Donnie Fatso/References

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References/Trivia

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	Season 22 Episode References
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Cultural references

• The episode title is a pun on the crime drama film Donnie Brasco.
• Comic Book Guy is making a gingerbread Death Star in the couch gag Advent calendar.
• The board of Fat Tony in the FBI building resembles the mosaic board in FlashForward.
• When Homer was struggling to pronounce the word "consigliere", he states that he is Fat Tony's Robert Duvall, the actor who played Tom Hagen the Consigliere in The Godfather.
• The stage show Moe and Homer interrupt is a parody of the stage musical Wicked.
• The line Homer says, "Now I'm just an average snook like everyone else" and the episode's closing sequence is a reference to the film Goodfellas.