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	Season 31 Episode References
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Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a reference to the Bitcoin Cryptocurrency.
  • In the cryptocurrency tutorial, the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is mentioned.
• The couch gag is a parody of the movie Cats.
• Professor Frink is seen reading Mensa Health, a reference to Men's Health and Mensa International.
• Professor Frink has a solved Rubik's Cube on his desk.
• Professor Frink laments that in a world of Albert Einsteins, he is a James Chadwick.
• Jim Parsons' "Kachinga" is a reference to his character in The Big Bang Theory Sheldon Cooper's catchphrase "Bazinga".
  • Big Bang Theory residuals are also shown in his cryptocurrency tutorial.
  • In the tutorial, LeBron James is mentioned.
  • The downward-flowing green code in the background is the signature of The Matrix.
• The "Cryptocurrency song" is a parody of "That's Life", originally by Marion Montgomery.
• Frink receives Amazon deliveries through his window.
• Professor Frink's robot has a Tetris setting.
• Patty and Selma say they quit smoking since they moved to Disney, referencing Fox being bought by them.
• Referenced in Moe's trivia:
  • Lenny mentions Meryl Streep.
  • The first question mentions Saturday Night Live and Howard Cosell. The answer to it is Bay City Rollers.
  • The second question mentions Dallas Cowboys and the answer is Ed "Too Tall" Jones, who was currently in Moe's.
  • The answer to the third question is the Cronut.
  • The answer to the fourth question is Ringolevio.
• "Hangin' with the Frink" is a parody of "Puttin' On the Ritz" by Irving Berlin.
• Mr. Burns mentions the NFL and the New York Jets.
• Burns did an interview with Vanity Fair, which Smithers wrote the answers to. Smithers mentioned that he was the one who liked Sideways, not Burns.
• People mentioned at Smithers' meeting:
  • Bruce Willis
  • Christian Bale
  • Roseanne Barr from the TV show of the same name.
  • Jared Leto
  • Katherine Heigl
  • Donald Trump
  • Mariah Carey
• One of Eddie's billboards mentions Star Wars.
• The billboards scene is a reference to the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
• The sun rising over the whiteboard surrounded by lights in the town square is a reference to a scene from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• The whiteboard mentions "A&P", which stands for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, which went bankrupt in 2015, which the whiteboard also states.
• "Thanks for the Currency" is a parody of the song "Thanks for the Memory" by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin.

Continuity

• Homer mentions that he was an astronaut. ("Deep Space Homer")
• Lisa mentions getting a pony. ("Lisa's Pony")
• Lisa mentions Bleeding Gums Murphy's death. ("'Round Springfield")

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