All About Lisa/References

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Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a reference to the film All About Eve.
  • The episode spoofs All About Eve's plotline, casting Lisa as Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), Krusty as Margo Channing (Bette Davis), and Sideshow Mel as Addison DeWitt (George Sanders).
• "Hooray For Hollywood" by Richard A. Whiting is heard at the 38th annual Springfield Showbiz Awards.
• Krusty's Krusketeers are a reference to the Mouseketeers from Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club.
  • The Krusty Klub Theme song sung by Krusty is a parody of the "Mickey Mouse Club March" from The Mickey Mouse Club.
• In the Krusketeers auditions, Ralph is seen eating Twizzlers candies.
• According to Krusty, a great man once said that "90% of success is showing up on time". This is a reference to a phrase by Woody Allen, who said "Showing up is 80% of life".
• In his audition for Krusketeer, Nelson punches Database, E-mail, Cosine and Martin and they shout out "Ow!" in various tones, much like Marvin Suggs does with his "Muppaphone" on The Muppet Show.
• Bart eats a lantern and pretends to be E.T. from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Just after that, he puts on an afro wig and says to be "B.E.T.". This is a reference to the Black Entertainment Television (BET), an American cable television channel targeting African American audiences, in where the afro hairstyle was particularly popular during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
• Lisa mentions Discovery Channel, and says they do not have a single employee.

Nelson parodies the famous water bucket scene from Flashdance

• When Mel mentions the good and bad people in the entertainment business, he mentions the comedy duo Abbott and Costello.
• Krusty wants Lisa to edit his joke file and "change all the Sophia Lorens into Lindsay Lohans". Both Loren and Lohan have served short prison sentences.
• When Lisa asks Krusty if he wanted her to do a "global change", Krusty says he was not Al Gore. This is a reference to Al Gore seeking of global climate change.
• Nelson is dressed in 1980s clothes and parodies the bucket of water scene from Flashdance.
• Mel warns Lisa about Krusty always mentioning American actress Mitzi Gaynor.
• Bart knows several things about Krusty, including:
  • His favourite blintz, a popular Jewish pancake, is with blueberry.
  • His favourite racehorse in the 2004 Belmont Stakes was Smarty Jones. In 2004, Smarty Jones won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, but ended in second place in the Belmont Stakes, making Krusty to lose a lot of money.
• The comic book Radioactive Man vs. Muhammad Ali that Bart wants to trade for his Krusty merchandise is a parody of the 1978 comic book Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.
  • Comic Book Guy's counter-offer is the Radioactive Man Meets The Kansas City Royals. The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri.
• Krusty starts calling Lisa "The Goy Wonder", a reference to Robin's alias "The Boy Wonder".

The scene of Bart and Homer collecting US coins parodies The Andy Griffith Show opening sequence

• The Andy Griffith Show's theme, "The Fishin' Hole" by Earle Hagen and Herbert W. Spencer, is heard when Homer and Bart collect US coins with the style of that show's opening.
• Bart and Homer's last coin was a 1863 Confederate half dime. This 5¢ coin, however, did not exist in real life.
• The fictional "Kissing Lincolns Coin" was manufactured at the Philadelphia Mint in 1917.
• Lisa sings a modified version of the pirate song "Dead Man's Chest" from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.
  • Lisa's pirate character is called "Long John Seltzer", a parody of Long John Silver, the main antagonist in Treasure Island.
• Krusty went to rest to his mansion in Lake Tahoe.
• Last Gasp with Krusty the Clown is a reference to Last Call with Carson Daly.
• Homer eats a "classic 1978" Pizza Hut pepperoni slice.
• One of the prize winners was fired from the American sci-fi sitcom Homeboys in Outer Space.
• A young Sideshow Mel played Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman, a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller.
• At the end of the episode, Krusty's disguise is similar to Nana, the dog from Peter Pan.

Trivia

• Lurleen Lumpkin can be seen with the group of celebrities wearing a purple dress when Lisa sets Krusty up for laughs.
• The show Krusty hosts is called Last Gasp with Krusty the Clown.
• Gabbo, a ventriloquist dummy who has appeared a few times in the series, makes a short appearance.
• "Krusty Klovnen Baby Visker" is real Norwegian for "Krusty the Clown Baby Wipes".
• The scene where Krusty says he made out with a blow up doll on the closed captions says "I once made out with Brett Butler".

Continuity

• Krusty spending his time in Tahoe was previously came up in lyrics of his song, Cash and Cary, in "Brother from Another Series".

Goofs

• Early in the episode, the front of Krusty's studio is "Stage 1" with a Krusty logo. Later though, the front says "The Krusty the Clown Show" with a Krusty logo.
• When it paused first at the award ceremony, Homer is seen opening a champagne bottle next to Lenny, but later when it resumes Homer is seen clapping.

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