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Cultural references

• The story is inspired by Alison Bechdel's graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.
• The story of a writer-artist collaboration was inspired by the life of Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, which is also referenced by the episode title.
• Sad Girl is inspired by Daniel Clowes' Ghost World.
• Homer references Netflix.
• Little Lulu comics are sold at the The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop.
• Comic Book Guy has bookends of the Hulk and The Thing.
• There is a statue of Krusty frozen in carbonite, similar to Han Solo from Star Wars in the Android's Dungeon.
• The theme song of The Andy Griffith Show ("The Fishin' Hole") is heard when Homer and Bart go fishing.
• Guthrie Frenel references You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, the stage musical based on the Peanuts comic strip.
• Kipp Lennon performs a parody of "Infatuation" by Rod Stewart.
• Lisa mentions Waiting for Godot.
• Guthrie Frenel mentions Cats.
• Guthrie Frenel mentions the Tony awards.
• The music playing during the Sad Girl musical is the score of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
• Guthrie Frenel mentions You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
• The episode was dedicated to Tom Petty who passed away on October 2nd, six days before this episode aired.

Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con

• A person is dressed as Eleven from Stranger Things.
• A person is dressed as Groot and has Rocket Raccoon on a lead.
• Cosmic Wars is a parody of Star Wars.
• Klingon is a reference to the race in Star Trek.
• A poster of The Mummy is seen.
• Restroom of the Apes is a reference to Planet of the Apes.
• In the "Build a Girlfriend Workshop" booth, the "girl" is posed like Vitruvian Man, a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
• A person is cosplaying Aquaman, dragging a tank with a person cosplaying as another Aquaman inside.
• The TARDIS from Doctor Who can be seen.
• A poster for Guts of War XVII is seen, a parody of God of War.
• Chicks With Pix is possibly a reference to "Chicks With Dicks", referring to Shemales.
• Roz Chast is holding a panel, showing her comics, joined by Lisa, Marge, Alison Bechdel, presenting her novel Fun Home and the Bechdel test, and Marjane Satrapi, presenting her comic Persepolis.

Continuity

• The Simpson family goes to the Springfield Community College. ("Brush with Greatness")
• Badgerine, a parody of Wolverine, appears in the Android's Dungeon again. ("Married to the Blob")
• The celebrities who appeared on the walls in Springfield Sardi's are:
  • Lucille Ball ("Little Big Mom")
  • Fox Mulder and Dana Scully ("The Springfield Files")
  • Conan O'Brien ("Bart Gets Famous")
  • James Woods ("Homer and Apu")
  • Ron Howard ("When You Dish Upon a Star")
  • Humphrey Bogart ("Natural Born Kissers")
  • Bette Midler ("Krusty Gets Kancelled")
  • Mickey Rooney ("Radioactive Man")
  • Tom Hanks (The Simpsons Movie)
  • Leonard Nimoy ("Marge vs. the Monorail" and "The Springfield Files")
  • Barney Fife ("Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" and "Pranksta Rap")
  • Jay Leno ("The Last Temptation of Krust")
  • Brooke Shields ("The Front")
  • John Travolta ("Itchy & Scratchy Land" et al.)

Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con

• The Coolsville Comics & Toys shop appears. ("Husbands and Knives")
• A poster for an Angelica Button movie is seen. ("The Haw-Hawed Couple")
• Danger Dog and Stan Lee can be seen. ("I Am Furious (Yellow)")
• People dressed as Trans-Clown-O-Morphs characters are seen. ("Apocalypse Cow")