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	Season 25 Episode References
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Cultural references

• The episode name is a reference to the internet money transfer and e-commerce website PayPal.
• A parody of Mario appears in the episode's title screen gag, while the couch gag recreates The Game of Life board game.

Bart watches "Catatouille", a parody of the 2007 animated film Ratatouille

• The episode "Catatouille" from The Itchy & Scratchy Show is a parody of the 2007 animated film Ratatouille.
  • An instrumental version of Édith Piaf's "La Vie en rose" is heard in the cartoon.
• Marge wonders why kids do not watch Captain Kangaroo anymore. Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired for 29 years.
• At Swapper Jack's, Gil Gunderson mentions A&P, the American chain of grocery stores. He also mentions S&H Green Stamps.
• Ear Poison performed the song "Till There Was You" by Meredith Willson for "block party losers" at Evergreen Terrace. The song was used in Willson's 1957 musical The Music Man.
• Mr. Burns was gathering people for the Whig Party of Springfield This political party was active in the middle of the 19th century, and was one of the two major parties in the US between the late 1830s and the early 1850s.
• Booth Wilkes-John's name is a pun on John Wilkes Booth, the American actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
• Booth Wilkes-John invites Marge and Homer to play Pictionary on Saturday night. At that moment, Marge remembers when Homer drank the dice during a game of Yahtzee.
• The topiaries on Topiary Wars include the Sphinx, United States Capitol and the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal was heavily criticized by the judge, who said it should be floated down the Ganges. The Military History Channel is a parody of History Channel.
• The apps on Homer's smartphone:
  • Worms with Friends, the app's name is a reference to the multiplayer word game Words with Friends.
  • iRunes, a parody of iTunes.
  • Splinterest, a parody of Pinterest.
  • Insta-Grandma, a parody of Instagram.
  • Whimpr, a parody of Whisper.
  • Quitter, a parody of Twitter.
  • Call of Daddy, a play-on Call of Duty.
• The board game You Done It! is a parody of Cluedo, known as Clue in the United States and Canada. Waddingtons also made two versions featuring The Simpsons in 2000 and 2003, respectively.
• Booth Wilkes-John has a modified version of the painting The Kiss by Gustav Klimt in his house.
• The music played as Marge and Homer rush Gus Huebner through Lisa's party before she gets home is the theme music to the 70s TV series The Streets of San Francisco.
• The book Lisa reads, Sax and the Single Girl is a reference to Sex and the Single Girl, a non-fiction book by American writer Helen Gurley Brown, published in 1962.
• The jazz standard "Stolen Moments" by Oliver Nelson plays at All Sales Vinyl.

Tumi and Lisa listen to jazz music at All Sales Vinyl. Many of the albums are real-world ones

• The vinyl albums at All Sales Vinyl include real world albums:
  • Coltrane, by John Coltrane.
  • Back to the Shack (a reference to Back at the Chicken Shack) by Jimmy Smith.
  • The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan.
  • Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus.
  • Monk's Dream by Thelonious Monk Quartet.
  • Out to Lunch! by Eric Dolphy.
  • Song for My Father by the Horace Silver Quintet.
  • Social Studies by Carla Bley.
  • Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley.
• Some other albums in the store are fictional, including:
  • Concert Against Bangladesh, which is a parody of The Concert for Bangladesh, two concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar held on August 1, 1971 raising money for Bangladesh, whom had just become independent from Pakistan.
  • Sax on the Beach, a reference to the drink "Sex on the Beach".
  • The Plymouth Grok Experiment, that has the style of the Beatles' Rubber Soul.
  • These Things I Believe by Johnny Calhoun, a pun on John C. Calhoun, the American politician.
  • The Upside-Down Bubblegum Collective, which is a reference to bubblegum pop.
• The song that plays when Bart and Milhouse were suspicious about Tumi is "Back Stabbers" by The O'Jays.
• Tumi tells Lisa that horse meat is eaten raw in Japan.

Continuity

• Bleeding Gums Murphy's album Sax on the Beach is seen at All Sales Vinyl. "'Round Springfield".
• Ned has made minor alarm chili in the past. "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer".