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She Used to Be My Girl/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The ABC News, CBS, The Christian Science Monitor and Fox News participate in the media circus.
- The Fox News truck has the George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign banner "Bush Cheney '04". Fox News is often described as practicing biased reporting in favor of the Republican Party.
- The song "We Are the Champions" by Queen is heard when the Fox News truck appears. This episode aired on December 5, a month after Bush was re-elected president on November 2, 2004.
- Marge says that Mayor Quimby's scandal is the most exciting one since the "Juice was on the loose". This is a reference to American football player O. J. Simpson (nicknamed "The Juice"). In 1994, Simpson was charged with the murders of his ex-wife and one of his friends, but was acquitted. A civil court, however, awarded a $33.5 million judgment against him in 1997. Since 2000, Simpson moved to Miami to avoid paying any more of the liability judgment.
- According to Homer, the "two-headed goat" had very different appetite, resembling the main character in CatDog animated series.
- Chloe Talbot thought Marge said Paris instead of Evergreen Terrace.
- Luigi is amazed when he finds out that Italy is shaped like a boot.
- The magazine Homer reads, Men's Fatness, is a parody of Men's Fitness.
- Chloe got the recipe for the kebabs in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Chloe mentions Harper's Magazine, the art, culture and literature magazine. Lisa is amazed by that and tells Chloe that she has a picture of Lewis H. Lapham on her binder. Lewis Lapham was the editor of Harper's Magazine from 1976 until 1981, and from 1983 until 2006.
- Chloe stayed at Springfield's Four Seasons hotel, part of the famous chain of hotels of the same name.
- Marge mentions Cap'n Crunch, the cereal by Quaker Oats Company.
- Chloe Talbot's boss jokes with Chloe by saying that the reporter who specializes in natural disasters was covering Julia Roberts's haircut, before saying he was actually dead.
- Cameraman Chet lies to Chloe by saying that he has filmed in Afghanistan, Serbia and Lebanon. After a first volcano explosion, he corrects himself and says that he actually filmed weddings in Dallas-Fort Worth. After a second explosion he ends up saying that it was only Fort Worth, Texas.
- Chloe says that journalist Walter Cronkite once told her she was smart.
- When Chloe Talbot and Barney have sex in the helicopter, music similar to the theme from Sex and the City plays. Kim Cattrall, who voiced Chloe, is part of the cast in Sex and the City.
- Marge is horrified when she imagined an alternative reality where she is now a TV reporter doing a piece at the Olympics Center in Lake Placid, site of the 1980 Winter Olympics's "Miracle on Ice" (where Team USA hockey team won the gold medal against the USSR) except somehow because Marge became a TV reporter it never happened and also Marge mentions the "Miracle on Ice" despite it never happening.
- During the credits, Lisa prays to Buddha, Jesus and SpongeBob SquarePants, the character from the show of the same name.
Continuity[edit]
- When Marge enters Lisa's room to apologize to Lisa for what happened, Lisa's clock reads 8:20. Then, there is a shot of Lisa and the time on the clock has flipped upwards, reading 10:10.
- Harlan Dondelinger is seen in the high-school flashback of Marge with his current look as in "The Front". When Marge was in her last year of high school, however, he had hair. In this episode, his middle bit is bald.
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