The Last Fat Man/References
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Cultural references[edit]
- The story title is a reference to the novel The Last Man by Mary Shelley.
- The story is a parody of the film 28 Days Later.
- Flab-Fighters is a parody of Weight Watchers.
- Homer imagines Chewbacca from Star Wars among the other people talking about his weight.
- In Homer's dream, the pizza says "Take me to your stomach!", a reference to the phrase "Take me to your leader".
- When the radioactive cloud is descending on Springfield, Kent Brockman asks the blue-haired lawyer if they have seen their last Super Bowl.
- Comic Book Guy mentions Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Neville in I Am Legend (specifying the novel only, not the film), when he says that he refused to see the apocalyptic warning signs.
- Comic Book Guy exclaims "by the moons of Endor" when he sees that Homer is fat.
