Lost Verizon/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on Lost Horizon and a reference to Verizon Communications.
• The bar Inga-Bar Beerman's is a reference to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
• Crocodile Drunkee's is a pun on Crocodile Dundee.
• Principal Skinner crosses the freeway in a similar fashion to the video game Frogger.
• The Allied Peas mascot is a parody of the Jolly Green Giant.
• Bart, Nelson and Milhouse eat grilled Twizzlers.
• Denis Leary is seen wearing a Boston Red Sox baseball cap. In real life, Leary is a big Red Sox fan.
• Bart uses Leary's cell phone to order a New York Yankees hat and Derek Jeter jersey, much to Leary's annoyance (see above).
• Thanks to one of Bart's pranks, Leary appears in the movie adaptation of the children's book Everybody Poops as a constipated gorilla.
• The song playing when Bart is collecting golf balls is "Workin' Man Blues" by Merle Haggard.

Trivia

• Dr. Nick reappears in this episode, even though he appeared to have died in The Simpsons Movie.

Goofs

• In one scene, the satellite is on the right of the roof of the Simpsons' house, then several scenes later, it is on the left side.