Chief of Hearts/References

Cultural references

 * Battle Ball is a reference to , a game played with balls with magnets inside and cards.
 * When explaining the game to Bart, one of the boys says that it makes  look like Pokémon.
 * When Louie turns on the music for Fat Tony, the song "" by plays.
 * The cop show that Homer watches before changing the channel is an episode of the TV show .
 * Over the freeze-frame at the end of the Starsky and Hutch episode the words appear "A Stephen J. Copshow Production," a parody of, who produced many cop shows but not Starsky and Hutch.
 * While pointing a gun at Homer, Johnny Tightlips says, "nobody moves, or the doughboy gets popped" a reference to Poppin' Fresh, better known as the.

Trivia

 * Lisa appears in this episode but doesn't have any lines.
 * Sideshow Bob makes a brief cameo appearance at the end of the episode.
 * Ramrod is one of the ex-convicts working at Cora's Diner.
 * Superintendent Chalmers mentions Bart previously took . ("Brother's Little Helper")