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Cultural references

• The title is a pun on the film The Falcon and the Snowman.
• The website MyTube (which the Ukranian gangsters enjoy watching) is a parody of the popular Internet video sharing site YouTube.
• During one of the Wayne's flashbacks, the ballet piece Montagues and Capulets is played, which is the opening theme of the British version of The Apprentice.
• Homer compares Wayne's voice to Lauren Bacall's.
• Wayne killing the gangster's wife and later killing the gangster himself is a reference to 24, where Sutherland's character Jack Bauer accidentally killed Victor Drazen's wife and daughter, and later killed Drazen himself.

Trivia

• Moe has a "brine" beer tap so he can put brine in pickled egg jars.
• Edna and Ned are seen together in bed.
• On MyTube website the gangster is watching "AUTO-TUNE Disaster Victim". This is a reference to "Bed Intruder". It has 15,000 views. He also mentions rating it 0 stars. Youtube had star ratings around 2 years ago.

Continuity

• At the beginning of the episode in Comic Book Guy's room, there are:
  • Blinky in a lamp. ("Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" et al)
  • A Poochie doll ("The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show")
  • A Multi-eyed squirrel doll (The Simpsons Movie)
  • A Plopper doll (The Simpsons Movie)
  • An Everyman poster ("Homer the Whopper")

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