Brush with Greatness/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 2 Episode References
← 030 "Old Money"	031 "Brush With Greatness"	"Lisa's Substitute" 032 →

Cultural references

• During the scene of the line up at Mt. Splashmore, there is a frame of an optical illusion similar to the Ascending and Descending print from the artist M. C. Escher
• When Homer decides to go on a diet, he says, "As God is my witness, I'll always be hungry again!", referencing Scarlett O'Hara's quote, "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" from Gone with the Wind.
• Much of the music and scenes of Homer's workouts are similar to the training montage in Rocky.
• When Homer walks to the scale to weigh himself, the theme music from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly plays.
• A copy of the Andy Warhol painting Campbell's Soup Cans is visible in the art gallery where Marge's portrait of Mr. Burns is unveiled.

Trivia

• People seen in the long line at Mt. Splashmore include:
  • J. Loren Pryor
  • Otto
  • Kim
  • Howard, Sr.
  • Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Wife
  • Bold mother
  • Keyboard player

Goofs

Lisa without eyes

• Homer weighs 239lbs in this episode; he was the same weight in "Homer's Night Out" and "King-Size Homer". By the end of the episode he is down to 225 pounds.
• When Carl Carlson speaks in the episode, it is Lenny's voice actor.
• Before Bart and Lisa enter the water slide, Lisa is briefly missing her eyes.
• When Krusty was being pressed by News Reporters about the incident at Mt. Splashmore with the H2WHOA!! and his attempts at driving them away, he apparently wipes away the "white makeup" on his head, despite the fact that it was implied in "Homer's Triple Bypass" that Krusty's bypass surgery that gave him a pacemaker permanently bleached his skin white.

Music

• Ringo Starr - "It Don't Come Easy"

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Bart Gets an "F" • Simpson and Delilah • Treehouse of Horror • Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish • Dancin' Homer • Dead Putting Society • Bart vs. Thanksgiving • Bart the Daredevil • Itchy & Scratchy & Marge • Bart Gets Hit by a Car • One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish • The Way We Was • Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment • Principal Charming • Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? • Bart's Dog Gets an "F" • Old Money • Brush with Greatness • Lisa's Substitute • The War of the Simpsons • Three Men and a Comic Book • Blood Feud