Bobby, It's Cold Outside/References
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"Bobby, It's Cold Outside"
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Cultural references
- The episode title is a reference to the 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser.
- During the title screen gag and couch gag, "Deck the Halls" plays.
- During the Created By and Developed By credits, "Once in Royal David's City" by Cecil Frances Alexander plays.
- "Carol of the Bells" by Mykola Leontovych plays several times in the episode.
- The United Parcel Service (UPS) delivers parcels in Springfield.
- Sideshow Bob sings a parody of the Christmas carol "Ding Dong Merrily on High".
- Homer suggests that he and Marge can watch the 2018 film Roma, which he thinks is about the restaurant chain Tony Roma's.
- The Simpson family sings the children's song "Baby Shark" in the car.
- The Gnome-in-the-Home Dome is a parody of the ride It's a Small World.
- Sideshow Bob says he's a trained method actor, like Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread and Mike Myers in The Love Guru.
- In the Fox News Yule Log:
- The Channel 6 News headline is "The Ghost of Christmas Presents", a reference to the Ghost of Christmas Present from A Christmas Carol.
- Scott Bakula mentions NCIS: New Orleans to Wiggum, and Wiggum mentions Quantum Leap to him, two shows Scott starred in.
- Sandra Bullock puts on a blindfold, a reference to her film Bird Box.
- Gimbels, a department store chain that is now defunct, is shown and mentioned in a flashback from Mr. Burns's childhood.
Continuity
Goofs
- The website that Lenny uses to buy his Christmas gifts doesn't have a top-level domain in its URL.
- Homer's address on his Kris Kringle Union card lists him as living at Springfield Beach, the same place Sideshow Bob's card says.
