The Book Job/References

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References/Trivia

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	Season 23 Episode References
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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the heist films The Italian Job, which was originally made in 1969 and remade in 2003, and The Bank Job, which was made in 2008 as a portrayal of the 1971 Baker Street robbery.
• The episode's plot is a parody of the Ocean's Trilogy.
• Milhouse Van Houten is seen holding a Barney the Dinosaur doll.
• Shaun White: Snow Vampire is a reference to the Shaun White Snowboarding game.
• The Bourne Continuation is a reference to the Jason Bourne series of books.
• The books seen on Neil Gaiman's stand are all real books.
  • The Absolute Death
  • The Absolute Sandman
  • American Gods
  • Coraline
  • The Graveyard Book
  • Neverwhere
  • Stardust
• There are several Harry Potter references in the episode:
  • The Angelica Button series is seen again, a parody of the Harry Potter series.
  • Homer says that Patty has read enough fiction to strangle a Hippogriff.
  • Patty speaks in Parseltongue.
  • Comic Book Guy is seen dressed up as a Rubeus Hagrid type character.
  • The story they came up with about an orphan who went to a magical school is a reference to Harry Potter.
• Homer says that Patty is also fluent in Dothraki.
• The Twilight series was said to have originally been about a girl who fell in love with a golem.
• Prince of Persia: Beverly Hills is a reference to The Prince of Persia and Beverly Hills.
• The Babybiters Club is a parody of The Baby-sitters Club series of books.
• The name of the book Tru Blood is a reference to True Blood, a vampire TV series.
• The dinosaurs smoking at the Sitting with Dinosaurs play is a reference to one of Gary Larson's, The Far Side comics.
• The game Fruit Shoot could be named after Fruit Shoot a juice drink in real life. It is also a parody of the game Fruit Ninja.
• Apparently, the trolls in The Troll Twins of Underbridge Academy replace many words with "trolly", a reference to The Smurfs.
• The book Percy Sledge and the Olympians is a parody of Percy Jackson & the Olympians.
• The book Booze Cruise of the Dawn Treader is a parody of the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Trivia

• There is no opening sequence in this episode, making it the second episode in a row to not have one.

Continuity

• The Male Golem is seen in a picture. ("Treehouse of Horror XVII")

Goofs

T. R. Francis in "The Haw-Hawed Couple"

• T. R. Francis was depicted in "The Haw-Hawed Couple" as an old lady. In this episode she is middle-aged.
• The people at Sitting with Dinosaurs move places a couple of times.
• During the scenes with The Crew in the TweenLit Inc. headquarters, the times on their watches change frequently.
• When the TweenLit Inc. publisher is talking about the audio book, the shade of white on his coat changes.