Editing King-Size Homer/References

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== Cultural references ==
*The title is a parody of the title "{{w|King-Size Canary}}", which was an MGM cartoon directed by legendary animator Tex Avery. In the cartoon, a growth formula causes several animals to swell to gargantuan proportions.
*The song "Push out the jive, bring in the love" by the {{w|Lostprophets}} most likely takes it's name from the phrase used by Mr. Burns during exercise.
*The name of [[The Vast Waistband]] (the store Homer visits to buy a muumuu) is a parody of the term then-FCC chairman {{w|Newton Minow}} used in a 1961 speech referring to television as a "{{w|Wasteland Speech|vast wasteland}}."
*When Homer hits "TAB", {{w|Tab (soft drink)|thinking he'd get a soft drink}}, while looking for the "Any" key (which is a joke on the computer prompt "Press any key to continue") a startup sound from a Macintosh computer produced in 1995 is heard. This episode aired the same year.
*When Homer vented the toxic gas from the plant, thus ruining the farmers corn crop (and therefore unknowingly exacting revenge on the farmers for Daylight savings existing), the farmer says "{{ch|Paul Newman}}'s gunna have ma' legs broke!" when lamenting the loss of the corn. This is a reference to the legend made by the Newman's Own Popcorn company where Newman threatened people if they try to steal his popcorn recipe.
*The computer Homer usues for work  resembles the Macintosh XL which was first relesed in January 1, 1985.

== Trivia ==
*The [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] has pay toilets.
*The Simpsons' scale stops at 400 pounds.
*Signs in the construction area were:
**Hardhat Area
**Falling Tool Zone
**Careless Workers Above
*An original plan for the episode that was scrapped was Homer becoming weight-obsessed in the opposite direction and becoming dangerously thin.

== Continuity ==
*The drinking bird [[Homer]] has "cover for him" was a gift from [[Herb]] in "[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]". Herb used it to show the formulation of ideas, but Homer was enthralled with it and wanted it.


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