The Lastest Gun in the West/References

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The Lastest Gun in the West

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Continuity

• Simpson Tide: Homer has a sexy pin-up of himself dressed as a woman (the Betty Grable-esque one that Barney had/the Farrah Fawcett-esque one that Homer wanted to give to Bart).
• The opening of the Krusty the Clown Show uses scenes from I Love Lisa and Krusty Gets Kancelled.
• The Canine Mutiny - Bart befriends another dog.
• The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show - Bart cites Poochie as one of the characters he looks up to (even though he hated Poochie in that episode).
• Wild Barts Can't Be Broken - Homer doesn't want anyone else to know he's bald.
• They Saved Lisa's Brain - The scene in which the dog is looking at Bart through the window is similiar to Bart and Milhouse looking at Homer through the bedroom window.
• A Tale of Two Springfields - Homer/Marge ask to use the bathroom at the Kwik-E-Mart, only for Apu to say it's not for customers.
• Bart vs. Australia and Bart Gets an Elephant - Someone shows a movie at the Simpsons' house via a projector.
• Bart of Darkness, Kamp Krusty, and Bye Bye Nerdie- Martin Prince is (half) naked and his blubber is seen.
• The Cartridge Family - A Simpson (Homer/Lisa) is nicknamed "Annie Oakley".
• Girly Edition - The kids appear on the news.
• The Day The Violence Died - Bart befriends a man who was once famous (the homeless man who created Itchy from Itchy and Scratchy/the cowboy actor)

Cultural References

• Buck McCoy and Frank the Wonder Horse are similar to Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger.
• The weapons that Snake and his gang use in the bank robbery are the M41A pulse rifles from Aliens albeit painted completely black.
• At the end of the episode when Buck is going into his house, the theme music from the film The Magnificent Seven is played.
• One of Buck McCoy's various shows was "McTrigger", in which all he does is shoot hippies, is a reference to Dennis Weaver's former series, McCloud.
• McCoy says "McTrigger" was retooled into Room 222.
• Homer creates a picture of himself in a bathing suit that mimics the famous Farrah Fawcett pinup poster from the 70's.
• When Buck introduces himself to Bart, the flute intro from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (composed by Ennio Morricone) plays.
• The western craze generated by Buck McCoy in Springfield mimics the western craze the movie Urban Cowboy generated when released in 1980.
• In the "McTrigger" clip characters from the comic strip Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are among the hippies Buck shoots.
• One of the short stories the vicious dog ate up appears to be The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson.
• End of this episode references the end of the western comedy Blazing Saddles.
• When Buck is talking to Bart about his old movies, he refers to one entitled "Six Brides for Seven Brothers", which is a reference to the real-life 1954 musical film "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers".
• Coincidentially, this episode first aired exactly 4 years before Dennis Weaver's passing in 2006 at the age of 81.

Goofs

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  Part of Bart is transparent

  When Bart finds a dime, the part of his head directly above his eye briefly becomes transparent.
• In the scene where Homer wants to call Buck about the robbery, the audio has Lisa saying "Dad, I'm on the line". The closed captioning (when the episode first aired) read: Operator: "First, pay your phone bill".
• During the first time the dog chased Bart to the Simpsons' house, he bit Bart's clothes through a mail opening on the door, but after that scene, the mail opening is gone.
• At one frame in the kitchen where it shows the white dog at the window blowing out fog, the walls are tan instead of light purple.

Production Notes

• The final draft for this episode was published on May 31, 2001.