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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the British movie Having a Wild Weekend.
• In the couch gag, Homer is dressed as Zeus, Marge as Hera, Maggie as Cupid, Lisa as Athena and Bart as Hermes.
  • Lisa springs from Homer's forehead, in armor, like Athena was said to have sprung from the brow of Zeus, in armor.
• Lisa is reading 50 Shades of 'A', a reference to Fifty Shades of Grey.
• Vulture's Nest is a reference to Shark Tank, which Homer also references when he slips up and refers to the show as Shark Tank.
  • Mr. Burns's nickname "Mr. Excellent" is a play on Kevin O'Leary's nickname "Mr. Wonderful."
• V.A. Hospital is a reference to the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
• Grampa mentions Justin Trudeau and Hank Aaron.
• The Che Gue-Ferry is a reference to the Ferry El Che Guevara.
  • I Love Lucy characters Fred Mertz and Ricky Ricardo are seen on the ferry when the Simpsons ride on it to Cuba.
• The book Cuban Escapes by Elian Gonzales is a reference to Elián González's custody and immigration controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States.
• One of the legal reasons to visit Cuba is "really love Gloria Estefan".
• Marge and Homer references Mariel Hemingway and her grandfather Ernest Hemingway, and Mindy Kaling.
• The car Grampa drive in is a 1958 (JOBS) Oldsmobile 88.
• The song "Chan Chan" by the Cuban group Buena Vista Social Club plays during Grampa's car ride through the town.
• The car owner mentions a study made by professor Ellen Langer about aging called "Counterclockwise", where old people who were exposed to late '50s culture were more active than the ones who weren't.
• The scenes in the hotel with two women smoking and then stuffing their mouth with cigars in front of 2 men is a reference to I Love Lucy.
• The song sung on Skyhawk Air airplane is Y en eso llego Fidel by Carlos Puebla.
• The Skyhawk Air logo is similar to that of Pan American World Airways.
• Maggie counting how much horse she ate by tapping her fingers is a reference to Clever Hans, the horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks.
• The song in the credits is "I'll See You in C-U-B-A" by Irving Berlin.

Trivia

• Bart tags his "El Barto" tags in Cuba as "The Bart".
• The 1958 car's license plate is VABF19, the production code of the episode.
• Grampa plays The Simpsons' Theme Song on the guitar.
• Even though this episode aired as the 603th episode overall, it is the 600th episode produced.

Continuity

• In the couch gag, Homer, Marge and Lisa reprise their Greek roles from the comic Greek to Me.
• This is the second time that the Simpson family travels to Cuba. The first being in "The Trouble with Trillions", but only with Homer, Mr. Burns and Smithers.
• Lisa is reading a book called Homer's Odyssey, a reference to the episode "Homer's Odyssey" and the book Odyssey.
• The Black Hole appears in the title screen, and afterwards Homer closes the hole in his head with Maggie's pacifier, the same way Maggie closed the Black Hole in "Treehouse of Horror XXIII".
• A vulture lands on a pile of money and transforms into Mr. Burns, a reference to the vulture that looks like him. Afterwards, vultures are seen pecking Kirk and Milhouse. ("Last Exit to Springfield")
• The blackboard text "Being right sucks" is a reference to the supposed prediction that Donald Trump would become a president.^[1] ("Bart to the Future")
• Sideshow Bob wears his Italian tenor outfit. ("The Italian Bob")

Goofs

• Homer's car disappears when Chief Wiggum leaves Skid Row.
• When the plane took off, everyone on board (excluding Isabella and Grampa) was standing up or didn't have a seat belt on, meaning they would be severely injured or even killed.

References