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Cultural references

• Dude, Where's My Car? - The title of the episode parodies this movie.
• Misery - When Moe picks up David Byrne after he is badly injured, Byrne asks Moe to take him to the hospital. When Byrne asks why Moe drove right past it, Moe ask him "have you ever seen the movie Misery?". The movie Misery is about a writer who is hurt in a blizzard and is taken in (then held captive) by a crazed fan of his work.
• More, More, More - The song that the Moe Szyslak Connection performs at the end of the episode is to the tune of this Andrea True Connection song.
• Back to the Future Part III - When Bart ropes Homer around the neck to save him from the beavers, it's a spoof of the scene in which Marty is roped by the hands.
• When Cleanie comes in he says "My precious". The voice is a reference to the Lord of the Rings character Gollum. Cleanie was voiced by Andy Serkis, who provided the voice (and motion capture) for Gollum in the films.
• Luke Stetson tells Lisa he needs someone to help him hang some "no hunting" and "free Tibet." The latter sign being a reference to Tibet's struggle for independence.
• When the beavers are gnawing on the items in the mini bar, one of them can be seen chewing on a Toblerone. However, the package is the wrong shape, it should be a triangular prism but instead it's a rectangular prism.

• If you look when the fridge is opened and the beaver is biting the deck of cards, you can see that the Toblerones are stacked and seen as triangles. But later when the beaver is eating the Toblerone, it is rectangular.

• The name of the store Styx and Stones Records is a reference to both the rock bands Styx and The Rolling Stones as well as a reference to the nursery rhyme "Sticks and stones may break my bones".
• The name "Lazy I Ranch" is a play on "lazy eye," which among other meanings is a song by the Goo Goo Dolls.
• The ranch's previous name, "Wandering I Nudist Colony" is a play on "wandering eye," which among other meanings was a single by the band Fat Freddy's Drop; but in view of its being a nudist colony specifically refers to visually checking out other people.
• The "Wax Museum" brochure shows Michael Jackson and Mr. T on the cover.
• Lisa, unhappy with the ranch, is reading one of the putative Let's Go travel guides, Let's Go HOME. Bart rides up and tells her, "Hey Crabby Hayes, get with the program!" referencing the old-time actor in westerns, Gabby Hayes.

Trivia

• Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky makes an appearance in this episode, voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

Goofs

• This episode was featured on The Simpsons Christmas Vol. 2 DVD, but it has nothing to do with Christmas, except for the scene in the beginning where The Simpsons are singing carols.
• The sound of the footsteps when Clara is running across the log do not match her actual footsteps.
• When Bart read the leaflet for the ranch, he said that there would be no radio at the ranch. However later, Maggie is seen dancing to a song on the radio.
• When Lisa first meets Luke Stetson, he tells her that he needs someone to help him hang some "no hunting" and "free Tibet" signs. However, the signs are on posts and would be pounded into the ground, not hung.