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Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the season 4 episode "Duffless" and a reference to Patty and Selma's decision to quit smoking.
• The episode couch gag is a reference to the animated movie Cars.

Homer owned a Pontiac GTO but lost it at a concert because he could not remember where he parked it

• Homer owned a Pontiac GTO, but he went to a musical festival and could not remember where he parked it.
  • "Space Cowboy" by Steve Miller Band can be weakly heard just before the car gets destroyed by a combine harvester.
• The song played by Yo-Yo Ma is the Prelude to the Six suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach.
• When Yo-Yo-Ma says "There's always room for cello!", he is parodying the advertising slogan, "There's always room for Jell-O."
• The book title "Yo-Yo Diet" is a reference to the Yo-yo effect, but the picture on the book jacket (Ma holding a platter of food), indicates it is a cookbook he wrote.
• The Bouvier family visited Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun.
• Bart thought he could climb walls like Spider-Man using denture cream on his hands.
• Homer finds Vicodin in Jacqueline Bouvier's bathroom cabinet.
• Maggie's Extraordinary Animal Adventure has the style of David Hand's Animaland.
• WebDr is a parody of WebMD, an online publisher of news and information pertaining to human health and well-being.
• Chapter Two of Maggie's Extraordinary Animal Adventure is titled Gone Baby Gone, a reference to the film of the same name.
• Homer pours Bleach on his eyes when he saw Patty taking a shower.
• Seen in Disco Stu's apartment are:
  • A lava lamp and a Western Electric Sculptura ("donut") telephone,
  • A poster of Selma Bouvier in the pose of the poster for the movie Selma.
• After talking to Selma, Disco Stu says he needs "a Zoloft or two". Zoloft is an antidepressant.
• The American Civil War song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" plays when the animals are preparing themselves for their battle against the Spucklers.
• The music that plays when Spider Pig appears is his theme from The Simpsons Movie.
• One of the recipes in the Awesome Possum Recipes book mentions General Chang from Star Trek.

Maggie and the animals' journey through snowy mountains is a parody of "pass of Caradhras" scene in The Fellowship of the Ring

• Maggie and the animals' journey through snowy mountains is a parody of the The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring pass of Caradhras scene.
• When Cletus' dog knocks one of the birds to the ground, a squirrel reacts to it saying "Black Hawk down!", a reference to the Black Hawk utility helicopter in the movie Black Hawk Down.
• The moonshine magazine Likker Enthusiast is a parody of Wine Enthusiast.
• Disco Stu mentions Tinder, the dating app.
• The song "Together Forever" by Rick Astley plays during the small montage showing Patty and Selma smoking during different phases of their lives (and after their deaths) at the end of the episode.
• The credits theme song is performed by Yo-Yo Ma on his cello.

Trivia

• It is revealed that Clancy Bouvier died of lung cancer. In "Jazzy and the Pussycats", Homer makes a reference to Clancy Bouvier being dead by saying "I know I will use that white noise machine I got you, when your father died." while he was in bed with Marge.
• Maggie's plan's subtitles break the fourth wall: After securing the perimeter, the ground troops will advance and reinforce flanks, as the aerial units will soften their defenses. Then we shall advance in a pincer moment to infiltrate the compound and liberate our friend. If you've read all of this, congratulations, you're a genius!
  • Homer also breaks the fourth wall when he told Marge "but that's where we do our couch gags!" when Marge says that Patty and Selma can sleep on the couch.
• Whenever Homer used bleach, it was never seen in the original airing on Sky1, nor Reruns.
  • Also, Homer was never seen going in the shower with Patty inside. However, on Channel 4's version in the UK, the scene gets shown but it cuts before Homer jumps out of the shower.

Continuity

• Mr. Burns already declared he's in love with Jaqueline Bouvier, stealing her from Abe Simpson once. ("Lady Bouvier's Lover")
• Lady Laramie Cigarettes appears. ("Lisa the Beauty Queen")
• A list of Selma's ex-husbands is shown on her phone:
  • Sideshow Bob ("Black Widower")
  • Disco Stu ("There's Something About Marrying")
  • Fat Tony ("The Real Housewives of Fat Tony")
• Spider-Pig appears. (The Simpsons Movie)

Goofs

• Selma lost her sense of smell due to a bottle rocket accident as a child ("Black Widower"), but in this episode, it seems like she can smell.