Homer the Whopper/References

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Trivia

• This is the second episode in which Matt Groening, creator of the show, has guest starred as himself. He is seen loading his truck with Bongo Comics, his own line of comic books.
• At the movie studio, one of the posters is for a movie call Welcome Back, Potter. This is a parody of the movie/book series Harry Potter and the 1970's sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
• This is one of the rare episodes where they censor strong cusses with a bleep sound.
• The Villan in the Every Man film looks exactly like the Lizard, one of the villans of the comicbook hero Spider-Man.
• Some of the posters in the movie theater were references to real life movies. Namely, Alvin and the Chipmunks get Rabies was a reference to the Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise [especially their newly made live action movies], and Eddie Murphy's The Fat Suit was a reference to his role as the Klump family in the "Nutty Professor" franchise.
• In the Comic Book Store hangs a poster of Swatchmen, a parody on Watchmen.
• I_Killed_Kenny6475 is a reference to the TV show South Park.
• After the man that trained Homer falls down to the ground he uses his shirt to as wings to fly like Rocky the Flying Squirel from The Rocky and Bullwinke Show that Homer's middle initial J came from.
• The guy that trained Homer nicknames him as Homersapien as a references to the popular toy Robosapien
• The title is a play on an old slogan of Burger King: "Home of the Whopper".
• At the theater, Homer sees and scares Daffy Duck.