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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the TV series Stranger Things.
• Homer, Bart and Lisa eat Twinkies.
• The title of The Itchy & Scratchy Show episode, Open Sesame Street, is a reference to Sesame Street.
• Quirk Girl is a parody of the TV series New Girl. The characters Quirk Girl and Schultz are parodies of Jessica (the main character) and Schmidt. The actors from the series are voice actors for the characters. The song played by Quirk Girl at the end is a reference to the theme song of the series.
• Screaming Friends is a parody of the cartoon Smiling Friends.
• "A Mother's Heartbreak" is a parody of "When She Loved Me" by Sarah McLachlan from Toy Story 2. Sarah sings the song herself.
• Michael Keaton is on the cover of Partially Bald Monthly.
• Homer doesn't want Bart and Lisa to fall apart like Sweet and Grand Theft Auto from Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. He also mentions Los Santos and Big Smoke. The next day, Homer plays the game on the TV.
• SheEO Magazine is a real world magazine.
• The WNBA is called NBA in the future, while the NBA is called MNBA.
• "Da Butt" by Experience Unlimited plays when Lisa goes home.
• Bart asks Comic Book Guy to think that the ball is a Tribble from Star Trek.
• Comic Book Guy says the Camaro is as red as the planet Arrakis, saying it's a reference to Dune.
• Bart has one of the t-shirt with him holding a slingshot ready to shoot with the text "Underachiever ('And proud of it, man!')", one of the popular real life t-shirts created after "Bart Gets an "F"" and banned from schools.
• "Jailbreak" by Thin Lizzy plays during the rescue mission.
• The Disorient Express is reference to the Orient Express.
• One of The Itchy & Scratchy Show cartoons features them reanimating the corpse of Ty Cobb.
• Marge married Ringo Starr in Heaven.

Continuity

• Marge is married to Ringo Starr. ("Brush with Greatness")
• The Itchy & Scratchy Show cartoons shown in the credits:
  • "Messenger of Death". ("Itchy & Scratchy & Marge")
  • "Screams from a Mall". ("The Front")
  • "Cat Splat Fever". ("Radio Bart")
  • "Pinitchio". ("Itchy & Scratchy Land")
  • The second movie. (The Simpsons Movie)
  • "Breaking Dad". ("Clown in the Dumps")
  • "Kitchen Kut-Ups". ("Itchy & Scratchy & Marge")