Two Dozen and One Greyhounds/References

References/Trivia

Season 6 Episode References

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Cultural references

The title is a reference to the Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
- Mr. Burns' steals the puppies after being refused to buy them. His plan is to kill them to turn their fur into clothing, but the puppies are rescued. All of which is the same as what happens with Cruella de Vil in the cartoon although she wants a fur coat and Mr. Burns wants a fur tuxedo.
The names of two of the puppies, "Prince" and "The Puppy Formerly Known As Prince", are a reference to the musician Prince changing his stage name in the early 1990s.
Mr. Burns' song "See My Vest" is a parody of the song "Be Our Guest" from the Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast. The chubby cheeked housekeeper (character design based on Nanny from One Hundred and One Dalmatians) joins in with Mr. Burns to sing a part of the song is what housekeeper Mrs. Potts (voiced by Angela Lansbury) does.
The scene showing Santa's Little Helper and She's The Fastest eating spaghetti and kissing is a reference to Lady and the Tramp.
The clerk at the pet store performs a mind-meld on Santa's Little Helper, a reference to the Vulcan mind-meld from Star Trek.
Terminator: Santa's Little Helper's escape from the car (as well as the scene's music) parody the T-1000 from Terminator 2.
Mr. Burns says that Little Monty's trick of standing on his hind legs reminds him of Rory Calhoun with the joke being the description is so broadly vague yet Smithers guessed it on his first try.

Marge's reaction when Homer proclaims that it was Santa's Little Helper who buried all of their stuff implies that she herself was responsible for their burial.

Luigi sets down spaghetti and meatballs for Santa's Little Helper and She's the Fastest, but in the shot following that, the dish and the other things on the table have moved.
It looks like there is nothing in the food dishes Marge sets down for Santa's Little Helper and She's the Fastest. Also, when they start eating, they just stick their heads in the bowl and keep them still.
26 puppies eat from the bowls in the kitchen scene. As the title suggests, they are only meant to be 25.
- Even worse, there are 27 puppies in Bart's sock drawer.
The Rich Texan's hair is mis-coloured brown.
At the scene in the pet shop, the animation of Santa's Little Helper is very choppy. Several times, his head cuts from looking forward to looking to the left without any in-between frames.
When the Simpsons are watching the dog race, there are a few frames where the bottom left curl of Marge's hair is incorrectly drawn and colored as if it was part of her head.
When the puppies are eating from their bowls, they are seen in a far away shot scattered throughout the kitchen. However, when the camera pans to showcase all the dog bowls, they are in a straight line.

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