Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?/References
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Cultural references
- The title references the 1967 film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
- Homer's song about food resembles, in part, the tune "I Feel Pretty", from West Side Story.
- The typewriter without an "e" refers to the film Misery.
- Props seen at Planet Springfield: Herbie from The Love Bug, the coffee mug from Heartbeeps, the cane from Citizen Kane, a script from The Cable Guy, an alien resembling one from Mars Attacks! (but pink), a model of the Titanic, models of an X-Wing and TIE fighters, and a statue of C-3PO.
- When Lisa and Homer discuss the language to use in his first review Homer attempts to augment nouns with "groin-grabbingly". Lisa offers the word "transcendent" to which Homer replies "What about groin-grabbingly transcendent?". "Groin Grabbingly Transcendent" is the name of a song by Jason Becker on his album The Blackberry Jams.
- The episode was also the second episode of The Simpsons to feature a reference to the movie The French Connection (The first was "The Springfield Connection").
- Luigi references the "horse head" scene from The Godfather.
- Homer typing the same thing over and over spoofs the 1980 film The Shining.
- Citizen Kane is referenced multiple times throughout the episode, such as the "cane from Citizen Kane" and the scene where Homer tells Lisa "people will think what I tell them to think", and that she "can't do this to me, I'm Homer Simpson!" as she leaves the room.
- This episode is somehow TV-PG D (dialogue), while in reality it deserves to be TV-PG LD (language and dialogue) for what Homer said to the ambulance while driving the kids.
