The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed/References

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References/Trivia

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Cultural references

• The title is a reference to the movie The Greatest Story Ever Told.
  • This episode has the second title that makes a reference to this movie; the other episode is "The Wettest Stories Ever Told".
• Krusty enters a strip club, The Gaza Strip Club, a reference to the Palestinian territory that is mostly surrounded by Israel.
• The Slosh 'N' Splash water slide is a pun on the real-life outdoor water toy Slip 'n Slide.
• In the Holy Land, among the sites the characters visit are:
  • The Cenacle, the traditional site of the Last Supper
  • The Wailing Wall, the last remaining portion of the Second Temple (and the closest that Jews today can actually get to the Temple Mount, due to Jewish religious restrictions—fear of accidentally treading on the site of the Holy of Holies)
  • The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of Jesus' crucifixion and burial
  • The Dome of the Rock, the third-holiest site in Islam on the site of the Temple Mount (in reality, Homer and other non-Muslims would usually be forbidden entrance)
  • The Dead Sea
• The Reformers parody film parodies both the Transformers franchise and the different movements in modern Judaism (particularly the more liberal Reform branch and the conservative Orthodox branch)
• In Homer's vision in the desert he sees a tomato, a carrot and a cucumber: parodies of Larry the cucumber, Bob the tomato and Laura the carrot from VeggieTales.
• The scene in Jerusalem where the man plays the violin on the roof is an allusion to the famous musical Fiddler on the Roof about the Jewish milkman Tevye and his family.
• Jakob tries to sell Marge his Uzi that he used to kill "three Ugandans". This is a reference to Operation Entebbe, where Israeli Commandos saved Israelis that had been kidnapped by German terrorists and landed in Uganda.
• Everyone saying that they are the messiah is a reference to Spartacus.
• Lost in the desert, Homer sings "I am so thirsty" to Maurice Jarre's main theme to the film Lawrence of Arabia.

Trivia

• Homer mentions the website stupidflanders.org. FOX owns the domain name, but it is not in use (as of July 6, 2010).
• In Latin America, this episode was released as the 15th episode of the season for unknown reasons.
• In one scene, Reverend Lovejoy had eyebrows.

Continuity

• During the Wailing Wall tour, Bart says, "Give my dad another heart attack", referring to the first time Homer had a heart attack ("Homer's Triple Bypass").

Goofs

• When Jakob throws Helen Lovejoy's lemon ice, the whole group's lemon ices disappear.

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