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Cultural refereneces

• In the script the old Irishman is named Irish Pete, a pun on Irish peat.
• The music during the cat burglary at the beginning of the episode is similar to the music from The Pink Panther.
• Molloy is based on David Niven's character A. J. Raffles from the 1939 film Raffles.
• Things Molloy robbed from the people of Springfield include:
  • Ned's Shroud of Turin beach towels. The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth that shows the image of a man who has marks and physical traumas typical of a crucifixion.
  • Skinner's Stormin' Norman commemorative plates. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., aka Stormin' Norman, was a United States Army general and important military figure during the Gulf War.
• Homer bought some magic beans instead of an insurance, a reference to the popular English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk".
• The motivational poster Hang in there, Baby can be seen in Ned's basement.

Homer imagines himself riding a bomb just like Major Kong (Slim Pickens) did in the black comedy film Dr. Strangelove

• The sequence when Homer imagines himself riding the bomb at Herman's Military Antiques is a parody of the 1964 black comedy film Dr. Strangelove, specifically to the scene where Major Kong (Slim Pickens) is dropped out of a B-52 "riding" a nuclear bomb.
  • Homer shouts "Take that Maynard G. Krebs". A reference to Maynard G. Krebs, the "beatnik" sidekick of the title character in the US sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
• 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.
• According to the street saxophonist, he got his saxophone from Sears, the American chain of department stores.
• Jimbo made a graffiti with the Latin expression Carpe diem.
• The nodding scene between Homer and Skinner outside the Springfield Museum parodies the mannerisms of Sargeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Officer Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) in the 1967 TV series Dragnet.
  • The instrumental theme "Dragnet" is also heard.
• Pictures seen on the walls of Springfield Museum include:
  • Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell.
  • The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí.
• Abe fell down at a Big Boy, a casual dining restaurant.
• Molloy returned Selma a lock of MacGyver's hair.
• The marquee at the Big T Theatre, "Ice-T appearing with Booker T in concert", is a reference to rapper Ice-T and soul musician Booker T. Jones.
• The end of the episode parodies the 1963 comedy film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World:
  • People from Springfield look for the treasure under a "big T", a parody of the $350,000 that were buried in Santa Rosita State Park under "a big W".
  • Barney flies in a biplane through a Duff Beer billboard, parodying the scene where the Twin Beech flies through the Coca-Cola billboard.
  • The scene where Bart tricks a man into driving a car into "shallow" water is an exact recreation of the scene where Otto Meyer (Phil Silvers) gets his car stuck in a river for trusting a kid he met on the road.
  • The "big W" can be seen behind the "big T". The digging sequence is a parody of the "The Money Is Found" scene from the film.
  • J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle) and "Benjy" Benjamin (Buddy Hackett) are seen briefly during the digging sequence.
  • An instrumental version of "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" by Ernest Gold is heard.

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  Barney flies through a Duff billboard, parodying the Twin Beech flying through the Coca-Cola billboard

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  Bart tricks Otto Meyer into crossing a "shallow" river

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  The "big W" from the film can be seen right behind the "big T"

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  "Benjy" Benjamin and Otto Meyer can be seen among the people of Springfield

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.

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.