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Cultural references
- The episode title is a reference to the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
- In the collectorium room, the stain glass window of the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast is seen.
- The snow globes includes:
- Big Ben.
- Queen Victoria.
- St. Augustine Lighthouse and Mount Rushmore.
- The Eiffel Tower.
- Mount Vernon.
- One based on A Trip to the Moon.
- Monticello and Napoleon on horseback (inspired by the painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David).
- The zoom on Milhouse with one of a small cabin is a parody of the opening of Citizen Kane.
- Gaelic Scrabble is parody of Scrabble and uses real Scottish Gaelic words.[1]
- Hub is based on Neil and his father is based on Neil's father from the movie Dead Poets Society. Kurtwood Smith voiced both Hub and Neil's father. Kurtwood was suggested by Michael Price based on their early work together on F Is for Family.[2][3]
- Chalmers tells Skinner that the state will turn the school into a Spirit Halloween store if they find out about Hub.
- Hub tells Skinner that his parents died when their hot-air balloon drifted over to North Korea on Kim Jong-un's birthday and was hit by a celebratory ICBM, and Nelson that they died on the Titanic.
- Hub calls Skinner, Darth Tidious, a reference to Darth Sidious.
- Skinner buys his clothes from Mr. Ho-hum Clothiers from the Chuck Schumer collection.
- Arcade games at Luigi's Pizza Playland:
- Triangle Wars, a parody of the original Asteroids and has the font of Star Wars.
- The urban legend Polybius.
- Time Waster.
- Space Mutants.
- During the montage at home, TV series Room 222's theme song is playing.
- The Meet the Press arcade game has the NBC logo on it.
- A Peter Rabbit musical is held at school.
- Skinner and Hub went to see laser Beethoven.
- The school has a spalding Dirk Nowitzki autograph special basketball.
- Lisa compares herself as Steven Zaillian.
- Skinner tells Ms. Peyton that Hub's parents had Benjamin Button's disease and died as 85-year-old babies.
- Skinner mentions Balki Bartokomous and Marlon Brando to Hub.
Trivia
- Nelson previously egged Skinner's father's grave in "The Debarted", but in this episode his ashes are in a bag in Skinner's house.
Continuity
- Skinner's eye is treated at the Eye Trauma Center Lenny Leonard Wing, a reference to Lenny's eye injuries. ("The Old Man and the "C" Student", et al.)
- Hub appears. ("Estranger Things")
- Maisie MacWeldon appears. ("Ae Bonny Romance")
- Polybius is seen. ("Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em")
- Space Mutants is seen. ("Treehouse of Horror XXX")
