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 *[[Nelson]] was chosen to go to {{W|Pelé}}'s Soccer and Acting Camp.
 *The R-rated movie Bart's friends are so excited about seeing is ''{{W|Barton Fink}}'', a 1991 drama about a struggling screenwriter in the 1940s, which presumably is far from what they would hope to see.
 *[[Homer]] watches ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', a real game show.
 *[[Woman resembling Homer|The woman]] that Bart mistakes for Homer in an ironic touch sings "[[I Am Woman]]" by [[Helen Reddy]].

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 *[[Nelson]] was chosen to go to {{W|Pelé}}'s Soccer and Acting Camp.
 *The R-rated movie Bart's friends are so excited about seeing is ''{{W|Barton Fink}}'', a 1991 drama about a struggling screenwriter in the 1940s, which presumably is far from what they would hope to see.
-**A later episode, "[[Bart the Fink]]", would take its title from that film, which, like ''The Simpsons'', is produced by 20th Century Fox.
+**Two later episodes, "[[Bart the Fink]]" and "[[Bart 'N' Frink]]", would take their title from that film, which, like ''The Simpsons'', is produced by 20th Century Fox.
 *[[Homer]] watches ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', a real game show.
 *[[Woman resembling Homer|The woman]] that Bart mistakes for Homer in an ironic touch sings "[[I Am Woman]]" by [[Helen Reddy]].

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 == Continuity ==
-*The name "IP Freely" was previously used in "[[Homer's Odyssey]]" by Bart as a [[Bart's Prank Calls|prank call]] to [[Moe]]. This time the call was made by drunken fraternity boys, who were pranking [[Kent Brockman]] by telling him there was a giant lizard in Downtown [[Springfield]].
+*The name "I.P. Freely" was previously used in "[[Homer's Odyssey]]" by Bart as a [[Bart's Prank Calls|prank call]] to [[Moe]]. This time the call was made by drunken fraternity boys, who were pranking [[Kent Brockman]] by telling him there was a giant lizard in Downtown [[Springfield]].
 *The shot of [[Homer]] mentioning about "wiggling one's butt" is recycled from the opening scene from "[[Life on the Fast Lane]]".
 *A picture of [[Bea Simmons]] from "[[Old Money]]" hangs in Grampa's room.

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 *Skinner makes a reference to the movie ''[[Psycho]]'' when he says "Oh... there's mother now." This is the first time Skinner has been portrayed as a {{W|Norman Bates}}-like character.
 *When Homer sees a homeless man sleeping in a dumpster, he compares him to [[Oscar the Grouch]] from ''[[Sesame Street]]''.
-^[[Pepi]] is a spoof of ''{{W|Dondi}}'', a comic strip about a big-eyed Italian war orphan of the same name which ran from 1955 to 1986.
+*[[Pepi]] is a spoof of ''{{W|Dondi}}'', a comic strip about a big-eyed Italian war orphan of the same name which ran from 1955 to 1986.
 *Bart shoving a grapefruit into Homer's face is a reference of the [[James Cagney]] movie, ''{{W|The Public Enemy}}''.
 *The name of ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show]]'' episode "[[Kitty-Kitty Bang-Bang]]" is a reference to the film ''{{W|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang}}''.

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 *Skinner makes a reference to the movie ''[[Psycho]]'' when he says "Oh... there's mother now." This is the first time Skinner has been portrayed as a {{W|Norman Bates}}-like character.
 *When Homer sees a homeless man sleeping in a dumpster, he compares him to [[Oscar the Grouch]] from ''[[Sesame Street]]''.
-^[[Pepi]] is a spoof of ''{{W|Dondi}}'', a comic strip about an Italian war orphan of the same name which run from 1955 to 1986.
+^[[Pepi]] is a spoof of ''{{W|Dondi}}'', a comic strip about a big-eyed Italian war orphan of the same name which ran from 1955 to 1986.
 *Bart shoving a grapefruit into Homer's face is a reference of the [[James Cagney]] movie, ''{{W|The Public Enemy}}''.
 *The name of ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show]]'' episode "[[Kitty-Kitty Bang-Bang]]" is a reference to the film ''{{W|Chitty Chitty Bang Bang}}''.

