Homer Badman/References

Cultural references

 * The action sequence at the candy convention is "based on every Bruce Willis movie ever made."
 * Homer's imagination of living underwater is a parody of the song "Under the Sea" from the Disney film . David Mirkin says he thought the sequence would be funny because Homer would eat all of the characters from the film.
 * Among the TV shows parodied during the episode: ',, the ' and media coverage of the.
 * The news coverage showing Homer knocked out in the bathroom with the shower curtain draped over him, and the voice-over saying he slept in an oxygen tent believing it would enhance his sexual powers, is a reference to widespread tabloid rumors saying that Michael Jackson slept in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in an attempt to slow the aging process.
 * When Rock Bottom does a story on Groundskeeper Willie, the producers dub him "Rowdy Roddy Peeper," a reference to, the stage name of a professional wrestler who adopted a Scottish persona in the ring.
 * : The episode's couch gag is a reference to the movie's first scene, in which the thieves trying to escape the Supreme Being end up pushing the wall backwards.
 * Bart asks if the dog in the ads is sexually harassing the girl and Homer says, "That's kind of a gray area." The ads show the dog sneaking up behind the girl, grabbing her swimsuit bottom in its teeth, pulling it down and exposing her buttocks, revealing them to have a lighter skin tone than the rest of her body.

Trivia

 * In the future (the year 2013 as shown in "Future-Drama"), Homer is living in a house at the bottom of the ocean.

Continuity

 * Groundskeeper Willie is shown to still be secretly videotaping people in the comic story The Homer Show.

Rock Bottom Corrections
After the revelation of Homer's innocence, Rock Bottom broadcasts a list of corrections to various claims the show has made. The list can only be read in freeze-frame or slow motion. Rock Bottom's corrections are as follows:


 * "People's Choice Award" is America's greatest honor
 * is not made from kittens
 * The U.F.O. was a paper plate
 * The nerds on the internet are not geeks
 * The word "cheese" is not funny in and of itself
 * The older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod (which in actuality is not true)
 * Lyndon Johnson did not provide the voice of Yosemite Sam
 * If you are reading this you have no life
 * Roy Rogers was not buried inside his horse
 * The other U.F.O. was an upside-down salad spinner
 * Our universities are not "hotbeds" of anything
 * Mr. Dershowitz did not literally have four eyes
 * Our viewers are not pathetic, sexless food tubes
 * Audrey Hepburn never weighed 400 pounds
 * The "" gang is not a real gang
 * Salt water does not "chase the thirsties away"
 * Licking an electrical outlet will not turn you into a
 * Cats do not eventually turn into dogs
 * Bullets do not bounce off of fat guys
 * Recycling does not deplete the ozone
 * Everything is 10% fruit juice
 * The flesh eating virus does not hide in ice cream
 * Janet Reno is evil
 * is not 1/8 gasoline
 * Ted Koppel is a robot
 * Women aren't from Venus and men aren't from Mars
 * Fleiss does floss
 * Quayle is familiar with common bathroom procedures
 * Bart is bad to the bone
 * Godfry Jones' wife is cheating on him
 * The Beatles haven't reunited to enter kick boxing competitions
 * The "" on your TV screen can see into your home
 * Everyone on TV is better than you
 * The people who are writing this have no life

The show's retraction of branding Homer a pervert isn't shown on-screen, but as it scrolls by, Lisa points it out and the whole family cheers.