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Cultural References[]

  • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: The episode's title is a play on that of the 1993 film.
  • Like Quentin Tarantino's film, Pulp Fiction, the episode's plot is episodic and interconnected. Additionally there are several more lengthy parodies. The ensemble of the Chief Wiggum, Snake and Herman plot is based on the "Gold Watch" segment of the film. Wiggum, Lou and Eddie's conversation about McDonald's parallels the famous "Royale With Cheese" discussion between Vince Vega and Jules Winnfield. Later, Snake runs down Wiggum like Butch Coolidge does to Marsellus Wallace. He then crashes into a wall, running down a fire hydrant and mailbox just like in the film. The two then fight and roll into Herman's shop, he ties them up, ball gags them and waits for Zed to arrive before being knocked out by a medieval weapon yielded by Milhouse. This again mirrors the film, with Herman in the role of Maynard and Snake and Wiggum in the role of Wallace and Coolidge after they were tied up and gagged with similar mouth straps holding red gag balls. Herman even uses Maynard's line "the spider caught himself a couple of flies" when Snake and Wiggum stumble into his store; in the film, however, Maynard delayed saying this line until he called Zed. In the film, Maynard and Zed were homosexual rapists. Unlike the film, however, Zed does not arrive by the time Herman is subdued, which prevents the rapes from happening to Snake, Chief Wiggum and later fellow prisoner of Herman Kirk Van Houten.
  • 1999: Apu's line "I'm going to party like it was on sale for $19.99!" references Prince's song.
  • 'Slacker': This episode's parody of Richard Linklater's episodic independent drama comedy film. Smithers and Burns even referenced the title.
  • Freak-A-Zoid: Apu sings the song by Midnight Star.
  • E.R.: Dr. Nick's scenes parody the popular medical series.
  • Bazooka Joe: When people are giving suggestions to Lisa, Lionel Hutz suggests that Lisa keep the gum in as evidence, as Bazooka Joe has deep pockets.
  • Van Heflin: Jasper says he would like Van Heflin's nose.
  • Maggie's giggle was also used as a sound effect for a commercial for Huggies Diapers.

Goofs[]

  • The front of the Kwik-E-Mart has traditional swinging doors instead of the automatic sliding doors the store is usually seen with.
  • Smithers suffers severe allergic reactions to the bee sting in this episode, yet in "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" he was stung by several bees but suffered no problems at all. Bee sting allergies are often triggered on the second instance of being stung, Smithers could have developed his life-threatening allergy after the previous episode.
  • Despite having returned to the house on a date with Agnes Skinner in "Bart the Fink", in this episode Chalmers apparently required directions to Skinner's house as if he had never been there before. This episode may take place prior to Bart the Fink. It is also possible that Chalmers just doesn't care enough about Skinner to remember where he lives. Or it could also be possible that Chalmers wasn't really told how to get to Skinner's house (as he apparently already knew that) but was just sarcastic.
  • Chief Wiggum loses his hat in the fight with Snake, but in the next chapter of his story he is wearing it again.
  • Barney's bar tab at Moe's Tavern is at $14 billion, but after Barney paid $2,000, Moe said that it's "at least halfway." But this could mean Moe was not going to school when he was young, missing math lessons or beer killing Barney's brain cells (or he simply could've been to lazy to do the actual math right then and there). Also: in order to pay off his $14 billion bar tab, Barney would need to pay for ten beers a day, at $2 each, for roughly 1.95 million years.
  • Millienight

    The knight helmet with gray holes that are meant to be black

    Jasper supposedly got a nose job, but he is seen with his regular nose later on.
    • He could've got his regular nose back or Dr. Nick was just kidding or Jasper changed his mind.
    • It was either botched or he changed his mind and decided to not have the surgery
  • Snake and Chief Wiggum open the door of Herman's store inwards, but in the scene inside the store, it is open outwards.
  • The knight helmet that Milhouse wears has holes which are colored black but which turn gray for a frame.
  • After Nelson laughs at Lisa's deplorable hairstyle, she walks to where the tall man was driving, but she is then seen near the sewer where Nelson was hiding, which was on the opposite direction.
    • Lisa could seen that Nelson is running away so she could've turned around and walked towards him in order to tell the tall man where Nelson is
  • Mrs. Glick trips, falls and gets stuck into a trash can during the Nelson segment, but is later seen among the crowd that is laughing at Nelson.
    • Somebody could've pulled her out off-screen and she then could've walked towards the crowd.
  • When Chalmers says "Despite the fact they are obviously grilled", the bite mark on his burger disappears. In addition, when Chalmers picks up a burger, three out of four of them disappear.
  • The Springfield Shopper already isn't free, but it costs 25 cents.


ā—„ Season 6 Season 7 References/Trivia Season 8 ā–ŗ
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two) ā€¢ Radioactive Man ā€¢ Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily ā€¢ Bart Sells His Soul ā€¢ Lisa the Vegetarian ā€¢ Treehouse of Horror VI ā€¢ King-Size Homer ā€¢ Mother Simpson ā€¢ Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming ā€¢ The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular ā€¢ Marge Be Not Proud ā€¢ Team Homer ā€¢ Two Bad Neighbors ā€¢ Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield ā€¢ Bart the Fink ā€¢ Lisa the Iconoclast ā€¢ Homer the Smithers ā€¢ The Day the Violence Died ā€¢ A Fish Called Selma ā€¢ Bart on the Road ā€¢ 22 Short Films About Springfield ā€¢ Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" ā€¢ Much Apu About Nothing ā€¢ Homerpalooza ā€¢ Summer of 4 Ft. 2
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