The Sweetest Apu/References
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Cultural references
- Catch-22 - Homer refers to the punctured keg of beer as being “so cold...so cold.” These are the words Snowden uses when hit and bleeding, in the novel Catch-22. Milhouse also says these words in the season seven episode "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" after Bart complains that nothing happened to Milhouse after playing with the monkey in the Pier One wicker basket.
- Wild Wild West - Dr. Loveless' giant mechanical spider, in this episode driven by Professor Frink.
- The title is a pun on the Sade song, “The Sweetest Taboo”.
- When Marge is watching the video of Apu’s wedding, Homer gets up with the band and tries to sing the same song from the wedding scene in The Godfather.
- Apu’s cartoon appears in The New Yorker, which Homer says he purchased only for the photos of Richard Avedon, featuring Lenny.
- Apu and his octuplets reenact My Fair Lady as part of Manjula’s list.
- Moe uses a generic Windex brand called Windel for his Windex drink (even though a real Windex drink is made of vodka, triple sec, and blue curacao).
- At the Civil War reenactment, there is a confederate soldier who bears a striking similarity to General Robert E. Lee.
- When Apu's wife first kicks him out of the house, his children hiss at him. This is a reference to the hissing children in the David Cronenberg film The Brood.
- On Apu's reincarnation poster, one of his past lives was "a clod" ({{W|Mad (magazine)|MAD Magazine]]'s Alfred E. Neuman) and an assistant to Saturday Night Live executive Lorne Michaels. Lorne hired such Simpsons writers as George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, Conan O'Brien, Ian Maxtone-Graham, and Joel H. Cohen as sketch writers in the mid-1980s into the 1990s, and hired voice actor Harry Shearer as a season five cast member in 1979).
