Editing The Town That Time Forgot/References

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== Cultural references ==
*The story's title is a wordplay on the 1975 film ''{{w|The Land That Time Forgot (1975 film)|The Land That Time Forgot}}''.
*''[[Transformers]]'': When [[Homer]] is late to [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|work]], he tells his co-workers a story about being stuck in traffic and his car transforming into a giant robot ("Transformacar") and then walking to the power plant.
*[[Mr. Burns]] and [[Smithers]] are revealed to be spying on employees by standing behind motivational posters. Burns says, "I wanted one of those old paintings with the eyes missing, but Smithers thought it was too [[Scooby-Doo|Scooby Doo]]!"
*[[Ned Flanders]] is seen reading a Bible titled ''[[The Good Book]]'', which is a common <span class="plainlinks">[https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Good+Book nickname]</span> for the Bible.
*[[James Bond]]: [[Professor Frink]] complains about having to reset all his timepieces for {{w|daylight saving time}}, including "[his] digital watches with the glowing red numbers like in ''{{w|Live and Let Die (film)|Live and Let Die}}''".
*When Homer leads an angry mob into [[Mayor Quimby]]'s office to protest daylight saving time, Quimby quickly agrees to give in to their demands so he can "get home in time to enjoy some desperate housewives", referring to the {{w|Desperate Housewives|TV show}} of that title.
*The next morning, Homer tells his family about leading the mob to get daylight savings time abolished, finishing by saying, "And that, kids is how laws are made!" [[Bart]] sardonically observes, "''{{w|Schoolhouse Rock}}'' got it totally wrong!", referring to the program's "{{w|I'm Just a Bill}}" segment.
*[[Lisa]] reads about the new daylight savings law in the newspaper, and chuckles when she realizes that the way it's worded, anyone could set their clock any way they wanted to. [[Marge]] hears her chuckling and asks if she's reading ''{{w|Dilbert}}''.
*When [[Comic Book Guy]] reads about the new daylight savings law and makes the same observation as Lisa, he says, "Like [[Doctor Who|Dr. Who]], time is no longer my master!"
*The Sunday after the new daylight savings law goes into effect, the Flanders family take advantage of the new law to make [[Rev. Lovejoy]] continue preaching even after he has already given his sermon. When Lovejoy runs out of Bible stories, he reads from ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' and ''[[The Five People You Meet in Heaven]]''. When the Flanderses insist on more, Lovejoy begins reading from the [[Judy Blume]] young adult novel ''[[Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.]]''

== Trivia ==
*Fittingly, [[Lisa]] and [[Comic Book Guy]], both members of the [[Springfield]] chapter of [[Mensa]], are the first to notice the implications of the wording of the new daylight savings law. 
*[[Mayor Quimby]] implies that he was once the mayor of [[Seattle]] and caused a calamity (not further detailed) while he was in office there.