![]() The scene toward the end where Moe points toward individual customers declaring they will "be back" before pointing toward and addressing the viewer (later revealed to be Barney via a cutaway) is a parody of the end of the film Reefer Madness. In the Duff TV advertisement, a group of women were leading an anti-sexism protest in front of the McMahon and Tate building, a reference to the advertising agency from Bewitched. The Duff clock is a parody of the " It's a Small World" clock. Duff is shown to be a sponsor in the 1960 United States presidential debates. When Bart reaches for the cupcakes and collapses, it is a parody of a scene in A Clockwork Orange, where the main character Alex reaches for a woman's breasts. Homer reminisces about listening to Queen when he bought his first beer. The episode also contains a two-second snippet of footage from " Bart the Daredevil": a close-up of Homer making a disappointed face and saying "D'oh!" when he gets arrested. ![]() The episode contains the first appearance of Sarah Wiggum. The Troy McClure driver's education film title Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass was pitched by Frank Mula. ![]() Adolf Hitler's head, among other things, can be seen going by in bottles of Duff when the quality control man is not paying attention. The first line Richard Nixon says, during the Duff commercial, was taken verbatim from the Kennedy-Nixon Debate during the 1960 Presidential Campaign. Mike Reiss said they did not want to show the hamster getting shocked but had to for plot purposes. He and Marge ride a bike into the sunset singing " Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head".īart's go-go ray idea was "stolen" from the opening credits of Jonny Quest. After thirty days of sobriety, despite many temptations, Homer goes back to Moe's for a beer, but leaves after a steady, appraising look at Barney and the other barflies. He exhibits more positive changes like losing weight, saving over $100 and not sweating while eating. Hearing Homer's answers, Marge asks him to give up beer for a month, and he agrees to. ![]() In bed, Marge gives Homer a magazine quiz about his drinking. He is arrested, loses his license, and must attend traffic school and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. They administer a breathalyser test to Homer, which he fails. On their way out of the parking lot, their car is pulled over by police Chief Wiggum, along with Eddie and Lou. Afterward, Homer refuses to let a drunk Barney drive home and forces him to hand over his keys. Meanwhile, Homer sneaks out early at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and accompanies Barney on a tour of the Duff brewery. Despite Lisa's objection concerning the lack of scientific merit, everyone is distracted by how cute the hamster is, and a proud Skinner hands Bart the winning ribbon. Bart later discovers her plans to humiliate him at the fair and pre-empts them with a project of his own, "Can hamsters fly planes?", showing her hamster in the cockpit of a miniature plane. After two easy tests, the hamster leads two to zero. Lisa likes the idea, but instead pits a hamster against Bart to find out who is smarter. She asks Marge for help, who suggests she run a hamster through a maze. At school, three days before the fair, Lisa leaves her tomato in Bart's care for a moment and he hurls it at Principal Skinner's butt. While having breakfast with her family, Lisa shows them her project for an upcoming science fair, a steroid-enhanced tomato she hopes will cure world hunger. Meanwhile, Lisa attempts to prove that Bart is less intelligent than a hamster after he ruins her first science fair project. After getting arrested for drunk driving, Homer tries to remain sober, at Marge's request. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 18, 1993. " Duffless" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. Maggie is seated as the rest of the family "overshoot the mark" and run past the edge of the film and return to the couch.
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