The Spy Who Learned Me/References

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The Spy Who Learned Me

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Cultural references

• The last time a Simpson caused Springfieldians to become overweight occurred in Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?.
• The last time Homer suffered a head injury at the power plant occurred in Large Marge.
• This is the second time Declan Desmond made a documentary about Krusty Burger (which is a parody of the film Super Size Me). The first time was in 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky. Incidentally, both are named "Do You Want Lies With That?"
• Stradivarius Cain is parody of James Bond.
• Also, the title of this episode is a reference to the James Bond novel The Spy Who Loved Me, by Ian Fleming, and the film named after it.
• Lenny's imaginary friend is a parody of Snuffy from Sesame Street.
• The last time a barfly had an imaginary animal friend was in My Big Fat Geek Wedding.
• A drug lord refers to Homer as 'pork and banana'. From 'banana' he seemed to be aware of Homer being yellow.
• During this episode, the song of Erik Satie "Gymnopedie n°1" can be heard.
• During the International Brotherhood of Evil conclave, the following people can be seen:
  • Sark from Tron.
  • Ming the Merciless from the 1980 film Flash Gordon.
  • Ernst Stavro Blofeld, as played by Donald Pleasence in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice.
  • Rosa Klebb from the James Bond film From Russia with Love. (confirmation needed - woman wearing glasses, standing to Blofeld's right at the beginning of the conclave)
• The movie Tic Tac Toe X v O commercial can be seen in Moe's before the Stradivarius Cain movie clip.
• Cleatus, the Fox Sports robot, makes an appearance, with the Fox Sports theme playing in the background.
• Marge states that the date she just had with Homer was even worse than the time they saw "Date Night", a 2010 movie.
• The floating plastic bag scene is a reference to the film 'American Beauty'.

Goofs

• In the school's playground scene, Report Card can be spotted at the top of the ladder behind the slide, but he has a yellow complexion.
• Marge got upset when Homer applied his own one-liners to action film moments even though she applied her own one-liner in King of the Hill. Although, McBain the star of the movie delivers multiple one-liners himself.