Bottle Episode/References - Revision history

SolarBot: /* Continuity */ replaced: Duff Beer CEO → Harriet K. Duff

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‎Continuity: replaced: Duff Beer CEO → Harriet K. Duff

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Solar Dragon at 12:50, February 12, 2025

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LetsPlayNintendoITA at 01:23, January 22, 2025

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California Girl: /* Cultural references */ Oenology

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‎Cultural references: Oenology

Solar Dragon at 15:04, December 31, 2024

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Simpsons88 at 12:24, December 31, 2024

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Solar Dragon at 23:09, December 30, 2024

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LetsPlayNintendoITA: /* Cultural references */

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‎Cultural references

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 **The {{ap|Homer|bowling ball|Homer bowling ball}}. ("[[Life on the Fast Lane]]")
 *[[Augustus Redfield]] is part of Burns' wine club. ("[[Meat Is Murder]]")
-*The [[Duff Beer CEO]] is part of Burns' wine club. ("[[From Beer to Paternity]]")
+*[[Harriet K. Duff]] is part of Burns' wine club. ("[[From Beer to Paternity]]")
 *Marge and Smithers auction the wine at [[Gavelby's Auction House]]. ("[[All About Lisa]]")
 *[[Mike Jambowski]] attends the wine auction. ("[[Friend with Benefit]]")

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 *[[Larry]]'s urn is seen on top of the [[Love Tester]]. "([[Cremains of the Day]]")
 *[[César]] and [[Ugolin]] appear at Alca-Shiraz Wine Jail. ("[[The Crepes of Wrath]]")
 *In the ''Robin Hood'' parody, [[Nelson]] is depicted as a raccoon. ("[[Treehouse of Horror XVI]]")

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 *[[Larry]]'s urn is seen on top of the [[Love Tester]]. "([[Cremains of the Day]]")
 *[[César]] and [[Ugolin]] appear at Alca-Shiraz Wine Jail. ("[[The Crepes of Wrath]]")
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 *[[Smithers]] taking out the trash using a plane is a reference to the [[Taylor Swift]] [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/taylor-swift-jetting-everywhere jetting everywhere] meme.
 *One of Mr. Burns' tasks is to "Melt [[Iceland]]".
-*Oen-Percenters, Mr. Burns' wine club, is a reference to the {{W|We are the 99%|One-Percenters}}.
+*Oen-Percenters, Mr. Burns' wine club, is a reference to the {{W|We are the 99%|One-Percenters}}, also with "Oen" a prefix meaning "wine", as in {{W|Oenology}}.
 *Mr. Burns proposes celebrating by cracking open an {{W|Amontillado}}.
 **Burns walling off the Amontillado, along with the salesman, is a reference to the short story "{{W|The Cask of Amontillado}}" by [[Edgar Allan Poe]].

