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Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse.
• Krusty's walk through the desert storm mimics The French Lieutenant's Woman.
• Stephen King tells Marge that he's working on a biography of Benjamin Franklin where Franklin uses electricity to "torture small animals and green mountain men." The latter is a reference to the Green Mountain Boys, a militia organization led by Ethan Allen which fought in the American Revolutionary War.
• The poetry that Christopher Walken reads to a group of children is from Goodnight Moon, a real-life children's book.
• Krusty's books are written by his ghostwriter John Updike (who says he has another name).
• The sand castle that Ned Flanders and his sons are building is very similar to the Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Marseille.
• Krusty's car is a Porsche 911 90s version.

General trivia

• It is shown that Fat Tony can play the violin.

Continuity

• Goodnight Moon is parodied in the comic story Goodnight Buffoon.
• Don Vittorio appears at the mafia summit. "Homie the Clown"

Goofs

Lisa's red beads

• When Lisa is standing at the microphone, her necklace is white. When she is badmouthed, the camera zooms in on her face, and her necklace is red.
• In the shot of Legs and another gangster shooting at each other, Legs has Joey's colors.
• When Ned Flanders is on the beach, he is of an average build, with visible body fat. Earlier and later episodes that feature him shirtless depict him as being very physically fit with a pronounced six-pack.
• When Krusty goes to give Fat Tony Sophie's violin, the case has a sticker on it with her name, but when Krusty and Homer go to steal it back, the case is stickerless.
• Stephen King somehow knew Marge's name, despite Marge not telling him who she was.