Difference between revisions of "A Brand New Smithers/References"

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Cultural references

• When Homer is told that he has to think backwards, he says that's like Bizarro World, a planet from DC Comics.
• A video of Waylon Smithers without pants is uploaded to Woo Tube, a parody of YouTube.
• After getting struck by lightning, Smithers thinks he looks a bit like Anderson Cooper.
• Mr. Burns had Picasso paintings hanging in the cafeteria of the Nuclear Power Plant.
• Mr. Burns says "et tu, Waylon?", referencing the Latin phrase "Et tu, Brute?" from Julius Caesar.
• After getting a promotion, Homer ends up on the covers of Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
• Homer was on a news show and explained why Vin Diesel should win an Academy Award.