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Trivia

• The episode reveals that Jimbo Jones's real name is "Corky" and that Principal Skinner's mother's first name is Agnes.
• There has been more than one Aunt Hortense in the Simpson and Bouvier families. In the Season 2 episode "Bart Gets Hit By A Car," Bart is on an escalator to Heaven and he sees an old lady on a cloud and says, "Aunt Hortense!"
• People sitting on the stage, at Krusty's funeral include: Sideshow Raheem, Tina Ballerina, Mr. Teeny, Luke Perry, and Corporal Punishment.
• At Krusty's funeral, one of the people attending is writer John Swartzwelder with a Kermit the Frog puppet on his hand.
• Captain McCallister says "Yarr, I got some customers. Call me back, Ishmael"; as referenced from the opening line of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael."

Cultural references

• The song Handsome Pete is shown playing is The Sailor's Hornpipe. This piece of music is widely recognized as the theme from the world's longest-running children's TV series, British children's magazine show Blue Peter, which started in 1958 and is still going to this day, via the BBC.
• The appearance and speaking characteristics, including the laugh, of the representative of the Cayman Islands Offshore Holding Corporation are modeled on Sydney Greenstreet.

Continuity

• In "The Funeral" Homer said "this is the last funeral we're going to". They have since attended:
  • Aunt Gladys ("Selma's Choice")
  • Bleeding Gums Murphy ("'Round Springfield")
  • Krusty the Clown ("Bart the Fink")
  • Frank Grimes ("Homer's Enemy")
  • Maude Flanders ("Alone Again, Natura-Diddily")
  • Sideshow Bob ("Funeral for a Fiend")
  • Mona Simpson ("Mona Leaves-a")

Goofs

• In the promo picture with Bob Newhart, Kent Brockman has brown hair.