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Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger and 2006 film directed by David Frankel, The Devil Wears Prada. "Nada" is Spanish for "nothing".
  • The whole episode is also a parody of the story, as they are both about someone who has a controlling and despotic boss and is in a new job which leaves them no time to spend with their partner.
  • Other scenes, such as when Homer and Carl go to France and Homer has to remind Carl the names of the people at the party, are also parodies of the book.
• In the title screen gag, Homer floats across the screen in a lawn chair with a bunch of balloons attached to it, referencing the 1982 flight of Larry Walters (nicknamed "Lawnchair Larry"), who reached an altitude of 15,000 feet by attaching 45 helium-filled weather balloons to a patio chair.
• Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employees sing the popular song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" to Ted.

Lenny, Carl and Homer race in Mini Coopers in a similar way to the pursuit scene in The Italian Job

• Lenny, Carl and Homer imagine themselves racing through the power plant in Mini Coopers, very similar to a pursuit scene in the 2003 heist action film The Italian Job.
• Springfield Police Department raised money by selling calendars. This is a reference to the Firefighter calendars, often created by fire departments to raise money for charity.
• The group of mature women making the calendar resemblances the plot of the 2003 British comedy film Calendar Girls, where a group of middle-aged Yorkshire women produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research.
• At Shot in the Face Photo Studios, Luann Van Houten is posing as Betsy Ross.
• Marge dresses as professional golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Marge describes her as the "female Tiger Woods of the 1930s".
• Julio mentions the Chupacabra, the legendary creature from the Americas.
• After seeing Marge's calendar, Mr. Burns changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
• Homer imagines Carl demanding a Shiatsu massage.
• Edna's history class was going to be about George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River.
• Homer and Marge visit Smooches on the Beach hotel for a romantic getaway, which is a parody of the real Shutters on the Beach Hotel in Santa Monica, California.
• Homer refers to The Frog Prince fairy tale.
• Carl asks Homer to get him a room at Hôtel Ritz Paris with a view of Jim Morrison's grave. The famous lead vocalist of The Doors was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, which would not, however, be viewable from the Ritz.
• On the private airplane, Homer offers Carl some Edamame, a Japanese dish prepared with immature soybeans in the pod.
• U2's song "City of Blinding Lights" is heard when Carl and Homer are in the car in Paris. Famous sites the car passes by include the Arc de Triomphe, Notre-Dame de Paris, Ritz Hotel, Moulin Rouge and the Eiffel Tower.
• Carl mentions the Louvre museum.
• Former first lady of France Carla Bruni, goes to Disneyland Paris (Euro-Disney).
• The vocalist of the French rock band mentions French film director Claude Chabrol.
• The jazz piece "It's Been a Long, Long Time" is heard during the sequence where a sad Homer walks through the streets of Paris.
• Rod and Todd were grounded for watching a commercial of Grey's Anatomy.
• An instrumental piece similar to Barry White's "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love" is heard when Marge and Ned get soaked in the kitchen.
• Homer threatens Carl by saying he would tell former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy about Carl's relation with Carla Bruni. Homer compares the hypothetical situation to how French filmmaker François Truffaut was influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's work.

Goofs

• When Marge has Homer roll the love dice, the words on the faces (and their positions relative to each other) change with every roll.
• The Louvre Museum is actually closed on Tuesdays and not on Mondays as Carl and Homer believed.