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Cultural references[]
- This episode's name is a play on the Manson Family, the cult led by Charles Manson (who was responsible for the murder of Sharon Tate and others).
- Britney Spears is dressed as she appeared in her music video for her song "...Baby One More Time".
- Marge mentions Bill Cosby and David Letterman (she incorrectly calls them "Crosby" and "Letterson") as examples of famous comedians who smoke cigars while reprimanding Bart for doing so.
- When Bart rides down a corridor in the mansion, he says that he is race driver Al Unser, Jr, when Lisa rides down the same corridor on a pony, she says that she is Queen Elizabeth II's sister Princess Margaret, and when Homer rides down the corridor on a riding lawnmower, he is drunk.
- Homer refers to international waters as "The Land That Law Forgot". This alludes to Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous 1918 science fiction novel, The Land That Time Forgot.
- The monkey named Furious George is a parody of Curious George.
- After watching a knife fight between two monkeys, Moe comments, "He ain't pretty no more!" This is Nicholas Colasanto's line in Raging Bull.
- The Coast Guard officer gets Homer's party going by sounding out the opening guitar riffs to The Doobie Brothers' song "China Grove".
- The medical painting which Mr. Burns and Smithers pass on the way out of the doctor's office at the Mayo Clinic is "The Gross Clinic", painted by Thomas Eakins. It depicts Dr. Samuel Gross and his students.
- There is a painting of Mr. Burns playing poker with dogs, modeled after the Dogs Playing Poker oil paintings.
Previous Episode References[]
- "Black Widower", "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" and "I'm with Cupid": Disparaging jokes are made about winning or having a Grammy award.
- "Brush with Greatness": Marge's nude painting of Mr. Burns is on the wall.
- "Lisa the Simpson": A Simpson male (one of Homer's relatives/Homer himself) pretends to be rich.
- "Treehouse of Horror V" ("The Shinning"): The Simpsons house-sit for Mr. Burns.
- "Viva Ned Flanders": Ned is revealed to be older than he looks.
- "Rosebud": Mr. Burns picks Homer to do something for him (do stand-up comedy/house-sit) because he likes his wacky antics.
- "Bart Star" and "All Singing, All Dancing": An episode ends with someone (Snake/Homer twice) talking over the credits (Homer cutting the people in the credits off his team/Snake shooting at the band/Homer lamenting over the people who are richer than him).
- "Mountain of Madness": A Mr. Burns-centric episode where the family spends most of their time out of the house.
Trivia[]
- During the ending credits, when Homer whines about everyone being rich, he says Richard K. Chung is "poor".
Censorship[]
- Homer saying "They'll never know the simple joys of a monkey knife fight" during the yacht party was edited in Channel 4 airings to remove the word "knife", though the actual monkey knife fight wasn't censored, nor was Moe encouraging the monkey he bet on to stab the other and chuckling, "He ain't pretty no more."
- During the Gracie Films logo (during the end credits where Homer is crying over not being rich and names off everyone in the credits who are rich, including the voice actors who "...aren't as rich as they should be"), Homer saying "Don't shush me, you rich bastard," was changed to the original Gracie Films logo sound (the woman going "Shh!" and the Gracie Films logo music) in BBC airings, while Sky Showcase airings shortened the line to just, "Don't shush me!", and Channel 4 airings replaced the entire line with an audio clip of Homer yelling "Save me, Jebus!" from "Missionary: Impossible."
Goofs[]
- When Britney Spears discusses older people, her earrings switch from red to pink on-screen.
- When Homer is dancing to the Coast Guard rock song, the buoys indicating the start of international waters disappear.
- When a boat is in international waters, it comes under the jurisdiction of the country the boat is registered in (in this case, the United States), and depending on certain crimes committed on the ocean (such as piracy), the boat is under Universal jurisdiction, meaning that the Coast Guard could have legally stopped the pirates from boarding the yacht and robbing everyone. Then again, most authority figures on The Simpsons are incompetent. It's all a part of the show's subversive humor.
- At the Mayo Clinic, when Mr. Burns asks for his medical results in his doctor's office, the analog clock on the wall appears to read 2:02. When the doctor uses the door and "novelty germs" to demonstrate Burns' condition, it reads 3:09, suggesting that they may have spent an extra hour at the office. However, after Burns claims to be indestructible, the clock is at 2:02 again.
- At the award show, when Ned stands he is in his tux. When the camera pans to Homer standing like an old man he is in his normal clothes.