The Seven-Beer Snitch/References
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Cultural references
- The title is a play on Billy Wilder's 1955 comedy The Seven Year Itch.
- The various prison scenes parody several different movies and TV shows, most notably Oz and Escape from Alcatraz.
- Marge refers to Fat Tony's son as Michael, a reference to the movie The Godfather. Michael would later be seen in series 18, in the episode "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer".
- When arresting Homer, Chief Wiggum references the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
- The hat Homer wears in prison is inspired by Simon Adebisi from the Oz series
- When people start walking out of the concert hall after the first notes ("V for Victory") of the Beethoven 5th Symphony, Marge shouts "Wait! The next piece is an atonal medley by Philip Glass!" At which point, the audience begins running out, followed by the orchestra with their instruments.
- A theatre marquee in Shelbyville advertises "Sideshow Mel in Equus".
- On the letter from Marge to Frank Gehry we can see an image of Snoopy. Another references to him is when Santa's Little Helper is flying a red plane in a red scarf, very much like Snoopy vs. the Red Baron. Or when Homer sleeps above a red dog house, like Snooopy uaually does.
- Homer is seen trying to escape from the prisoners on a Segway PT.
- Frank Gehry is the first architect to appear on The Simpsons. There are several references to his unorthodox designs, as when Gehry crumples Marge's letter and throws it away, only to discover that it's the perfect design for Springfield's concert hall.
- As Frank Gehry goes through his incoming mail, he says "Bill, bill, Bilbao bill,..." referring to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao he designed for Bilbao, Spain.
- Frank Gehry's design of the Springfield concert hall is similar to his design of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
- When being asked to be the prison snitch, Homer asks if he will eat cheese and imitates Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.
- The snippet of music played by the orchestra in the gym is from the first movement of Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Frank Gehry is a huge Mahler fan (from his own words in Michael Tilson Thomas's "Keeping Score - Mahler: Origins and Legacy" DVD.)
- The Springfield orchestra is led by a conductor with a German accent who resembles the late German conductor Herbert Von Karajan.
- When Mr Burns is reading out the list of drugs one of the is blue bomber which is a nickname for the videogame character Mega Man.
