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Cultural references

• Blockoland is a parody of Legoland.
• The ghost of César Chávez visits Homer during his hunger strike, but takes the appearance of Cesar Romero, because Homer doesn't know what Chavez looks like.
• The scene where Bart sees Homer lying on top of the red dog house is a direct reference to Charlie Brown and Snoopy (both from Peanuts). Bart even utters Charlie Brown's signature line "Good Grief".
• The title is a play on the game, Hungry Hungry Hippos. Coincidentally, one of the hippos in the game is named Homer.
• When Kent Brockman says that Mr. Duff is insisting that Homer is a liar, they show footage of Homer with his pants on fire. This is a nod to the classic chant, Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire.
• When Marge gets streaks in her hair, it resembles the Bride of Frankenstein's hair; tall white with two black streaks.
• M*A*S*H: When Homer starts his hunger strike, Lisa gives him a copy of My Core Beliefs by M*A*S*H cast member Mike Farrell.
• The name of the barbershop Hairy Shearers is a reference to, and pun on, voice actor Harry Shearer, who voices Mr. Burns, Smithers, Reverend Lovejoy, Ned Flanders, and other characters.
• Homer's attempt to alert the press of the move by showing them a room of evidence, only to find nothing incriminating is inside, is a likely reference to the film Moonraker, where James Bond discovers that Hugo Drax is operating a lab making deadly gas. When Bond takes M and his superiors to investigate the lab, he finds it has been replaced with a dining room.

Trivia

• In real life, Mike Farrell has not written a book called My Core Beliefs.

Goofs

• When Maggie rips her diaper, you can see teeth, but Maggie isn't supposed to have teeth for her age.
• "Veggie" is misspelled as "vegie".
• While he and Milhouse are walking over to Homer, the brim of Kirk Van Houten's hat switches from red to white for a frame.