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Cultural references

• Jim "Jimmy" Jimmerson is a National Football League coach.
• One of the bets on longshot-gimmick.com is that Thanos from Marvel Comics appears.
• Gil Gunderson is a stock image model for "man in suit" for Getty Images.
• When the monk reaches enlightenment, he says that he understands the plot of Inception and then starts to ponder Tenet.
• I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha! baking soda is a reference to I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!
• A man from The Salvation Army chases Marge away from the area she was working in.
• In the song "Peak Awareness", Bernice mentions "trotting out a few Kardashians." She also mentions destroying Doctors Without Borders.
• The office for the Lisa M. Simpson Foundation used to be a WeWork space and a Theranos lab.
• Products that changed their color and brand for the Lisa M. Simpson Foundation includes:
  • Blue Mirror, a parody of Black Mirror.
  • Blue Bull, a parody of Red Bull.
  • Orange Blue-ius and Blue Julius, a parody of Orange Julius.
  • Blue Giant Peas, a parody of Green Giant.
  • Blue Hot Chili Peppers, a parody of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
  • Earl Blue Tea, a parody of Earl Grey tea.
  • BlueTube, a parody of YouTube.
  • Blueberry Cereal, a parody of Boo Berry.
  • Blue Balls, a reference to the sensation blue balls.
• Lisa refers to companies slapping the blue color on their products as "bluewashing", a reference to pinkwashing. This is also referenced in the song "Peak Awareness" where Wendy Sage is given a blue ribbon over her pink one.
• Marge uses Clairol hair dye.
• Eightbucks Coffee is a parody of Starbucks.
• The Lisa M. Simpson Foundation sued Pabst Blue Ribbon and had then turn into Pabst Teal Fabric Bow.

Continuity

• The singing railroad hobo uses the Lisa M. Simpson Foundation. ("Simpsons Tall Tales")