Last Exit to Springfield/References

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References/Trivia

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"Last Exit to Springfield", located at www.lardlad.com, is a Simpsons fan site owned by Adam Wolf. He is also the owner of a popular website stating Simpsons news, Simpsons Channel (simpsonschannel.com).

Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a homage to Hubert Selby Jr.'s controversial book Last Exit to Brooklyn.
• The body of the union president is seen buried under a football field, a homage to the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa.
• Mr. Burns' outfit is based on Buster Brown.
• Homer's imagination of a life of organized crime is based on the famous San Gennaro sequence in The Godfather Part II, accepting donuts rather than a necklace and an orange.
• Lisa has a dream that echoes the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine, which Al Jean says had to be changed enough so that everything was slightly different due to legal reasons.
• In that dream, George Harrison says: "Look, is Lisa in the sky", and John Lennon: "No diamonds, though". This is a reference to the famous song of The Beatles: "Lucy in the sky with diamonds".
• The scene where Lisa acquires her monstrous braces and breaks her mirror is based on the 1989 film Batman.
• The song played by Lisa is Mason Williams' "Classical Gas".
• Before Mr. Burns shuts off the power to the town in response to the strike, he says, "From Hell's heart I stab at thee" which is a reference to Captain Ahab's curse, from the film Moby Dick.
• The workers' resistance to the power outage, and Mr. Burns' response, is a spoof of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.