Deep Space Homer/References

References/Trivia

Season 5 Episode References

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Cultural references

The episode title is a pun on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The episode features numerous film parodies, mostly referencing The Right Stuff and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The scene where Homer and Barney are dueling in an arena is a reference to "The Gamesters of Triskelion", an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.
The two scenes where Homer experiences excessive G-force, his face is transformed into Popeye and Richard Nixon.

Kent Brockman's line "I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords." has became a meme and idiom, being used in popular culture.
James Taylor mentions that he and Art Garfunkel created a total vacuum outside their country house using an air-compressor to rid themselves of an ant problem. This is impossible unless you could enclose the house in a chamber of some sort.

Homer mentions going into space in a deleted scene of "Mother Simpson".
NASA apparently sent Homer up into space again for the Restaged Family Album. ("Homerazzi")
In Marge Simpson Living Marge reminds Homer that he has tried snowplowing ("Mr. Plow"), webhosting ("The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"), trucking ("Maximum Homerdrive"), fortune cookie writing ("A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love"), cartoon voiceovers ("The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"), food critic ("Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"), screen writer ("Beyond Blunderdome"), mixologist ("Flaming Moe's"), bootlegger ("Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment") and astronaut ("Deep Space Homer") when he was searching for a new job.

In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Luke Perry lands in a Pillow Factory, which is then destroyed. In "Deep Space Homer", Barney bounces off the roof of the same pillow factory, fully intact, one season later.
When the second photo of the carbon rod is taken on a magazine cover, Homer's space suit glove disappears.
Buzz Aldrin's hair changed from brown to white in one shot.
Homer seems not to figure out that Planet of the Apes is actually about the Earth until this episode. Yet in "I Married Marge", when Marge asks him if he's thought about the future, he asks, "You mean, when apes will rule the earth?" This might imply he'd already understood the ending of Planet of the Apes before this episode.
Homer is the only person NOT to win the "worker of the week" award -- but he was the only person other than Smithers to win "Employee of the Month"!

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