Lost Verizon/References

Cultural references

 * The episode title is a pun on  and a reference to.
 * The bar Inga-Bar Beerman's is a reference to Swedish director.
 * Crocodile Drunkee's is a pun on .
 * Principal Skinner crosses the freeway in a similar fashion to the video game.
 * The Allied Peas mascot is a parody of the.
 * Bart, Nelson and Milhouse eat grilled.
 * is seen wearing a baseball cap. In real life, Leary is a big Red Sox fan.
 * Bart uses Leary's cell phone to order a New York Yankees hat and Derek Jeter jersey, much to Leary's annoyance (see above).
 * Thanks to one of Bart's pranks, Leary appears in the movie adaptation of the children's book  as a constipated gorilla.
 * The song playing when Bart is collecting golf balls is "" by.
 * After Bart finishes prank calling, he remarks that "the sun never sets on the Bartish empire" a reference to the phrase "".

Trivia

 * Dr. Nick reappears in this episode, even though he appeared to have died in The Simpsons Movie.
 * One of the patrons in the Swedish bar looks nearly identical to Wayne Slater, from the Season 23 episode "The Falcon and the D'ohman".
 * In Latin America, this episode was released as the fourth episode of the season for unknown reasons.

Continuity

 * When Marge asks Bart how he got a cell phone he tells her that he got it the same way she got him "by accident, on a golf course." This is a reference to the Season 9 episode "Natural Born Kissers".

Goofs

 * In one scene, the satellite is on the right of the roof of the Simpsons' house, then several scenes later, it is on the left side. Also, the first time the satellite is seen, it is bigger.
 * Kent Brockman appears with brown hair at The Krusty Klassic Celebrity Pro-Am golf tournament.
 * In the scene in Bart's bedroom when Lisa holds the Krusty phone, the back of Krusty's neck keeps changing color from yellow to white.
 * In this episode, Bart doesn't have a phone. This contradicts a threat by Marge in the episode Milhouse of Sand and Fog.