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Cultural references
Homer rides on a luggage carrier with four Michelin Men
The scene at the "Place de la Pointillisme" is drawn in the art technique of Pointillism
- In the "Dawn of Time" segment:
- There is a Triceratops skull in the cave.
- Homer's hammock is a saber-toothed tiger pelt.
- The art Maggie is putting on the wall is one of the Lascaux cave paintings.
- The title of the episode is a reference to the title of the film To Sir, with Love.
- The film has also been referenced in the title of the episodes "To Surveil with Love" from Season 21 and "To Cur, with Love" from Season 24.
- A V-Twin three-wheeler Morgan vehicle is found by Lisa and Homer in the garage.
- Homer misinterprets the law of Trover. Bart mentions his dad learned about that on Medieval Tomb Robbers, a fictitious program on the History Channel.
- Homer refers to his good luck saying "Fortune favors the bald," a play on the proverb "Fortune favors the bold."
- Homer gives Lisa a Rag doll and Bart a Florida orange. Florida, California, and Texas are the main orange producers in the United States.
- Comedian Jay Leno arrives to the Simpsons' house with his 1973 Citroën DS Pallas.
- Jay Leno, who buys the car from Homer, is well known as a classic car enthusiast.
- He later ask Homer for a refund because he buys a modern Toyota.
- There is a poster of Keflavík, a town in southwest Iceland, at the Springfield Travel Agency. The poster, however, has a picture of the Hallgrímskirkja church which is located in Reykjavík.
- Some magazines seen at the airport store are real-life parodies:
- Jugs & Ammo is a parody of Guns & Ammo.
- Peephole is a parody of People.
- Playdude is a parody of Playboy.
- Men's Fatness is a parody of Men's Fitness.
- In the flight to Paris, Marge says she has to go to "the Louvre" (the loo).
- The snake Homer finds in his luggage is an "Amazon Blue Constrictor". However, there are no blue boas constrictor in the Amazon region.
- The plane lands at Charles de Gaulle, the largest international airport in France.
- Homer rides on a luggage carrier with four Michelin Men. He shows them a video of the Springfield Tire Fire, and they react in horror, being made of tires themselves.
- Aquarium by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns is heard when the Simpsons visit the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral.
- In Paris, Lisa is dressed as Madeline, a character from a French book and TV series of the same name.
- The house from Up is seen flying in the sky.
- Homer imagines the Venus de Milo made of rats.
- Marge, Bart and Maggie go to Café des 2 Moulins, a famous café in Paris.
- The café has a picture of Pepé Le Pew on the wall.
- Marge asks Bart to drop the pâté at the back alley. Several starving models steal the plate and enter the "Paris Vogue Week Show".
- The Paris Vogue Fashion Week is shown. Vogue Paris is a fashion magazine.
- Runway models, known for being extremely thin, are here shown in side view as being thin as playing cards and they act like playing cards, even riffle shuffling themselves.
- Homer and Lisa have to use the Paris Métro to get to the gardens of the Louvre.
- The ticket machine was in French and Homer accidentally buys one with Argenteuil as the destination.
- Ugolin and Cesar try to find Homer and Lisa playing Marco Polo.
- Homer mentions Burger King.
- Lisa was amazed when she arrived at Rue des Lombards. This street is famous for hosting three of the main French jazz clubs: Le Baiser Salé, Le Duc des Lombards and the Sunset/Sunside.
- Homer prefers to be executed in the guillotine rather than visiting the jazz clubs.
- While the jazz piece "It's Been a Long, Long Time" is heard during the night of Paris, Homer and Marge visit the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and Jim Morrison grave site.
- The scene where Homer and Marge stroll past the "Place de la Pointillisme" is drawn in the art technique of Pointillism, created by French artists.
- Strolling along the Seine with Marge, Homer says "Plastered in Paris, there's no better feeling" a play on plaster of Paris.
- Homer and Marge are next to a statue of Napoleon Bonaparte tells Marge about the briefcase and admits defeat by saying, "Yes, this is my Battle of Essling. Unless Napoleon had a more famous defeat I'm not aware of." where the joke is about not saying the more famous defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
- Homer, when talking to a policeman, states that "our family is falling apart like your European Union". This is clearly a reference to the Brexit, the British EU Membership Referendum, in which the UK voted to leave the European Union.
- Homer gives Lenny a "French Coca-Cola" and Carl gets a miniature statue of the Empire State Building from Homer's layover in New York City.
- Matt Groening appears at the end as a caveman.
Continuity
- Ugolin and Cesar appear. ("The Crepes of Wrath")
- The Simpson family travels on an Air Springfield airplane. ("Fear of Flying")
- Marge mentions bad journeys of the Simpson family:
- Australia ("Bart vs. Australia"),
- Brazil ("Blame It on Lisa", "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"),
- Japan ("Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"),
- London ("The Regina Monologues"),
- China ("Goo Goo Gai Pan"),
- World's Fair Bart drove to ("Bart on the Road"),
- That place with the underground jockeys ("Saddlesore Galactica"),
- Itchy & Scratchy Land ("Itchy & Scratchy Land"),
- Outer Space ("Deep Space Homer").
Trivia
- The Duff blimp in the couch gag says Season 27 ep. 20, the season and episode number of this episode.
- French versions of Chief Wiggum, Eddie and Lou appear.
Goofs
- Lisa's headphones disappear on the plane.
- At the airport, there's a gate "E33", but there's no "E33" gate on the Charles de Gaulle Airport, the airport used as inspiration for it.
- A poster in the travel agent's office is titled "Kaflavik", but the picture is of the landmark Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavík: perhaps knowingly done, as Kaflavik has no landmarks of its own but relates to a word spoken by Professor Frink.
- When the Simpson family arrives at the airport, they are in the departure lounge.
- The plane seating plan is not used on any plane.
- It would be impossible to get a live snake through security.
