Send In the Clowns/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Credits

Quotes

Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the Stephen Sondheim song "Send In the Clowns".
• Homer sings "Jimmy Crack Corn" by the Virginia Minstrels.
• Otto says that he thought that Campaign USA was Lollapalooza.
• Otto made what he thought was a bootleg tape of one of Courtney Love's rambling sound checks. However, it was actually Cokie Roberts doing a think-piece for NPR.
• When the people of Springfield are trapped inside their houses, Marge says that this must be how the people of Hamelin felt when their village was overrun by rats, a reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Goofs

• Rod has gray hair instead of his usual brown hair.
• Sophie Jensen has blonde hair instead of her usual red hair.