The Great Springfield Gold Rush/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- During Ranger Todd's puppet show:
- John Sutter says, "Be vewwy, vewwy quiet ... We're hunting gold!", parodying Elmer Fudd from the Looney Tunes cartoon series.
- The wealthy man who buys out the miners' claims is Rich Uncle Pennybags from the game Monopoly.
- At the end, the miner who says "Disease! Starvation! Exposure! Murder ... Death!" resembles the Edward Munch painting The Scream.
- Sutter's Mill is a real sawmill.
- Gold being found in Springfield is reported on Twitter and Facebook.
