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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the film The Fast and the Furious.
• Wuhu is a parody of Hulu.
• Lisa says the road being "old-stained Fury Road", referencing the film Mad Max: Fury Road.
• The hobo philharmonic plays Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5".
• Aubrey Medical Plaza is a reference to actress Aubrey Plaza.
• Dr. Dorothea Chaplet is named for (and designed after) the companion of the First Doctor, Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet, from Doctor Who.^[1]
• Lisa refers to the tappers as table buzzers from TGI Fridays.
• Lisa says that her dream of becoming Edith is primo, Louis Primo, a reference to jazzist Louis Prima.
• Homer says that there are dream laws enforced by the dream police, and Marge points out that's a song by Cheap Trick, "Dream Police". Homer starts singing their song "Surrender".
• Professor Frink makes a machine to create the perfect Arnold Palmer.

Professor Frink's whiteboard includes several references to the use of wormholes for time travel and to TARDIS, the time machine from Doctor Who

• On Frink's whiteboard:
  • There is a drawing of the TARDIS from Doctor Who, with the acronym "Traversable Acausal Retrograde Domain in Space-Time", referencing the "Time And Relative Dimension In Space" acronym of the TARDIS.
  • Einstein field equations, G_µν = 8πGT_µν, which describe how matter and energy affect the curvature of spacetime, are seen on the top.
  • Frink also has "Minkowski Wormhole" written on the whiteboard, combining the mathematical description of the Minkowski spacetime and the concept of the wormhole, hypothetically considered to allow time travel.
  • Other notations include the accessibility relation, wRu, used in modal logic, while the integral equations are representations of the mathematics behind wormholes, energy conditions, and time travel constraints.
• Frink tells Lisa that the time-traveling experience "most resembles a quantum leap, minus the Scott Bakula-tions". This is a play-on-words on the physics concept of quantum leap and the 1989 science fiction TV series Quantum Leap, in which American actor Scott Bakula starred as Dr. Sam Beckett.
• Professor Frink says "to the Internet-mobile", referencing the phrase "To the Batmobile!" from the 1960s Batman TV series.
• During the song "The Mini Moose", several locations and their landmarks are mentioned:
  • New York City and Central Park.
  • St. Louis and the Gateway Arch (which hasn't been built yet).
  • Paris and the Eiffel Tower.
  • Mount Olympus and Zeus.
  • London and London Bridge.
• The Agoni Smart Dungeon app is likely a reference to the Amazon Alexa Smart Home system.
• According to Future Mr. Burns, the past version of himself will make billions by owning the Las Vegas Raiders.
• Future Mr. Burns tells Past Mr. Burns that he will have a Picasso painting in every bathroom.
• Mr. Burns convinces his younger self to not marry Roseanne Barr.
• Burns left Edith a priceless Tiffany lamp to sell. He packaged it in "worthless" baseball cards, including ones of Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, and Ty Cobb.
• During "Mini Moose Mamma, Let's Kill You Tonight", the singer mentions the eradication of the Oxford comma.

Trivia

• Blinky has four eyes instead of its usual three eyes.

Continuity

• Episodes shown on Wuhu:
  • Homer New Jobs: "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)".
  • Bart Girlfriends: "Bart's Girlfriend".
  • Lisa the Misfit: "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds".
  • Social Commentary 5 Years Too Late: "E My Sports".
  • Fan Infuriators: "That '90s Show".
  • Marriage Trouble: "Steal This Episode".
  • Obscure Holidays: "Whacking Day".
  • Emmy Losers: "Barthood".
  • Inaccurate Predictions: "Lisa's Wedding".
  • Two-Parters, But Why?: "Warrin' Priests".
  • Alternate Realities: "The Serfsons".
  • Marge Marries Flanders: "The Devil Wears Nada".
  • Simpsons Go to Kang and Kodos' Planet: "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner".
• When Lisa looks up pictures of old Springfield, a picture of the Great Springfield Gazebo is among them. ("Hostile Kirk Place")
• Barney remembers the time he was the Plow King. ("Mr. Plow")
• Lenny, who is chained to a hospital bed in a secret room in Burns' office, says that he thought he was signing up for the softball team. ("Homer at the Bat")
• In Moe's Tavern's basement, several items from the past appear:
  • Moe's Ice Cream Carnival sign. ("A Tree Grows in Springfield")
  • Red Tick Beer. ("The Springfield Files")
  • Mo's sign and the Love Tester. ("Flaming Moe")
  • Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag sign. ("Bart Sells His Soul")

References