Editing Crook and Ladder/References

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== Cultural references ==
*The song that plays when [[Bart]] and [[Milhouse]] abuse "Zombie Homer" is [[Edgar Winter]]'s "Frankenstein".
*When [[Mr. Burns]] jumps out of the window, he floats like the feather at the beginning of ''{{W|Forrest Gump}}'', with similar music.
*The song that plays during the montage of Bart, [[Lisa]], and [[Maggie]] looking sadly at [[Homer]] is "Sad Eyes" by {{W|Robert John}}.
*The scene where Homer wakes up in bed next to [[John Lennon]] is in reference to Lennon & [[Yoko Ono|Ono]]'s "Bed-In for Peace", a non-violent anti-war message in the 1960s.
*{{W|Larry Flynt}} (former publisher of ''{{W|Hustler}}'') is mentioned by Lisa as the publisher of ''[[Smothering Mother Magazine]]''.
*[[Nappien]], taken by Homer to cure his insomnia, relates to the current problems of people's over-reliance on pills & medication, such as sleeping pills. The problem of prescription drug abuse is highlighted by Homer's reply to [[Flanders]]: "Kids, you are confusing Drugs with ddrrruuuuugs". Also, Lisa says "I've read that people do strange things in their sleep when they've taken Ambien... I mean Nappien." Ambien is a brand name for Zolpidem, one of the most common insomnia pills. Homer's own zone-out could refer to the well-publicized case of {{W|Patrick J. Kennedy}}, who drove his car and even participated in a United States House vote while under the influence of sleep medicine.
*The commercial for [[Nappien]] shows a dove, much like the [[butterfly]] from the Lunesta commercials, flying into people's bedrooms, and landing on them, causing them to fall asleep. However, the dove excretes a sleeping pill into the person's mouth to achieve this effect.
*The movies jackets given free to the firefighters by [[Rainier Wolfcastle]] is a play on some of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s movies as well as other contemporary films. (E.g. ''Total Explosion'' ''{{W2|Total Recall|1990 film}}'', ''Frankenberry Wears Prada'' ''{{W2|The Devil Wears Prada|film}}'').
*The man Homer fights during the "Zombie montage" previously made an appearance in season 16's "[[Pranksta Rap]]" and is still wearing the same chain stating it to be "Thursday the 20th." The rapper from "Pranksta Rap" who was used to verify the time can be seen in the background of the fight.
*[[Simpson family|The Simpson family]] has a videotape of ''[[C.H.U.D.]]''
*[[Apu]] tricks Homer and [[Moe]] into thinking he was killed and reincarnated as a cat. Afterwards, he says "You've just been Apu'd!", which is similar in context to ''Punk'd''.
*Moe mentions {{W|Ellen Barkin}}.

== Continuity ==
*This episode most likely predates "[[Brother's Little Helper]]" and "[[Homer the Heretic]]", because in those episodes Apu was already volunteer firefighters.

== Goofs ==
*The characters refer to the signal to call the volunteer firefighters as a "fire siren," but it actually makes the noise of a bell ringing (sounding a lot like the school bell/fire alarm at [[Springfield Elementary School]]) instead of a siren.

== Trivia ==
*The text under [[Homer]]'s domino head says [[Matt Groening]].
*When [[Rod Flanders]] and [[Todd Flanders]] speak to Homer at wax museum they are oddly in their pajamas. This indicates Homer would've originally woken up in the Flanders' house rather than the museum but the animation for Rod and Todd was kept.

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