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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the film National Treasure.
• Noah Wyle, Katherine LaNasa, and Taylor Dearden guest starring as emergency room staff is a reference to their starring roles in The Pitt.
• Marge uses Amazon Alexa.
• Men's Best Friend's Health is a parody of Men's Health.
• Numerous references to the Philadelphia Eagles team are made:
  • Homer references:
    • The 1968 game where the fans threw snowballs at Santa Claus.
    • Fans climbing street lamps after the 52nd Super Bowl.
    • Lenny Dykstra learning to be crazy.
    • The "Tush Push" play.
    • In his list of activities to do in Philadelphia there is "ripping off a piece of Jason Kelce's beard".
    • He throws a battery at Adrianne, the "Philadelphia Handshake", a reference to fans throwing stuff at the opposing team.
  • Gritty appears.
  • The Michael Vick Reparation Park is named after Michael Vick. Vick was arrested and sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for his involvement in a dog fighting ring.
• Philadelphia's welcome sign says "The Big Scrapple", a pun on "The Big Apple", New York City's nickname and scrapple.
• The person welcoming Marge to the hotel tells her:
  • The menu is called the "Boyz II Menu", a reference to Boyz II Men, the band that performed the episode's "Theme Song".
  • To ring Patti LaBelle if she needs anything.
  • To choose between the Silver Linings Playbook Room, a reference to the movie Silver Linings Playbook, and the Fresh Prince suite, a reference to the series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
• Santa's Little Helper is trying to win the Kentucky Derby.
• Also mentioned (and then visited by him and the Historians of America's Great Inventors and Enlightened Men) in Homer's list of awesome things for him to do in Philadelphia:
  • Geno's Steaks.
  • Pat's King of Steaks.
  • Dalessandro's Steaks Beer-Hoagies.
  • Wawa.
  • Rita's Italian Ice.
  • TV series Abbott Elementary.
  • TV series Mare of Easttown.
  • Other places not visible on the list but visited are:
    • Down North, a real life pizzeria chain.
    • The Tastykake factory.
    • Lincoln Financial Field.
    • The Mütter Museum of Medical Oddities.
    • A The Roots concert.
    • The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
      • Painting present at the museum:
        • Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by David Martin
        • Joseph Siffred Duplessis's Benjamin Franklin portrait.
        • Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull.
        • Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West.
• The Historians mention Benjamin Franklin.
  • Homer asks them if he played for the Sixers.
  • They mention the Treaty of Paris and how he stole gold from the Palace of Versailles.
• A statue of Rocky characters is present at the Philadelphia Art Museum, but the secondary characters from Rocky are not.

Continuity

• An extended scene of when Santa's Little Helper gets adopted by the family is shown in the episode's opening. ("Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire")
• Homer is dressed as The Chosen One ("Homer the Great") and Pie Man ("Simple Simpson").
• Laddie appears. ("The Canine Mutiny")