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Cultural references

• The title "Blame It on Lisa" is a reference to the movie Blame It on Rio.
• The host of Teleboobies (a play on Teletubbies), Xoxchitla, is a reference to Brazilian entertainer Xuxa.
• A sign seen on top of an all-you-can-eat meat-on-a-sword restaurant, called Churrascarias in Portuguese, mistakenly uses the plural instead of Churrascaria ("steak house").
• On the airplane, Bart studies Spanish so he can understand the local people. Marge informs him that Brazilians speak Portugese. Brazil is indeed the only non-Spanish speaking country in Latin America.
• The sign Aeroporto International de Galeão is a misspelled reference to Rio's international airport, Galeão—Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport (also known as Aeroporto Internacional do Galeão).
• Homer and Bart sing the Chiquita Banana song, butchering the lyrics with "I'm Chiquita Banana, and I'm here to say, I will eat this Toblerone and I will not pay!".
• The Itchy and Scratchy Show cartoon, "Par for the Corpse", that opens the show is a parody of A Trip to the Moon.
• After Itchy drives Scratchy's head into the moon, he drops several dollar bills onto Scratchy's carcass, referencing Rodney Dangerfield's character in Caddyshack.
• Marge mentions the people here in Brazil "love soccer", whereupon the hotel personnel plays soccer with luggage. Soccer is very popular in Brazil. Pelé, the internationally most famous soccer player, is Brazilian.
• At one point, Homer says "Don't you know the boys from Brazil are little Hitlers? I saw it in a movie whose name I can't remember", although ironically, he says the title of the movie in that line. This is a reference to the film The Boys from Brazil, which revolves around Josef Mengele raising clones of Adolf Hitler.
• The book Lisa is reading on the plane, titled Who Wants to be a Brazilionaire?, is a reference to the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• When the kidnappers and Homer are riding down the Amazon River, the theme song from Miami Vice plays.
• The song playing just as Homer and Bart are strolling down the beach is the 1939 tune Aquarela do Brasil (usually just known as "Brazil" around the world), previously featured prominently in the film Brazil.
• Homer's swimming pants who shrink to a shorter size are a reference to the world famous Brazilian "bikini bottoms".
• When Lisa mentions the slums have been painted so that the tourists are not offended, a stream of multicoloured rats run out in front of them. Homer claims they look like Skittles.
• Homer believing that nuns can fly comes from The Flying Nun.
• The family on a lift in Brazil is possibly a reference to Moonraker.
• Ronaldo mentions that he makes as much money as Malcolm in the Middle.

Trivia

• The phone company's name changes from "Comquaq" to "Zovuvazz" as the family approaches it.
• The name of the orphan charity that Lisa donates to is "L'il Writeoffs".
• Homer is seen wearing a T-Shirt with Uncle Sam trying to devour the Earth and "Try and Stop Us" printed below that.
• The taxi that Homer gets into says "Unlicensed Taxi" on the door and when it drives off, the sign on top of it changes to "Hostage".
• To Ronaldo who says that he could not send letters because he did not know where the Simpson live, Lisa replies: ".. if you look at the clues, you can figure it out", but it is known that there is no Springfield with all the morphological characteristics shown in the various episodes.

Goofs

• A sign seen on top of an all-you-can-eat meat-on-a-sword restaurant, called Churrascaria ("steak house") in Portuguese, mistakenly uses the plural, Churrascarias.
• The sign Aeroporto International de Galeão is a misspelled reference to Rio's international airport, Galeão International Airport (also known as Aeroporto Internacional do Galeão).
• When Lisa was reading "Who Wants to be a Brazilionare" on the plane, the cover shows Argentina as an ocean, and when Marge was reading it before entering the Conga line, Brazil (except for Amapá) is shown as an ocean.

Continuity

• A long-distance call was previously made by Bart in "Bart vs. Australia", which Homer initially assumes to be a prank call.
• Brad and Neil are seen on the plane to Brazil. ("King of the Hill")
• Jimmy the Scumbag and the robber are seen in the slums. ("Lisa's Date with Density", "Homer and Apu")
• Some of Cletus' kids are seen at the orphanage. ("The Twisted World of Marge Simpson")
• Bart comments that after traveling to Brazil, located in South America, he will have been on every continent, having previously visited Europe in "The Crepes of Wrath", Australia in "Bart vs. Australia", Asia in "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", and Africa in "Simpson Safari".