The Spy Who Learned Me/References
Wikisimpsons - The Simpsons Wiki
|
|||||||||
|
|
|
Cultural references
- The episode title is a pun on the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
- Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon appears in the Stradivarius Cain movie.
- Declan's documentary Do You Want Lies With That? is a parody of Super Size Me.
- The scene of Homer looking at "beautiful things" is a parody of Forrest Gump.
- Hufnpuffalus is a parody of Sesame Street's Mr. Snuffleupagus.
- Homer's illusions:
- E.T., a character from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
- Mr. Potato Head, a children's toy, made popular by Toy Story.
- Clippy, the common nickname for Clippit, the Office Assistant for Microsoft Office from Windows 98 to Windows 2003.
- Cleatus the Football Robot, a robot that is likely the same as Cleatus the Fox Sports Robot.
- When Marge pulls up to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Lenny asks "what brings you to the SNPP," which is a possible reference to the website "The Simpsons Archive", which is more commonly known by the initials "snpp".
Goofs
- In Krusty Burger, Jessica Lovejoy has light brown hair.
- One of the children Nelson punches he doesn't actually touch.
- When Homer and Marge started kissing while Stradivarius Cain watched, Homer's tie had disappeared.
Continuity
- A Pin Pals photo is seen in Moe's Tavern. ("Team Homer")
- A Tic–Tac–Toe: X v. O trailer is seen on the TV in Moe's Tavern. ("The Squirt and the Whale")
- A portion of Do You Want Lies With That? was seen in "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky".
- Lisa would eventually get a B+ in "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me".
