$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)

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• Along with several hats, a hair brush and false teeth are thrown into the air at the town meeting.
• Bart's black board gag for this episode is ''I Will Not Say Springfield Just To Get Applause,'' however, everytime Springfield is mentioned at the town meeting, everyone cheers and applauds.
• Homer's photographic memory details himself with huge muscles; Marge in a blue dress and green hair; Apu with three heads; and an alligator in a suit.
• In Bart's casino, a poster displays gambling odds, which includes the odds of Bart getting his own TV show at 1000-1
• Homer's recital of Pythagoras' Theorem is incorrect for three reasons: first, he said an icosceles triangle instead of a right-angled triangle (pointed out by the man in the cubicle); second, it's the sum of the squares, not the square roots; and third, it's not any two sides, it's the sum of the two shortest sides.

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References

• The full title to this episode is a take on the film Dr. Strangelove (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb).
• The porno movies, Sperms of Endearment and I'll Do Anyone are spoofs on the movies Terms of Endearment and I'll Do Anything, both produced by James L. Brooks, executive producer of The Simpsons.
• The scene with Homer at the blackjack table parodies ''Rain Man.''
• Burns' germ phobia, as well as other elements of his deterioration, refer to Howard Hughes.
• Homer's ''Sum of the square root'' line is a parody of The Wizard of Oz, when the scarecrow gets a brain.

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