A Fish Called Selma/References

==Trivia==
*This episode marks the only time Fat Tony is voiced by someone other than his original voice actor. Normally, Joe Mantegna voices Fat Tony. However, for this episode, Phil Hartman (who already spent most of the episode as Troy McClure) voiced Fat Tony in the short scene where he explains to Louie that, when he said that Troy McClure "sleeps with the fishes", he didn't mean it as "The Mafia drowned him". According to the DVD commentary, the producers chose not to bring Mantegna in due to the part being so small that they believed he wouldn't want to do it. After the episode aired, Mantegna informed them that he would always make time to voice Fat Tony, and has been voicing him ever since, even when only grunts are required and even when the original Fat Tony died and was replaced by Fit Tony, who became the new Fat Tony (and now goes by Fit-Fat Tony) due to weight gain.
== Cultural References ==
*Some of the celebrities shown on the Pimento Grove wall are Kent Brockman, Krusty the Clown, Rainier Wolfcastle, Bette Midler, Elizabeth Taylor, Leonard Nimoy, Adam West, Barry White, Conan O'Brien, Birch Barlow, Sting, Tito Puente, Brad Goodman, David Crosby, Dennis Franz, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Ringo Starr, John Travolta, and Brooke Shields.
*The title of this episode is based on on the film A Fish Called Wanda.
*The rumors about Troy McClure's fish fetish is a reference to an urban legend about Richard Gere and gerbils.
*Marge says that Troy is a "perfect gentleman" like Bing Crosby and President John F. Kennedy, both of whom had controversial personal lives.
*The song "Dr. Zaius" in the musical Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off! is to the tune of "" by . The musical's name is a parody of the musical, "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off."
* Though not explicitly stated in the film, the Planet of the Apes character being portrayed by Troy McClure is George Taylor. The character was played by Charlton Heston in the original 1968 film.
*Troy drives a DeLorean DMC-12, as made famous in the Back to the Future films.
*The opening features Troy McClure in a parody of .
*At the wedding, Homer sings "" by in his head.
*Troy describes Jub-Jub the iguana as "Everywhere You Want to Be" in reference to a commercial.
*The name MacArthur Parker, in reference to the song "" by .
*Selma's clothes when she's married to Troy McClure are modelled on the clothes of .
*When learning of one possible acting gig being a Paramount-made buddy comedy involving Hugh Grant and Rob Lowe, McClure (ironically and hypocritically given his own ruined career) yells "Those sick freaks!?". This was a reference to several sex scandals that the two actors were involved in at the time of the episode. In particular:
**Rob Lowe had been caught recording a sex tape with two minors.
**Hugh Grant was caught getting oral sex from a prostitute known as on Sunset Boulevard.
== Goofs ==
*At the DMV, Abraham Simpson's beard is drawn over the paper he is holding for a few frames.
*When Selma was smoking in the Restaurant's parking lot, she was sitting on the hood of a brown car. When the camera zooms in, she is on a blue car.
*Right before Troy seduces Selma, Selma's ear hole disappears.
*When watching the Muppets film together, Selma tells Troy "Smoke actually smells good when it's coming out of you", which contradicts Selma revealing that she lost her sense of taste and smell due to a bottle rocket accident as a child. She may have received some sort of treatment since then restoring her sense of smell, or she may have just been attempting to set a romantic mood.
*When Marge closes her eyes in the dark, the eyes simply disappear immediately into the darkness instead of being animated closing.
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