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Cultural references

• Moe's run for office is an homage to the plot of the film Milk.
• Mr. Burns signs his will as Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns, which implies that he is related to Adolf Hitler and a descendant of the House of Plantagenet.
• Moe's line "Everybody vogue!" is a reference to the Madonna song "Vogue" as it plays in the background.
• Neil Patrick Hairless is a pun on the actor Neil Patrick Harris' name.
• After his half hour of mental competence elapses, Mr. Burns imagines himself as part of the 1914 prototypical cartoon "Gertie the Dinosaur".
• The song heard when Skinner imagines himself frolicking with Ms. Juniper and repeated during the closing credits is "Jennifer Juniper."
• At school, Bart is playing with a Buzz Lightyear toy.
• The scene where the day and late shifts of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant fight plays the song "Sing, Sing, Sing".
• The picture of "Tom of Shelbyville" which Moe hung up is a reference to the gay comic art of Tom of Finland.
• Skinner walks at the school singing "I'm Walking on Sunshine".

Trivia

• The title is similar to the third season episode "Flaming Moe's".
• The late shift workers that Homer, Lenny, and Carl fight with partially resemble each them with only a few differences (ex. the Carl clone wearing glasses, the Homer clone having hair on the back of his head, and the Lenny clone having a different hair color and style).

Continuity

• Moe shows pictures of his bar after previous makeovers:
  • The Nag and Weasel ("Mommie Beerest")
  • M ("Homer the Moe")
  • Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag ("Bart Sells His Soul")

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