G.I. D'oh/References

==Cultural references==
* The title is a reference to G.I. Joe. "Grunt" is United States military slang for an infantry soldier. 'Annoyed grunt' is the script notation for Homer's favorite exclamation, D'oh. Essentially, this title is G.I. D'oh!
* When the Colonel orders for the army to go after Homer and the other AWOL soldiers in Springfield, he tells his lieutenant that he was authorized by congress to do so via a National Broccoli Day flier.
* When the colonel has the recruits do pushups while Homer eats donuts, it is referencing a scene in the movie Full Metal Jacket. The movie is again referenced when Homer wonders if the drill sergeant will ask him "what his major malfunction is".
* The Army recruitment film shown at Springfield Elementary uses "Arise, Ye Russian People" from Prokofiev's soundtrack for Alexander Nevsky before switching to Led Zeppelin's Communication Breakdown.
* Milhouse asks about The Doodlebops, a popular children's show.
* Lenny's car is a Fiat Cinquecento.
*When Homer tells Moe he has to hide them from the army, Moe asks "the Salvation Army?" and Homer replies "no, the one from Stripes!"
* The song playing during the assault course is Martika's Toy Soldiers.
* The scene with the predator drone (the mini-helicopter) chasing Homer is a parody of a typical Looney Tunes chase scene. Homer fools it by pretending to dress up as a female predator drone, using soap suds to disguise himself as an old man taking a bath, upon seeing him like this, the predator drone holds up a sign saying "Sorry, sir!", and finally, Homer lures him into a closet filled with a ridiculous amount of TNT. The sequence ends with a "That's All Folks!" logo with The Three Stooges theme song.
* When Homer explains why they shouldn't surrender to the Colonel's troops, he mentions that the Army will strip people naked, put a bag over their face, and have hicks laugh at them (as well as Cletus recognizing the description as matching a photo of what Brandine did while in Iraq), referring to the torture controversy at Abu Ghraib Prison.
* When Lisa attempts to lecture the Army Colonel about how an occupying force is outmatched by determined people in a foreign nation, she cites the Vietnam War and its result as one of the sources.
* Jason Voorhees's existence in the episode refers to two movies from the Friday the 13th franchise in particular: Friday the 13th Part III (1982) - reflecting his overall appearance, played by the late Richard Brooker - and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) - when he gets blown to pieces in the helicopter scene, just like how Jason gets exploded by an FBI ambush at the beginning of the movie.
*When accidentally exposing his own unit's location, Homer claims that it was the Chinese New Year. At the time the episode aired, the 2006 Chinese New Year was on January 29, while the 2007 Chinese New Year was to occur on February 18.
==Trivia==
* His jobs at NASA, Clown College, and the United States Naval Reserve were mentioned by Marge when expressing her shock that Homer joined the Army.
*The nicknames the drill sergenat gives out during training include:
**Brooklyn
**Hollywood
**Kissimmee-St. Cloud, Florida
**Maverick
**Blanket Hog (Professor Frink)
**Newman's Own
**Master of Suspense
**England's Rose (Cletus)
**Nickname Pending
**Bram Stoker's Dracula
**Snowflake (Homer)
* When the Army rounds up all men who are bald (or at a minimum balding), fat, or have been amused by the antics of Homer, Seymour Skinner is among the captured men (despite not being bald or fat). Principal Skinner could have been amused by Homer's tomfoolery.
==Goofs==
* When the army comes into Springfield, Lenny is crushed inside his car, and seriously injured, but he is seen drinking at Moe's in the next scene. This was most likely a time skip between the two scenes.
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