Donnie Fatso/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The episode title is a pun on the crime drama film Donnie Brasco.
- Comic Book Guy is making a gingerbread Death Star in the couch gag Advent calendar.
- The board of Fat Tony in the FBI building resembles the mosaic board in FlashForward.
- When Homer was struggling to pronounce the word "consigliere", he states that he is Fat Tony's Robert Duvall, the actor who played Tom Hagen the Consigliere in The Godfather.
- The stage show Moe and Homer interrupt is a parody of the stage musical Wicked.
- Fit Tony says "That`s why I keep my friends close". When Homer ask him "and your enemies closer?" he is referring to the phrase from The Godfather Part II ("Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer").
- The line Homer says, "Now I'm just an average snook like everyone else" and the episode's closing sequence is a reference to the film Goodfellas.
- Homer's secret name, Nicky Bluepants Altosaxophony, is a pun on the movie Mickey Blue Eyes starring Hugh Grant and James Caan.
- Part of the real initiation ritual is a few drops of blood are spilled on a card bearing the likeness of a saint. The blood from Nicky Bluepants' thumb is slipped on a card with an image of St. Francis of Assisi.
Trivia[edit]
- There have been other canon episodes where something happens to a major character, but the consequences are dealt with by the end of the episode and everything goes back to normal:
- "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot" -- Snowball II dies, followed in quick succession by two more Simpson family cats (Snowball III and Coltrane). Lisa then gets a cat that looks exactly like Snowball II, names it Snowball II (even though it's technically Snowball V) and decides to pretend the whole thing never happened.
- In Latin America, this episode was released as the eighth episode of the season for unknown reasons.
- People on the FBI's chart of Fat Tony's associates include:
- Krusty the Clown
- Mayor Quimby
- Luigi
- Snake Jailbird
- One of the Hell's Satans
Continuity[edit]
- This plot is similar to "The Trouble with Trillions", in that Homer goes undercover with the FBI to avoid jail time, but gains feelings for the person he is spying on.
Goofs[edit]
- The "BRIBE" writing on the brown bag moves around in the shots it is featured in.
- Homer tries to hit Bart with a sidebar - and in the shots there are less people in the gallery than there was in the shots before.
