To Courier with Love/References

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References/Trivia

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	Season 27 Episode References
← 593 "Fland Canyon"	594 "To Courier with Love"	"Simprovised" 595 →

Cultural references

• In the "Dawn of Time" segment:
  • There is a Triceratops skull in the cave.
  • Homer's hammock is a saber-toothed tiger pelt.
  • The art Maggie is putting on the wall is one of the Lascaux cave paintings.
• The title of the episode is a reference to the title of the film To Sir, with Love.
  • The film has also been referenced in the title of the episodes "To Surveil with Love" from Season 21 and "To Cur, with Love" from Season 24.
• Homer rides on a luggage carrier with four Michelin Men. He shows them a video of the Springfield Tire Fire, and they react in horror, being made of tires themselves.
• Homer mentions Burger King.
• Homer refers to his good luck saying "Fortune favors the bald," a play on the proverb "Fortune favors the bold."
• Strolling along the Seine with Marge, Homer says "Plastered in Paris, there's no better feeling" a play on plaster of Paris.
  • The scene where Homer and Marge stroll past the "Place de la Pointillisme" is drawn in the art style of Pointillism.
• A Morgan Motor vehicle is found by Lisa and Homer in the garage.
  • Jay Leno, who buys the car from Homer, is well known as a classic car enthusiast.
• The Paris Fashion Week is shown.
  • Runway models, known for being extremely thin, are here shown in side view as being thin as playing cards and they act like playing cards, even riffle shuffling themselves.
• The house from Up is seen flying in Paris.
• In Paris, Lisa is dressed as Madeline, a character from a French book and TV series of the same name.
• Homer, when talking to a policeman, states that "our family is falling apart like your European Union". This is clearly a reference to the Brexit, the British EU Membership Referendum, in which the UK voted to leave the European Union.

Continuity

• Ugolin and Cesar appear. ("The Crepes of Wrath")
• The Simpsons family travels on an Air Springfield airplane. ("Fear of Flying")
• Marge mentions bad journeys of the Simpsons family:
  • Australia ("Bart vs. Australia"),
  • Brazil ("Blame It on Lisa", "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"),
  • Japan ("Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"),
  • London ("The Regina Monologues"),
  • China ("Goo Goo Gai Pan"),
  • World's Fair Bart drove to ("Bart on the Road"),
  • That place with the underground jockeys ("Saddlesore Galactica"),
  • Itchy & Scratchy Land ("Itchy & Scratchy Land"),
  • Outer Space ("Deep Space Homer").

Trivia

• The Duff blimp in the couch gag says Season 27 ep. 20, the season and episode number of this episode.
• French versions of Chief Wiggum, Eddie and Lou appear.

Goofs

• Lisa's headphones disappear on the plane.
• At the airport, there's a gate "E33", but there's no "E33" gate on the Charles de Gaulle Airport, the airport used as inspiration for it.
• A poster in the travel agent's office is titled "Kaflavik", but the picture is of the landmark Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavík: perhaps knowingly done, as Kaflavik has no landmarks of its own but relates to a word spoken by Professor Frink.
• When the Simpson family arrives at the airport, they are in the departure lounge.
• The plane seating plan is not used on any plane.
• It would be impossible to get a live snake through security.

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