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Cultural references[edit]

• In the episode's couch gag, Professor Frink's couch loosely resembles a war machine from The War of the Worlds.
• The widely known military march used as circus theme "Entrance of the Gladiators" by Julius Fučík is heard at Paradise Pier.
• One of Marge's goals was to visit Holy Land and return safely.
• Homer calls Domino's to order a pizza for breakfast.
• Marge and Bart sing "Sweet Home Alabama", the famous song by Lynyrd Skynyrd. More specifically, they sing the part of the verse when Neil Young is introduced. Bart asks Marge who Neil Young was, to which she replies he was a singer in the 1960s like The Archies and the The Banana Splits, both of them fictional rock bands.
• The tea house Marge and Bart go to, named The Leaf Garrett is a reference to Leif Garrett, a teen idol, actor and singer popular in the 1970s.
• Bart wonders whether The Leaf Garret tea house has the cabaret-style show Zumanity by Cirque du Soleil.
• Homer lifts the Devil's Advocate pinball machine that held Lenny, Moe and Carl trapped. It is a reference to the 1997 supernatural horror film The Devil's Advocate.
• Marge is surprised when Bart invites her to his treehouse, and she says that is like Bruce Wayne letting his mother to the "bat club".
• Marge sealed Bart comics in Mylar. The comic she shows to Bart is Radioactive Man Side-By-Side With Pelé, a reference to the famous Brazilian football player, which also has Bongo Comics Group's original logo.
• The store Marge and Bart go to is called The China Syndrome. A "china syndrome" is a catastrophic nuclear accident and a 1979 movie of the same name.
• The Krusty tea pot mentions TV personality Mr. T and American actress Linda Gray.
• Bart and Marge's "The Tea Birds" jackets are a reference to the "T-Birds", a greaser gang in the 1978 film Grease and its sequel which wore jackets with the gang name.

The scene of Marge traveling to Miami on a bus is a reference to ending of the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy

• "Midnight Cowboy" by John Barry is heard when Marge is walking alone with her tandem bike.
  • The scene of Marge traveling to Miami is a reference to ending of the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy.
• Marge is looking for a duet song at The Drunk Paralegal Karaoke Supplier and she comes across:
  • "Just the Two of Us", the famous single by Grover Washington Jr. and Bill Withers.
  • "You and Me Against the World", which Helen Reddy sang with Kermit in one of The Muppets episodes.
  • "Ebony and Ivory", the famous single by Paul McCartney featuring Stevie Wonder. Which is later sung by Seymour and Agnes.
• At the karaoke night, Apu sings "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" by Paula Cole.
• Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney sing "My Sharona" by The Knack.

Trivia[edit]

• During the talent show, Apu is singing Paula Cole's "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone".
• Marge and Bart sing "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd with alternate lyrics while riding the tandem bicycle, and Marge and Homer also sings the chorus of the song at the end of the episode.
• "Ebony and Ivory" is a duet song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.
• In the end, the boys are singing "My Sharona" by The Knack.