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*[[Kent Brockman]] appears with brown hair at [[The Krusty Klassic Celebrity Pro-Am]] golf tournament. | *[[Kent Brockman]] appears with brown hair at [[The Krusty Klassic Celebrity Pro-Am]] golf tournament. | ||
Revision as of 10:32, August 1, 2012
Contents
Cultural references
- The episode title is a pun on Lost Horizon and a reference to Verizon Communications.
- The bar Inga-Bar Beerman's is a reference to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
- Crocodile Drunkee's is a pun on Crocodile Dundee.
- Principal Skinner crosses the freeway in a similar fashion to the video game Frogger.
- The Allied Peas mascot is a parody of the Jolly Green Giant.
- Bart, Nelson and Milhouse eat grilled Twizzlers.
- Denis Leary is seen wearing a Boston Red Sox baseball cap. In real life, Leary is a big Red Sox fan.
- Bart uses Leary's cell phone to order a New York Yankees hat and Derek Jeter jersey, much to Leary's annoyance (see above).
- Thanks to one of Bart's pranks, Leary appears in the movie adaptation of the children's book Everybody Poops as a constipated gorilla.
- The song playing when Bart is collecting golf balls is "Workin' Man Blues" by Merle Haggard.
- After Bart finishes prank calling, he remarks that "the sun never sets on the Bartish empire" a reference to the phrase "The sun never sets on the British Empire".
Trivia
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The Wayne Slater look-alike.
- Dr. Nick reappears in this episode, even though he appeared to have died in The Simpsons Movie.
- One of the patrons in the Swedish bar looks nearly identical to Wayne Slater, from the Season 23 episode "The Falcon and the D'ohman".
Continuity
- When Marge asks Bart how he got a cell phone he tells her that he got it the same way she got him "by accident, on a golf course." This is a reference to the Season 9 episode "Natural Born Kissers".
Goofs
- In one scene, the satellite is on the right of the roof of the Simpsons' house, then several scenes later, it is on the left side. Also, the first time the satellite is seen, it is bigger.
- Kent Brockman appears with brown hair at The Krusty Klassic Celebrity Pro-Am golf tournament.
