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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the 1983 comedy film Risky Business.
• Marge is deleting old TV shows from the family's digital video recorder (DVR). These include:
  • The 81st Academy Awards.
  • Keeping Up with the Krustofskys, a parody of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
  • The Happy Little Elves
  • Planet Jackson and the Earth Brigade, a parody of Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
  • Thicker than Waters, a parody of the sitcom Growing Pains.
  • Santa's Little Helper gets angry when Marge tries to delete a recording of a Westminster Dog Show.
  • Snowball II does the same when Marge tries to delete American Masters episodes in which Katty Carlisle starred.
    • Homer also mentions he could not live without the series Hoarders, Episodes or Revenge.
• Lenny makes an analogy to the San Diego Padres and Detroit Tigers baseball teams when he is talking about priests (padres in romance language) and cats.
• When Moe calls the suicide hotline and gets put on hold, the on-hold music is "Suicide Is Painless", the sung version of the M*A*S*H theme song, which was only heard in the film. The lyrics were considered to be too dark for television in the 1970s when the TV series was in development, so an instrumental version was used as the TV theme song.
• Homer, Lenny, Carl, Moe and Bart were singing Bee Gees hit "How Deep Is Your Love" when Homer is doing CPR. Lenny asks Homer whether the song was actually "Stayin' Alive", another hit by the Bee Gees.

The statue of the Capital City Goofball is a reference to the statue of Christ the Redeemer

• The statue of the Capital City Goofball is a reference to the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.
• "Capital City" by Tony Bennett is a parody of "New York, New York" by Frank Sinatra.
• The sculpture of a bronze bull next to the Capitol City Stock Exchange is a refence to the Charging Bull in Broadway.
• Carl mentions Glendale, California.
• "I Feel Better" by Gotye is heard during the Capitol City tour.
• A reference to the Embarkation of the Pilgrims painting found in the United States Capitol rotunda is seen.
• An LP record of Duran Duran's famous album Rio is seen at Moe's.
• American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins mentions Tupac Shakur and Dwight D. Eisenhower when talking about holograms.
• Holograms of Princess Diana, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Tupac Shakur dance to a hip-hong song.
• Marge tells Moe the story of Dumbo. Moe also mentions Star Wars.
• Waltz Waltz Revolution is a parody of the Japanese music video game Dance Dance Revolution.
  • Abe Simpson is dancing to the sound of the "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II.
• Sideshow Mel compares Moe to Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Trivia

• Carl and Lenny can be seen holding hands while looking out of the limo roof.
• Bleeding Gums Murphy's singing is taken from the Season 1 episode "Moaning Lisa".
• In Latin America, this episode was released as the 20th episode of the season for unknown reasons.

Continuity

• When Homer imagines wearing a tent, the boy scouts that exit the tent were first seen in "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood".
• Bleeding Gums Murphy's death is referenced to. "'Round Springfield"
• This is the third episode that shows dead celebrities advertising commercial products the other two are:
  • In "The Last Temptation of Krust", Krusty mentions dead celebrities advertising various products in his act and in "Treehouse of Horror XIX", Homer kills many celebrities so their images are used in commercial advertisement.