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Cultural references

• The episode name is a reference to the novel The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and the movie of the same name based on the book.
• Marvel's Thanos shows up on the couch gag with his Infinity Gauntlet and proceeds to vaporize the Simpson family except for Maggie.
• The three belts are reference to:
  • WLBA: the World Boxing Association (WBA).
  • Federación Internacional de Lunch-Boxeo: the spanish name, Federación Internacional de Boxeo, for the International Boxing Federation (IBF).
  • WLBO: the World Boxing Organization (WBO).
• One of Bart's lunch boxes is one of Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh.
• U.S. Ninja Ultimate Beast Blaster is a reference to Netflix's Ultimate Beastmaster and NBC's American Ninja Warrior.
• Books at Sam's house:
  • The Collected by Kurt Vonnegut.
  • Doorknobs of Denmark.
  • Goya's Stabbiest Paintings.
  • European Train Menus.
  • Klimt und Koons Eine Retrospective, a book talking about Jeff Koons's Gazing Ball (Klimt Kiss).
  • The Big Book of Glass by Maurice.
• Authors of the Russian novels in Sam's house:
  • Alexander Pushkin.
  • Ivan Turgenev.
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
  • Leo Tolstoy.
  • Boris Pasternak.
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.