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Cultural references

• The episode title (which is also Homer's "manager" stage name) is a play on Colonel Tom Parker, who managed Elvis Presley.
• The country-western themed variety show Ya Hoo! is a parody of Hee Haw.
• The movies mentioned at the beginning are parodies:
  • Honey, I Hit a School Bus (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
  • Look Who's Oinking (Look Who's Talking)
• During his drive to The Beer -N- Brawl, Homer passes a boy playing a banjo on a porch, a reference to the "Dueling Banjos" sequence in the film Deliverance.
• The Beer -N- Brawl redneck bar is based on the bar in the film Urban Cowboy.
• Lenny sings "There's a Kind of Hush (All Over the World)" by The Carpenters.
• Homer says that the last song before Lurleen's "Your Wife Don't Understand You" that he could not get out of his mind was "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc.

Trivia

• At The Beer -N- Brawl:
  • A horse is seen hitched outside.
  • The bar sells Fudd Beer, as well as the High Tar variant of Laramie Cigarettes.
• Yodelin' Zeke appears both as a solo artist (at The Beer -N- Brawl) and as part of the Ya Hoo! cast. At The Beer -N- Brawl, Zeke is hit over the head with a chair. When Zeke is introduced in the Ya Hoo! opening credits in the episode in which Lurleen Lumpkin appeared, he has bandages on his head, indicating that the episode was produced not long after the chair incident at The Beer -N- Brawl.
• When the family arrives at Springfield Googolplex Theatres, they park in "Section M"
• The Royal King Trailer Park has gone 14 days without a tornado.
• On top of the County Dump is a cow.
• The interior shots of the Gogoloplex are clearly reused shots of the Aztec Theater.

Deleted scenes

Before Lurleen's performance of "Bagged Me a Homer" at the recording studio, Bart and Lisa argue over country singers. This footage was included in a promo of the episode and can be found on the DVD, but the full scene is not.