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Revision as of 04:15, January 4, 2011
Cultural references
- The episode title is a pun on Lost Horizon and a reference to Verizon Communications.
- The bar Inga-Bar Beerman's is a reference to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
- Crocodile Drunkee's is a pun on Crocodile Dundee.
- Principal Skinner crosses the freeway in a similar fashion to the video game Frogger.
- The Allied Peas mascot is a parody of the Jolly Green Giant.
- Bart, Nelson and Milhouse eat grilled Twizzlers.
- Denis Leary is seen wearing a Boston Red Sox baseball cap. In real life, Leary is a big Red Sox fan.
- Bart uses Leary's cell phone to order a New York Yankees hat and Derek Jeter jersey, much to Leary's annoyance (see above).
- Thanks to one of Bart's pranks, Leary appears in the movie adaptation of the children's book Everybody Poops as a constipated gorilla.
- The song playing when Bart is collecting golf balls is "Workin' Man Blues" by Merle Haggard.
Trivia
- Dr. Nick reappears in this episode, even though he appeared to have died in The Simpsons Movie.
