The Ziff Who Came to Dinner/References

== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a pun on the film The Man Who Came to Dinner.
*The educational film Powers of Ten is parodied in the couch gag.
*The song sung by the rappers in Phineas Q. Butterfat's parodies the 1979 song Rapper's Delight.
*Artie Ziff's company Ziffcorp going bust and cheating its shareholders is reminiscent of Enron and its downfall.
*The scene where Lisa holds the camera to her face and starts tearfully apologizing before running out of the attic is a parody of a scene in the The Blair Witch Project.
*The book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is referenced when Lisa tells Artie that Homer believes the chocolate factory is real and searches for it.
*The pamphlet "What Would Jesus View" (a reference to the saying "what would Jesus do?") is made by Michael Medved, a conservative radio host and movie critic.
*The patron's "Hello, handsome" greeting to Ziff is similar to the popular children's cartoon series Animaniacs; it similar to one of the show's main characters named after the Warner siblings' famous line, "Hello Nurse!"
*References in the film The Re-Deadening:
**The idea of a doll with button eyes is a parody of the book Coraline.
**The movie is most likely a parody of Dolly Dearest, which is a horror movie about a possessed doll.
**Village of the Damned, Child's Play, and The Others are also parodied in the plot.
**The music of The Re-Deadening parodies the music played in Rosemary's Baby.
=== Now Playing at Googolplex Theatres ===
In addition to The Re-Deadening, the movies being shown or advertised at the Googoplex Theatres are as follows:
*The Wild Dingleberries Movie, which is a parody of .
*"3 Fast 3 Furious," which is a parody of "2 Fast 2 Furious."
*"The Fashion of the Christ," which is a parody of "."
*"A Kiss Before Boring," which is a parody of "."
*"Ghost Frat," which is a parody of "."
*From Justin to Kelly 4, which is a fictional sequel to the 2000s flop film From Justin to Kelly.
*Eating Nemo, which is a parody of Finding Nemo.
*Teenage Sex Wager, which is a parody of the 1990s raunchy teen film, .
** It being deemed controversial enough to be listed among the banned films in "What Would Jesus View" is most likely a reference to the Miramax raunchy film Forty Days and Forty Nights and its extremely controversial reception by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
*My Big Fat Greek Salad, which is a parody of .
*Freddy vs. Jason vs. The Board of Education, which parodies and the Supreme Court case Brown vs. the Board of Education.
*Return to Ape Valley, which parodies .
*A Matrix Christmas and You're in the Matrix, Charlie Brown, which parodies and .
*The Unwatchable Hulk, which parodies The Incredible Hulk.
*The Pianist Goes Hawaiian, which parodies The Pianist and Gidget Goes Hawaiian.
== Trivia ==
*When Homer takes Artie to Moe's Tavern, the patrons sitting at the bar who greet Artie are Professor Lombardo, Jay Sherman, Aristotle Amadopolis, and Llewellyn Sinclair -- all four of whom are voiced by Jon Lovitz, in addition to Artie himself. Artie called them "losers".
*When Homer and the kids are attending The Re-Deadening, Homer rests his soda on Lisa's head exactly the same way that he rested his beer on Bart's head in "Lisa's First Word".
*Bart and Lisa also investigate strange noises in the attic in "The Thing and I," which is the first segment from "Treehouse of Horror VII".
*The cut and condensed opening sequence, not counting the couch gag, from Season 5 plays, but changes to the normal opening music when cutting to the shot of the TV.
*Krusty appears as a congressman which he won in the previous season episode "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington".
*As Ziff is explaining how he became impoverished, Bart quickly recognizes where Ziff's story direction is headed, which along with the story itself refers to the dot-com bubble.
== Goofs ==
* Artie said his company got taken away, and that would mean that he didn't own the company anymore. The SWAT team should have known that. (Whether he owned the company still or not he would still be liable for crimes committed by him or the company while he did).
* White collar criminals are almost never arrested in that manner. They usually negotiate between Prosecutors and Defense Lawyers for their surrender.
* While Homer had won 98% of Ziffcorp shares, it was not yet official and therefore legally had no connection to the company. Also even if it were official Homer still would be innocent and still Artie should be arrested as it was him who brought Ziffcorp to be broke.
* Artie actually had a straight flush (2 through 6 of diamonds), which should have beaten Homer's four of a kind.
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