Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe/References

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References/Trivia

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Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the children's counting game, "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe".
• During the hockey game:
  • The short fanfare "Charge" is heard.
  • Big Bird, Elmo and Count von Count from Sesame Street are waiting to begin a matinee performance.
  • The team playing against the Springfield Ice-O-Topes are the Utica Mohawks, a now defunct professional ice hockey team that played from 1978 to 1980.
  • In the after-game commentary on TV, the commentators Jean-Pierre Petomane and Wayne Buckhorn are caricatures of real-life Canadian ice hockey commentators Don Cherry and Barry Melrose, respectively.
• When Homer hits the keyboard of his laptop, one of the sites is ESPN, the American sports channel.
• On the picture Maya sent to Moe, she is standing next to the Empire State Building, which is later revealed to be a LEGO model located in Legoland.
• Upon learning that Maya finds him attractive, Moe joyfully utters the nonsense phrase, "Oh, frabjulous day, calloo callay!" which is a line found in Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky.
• Moe mistakes SS leader Heinrich Himmler as being the creator of the Heimlich Maneuver.
• When Moe is tidying up his bar, he throws a copy of Little Women, a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, into the bin.
• Moe asks Maya if she's always been that size, or if it's a "Benjamin Button deal", a reference to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
• The owner of The Pan-Fried Dragon, Ling Chow, is yelling at Moe that he has seen him watching ESPN2.
• When Carl mentions that Homer can't remember limericks, he tries to recite "There once was a man from Nantucket", the opening line for many limericks, but fails.
  • Lenny mentions the rhyme scheme for the limerick, which is AABBA.
• A variation on a theme from one of Philip Glass's scores is heard during the commercial about the nanny-monitoring device.
• Moe says that a lot of people live in trees, like Tarzan and the Berenstain Bears.

When Moe turns on the TV, the Oompa-Loompas from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory are seen singing

• When Moe turns on the television in Maya's house, it is showing a scene from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory featuring Oompa-Loompas.
• Kearney's son banging the three bottles together on his fingers is a reference to the 1979 film The Warriors, more specifically to the "Warriors, Come Out to Play" scene.
• The restaurant Pasta La Vista, Baby is a reference to the catchphrase of Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Terminator, "hasta la vista, baby".
• Moe mentions Netflix.
• Mr. Largo, upon receiving the wrong surgery, comments that he doesn't look like actress Julie Newmar.

Trivia

• When Moe sees Dr. Nick to have size-change surgery, Nick is about to give him the anesthetic and tells him that when he wakes up, he'll be a woman. Moe, taken aback, sits up and says that's not what he came in for. At this, Nick apologizes and says he must have gotten his files mixed up. An indignant and newly short Mr. Largo then appears in the doorway, complaining to Dr. Nick—implying that Largo was the one wanting a sex-change operation.

Continuity

• Before Homer discovers the day-care center next door to Moe's Tavern, he sets Maggie down on Moe's pool table to play. Maggie also plays on Moe's pool table in the comic story Maggie's Crib 15.

Goofs

• When Homer screams "I--will--never--know--the--score!", the bag of chips turns from green to blue.

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