Chief of Hearts/References
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Cultural references
- Battle Ball is a reference to Bakugan Battle Brawlers, a game played with balls with magnets inside and cards.
- When explaining the game to Bart, one of the boys says that it makes Digimon look like Pokémon.
- When Louie turns on the music for Fat Tony, the song "At Seventeen" by Janis Ian plays.
- The cop show that Homer watches before changing the channel is an episode of the TV show Starsky and Hutch.
- Over the freeze-frame at the end of the Starsky and Hutch episode the words appear "A Stephen J. Copshow Production," a parody of Stephen J. Cannell, who produced many cop shows but not Starsky and Hutch.
- While pointing a gun at Homer, Johnny Tightlips says, "nobody moves, or the doughboy gets popped" a reference to Poppin' Fresh, better known as the Pillsbury Doughboy.
Trivia
- Lisa appears in this episode but doesn't have any lines.
- Sideshow Bob makes a brief cameo appearance at the end of the episode.
