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Cultural references[edit]
- The title is a reference to the CBS show The Good Wife.
- The E4 video game convention is a parody of the E3 Expo.
- Outside of the E4 building are statues of Master Chief from Halo, Big Daddy from BioShock and John Madden from Madden NFL.
- Video games seen include:
- Grand Theft Scratchy: Itchy City Stories, a continuation of the Grand Theft Scratchy series and parody of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories.
- Blocko, including Cosmic Wars and Angelica Button games, parodying the Lego game series.
- Bongo Games, a reference to Bongo Comics, creator of Simpsons Comics.
- The GS3 Gamestation, a parody of the PlayStation 3.
- ProtoVision, a parody of Activision.
- World of Krustcraft, a parody of the World of Warcraft games.
- Ybox, a parody of the Xbox.
- Jalo, a parody of Halo.
- Marching Band, a parody of the Rock Band series.
- Q-bert: Origins, a parody of Q-bert and Rayman Origins.
- Electronic Crafts, a parody of Electronic Arts.
- Shaun White: Time Snowboarder, a parody of Shaun White Snowboarding.
- Dig Dug Revelations is a parody of the Resident Evil: Revelations and Dig Dug.
- Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Online is a video game adaptation of the film The Tree of Life.
- Driver's License 2: License to Drive is a parody of the Driver series.
- Assassin's Creed: Summer of Love is a reference to the Assassin's Creed series.
- Human Centipede is a parody of the game Centipede and the film The Human Centipede.
- Guts of War II: Entrails of Intestinox is a parody of God of War II.
- Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game is a reference to The Simpsons Game level of the same name.
- Medal of Duty is a reference to the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty series.
- A character who looks like Sonic is seen.
- The Funtendo Zii Zu is parody of the Nintendo Wii U.
- Furious Fliers is a parody of Angry Birds.
- Also appearing are:
- Mapple
- Cosmic Wars
- Chalmskinn Interactive, a subdivision of Chalmskinn Productions.
- Earthland Realms 2: The Outing of the Elves, sequel to Earthland Realms.
- Marching Band has marching bands from Ohio State University and Stanford University.
- The song Lisa plays on Marching Band is "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa.
- Marge states that she was going to take Bart and Lisa to the X Games.
- Reverend Lovejoy takes Bart and Lisa to play debtors in the Parable of the Unjust Steward.
- The song that plays when Marge eats the Ethiopian food is "Nama" by Fikeraddis Nekatibeb.
- On The Android's Luncheon's home page, Comic Book Guy resembles Jabba the Hutt and the monster resembles the Rancor from Star Wars. The roasted monster on the plate is a Gamorrean.
- Three Mouthketeers is a reference to The Three Musketeers.
- Lisa later lists the Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and refers to d'Artagnan as the fourth Musketeer.
- Lisa's list of cutest vegetarians includes:
- Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
- Edward Cullen from Twilight.
- Actor Kevin Nealon.
- Inventor Nikola Tesla.
- Actor Sean "Samwise" Astin. "Samwise" is a reference to Astin playing Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings.
- Football player Herschel Walker.
- Musician Zack de la Rocha.
- Comedian Russell Brand.
- Musician Elvis Costello.
- Singer and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic.
- The song "Bloggin' a Food Blog" pays homage to "Empire State of Mind" by Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
- Iron Cook is a reference to the show of the same name in the Futurama episode "The 30% Iron Chef".
- Celebrity chefs in Marge's dream include: Anthony Bourdain, The Swedish Chef from The Muppets, Mario Batali, Julia Child, Colonel Sanders of KFC, Wolfgang Puck, Guy Fieri riding on Paul Prudhomme, and Gordon Ramsay.
- Chief Wiggum refers to the people in the meth lab as "Breaking Baddies", a reference to Breaking Bad.
- The scene where the meth lab owner is reminded of his apple pie as a child is a reference to Ratatouille.
Trivia[edit]
- The date on The New York News is Saturday, June 25, 2011.
- The French dialogue during the meth lab's owner's flashback translates to "Thank you, Mom, for the tarte tatin à la mode."
Continuity[edit]
- Funtendo makes another appearance, this time with a new console. ("Million Dollar Maybe")
- Wolfgang Puck and Tom Colicchio both appear again. ("The Bart Wants What It Wants" and "The Falcon and the D'ohman")
- The Grand Theft Scratchy series played a major part in The Simpsons Game.
