Cultural References
The episode's title is a play on the 1991 film Barton Fink. After losing his show and money, Krusty takes the bus home. An advert on the bus reads "Are you missing Mad About You right now? NBC Must See TV Sundays at 8 p.m." Krusty's airplane, "I'm-on-a-rolla-Gay", that he uses to stage his death is a spoof of the Enola Gay B-29 airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima in World War II. Krusty's illegal Cayman-Islands "accountant" is modeled on the actor Sydney Greenstreet, particularly on his role in the film Casablanca, considering his line "Oh, it's too hot today!" Swartzwelder is seen attending Krusty's funeral, who appears with a Kermit the Frog puppet on his hand.
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
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