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Cultural references[edit]

• Bart's "Go-Go Ray" gun settings include a variety of fad dances (dances characterized by a short burst of popularity). These include The Jerk, The monkey, The Mashed Potato, The Swim and The Freddie.
• Barney thinks he has seen Princess Di, but it was only a pile of rags. Rags is a pejorative for tabloid newspapers referring how she was frequently on the covers.
• When holding Lisa's project, Bart imitates Curly Howard's expression "Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!" from The Three Stooges.
  • Bart imitates Curly again when he is slapping his face when trying to get the cupcake.
• The Duff Brewery tour guide mentions CNN.
• In the 1950s, Duff was the sponsor of The Amos 'n Andy Show. This is a reference to the Blatz Brewing Company which sponsored The Amos 'n Andy Show from June 1951 to April 1953. Under the pressure for a formal protest on how the show prejudiced black people in the USA, Blatz discontinued its advertising support and the show was canceled.

Duff was the sponsor of the 1960 United States presidential debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon

• Duff was also sponsor of the 1960 United States presidential debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
  • Nixon mentions TV journalist Sander Vanocur, who was a panelist in the first presidential debate that took place on September 26, 1960.
• Lisa imagines Bart as a hamster stuck in a maze and begging for help by screaming "Help me, help me!". This is a reference to the 1958 sci-fi horror film The Fly, specifically the scene where André Delambre (David Hedison) is stuck in a web and a spider is about to devour him.
  • Lisa laughs evilly at her thoughts and hides it by saying she was laughing of a joke she saw on the American sitcom Herman's Head.
• Phil misses the head of Adolf Hitler when he is quality-checking the bottles.
• When Chief Wiggum falls down the cliff, he shouts "Mother of Mercy!" sounding very much like Rico Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) in the 1931 film Little Caesar. The same phrase is used by Rico in that film.
• Wiggum always mixes up the terms Dead on arrival (DOA) and Driving while intoxicated (DWI).
• Troy McClure's Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass is a pun on is a pun on the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, both by Lewis Carroll.
• "Round the Bend" by Ron Aspery is heard during the gory film The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot.
• Ned Flanders calls advice columnist Ann Landers a boring old biddy after drinking a blackberry schnapps.
• Homer imagines doing pectoral bounces in the mirror hand the song he is humming is the "can-can".
• The third time Bart tries to get cupcakes, he reaches for them but falls over in insanity. This scene is a parody of a scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex (Malcolm McDowell) reaches for a woman's breasts..
• The song Homer sings during his flashback is a parody of Frank Sinatra's "It Was a Very Good Year."
  • During the song, Homer mentions listening to British rock band Queen. He had a poster of A Night at the Opera, Queen's fourth studio album.

Bart is seated and strokes his hamster, just like Blofeld strokes his cat in the James Bond films

• Bart petting the hamster parodies villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the James Bond films.
• Martin's project of a fully inflated hot air balloon while pretending to be Phileas Fogg is a reference to Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
• Principal Skinner references B. F. Skinner and P. T. Barnum.
• Feminist are seen protesting outside of McMahon and Tate Advertising, this is a pun on McMann and Tate, the fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency from the American fantasy sitcom Bewitched.
• The fanfare "Charge" is heard at the Isotopes game.
• Moe points towards individual customers declaring they will "be back" before pointing toward and addressing the viewer. This is a parody of 1936 film Reefer Madness, specifically when Dr. Alfred Carroll (Josef Forte) breaks the fourth wall to warn viewers at the end of the film.
• The name of the pet shop All Creatures Great and Cheap is a reference to All Creatures Great and Small.
• The sportscaster for the baseball game is an impression of Vin Scully.
• The final scene of Homer pedaling Lisa's bicycle with Marge on the handlebars riding off into the sunset as they sing "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" parodies Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Trivia[edit]

Two Larrys

• During the tour of the Duff Brewery, the three vats are marked "Duff", "Duff Light", "Duff Dry". The vats are filled by the same pipe, indicating different names for exactly the same product. This may be reference to a urban legend that some gas stations hooked up their regular, plus, and super unleaded to the same tank, charging more money for customers who bought plus or super while getting the same product.
• In the syndicated version, both Martin Prince and Nelson Muntz's exhibits at the Science Fair were removed. Martin had a flying balloon which was deflated from a B.B. Gun shot by Nelson from his B.B. Gun exhibit, which he states that he was aiming for Martin's head. In the DVD release, this scene was left in uncut.
• Homer has a portable radio with him in the stands to explain how he is hearing the dull running commentary.
• "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" was sung by Kipp Lennon for the episode.

Continuity[edit]

• The Duff Brewery was originally in Capital City. ("Dancin' Homer", "Bart the Lover")
• Lisa also uses Bart as a test subject for a science experiment in the comic story Decisions, Decisions.

Goofs[edit]

• In a scene at Moe's Tavern, there are two Larrys unless Larry has an identical twin brother.