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Cultural references
- The episode's title is an allusion to Thomas Edison's nickname, "The Wizard of Menlo Park".
- Those who attended Homer's funeral at The Graveyard of the Future include:
- Barney, who is holding four Academy Awards.
- The Environmental Control Robot from Lost in Space.
- Heckle and Jeckle, the animated cartoon characters.
- Lenny, who is then the President of the United States.
- According to Homer, when in outer space all they did was grow space tomatoes and sabotage Mir, the space station operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia.
- KITT from Knight Rider makes a cameo to cheer Homer up.
- When running on a globe, Bart exclaims "Top of the world, Ma!", a reference to the second to last line of White Heat, "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!".
- Homer reads A Child's Garden of Edison, a parody of A Child's Garden of Verses.
- He also enjoys the fictional Hardy Boys' book The Smugglers of Pirate Cove.
- Homer mentions that Edison was a practitioner of Fletcherism. He believed in the benefits of thoroughly chewing food and adopted the practice as part of his health regimen.
- Carl mentions that James Watt invented the steam engine.
- The term "microcalifragilistics" Professor Frink uses is a pun on "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", a famous word from Mary Poppins.
- On the blackboard, Homer is trying to calculate the mass of the Higgs boson (H0). The equation includes the mathematical constant π and three physical constants: Planck constant (h), the speed of light (c), and the gravitational constant (G).
- The equality Homer writes 398712+436512=447212, which does not hold, is an example of Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Homer and Bart travel to the Edison Museum in Beaumont, Texas.
- A T-shirt with the AC/DC band logo is being sold at the museums' gift shop. Another T-shirt includes the slogan "Don't Mess with Texas".
- After realising that Leonardo da Vinci's museum is in Italy, Homer proposes vandalizing Eli Whitney's museum instead.
Trivia
- When Homer daydreams about his funeral in The Graveyard of the Future, a tombstone with the name Tamzarian on it can be seen. Tamzarian being Principal Skinner's "real" last name from episode 9-2, "The Principal and the Pauper".
- On his blackboard, Homer has the equation 3987^12 + 4365^12 = 4472^12. This appears to violate Fermat's last theorem, as most calculators with less than 10 decimal places will show them as equal. However, it turns out there is a 0.000000002% difference between the equations. This is known as a near miss. Another near miss appears in "Treehouse of Horror VI".[1]
Continuity
- The film about Homer's life includes shots of his fight against Drederick Tatum ("The Homer They Fall") and his time on the space shuttle ("Deep Space Homer").
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