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Cultural references

• The woman with Comic Book Guy has a Firefly sweater on.
  • She compares Homer to Ernest Hemingway.
• The headlines for the Daily Fourth Gradian is "A Long Way Brown: Requiem for a Lunch", a reference to the comedy A Long Way Down and the drama Requiem for a Dream.
• The title of the The Itchy & Scratchy Show, Death Shawarma-ed Over, is a pun on the phrase "Death Warmed Over".
  • It also features the middle eastern meat Shawarma.
• Krusty drives a Tesla.
• The app used by Homer and Lisa, Dictation, is a real app.
• Some of the shows that Homer recaps are:
  • This Is Us
  • The Walking Dead
  • Game of Thrones
  • Stranger Things
• Krusty sings along to the song "Entrance of the Gladiators" by Julius Fučík.
• Soggy the Clown is a reference to Yu-Gi-Oh! monster Saggi the Dark Clown.
• The song that plays when the clowns wake up is "Morning Mood" from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg.
• Scuzzo mentions that he saw a circus do a Beatles tribute without permission.
• The Google-Disney CEO mentions USA Network, while Homer mentions its shows
  • Royal Pains
  • Suits
  • White Collar
• Patty said that Homer gave Outlander a B-.
• Krusty had Chris Pine on his show and did a Star Trek segment.
• The fourth wall is broken multiple times.

List of TV shows

Scrolling list

The complete list of TV shows on the scrolling list are:

TV screens

Continuity

• Morty Szyslak appears. ("King Leer")
• The fight between Homer and Krusty down Springfield Gorge is a callback to Homer's skateboarding mishap. ("Bart the Daredevil")

Goofs

• Alice Glick is seen in the court house despite being dead.
• When Krusty and Homer's car collide, both doesn't sustain damage.