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The Seven-Beer Snitch/References

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References/Trivia


Cultural references

  • The title is a play on Billy Wilder's 1955 comedy The Seven Year Itch.
  • The various prison scenes parody several different movies and TV shows, most notably Oz and Escape from Alcatraz.
  • Marge refers to Fat Tony's son as Michael, a reference to the movie The Godfather. Michael would later be seen in series 18, in the episode "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer".
  • When arresting Homer, Chief Wiggum references the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
  • The hat Homer wears in prison is inspired by Simon Adebisi from the Oz series
  • This episode makes fun of the music of Philip Glass. When people are leaving during a piece of Beethoven Marge shouts "Wait! The next piece is an atonal medley by Philip Glass!" When she shouts this, everybody runs out of the hall, including the orchestra.
  • A theatre marquee in Shelbyville advertises "Sideshow Mel in Equus".
  • On the letter from Marge to Frank Gehry we can see an image of Snoopy. Another reference to him is when Santa's Little Helper is flying a red plane in a red scarf, very much like Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.
  • Homer is seen trying to escape from the prisoners on a Segway PT.
  • Frank Gehry is the first architect to appear on The Simpsons. There are several references to his unorthodox designs, such as Gehry crumpling a letter and throwing it, only to discover that it's the perfect building design.
  • When being asked to be the prison snitch, Homer asks if he will eat cheese and imitates Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.
  • The conductor of the orchestra resembles Herbert Von Karajan, a German conductor famous for his Beethoven conductings
  • When Mr Burns is reading out the list of drugs one of the is blue bomber which is a nickname fot the videogame character Mega Man.

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