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Cultural references[edit]

• The episode name is a reference to Pork and beans.
• Amazon packages and its drones are seen transporting the book The Japanese Warrior Monks' Guide to Tidying Up.
• A Japanese bookmaker questions being told to make one million books, saying "That's Dilbert territory!".
  • Mount Fuji can be seen at the back of the book house.
• One of the robots working at the book factory performs Seppuku, a Japanese ritual for committing suicide.
• The books at Springfield Car Wash:
  • Eat, Pray, Love, Divorce is a parody of Eat, Pray, Love.
  • You'll See Me Later by Joyce Carol Oates is a reference to Oates guest-starring later in the episode.
  • No One Edits Me was written by American author Stephen King.
  • Killing Hannity by Bill O'Reilly is a reference to O'Reilly's feud with Sean Hannity.
• The Pink Sedan is a 1986 Plymouth Junkerola.
• Bart thanks Galileo when he is using a telescope.
• Homer considers "World War China" to be a hypothetical World War III.
• Gregslist is a parody of Craigslist, an American classified advertisements website.
• Bart mentions Lisa having Dean Cain's autograph.
• Lenny was once turned down by McDonald's.
• Everyone was looking at Homer and Plopper during the "Springfield Nuclear Family Day" party, and Homer says it felt like "bringing Elizabeth Taylor to the Oscars.
• Smithers mentions having a Lloyd's of London insurance that excludes harms occasioned by The Hounds.
  • Mr. Burns says that Lloyd had a grudge against him for taking his girl to see Vincenzo Lunardi's air balloon.
• Marge thinks Burns Medical and Longevity Center seems nicer than the Mayo Clinic.

Cartoon versions of Hellmann's and Best Foods appear when Homer imagines the Mayo Clinic

• Cartoon versions of Hellmann's and Best Foods and Miracle Whip are shown.
• "If found please send to Wynton Marsalis" can be read on Lisa's MyPod. Wynton Marsalis is a jazz trumpeter and composer.
• "Tales from the Vienna Woods" by Johann Strauss II can be heard when Burns remembers watching the rugby game.
  • Burns was supporting Yale University during the game.
  • This composition can also be heard when Burns dances with Plopper at his mansion
• "Gertrude's Dream Waltz" by Ludwig van Beethoven can be heard when Burns spends time with Plopper.
  • Smithers reads Charlotte's Web to them.
  • The song is also heard during the credits.
• The sign outside Springfield Lock 'N' Leave Storage Facility saying "The Historic Site of the First Storage War" is a reference to the reality TV show Storage Wars.
• Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" plays when Homer reunites with Plopper. This sequence is a parody of the ending of the 1992 film The Bodyguard.
• The ending scene with the mayonnaises at the hospital is a parody of ER. The show's main theme by James Newton Howard can be heard as well.
• When Abraham Simpson says he got a college education out of his military service, he is referring to a benefit of the G.I. Bill.

Continuity[edit]

• Robots from "Them, Robot" appear.
• Plopper returns. (The Simpsons Movie)
  • The "Spider-Pig" song plays when it appears.
  • It's revealed it has lived with them since the events of the movie.
• Homer throws away his Mr. Plow jacket. ("Mr. Plow")
• The Gnome in Your Home appears in the garage with the other kept away stuff. ("The Nightmare After Krustmas")
• Dr. Budgie appears. ("Lisa the Veterinarian")

Goofs[edit]

• When Bart and Lisa put their heads together, Bart's nose disappears.

Trivia[edit]

• An alternate "couch gag" aired on August 27, 2017; replacing the title screen, opening sequence and couch gag, referencing the Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017.
  • Homer references Game of Thrones and its finale, that aired the same night.