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== Cultural refereneces == | == Cultural refereneces == | ||
*The music during the cat burglary at the beginning of the episode is similar to the music from ''{{W2|The Pink Panther|1963 film}}''. | *The music during the cat burglary at the beginning of the episode is similar to the music from ''{{W2|The Pink Panther|1963 film}}''. | ||
| + | *[[Principal Skinner]] has "Stormin' Norman" Commemorative Plates. Stormin' Norman was a nickname [[H. Norman Schwarzkopf]] got after being the commanding general of Operation Desert Storm. | ||
*[[Homer]] imagines himself riding the bomb at [[Herman's Military Antiques]], in a parody of ''{{W|Dr. Strangelove}}''. | *[[Homer]] imagines himself riding the bomb at [[Herman's Military Antiques]], in a parody of ''{{W|Dr. Strangelove}}''. | ||
*The scene between Homer and [[Skinner]] outside the museum references ''{{W2|Dragnet|series}}''. | *The scene between Homer and [[Skinner]] outside the museum references ''{{W2|Dragnet|series}}''. | ||
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Trivia
- A poster in Flanders' rumpus room reads: Seven days without a drink makes me weak.
- Pictures of Fat Tony and Ms. Botz (the babysitter bandit) can be seen at the police station.
Cultural refereneces
- The music during the cat burglary at the beginning of the episode is similar to the music from The Pink Panther.
- Principal Skinner has "Stormin' Norman" Commemorative Plates. Stormin' Norman was a nickname H. Norman Schwarzkopf got after being the commanding general of Operation Desert Storm.
- Homer imagines himself riding the bomb at Herman's Military Antiques, in a parody of Dr. Strangelove.
- The scene between Homer and Skinner outside the museum references Dragnet.
- Molloy is based on David Niven's character A. J. Raffles from the film Raffles.
- When Homer uses the Rapmaster 2000 megaphone to speak to the neighborhood, the kids run into the street saying "It's Hammer!" referring to rapper MC Hammer, who experienced his greatest success in the late 80s and early 90s.
- Among the pictures in Springfield Museum there is Salvador Dalí's "The Persistence of Memory".
- The race scene at the end of the episode parodies It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Various characters from the movie appear, including Phil Silvers, whom Bart tricks into driving his car into a river.
Goofs
- When Homer is on the news talk-show, he puts his hand on his chest and the opening of his shirt appears over the back of his hand.
- 742 Evergreen Terrace would eventually be the address for the Simpson house and in this episode Chief Wiggum says the Simpsons' address is 723 Evergreen Terrace.
- When Nelson calls on the phone to harass Bart about his stamp collection, the close-captions miscredit the line to Milhouse.
- When Chief Wiggum opens the suitcase, no sound of opening the suitcase is heard. That's because the sound of the suitcase opening can be heard a second beforehand.
- The man who drowned in the river appears at the T-shaped tree with a shovel.
- When Nelson calls on the phone to harass Bart about his stamp collection, the closed-captions miscredit the line to Milhouse.
