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Cultural references[edit]

• The title of the episode is a reference to the phrase "Home away from home".
• Lisa listens to Verbal Tea on the Nationwide Public Radio. This show and its opening tune parody the American news program All Things Considered from the National Public Radio (NPR).
  • American comedian David Sedaris participated in the radio program where he made fun of prison overcrowding in the United States.
• When Lisa told the family she won tickets for a movie, Homer is enthusiastic and compares himself to film critic Roger Ebert.
• Grandma Shark Week is a parody of Shark Week, a shark-based program on Discovery Channel.

Ghostface identity from Scream appears on television when Homer is trying to find a replacement for a babysitter

• Ghostface identity from Scream appears on television when Homer is trying to find a replacement for a babysitter for Maggie.
• At Limited Appeal Theater, one of the films being played is Oppenheimer's Elevator, which is a reference to J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the research team that made the first atomic bomb.
• The 'Humble figurines' are parodies of Hummel figurines.
• Ned got the figure "Summer Dreamin'" from Parade, an American weekly magazine oriented to conservative readers.
• "Ned and breakfast" is a play-on bed and breakfast.
• Katja tells Ned he rhymes like "Snoopy Dog", a reference to both Snoopy and Snoop Dogg.
• When Homer finds Bart and Milhouse laughing at Katja and Vicki's performance with Todd's picture, he wants an explanation and says that saying "Jimmy Fallon" would be a lie.
• Humbleton, a fictional town in Pennsylvania, has houses similar to those found in Bavaria, Germany.
  • The song that plays when the Flanders family are driving to Humbleton, PA is "Lara's Theme" from the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago.
• Coach Clay Roberts resemblances Biff Tannen, the main antagonist in Back to the Future.
• Clay Roberts works out to the song "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" by the Beastie Boys.
• One of the "humbletonians" mentions Pixy Stix when greeting Ned.
• Ned bursts into the ornament factory with a scarf covering his mustache in the same manner as Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) does in the 1968 British drama film if.....
  • The song that is heard in this scene is "Bad Company" by the hard rock band of the same name.
• Ned stands over a grate with wind billowing up into his moustache, spoofing the famous scene where Marilyn Monroe's dress billows up around her over the subway grate in The Seven Year Itch.
• On the TV program Celebrity Chop Shop, Jason Bateman's Bentley gets dismantled in front of a Tiffany & Co. in Beverly Hills.
• "Tutti Frutti" by Pat Boone is heard when Ned reads The Humbletonian.
• Dewey Largo plays "Freeze Frame" by The J. Geils Band on the First Church of Springfield's organ.

Trivia[edit]

• This is the only episode in Season 16 (and the first since "Old Yeller-Belly" in Season 14) to use the full version of the opening sequence.
• SexySlumberParty.com is a real site registered to the show.

Goofs[edit]

• When Bart and Milhouse are on the computer, Bart starts typing in the "Ask Jeeves" search box, but when we see a camera shot of the computer, nothing is in the search box.
  • He may have just been typing in the URL.
• When the men are cheering for Vicki and Katja, there are two Hermans and two Old Jewish mans visible. Also, Comic Book Guy has Sanjay's colors.
  • Additionally, the two Hermans both have black hair.
• When Ned says "All I got was soggy bread", Krusty's head is yellow.
• In the church scene, Ruth Powers appears twice; Sarah Wiggum is shown, but there is no sign of her husband or son; and a Ned Flanders-lookalike (without sweater) is also seen in the last pew next to the wall.

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  Church errors

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  Two Old Jewish mans and Hermans