The Frying Game/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The episode title is a pun on the 1992 movie The Crying Game.
- During the episode's couch gag, Homer is dressed as Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, The Tramp.
- According to Lenny, American boxer Muhammad Ali in his prime was "much better than anti-lock brakes".
- Homer buys Marge a koi pond for their anniversary.
- The EPA scientist appears to have been modeled after actor William Atherton, who played a high-handed EPA bureaucrat in the 1984 film Ghostbusters. As the EPA scientist sets off a chain reaction of events for the Simpsons, in Ghostbusters the EPA bureaucrat attempts to have the Ghostbusters' business shut down. When he returns with authority figures, the Ghostbusters are forced to open their containment unit, thus freeing the imprisoned phantoms, who then wreak terrible havoc on New York City.
- Homer was reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears to the Screamapillar before he almost kills it.
- Meals on Wheels, where Homer ends up performing his community service, is a real-life service that exists in many communities in the UK, Australia, the USA, and Canada.
- A picture of Edgar Allan Poe can be seen at Mrs. Bellamy's house.
- When having a conversation with Homer, Mrs. Bellamy felt she was talking to American writer Bennett Cerf.
- Moe sings "I've Been Working on the Railroad", an American folk song.
- Cletus names Bart "Pamela E. Lee", a pun on Robert E. Lee, the famous Confederate general.
- Homer's and Marge's insistence that the man with the braces murdered Mrs. Bellamy is a reference to Richard Kimble's saying that the one-armed man is the real killer in the 1993 movie The Fugitive, which was based on the 1960s The Fugitive.
- The sequence when Homer is on his way to the electric chair parodies the 1999 movie The Green Mile:
- The music in the background is "The Green Mile" by Thomas Newman, the main song from the film's soundtrack.
- The music is briefly heard again just before the closing credits roll.
- The prisoner who says "Give me your hands, boss" to Homer and then threatens to kill him is a parody of John Coffey, portrayed by Michael Clarke Duncan in the film. Clarke Duncan was planned to voice the character, but he declined.
- Chief Wiggum sheds a tear after Homer is strapped into the electric chair, as does prison guard Dean Stanton (Barry Pepper) at John Coffey's execution.
- George H. W. Bush is among the audience in the execution room. This references Bush's strong support for the death penalty, which was also a critical topic during the 1988 United States presidential election.
- When Eddie and Lou are asked for their last names, Lou says they don't have any, like Cher.
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