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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the popular saying, Thank God It's Friday.
• The song playing when Homer is throwing away his books on the Rapture is Three Dog Night's version of "Easy To Be Hard" from the musical Hair.
• God's chair is an Aeron chair manufactured by Herman Miller, except that God's chair floats and does not have a base.
• In heaven, Leonardo da Vinci is shown drawing, with his left hand, a portrait of Dean Martin in the style of the Mona Lisa.
• The abstract art above the bed in heaven is in the style of Piet Mondrian.
• Charlie Brown is shown for the fourth time. The first time he was seen in his ghost costume in "Treehouse of Horror II", the second time a candle version of him was seen in "Grade School Confidential" and the third time as a costume in "Treehouse of Horror XIV".
• The song played as Homer enters heaven is "The Flower Duet" from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes.
• The clock labelled Heaven is on UTC or UTC+12 relative to the other clocks labelled London, New York and Tokyo.
• God tells Homer that his son, Jesus Christ, went down to Earth and he doesn't know what happened to him, but his son hasn't been the same since. This is a reference to the Crucifixion of Jesus.
• When God turns back time, he exclaims "Deus ex machina", a plot device meaning "God from the machine". It is used ironically since this was the act of the real God to solve an otherwise unsolvable problem, not the god from the mechanical contrivance that ancient Greek dramatists used for the same purpose.
• In the scene at Moe's at the end of the episode, Homer and his pals are posed to resemble the Last Supper fresco by Leonardo da Vinci, with Homer in the center as Jesus.

Trivia

• God is drawn with 5 fingers on each hand and 5 toes on each foot.
• Homer knows the meaning of "eponymous."