Homer vs. Patty and Selma/References

==Trivia==
*The episode would mock limousine service companies by suggesting Homer could a job as a limo chauffeur despite not a license to drive such vehicles. Careless managing of limousine drivers would eventually also gain some national attention more than two decades later in the Schoharie limousine crash case. This case, which involved fatalities, also involved turning a blind eye to a chauffeur who used marijuana and who drove while under the influence of marijuana, which would legally justify a suspension of one's driver's license even without fatalities. 
*Bart's ballet teacher references Batman as someone who wears tights. Ironically, Yvonne Craig, who played Batgirl in the 1960s 20th Century Fox television series Batman, was a ballet dancer, which also helped her gain the flexibility she needed to perform her Batgirl stunts without the need for a stunt double.
*After gym signups, Lisa is shown wearing hockey gear, in reference to her previous stint as a goalie in "Lisa on Ice".
*Homer tells Mel Brooks that his movie Young Frankenstein "scared the hell out of him." In actuality, Young Frankenstein (like most Mel Brooks movies) is a comedy, which explains Brooks's less than enthusiastic response to Homer's comment.
**Homer mistakenly calls his classic "2000 Year Old Man" sketch "That 2000 Pound Man thing". Chief Wiggum later calls it "The $2000 Man".
**In the episode, Brooks would also claim that he actually hates his supposed best friend, and 2000 Year Old Man acting and writing partner, Carl Reiner. Brooks and Reiner would in later years claim that their friendship was aided by the fact that their wives "liked each other" and by also their love of eating certain food which they both liked. https://www.nickiswift.com/429091/the-truth-about-mel-brooks-and-carl-reiners-friendship/ Hints of common bickering between the two were also shown in an interview that aired on CBS Sunday Morning shortly before Reiner's death in 2020. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/mel-brooks-carl-reiner-and-george-takei-on-getting-through-a-national-crisis/
*In one scene at the ballet class, Bart is drinking Tab soda.
*When asked to talk "like a dog", Homer improperly begins many words with an "r" sound much like the cartoon dog Scooby-Doo.
*Bart's ballet teacher telling him to "leap like he's never been before" is a reference to the 1987 Simpson short, "Bart Jumps", where Homer tells him the same thing.
*Nelson often beats up Bart for no reason, like in "The Last Temptation of Homer", yet a trench, where Bart fell into, manages to stop him.
*Patty and Selma's supervisor refers to Homer smoking at government building as "worse than Hitler." It is problematic on two fronts. One, the supervisor's analogy is an example of the association fallacy "reductio ad Hitlerum". Second, while he was a heavy smoker in his younger days, Adolf Hitler later found smoking so distasteful, it was a reason why Nazi Germany led one of the first anti-tobacco movements in modern history, though it was occurred years after the more unsuccessful 1920s anti-tobacco movement in the Soviet Union and tobacco smoking still remained popular in Nazi Germany. with senior Nazi leaders Hermann Goering, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and even Hitler's romantic partner Eva Braun smoking.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637694/
**This was a joke about then-recently enacted laws prohibiting smoking in workplaces.
* In Latin America, the nickname "Ratboy", which Homer uses to refer to Bart at one point of the episode, has taken great fame on Internet, in large part, thanks to various YouTube videos, the phrase translated as "Niño Rata". Internet users use this phrase to refer to the inexperienced and immature video game fans between 7 to 12 years old who do not know how to lose, because if they lose, they scream, mainly fans of video games like Minecraft, Call of Duty, FIFA, Grand Theft Auto Online or Fortnite. It's also used to designate those YouTube users who do not provide opinions in the comments bar and only bother other users.
==Goofs==
* One of the PE sign up booths says "Gender Issues in Sport." The last word should be "Sports."
*When Homer leans back his chair, the chair's top section disappears.
==Citations==
*When left alone, Bart does an impression of ventriloquist Señor Wences to amuse himself.
*Barney smokes a cigar without removing the wrapper and sees "Sgt. Pepper" (a reference to the album of The Beatles: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band") growing out of Homer's back.
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