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◄	New Kids on the Blecch

Hungry, Hungry Homer

Bye Bye Nerdie

Cultural references Edit

Blockoland is a parody of Legoland.
Also, in the first car ride home, Bart says the words "Lego shirt."
The ghost of César Chávez visits Homer during his hunger strike, but takes the appearance of Cesar Romero, because Homer doesn't know what Chavez looks like.
The scene where Bart sees Homer lying on top of the red dog house is a direct reference to Charlie Brown and Snoopy (both from Peanuts). Bart even utters Charlie Brown's signature line "Good Grief".
The title is a play on the game, Hungry Hungry Hippos. Coincidentally, one of the hippos in the game is named Homer.
When Kent Brockman says that Mr. Duff is insisting that Homer is a liar, they show footage of Homer with his pants on fire. This is a nod to the classic chant, Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire.
When Marge gets streaks in her hair, it resembles the Bride of Frankenstein's hair; tall white with two black streaks.
The name of the barbershop Hairy Shearers is a reference to, and pun on, voice actor Harry Shearer, who voices Mr. Burns, Smithers, Reverend Lovejoy, Ned Flanders, and other characters.
Homer's attempt to alert the press of the move by showing them a room of evidence, only to find nothing incriminating is found, is a likely reference to the film Moonraker, where James Bond discovers that Hugo Drax is operating a lab making deadly gas. When Bond takes M and his superiors to investigate the lab, he finds it has been replaced with a dining room.

Duffman's first name (Sid) was mentioned here, even though "Pygmoelian" established that Duffman's real name was Larry. In "Jaws Wired Shut," it's revealed that Duffman has been played by multiple actors (as each actor who has played Duffman has died, hence the line, "Duffman can never die; only the actors who play him) and "Homer and Marge Turn a Couple Play" reveals that, much like mall Santas, there are multiple Duffmen working, but it's kept a secret so as not to disillusion children.
Homer's "Dancing Away My Hunger Pangs" song was actually ad-libbed by Dan Castellaneta.

On American TV, the original ending in which the Mayor of Albuquerque decides not to buy the Springfield Isotopes and instead buys the Dallas Cowboys was edited in reruns, making the episode end with Homer celebrating the end of his hunger strike. Overseas airings and the season 12 DVD set has the original ending uncut and uncensored.