.
- "Homer's Triple Bypass": The bikini Barney wears during Homer trying to "think unsexy thoughts" is the same one Barney tried to gift Homer when Homer was in the hospital for heart surgery that Barney thought was a sex change operation (now called "gender-reassignment surgery").
- First appearance of Mindy Simmons. She would appear in the episodes "Team Homer", "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson", "Mountain of Madness", and "The D'oh-ical Network" with non-speaking roles, and "Another Simpsons Clip Show" revealed that, after Mindy spent time with Homer, she "...hit the bottle ready hard" and lost her job at the nuclear plant. Considering her later appearances, either Mindy's alcoholism was a workplace rumor or she went to rehab and got her job back.
Cultural References[]
- "The Last Temptation of Christ": Titles parodies the novel/film.
- "The Nutty Professor": Bart's nerd voice and look resembles Jerry Lewis in the 1963 film.
- "Mandy": The song Homer sings about Mindy and Marge at the end is to the tune of this song.
- "Big Apple": Capital City is named the "Windy Apple" a reference to New York City's nickname the "Big Apple" and Chicago's nickname the "Windy City."
- "The Wizard of Oz": Mr Burns keeps a number of the winged monkeys in a cage, to unleash on people who charge room service to the company. When Homer and Mindy do so, Burns sends them off to attack with the commonly misquoted line "Fly, my pretties! Fly!" Unfortunately, because the monkeys can't actually fly, they all plummet to their deaths. Burns groans at this, then tells Smithers to "continue the research."
- "I Dream of Jeannie": When Homer thinks about 'unsexy thoughts', he images Barney in a bikini singing the 'I Dream of Jeannie' theme tune.
- "My Fair Lady": After Mrs. Krabappel asks Bart if his behavior and grades were because of his eyesight, he begins talking like Eliza Doolittle with a heavy cockney accent and even pronounces "lovely" like "LovERly" like Eliza does in the song "Wouldn't It Be Loverly".
Empty blue space between Barney's hands and bikini
Goofs[]
- It is unclear how Bart manages to paint narrower parking spaces without the original parking spaces being present. It is possible that he painted over the original spaces, though it would be difficult to find a paint that perfectly blends in with the asphalt color.
- As Homer is envisioning unsexy thoughts, when Barney puts his hands together in his imagination the space between his hands and his bikini top is briefly not colored in.
- There is a lift inside of a cooling tower at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, but it isn't useful there and there also isn't an exit from it. Despite that, Homer gets off from the lift and slips on the wall of the chimney.
- When the Colonel Klink guardian angel is explaining his goal, the button on his shirt pocket briefly changes from white to black.
- The Disney+ episode summary says that Marge is worried about Homer falling for Mindy, when Marge didn't know anything about Homer's crush on Mindy and how close he came to having sex with her until the season six episode "Another Simpsons Clip Show".