Dr. Hibbert tells Homer that Chief Wiggum's left lung was filled with Shamrock Shake, despite the fact that "McDonald's didn't even sell them this year".
Chief Wiggum wants Homer to write a story about baseball player Babe Ruth and Adolf Hitler, but without mentioning "baseball" or "Germany".
When Chief Wiggum goes to Moe's tavern upon leaving the hospital, it is revealed that he has tried to frame Homer with fake evidence such as in the police corruption film Touch of Evil. He is also using a cane like captain Quinlan did.
He also compares the friends' meeting to a "St. Elmo's Fire reunion which Andrew McCarthy was going to attend". McCarthy was part of the cast of St. Elmo's Fire, a film about a group of friends who just graduated from college and struggled with adulthood.
The cop show that Homer watches is a parody of the action TV series Starsky & Hutch
The cop show that Homer watches before changing the channel is a parody of the action TV series Starsky & Hutch.
Over the freeze-frame at the end of the show, the words "A Stephen J. Copshow Production" appear, a parody of Stephen J. Cannell, who produced many cop shows but not Starsky & Hutch.
Fat Tony, Louie, Legs and Johnny Tightlips are stitching alligator logos onto knockoffLacoste shirts. They are rushing because Fat Tony wants them at the mall "in time for the Crazy Days of Summer sale." Knockoffs frequently have logos with mistakes and the two reptile species are often confused with each other, but the Lacoste logo is a crocodile because the founder, René Lacoste, was nicknamed "The Crocodile" by the American press when he was a tennis player.
When Wiggum holds a fried chicken as if it was a gun, Johnny Tightlips says "looks like his weapon is loaded with 12 original herbs and spices". This is a reference to KFC Original Recipe, in which Sanders' Original Recipe of "11 herbs and spices" is one of the most famous trade secrets in the catering industry.
When Louie turns on the music for Fat Tony, the song "At Seventeen" by Janis Ian plays.
As of this episode, Homer is the only character to have speaking lines in every episode of the series, since Bart doesn't appear in "Four Great Women and a Manicure", and Marge does not speak in "Krusty Gets Kancelled".
