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Cultural references

• This episode's couch gag is a reference to Chia Pets, and there is actually a real Homer Chia Pet and a Bart Chia Pet people can purchase in reality.
• Ned, Rod and Todd sing a parody of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", called "Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Lord".
• Nigel calls Smithers "your boy Friday" when talking to Mr. Burns, a reference to the film His Girl Friday.
• Homer calls Nigel Dr. Dolittle.
• Barney's novel "An Ale of Two Cities" is a reference to the novel A Tale of Two Cities.
• Drunken Donuts is a parody of the popular donut chain Dunkin' Donuts.
• MoHo HOUSE is a spoof of the West Hollywood branch of the Soho House club.^[1]
• Stogie is a parody of Sam from Casablanca.
• Stogie plays "Moonglow" by Will Hudson on piano after Moe requested it.
• When Marge is going through Homer's flickbook, the song "(They Long to Be) Close to You" by The Carpenters plays.
• The photo of Moe and several people at the July 4th Ball in 1921 is a reference to The Shining's ending.

Trivia

• Lisa has no lines in this episode.
  • This is the second episode without Lisa's lines. The first was in Season 21 episode "Chief of Hearts".
• Moe says that the singers that sung The Simpsons logo tune are dead.
• There were a couple of fourth wall breaks in this episode:
  • A hand drawn Gracie Films gag is seen in Homer's flipbook.
  • In "Stogie's Song", Stogie sang the line "that's the ending of the show, except for the tag."
  • Moe also leaned on the fourth wall when he said "Me thinks I see my opportunity" to the camera, only to reveal he was talking to Sideshow Mel, who he said he considered his friend.
• This is the first episode since "The Great Simpsina" to not start with the title card. In the case of Moho House, the episode starts with a fade in to the couch gag, then the TV credits, and after a nighttime view of Springfield, the title card letters are seen superimposed over a shot of 742 Evergreen Terrace. The letters zoom in similarly to the actual title screen with the clouds, but the letters just pop up instead of appearing. The camera zooms through the "P" without moving the background shot as Moe (offscreen) tells the audience to enjoy the show, and the episode begins.
  • This is also the first episode to start with the couch gag.

Continuity

• "(They Long to Be) Close to You" by The Carpenters plays again, which was the song that played when Homer and Marge first met in "The Way We Was". Moe also refers to this while it plays.

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