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References/Trivia

Season 23 Episode References

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The episode title is a pun on the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon appears in the Stradivarius Cain movie.
Declan's documentary Do You Want Lies With That? is a parody of Super Size Me.
The scene of Homer looking at "beautiful things" is a parody of Forrest Gump.
Huffenpuffilus is a parody of Sesame Street's Mr. Snuffleupagus.
Homer's illusions:
- E.T., a character from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
- Mr. Potato Head, a children's toy, made popular by Toy Story.
- Clippy, the common nickname for Clippit, the Office Assistant for Microsoft Office from Windows 98 to Windows 2003.
- Cleatus the Football Robot, a robot that is likely the same as Cleatus the Fox Sports Robot.
When Marge pulls up to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Lenny asks "what brings you to the SNPP," which is a possible reference to the website "The Simpsons Archive", which is more commonly known by the initials "snpp".

In Krusty Burger, Jessica Lovejoy has light brown hair.
One of the children Nelson punches he doesn't actually touch.
When Homer and Marge started kissing while Stradivarius Cain watched, Homer's tie had disappeared.

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The Falcon and the D'ohman • Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts • Treehouse of Horror XXII • Replaceable You • The Food Wife • The Book Job • The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants • The Ten-Per-Cent Solution • Holidays of Future Passed • Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson • The D'oh-cial Network • Moe Goes from Rags to Riches • The Daughter Also Rises • At Long Last Leave • Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart‎ • How I Wet Your Mother • Them, Robot • Beware My Cheating Bart‎ • A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again • The Spy Who Learned Me • Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda • Lisa Goes Gaga