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Cultural references[edit]

• The episode's title is a pun on the extremely unsuccessful and Golden Raspberry Award-winning movie Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.
• In the "Pine Cone First Ladies" mockup scene, Homer asks for:
  • Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams.
  • Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln
  • Ida Saxton McKinley, wife of William McKinley.
• When thrown in the air by Homer, Lisa sees the Space Needle observation tower from Seattle and an amateur production of You Can't Take It with You, a 1938 American romantic comedy film.
• Lisa solved the maze using Tremaux's algorithm, an efficient method to find the way out of a maze.
• The song played when Santa's Little Helper looks for Homer in the corn maze is KoЯn's "Freak on a Leash". The scene parodies the video for "Freak on a Leash", as it follows the path of a bullet from the its perspective.
• Famous British physicist Stephen Hawking was not able to solve the maze.
• The song "Main Title" composed by Jerry Goldsmith for the 1970 epic biographical war film Patton is heard when Santa's Little Helper arrives to the Springfield Animal Police Academy.

Santa's Little Helper becomes a dog version of RoboCop and shoots down a giant, living math book, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th and Pinhead from Hellraiser

• In Bart's vision, Santa's Little Helper becomes a dog version of RoboCop and shoots down a giant, living math book, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th and Pinhead from Hellraiser.
  • Equations and identities coming out of the injured math book include:
    • The Pythagorean trigonometric identity.
    • Euler's identity.
    • The mass–energy equivalence.
    • All of the four Maxwell's equations in their integral form.
• The "Theme from S.W.A.T." by Rhythm Heritage is heard during the animal police training.
  • Santa's Little Helper finds a key inside a bust of Ludwig van Beethoven.
• According to Chief Wiggum, Rudy Giuliani is the most famous mayor of New York City since Caleb Smith Woodhull.
• The film Lou mentions Air Bud V: Strong Arm Of The Paw is a reference to the Air Bud series of many films based on a sports-playing Golden Retriever. The second part of the title is a pun on the expression "the long arm of the law".
• Chief Wiggum knits a picture of Big Bird putting Elmo on a circular saw. These are characters from Sesame Street.
• Lisa pretends Santa's Little Helper to play a Christmas song, but instead, he barks "The Dreidel Song", a children's Hanukkah song.
• Before being eaten by Strangles, Martin trained his rabbit to hop in perfect tempo to Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition piano suite.
• Chief Wiggum misses Shamrock Shakes, a seasonal green mint-flavored milkshake dessert sold at some McDonald's restaurants during March to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
• When Strangles is eating a computer monitor, the virtual assistant Clippit from Microsoft Office appears on the screen citing "You look like you're trying to eat me. Need some help?".
• The phrase by Groundskeeper Willie, "That'll do, Snake. That'll do", is a parody of "That'll do, Pig. That'll do", a famous line from the ending of Babe.

Trivia[edit]

• In the scene where Santa's Little Helper and Lou are about to have sex with the poodle and the other woman, Lou said, "Okay, so who's going with who?", meaning that Lou may be a zoophile, which is a person that has sex with animals.
• Snakes, particularly boa constrictors, are apparently sold by the foot in Springfield. The device used to cut the snake resembles a paper trimmer commonly found in craft stores. The snake looked less than pleased when "shortened."
• Some of the entrants in the cornucopia contest include the farmers from "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" and Zeke's owner from "Mr. Plow"