Cultural References
The opening chalkboard gag makes a reference to the 2012 phenomenon in which the world was supposed to end December 21, 2012. Homer, Lenny, and Carl get to see a comic from the comic series The Far Side which includes a lion and an X-ray.
While Penelope is playing the guitar in Paris, Tintin and Captain Haddock are listening at one table, crying and hugging. Penelope is not a real princess, despite her full name being Penelope Mountbatten Hapsburg Hohenzollern Mulan Pocahontas.
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“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)