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Cultural references

• The starting of this episode is inspired from the ending of an earlier episode. At the ending of the episode Homer Loves Flanders, the family inherit a haunted house and have to spend a night in it. This is exactly how this episode begins.
• The episode begins showing the law firm is called "Dewey, Cheathem, Howe, & Weissmann" - the joke being that the obvious joke name is Dewey, Cheatem & Howe.
• The house the Simpsons are asked to spend the night in looks exactly like the house in Hitchcock's famous 1960 film Psycho.
• The Sea Captain ends a phone conversation by saying, "Call me back, Ishmael," a reference to the opening line of Moby-Dick.
• The wreath seen in the background displays the phone number '369-3084', which was Simpsons writer and producer Bill Oakley's office phone number at the time.
• Krusty's rant on the pavement is a reference to John Rambo's speech at the end of the movie First Blood.
• Troy McClure mentions the funeral of André the Giant.
• Prior to Krusty's Funeral, Homer lists John Dillinger, Ty Cobb, and Joseph Stalin as celebrities whom Krusty would be laughing with while in Heaven: Dillinger was a criminal, Cobb was a controversial Baseball player and Stalin had been the bloody ruler of the USSR. In the Italian dub Dillinger and Cobb were replaced with mafia strongman Al Capone and nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
• Krusty mentions that he once flew with Dean Martin in his (Krusty's) private plane and "the moon hit his eye like a big pizza pie" and then saying they wrote a song about it is a reference to Dean Martin's famous song That's Amore.
• Comic Book Guy mentions Doctor Who, a BBC show which is the longest running science fiction series in the world.
• The scene where Krusty flies his plane is a possible reference to Ernst doing likewise in Heimat 3.
• When Bart first sees Krusty driving his truck, Bart is wearing a black armband, a symbol of mourning.