Girl's in the Band/References

Cultural references

 * The title of the episode is a reference to the play .
 * The episode is a parody of the 2014 film . J. K. Simmons voices Victor Kleskow, a parody of his character from the movie, Terence Fletcher.
 * The kids discordantly play Mozart's.
 * When Dewey Largo prepares for the concert, the theme from the film  by plays.
 * Looney Tunes: Mr. Largo has the band hold a note for a long time, causing an overweight trumpet player's formal wear to unravel. Bugs Bunny does the same thing to Giovanni Jones in the 1949 cartoon short .
 * At the concert, the kids play  by.
 * Bart sings "Sucks To Be You" to the tune of Ludwig van Beethoven's.
 * Homer mentions  as a way to make money, saying he can sell the complete series' boxset, then takes out a hat, glasses and beard, to appear like . A parody of the Breaking Bad intro then plays, with the words [C]ommercial [B]reak.
 * Breaking Bad was previously parodied in the Breaking Bad Couch Gag from the season 24 episode "What Animated Women Want".
 * The  theme is played by the kids at Capital City.
 * Victor asks Lisa to play 's .
 * 's "" is played when Homer goes to his night shift.
 * Grampa mentions.
 * The Shining - During the scene where Homer starts hallucinating and dancing with a radiation suit, thinking that he's in a ballroom:
 * The music playing is  by, , which is heard during the ballroom scene and closing scene of the 1980 film.
 * Lloyd the bartender tells Homer that his family is becoming a problem and he needs to kill them, the same as Lloyd with Jack Torrance.
 * After Homer returns to reality, a crazed-looking man with an axe walks by saying, "I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm just gonna bash your brains in." In the film, Jack says the same thing to Wendy during the staircase scene.
 * Parodies of, Mona Lisa and  are made by Maggie with the Sketch 'n' Etch.

Continuity

 * The Northern Irish leprechaun appears. ("Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes")
 * A billboard mentions . ("Whacking Day")