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Cultural references

• The title is a pun on the film The Falcon and the Snowman.
• The website MyTube (which the Ukranian gangsters enjoy watching) is a parody of the popular Internet video sharing site YouTube.
• During one of Wayne Slater's flashbacks, the ballet piece Montagues and Capulets is played, which is the opening theme of the British version of The Apprentice.
• Homer compares Wayne's voice to Lauren Bacall's.
• Wayne killing Victor's wife and later killing Victor himself is a reference to 24, where Sutherland's character Jack Bauer accidentally killed Victor Drazen's wife and daughter, and later killed Drazen himself.
• In one of Wayne's flashbacks, which shows some of the training he went through as a CIA agent, he fights a number of different characters including:
  • Two ninjas.
  • A sumo wrestler.
  • A knight.
  • A woman with a flail, from the Kill Bill movies.
  • A tank.
  • A mustached man in red and white striped clothing.
  • Chucky from the Child's Play movies.
  • Pinhead from the Hellraiser movie series.
  • Kobe Bryant from the basketball team the Los Angeles Lakers.
  • Batman villain The Penguin, along with two henchmen.
  • Three Gothic looking baseball players.
  • A polar bear.
• The silver safety hat that Mr. Burns awards Wayne is inside a box shaped like the Ark of the Covenant.
• When Mr. Burns fires Wayne, he exclaims "off with his job," a play on the phrase "off with his head!"
• In the power plant's locker room, there is a poster of a Mushroom Cloud. Above the cloud are the words "don't do this."
• The reason Wayne chose to come to Springfield is because "it appears on no maps or charts." This is a reference to the fact that Springfield's State has never been mentioned by name.
• Victor mentions that Beyonce confirmed, through email, that she would play at his daughter's party.

Trivia

• Comic Book Guy has a big red book on his book shelf. This could be Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20.
• Moe has a "brine" beer tap so he can put brine in pickled egg jars.
• Edna and Ned are seen together in bed.
• On MyTube website the mobster is watching "AUTO-TUNE Disaster Victim". This is a reference to "Bed Intruder". It has 15,000 views.
  • The mobster also finds a video of Wayne Slater, whom he hates, and one of his fellow mobsters suggests giving the video zero stars. Youtube itself, no longer has star ratings.

Continuity

Comic Book Guy's room

• At the beginning of the episode in Comic Book Guy's room, there are:
  • Blinky in a lamp. ("Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" et al)
  • A Poochie doll. ("The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show")
  • An Itchy doll.
  • A Scratchy doll.
  • A Multi-eyed squirrel doll (The Simpsons Movie)
  • A Plopper doll (The Simpsons Movie)
  • An Everyman poster ("Homer the Whopper")
  • A photo from the Opening sequence of "MoneyBART".
• The result of Nedna, a relationship formed in the previous episode "The Ned-Liest Catch", is revealed and Ned and Edna are still together.

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