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Cultural references[edit]

• The episode's title is a pun on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
• Nelson's Bunny Foofoo lunchbox is a reference to "Little Bunny Foo Foo", a children's poem and song.
• According to Nelson, his mother got "too fat" to work at Hooters, the famous American restaurant chain.
• The song "Toxic Barrel Rolling" is sung to the tune of the Western song "Rawhide" by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington.
• Mr. Burns refers to Homer, Carl and Lenny as "Snap, Crackle and Pop", the cartoon mascots of Rice Krispies, a brand of breakfast cereal marketed by Kellogg's, introduced in 1933.

The Museum of TV and Television has several references to American television from the 60s, 70s and 80s, including statues of Lancelot Link from Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, Robot B-9 from Lost in Space, among others

• At the Museum of TV and Television:
  • Isabel Sanford says that she's Weezy from The Jeffersons, a character that she portrayed both in All in the Family and its spinoff series, The Jeffersons.
  • When introducing a movie, Sanford mentions Italian artist Michelangelo and American actors Michael Landon and Beverly D'Angelo.
  • Among the statues of nosy neighbors:
    • Mrs. Kravitz from Bewitched, the American fantasy sitcom.
    • Mr. Roper from Three's Company and the short-lived spin-off The Ropers.
    • Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, in a meta-reference.
  • The "Easter Special" is hosted by comedian Paul Lynde, singer Helen Reddy and the pop band Hudson Brothers. It features American ventriloquist Willie Tyler and his puppet Lester and famous Romanian retired gymnast Nadia Comăneci.
  • Milhouse rode around on a statue of Robert T. Ironside from the TV series Ironside.
  • Statues of Lancelot Link from Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, Robot B-9 from Lost in Space, KITT from Knight Rider, Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Mr. Ed from Mister Ed are seen in an exhibit of "Things That Shouldn't Talk, But Do".
  • Milhouse proposes Bart to switch the heads on the Cosby Kids, referencing Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
• Apu and Manjula are going to see American media personality Paris Hilton in Paris, Texas.
• While Homer dances in front of Moe's Tavern, the rhythm Homer is humming is "The Streets of Cairo" by Sol Bloom.
• According to Milhouse, Luann Van Houten already transferred her 401(k) to her new employer in Capital City.
• Homer bought the flowers for Marge at a Chevron gas station.

The name of the restaurant "Mickey Mao's" is a reference to both Mickey Mouse and communist leader Mao Zedong

• The title of The Itchy & Scratchy Show episode "Moo Goo Gai Pain" is a reference to Moo goo gai pan, the Americanized version of a Cantonese dish – chicken with mushroom in oyster sauce.
  • The name of the restaurant "Mickey Mao's" is a reference to both Mickey Mouse and communist leader Mao Zedong.
• The "crazy guy" version of homeless Homer screams that Coke and Pepsi are the same thing.
• Homer was keeping a Hostess Twinkie in the safe.
• Lisa compares the exploration of the cave to when British Egyptologist Howard Carter discover the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.
• Bart compares it to when he discovered the Xerox photocopier code from the Springfield Elementary School.
• In the streets, Homer sings "Mr. Bojangles" by American country musician Jerry Jeff Walker.
• The idea of Homer panhandling for extra cash is similar to the Sherlock Holmes short story The Man with the Twisted Lip.
• Jenny, a friend of Lisa, tells her that American saxophonist Branford Marsalis's car broke down outside her house and he is jamming until his brother and jazz trumpeter, Wynton Marsalis, shows up.
• Homer talks to the mirror in the same way the Evil Queen uses the Magic Mirror in Snow White.
• One of Homer's hobo aliases is "Mooch-a-lini", a pun on Benito Mussolini.
• One of Homer's presents for Marge was a Bob Seger boxed set.
• Milhouse brought Lisa the Capitol City Monopoly, a version of the famous board game Monopoly.
• The scene on the TV at the end of the episode is The Beverly Hillbillies. Specifically, it shows Jethro Bodine (Max Baer Jr.) telling the Granny (Irene Ryan) that he was going to shoot at some Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
• Isabel Sanford remembers George Jefferson, the character portrayed by Sherman Hemsley in All in the Family and The Jeffersons.
  • The theme song from The Jeffersons by Ja'Net DuBois and Jeff Barry plays over the end credits.

Continuity[edit]

• The side plot of the episode is similar to the Simpsons Comics story Asphalt Bungle, which was released three years before the episode aired. However, in the comic story, Homer is unsuccessful at begging.

Goofs[edit]

• After some time when Bart and Lisa were playing, there was nothing on the lawn, then when the camera is inside the house, a trash can lid appeared out of nowhere.