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Cultural references[edit]

• The episode title is a pun on the 1937 American adventure drama fantasy film Lost Horizon and the telecommunications company Verizon, reflecting the central role that telecommunications play in the episode.
• During the couch gag, the Simpsons are depicted carved into rock in a parody of Mount Rushmore.
• Agnes Skinner sarcastically compares Seymour to John D. Rockefeller, the American businessman.
• Principal Skinner crosses the freeway in a similar fashion to the video game Frogger.
• The Allied Peas mascot is a parody of the Jolly Green Giant.
• Lisa wants to visit Machu Picchu, Peru.
• The song playing when Bart is collecting golf balls is "Workin' Man Blues" by Merle Haggard.
• When Denis Leary takes a long time to make his shot, Krusty makes a pun combining a golf tee and the Boston Tea Party. Leary also began working as a comedian in Boston, and is seen wearing a Boston Red Sox cap.
• Denis Leary mentions the fact that he voiced the saber-toothed tiger Diego in the 2002 animated film Ice Age.
• Thanks to one of Bart's pranks, Leary appears in the film adaptation of the children's book Everybody Poops as a constipated gorilla. The film is shot in Tunisia, a renowned international film location, famous for its Saharan landscapes and unique Berber architecture.
  • The unnamed director is wearing a Chicago Cubs cap.
• Bart plans to spend Denis Leary's money on New York Yankees hats and Derek Jeter jerseys. Leary, however, is a known Boston Red Sox fan, whose team has a long-standing rivalry with the Yankees.

The bartender from Crocodile Drunkee's bar is based on Michael "Crocodile" Dundee from Crocodile Dundee. Other references to Australia include the cover of Men at Work's album Business as Usual, and a sticker of INXS, among others.

• The bars Bart makes prank calls to include:
  • Crocodile Drunkee's, a pun on Crocodile Dundee. The bartender himself resembles Michael "Crocodile" Dundee. The walls and the mirror at the bar include references to Australia such as:
    • The album cover of Australian rock band Men at Work's debut studio album Business as Usual.
    • A sticker of Australian rock band INXS.
    • A "kangaroo" warning sign (W5-29), part of the warning road sings in Australia.
    • The logo of the famous Australian lager Foster's.
    • A picture of Uluru.
    • A picture of Australian rock band AC/DC.
  • Inga-Bar Beerman's is a reference to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
• After Bart finishes prank calling, he remarks that "The sun never sets on the Bartish Empire" a reference to the phrase "The sun never sets on the British Empire".
• Dolls of Don Mattingly can be seen among the Yankees stuff ordered by Bart.
• When Bart speaks with Leary on the phone, the show Bart says was "cancelled" refers to the 2001 sitcom The Job, which lasted 19 episodes. Soon after, the show Bart says was "going to get cancelled" refers to Rescue Me, another Denis Leary series in which several of the principal actors from The Job later went on to star in.
• Denis Leary eats Pop-Tarts.
• The song "Watch Your Step" by Elvis Costello is heard when Bart is being tracked by Marge.
• The film Sever is a parody of the Saw horror films.
• Bart, Nelson and Milhouse eat grilled Twizzlers.
• The website peterson's-guide-to-north-american-birds.com is based on Peterson Field Guides, a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds. The species seen on the website include:
  • Kirtland's warbler, commonly found in the Great Lakes region.
  • Northern flicker, native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands.
  • Scarlet tanager, the bird that Bart placed the tracking chip on.
  • Red-headed woodpecker, found in temperate North America.
• At Machu Pichu, Homer mentions Ecuador and has developed an addiction for coca leafs. Coca leaves are traditionally chewed to help with breathing and stamina, especially at high altitudes.
• Homer mentions Wirakocha, which is based on Viracocha (also spelled "Wiraqocha"). Wiraqocha is the creator and supreme deity in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology.
• During the flashback scene at Machu Picchu, the city's soldiers flee in panic from the conquistadores in a The Three Stooges-style. The last one to flee whoops like Curly Howard as he runs away.

Trivia[edit]

• Dr. Nick reappears in this episode, even though he appeared to have died in The Simpsons Movie.

Continuity[edit]

• When Marge asks Bart how he got a cell phone, he tells her that he got it the same way she got him "by accident, on a golf course." This is a reference to the Season 9 episode "Natural Born Kissers".
• The website Peterson's-guide-to-north-american-birds.com appears as an online version of Peterson Field Guides: Birds. ("Last of the Red Hat Mamas")

Goofs[edit]

• In one scene, the satellite is on the right of the roof of the Simpsons' house, then several scenes later, it is on the left side. Also, the first time the satellite is seen, it is bigger.
• Kent Brockman appears with brown hair at The Krusty Klassic Celebrity Pro-Am golf tournament.
• In the scene in Bart's bedroom when Lisa holds the Krusty phone, the back of Krusty's neck keeps changing color from yellow to white.
• In this episode, Bart doesn't have a phone. This contradicts a threat by Marge in the episode "Milhouse of Sand and Fog".