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Trivia

• The Rich Texan also makes his debut appearance in this episode, referred to as "Senator" by Homer.
• Odds at Bart's casino:
  • Krabappel nervous breakdown: 2-1
  • Fat kid popular: 50-1
  • Bart gets his own TV show: 1000-1
• Homer's photographic memory details himself with huge muscles, Marge in a blue dress and green hair, Apu with three heads, Flanders with a baseball glove for a hand, and an alligator in a suit. Homer then receives a call from the President
• Along with several hats, a hair brush and false teeth are thrown into the air at the town meeting.
• Deleted Scene: James Bond and a villain are playing blackjack with Homer as the dealer. Homer gives Bond a joker. Bond tells him he has to take those away from the deck. The he gives Bond the card with the game rules. Bond loses and the villain takes him away.
• This is the episode in which Marge develops her gambing problem.
• Matt Groening was told that if the restaurant chain Planet Hollywood appeared in an episode, it's creators Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone would guest star. The staff wrote it in as the subplot for the episode "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" but they could not appear and the plot was dropped.^[1] Additionally the episode's original script indicates that Robert Goulet's part was written for Wayne Newton and Gerry Cooney's part was written for Marvelous Marvin Hagler.^[2]
• Writer Bill Oakley posted the episode's original script on Twitter. It highlights many changes which occured for the broadcast version, including the full Planet Hollywood scenes.^[2]

Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
• Burns's bed looks similar to the one occupied by Keir Dullea's character Dave Bowman in the end of the 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• Homer is impressed by the card-counting abilities of the autistic character Raymond Babbitt (Dustin Hoffman) from the 1988 film Rain Man; Tom Cruise appears next to him, in character as Charlie Babbitt.
• Krusty's show at midnight is similar to Bill Cosby's 1971 album For Adults Only, which was recorded at a casino at midnight.
• Marge reminds Homer that his lifelong dream was to be a contestant on the television show The Gong Show.
• Burns's obsession with germs and cleanliness and his refusal to leave his bedroom once the casino opens is a parody on American magnate Howard Hughes.
• The "Spruce Moose" is a parody of Howard Hughes's impractically enormous wooden plane Hughes H-4 Hercules, which was derisively dubbed the "Spruce Goose".
• Homer parodies the scene in the 1939 film Wizard of Oz when Scarecrow demonstrates his newly acquired intelligence by reciting the law that governs the lengths of the sides of an isosceles triangle. Unlike in the film, somebody correctly points out that the Pythagorean theorem recited applies to right-angled triangles, not isosceles triangles.
• Gunter and Ernst, the Siegfried and Roy-esque casino magicians who get attacked by their white tiger, Anastasia. Ten years after this episode first aired, Roy Horn was attacked by one of the duo's white tigers.
• The glasses Homer finds belong to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

References

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