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• The title of the episode is a play on the name of James L. Brooks' 1987 film, Broadcast News. Brooks is also a co-developer and producer of The Simpsons.
• The Squeaky Voiced Teen jumps off Geezer Rock, depressed due to the cancellation of Futurama, a show created by Simpsons creator Matt Groening.
• The collapse of Geezer Rock is a reference to when the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed in 2003.
• The title of the Itchy and Scratchy short, What's Nuked, Pussycat? is a play on What's New Pussycat?
• The episode's title is also a reference to the Darkwing Duck episode of the same name.
• This is the second episode of the series to have the hit song from the Spice Girls, Wannabe to be played, the first was from Maximum Homerdrive.
• The moment when Lenny says that he is going to dance on the grave of the "Unknown Soldier" it is referencing to a Breaking Benjamin song of the same name.
• The band Blood, Sweat, and Tears plays one of its songs during Geezer Rock's birthday, although Mayor Quimby made a comment that indicated that Sweat had died recently.

• in Principal Skinner's flashback, Incense and Peppermints plays