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Revision as of 23:58, November 13, 2009
Trivia
- Fat Tony's prisoner number was 8F03, the production code for this episode.
- All the horses in the third race at Shelbyville Downs are named for famous cartoon phrases:
- Sufferin' Succotash (Sylvester the Cat)
- Yabba-Dabba-Doo (Fred Flintstone)
- Ooh Ain't I A Stinker (Bugs Bunny)
- I Yam What I Yam (Popeye)
- Don't Have A Cow (Bart Simpson)
- Eat My Shorts is a horse running in another race (and another of Bart's catchphrases).
- There is a large drum of nuclear waste seen in Homer's basement in this episode.
- Bart's forgotten permission slip can be seen (just barely) under his pillowcase before he wakes up at the beginning of the episode.
- During the last scene the Simpsons were watching a movie based on this episode. When the narrator was listing the actors, the actor of Fat Tony was Joe Magenita, who was ironically the voice of Fat Tony.
Cultural references
- This episode takes a lot of plot points from the film Goodfellas. As in the film, a boy mixes drinks for the mob gang, and there is also a cigarette hijacking. Bart's work for Fat Tony mirrors the rise of young Henry Hill.
