Cultural References
The scene in which the family enters Burns' Manor contains two cultural references. The Manor resembles Charles Foster Kane's mansion from the 1941 film Citizen Kane. The family refer to it as "stately Burns Manor", a reference to the Batman TV series. In addition, there is a reference to Freaks, the Tod Browning cult horror film, in the repetition of the line "one of us". When Marge gets drunk, she sings Dean Martin's "Hey, Brother, Pour the Wine". The shock-therapy scene is reminiscent of the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.
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