Chief of Hearts/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

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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.
• Ramrod is one of the ex-convicts working at Cora's Diner.

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