The Sweetest Apu/References - Revision history

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‎Cultural references: replaced: == Cultural references == → == Cultural references == (3), typos fixed: traditonal → traditional, replaced: → (6)

Simpsons88 at 11:32, December 22, 2025

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Jared DiCarlo at 03:21, December 12, 2025

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 *At the {{W|American Civil War}} reenactment:
 **The {{W|Flags of the Confederate States of America#Battle flag|battle flag of the Confederate States}} is seen.
-**[[Cletus]] plays the traditonal southern song "{{W2|Dixie|song}}" on a banjo.
+**[[Cletus]] plays the traditional southern song "{{W2|Dixie|song}}" on a banjo.
 **The patriotic song "{{W|Battle Hymn of the Republic}}" is heard.
 **There is a confederate soldier who bears a striking similarity to Confederate General [[Robert E. Lee]].

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 {{TabR}}
 == Cultural references ==
-*''{{W|Catch-22}}'' - Homer refers to the punctured keg of beer as being "so cold...so cold." These are the words Snowden uses when hit and bleeding, in the novel ''Catch-22''. [[Milhouse]] also says these words in the season seven episode "[[Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily]]" after Bart complains that nothing happened to Milhouse after playing with the monkey in the Pier One wicker basket.
+*The episode title is a pun on the 1985 song "{{W|The Sweetest Taboo}}" by the English band {{W2|Sade|band}}.
-*''{{W|Wild Wild West}}'' - Dr. Loveless' giant mechanical spider, in this episode driven by [[Professor Frink]].
+*[[Apu]] mentions the {{W|Indian rope trick}}, a magic trick said to have been performed in and around [[India]] during the 19th century in which a rope rose by itself and a boy climbed it.
-*The title is a pun on the Sade song, "{{W|The Sweetest Taboo}}".
+*[[Homer]] says to [[Lisa]] "Don't go Mary Todd on us", referring to {{W|Mary Todd Lincoln}}, wife of [[Abraham Lincoln]].
-*When [[Marge]] is watching the video of Apu's wedding, [[Homer]] gets up with the band and tries to sing the same song from the wedding scene in ''[[The Godfather]]''.
+*At the {{W|American Civil War}} reenactment:
-*Apu's cartoon appears in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', which Homer says he purchased only for the photos of {{W|Richard Avedon}}, featuring [[Lenny]].
+**The {{W|Flags of the Confederate States of America#Battle flag|battle flag of the Confederate States}} is seen.
-*Apu and his octuplets reenact ''{{W|My Fair Lady}}'' as part of Manjula's list.
+**[[Cletus]] plays the traditonal southern song "{{W2|Dixie|song}}" on a banjo.
-*Moe uses a generic {{W|Windex}} brand called Windel for his Windex drink (even though a real Windex drink is made of vodka, triple sec, and blue curacao).
+**The patriotic song "{{W|Battle Hymn of the Republic}}" is heard.
-*At the Civil War reenactment, there is a confederate soldier who bears a striking similarity to General [[Robert E. Lee]].
+**There is a confederate soldier who bears a striking similarity to Confederate General [[Robert E. Lee]].
-*When Apu's wife first kicks him out of the house, his children hiss at him. This is a reference to the hissing children in the David Cronenberg film ''{{W|The Brood}}''.
+**[[Barney]] plays the role of General [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. Homer tells Barney that if he were going to be General Grant, he "had to have a drink". This is a reference to Grant's struggle with alcohol at certain points in his life.
-*On Apu's reincarnation poster, one of his past lives was "a clod" (''[[Mad]]'' Magazine<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Alfred E. Neuman) and an assistant to ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' executive Lorne Michaels. Lorne hired such ''Simpsons'' writers as [[George Meyer]], [[John Swartzwelder]], [[Jon Vitti]], [[Conan O'Brien]], [[Ian Maxtone-Graham]], and [[Joel H. Cohen]] as sketch writers in the mid-1980s into the 1990s, and hired voice actor [[Harry Shearer]] as a season five cast member in 1979.
+**[[Abraham Lincoln]] starts the battle by shooting a gun at his head, referencing his {{W|Assassination of Abraham Lincoln| assassination in 1865}}.
 == Trivia ==

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 *When Apu's wife first kicks him out of the house, his children hiss at him. This is a reference to the hissing children in the David Cronenberg film ''{{W|The Brood}}''.
 *On Apu's reincarnation poster, one of his past lives was "a clod" (''[[Mad]]'' Magazine<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Alfred E. Neuman) and an assistant to ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' executive Lorne Michaels. Lorne hired such ''Simpsons'' writers as [[George Meyer]], [[John Swartzwelder]], [[Jon Vitti]], [[Conan O'Brien]], [[Ian Maxtone-Graham]], and [[Joel H. Cohen]] as sketch writers in the mid-1980s into the 1990s, and hired voice actor [[Harry Shearer]] as a season five cast member in 1979.
 == Goofs ==

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 == Cultural references ==
 *''{{W|Catch-22}}'' - Homer refers to the punctured keg of beer as being "so cold...so cold." These are the words Snowden uses when hit and bleeding, in the novel ''Catch-22''. [[Milhouse]] also says these words in the season seven episode "[[Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily]]" after Bart complains that nothing happened to Milhouse after playing with the monkey in the Pier One wicker basket.
 *''{{W|Wild Wild West}}'' - Dr. Loveless' giant mechanical spider, in this episode driven by [[Professor Frink]].

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 == Cultural references ==
-The episode title is a pun on Sade's 1985 song, "The Sweetest Taboo."
+*The episode title is a pun on Sade's 1985 song, "The Sweetest Taboo."
 *''{{W|Catch-22}}'' - Homer refers to the punctured keg of beer as being "so cold...so cold." These are the words Snowden uses when hit and bleeding, in the novel ''Catch-22''. [[Milhouse]] also says these words in the season seven episode "[[Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily]]" after Bart complains that nothing happened to Milhouse after playing with the monkey in the Pier One wicker basket.
 *''{{W|Wild Wild West}}'' - Dr. Loveless' giant mechanical spider, in this episode driven by [[Professor Frink]].

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 == Goofs ==
 *When Homer gets in bed after finding out Apu was having an affair with {{ap|Annette|The Sweetest Apu}}, he is wearing his normal clothes, but after he wakes up after having a nightmare about Apu's affair, Homer is in his sleepwear.
 *When the episode starts, the Kwik-E-Mart Sign has a green, blue, and white background instead of a green and white background.