The Twisted World of Marge Simpson/References
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Cultural references
- The episode's chalkboard gag, "I am not licensed to do anything" is likely a pun on Licence to Kill from the James Bond series.
- The Springfield Ivenstorettes invested in El Bombastico, a Mexican lucha libre wrestler. According to the poster, El Bombastico performs at "El Coliseo de Tijuana". This is a reference to the Arena Coliseo, an arena primarily used for lucha libre which is located in Mexico City, but not in Tijuana.
- At the Franchise Expo, Investo the Robot shouts "Danger, danger!" after Bart damages its circuits with soda. This is a reference to the same phrase used by the Environmental Control Robot in the TV series Lost in Space.
- At Disco Stu's Can't Stop the Learnin' Disco Academies:
- The disco song "The Hustle" by Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony is heard.
- There is a poster of John Travolta in his iconic role as Tony Manero in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever.
- Disco Stu does Fonzie's "Eyyyyyyy" from the sitcom Happy Days.
- Stu's goldfish platforms are similar to the pair worn by Flyguy (Antonio Fargas) in the 1988 film I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
- Patti LaBelle's famous 1987 hit "New Attitude" is heard when Helen, Edna, Agnes, Luann and Maude buy Fleet-A-Pita.
- Marge places a Hang in there, Baby motivational poster.
- "The Lineman" by Sam Spence (better known nowadays for its use in SpongeBob SquarePants) plays during the montage when the Mafia takes out the other businesses.
Goofs
- When the short Yakuza member was thrown though the kitchen window, he went into the backyard, but the battle was waging in the front yard - However, it is possible that he just ran around to the front, or the fight enveloped the grounds.
- When everyone started throwing pretzels at Mr. Burns in the stadium, pretzels started coming off-screen from nowhere.
- A laser is pointed at Principal Skinner; however, seconds later, the laser is nowhere to be seen. Although the laser could have been moved away from being pointed at the face.
- At the fair, Helen Lovejoy picks up a pita and bites a corner off it. Then there's an angle change where Christopher tells Helen the ingredients. When the camera cuts back to Helen, the pita is untouched.
- Many coloring mistakes occur during the mafia fight, when there is a top-down view of the gangs advancing on each other members of the Yakuza have the colours of Fat Tony, Legs and Louie, when Marge suggests her and Homer go inside, Louie is seen backing away from the overweight member of the Yakuza but has Legs' colours and when Homer starts talking about the short Yakuza member, another member of the Yakuza passes shouting "Hi-ya!" he also has Legs' colours, also when there is a shot of the kitchen with the gang war seen through the window we briefly see Legs with Louie's colours.
- When Marge throws down the fliers, one of the people in the crowd who is African-American briefly has a yellow (Caucasian) arm, it happens twice both times when his arm is in the bent position.