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 == Cultural references ==
-*The episode title is a reference to {{W|bottle episode}} term.
+*The episode title is a reference to the {{W|bottle episode}} term.
 *"{{W|I Want to Break Free}}" by [[Queen]] plays during the lackey tasks montage.
 *The design of [[Mr. Burns]]' private jet is based on a {{W|Bombardier Challenger 300|Bombardier Challenger 350}}.
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 *Smithers drinks a [[Baron Cadet]] {{W|Bordeaux wine|Bordeaux}}.
 *The bottle bought by Mr. Burns and brought in a safe box is a special [[Gevrey-Chambertin Wine|Gevrey-Chambertin]] once owned by [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]]. Smithers adds he fought the {{W|Battle of Austerlitz}} just for the bottle.
-*When Smithers is entering the code for the safe box, Homer says that it's just like the {{W|Laundry detergent pod|laundry pods}} they lock up at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]]. This is a reference to the aftermath of the "{{W|Consumption of Tide Pods|Tide Pod Challenge}}", where laundry pods where people would record videos of them eating laundry pods. The aftermath of the challenge led to laundry pods being age restricted, and even locked up, in shops.
+*When Smithers is entering the code for the safe box, Homer says that it's just like the {{W|Laundry detergent pod|laundry pods}} they lock up at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]]. This is a reference to the aftermath of the "{{W|Consumption of Tide Pods|Tide Pod Challenge}}," where people would record videos of themselves eating laundry pods. The aftermath of the challenge led to laundry pods being age-restricted and even locked up in shops.
 *When [[Mrs. Vanderbilt]] tries to christen ''[[The Upper Decker]]'' and is stopped by Homer, she says that it happened before. This is a reference to the apocryphal story that the champagne bottle used to christen the ''[[Titanic]]'' didn't break.
 *At the swingers party, they use the bottle for the {{W|spin the bottle}} game.
 *According to [[Marge]], Homer punched a hole in the wall when {{W|Major League Baseball}} added the {{W|pitch clock}}. The pitch clock was added to the MLB in the {{W|2023 Major League Baseball season|2023 season}}.
 *''[[The Joy of Spiking]]'' is a reference to the ''{{W|Joy of Cooking}}'' cookbook.
-*Homer saying that he chopped down [[Ned]]'s cherry tree, then did tell a lie, is a reference to the myth that [[George Washington]] damaged his father's cherry tree, then said "I can not tell a lie" to his father.
+*Homer saying that he chopped down [[Ned]]'s cherry tree, then did tell a lie, is a reference to the myth that [[George Washington]] damaged his father's cherry tree, then said, "I can not tell a lie," to his father.
 *[[Professor Frink]] uses 14 CC of {{W|Manischewitz}} wine.
-*After creating the wine replica, Professor Frink removed the radioactive isotope found in the wines made after the {{W|nuclear age}}.
+*After creating the wine replica, Professor Frink removed the radioactive isotope found in wines made after the {{W|nuclear age}}.
-*Mr. Burns tells his wine club to "bend an {{W|ELba}}" when drinking the wine. This refers to the phrase "bend an elbow", and Elba was the site of Napoleon's first exile in 1814.
+*Mr. Burns tells his wine club to "bend an {{W|Elba}}" when drinking the wine. This refers to the phrase "bend an elbow," and Elba was the site of Napoleon's first exile in 1814.
 [[File:Robin Hood animated film parody.png|300px|thumb|[[Smithers]] and [[Marge]], among other characters, parody {{W|Robin Hood}} and {{W|Maid Marian}} from the 1973 [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] film ''{{W2|Robin Hood|1973 film}}'']]
-*Marge proposes Smithers to be become wine-forging [[Robin Hood]]s.
+*Marge proposes Smithers become wine-forging [[Robin Hood]]s.
-**Segments animated in the style of the 1973 [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] animated ''{{W2|Robin Hood|1973 film}}'' animated film are seen. Music similar to that of the movie is heard. In them several characters play the role of the ones from the film:
+**Segments animated in the style of the 1973 [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] animated ''{{W2|Robin Hood|1973 film}}'' film are seen. Music similar to that of the movie is heard. In them, several characters play the role of those from the film:
 ***Smithers is Robin Hood.
 ***Marge is {{W|Maid Marian}}.
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 ***[[Bart]] is {{W|Alan-a-Dale}}.
 *Smithers points out [[Marcus Club]], the founder of {{W|Sam's Club}}. In real life, the founder of Sam's Club is {{W|Sam Walton}}.
-*[[Francis Ford Coppola]], [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] and {{Ch|Robert Parker}} appear at [[Gavelby's Auction House]].
+*[[Francis Ford Coppola]], [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], and {{Ch|Robert Parker}} appear at [[Gavelby's Auction House]].
 **Francis withdraws his bid referencing his flop film {{W2|Megalopolis|film}}.
-**Andrew's line "the music that I write" is a reference to his song "{{W|The Music of the Night}}".
+**Andrew's line "the music that I write" is a reference to his song "{{W|The Music of the Night}}."
-**[[The Rich Texan]] asks Lloyd Webber if he made the musical ''[[Cats]]'', and why does he love it.
+**[[The Rich Texan]] asks Lloyd Webber if he made the musical ''[[Cats]]'' and why he loves it.
 *[[Alca-Shiraz Wine Jail]] is a reference to the {{W|Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary|Alcatraz prison}} and the wine {{W|Syrah|Shiraz}}.
 *The [[Springfield Wine Court]] was inspired by the trial in the film ''{{W|Anatomy of a Fall}}''.<ref>[https://bsky.app/profile/rlazebnik.bsky.social/post/3leioqx4onc22 Rob LaZebnik's Bluesky - "Court scene"]</ref>
 *The person on the right at the gay bar is designed to look like [[Johnny LaZebnik]].<ref>[https://bsky.app/profile/rlazebnik.bsky.social/post/3leioojapi222 Rob LaZebnik's Bluesky - "Johnny LaZebnik"]</ref>
 *Homer told the kids that Marge was in {{W|Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara}} with friends.
-*Mr. Burns has a parody of {{W|Johannes Vermeer}}'s painting ''{{W|Girl with a Pearl Earring}}'', the ''Girl with a Pearl Nose Ring'', and a [[Holy Bible|Bible]] signed by [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]].
+*Mr. Burns has a parody of {{W|Johannes Vermeer}}'s painting ''{{W|Girl with a Pearl Earring}},'' the ''Girl with a Pearl Nose Ring,'' and a [[Holy Bible|Bible]] signed by [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]].
 *"{{W|Don't Stop Me Now}}" by Queen plays during the final montage.

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 *Homer saying that he chopped down [[Ned]]'s cherry tree, then did tell a lie, is a reference to the myth that [[George Washington]] damaged his father's cherry tree, then said "I can not tell a lie" to his father.
 *[[Professor Frink]] uses 14 CC of {{W|Manischewitz}} wine.
-*Mr. Burns tells his wine club to "bend an {{W|ELba}}" when drinking the wine. This refers to the phrase "bend an elbow," and Elba was the site of Napoleon's first exile in 1814.
+*Mr. Burns tells his wine club to "bend an {{W|ELba}}" when drinking the wine. This refers to the phrase "bend an elbow", and Elba was the site of Napoleon's first exile in 1814.
 *[[Marge]] proposes Smithers to be become wine-forging [[Robin Hood]]s.
 **Segments animated in the style of the 1973 [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] ''{{W2|Robin Hood|1973 film}}'' animated film are seen. Music similar to that of the movie is heard. In them several characters play the role of the ones from the film: