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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“If we can learn ... to look at the ways in which various groups appropriate and use the mass-produced art of our culture ... we may well begin to understand that although the ideological power of contemporary cultural forms is enormous, indeed sometimes even frightening, that power is not yet all-pervasive, totally vigilant, or complete.”
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