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O Brother, Where Bart Thou?
Thursdays with Abie
Once Upon a Time in Springfield

Cultural References[]

  • The title is a parody of "Tuesdays with Morrie", a novel that had a television movie adaptation starring Hank Azaria.
  • The first part of the intro was a spoof of "Wizard Of Oz".
  • When the newspaper is shown with Abe on it, his face resembles the popular internet meme The Awesome Face.

Trivia[]

  • The Hollywood stars seen departing the train are Jimmy Durante, Shirley Temple, W.C. Fields, James Cagney, Laurel and Hardy, and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster.
  • Abe's first story of how he "sat on a real shark" after surviving the sinking of his ship, the USS World War I is loosely based on the story of sinking of the USS Indianapolis after it was sunk by two Type 95 torpedoes fired by the Japanese submarine, I-58 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto in the Philippine Sea while en route from Guam to Leyte just after midnight on the 30th July 1945.
    • Like Abe's story, of the Indianapolis's 1,195 officers and crew, 879 died. Of the 879, 150 were attributed to shark attacks.
  • The license plate Marge takes a photo of is "MABF02", which is the production code for the episode.
  • Marshall Goldman's laptop is a Mapple computer (or is modeled after a MacBook), a company which has been seen before in a few other episodes.
  • The song in the background of Abe's flashback is "Chattanooga Choo-choo" by Glenn Miller.
  • Abe is almost surprised after he understands of being created by Jim Henson.
  • In Homer's first ramble, he says that he created Gracie Films, the show's production company that was actually created by James L. Brooks.
  • This is the first episode to be air in 2010, meaning the first episode to be air in the 2010s.

Previous Episode References[]

Goofs[]

  • In the scene where Carl and Lenny lowered Homer onto the train, Lenny is shown without his five-o-clock shadow.
  • After Larry the Lamb is ripped in half, Larry the Lamb is seen unharmed near the end of the episode. Someone could have fixed him.