Hungry, Hungry Homer/References

== Cultural references ==
*Blockoland is a parody of Legoland. Also, in the first car ride home, Bart refers to his Blocko shirt as a "Lego shirt", and Marge corrects him.
*The ghost of César Chávez visits Homer during his hunger strike, but takes the appearance of Cesar Romero, because Homer doesn't know what Chavez looks like.
*The scene where Bart sees Homer lying on top of the doghouse is a direct reference to Charlie Brown and Snoopy (both from Peanuts). Bart even utters Charlie Brown's signature line "Good Grief".
*The title is a self-reference to the game, Hungry Hungry Hippos. Coincidentally, one of the hippos in the game is named Homer.
*When Kent Brockman says that Mr. Duff is insisting that Homer is a liar, they show footage of Homer with his pants on fire. This is a nod to the classic chant, Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire.
*When Marge gets streaks in her hair, it resembles the Bride of Frankenstein's hair; tall white with two black streaks.
*The name of the barbershop Hairy Shearers is a reference to voice actor Harry Shearer, who voices Mr. Burns, Smithers, Reverend Lovejoy, Ned Flanders, and other characters.
*Homer's attempt to alert the press of the move by showing them a room of evidence, only to find nothing incriminating is found, is a likely reference to the film Moonraker, where James Bond discovers that Hugo Drax is operating a secret lab and making a deadly nerve gas. When Bond takes the Mi6 chief and Sir Frederick Gray to investigate the lab, Bond finds it has been replaced with Drax's study.
== Previous Episode References ==
* "Stark Raving Dad": Homer was "...once in a loony bin".
* "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie": Homer is crammed into a kid's desk at Springfield Elementary.
* "Selma's Choice", "Lisa the Vegetarian", and "Itchy & Scratchy Land": The Simpsons go to a theme park.
* "Dog of Death": Homer degrades himself by singing for a small crowd (sings "Buffalo Gals" for beer money/sings "Dancin' Away My Hunger Pangs" for pity and attention)
* "Grade School Confidential": Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner are out on a date.
* "Homer's Barbershop Quartet": Marge tries to replace Homer's presence at home (building a crude dummy of him/making the kids eat all his food).
* "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson": Duffman appears.
* "Pygmoelian": Duffman's real name is revealed (Larry/Sid)
* "Homer vs. Dignity": The Mayor of Albuquerque looks like the man who told his wife, "And this is better than a movie, why?" during Smithers' Malibu Stacy musical.
==Trivia==
*Homer's "Dancing Away My Hunger Pangs" song was actually ad-libbed by Dan Castellaneta.
* The real-life minor league baseball team Albuquerque Isotopes take their name from this episode.
== Goofs ==
* "Veggie" is misspelled as "vegie".
* While he and Milhouse are walking over to Homer, the brim of Kirk Van Houten's hat switches from red to white for a frame.
* H.K. Duff asks Duffman to bring in two bottles of Duff Beer, but Duffman brings in cans of it instead.
* Duffman's first name (Sid) was mentioned here, even though "Pygmoelian" established that Duffman's real name was Larry. In "Jaws Wired Shut", it's revealed that Duffman has been played by multiple actors ("Duffman can never die; only the actors who play him") and "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play" reveals that, much like mall Santas, there are multiple Duffmen working, but it's kept a secret so as not to disillusion children.
* When Homer is singing "Dancin' Away My Hunger Pains", the dark checkerboard square on his seat repeatedly becomes the color of the lighter squares for a frame at a time.
*Homer went starving for over a week (12 days), and with his eating habits, it is possible he would have died by the fifth day. It is (in medicine) near impossible to live over 8 days without food or water. On top of that, his consuming all that stadium food after days of starvation would have led to him dying of refeeding syndrome (if the show followed reality, which it barely does).
==Syndication Cuts==
*The original ending in which the Mayor of Albuquerque decides not to buy the Springfield Isotopes and instead buys the Dallas Cowboys was edited on free-TV syndication in America (international airings have this uncut), making the episode end with Homer celebrating the end of his hunger strike. The scene has since been reinstated on cable reruns, DVD releases, and Disney+ streaming.
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