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Cultural references[edit]

• The senior cancelling headphones play Muzak music.
• One of the seniors has a AARP card.
• The "ringer" for Golden Exits Retirement Farm sings "Owner of an '80s Car", a parody of "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes.
• One of the students at the Springfield Middle School wears an AC/DC T-shirt.
• Ralph tells Comic Book Guy that he wants to buy a "Batman". Comic Book Guy then asks him questions, including "Dark Knight or Adam West?"
  • Ralph then tells Comic Book Guy that he wants the one where Batman eats lasagna, a reference to Garfield.
• A statue of Krusty frozen in carbonite is seen in The Android's Dungeon, a reference to Han Solo from Star Wars.
• Marge imagines a guy calling him Superman, to which he says due to copyright reasons he should be called Uber Hombre, before Uber Hombre appears next to him, saying the copyright in his country screwed him, and then the Scarlet Pimpernel appears, saying his copyright has expired, asking the others if they want to be him.
• Comic Book Guy calls Milhouse "Lex Loser", a reference to Lex Luthor.
• The comic Super Infinite Super Secret Crisis War is a parody of the DC Comics series Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Marvel Comics series Secret War.
• The Awesome Spider-Man is a reference to The Amazing Spider-Man comics.
• Minyans is a parody of Minions.
• The Expandables is a parody of The Expendables.
• BooBoo Fett is a parody of The Book of Boba Fett and features Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith.
• Comic Book Guy references Shaggy Rogers from Scooby-Doo, quoting his catchphrase "Zoinks!".
• The Comic Book Guy Comics issue is a parody of The Amazing Spider-Man #50 which is subtitled "Spider-Man No More".
• Lisa says she's talking about Mandelian genetics, but Homer understands she's talking about Nelson Mandela.
• The Monk and the Garden is a reference to the real book The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics.
• Homer can burp-sing the national anthem.
• During the scene of Marge and Bart playing a prank on Helen Lovejoy, "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg plays.
• The Marvelous Mrs. Miser's Week-Old Bread is a reference to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
• Marge mentions Avatar: The Way of Water by James Cameron movie and how they're still waiting on it. Marge then asks if they'll ever see Pandora, the planet from Avatar, again. She then mentions unobtanium, the fictional element from the films.
• Chief Wiggum says that Ms. York would be buried with deceased members of The Blue Man Group.

Trivia[edit]

• This episode was originally to be the season 33 season finale. However, it was moved to being the antepenultimate episode of this season and "Poorhouse Rock" will air instead as a season finale.
• El Margo is a reference to El Barto.
• In the credits, the title sequence is shown in reverse, starting from the couch gag.
  • Maggie's price states "refund".
• The episode was dedicated to Ian Wilcox who passed away on April 30th, eight days before this episode aired.
• A similar gag of someone getting hurt repeatedly and flying onto power lines getting electrocuted is used on the Family Guy episode that premiered the same night titled: "Girlfriend, Eh?"