Insane Clown Poppy/References

Cultural references

 * The episode title is a pun on the hip-hop group.
 * Krusty's walk through the desert storm mimics .
 * tells Marge that he's working on a biography of where Franklin uses electricity to "torture small animals and green mountain men." The latter is a reference to the, a militia organization led by  which fought in the.
 * The poetry that Christopher Walken reads to a group of children is from , a real-life children's book.

Continuity

 * Goodnight Moon is parodied in the comic story Goodnight Buffoon.
 * Don Vittorio appears at the mafia summit. "Homie the Clown"

Goofs

 * When Lisa is standing at the microphone, her necklace is white. When she is badmouthed, the camera zooms in on her face, and her necklace is red.
 * In the shot of Legs and another gangster shooting at each other, Legs has Joey's colors.