The Springfield Connection/References

Cultural references

 * The title of this episode refers to .
 * The music used in the episode and over the end credits is remixed to sound like the theme from . Other references to the show include the briefing scene.
 * The couch gag features Homer in a parody the opening titles from James Bond films.
 * The Springfield Pops play the theme from Star Wars; Homer mistakenly believes its composer is dead.
 * The Skinners' domestic disturbance appears on an episode of .
 * The man wanting the "freaking guns!" at the training day is a reference to .
 * Marge driving over an incomplete freeway section during training references .
 * McGriff is a parody of.
 * I Love Lucy: Homer refuses to accept Marge's apology for arresting him and announces he's drawing a line down the center of the house, a. la. I Love Lucy. In the episode "Men Are Messy", Lucy gets fed up with Ricky's sloppy habits, draws a line down the middle of the apartment, and announces that from now on she's only cleaning her half.

Goofs

 * At the beginning of the episode, Marge's necklace is white. Later on, it's her trademark red necklace.
 * On Marge's first assignment for the Springfield Police Department, she is told to patrol "Junkyville and Bumtown." Yet when she is walking down the street, the clinic says "Junkytown Legal Clinic."
 * Chief Wiggum's hair color changes several times during the episode, from black to blue and then back to black.
 * During the driving exercise, Marge is shown wearing a white shirt; when she finishes the course she is wearing a police uniform. But when she gets home, she's wearing a T-shirt because, she says, the department didn't have any shirts in her size.
 * Although Marge spots the dog not on a leash, she doesn't notice that the person behind the dog is jaywalking.
 * The clock changes at the end of the first poker game. When Carl, Barney and Lenny go away, it's near 2 o'clock. When Marge says she still does the jobs Homer loves Marge to do in the city, it's 7 o'clock.