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.
• 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 name "Do You Want Lies With That?".
• Stradivarius Cain is parody of James Bond.
• 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 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 commerical can be seen in Moe's before the Stradivarius Cain movie clip.

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, where the hero breaks a bad guy's neck.