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 *Before the baseball game the fanfare "{{W2|Charge|fanfare}}" by {{W2|Tommy Walker|events director}} plays.
 *When [[Lisa]] goes to [[Dr. Hibbert]]'s office and gets eardrops, Hibbert offers her a ''[[M*A*S*H]]'' coloring book in case she gets bored while waiting for them to sink in.
-*Bart and {{ap|Tom|Brother from the Same Planet}} watch an episode of ''{{ap|The Ren & Stimpy Show|TV series}}''. The song that plays over the cartoon is "The Barber of Seville Overture" from ''{{W|The Barber of Seville}}''.
+*Bart and {{ap|Tom|Brother from the Same Planet}} watch an episode of ''{{ap|The Ren & Stimpy Show|TV series}}''. The song that plays over the cartoon is "The Barber of Seville Overture" from ''{{W|The Barber of Seville}}''. An uncredited [[Christopher Reccardi]], one of the animators of ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', provided layout for this sequence.
 *When Homer tells Bart "You've been out gallivanting with that floozy of a bigger brother of yours, haven't you? Haven't you!" he is making a reference to ''{{W2|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?|film}}'' when Richard Burton accuses his wife of adultery.
 *Skinner makes a reference to the movie ''[[Psycho]]'' when he says "Oh... there's mother now." This is the first time Skinner has been portrayed as a {{W|Norman Bates}}-like character.

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 **A later episode, "[[Bart the Fink]]", would take its title from that film, which, like ''The Simpsons'', is produced by 20th Century Fox.
 *[[Homer]] watches ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', a real game show.
-*[[Woman resembling Homer|The woman]] that Bart mistakes for Homer in an ironic touch sings "[[I Am Woman]]" by {{W|Helen Reddy}}.
+*[[Woman resembling Homer|The woman]] that Bart mistakes for Homer in an ironic touch sings "[[I Am Woman]]" by [[Helen Reddy]].
 *The television announcer starts to say what would happen tonight on ''{{W2|Wings|1990 TV series}}'', before going on to say "aah, who cares."
 *While Bart is stuck in the storm waiting for Homer, a nun is lifted up by the wind, a reference to the TV series ''{{W|The Flying Nun}}''.

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 *When Homer sees a homeless man sleeping in a dumpster, he compares him to [[Oscar the Grouch]] from ''[[Sesame Street]]''.
 *Bart shoving a grapefruit into Homer's face is a reference of the [[James Cagney]] movie, ''{{W|The Public Enemy}}''.
 *At one point, Homer calls [[Pepi]] "{{W|Pepsi}}".
 *At one point, Bart tells Homer that he would fake the excitement he would have when Homer pushed him on the swing and demonstrates it, to Homer's horror. This is a reference to the infamous fake orgasm scene in ''{{W|When Harry Met Sally}}''.

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 **When Krusty mentions his new movie with [[Marvelous Marvin Hagler|Marvin Hagler]] and [[Tova Borgnine]] the audience remains silent.
 *Krusty appears on a sketch called ''[[The Big Ear Family]]'', which could be a reference to either the ''{{W|Coneheads}}'' or {{W|Short-lived recurring characters on Saturday Night Live#The Widettes|The Widettes}}; the Coneheads being a family of aliens with large cone-shaped heads, and the Widettes being a family of people with abnormally-large rear ends.
-*The organization [[Bigger Brothers Agency]] is an obvious reference to {{W|Big Brothers Big Sisters of America}}.
+*The organization [[Bigger Brothers Agency]] is a parody of the {{W|Big Brothers Big Sisters of America}}.
 *Marge tells Lisa about her crush on [[Bobby Sherman]] when she was a girl.
 *Before the baseball game the fanfare "{{W2|Charge|fanfare}}" by {{W2|Tommy Walker|events director}} plays.