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Cultural references[edit]
- Before attempting to throw the ball, Mr. Burns compares himself to Satchel Paige, an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball from 1927 until 1965.
- Bleeding Gums Murphy sings a 26-minute-long version of the "The Star-Spangled Banner".
- Mr. Burns mentions Betty Crocker, a brand and fictional character used in advertising campaigns for food and recipes introduced in 1921.
- According to Burns, he used to rile American baseball catcher Connie Mack at Shibe Park.
- Burns also mentions Pie Traynor, an American third baseman who played his entire career between 1920 and 1937 for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- Helen plays "Baby Elephant Walk" by Henry Mancini at the Springfield War Memorial Stadium.
- The Rastafari men say "Lively up yourself, Dancin' Homer", a reference to the rasta-related phrase made popular with "Lively Up Yourself", the song by Bob Marley from his album Natty Dread.
Homer's farewell speech parodies that of Lou Gehrig's in the 1942 baseball film The Pride of the Yankees
- Homer's black-and-white montage line, "Today, as I leave for Capital City, I consider myself the luckiest mascot on the face of the earth", is a parody to Lou Gehrig's farewell speech in the 1942 baseball film The Pride of the Yankees.
- Tony Bennett's "Capital City" is a parody of "New York, New York" by Frank Sinatra.
- The Capital City Stadium was designed after the Houston Astrodome.
- The Capital City Goofball is a parody of the Philly Phanatic as well as the San Diego Chicken.
Trivia[edit]
- Capital City has restaurants named "The Penny Loafer" (shaped like a penny loafer), and The "Original Frenchies".
- Signs on the outfield wall at Springfield War Memorial Stadium include: "Royal Majesty-Clothing For the Obese or gangley Gentleman", Moe's tavern-Hit This Sign and Win a Free Well Drink", "Girdles 'N Such-Fancy Lingerie", "The Sprinfield Mall", and "The Jerky Hut".
- During the Capital City montage, the Army Reserve is honored by a statue of a soldier holding a briefcase and a rifle with the caption, "To the Brave Men of the Army Reserve".
- Bleeding Gums Murphy's rendition of the United States' National Anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the baseball game on power plant employee appreciation night is 26 minutes long. The digital clock behind him changes from 7:30 to 7:56. The moon can even be seen shifting in the sky during the song.
- One of the signs along the outfield wall at the Springfield Stadium is an ad for Royal Majesty. Royal Majesty is the name of the clothing store that Homer's assistant, Karl, took him to for his new suit fittings in episode 2.2, "Simpson and Delilah".
- The story telling sequences inside Moe's tavern were not originally planned as part of the episode and were added late in production. This is why the actual dialogue does not match up with the lip movements in these scenes.
- This is the first episode to have a guest star play as their real self. The guest star being Tony Bennett. Bennett also makes an appearance in episode 14-3, "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade".
- There is a picture in the Capital City Stadium locker room of Homer with Princess Kashmir that became famous during the episode "Homer's Night Out".
- This is the third episode to have Homer's name somewhere in the title.
- The Baby Elephant Walk was featured on a trading card in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album.
- The episode writer Ken Levine used to be a minor league baseball announcer, and not only wrote the dialogue, but voiced the minor league baseball broadcaster who was named after Dan Hoard, his former broadcasting partner while he was with the Syracuse Chiefs.
Goofs[edit]
- Neither Sherri nor Terri are shown at the company family night yet "Homer's Odyssey" established their father also works at the power plant.
- During the end of the Capital City montage, Marge's dress turns from green to red and her necklace turns from red to white.
