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Cultural references

• The title 'Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em' is a parody of MC Hammer's album 'Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em'
• The Zoominator is a parody of the Terminator
• On the Simpsons' mailbox, you can see the Simpsons logo and the TCF copyright info.
• The Music "Duel of the Fates" from Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace plays while Bart and Skinner are fighting across Springfield. It plays later when they throw peanuts and shrimps at each other.
• Skinner screaming "Nooooooooo!" after Bart tells hime he was El Barto parodies the scene in "The Empire Strikes Back" where Luke screams "NOOOOOOOOO!" after learning Darth Vader was his father.
• The game Bart plays in the arcade, Triangle Wars, resembles the old Atari version of Asteroids, where you destroy rocks, and alien spaceships.

Goofs

• In this episode Bart is said to only be allergic to shrimp. In "Blood Feud" Marge lists Bart's allergies as butterscotch, imitation butterscotch, and glow-in-the-dark monster make-up. In "Mommie Beerest" Bart is clearly seen eating and throwing shrimp. Also, in "The Frying Game" Bart says he was in the Green room, and he ate so much shrimp.
• After all the workers leave on the rollercoaster construction site, the camera points to Homer in the wagon thing. Behind him, the rollercoaster looks completely repaired.

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