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Cultural references
- The episode's title comes from "The Wizard of Menlo Park", a nickname for Thomas Alva Edison started by newspapers in late 1870s. Menlo Park is now part of Edison, New Jersey (renamed in 1954 by voters to honor the inventor) was where Edison had his research laboratory for 10 years before moving to West Orange into what is now the Edison Museum.
- Those who attended Homer's funeral at The Graveyard of the Future include:
- Barney, who is holding four Academy Awards.
- The Environmental Control Robot from Lost in Space.
- Heckle and Jeckle, the animated cartoon characters.
- Lenny, who is then the President of the USA.
- According to Homer, when in outer space all they did was grow space tomatoes and sabotage Mir, the space station operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia.
- KITT from Knight Rider makes a cameo to cheer Homer up.
- When running on a globe, Bart exclaims "Top of the world, Ma!", a reference to the second to last line of White Heat, "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!".
- Homer reads A Child's Garden of Edison, a parody of A Child's Garden of Verses.
- He also enjoys the fictional Hardy Boys' book The Smugglers of Pirate Cove.
- Homer mentions that Edison was a practitioner of Fletcherism. He believed in the benefits of thoroughly chewing food and adopted the practice as part of his health regimen.
- Carl mentions that James Watt invented the steam engine.
- The term "microcalifragilistics" Professor Frink uses is a pun on "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", a famous word from Mary Poppins.
- On the blackboard, Homer is trying to calculate the mass of the Higgs boson (H0). The equation includes the mathematical constant π and three physical constants: Planck constant (h), the speed of light (c), and the gravitational constant (G).
- The equality Homer writes 398712+436512=447212, which does not hold, is an example of Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Homer and Bart travel to the Edison Museum in Beaumont, Texas.
- A T-shirt with the AC/DC band logo is being sold at the museums' gift shop. Another T-shirt includes the slogan "Don't Mess with Texas".
- After realising that Leonardo da Vinci's museum is in Italy, Homer proposes vandalizing Eli Whitney's museum instead.
Trivia
- When Homer daydreams about his funeral in The Graveyard of the Future, a tombstone with the name Tamzarian on it can be seen. Tamzarian being Principal Skinner's "real" last name from episode 9-2, "The Principal and the Pauper".
- On his blackboard, Homer has the equation 3987^12 + 4365^12 = 4472^12. This appears to violate Fermat's last theorem, as most calculators with less than 10 decimal places will show them as equal. However, it turns out there is a 0.000000002% difference between the equations. This is known as a near miss. Another near miss appears in "Treehouse of Horror VI".[1]
Continuity
- The film about Homer's life includes shots of his fight against Drederick Tatum ("The Homer They Fall") and his time on the space shuttle ("Deep Space Homer").
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