Cultural References
César and Ugolin are named after the peasants from the 1986 French films Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources. Bart's French gift to Maggie is a reference to Le Ballon Rouge, a short French children's film. On the way to the chateau, Bart and Ugolin cycle past scenes depicted in several famous paintings, notably Bassin aux nymphéas by Claude Monet, Champ de blé aux corbeaux by Vincent Van Gogh, Le rêve by Henri Rousseau and Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet. The choice of antifreeze as an adulterant is a nod to the 1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal.
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