Difference between revisions of "The Springfield Connection/References"

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Cultural references

• The title of this episode refers to The French Connection.
• The music used in the episode and over the end credits is remixed to sound like the theme from Hill Street Blues. Other references to the show include the briefing scene.
• The couch gag features Homer in a parody the opening titles from James Bond films.
• Homer and Marge attend an outdoor performance by The Springfield Pops:
  • The Pops play the theme from Star Wars; Homer mistakenly believes that the composer John Williams is dead.
  • At the end the orchestra segue into "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", to the delight of the audience.
• The Springfield Pops are a reference to the Boston Pops Orchestra, which John Williams conducted from 1980 to 1993.
• The Skinners' domestic disturbance appears on an episode of COPS.
• The man wanting the "freaking guns!" at the training day is a reference to Police Academy.
• Marge driving over an incomplete freeway section during training references Speed.
• Chief Wiggum looks at a Magic Eye book (and finally sees a pony).
• McGriff is a parody of McGruff the Crime Dog.
• I Love Lucy: Homer refuses to accept Marge's apology for arresting him and announces he's drawing a line down the center of the house, a. la. I Love Lucy. In the episode "Men Are Messy", Lucy gets fed up with Ricky's sloppy habits, draws a line down the middle of the apartment, and announces that from now on she's only cleaning her half.

Goofs

• At the beginning of the episode, Marge's necklace is white. Later on, it's her trademark red necklace.
• On Marge's first assignment for the Springfield Police Department, she is told to patrol "Junkyville and Bumtown." Yet when she is walking down the street, the clinic says "Junkytown Legal Clinic."
• Chief Wiggum's hair color changes several times during the episode, from black to blue and then back to black.
• During the driving exercise, Marge is shown wearing a white shirt; when she finishes the course she is wearing a police uniform. But when she gets home, she's wearing a T-shirt because, she says, the department didn't have any shirts in her size.
• Although Marge spots the dog not on a leash, she doesn't notice that the person behind the dog is jaywalking.
• The clock changes at the end of the first poker game. When Carl, Barney and Lenny go away, it's near 2 o'clock. When Marge says she still does the jobs Homer loves Marge to do in the city, it's 7 o'clock.