Chief of Hearts/References

Cultural references

• Battle Ball is a reference to 'Bakugan Battle Brawlers'. A game played with balls with magnets inside and cards.
• When explaining the game to Bart, one of the boys says that it makes Digimon look like Pokemon.
• When Louie turns on the music for Fat Tony, the song At Seventeen by Janis Ian plays.
• The cop show that Homer watches before changeing the channel is an episode of the tv show Starsky and Hutch.

Trivia

• Lisa appears in this episode but doesn't have any lines.
• Sideshow Bob makes a brief cameo appearance at the end of the episode.