Mountain of Madness/References

Cultural references

 * The title is a likely reference to  by.
 * Smokey Bear's Catchphrase Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires is satirized as being ambiguous.
 * The "political powers" Mr. Burns hallucinates seeing are, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and.

Continuity

 * While trapped in the cabin and slowly going mad, Mr. Burns begins thinking that Homer wants to kill him so he can ride his corpse down the mountain to safety. Homer does just that in "King of the Hill", where he rides the frozen corpse of C.W. McAllister down the Murderhorn.