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Cultural references

• The episode title is a reference to the TV series The Fall Guy and the 2024 film based on it.
  • "Unknown Stuntman" by Lee Majors, the theme song for the show, plays during the montage of Homer being Bumblebee Man's stuntman.
    • The song mentions American actor Robert Redford.
• The poster for the episode is a parody of the one for the movie Made for Each Other (Tal para cual in Spanish).
• The Android's Dungeon Masters team name is a reference to The Android's Dungeon and to the Dungeon Master role for Dungeons & Dragons.
• Comic Book Guy says he has seen better batters at the International House of Pancakes.
• Sherri and Terri say that their father teaches Brazilian jiu-jitsu on Zoom.
• Lewis says his father does security for James Corden.
• The Great Masked British Bake Off is a parody of The Great British Bake Off and Masked Singer. Homer thinks that Nancy Pelosi, the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is Nurse Shark.
• Bart bought tickets for the MMA fight at the Springfield Brawliseum.
• At the Brawliseum, Homer acts like he's on kiss cam with the cotton candy.
• Bumblebee Man compares himself to Sisyphus and Benny Hill.
• During the montage of Bumblebee Man's past, many of the sound effects used are similar to the ones in El Chavo del Ocho, while the music cues for the remainder of his flashback -right after he stops to smell the flower- is an overall reference to the show's intro.
• The Spanish family watching Bumblebee Man on TV has a Las Vegas Raiders banner on their wall.
• In a sketch, Bumblebee Man is reading Pley Boy, a parody of Playboy.
• Bumblebee Man mentions thinking he was invincible like Curly Howard from The Three Stooges. However, he realized that he was just a mortal Shemp.
• When Homer agrees to be Bumblebee Man's stuntman, the mariachi band plays "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn.
• Homer putting on Bumblebee Man's suit, with Bumblebee Man saying that it is "a symbol of truth, justice, and the Mexican-American güey", is a parody of Superman from DC Comics and his motto, "truth, justice, and the American way".
• Homer says that he signed a MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy.
• Bart asks what the point of having a badass in the family is if he can't brag about them. He then says that he now knows how the Mangiones feel. This is a reference to Luigi Mangione, the man who allegedly killed Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.
• Homer says that "with all the ICE going on these days, isn't it better to have a white guy suffer instead of a Mexican guy?"
• At the East Springfield Swap Meet, dolls of ICE and Donald Trump are seen.
• Homer asks Bumblebee Man why he didn't ditch TV and become a movie star, like all those guys who regret leaving SNL.
• Russo & Flank Grill is a parody of Musso & Frank Grill.
• Bumblebee Man tells Johnny Knoxville he knows him from Jackass.
• Bumblebee Man did a Calvin Klein ad.
• Alejandro González Iñárritu introduces himself as the director of the movie The Revenant, with Homer mentioning the bear eating "the boy" from Titanic.
• Bumblebee Man says "let's make a Bee Movie!"
• A mariachi version of "Hooray for Hollywood" by Richard A. Whiting plays when Bumblebee Man agrees to make the movie.
• One of the scenes in the movie takes place at Lake Texcoco.
• The song "Viva México" by Pedro Vargas plays during the filming of the movie.
• The Aztec sun stone falls on Homer in the movie.
• Bumblebee Man and Homer fall down the stairs of the Pyramid of the Sun. When they do, Lisa exclaims "the UNESCO world heritage site!"
• Bumblebee Man and Homer have a coma dream that they are in a town full of skeletons that resemble calavera from the Day of the Dead holiday.
• "Cien Años" by Rubén Fuentes and Alberto Cervantes plays at the end of the coma dream scene.
• During the end credits, Los Tigres del Norte perform "El Corrido de Pedro y Homero".