Donnie Fatso/References

Cultural references

 * The episode title is a pun on the crime drama film .
 * Comic Book Guy is making a gingerbread in the couch gag Advent calendar.
 * The board of Fat Tony in the FBI building resembles the mosaic board in .
 * When Homer was struggling to pronounce the word "consigliere", he states that he is Fat Tony's, the actor who played Tom Hagen the Consigliere in The Godfather.
 * The stage show Moe and Homer interrupt is a parody of the stage musical .
 * says "That`s why I keep my friends close". When Homer ask him "and your enemies closer?" he is referring to the phrase from  ("Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer").
 * The line Homer says, "Now I'm just an average snook like everyone else" and the episode's closing sequence is a reference to the film .
 * Homer's secret name, Nicky Bluepants Altosaxophony, is a pun on the movie  starring Hugh Grant and James Caan.

Trivia

 * There have been other canon episodes where something happens to a major character, but the consequences are dealt with by the end of the episode and everything goes back to normal:
 * "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot" -- Snowball II dies, followed in quick succession by two more Simpson family cats (Snowball III and Coltrane). Lisa then gets a cat that looks exactly like Snowball II, names it Snowball II (even though it's technically Snowball V) and decides to pretend the whole thing never happened.
 * In Latin America, this episode was released as the eighth episode of the season for unknown reasons.
 * People on the FBI's chart of Fat Tony's associates include:
 * Krusty the Clown
 * Mayor Quimby
 * Luigi
 * Snake Jailbird
 * One of the

Continuity

 * This plot is similar to "The Trouble with Trillions," in that Homer goes undercover with the FBI to avoid jail time, but gains feelings for the person he is spying on.

Goofs

 * The "BRIBE" writing on the brown bag moves around in the shots it is featured in.
 * Homer tries to hit Bart with a sidebar - and in the shots there are less people in the gallery than there was in the shots before.