Last Exit to Springfield/References

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	Season 4 Episode References
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Trivia

• "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).
• This episode has started a spark for annoying website called "Lisa Needs Braces". It is basically a picture of Homer blinking with the words "Lisa needs braces]](as said by Marge) and "dental plan" (as said by Lenny. There is no way to get out of the website, the only way is by shutting down your computer and then restarting it.

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 lads, it's Lisa in the sky", and John Lennon: "No diamonds, though" while Lisa is flying over their (purple) submarine. This is a reference to the famous song of The Beatles: "Lucy in the sky with Diamonds", which also featured in the film. Another factor to the dream is that when Lisa is flying, clouds forming the word HATRED are shown (it was LOVE in the original movie).
• 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".
• When Burns and Smithers slide down the poles to get to the button to switch the power off, it is a reference to the Batman TV show.
• 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.