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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“At times it seems that the media have become the mainstream culture in children’s lives. Parents have become the alternative. Americans once expected parents to raise their children in accordance with the dominant cultural messages. Today they are expected to raise their children in opposition to it.”
—Ellen Goodman (20th century)