Dancin' Homer/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Gags

Credits

Quotes

	Season 2 Episode References
← 017 "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"	018 "Dancin' Homer"	"Dead Putting Society" 019 →

Debut Appearance

• Capital City Goofball

Trivia

• Capital City has restaurants named "The Penny Loafer" (shaped like a penny loafer), and The "Original Frenchies".
• Signs on the outfield wall at Springfield War Memorial Stadium include: "Royal Majesty-Clothing For the Obese or gangley Gentleman", Moe's tavern-Hit This Sign and Win a Free Well Drink", "Girdles 'N Such-Fancy Lingerie", "The Sprinfield Mall", and "The Jerky Hut".
• During the Capital City montage, the Army Reserve is honored by a statue of a soldier holding a briefcase and a rifle with the caption, "To the Brave Men of the Army Reserve".
• Bleeding Gums Murphy's rendition of the United States' National Anthem "Star-Spangled Banner" before the baseball game on power plant employee appreciation night is 26 minutes long. The digital clock behind him changes from 7:30 to 7:56. The moon can even be seen shifting in the sky during the song.
• One of the signs along the outfield wall at the Springfield Stadium is an ad for Royal Majesty. Royal Majesty is the name of the clothing store that Homer's assistant, Karl, took him to for his new suit fittings in episode 2.2, "Simpson and Delilah".
• The story telling sequences inside Moe's tavern were not originally planned as part of the episode and were added late in production. This is why the actual dialogue does not match up with the lip movements in these scenes.
• This is the first episode to have a guest star play as their real self. The guest star being Tony Bennett. Bennett also makes an appearance in episode 14-3, "Bart vs. Lisa vs. 3rd Grade".
• There is a picture in the Capital City Stadium locker room of Homer with Princess Kashmir that became famous during the episode "Homer's Night Out".
• Writer Ken Levine used to be a minor league baseball announcer, and not only wrote the dialog, but voiced the commentators you hear in the episode.
• This is the third episode to have Homer's name somewhere in the title.
• The Baby Elephant Walk was featured on a trading card in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album.

Goofs

• During the end of the Capital City montage, Marge's dress turns from green to red and her necklace turns from red to white.

Music

• Tony Bennett - "Capital City"

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Bart Gets an "F" • Simpson and Delilah • Treehouse of Horror • Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish • Dancin' Homer • Dead Putting Society • Bart vs. Thanksgiving • Bart the Daredevil • Itchy & Scratchy & Marge • Bart Gets Hit by a Car • One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish • The Way We Was • Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment • Principal Charming • Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? • Bart's Dog Gets an "F" • Old Money • Brush with Greatness • Lisa's Substitute • The War of the Simpsons • Three Men and a Comic Book • Blood Feud