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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 "Helter Shelter".
- 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.
- The title of this episode is a reference to the James Bond novel The Spy Who Loved Me, written 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 empanada'.
- During this episode, the song of Claude Debussey's "Claire de Lune" 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 observed 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. However, McBain, the star of the movie, delivers multiple one-liners himself.
ā Season 22 | Season 23 References/Trivia | Season 24 āŗ |
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The Falcon and the D'ohman ā¢ Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts ā¢ Treehouse of Horror XXII ā¢ Replaceable You ā¢ The Food Wife ā¢ The Book Job ā¢ The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants ā¢ The Ten-Per-Cent Solution ā¢ Holidays of Future Passed ā¢ Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson ā¢ The D'oh-cial Network ā¢ Moe Goes from Rags to Riches ā¢ The Daughter Also Rises ā¢ At Long Last Leave ā¢ Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart ā¢ How I Wet Your Mother ā¢ Them, Robot ā¢ Beware My Cheating Bart ā¢ A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again ā¢ The Spy Who Learned Me ā¢ Ned 'N Edna's Blend ā¢ Lisa Goes Gaga |