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Cultural references

• The opening act spoofs Forrest Gump, including the falling feather. The episode's title is also a reference to the movie, and Chief Wiggum makes a pun on the movie's title character when he calls Homer "Forrest Plump".
• During the opening act, Moe impersonates Austin Powers and Julius Hibbert impersonates Darth Vader. Both are arrested because of an ordinance that banned impersonations of movie characters, although Homer is not arrested for his impersonation of Forrest Gump and Hibbert later appears at the roast with no explanation.
• When Mr. Burns steps toward the podium, The Imperial March (Darth Vader's theme from Star Wars) is heard.
• In this episode Kang asserts that the Earth was created 5,000 years ago by God, and Kang and Kodos then make the sign of the Cross. This is an apparently satirical reference to Young Earth Creationism.
• In the middle of the clip show song at the end of the episode, there is a picture of Homer on water skis jumping over a shark, which refers to the term "jumping the shark", meaning the point when a television show has reached its peak and is now declining in quality or has done something to cause a sudden decline in quality. The term is a reference to an episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie literally jumped a shark while water-skiing.
• Agnes Skinner wears the same dress that Jennifer Lopez wore to the Grammy Awards in 2000.
• The song sung at the end is a take-off on Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start The Fire".
• Krusty mentions Mark Spitz couldn't be there and has sent a telegram. Lisa asks "Who's Mark Spitz?" and Bart then asks "What's a telegram?"
• When Kang and Kodos read Maggie's memories, they put a pink helmet on her head which reads "Hello Probie", a reference to Hello Kitty.

Trivia

• Dan Castellaneta sings the clip show song ("They'll Never Stop the Simpsons") at the end of the episode.
• To date, this is the latest clip show.

Future Plots

The following crazy future plots are mentioned in the clip show song. They have all actually happened, after a fashion.

• "Marge becomes a robot" -- In the Season 16 episode "The Heartbroke Kid", Homer fantasizes about a robotic Marge. He tells her, "Oh Marge-bot, I'm ready for some lovin'!" The Marge-bot looks like the Terminator, however, and opens fire on Homer with a machine gun, prompting Homer to abruptly return to reality and lament, "Why did I give her a gun?"
• "Moe gets a cell phone" -- In "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing" (Season 22), Bart prank-texts Moe. Also, in "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" (Season 23), one of the videos on Hulu is "Moe Gets a Cell Phone".
• "Has Bart ever owned a bear?" -- In "The Fat and the Furriest" (Season 15), Homer starts off trying to fight a bear, but later makes friends with it.
• "How 'bout a crazy wedding?" -- The image in the song shows Patty and Selma getting married to Abraham Simpson:
  • Patty almost gets married (albeit to a man impersonating a woman) in the Season 16 episode "There's Something About Marrying".
  • Selma marries Abe in the Season 18 episode "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh".

Goofs

• When Homer remembers his moments with his car, one of the clips (from "Dumbbell Indemnity") shows Homer falling down a hill in Moe's car. This is wrong since that is not Homer's car.
• Dr. Hibbert was supposed to be in jail for impersonating Darth Vader, but in Homer's roast he is shown at a table with his wife.
• When Kang and Kodos extract Maggie's memories using the "Hello Probie" mind probe, they get a number of clips showing some of the shows previous guest stars. Among them, there are a number of clips where Maggie could not possibly have been around to witness. For example, the clip showing Homer meeting Alec Baldwin after crashing through the roof of his house.
• It's doubtful that some of Homer's clips (such as the skiing incident in Little Big Mom and the Funzo incident in Grift of the Magi) could even be filmed because in Little Big Mom, it was only Homer getting hurt when he forgets the instructors words - no possible filming. In Grift of the Magi there is no possibility that anything could be filmed of Homer trying to steal.