A Brand New Smithers/References

References/Trivia

Cultural references

When Homer is told that he has to think backwards, he says that's like Bizarro World, a planet from DC Comics.
A video of Waylon Smithers without pants is uploaded to Woo Tube, a parody of YouTube.
After getting struck by lightning, Smithers thinks he looks a bit like Anderson Cooper.
Mr. Burns had Picasso paintings hanging in the cafeteria of the Nuclear Power Plant.
Mr. Burns says "et tu, Waylon?", referencing the Latin phrase "Et tu, Brute?" from Julius Caesar.
After getting a promotion, Homer ends up on the covers of Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
Homer was on a news show and explained why Vin Diesel should win an Academy Award.