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Cultural references[edit]

• The title of this episode is a reference to the sci-fi movie They Saved Hitler's Brain.
• After Ethnic Mismatch Comedy #644 is canceled, the TV channel plays an encore of Princess Diana's funeral.
• KBBL provided tickets to Hartford, Connecticut instead of the island of Maui, Hawaii.
• American diplomat and political scientist Madeleine Albright is part of the jury of the How Low Will You Go? contest.
• Homer's stage name, "Homer and His Amazing Reddenbacher Dreamcoat", is a reference to the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The song he sings, "Kernel Knowledge", is a parody of "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner. The name of the song is a reference to the film Carnal Knowledge.

A mobile Vincent van Gogh exhibit drives by KBBL Radio, and is then trashed by the rioters. It includes real-world paintings from the artist

• A mobile Vincent van Gogh exhibit drives by KBBL Radio, and is then trashed by the rioters. The art pieces seen include:
  • A Pair of Shoes (1886)
  • The Starry Night (1889)
  • Window in the Studio (1889)
  • Still Life with Bible (1885)
  • Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat (1887)
  • Still life with bottle, two glasses, cheese and bread (1886)
  • Paul Gauguin's Armchair (1888)
• Lisa recommends Jane Austen to Reverend Lovejoy when he is driving the Book Burning Mobile.
• Mensa International is a real organization. Other members of Mensa include Mell Lazarus, Geena Davis, and Marilyn vos Savant, all who are in Mensa in real life.
  • Skinner also mentions vos Savant's participation as a columnist in the magazine Parade.
• Lisa also mentions that Mensa is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere.
• At 13 Euclid Street, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart plays.
• Comic Book Guy's T-shirt reads "C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN", a play-on-words between DOS commands and the catch phrase "See Spot run!" in the book series of Dick and Jane.
• When Lisa says that only one person in a million would find Comic Book Guy's shirt funny, Professor Frink says that they call that the "Dennis Miller ratio."
• Skinner proposes making Springfield a new Athens, while Lindsey Naegle proposes a "Walden Two". This is a reference to the utopian novel Walden Two, which is also the name of an experimental community that sets the scene.
• The "First call", played by classical musicians, is heard at the Springfield Dog Track.
• The last four cities of America's 300 most livable cities include:
  • 296. Flint, Michigan: Since the late 1960s, Flint has faced several crises and became known for its comparatively high crime rates and has repeatedly been ranked among the most dangerous cities in the United States.
  • 297. Ebola, RI: A fictional city and a reference to the Ebola virus disease.
  • 298. Dawson's Creek, NC: An also fictional city and a reference to the American teen drama Dawson's Creek, which was partly produced in Wilmington, North Carolina.
  • 299. Springfield, USA
  • 300. East St. Louis, IL: The city was once a bustling industrial center but was severely affected by the loss of jobs due to the flight of the population to the suburbs during the riots of the late 1960s.
• During the photo shoot "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred is playing.
• According to Skinner, the trains are running on metric time. He, however, means decimal time, which is the representation of the time of day using decimally-related units.
• Lindsay Naegle proposes building a theatre for shadow puppets, to what Dr. Hibbert asks "Balinese or Thai?". Shadow puppetry has a long history in Southeast Asia countries, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia. In Indonesia, Wayang kulit, a style of wayang shadow play, is particularly popular in Java and Bali. Shadow theatre in Thailand is called nang yai.
• Homer says the famous phrase "Houston, we have a problem" from the Apollo 13 mission.

Comic Book Guy wears a Star Trek uniform when giving a speech at the gazebo

• Comic Book Guy wears a Star Trek uniform when giving a speech at the gazebo. He tells the people that breeding will only be permitted once every seven years, as inspired by the Vulcans. Comic Book Guy then sings "I Am Smart" to the opening theme of Star Trek.
• Homer mistakes Stephen Hawking for Larry Flynt, the founder of Hustler, who has been confined to a wheelchair since an assassination attempt.
• Hawking mentions his "failure to formulate a unified field theory".
• Stephen Hawking finds Homer's idea of a doughnut-shaped universe intriguing. Actually, there exists a cosmological model proposing that the shape of the universe is a 3-torus (doughnut-shaped universe model).

Trivia[edit]

• Jimmy the Scumbag cameos in the competition commercial, pushing an elderly lady in front of a train.
• Carl is revealed to have diabetes after eating too much Grandma Plopwell's Pudding.
• Dr. Hibbert mentions that he used to live in Alabama.

Continuity[edit]

• This is the second time Bart rides an animal naked, the first being "And Maggie Makes Three", as seen in a photo album.

Goofs[edit]

• The "learned council" says that it would be better if dogs at the dog track chased a diploma instead of a rabbit. Dogs are motivated by a sense of smell, not sight. Most dogs pay no attention to an artificial rabbit. They have to be trained to do so through a conditioned response. Dog owners often train dogs to chase an electric rabbit by attaching kitten or rabbit meat to it and convincing the dog to tear it to shreds. This has been one of the biggest factors of animal abuse in the United States.
• When Marge copied something that was on the screen of Stephen Hawking's machine, Stephen Hawking said, "You copied that off my screen". But he was talking when something else was still on his screen.
• When Homer looks through the dictionary he turns a lot of pages, yet only makes it to letter B. He then doesn't turn much pages and ends up on P. He turns back a few pages and is back on B.
• In the dog track scene, Mayor Quimby can be seen in the stands, even though he earlier fled Springfield thinking MENSA had heard of his corruption.